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Elks donate dictionaries to students

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Havre Elks Lodge #1201 recently donated dictionaries to third grade school children in Hill and Blaine counties.

The Elks gave a total of 264 dictionaries to Havre Public Schools, St. Jude Thaddeus School, Cottonwood Schools, Gildford Colony, Davey School, North Star Schools and Box Elder Schools.

In Blaine County, they gave dictionaries to Zurich, Chinook, Hays-Lodge Pole and Turner sSchools.

The dictionary project is a core youth activity project that the Elks sponsor nationwide.

"Havre Elks Lodge was able to fund the dictionaries through donations of our members on giving Tuesday and through the generosity of Hill, Blaine, and Chouteau county residents at a free-will donation bake sale we held  before Christmas at the Holiday Village Mall in Havre,"  Elks Lodge #1201 Secretary Brandy Kurtz said. "The dictionary project was such a smashing success that we are making it an annual youth activity in our lodge."

 

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