Each year members from our club visit local schools in Districts 1,2,3 to give all 3^rd graders their own dictionaries.  We handed 1233 dictionaries to 3^rd graders in 14 schools.  Leo Smith headed this project.

Literacy

With this year's focus on literacy our club adopted a kindergarten class.  Ms. Anderson's kindergarten class is at Nevitt Forest, a Title 1 School.  Members have been assigned to specific children who need that extra one on one attention and work with them each week.  Our goal is to give the children more "real life experiences." We join them for their holiday celebrations too. For Christmas the children rode the bus downtown to join us for our meeting and lunch.  They sang and were thrilled when Santa arrived with his black bag filled with individually wrapped packages. Carla Heritage our "project chairperson" has 7 mentors working in the class with her.  They are Carla Heritage, Kathryn Smith, Ovid Culler, Dr. Mattison, Rosemary Lindley, Cathy Golson and Leo Smith.  

Happy Bucks 

A weekly feature at our club meetings is “Happy Bucks.” For a donation, each member may speak about anything over the last week that has made him or her happy! The money raised supports monthly donations to local charities. The club gives $250 to a charity chosen by the members. Each month a different charity is chosen and occasionally other donations are made from this fund. The club also raises funds by working at least 30 hours at the Anderson Soiree held each April in downtown Anderson.