Apple Valley Rotarians recently delivered personal dictionaries to more than 1,800 third grade students in ISD 196.
For the past several weeks, 29 members of the Apple Valley Rotary Club have been busy presenting free, 500-plus page dictionaries to third-grade students in the 15 elementary schools of District 196, which covers Apple Valley, Rosemount and Eagan. The club has also provided dictionaries to about five church schools in the district. Each dictionary is labeled with a sticker stating Rotary's Four-Way Test.
Rotary members often hear from students that this is the first book they have owned where they can write their name inside and keep forever.
Each dictionary costs about $2; funding for this project (and others) comes from the Apple Valley Rotary Scholarship Foundation, supported by the club's annual car raffle fundraiser. Club member Mark Bodin has spearheaded this project for the past 5 years.
For the meeting of November 12, 2014 there are 51 cards and 2 Joker.
The pot stands at $151
The Ticket Donations are $1 - 1 ticket; $2 - 3 tickets; $5 - 10 tickets; $10- 25 tickets. There are three lucky winners each week - the first two tickets drawn win $5, the third winner draws a card from the deck in hopes of pulling an Ace to win a share of the pot. If a joker is pulled, it will cost the winner a $2 contribution to the pot. If the Ace of Spades is pulled, the pot is awarded equally to all who have pulled an Ace, and the drawing starts over again.
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