NEW GLOUCESTER — Sabbathday Lake Grange 365 supports the Dictionary Project through its Words for Thirds program.

The Grange presented third-grade students at Burchard A. Dunn Elementary School with dictionaries on during a recent visit. The dictionaries are a gift to each student to use at school and at home.

“It is amazing to see the smiles on children’s faces when we presented them with dictionaries,” said Steven Haycock, Sabbathday Lake Grange secretary. “It gives them a sense of pride when they have a dictionary to look up words on their own. It promotes learning and helps mold their self-confidence and independence.”

Sabbathday Lake Grange has donated more than 1,200 dictionaries to the Dunn School over the past seven years. “We would not be able to donate these dictionaries without the support of the customers who have bought raffle tickets at our Grange functions over the years,” said Haycock.

For more information about Sabbathday Lake Grange, contact Haycock at [email protected], and for more information about the Grange in Maine, visit www.mainestategrange.org or call 1-800-464-3421.