FALLBROOK — Rainbow Valley Grange and Junior Grange held their annual bake sale at the Rainbow Days Picnic May 27 at Rainbow Park. Grange members Jeannette Duarte; Nancy, Lucette and Suzanne Moramarco; Tracy Lathrop; the Komski family; and Junior Granger Lauren Gilbert contributed baked goods and funds to the sale. Brownies, mini pineapple-upside-down cakes, fruit bars, muffins and donuts brought in a record $110 for this year’s project.

The money raised will pay for dictionaries for the upcoming third grade class at Vallecitos School. The dictionaries will be ordered through The Dictionary Project, a nation-wide program that works through civic organizations to provide dictionaries for third grade students to keep and use throughout their education. According to organizers, “The ideal of this program is to aid teachers in their goal to see all their students leave at the end of the year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers.” Because the fundraiser was so successful, dictionaries for the following year’s third grade class will be bought at the same time.

Last year 789 Granges in 32 states supported The Dictionary Project through the donation of 51,312 dictionaries to their local third-graders in a campaign called “Words for Thirds.” A total of 1,099,518 dictionaries were given out nationwide through various service groups in 2005. Anyone interested in participating in this worthwhile project can find more information at www.dictionaryproject.org.

Rainbow Valley Grange will be holdings its next meeting on Saturday, June 10, with the Youth Fair Team meeting at 3:30 p.m., Junior Grange at 4:30 and Community Grange at 5:30. At 6:30 pizza will be available for $1 a slice for members and $1.50 a slice for non-members. For more information call Lucette at (760) 489-9502 or Nancy at (760) 728-6690.