The Indio Noon Rotary and Indio Sunrise Rotary clubs, in a joint effort, will distribute more than 1,800 dictionaries — one for each third grade student attending Indio schools.

The Rotary clubs are providing dictionaries to local school children as a part of the “SoCal Dictionary Project”. The project’s goal is to get a dictionary in the hands of every third grader in Southern California.

Each dictionary has an insert for the student’s name and may be taken home to assist with homework in addition to classroom use.
President Martha Mendez of Indio Noon Rotary and Merritt Wiseman, president of Indio Sunrise Rotary represented their clubs in the joint project.

Club members will deliver the dictionaries to Indio elementary schools and present each student with their own personal dictionary.