Photo :  Students at Agape Christian School with members of the Grant County Extension Association. Back row left to right:  Rosemary Lopez, Beatrice Arias, and Susie Snedeker, Grant County Extension Association members. Front row left to right:  Ray Gonzales, Bryan Orosco, Kennen Gierhart, Envy Lopez. 

The Grant County Extension Association recently participated in the "National Dictionary Project" by presenting dictionaries to students in Silver City area private and Christian Schools.
Four area schools were included in the project, Calvary Christian Academy, Agape Academy, Guadalupe Montessori School and the Down to Earth School. Members from the Extension Association visited the classrooms and spent time exploring the "World of Words" with the students.

The dictionaries belong to the students and are theirs to take home. Some students indicated that this dictionary would be the only one they had at home and were very excited about sharing it with the rest of their family.

The Dictionary Project was started in 1992 when Annie Plummer of Savannah, GA, who had a great love of words and wanted to share her passion with young people, bought 50 dictionaries and presented them to third graders at a school in her neighborhood. Before she dies in 1999 Annie had given away 17,000 dictionaries and since her death over one million dictionaries have been given to third graders nationwide. Anyone interested in joining an Extension Club and participating in educational programming such as this one can call the Grant County Cooperative Extension Service at 388-1559.

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