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Elks distribute dictionaries, drug awareness materials
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Margaret Gottlieb, an art teacher at New Holland Core Knowledge Academy, helps hand out dictionaries to students on Tuesday. Members of the Gainesville Elks Lodge distribute dictionaries and drug awareness information to Hall County fifth-graders and their teachers in the fall of each year. - photo by Erin O. Smith
The gymnasium at New Holland Core Knowledge Academy roared with the sound of excited young voices. The source of excitement: new dictionaries. Members of the Gainesville Elks Lodge, a fraternal organization, are visiting numerous elementary schools in the area this week to distribute new dictionaries and drug awareness materials to fifth-graders.