Having trouble spelling maneuver?

How about gubernatorial?

Thanks to a big assist from the Laurinburg Rotary Club, a county third grader may be able to help.

The Rotary club distributed 624 dictionaries Tuesday morning to the county’s elementary school as part of The Dictionary Project, a nationwide program that has distributed more than 11 million dictionaries to students. The dictionaries cost about $1,100

“This is a program that we feel is very important,” said Frank Ward who coordinates the dictionary program for the Laurinburg Rotary Club. “Education and literacy is so important and we are glad to be able to provide this tool to our students.”

Ward asks that others help fight illiteracy by getting "involved with the schools and the education of the young people."

"A lot of children we hand out a dictionary to have never had a book of their own," Ward said."If we stop and think about it, young people are our future leaders."

This year marked the seventh year that the Laurinburg Rotary Club has distributed dictionaries in Scotland County Schools.