For several years the Rotary Club of Cloquet has sponsored two local projects revolving around literacy, an important mission of Rotary International.

This month a total of 299 third-graders from Churchill, Washington, Winterquist, South Terrace, and Wrenshall elementary schools each received a handy dictionary/reference book to keep. In addition, 286 kindergarten students at the same schools each received a personal story book with the characters and the settings preselected by each student and woven into a story. The kindergarteners are proudly able to read these stories aloud from a rea...