Dedicated to community service

By Tonya McKiever Staff Writer // tonyam@nwanews.com

At each noon meeting, the members of the Bentonville-Bella Vista Altrusa club recite this prayer before beginning the meeting: “For this food before us spread For our steps in safety led, For thy favor on our way, Lord, accept our thanks today.” This is the sixth year that Altrusa Bentonville-Bella Vista has provided dictionaries to every third-grader in the Bentonville, Pea Ridge and Gravette school districts, along with the Literacy Council of Benton County. That adds up to 1,600 dictionaries. - Sunday, October 5, 2008