Marseilles Rotary donates 352 ‘wish list’ books to Marseilles-area schools, Marquette Academy

Donation adds to club’s recent dictionary donations

The Marseilles Rotary Club on Tuesday completed its donation of 352 "wish list" books to Marseilles, Milton Pope, Rutland and Marquette Academy grade schools. Shown are (front from left) MA students MaKynlee Diss, Millie Babiak, Ellie Babiak, Angel Tran, Char Pointer and Josiah Alix; (back from left) Rotary's Amanda Hart, students Lily Hall and Kinley Rick and the Rotary's Linda Taglia and Sherri Laitila. — The Marseilles Rotary Club on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, completed its donation of 352 "wish list" books to Marseilles, Milton Pope, Rutland and Marquette Academy grade schools. Shown are (front from left) MA students MaKynlee Diss, Millie Babiak, Ellie Babiak, Angel Tran, Char Pointer and Josiah Alix; (back from left) Rotary's Amanda Hart, students Lily Hall and Kinley Rick and the Rotary's Linda Taglia and Sherri Laitila. (Charlie Ellerbrock)

August 31, 2023 at 3:00 pm CDT

The Marseilles Rotary Club completed its donation of 352 “wish list” books to Marseilles, Milton Pope, Rutland and Ottawa Marquette Academy grade schools.

The donations come shortly after the Marseilles Rotary Club donated pocket dictionaries to each of the second-grade students at the four elementary schools.