Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation's Dollar Dictionary Drive will celebrate the launch of its sixth year with a special program and dictionary distribution to third-grade students Wednesday, October 3.

The event will take place at Colfax Elementary School (1526 Tennyson Street) beginning at 10 a.m. Superintendent Jerry Wartgow will attend the celebration and help deliver dictionaries.

Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation (INC), a consortium of Denver neighborhood organizations, created the Dollar Dictionary Drive in 1996 to provide a dictionary and thesaurus to every third-grade student in Denver Public Schools.

Since 1996, 47,000 third-grade students have received this valuable resource tool to use in the classroom and at home in the quest for literacy and knowledge.

The first recipients from the INC program are now in eighth grade. A student representative from each of the five classes that have received this gift will join Dr. Wartgow and neighborhood residents to deliver this year's dictionaries.

When the program started, every five dollars donated purchased five dictionaries. With an increase in prices, five dollars now will only purchase books for 4 students.

Donations have come from US Bank, neighborhood organizations and individuals. However, the 2001 program is short of its fund-raising goal.

All money donated goes toward the purchase of dictionaries and is tax deductible. Contributions can be sent to Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation, Dollar Dictionary Drive, PO Box 181009, Denver, CO 80218.

For more information, please contact Fred Corn, INC Chair, 303-433-8477 or Cathee Fisher, Dictionary Co-Chair, 303-333-3141.