"I know

you're all studying reading right now," Moore told Denise Dix's classroom.

"To help you with that, we have a dictionary for every one of you."

Moore and Bon-L

Marketing/Product Manager Sam Harkness handed every child a dictionary

each one with the child's name in it and led students in an impromptu

word hunt. The classes each gave Moore and Harkness a "Thank You"

card to post at Bon-L's Newnan manufacturing plant.

Jefferson Parkway

Principal Sue Rickenbaker and Assistant Principal Cindy McCloud thanked

Bon-L, too, as did Superintendent Peggy Connell and curriculum director

Wanda Creel, who accompanied Moore and Harkness around Jefferson Parkway.

"Bon-L

is such a wonderful partner," said Rickenbaker. "They have been

with us since we are open." She added that Harkness has long worked

with the school and is a school council member.

"I greatly

appreciate what Bon-L is doing here and what they do all year round,"

said Connell. "It is commitment like this that helps us be a better

school system."

This is the

second year Bon-L has given the dictionaries to Coweta County third-graders.

It's something employees enjoy doing, and it is an investment in the community

and the school system, said Moore.

"We had

a lot of fun doing it last year and the kids really enjoy it," he

said. "This is one way we can help improve schools and reading skills."

Bon L an aluminum

extrusion company and one of Coweta County's biggest employers is a business

partner with Jefferson Parkway and a long-time partner of the entire Coweta

County School System.

Bon-L employees

visited eight elementary schools Wednesday and the other eight Thursday,

distributing a dictionary to each of Coweta County's 1,500-plus third-graders.

"It's

fun, but it's also Bon-L's way of taking its public role seriously,"

said Harkness.