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28 students from Peru received new vehicles as part of the reading challenge

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Adriahnna Niblick, a second-grade student at Dirigo Elementary School, stands next to one of the 28 bicycles donated Monday to kindergarten and fourth-grade students participating in a four-week reading challenge at the school in Peru. The bicycles and helmets were donated by freemasons from King Hiram Lodge 57 in Mexico. Marianne Hutchinson/Rumford Falls Times

PERU — Twenty-eight Dirigo Elementary School students, kindergarten through fourth grade, received bicycles on Monday as lucky winners of a four-week reading program.

The colorful bicycles, some with shiny streamers hanging from the handlebars, were assembled and donated by freemasons from King Hiram Lodge 57 in Mexico, as they have done for the past few years. Members also donated helmets.

“For the last four weeks you have been reading, getting tickets and registering them for a chance to win one of these bikes we have here,” director Charlie Swan told the gathering.

Dirigo Elementary School kindergarten student Daniel LaVanWay receives a helmet from school nurse Erin Wainwright during an assembly at the school in Peru on Monday. Twenty-eight students from kindergarten through fourth grade were selected as winners in the four-week reading competition. The bicycles were donated by freemasons from King Hiram Lodge 57 in Mexico. Marianne Hutchinson/Rumford Falls Times

Their names were drawn from among those who took part in the reading challenge.

Swan also presented certificates to students in kindergarten through fourth grade who won awards in reading, math, music, physical education and positive behavior.

Fifth-grade students visited TW Kelly Dirigo High School in Dixfield on Monday for “advancement day” and will receive awards later.

Lydia Pingree, a fourth-grader at Dirigo Elementary School, stands Monday next to a bicycle she received for participating in a four-week reading challenge at the school in Peru. 28 names were selected in a drawing and received a bicycle and a helmet from the freemasons from the King Hiram Lodge 57 in Mexico. Marianne Hutchinson/Rumford Falls Times

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