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Thursday, June 11, 2015 100 Mile Free Press
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Grads receive scholarships, bursaries 100 Mile House and area communities generous with support for Class of 2015 Ken Alexander Free Press
Peter Skene Ogden Secondary School (PSO) gymnasium was filled with proud parents and students for the 2015 Scholarship Tea on June 3. Of the 93 graduates in the PSO Class of 2015, 28 students took home more than $60,000 worth of scholarships and bursaries. As presenters talked about the companies, non-profit groups and the people who were being remembered, the faces and details of their lives (memorials), criteria the recipient needed to meet and the amount of the cheques were projected on a screen. The information made each presentation more meaningful for the grad students, the presenters and the parents. Students Heather Heales, Reid Collinson, Kelly Lawrence and Bryton Armishaw were thanked for setting up the tables and escorting people to their seats. The fact that presenters and recipients sit together at the tables allowed them to get to know each other a little bit better. Melody MacIntosh and the S.P.A.R.C.S. (JR Alternate) students provided homemade baked goodies. Claudia Morgenthaler and her agriculture students provided flowers for each of the tables. The winning grads were as follows: Tristianna Allwood: Western Communities FoundationExceptional Achievement; Sophie Zelt Memorial Bursary; Jonathan Hood Memorial; and Greg Herzog Memorial Shayla Bachmeier: Cariboo Chilcotin Teacher Association; Physicians Of 100 Mile House In Memory Of Dr. Eric Bock; and Watch/Green Lake Community Association Devin Barrick: 108 Mile Ranch Lions Club Sarah Batalha: Hospital Employees Union; and United Steelworkers Local 1-425 Maddy Bertrand: Dogwood District Award; and Florence Redpath/Rita Larson Memorial Hailey Blattler: BC Government Retired Employees, Branch #1700; Dogwood District Award; IKON Canada; and Right Photography
Marci McMurtrie presented the Jon Howard Sortome Memorial Scholarship to Sylvianna Peterson during the PSO Scholarship Tea on June 3.
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Dogwood District Award winners included Maddy Rutledge, front row left, Cassidy Mellott, Bryce Cumiskey and Breanna Uphill; Justin Shearer, middle row left, Hailey Blattler, Shian Remanente, Jennifer Sprecher, Lisa Schulze and Clayton Lehto; principal Geoff Butcher, back row left, and vice-principal Ty Lytton presented the awards, which were worth $1,000 to each of the students.
Alisha Beyer: Amnesty International – PSO Eagle’s Nest; 100 Mile Rotary – Service Above Self Scholarship; Cariboo Chilcotin Principal And Vice-Principal Association Scholarship ($500); Jean Reynolds Memorial Bursary; Norbord Inc. Canada ($500) and Williams Lake & District Credit Union Bursary Mikayla Charbonneau: 108 Mile Ranch Lions Club; and Physicians of 100 Mile House In Memory Of Dr. John McGregor Bryce Cumiskey: 100 Mile Lions; Dogwood District Award; Hendrix Lake Gym Fund; and Martin Cecil Memorial Tyler Dixon: 100 Mile Lions Brent Ehlers: Bridge Lake Community; Cariboo Chilcotin Principal And Vice-Principal Association Scholarship ($1,000); Cariboo Chilcotin Teacher Association; Fire Chief Bob Paterson Memorial; Knights Of Columbus; and RE/ MAX Country Lakes Realty Ian Heales: Cariboo Chilcotin Teacher Association; and Williams Lake & District Credit Union Bursary Stacy Larson: Canim Lake Truckers Association Clayton Lehto: Dogwood District Award; Lac la Hache Community Club; and West Fraser- 100 Mile Division Brittany Lund: 100 Mile Arts Council – Donna Loveridge Visual Arts; Brent Henry Memorial; and Parkside Art Gallery Brittany McMahon: Ingrid Harrison Memorial; and The Natural World Scholarship Cassidy Mellott: Fred Schoennagel Memorial Bursary (I.U.O.E.); Brent Henry Memorial; Callie Robinson Memorial; Dogwood District Award; Rachel McComb – Canadian Parents For French; and Watch/Green Lake. Community Association Maddy Montgomery: Steven Andrew Meville Memorial; and West Fraser – 100 Mile Division Jessa Paddison: Brock & Terry-Lynn Melnyk Family Bursary; Jamie Dengel Memorial; Pat Menduk Memorial; and Shirley Case Memorial Bursary Robert Parma: Mt. Begbie Masonic Lodge #183 Sylvianna Peterson: Jon Howard Sortome Memorial; and PSO Woodlot Scholarship
Shian Remanente: Norbord Inc. Canada ($2,500); and Dogwood District Award Lisa Schulze: Wyse Family Bursary; and Dogwood District Award Justin Shearer: Jean Reynolds Memorial Bursary; and Dogwood District Award Jordan Shields: 100 Mile Arts Council – Literary Arts; 100 Mile Festival of the Arts; and Parkside Art Gallery Jennifer Sprecher: 100 Mile Lions; 100 Mile Rotary – Service Above Self Scholarship; Dogwood District Award; and Hwy. 24 Interlakes Lions Club Breanna Uphill: Dogwood District Award; United Steelworkers Local 1-425; and West Fraser- 100 Mile Division Nicole Walry: Cariboo Chilcotin Principal And VicePrincipal Association Scholarship ($500); Grant Herzog Memorial; and RE/MAX Country Lakes Realty
Bryan Ardiel presented the Shirley Case Memorial Bursary to Jessa Paddison at the Scholarship Tea 2015.