Rotary awards scholarships

May 23, 2013
Ths years' Rotary Scholarship winners are (l-r) Jesse Woods, Tyson Boorman, Jacob Gray, Aramie Hoisington, Tessa Payne, Evan Moe, Ben Horton, Taylor Dinning, Brianna Carlson, Amy Maggi and Josh Miller. Not Pictured: Makayla Fairchild, Caroline Martin and Josiah Owinyo
On May 16, the Bonners Ferry Rotary Club had the pleasure of awarding $13,000 to 14 local high school and college students at a dessert reception held in their honor at the Kootenai River Inn. The students were joined by their families for this celebration.

Andrakay (Hoisington) Pluid, Bonners Ferry's new city attorney and assistant administrator, discussed the importance of a solid education and the availability of scholarships to fulfill that quest. Andrakay was an earlier Rotary scholarship recipient, who graduated from college and law school, passed the bar on her first try, and is now part of the BF Rotary Club.

This years' recipients were Jesse Woods, Tyson Boorman, Jacob Gray, Aramie Hoisington, Tessa Payne, Evan Moe, Ben Horton, Taylor Dinning, Brianna Carlson, Amy Maggi, Josh Miller, Makayla Fairchild, Caroline Martin and Josiah Owinyo.

According to Norman Braatz, scholarship chairman and master of ceremonies for the event, “the local Rotary Club has been awarding scholarships since it was founded in 2002. That year, the club was able to award $600.”

Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

Rotary is the world’s oldest service club – a worldwide organization of more than 1.3 million business and professional people in more than 34,000 Rotary clubs in over 200 countries.

Club members are called Rotarians, and they volunteer their time and talents to serve their communities and the world.

For more information about Rotary and the Bonners Ferry Rotary Club, go to: http://www.bonnersferryrotary.com.

Jesse Woods, Tyson Boorman, Jacob Gray, Aramie Hoisington, Tessa Payne, Evan Moe, Ben Horton, Taylor Dinning, Brianna Carlson, Amy Maggi, Josh Miller. Not Pictured: Makayla Fairchild, Caroline Martin, Josiah Owinyo