There will be some form of graduation ceremonies at area schools this year and that means the annual tradition of handing out scholarships and bursaries.
Dryden High School warns the deadline for students to apply is fast approaching.
You have until Monday, May 11th to put your name in for a bursary or scholarship.
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The Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour has established a new scholarship in honour of the memory of Jacob Lugli.
The 17-year-old from Dryden competed on the tour but he and his dad Mark tragically lost their lives in a devastating car crash this past summer.
They were en route to an tour event in Selkirk.
The $1,000 scholarship is for an individual who is developing as a champion in both golf and life, showing leadership and community service.
17-year-old Eric Strick of Winnipeg is the inaugural winner.
Strick says “I am especially touched that I have received this first-time award in honour of fellow MJT member, Jacob Lugli, whose passing has truly impacted all of us.”
A new scholarship program is available for First Nations women in northwestern Ontario seeking a post-secondary education.
The Ted Nolan Foundation is contributing $125,000 to the Indigenous Institutes Consortium to support a fund named after the former NHL’ers mother Rose.
Ted Nolan and his son Brandon were at the Seven Generations Education Institute’s campus in Fort Frances to make the presentation this week.
Nolan says “I very strongly believe that the women’s role makes a stronger home, makes a stronger community, community makes a stronger nation so that’s what we do it.”
Consortium Chair Murray Waboose welcomes the scholarship.
“There is a heavy presence of enrollment of our female First Nations students and it’s just growing and growing. So this contribution is very timely.”
The Consortium represents eight of nine Indigenous post-secondary institutions across the province.
Waboose says the scholarship will be available to any Indigenous woman attending any one of the facilities represented.
