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Area business helps fuel local schools
Parkers donates $1,000 to kick-start Fueling the Communities effort
BOE check
Bryan County Superintendent John Oliver, left, and Board of Education members Joe Pecenka, Jeff Morton, Dennis Seger, David Schwartz, Eddie Warren and Paine Bacon stand Thursday with a check from Parkers gas stations for $1,000 to kick-start the BoEs participation in the Fueling the Communities program. - photo by Crissie Elric
Crissie Elric
Bryan County News
Updated: Dec 17, 2011, 1:00 PM
Published: Dec 16, 2011, 10:22 PM

Parker’s gas stations won’t only be fueling the community with gasoline and diesel — the company will also soon be helping fuel local schools.
At its regular meeting Thursday, the Bryan County Board of Education approved a $1,000 donation from Parker’s Companies as a kick-start to the school system’s participation in the Fueling the Communities program.
“We are obviously very pleased,” Superintendent John Oliver said. “(The donation) is a nice start — a nice beginning for the money that might be available over time to the schools.”
Greg Parker, owner of Parker’s convenience stores, said the program started this summer as a way to give back to communities where their stores are located.
“There are so many worthy charities out there. But when you think about what’s the most important, we think it’s education,” Parker said. “When you improve education, everything else rises with it — the economy, services and the crime level goes down. Everything improves with higher education standards.”

Read more in the Dec. 17 edition of the News.

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Groups hand out scholarships
RH theater scholarship
Richmond Hill High School senior Jacey Shanholtzer shows her Dawn Harrington Berry Spotlight Award, which was awarded by the Richmond Hill Community Theatre and includes a $500 scholarship. With her are Tom Harris, Ashlee Farris, Brett Berry and Kim Diebold. The award was created in memory of Dawn Harrington Berry, a long time RHCT member and president who died in 2016. - photo by Photo provided.
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Updated: May 17, 2018, 8:11 PM
Published: May 17, 2018, 8:37 PM

Three reports recently presented scholarships

Richmond Hill High School senior Jacey Shanholtzer received the Dawn Harrington Berry Spotlight Award, which was awarded by the Richmond Hill Community Theatre and includes a $500 scholarship. The award was created in memory of Dawn Harrington Berry, a long time RHCT member and president who died in 2016.

Garden Club

The Richmond Hill Garden Club recently awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Katherine Wood and a $500 scholarship to Carly Vargas, both seniors graduating from Richmond Hill High School.

The awards were presented May 8 during Honors Night at RHHS.

Wood plans to attend Green Mountain College in Vermont and major in environmental studies.

Vargas plans to attend Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, to pursue a degree in either environmental studies or biology.

The garden club awards a $1,000 scholarship annually to a local high school senior who plans to major in a field related to environmental concerns, plants and/or gardening.

This year, due to having two exceptional candidates, the garden club awarded an additional $500 scholarship.

Exchange Club

The Exchange Club of Richmond Hill recently named Caroline Odom as its student of the year.

The club each month during the school year names a student of the month, and the student of the year is chosen from among those winners.

Awards are based on academic performance, community involvement and leadership.

Monthly winners receive $100, with the annual winner getting a $1,000 scholarship.

The Exchange Club has been recognizing students for more than 30 years.

Odom will go on to compete in the Georgia District Exchange Club against students from across the state.

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