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Scholarship sweepstakes in reading program
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HOUSTON COUNTY  — The Georgia Public Library Service and the state’s Path2College 529 Plan once again are partnering on the summer reading program and its summer reading program sweepstakes, which will award a child with a $5,529 college-savings contribution. 
Tuesday at the Perry Public Library, the Houston County, Peach County and Middle Georgia Regional Libraries hosted  Georgia’s Path2College 529 Plan to kick-off the reading program, Dig Into Reading, and sweepstakes, Reading Makes Cent$. 
This is the fourth year the GPLS has partnered with the Path2College 529 Plan on this statewide initiative designed to encourage kids to read throughout the summer and remind their parents and grandparents about the importance of saving for college.
The summer-reading program activities include programs about dinosaurs, construction vehicles, underground animals, ancient Egypt, archaeology and more. Programs are offered to all children, teens and adults.
Prizes are awarded for everyone who reads, whether it is in the form of a book, an e-book, an audiobook, a magazine or anything else. Participants can check with their public libraries for a calendar of events and programs.
Children across the state who were born in 1997 or after and who participate in the summer reading program at their local libraries can enter for a chance to win the sweepstakes. 
In addition to the $5,529 that will be awarded to the winning participant, Georgia libraries have a chance to win a monetary gift for their participation in the sweepstakes.
The library of the sweepstakes winner will receive $1,529. Also, the library with the greatest number of sweepstakes entries and the library system with the greatest percentage of registered users entering each will win $1,529. 
Families have until Aug. 15 to enter the sweepstakes.
To learn more about the Path2College 529 Plan, obtain official rules for the sweepstakes and open an account online, go to www.Path2College529.com.
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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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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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