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Renton Community Foundation Offers Scholarships To Renton Students, Residents
The Renton Community Foundation plans to award over $30,000 to worthy students in 2012. Deadline for all applications is April 2.
It's scholarship season again and Renton Community Foundation plans to award over $30,000 to worthy students this year. Awards will be made from the Helen Dyrdal Scholarship Fund, which is open to college undergraduates, graduates, and students pursuing a certificate program at either a trade school or community college.
In addition, special needs students will have a chance at winning an award from the Jeremy Gidlund Memorial Scholarship Fund, and a student pursuing a career in communications or journalism could win an award from the Carl & Betty Rochet Scholarship Fund.
All applicants must have either graduated from a Renton high school and/or be a Renton resident and demonstrate a financial need. Deadline for all applications is April 2.
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For more information, contact the Renton Community Foundation at (425) 282-5199, or email their Executive Director at lbohart@rentonfoundation.org. Applicants can also go online at www.thewashboard.org or check with their school career counselors.
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*Editor's Note: Information Provided by the Renton Community Foundation.
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