A record twenty two local students undertaking university, trade and higher educations studies received grants totalling approximately $45,000, a figure which places our township in the top rank of performers in the state.

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atulations to the Scholarship winners who are (in alphabetical order); Madeline Anderson (1st year of a Bachelor of Music), Chris Bulloch (1st year of a Bachelor of Screen and Sound Media), Andrew Callan (1st year of Bachelor of Agriculture/Law), Aaron Clarke (2nd year of Automotive Electrician Certificate III), Anne Crisp (Business Certificate III), Jonathan Crisp (2nd year of Engineering/Fabrication Trade III), James Fry (1st year of Bachelor of Engineering), Nathan Griggs (2nd year of Motor Cycle Mechanical Certificate III), Mitchell Hancock (1st year of Bachelor IT), Michael Ison (1st year of Bachelor of Advertising, Marketing and Communication), Brenton King (2nd year of a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture/Environmental Science), Millan Pintos-Lopez (1st year Bachelor of Fine Arts), Alice McDougall (1st year of a Bachelor of Science), Caitlin Maher (2nd year of a Bachelor of Social Science in Justice Studies), Bridgette Martin (1st year of a Bachelor of Science - Psychology), Samuel Northcott (1st year of a Bachelor of Applied Science in Human Biology), Thomas Rubin-Royds (1st year of an Advanced Diploma of Music), Amy Simpson (1st year of a Commerce degree), Joshua Stubbs (1st year of a Bachelor of Sports Coaching, Exercise/Sports Mangement).

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Kris Anderson (2nd year of Bachelor of Arts in Landscape), Bonnie Farley (1st year of Hospitality Certificate III), Rachel Farley (2nd year of a Bachelor of International Studies).

Denise McMurtrie (the new president) welcomed all and reminded everyone of the debt the Foundation owes to its immediate past president, Martin Pitt, (who died so sadly and unexpectedly just before Christmas). Dr Anne Sanders encouraged the students to strive to reach (and enjoy) their potential, for their own sakes’, the town’s and the country’s.

“2010 will be a hard year to better” Denise McMurtrie said “but that’s just what we’re setting out to do in 2011”.