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Ruidoso Valley Noon Lions Club scholarship winners

Each year, the Ruidoso Valley Noon Lions Club awards one $1,500 scholarship to a graduating senior at Ruidoso,...





 Olivia Bertrand from Capitan High School and Lion Boss Terry Wadsworth.(Photo: Courtesy)


Each year, the Ruidoso Valley Noon Lions Club awards one $1,500 scholarship to a graduating senior at Ruidoso, Capitan, Carrizozo and Hondo high schools. The scholarship is divided into two checks. The first $750 is to be used during the award winner's first semester and the remainder after his or her first semester and only after supplying documents proving passing grades and acceptance for the second semester.

Seventeen applications were submitted this year. The criteria for consideration include: the student must plan or have been accepted by a two- or four-year college or university in New Mexico, evidence of financial need, documentation of participation in community service activities, a transcript of grades and a short essay describing his or her educational goals.

The awards and plaques were made during the Ruidoso Valley Noon Lions Club meetings in May and June.

Ruidoso High School student Luis Leyva, Hondo High School student Adriana Gandarillo, Olivia Bertrand of Capitan High School and Carrizozo High School student Jacie Thornton by co-chairman of the Scholarship Committee, Lion Terry Wadsworth.

Leyva graduated from Ruidoso High School and ENMU-Ruidoso as a dual-credit student. He plans on attending the University of New Mexico to study accounting, eventually going on to earn a doctorate. He is the first from his family to attend college.

Gandarillo's goal is to be a reporter/writer or multimedia journalist. She is planning on majoring in journalism and Spanish at New Mexico State University.

Also attending NMSU, Jacie Thornton is looking to her university experience to further her activity in her community.

Bertrand will stay in the area to attend ENMU-Ruidoso before transferring to a four-year university to study business. She would like to pursue a MBA and come back to the area to open a boutique.

"All of the award winners maintained high academic grades and have done well in their other fields of work, athletics and community involvement," Wadsworth wrote. "It was very hard and took much discussion by the scholarship committee to pick the winners. All candidates were very deserving."

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