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Area briefs Scholarships available for Pine River-Backus area youths
PINE RIVER -- Pine River-Backus Youth As Resources is helping sponsor a $1,000 Presidential Freedom Scholarship for the Pine River-Backus area.
The Presidential Freedom Scholarship program is designed to highlight and promote service and citizenship by students and to recognize students for their leadership in those areas.
Through the program, each high school in the country may select up to two students to receive a $1,000 scholarship in recognition of outstanding leadership in service to their community. With funds appropriated by Congress, the Corporation for National and Community Service provides $500 for each scholarship, which must be matched with $500 from the community.
Eligible students must have been either a high school junior or senior in the 2004-2005 school year, have contributed at least 100 hours of service in the past 12 months (about two hours a week), be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, and plan to attend an institution of higher education in the United States.
For more information and an application, contact PR-B YAR Adult Coordinator Nolita Christensen at the Pine River-Backus Family Center at (218) 587-4292 or at the_nolita@yahoo.com. Applications are also available at the Pine River-Backus High School Guidance Office. Application deadline is May 5.
Refresher Defensive Driving Course offered in Mission Township
MISSION TOWNSHIP -- Sgt. Curt Mowers from the Minnesota State Patrol will present a defensive driving course 8 a.m.-noon May 12 at the Mission Township Hall.
This course provides refresher update training, required every three years, for those 55 and older who wish to receive an auto insurance discount and have completed the initial eight-hour course. Anyone of driving age is welcome to attend, however.
Material covered includes driving conditions, unsafe driving behaviors and aggressive driving, crash statistics, and basic defensive driving techniques. Participants will receive a certificate of completion.
Cost of the course is $15 and pre-registration is required. To register, call Katie Brine Doyle at (218) 765-4149.
Mission Township Hall is seven miles south of Crosslake or three miles north of Ossipee on the east side of County Road 3. This program is sponsored by the Mission Park Committee.
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