WATERFORD — Several local high school and collect students were awarded scholarships by Charter Oak Federal Credit Union recently.
Charter Oak awarded $90,000 in 2020 scholarships to 45 high school and college students in New London and Windham counties.
This year’s local high school student award winners are:
Kyla Atwood, H.H. Ellis Technical High School; Lauren Hyatt, Killingly High School; Brianna Hogan, Killingly High School; Elena Spangle, Marianapolis Preparatory School; Justin St. Martin, Putnam High School; Nathan Craig, The Woodstock Academy; Grayson Walley, The Woodstock Academy.
Other winners included:
Nicholas Sedor, Bacon Academy; Andrew Gatesman, Bacon Academy; Sophia Rogers, East Lyme High School; Gabrielle Villa, East Lyme High School; Ana Julia Da Silva, Ella T. Grasso Technical High School; Hannah Bagley, Ella T. Grasso Technical High School; Cassandra Wells, Lyman Memorial High School; Elizabeth Cravinho, Lyme-Old Lyme High School;; Stephanie Weber, Marine Science Magnet High School; Evan Spalding, Marine Science Magnet High School; Sydney Winakor, Montville High School; Luisanny Castillo, New London High School; Mackenzie Maher, Norwich Free Academy; Samantha Tracey, Norwich Free Academy; Jackie Chen, Norwich Free Academy; Zeb Carty, Norwich Free Academy; Shaun McGuire, Norwich Free Academy; Chelsey English, Plainfield High School; Kyle Mashia-Thaxton, Robert E. Fitch High School; Sakshee Patel, Robert E. Fitch High School; Elizabeth Teskey, Robert E. Fitch High School; and Diana Sefransky, Robert E. Fitch High School; Liam Power, Saint Bernard High School; Brigid Kunka, Saint Bernard High School; Carly Potts, Saint Bernard High School; Kiera Burlingame McCord, Science & Technology Magnet School of Southeastern CT; Cassandra Cannon, Science & Technology Magnet School of Southeastern CT; Benjamin Fyke, Stonington High School; Jake Verbridge, Stonington High School; Anna Schleck, Waterford High School; Ashley Metivier, Waterford High School; Dylan Davino, Wheeler High School; Elizabeth Conger, Fishers Island Public School; and Katherine Henderson, Old Saybrook Senior High School.
Additional scholarship recipients who are currently attending college are: Holly Noe, Goodwin University; Jessica Coggeshall, Three Rivers Community College; Daniel Gaiewski, Franklin and Marshall College; and Daniel Marcolina, UConn. In addition to Charter Oak’s $90,000 annual scholarship awards, employees awarded two separate scholarships through their employee-funded Community Outreach Program. Jeffrey Andruskiewicz, a student at Norwich Free Academy, was awarded the $2,000 Community Outreach Memorial Scholarship and Jada Fuentes, a student at Lyme-Old Lyme High School, was awarded the $2,000 Louise Jackson Community Outreach Scholarship.
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This tree at the Palmer Arboretum is a riot of color and texture. Linda Lemmon photo.
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NORWICH — Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) recently announced the award of federal grants totaling more than $800,000 to two eastern Connecticut health centers that serve patients throughout New London and Windham counties. The grants were awarded to United Community Health Center, Inc. in Norwich and to Generations Family Health Center, Inc. in Willimantic, and both were issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Generations Family Health Center will receive a grant award of $409,684, and United Community Health Center will receive $398,299 in federal funding through the HHS Health Center Program continuation award. The new federal funding was authorized as part of the bipartisan CARES Act, and will be used specifically to expand the range of COVID-19 testing and testing activities in eastern Connecticut.
The new funding can be used to support the purchase of personal protective equipment, training, outreach, procurement and administration of tests, laboratory services, the expansion of walk-up or drive-up testing capabilities, and more.
“This funding for testing goes to the heart of eastern Connecticut’s ability to safely reopen activities of daily living,” said Courtney. “Testing provides the visibility of the virus’s presence that we need to isolate and eliminate its spread. UCFS and Generations are high-quality health providers, embedded in the region that can do the work this funding is intended to support. These grants are not the end, but rather the first steps in a testing and tracing program that the country needs. Negotiations are underway now for the fourth major COVID-19 aid package, the ‘CARES Act Two’, and it’s imperative that Congress works together to get more support where it’s most needed.”
Courtney announced the first three rounds of COVID-19 response funding awarded to Generations Family Health Center, Inc. and United Community Health Center, Inc. on March 26, April 7, and April 17. The initial grant funding was awarded through HHS programs that were authorized by the bipartisan CARES Act, which Rep. Courtney voted to pass on March 27, and through the House’s first bipartisan supplemental funding package to curb the spread of COVID-19 (H.R. 6074), which Rep. Courtney voted to pass on March 4.
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Clockwise from top left: Apple blossoms. Guy Tabor double daffodil. Trillium. Sedum. Phlox "scales" with dragon scales. Chives about to flower. Inside a red tulip.
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