Two more pancake scholarships handed out

 

Congrats to two more of our Viking Fest Pancake Breakfast scholarship recipients Karla Rodriguez and Nate Blanchard, both North Kitsap High graduates. Karla received her check from Leo liaison Karl Ostheller. She's planning on attending Olympic College and eventually becoming a labor & delivery nurse. Nate received the Herb Armstrong Memorial Scholarship from Elda Armstrong. Nate is going to Cal Poly, majoring in biology.

 

Three pancake scholarships awarded

Meet three of our 2018 Viking Fest Pancake Breakfast scholarship recipients: Riley Tellinghuisen and Mikka Yamane from Kingston High School, and Tara Battaglia, MD19 Leo of the Year and 2nd time scholarship winner. Our Lion Karl Ostheller (2nd from right) presented the checks with President John Macdonald looking on at our June 21 noon meeting.

$2,000 scholarship awarded

 

Congratulations to Isabel Beaulieu, a recent graduate of Kingston High School, on earning a $2,000 scholarship from our Poulsbo Lions-Raab Foundation. Isabel and her family came to our noon meeting June 18. Isabel has a 4.0 GPA and will be attending Gonzaga University in Spokane, most likely in math or science.

Handing out some of the scholarship money

Anna Hall of NK High and Emily Calder of NK High received their scholarship checks from scholarship chairman Lion Roger Sherrard at today's noon meeting.

A total of $8,000 in scholarships ($5,000 from our pancake breakfast plus $3,000 from the Lions-Raab Foundation endowment fund) was distributed to North Kitsap School District graduates and former scholarship recipients.

Lions give scholarships to NK High students

Photos courtesy of Lion Lynnea

Proceeds from our club's Viking Fest Pancake Breakfast and the Raab Foundation provided 11 scholarships. Seven went to graduating seniors and four went to college students. Above, Lion Matt Alvarado announces the North Kitsap High School scholarship recipients June 5 while Lion Joyce Smith looks on.

 

 

The scholarships were each in the amount of $1,000 for Lion Joe Stenstrom (Olympic College), and graduating NK seniors Brittany Brown, Lydia Leach, and Alissa Neuman. $500 scholarships were given to NK seniors Mencius Leonard and Arory Milyard, and to Kingston High seniors Korina Waring-Enriquez and Sonja Redbird, as well as April McCabe (Western Washington University), Walker McCabe (Whatcom Community College), and Lion Sebastian Ford (St. Olaf's).

Stenstrom receives scholarship; new awards banner

Photo courtesy of Lion Lynnea

Lion Joe Stenstrom received a $1,000 scholarship from pancake breakfast proceeds from Scholarship Committee members Lion Roger Sherrard (center) and Lion Matt Lind. Joe has been a Poulsbo Noon Lion for a year and has worked on many community projects. He works two jobs, and maintains a 3.95 grade point average in college. He also belongs to a fraternity.

Another photo courtesy of Lion Lynnea

 

With awards continually coming in, our club needed a new awards banner! If you'd like to find out what Lions is all about, you're welcome to one of our gatherings at 12:15 p.m. Thursdays in the Christian Center located at the First Lutheran Church on 4th Avenue. We have a nice lunch and a program and it only lasts an hour! See the contact information to the left, in the sidebar.



Poulsbo Lions meet scholarship winner

In this photo: King Lion Ginger Shields, Sabastian Ford - a college scholarship winner, and Lion Roger.

In this photo: King Lion Ginger with new member Sabastian, Lions Lynnea and Scott, Membership Chairman Matt Alvarado, and Immediate Past King Lion Matt Lind.