Lions hand out plenty of scholarship awards

 

Senior Night for graduating seniors at Kingston HS May 28 and North Kitsap HS May 29 featured individuals and organizations giving away thousands of dollars in college scholarships plus recognition for a multitude of events.

 

Poulsbo Lions gave out $7,000 in scholarships to three Kingston HS seniors and $13,000 to North Kitsap HS seniors. Making the presentations for the Poulsbo Lions were Pat and Sherri Burch, President David Damazo, and Karl Ostheller.

Students receiving Lions scholarships were Maxwell Smith, Reyna Blackwood, Isabelle Cera, Norah McFeat, Cadence Rabideaux, Kail Taylor, Alan Olmedo, Rhys Hernandez, and Leonard Taylor.

Poulsbo Lions hand out two more scholarships

Congrats to Noah Simontov and Nate Blanchard for earning two of our Poulsbo Lions scholarships! Noah is a 2024 graduate of Kingston High. He plans to possibly major in economics at the University of Washington. Nate is a graduate of North Kitsap High. He's in his second year of medical school at Michigan State University, and he's a Poulsbo Lion!
#bestandbrightest #scholarships2024 #nksd #poulsbolions

Noah Simontov

 

Nate Blanchard

Three more NKHS students receive scholarships

 

We were happy to host three more of our scholarship recipients at today's meeting: 2023-24 North Kitsap High School Leo Club President Ava Obernberger plans to go to Oregon State University in radiation health physics; Connor Cornwell says he's going to USC for applied and computational mathematics; and 2023-24 NKHS Leo Club Secretary Emma Nodolf plans to go to the University of Washington in bio. Our best and brightest!
#soproud #outstandingstudents #Lionscholars #nkhs2024 #poulsbolions
 

Club hands out $24,000 in scholarships

We are pleased to announce many of our 2024 Poulsbo Lion scholarship recipients. Lion Karl Ostheller presented checks to Allari Strong and Avery Pruden, and they left before the photo was taken. Our club gave out $24,000 in scholarships this year - the most ever!

 

Row 1: (L to R): Ava Banker, McLean Bowers, Tiffany Le, Matthew Fee

Row 2: Evan Silcott, Viet Tran, Camryn Prouse, Alice Moe, Bristol Hubbard

Row 3: Emalee Burgh, Cor Ellis, Audrey Crossgrove, Quinny Stuart, Ethan White, and Ostheller

 

Congratulations to all of these amazing students!

#bestofthebest #poulsbolions #scholarships #weserve #gotocollege #nkhs #khs

 

Photo courtesy of Stephanie Burgh

 This photo of our scholarship recipients includes Allari and Avery.

Poulsbo Lions hand out $21,000 in scholarships

 

Poulsbo Lion Karl Ostheller (left) handed out $21,000 in scholarships to these fabulous North Kitsap and Kingston High students, as well as a few alumni at today's meeting. Several have earned associate degrees from Olympic College through Running Start, a few have 4.0 gpas, several are athletes, and many have been involved with Leo Club since middle school.

From left to right: Jonah Holmes, Megan Turner, McLean Bowers, Kah-Ty Natrall, Grace Epperson, Nathaniel Kent, Sydnee Hogan, Leah Parmelee, Rylee Turner, Eliana Ginn, Wren Mason-Todd, Ava Banker, and Emalee Burgh. #bestandbrightest #futureisbright #nkhs #khs #poulsbolions #lionscholarships #WeServe #somuchtalent

Scholarship recipients receive their checks at Lions meeting

  

Poulsbo Lions handed out $22,000 in scholarships recently to some of the best and brightest students from North Kitsap and Kingston high schools. A bunch of the kids joined our meeting today. Special thanks to our LEO advisor, Karl Ostheller, who has been doing this job for many years at the club and district level - thanks Karl!

 

 

These three young ladies are all from Kingston High School, where they were members of our LEO Club. From left to right: Claire Moe (plannong in attending Colorado College in environmental science), Maddie Seid (going to the University of Washington in public health and biochemistry), and Sophie Svarthumle (going to Central Washington University in graphic design).

 

These four young men are all NKHS Vikings - from left to right are Dalton Brockett, Jason Hart (going to UW for engineering), Carl Burchill (going to Gonzaga and probably majoring in economics) and Jonah Holmes (just received his associate degree at Olympic College and has been accepted at Brigham Young University and plans to go into law).

 

These three have received a Poulsbo Lions scholarship before and were each given another. From left to right: Aranya Kitnikone (in her second year at University of Washington), Nara Deller (former LEO Club president and Achievement Award winner in 2020-21), and Treyson Gleich (just finished his third year at the University of Washington and majoring in aeronautical engineering).  

 

 

Sophia Svarthumle from Kingston High School was named Leo of the Year for 2020-2021.

 

Congrats scholarship recipients

Congrats to a handful of our Poulsbo Noon Lions Club scholarship recipients! These students are outstanding. From left: Lion Nate Blanchard, Treason Gleich, Ryan Gleich, Michael Hammett and Nara Deller.

 

Aranya Kitnikone gets her scholarship from Lion Karl.

Senior Megan Turner received her scholarship from our chairman, Karl Ostheller.

Scholarships, Leo award handed out at lunch meeting

It's always a pleasure to hand out scholarship money to students who deserve it! #nkareascholarships #creamofthecrop #weserve #pancakebreakfast #poulsbolions #75years

 

NKHS senior Sarah Hemmett receives a Poulsbo Lions scholarship from Roger Sherrard at our June 8 meeting.

 

NKHS senior Nick Berry-Maraist receives the Jim Stark Scholarship, named for our beloved past King Lion, from Roger Sherrard.

 

 Grace Holmes, NKHS senior, with Sherrard

Wendy Yu, a Kingston High senior, and Sherrard

 

Lion Joe Stenstrom, currently a Western Washington University student, receives a scholarship given in the name of Jim Schoettler from Sherrard.

 

Leo Liaison Karl Ostheller (right) presents NKHS Leo President Nick Berry-Maraist with a 100% Leo Club President award.

Handful of scholarships given out June 16

 

Lions Roger Sherrard and Karl Ostheller present NKHS Leo Gemma Ferland with the 100% Leo Club President Award. Gemma is the first to receive the Jim Stark Memorial Leo Scholarship. She is headed for the University of British Columbia. The Leo of the Year for NKHS is Tara Battaglia, who will be the club secretary for 2016-2017.

 

A few of our pancake breakfast scholarship winners came to the Poulsbo Noon Lions' June 16 lunch meeting. These are outstanding teens! They all just graduated from North Kitsap High School. Above, President Kent Lord with North Kitsap High scholarship recipients Zach Halstead, Gemma Ferland and Kiley Pugh.

Lion Roger gave Zach Halstead what is only the second Raab Foundation Scholarship. Zach was an active NKHS Leo and is headed to the University of Portland.

 

Lion Roger hands Kiley Pugh a scholarship check. Kiley and Gemma were co-salutatorians for their NKHS graduating class. Kiley is headed to Oregon State University to study in the field of biology.

Pancakes: A Viking Fest tradition and $10k in scholarships!

Miss Poulsbo Kaitlyn Morrell oversees Little Miss Poulsbo Olivia Jensen

as she learns the secrets of making perfect pancakes!

Poulsbo Noon Lions are giving out $10,000 in scholarships this year! Thanks to everyone who came and ate at our pancake breakfast at NK High May 21 and 22.

This event was chaired by Scott Puhn and John Macdonald. They secured $1,600 from sponsors (many thanks to First Security Bank, Grunden's, Liberty Bay Auto, Modern Dentistry and the Clearwater Casino. If you get the opportunity, please thank these businesses for helping us help student scholars!).

The scholarship recipients (four at $2,000 each and two at $1,000 each) won't be named until after their schools' awards nights. One special $2,000 scholarship given this year is in memory of Jim Stark, our club president who recently passed away.

Volunteer Kelley Vincent shows off the great-looking pancakes coming off of the grills at the pancake breakfast Saturday morning. Chase Blais, 17, is on the left.

The breakfast grossed $9,588, and the club had a large expense to deal with ($1,350 to repair the 1940s mixer), but the Raab Foundation contributed $4,000, along with $2,000 donated for the Jim Stark Scholarship.

Lion Dick Prine whips up another batch of batter in the rehabbed mixer.

Sylvie Blais, 15, served up warm butter and syrup - a crowd favorite!

A close-up of the magical pancakes.

Sausage links

Scrambled eggs

Evening Pride Lions Dottie Ridgeway and Cecilie Burleson were selling $5 raffle tickets for a Holland American cruise for 2. Other Evening Pride members were conducting vision screening near the entrance of the breakfast.

Lions Neil Torvik, Jim Schoettler, Sandi and Jay Dahlquist at the money/ticket table.

Many of the Saturday morning crew: Lions Pat Burch, Steve Calhoun, Joe Stenstrom, Chris Willets, Sherri Burch, Dennis Deitch, Greg Supanchek, and Charles Peach.

We love having area Leo students helping us out! In the drink and condiments area were (from left): NKHS seniors Madi Skansi and Savanna Obernberger, KHS sophomore Connor Clifford, and Lion Sherri Burch.

Lion Dennis Tesch cooking eggs to order.

Helen and sign man Mike Thatcher wait while Dennis Tesch cooks their eggs.

Lion Dennis Peters loves making pancakes!

What the heck? Lol. Steve Calhoun grabs a grill thermometer from Dennis Peters' pocket.

Lion Ken Rury designed a special Facebook banner during the breakfast.

From left: Dennis Peters, Dick Prine, President Kent Lord, co-chair Scott Puhn, Dennis Tesch, and co-chair John Macdonald.

Nothing is better than a good breakfast with friends!

Sponsors like First Security Bank helped offset some costs and enable us to give more scholarships.

Sponsorships added $1,600 to the pancake breakfast budget.

Many thanks to the local businesses that supported our club!

Evening Pride members David Risley and Marta Maxwell conduct vision screening.

Evening Pride Lions Joyce Smith, Nancy Patzer and Erika Risley sell cruise raffle tickets.

Larry Linn griddles with Kent Lord shuttling pancakes from grill to serving station.

John Macdonald and Tom Stark clean up the dirty dishes.