{"id":44094,"date":"2013-03-30T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=44094"},"modified":"2013-03-29T10:30:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T14:30:33","slug":"councilman-scherz-announces-annual-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=44094","title":{"rendered":"Councilman Scherz Announces Annual Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Photo shows (left to right) the late Fred Scherz Sr., (for whom the scholarship was named) and his son, Councilman Fritz Scherz.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC01927.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44095\" alt=\"DSC01927\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC01927.jpg?resize=226%2C170\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC01927.jpg?w=226&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC01927.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Verona, NY \u2013 March 2013) Fred \u201cFritz\u201d Scherz, Jr., Councilman on the Verona Town Board \u00a0has again created the\u00a0Fred Scherz Sr. Memorial Scholarship for Volunteer Community Service.\u00a0The 4th\u00a0annual scholarship will be in the amount of $250 and will be awarded by Fritz to a Town of Verona student who is on track to graduate from 12th\u00a0grade at a high school (public or private) or home school by June 30, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the student must have lived in the Town of Verona since at least Dec. 1, 2012, and must be voluntarily engaged in community service or must have created a community project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI first came out with the inaugural scholarship in the spring of 2010 as a way to honor my Dad\u2019s memory,\u201d said Scherz. \u201cMy Dad, Fred Scherz Sr., was a strong believer in giving back to his community, and was well known for helping many people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year, I presented Ashley Palmer with the\u00a03rd\u00a0Annual Fred Scherz Sr. Memorial Scholarship for Volunteer Community Service,&#8221; Scherz said. &#8220;I plan on self-funding\u00a0this year\u2019s scholarship in my Dad\u2019s name. I continue to believe that if students get started in volunteering at a younger age, they\u2019ll continue to do so once they\u2019re out of school. I\u2019m a strong believer that volunteerism is a great thing for any community!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To view the complete rules and to get an application for the\u00a0Fred Scherz Sr. Memorial Scholarship for Volunteer Community Service, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzscherz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.fritzscherz.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline to apply is May 1, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo shows (left to right) the late Fred Scherz Sr., (for whom the scholarship was named) and his son, Councilman Fritz Scherz.\u00a0 (Verona, NY \u2013 March 2013) Fred \u201cFritz\u201d Scherz, Jr., Councilman on the Verona Town Board \u00a0has again created the\u00a0Fred Scherz Sr. Memorial Scholarship for Volunteer Community Service.\u00a0The 4th\u00a0annual scholarship will be in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22341],"tags":[23374,23373,23376,23014,23375],"class_list":["post-44094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional","tag-councilman-fritz-scherz","tag-fred-fritz-scherz","tag-fred-scherz-sr-memorial-scholarship-for-volunteer-community-service","tag-town-of-verona-ny-news","tag-verona-town-board"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-btc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}