{"id":58296,"date":"2014-10-07T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58296"},"modified":"2014-10-05T18:45:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T22:45:57","slug":"nice-n-easy-grocery-shoppes-awards-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58296","title":{"rendered":"Nice N Easy Grocery Shoppes Awards Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seven receive Linda Nelson Memorial Scholarship<\/p>\n

(Canastota, NY \u2013 Oct. 2014) \u00a0Nice N Easy Grocery Shoppes has awarded Linda Nelson Memorial Scholarships to seven local students.<\/p>\n

Established by the late President, Founder and CEO John MacDougall, the award is in memory of Linda Nelson, a \u201cspirited\u201d Nice N Easy Store Manager who suddenly passed away in 2001, shortly after learning she had cancer. Nelson recognized the need for all individuals to learn and grow and possessed a special drive and determination to guide those she met to reach seemingly unthinkable goals.<\/p>\n

The scholarship is designed in Nelson\u2019s memory to financially assist students who possess the same qualities that she found so important \u2013 the desire to learn and grow.\u00a0 Nelson\u2019s memory continues to live on, helping others further their formal education and obtain their career goals and dreams.<\/p>\n

Recipients this year are Mark Beach of Canastota, Brittany Correia of Camden, Madison Gregoris of Canastota, Kristen Gwilt of Oneida, Emily Sherwood of Morrisville, Kyle Sterling of Bernhards Bay and Julia Williamson of Cicero.\u00a0 Each of them received a monetary scholarship that they will use towards their higher education.<\/p>\n

Criteria for receiving the scholarship, funded by Nice N Easy Grocery Shoppes, include being a current employee of the chain or the son\/daughter of a current employee.\u00a0 Applicants must be completing their senior year in high school or have earned a GED certificate and will be attending college, or they may already be enrolled in an accredited college or university.\u00a0 The awards are given annually to students based on their academic achievements and character attributes.<\/p>\n

\u201cLinda Nelson always dreamed of having an education and this is a way that we can reward others and honor her dream\u201d, said Fran Duskiewicz, President and CEO of Nice N Easy Grocery Shoppes.<\/p>\n

According to Elaine MacDougall, \u201cI am truly honored to present the scholarships to these young, energetic individuals and best wishes to each of them.\u00a0 We are thrilled that these individuals have plans to further their education.\u00a0 These recipients have given to Nice N Easy Grocery Shoppes over the years, and this is just one way we can give back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nice N Easy Grocery Shoppes operates over 75 stores throughout New York State.\u00a0 Executive offices are located in Canastota.<\/p>\n

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Seven receive Linda Nelson Memorial Scholarship (Canastota, NY \u2013 Oct. 2014) \u00a0Nice N Easy Grocery Shoppes has awarded Linda Nelson Memorial Scholarships to seven local students. Established by the late President, Founder and CEO John MacDougall, the award is in memory of Linda Nelson, a \u201cspirited\u201d Nice N Easy Store Manager who suddenly passed away […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-fag","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58296","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=58296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}