{"id":61166,"date":"2015-04-08T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61166"},"modified":"2015-04-07T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T00:20:11","slug":"sixth-annual-fritz-scherz-sr-scholarship-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61166","title":{"rendered":"Sixth Annual Fritz Scherz Sr. Scholarship Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC01927.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-61167\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC01927.jpg\" alt=\"DSC01927\" width=\"400\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC01927.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC01927-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC01927-150x137.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>(Verona, NY \u2013 April 2015)\u00a0Fred \u201cFritz\u201d Scherz, Jr., Councilman on the Verona Town Board in\u00a0Verona has again created the Fred Scherz Sr. Memorial Scholarship for Volunteer Community Service.<\/p>\n<p>The 6th\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\u00a0June 30.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the student\u00a0must have lived in the Town of Verona since at least Dec. 1, 2014, and must be voluntarily engaged in community service or must have created a community project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did the inaugural scholarship back in the spring of 2010 as a way to honor my Dad\u2019s memory,\u201d said Scherz.\u00a0 \u201cMy Dad, Fred Scherz Sr., truly believed in giving back to his community, and took pride in helping many people. Last year I presented Tess Lohr with the\u00a05th\u00a0Annual Fred Scherz Sr. Memorial Scholarship for Volunteer Community Service.\u00a0 I plan on self-funding\u00a0this year\u2019s scholarship in my Dad\u2019s name and feel 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:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzscherz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.fritzscherz.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline to apply is\u00a0May 11.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Verona, NY \u2013 April 2015)\u00a0Fred \u201cFritz\u201d Scherz, Jr., Councilman on the Verona Town Board in\u00a0Verona has again created the Fred Scherz Sr. Memorial Scholarship for Volunteer Community Service. The 6th\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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61166","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=61166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}