{"id":67093,"date":"2016-04-09T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T16:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67093"},"modified":"2016-04-08T19:01:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T23:01:40","slug":"scherz-scholarship-deadline-is-may-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67093","title":{"rendered":"Scherz scholarship deadline is May 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67094\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=67094\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67094\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-67094 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC01927-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSC01927\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC01927-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC01927-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC01927-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC01927.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured from left are the late Fred Scherz, Sr., and Verona Town Councilman Fritz Scherz.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fred \u201cFritz\u201d Scherz, Jr., Councilman on the Verona Town Board in Verona, has again created the\u00a0<em>Fred Scherz Sr. Memorial Scholarship for Volunteer Community Service.\u00a0 <\/em>The seventh annual scholarship will be\u00a0in the amount of $250 and will be awarded by Fritz to a Town of Verona student who is on track to\u00a0graduate from 12<sup>th<\/sup> grade at a high school (public or private) or home school by <span data-term=\"goog_1436546631\">June 30<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the\u00a0student must have lived in the Town of Verona since at least Dec. 1, 2015, and must be voluntarily\u00a0engaged 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 <!--more-->memory,\u201d said\u00a0Scherz.\u00a0 \u201cMy Dad, Fred Scherz Sr., truly believed in giving back to his community, and took pride in helping\u00a0many people,\u201d said Scherz.\u00a0 \u201cLast year, I presented Tyler Brewer with the sixth a<em>nnual Fred Scherz Sr. Memorial\u00a0<\/em><em>Scholarship for Volunteer Community Service<\/em>.\u00a0 I plan on self-funding this year\u2019s scholarship in my Dad\u2019s name\u00a0and feel that if students get started in volunteering at a younger age, they\u2019ll continue to do so once they\u2019re out of\u00a0school. 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 <em>Fred Scherz Sr. Memorial Scholarship for\u00a0<\/em><em>Volunteer Community Service<\/em>, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzscherz.com\/\">www.fritzscherz.com<\/a>.\u00a0 For more information on Fritz, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzscherz.com\/\">www.fritzscherz.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/fritzscherz\">www.twitter.com\/fritzscherz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzscherz.blogspot.com\/\">www.fritzscherz.blogspot.com<\/a>\u00a0or call\u00a0<a href=\"tel:%28315%29%20363-3509\">(315) 363-3509<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to apply is <span data-term=\"goog_1436546632\">May 13<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred \u201cFritz\u201d Scherz, Jr., Councilman on the Verona Town Board in Verona, has again created the\u00a0Fred Scherz Sr. Memorial Scholarship for Volunteer Community Service.\u00a0 The seventh annual scholarship will be\u00a0in the amount of $250 and will be awarded by Fritz to a Town of Verona student who is on track to\u00a0graduate from 12th grade at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67093","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=67093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}