Newtown High School Lists Scholarships

By LARISSA LYTWYN

Published: Dec 05, 2003 12:00 am

The Career Center publicizes all scholarships that are received in the mail. A few of the scholarships, typically national ones, request that money be enclosed with the application. The Career Center believes that students should not have to pay to apply for scholarships. If a student chooses to apply for a scholarship that charges a fee, however, the Career Center strongly advises that he or she first check its authenticity through the FTC Consumer Response Center, www.ftc.gov, 877-FTC-HELP, the National Fraud Information Center, www.fraud.org, 800-876-7060 or the Better Business Bureau, www.bbg.org or call 703-276-0100.

Elk National Foundation â Most Valuable Student Scholarship. More than $2 million in scholarships will be awarded through this national competition open to any high school senior who is a US citizen. Five hundred seniors will be awarded scholarships ranging from $1,000 per year to $15,000 per year. Selection will be based on academic merit and standardized test scores, demonstrated leadership as well as financial need. Information and applications are available in the Career Center. The deadline for completed applications to arrive at the Danbury Elks Lodge #120 is January 6.

EF Global Citizen Award â Annual essay competition for college-bound high school seniors. Nominees are asked to submit a brief essay in response to a specific essay question. Selection for the award is based on the sincerity, maturity, clarity, and overall quality of thought demonstrated within the essay. Ten national winners will travel together on a ten-day, expense-paid educational tour of Europe in July. One student from each high school will be nominated to apply. The essay topic is available in the Career Center or at www.eftours.com. Completed essays are due to the Career Center by January 29 for the nomination process from Newtown High.

Connecticut Youth Leadership Forum for Students with Disabilities â High school sophomores and juniors with a disability (as defined by the Americans with Disability Act) are invited to apply for a four-day innovative leadership forum with exciting and motivational activities that will strengthen leadership skills. Applicants must reside in Connecticut, have medical insurance, and have demonstrated potential leadership in their school or community.

The forum will take place July 25â29 at the University of Connecticut, Storrs campus. Applications are available in the Career Center or may be downloaded from www.ctylf.org. Completed applications must be postmarked by January 16.

National Peace Essay Contest â Sponsored by the United States Insitute of Peace for high school students. The topic is âRebuilding Societies After Conflict.â First place state winners will receive scholarships of $1,000 and will compete for a National Award of $2,500, $5,000, or $10,000. First place state winners will be invited to attend an all-expense-paid awards program in Washington, D.C. Detailed information is available at www.usip.org. Completed registration forms and essay must be returned to the Career Center by January 12.

National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Free Enterprise Scholars Award â At least 100 high school seniors nationwide will be awarded $1,000 scholarships to an accredited two- or four-year university, college, or vocational institute. Applicants must be nominated by an active member of NFIB and may call 800-634-2669 for further assistance. Applicants must meet or exceed recommended academic standards using test scores, class rank, and GPA. As a general rule, applicants should rank in the top quarter of their graduating class. Applications will be accepted from January 1 through March 31. Additional information is available at www.nfib.com/education or through the Career Center.

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Sorry Lynn, not letting you get away with this. Yes, we all have the constitutional right to demonstrate peacefully but NO, no one ever said anything about taking that right away. You just made it up.

Expresses Opposition To Proposed Assembly Ordinance

A small Newtown business lost important revenue because of the protest. Traffic was disrupted causing a safety concern. Newtown taxpayers paid for police OT because the PD had to react to the protest rather than be prepared in advance. God forbid, if there was loss of life or property, Newtown could be liable legally for negligence. Your comment sounds like Liberal Woke thinking and apparently you are more sympathetic to protestors than to Newtown. Non-issue? In Kerrville TX the legislative body had the chance to vote for a flash flood siren warning system. They thought it was a non-issue. Now, over 200 people are dead and families are destroyed. No way does the town not get expensively buried in court should it be foolish enough to NOT go down this path.

Assembly Ordinance?

Hi David, I did not ignore anyone. I presented 4 quantifiable advantages and one intangible that an ordinance addressing protests would benefit Newtown. That was my only standard. No one that came to the meeting including the other LC members provided any argument to over come those benefits and remember, the threshold was set extremely low. The only thing the LC was voting on was to "just consider" if an ordinance would be in order. Get over the "stadium" joke. It is scandalous that you don't have the mental capacity to understand it was a joke. Remember when I asked to meet with you for breakfast to see in we could compromise on some of your many complaints? I am sure could have found compromises but apparently the word "compromise" is not a part of your vocabulary. Either is acting like an adult. By the way, the intangible...that was to provide protection for you and your family, God forbid, that you were protesting and someone came barreling through the crowd in a car. My point was you always plan for worst case scenario, not best case scenario. In Kerrville TX, the legislative body had the chance to vote to put a flash flood warning siren in place. Someone like you probably thought they didn't need it. Now over 200 people are dead. Nothing bad could ever happen in Newtown right?

Pisani to Sue Newtown – Part 1

Reservoir Rd. does indeed appear to have an interesting history that I often ponder as I hike the Rochambeau Trail. Early on it was apparently part of a main route from the center of the Borough to Taunton, which went up Mt. Pleasant Rd. and then roughly followed a watershed boundary from Mount Pleasant to Taunton Hill. When the current switchback road was built from West St. to Castle Hill in the 1800s, replacing the indirect route through the campground that Rochambeau used, the part of that original route to Taunton now known as Reservoir Rd. became redundant. But on an 1868 town map and topographic maps from 1892 and 1915, it looks like both routes were still maintained as roads. By the time of the 1934 aerial survey of CT, the connection to Mount Pleasant Rd. (maybe called Reservoir Rd. by then since the reservoir is visible) even had two outlets onto Castle Hill Rd. Since it is only shown as a partial dashed line on a 1953 topographic map, it may have stopped being maintained as a passable through road by then. But on a 1963 topographic map, where the section down to Knollwood Dr. had become a normal road again, the other end is shown as a dashed-line road, still with two connections to Castle Hill Rd., and a structure on the east side where one can still find remnants of a house today. Maybe a longtime resident can add comments about what it looked like in the 1950s and 1960s?

Clarity on Reservoir Road and the Rochambeau Trail

Please stop referring to your fellow Newtowners as the Mob. I was at the Legislative Council meeting where Mr. Pisani insulted the intelligence of a room full of Newtown voters; twice, and not in a satirical way. Plenty of new projects have been given the green light - the repurposing of the Taunton Press property is a welcome addition to Town, a new retail center is under construction on Church Hill Rd there are ongoing plans for the existing Fairfield Hills campus. Newtown is a wonderful place to live. Kudos to the Town officials who have managed to grow Newtown and maintain a small town feel, which may mean saying no to development more often than you would like. There will always be two sides to any proposal - different points of view are welcome and essential - name calling adds nothing to the conversation.

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