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Jackson Casteneda received a scholarship from the Flagler Tiger Bay Club. Courtesy photo
Hailey Tucker was awarded the University Women of Flagler Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Ava Houstoun won a Girl Up STEM Scholarship. Courtesy photo
FPC football player Benjamin Larore, with Teresa Rizzo, was the recipient of the Joe Rizzo Memorial Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Kobe Murphy received the David Griffis Memorial Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Abby Amaturo was awarded a scholarship from the Garden Club of Palm Coast. Courtesy photo
Alyssa Pimental was at a voice lesson, so her mom accepted her Flagler Auditorium Governing Board Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Ben Kopach received a Rymfire Elementary School PTO Scholarship and an Antonio Amaral Foundation Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Celeste Baker won a Kimball Family Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Charlotte Fletcher was awarded a Flagler Auditorium Governing Board Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Destiny Ruiz was awarded a scholarship from the Nehemiah Gilyard Scholarship Foundation. Courtesy photo
Elizaveta Guseva received a Girl Up Arts Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Kara Bellerive received a Wheels in Motion Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Genesis Epstein received a Rotary of Flagler County Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Genesis Santiago-Gil received a Rotary of Flagler County Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Gracie Lockey won a Flagler Auditorium Governing Board Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Isabella Papa won a Girl Up Arts Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Isabella Tietje of Matanzas received a Grand Haven Woman's Club Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Jack Lisenby won a Choral Arts Society Music Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Jack Steinwehr won a Flagler Auditorium Governing Board Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Jessica Neal received a Garden Club of palm Coast Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Julianna Bogdanov received the Bruce F. Garrison Memorial Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Flagler Schools' Teacher of the Year Lee Winfrey, right, presents Karson Thomas with his scholarship packet. Courtesy photo
Katie Polak received the Robert Osner Kiwanis Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Kevin Zheng completed the Take Stock in Children scholarship program. Courtesy photo
Kobe Murphy was one of the scholarship winners from the Nehemiah Gilyard Scholarship Foundation. Courtesy photo
Kole Hannant won the Always Sunny Scholarship for a full 2-year tuition plus books to Daytona State College for the HVAC program. Courtesy photo
Lilly Achins won one of the Garden Club of Palm Coast scholarships. Courtesy photo
Lily Hernandez won a Girl Up STEM Scholarship. Courtesy photo
FPC's Lucy Noble, who has a swimming scholarship from Eastern Michigan, can supplement that with her Rotary Club of Flagler County Athletic Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Mary Boland received a Take Stock in Children Scholarship and a Flagler Auditorium Lisa McDevitt Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Maya Palacios received a Grand Haven Woman's Club Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Edwin Moncayo won a Wheels in Motion Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Rosalyn Meeks was awarded a Women United Flagler Scholarship from United Way. Courtesy photo
Savannah Killmer received the United Way's Women United Flagler Scholarship. Courtesy photo
Sean Norris received the Whaam Burger Scholarship. Courtesy photo
The Flagler County Education Foundation honored the county's senior scholarship winners from Flagler Palm Coast and Matanzas high schools on May 2 with a drive-by and surprise event.
Representatives from the two high schools, school district staff and local scholarship donors delivered yard signs with their scholarship packets to each recipient’s home.
The late Joe Rizzo, who was the executive director of the Ed Foundation, would have had some dust in his eye when the foundation awarded a football player, Benjamin Aurore from FPC, Rizzo's alma mater, with the Joe Rizzo Memorial Scholarship.
Aurore will playing play football next season at Emporia State in Kansas. For Joe, the foundation was about “making it happen for kids.”
Kobe Murphy was awarded the David Griffis Memorial Scholarship. Griffis passed away in March. He was a well-known coach in the school district, who taught Murphy's mother in elementary school.
Coach Griffis' daughter, Tiffany Fink, is a teacher at Old Kings Elementary School. Griffis' wife, Nancy Griffis, is a retired teacher who taught in Flagler Schools. They present the scholarship to Murphy during the drive-by and surprise event.
The Garden Club of Palm Coast awarded three scholarships totaling $8,000 to students with career ambitions in environmental health sciences.
The scholarships were awarded to Jessica Neal and Lilly Achins of FPC and Abby Amaturo of Matanzas.
The club’s scholarship funds were raised from club events during the year. The club’s biggest annual fund raiser is the Spring Festival and Plant Sale in April. For more information about the Garden Club, go to www.gardenclubatpalmcoast.org.
