YMCA Scholarships to help post-secondary students in community

Three YMCA volunteers in Lethbridge could be the lucky recipients of some big bucks for their post-secondary studies. The YMCA Lethbridge announced their nominees for the Ted Rogers Community Scholarship, which awards one-thousand dollars to hundreds of recipients across the country. The “Y” is hoping their two nominees will be included with the winners.

They’ve also nominated one of their volunteers for the chance at an RBC Future Launch Scholarship for Black Youth, which provides 10-thousand dollars annually for up to four years of study.
Additionally, the “Y” has honoured three lifeguards with scholarships to help them with their training and certification.

One of the YMCA Lethbridge’s employees, Matthew Clarkson, is the recipient of the one-thousand-dollar YMCA Community Commitment Scholarship. Clarkson is a student of Indigenous studies at the University of Lethbridge and won based on how he’s been able to incorporate community commitment within his work at the “Y”. 

All seven nominees and scholarship recipients will be honoured at a special ceremony this Friday at the Cor Van Raay YMCA in Lethbridge

Jeannette Rocher

Born in Puerto Rico, raised in Minnesota and Manitoba, Jeannette has had the opportunity to live in a variety of places including New York, Arizona, and Nevada. After completing college and a paid internship with CBC Winnipeg, Jeannette embarked on her journalism career by moving overseas to take a job on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. While overseas she covered stories in Fiji, Guam and Japan including the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan and its surrounding islands. She covered a mass shooting, an Earth quake, murder cases and other substantial court cases. In 2013 she moved to Alberta where she covered the devastating floods of High River and Medicine Hat for CTV News. She then went on to produce and host Go! Southern Alberta for Shaw TV. She now calls Miracle Channel home. In addition to reporting in the field, you can catch her anchoring daily weather reports, as well as longer interview segments on BCN, and the week-in-review show on BCN Weekends. 

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