It’s scholarship season, and area seniors are receiving financial assistance from institutions close to home and across the U.S.

Pendleton

Marcus Allen has received three scholarships from various entities. The Better Business Bureau Students of Integrity Scholarship ($2,000) is an essay scholarship honoring students who personify and communicate ethics in the real world, and is awarded to six students in the western U.S. states. Allen’s second scholarship was one of 15 awarded nationwide by the Susanna Foundation of Pennsylvania ($1,000) for students of superior academic and extracurricular achievements despite the challenges of a chronic disease or other serious health impediment (he is a Type 1 diabetic). His third scholarship, the Paul Gorham Memorial Scholarship from the Pendleton Masonic Lodge, is for $750.

Sam Coleman was awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the Pendleton Linebackers Club, renewable for four years.

Jacob Airoldi has received an Oregon Promise Scholarship in the amount of $3,900 per year (renewable) and the Reggie Brown Memorial Scholarship worth $1,500.

Boardman

The Boardman Chamber of Commerce recently awarded 10 scholarships to Riverside Jr./Sr. High School seniors. Awards for $1,000 were given to Jose Puerta, Cooper Szasz, Maria Silva Gillardo and Hailee Pratt. Pratt was also awarded an additional $1,000 scholarship for being selected as our Youth Citizen of the Year at the 2021 Distinguished Citizens Awards Banquet.

Scholarships for $500 were awarded to Heriberto Cazares, Angela Barragan, Melinda Cemore, Ricardo Davila, Savannah Morris and Jocelyn Lezama-Magallanes.

The Boardman Chamber of Commerce scholarships are made possible through our annual Frostbite Scholarship Golf Tournament fundraising event.