11/7/07 Scholarship Time

Scholarship time. I'm Greg Martin with today's Fruit Grower Report. The Washington Apple Education Foundation is all about help students get a good quality education. Director of the Foundation, Jennifer Witherbee says it's time to get those applications in. WITHERBEE: The foundation just published the 2008 scholarship application. Last year, we were so excited when we got to make over 100 scholarship awards and I think we were excited but for those additional 20 students that received scholarships from the tree fruit industry in 2007, I think they have to be very excited too. Witherbee says they hope to once again sponsor over 100 scholarships. The money comes from various growers and producers in the tree fruit industry. The application process is fairly simple. WITHERBEE: We try to make it pretty easy for them. They get to complete one application and they'll submit it to the foundation office no later than March 1st. We'll take that one application and that student could qualify for - oh gosh I don't know - as many as 10 or more scholarship awards just by completing the one application. Applicants need to check the guidelines for the individual scholarships. WITHERBEE: In some of the awards it's important that their families be employed in the industry or be growers in the industries; with other awards the main thing is that they need to be raised in a tree fruit industry community. So maybe if their parents are not directly employed in the industry so long as their raised in a community within that industry, they would qualify. That's today's Fruit Grower Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.