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McNary seniors win scholarships
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By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
McNary seniors Jesus Agu-
ilar and Destiny Miteg won’t
have to worry about how
they’re going to pay for col-
lege.
Aguilar was awarded the
Ford Family Foundation
Scholarship, which pays for
up to 90 percent of a student’s
college costs.
Ford scholars who com-
plete their bachelor’s degree
with at least a 3.6 GPA are
also eligible to apply for up
to two years of graduate-level
funding.
Miteg is the fi rst McNary
student to receive an Act Six
Scholarship, Oregon’s only
full-tuition, need-based, com-
munity leadership award.
The Ford Family Foun-
dation selected 105 students
from Oregon and 15 from
Siskiyou, Calif. out of 5,885
applicants.
Eligibility criteria includes
fi nancial need, merit qualifi -
cations as well as work in the
community.
Aguilar, who plans to ma-
jor in electrical engineering at
Oregon State University, has
volunteered with the Nation-
al Honor Society at McNary.
He also organized a group
of friends to work on the Big
Toy at Keizer Rapids Park.
“I really wanted to help
the community out because
there’s not a lot of parks on
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
McNary seniors Jesus Aguilar and Destiny Miteg received the highly competitive Ford Family
Foundation and Act Six Scholarships.
the west side of Keizer,” Agui-
lar said.
“They’re all on the other
side so I thought it was a real-
ly good idea. I feel like there’s
people less fortunate than I
and I would just like to re-
ally help them out. I’ve always
wanted to make my environ-
ment better because it’s made
me better.”
Aguilar has also chosen
working in the community
over the perfect GPA.
BLAST Camp July 11-14
The Keizer Police Depart-
ment is hosting its fourth an-
nual BLAST Camp from July
11 to July 14 for boys and
girls entering grades three
through six.
This camp is designed to
Bring local Law enforcement
And Students closer Together
(BLAST).
Children attending the
camp will receive safety in-
formation, observe public
safety demonstrations, and
much more.
Registration for the camp
is free and available at the
following website on a fi rst-
come fi rst-serve basis: keizer.
org/blast-camp-2017.
In order to allow more
children to participate in this
event, the KPD is seeking
donations to help offset the
costs.
To donate, or if there are
any questions, contact Lt. An-
drew Copeland at 503-856-
3463 or copelanda@keizer.
org or Administrative Assis-
tant Wanda Blaylock at 503-
856-3468 or blaylockw@
keizer.org.
Choir, drama camp Aug. 14-18
McNary High School’s
morning choir camp and af-
ternoon drama camp will be
from Aug. 14 to Aug. 18.
There will be a perfor-
mance on Aug. 18 and an op-
tional second performance on
Aug. 21 at the Total Eclipse
Viewing Party.
The choir and drama
camps will be located at
Whiteaker Middle School.
Choir camp will be from 9
a.m. to noon and drama camp
will be from 12:30 p.m. to 3
p.m.
Students can choose to do
one or both camps.
Choir and drama camps
each are $65, which includes
a T-shirt and music in the
case of choir. Siblings are half
price.
Joshua Rist, McNary’s
choir
director, Claggett
Creek Middle School choir
director Sandra Krause, and
Andy Thomas, Whiteaker’s
choir director will be leading
choir camp.
Angy and Andy Thomas
will be leading drama camp.
Registration must be com-
pleted by June 9 at the latest.
For more information,
contact Andy Thomas at
thomas_andy@salkeiz.k12.
or.us.
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Aguilar began his senior
year with a 4.0 but will grad-
uate with a 3.9 after taking
fi ve AP classes in one semes-
ter along with holding down
a part time job.
“I felt like defi nitely giving
back to my community was
way more important than a
4.0,” Aguilar said. “It’s some-
thing you want to achieve ob-
viously but if it’s going to get
in the way of helping others,
it’s kind of selfi sh.”
Miteg, who transferred to
McNary her senior year from
David Douglas High School
in Portland, had to complete
three different phases to re-
ceive one of just 17 Act Six
Scholarships in Oregon.
The fi rst was an online ap-
plication with four 500-word
essays about leadership, com-
munity and how she would fi t
into the two schools eligible
for the scholarship—Warner
Pacifi c College and George
Fox University.
The second round was sup-
posed to be group interviews
and activities in Portland but
that phase was canceled due
to a snow and ice storm.
In round three, 20 semifi -
nalists from the original 220
were chosen to go to the col-
lege of their choice to spend
the night and then participate
in group activities, dinner and
formal interviews.
“The adults were all lis-
tening to your stories and it
was quite an experience,” said
Miteg, who went to Warner
Pacifi c.
“I was meeting with a lot
of the staff, the president,
teachers.”
Along with the scholar-
ship, Miteg gets seven months
of training in time manage-
ment and other college skills
before she enrolls in Warner
Pacifi c in August. In March,
Miteg began going to Port-
land every Monday night for
the training.
“I’m just so thankful, espe-
cially because how Act Six, it
gives us our training,” Miteg
said.
“It’s not just we give you
the money and we’re done
with it, they really invest their
time into their scholars to
help them succeed,” Miteg
said.
Rochelle Farris, who runs
the McNary college and ca-
reer center, attended the Act
Six scholars ceremony with
Miteg.
“They (Act Six) are grow-
ing the next generation of
leaders that will go into the
community and give back
because of what they have
received,” Farris said. “This
scholarship is amazing and has
chosen some pretty amazing
kids that will do great things
and Destiny is one of those.
I’m excited for her.”
Miteg plays the violin in
the orchestra and symphony
and sings in the choir at Mc-
Nary.
She wants to become a
nurse with a background in
psychology so she can work
at a hospital with the mentally
ill.
The scholarships take the
fi nancial burden off Aguilar
and Miteg, as well as their
families.
“If I had not won the
scholarship, they (parents)
would want to do everything
they could to fund my tuition
because they really want me
to go to college but I don’t
want them to pull out loans
and keep working all their
life,” Aguilar said.
“With this scholarship I
can graduate from college al-
most debt free and I can start
making money and repaying
my parents for all the things
they’ve given me. It means a
lot.”