N.C. Tomato Growers Association offers $1,000 Student Scholarship

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2007

N.C. Tomato Growers Association offers $1,000 student scholarship

ASHEVILLE – In an effort to promote and develop educational opportunities in the North Carolina tomato industry, the N.C. Tomato Growers Association is offering a scholarship of $1,000 for the 2007-2008 academic year.

This marks the 13th year the group has offered student scholarships.

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Awards will be based on the student’s demonstrated scholastic achievement, initiative, leadership, financial need and extracurricular activities.  The scholarship is contingent on the recipient maintaining at least a 2.5 grade point average out of a possible 4.0 on all course work during the scholarship period.

The recipient must be enrolled for the entire school year to receive the full scholarship. Scholarship funds will be distributed through the financial aid office of the student’s college or university. The total $1,000 scholarship will be paid in two installments of $500 per semester.

The winner will be announced in August at the Tomato Field Day at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research Station in Fletcher.

For an application, contact Stephanie Wise, marketing specialist with the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, at (828) 253-1691, ext. 18, or by e-mail at Stephanie.Wise@ncmail.net. Completed applications should be mailed to: N.C. Tomato Growers Association, 570 Brevard Road, Asheville, NC 28806.

This Press Release was written by me for the N.C. Department of Agriculture while I was employed with the department. I am posting this as an example of writing I did during my time at the department. The information in the press release was made available to the public at the time of release.

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Lisa Logan has been writing professionally since she was a student at North Carolina State University where she earned her bachelor and master’s degrees. She started out writing profile articles for the N.C. Literary Review, interviewing various North Carolina authors of fiction. Her own creative works were published in several issues of the Raleigh News and Observer’s short fiction section Sunday Reader. Lisa’s passion for screenwriting led to freelancing for a national screenwriter’s magazine Creative Screenwriting in which she writes features, interviewing Hollywood screenwriters, high-level film producers, directors, and actors. Lisa’s work can also be found in Our State magazine and Our State’s now defunct sister publication NC Signature.