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Youth Conservation Scholarship program
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[OCT. 7, 2005]
SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Conservation
Foundation is accepting nominations for the annual Youth
Conservation Scholarship program. Ten high school juniors or seniors
-- one female and one male from each of the five Illinois Department
of Natural Resources regions -- will be selected. Students who have
made significant contributions or exhibited unparalleled dedication
in preserving, promoting, enhancing or supporting natural resources
conservation are eligible. Each student selected will receive a
$1,000 scholarship.
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Applicants must be
Illinois residents, members of the high school class of 2006 or
2007, and must be nominated by a natural resource constituency
group, community leader, school administrator, teacher or adult
mentor. The deadline to apply is Oct. 31. Those selected will be
presented with the scholarships at the annual Illinois Outdoor Hall
of Fame Banquet at The Mark of the Quad Cities in Moline on March 4,
2006. The scholarship program is supported through funds raised at
the banquet.
For more information, call (217) 785-2003. Nomination forms are
available at
www.ilcf.org.
[Illinois
Department of Natural Resources news release]
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