Local businesses, organizations and families with connections to the communities of Wadena, Deer Creek and Bluffton provided the scholarship funds to WDC high school seniors earlier this year.
More than 2,400 high school students from 20 different schools were at the Brainerd event, including students from Wadena-Deer Creek, who visited with more than 150 business representatives.
The Relationships, Education, Academics, Character and Hard Work program started four years ago and will expand to seventh and eighth graders as well as a second ninth to 12th grade class.
Celebrating quiet leadership virtually: Sourcewell Students of Character event on April 14
12 students from Bertha-Hewitt, Menahga, Sebeka, Staples-Motley, Verndale and Wadena-Deer Creek are among those nominated for the celebration.
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Paige Kilbury, Wadena-Deer Creek High School.
Photo courtesy of Jenny Holmes/Sourcewell (2021)
The 30th annual celebration of Sourcewell s Students of Character is on April 14 at 5:30 p.m. on Facebook.
The Students of Character Celebration recognizes high school juniors and seniors in the region for their quiet leadership, perseverance and dedication to their community, school and fellow students. Honorees are selected by their school staff with the criteria that they are unsung heroes of their districts. The event celebrates the difference these students make and lets them know they are appreciated and believed in.