The Salina Journal
In its second year at Salina Area Technical College, the National Career and Technical Letter of Intent Signing Day will move to a virtual setting this year.
Because of limitations due to COVID-19, Salina Tech will host its signing day on Facebook, with a pre-recorded broadcast starting at 11 a.m. on April 15.
Salina Tech is asking incoming students to submit photos or short videos of their signing and that will be incorporated into the Facebook video.
Students participating in the event will receive a Salina Tech T-shirt and cap and a $500 scholarship, with half applied to the fall 2021 semester and the other half to the spring 2022 semester. Salina Tech said to participate, students must have applied and been accepted to Salina Tech before March 2 and register for the Signing Day event.
Shanta Trice could have lived anywhere in Topeka, but she chose the Hi-Crest neighborhood.
“There is just a sense of belonging, being aware of who you are and being accepted,” said Trice, who is also a spokeswoman for Mothers of Murdered Sons.
The diversity of Hi-Crest, coupled with its sense of community, gives the area potential, Trice said, but she believes it is being squandered. She said some central, northern and eastern neighborhoods “definitely get slighted in city infrastructure investment.
Trice said everything from roads to business development is lacking, and that has a negative impact on schools.
“I can t tell you really where it’s broken, other than it is broke,” Trice said. “It’s a cesspool of all kinds of problems.”
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