AgTexas Farm Credit awards $17,000 in local scholarships

AgTexas representatives Cody Reinders, Lee Statham, and Matt Thomas; Orian Gaston (Emhouse 4-H), Elaine Meyers (Corsicana FFA), Aiden Hunter (Ellis County 4-H), Victor Vizcarra (Dawson FFA), Tanner Williams (Dawson FFA), and Blane Mynarcik (Bynum FFA); and AgTexas representatives Lauren Burrow, Kari Martin, and Helena Hernandez.

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Granbury – On Tuesday evening, April 9 – the day following the total solar eclipse, AgTexas Farm Credit Services brightened a lot of smiles by awarding $17,000 in scholarships at its ninth annual AgTexas Ag Youth Scholarship awards program at the Lake Granbury Conference Center.

AgTexas honored seven graduating high school seniors who have excelled in their 4-H clubs and FFA chapters, each with a $1,000 scholarship.

The $7,000 is part of the almost $270,000 in scholarships and gift cards being awarded through the education initiative that AgTexas created nine years ago.

Combined with $16,000 in graduate-level scholarships, AgTexas has awarded almost $52,000 this spring.

Those scholarship recipients are Orian Gaston (Navarro County 4-H), Aiden Hunter (Ellis County 4-H), Hunter McKenzie (Joshua FFA), Elaine Meyers (Corsicana FFA), Alondra Robles (Hico FFA), Shayla Mader (Stephenville FFA and Erath County 4-H), and Ryleigh Whitaker (Cisco FFA and Eastland County 4-H).

In addition to the seven Central Texas-area $1,000 scholarship winners, all 16 regional honorees each received a $100 gift card.

These gift card recipients included three honorees from the Ellis County area: Aiden Hunter from Ellis County 4-H, Elaine Meyers from Corsicana FFA, and Orian Gaston from Emhouse 4-H.