Members of the 56-year-old Monterey Bay Dog Training Club announced Monday that Mikayla Aguilar has been awarded the club’s 2023 UC Davis Veterinary Medicine Scholarship.
Aguilar is scheduled to person her doc of veterinary medicine grade successful 2025. She is the girl of migrant farmworkers, spent the archetypal portion of her beingness successful Salinas, and attended Dr. Oscar F. Loya Elementary School until moving to Palmdale.
She graduated a twelvemonth aboriginal from a charter precocious schoolhouse successful bid to be a vet assisting program. From determination she attended a section assemblage college, which allowed her to transportation to UC Davis wherever she received a bachelor’s grade successful carnal science. She is inactive deciding if she wants to prosecute a residency successful radiology oregon probe with a imaginable doctorate post.
Monterey Bay Dog Training Club Scholarship is awarded to a deserving pupil with a demonstrated involvement successful tiny carnal medicine and country who is simply a past oregon contiguous nonmigratory of Santa Cruz, Monterey oregon San Benito County. This assistance was established successful 1975.
Donation matched
As ongoing storms batter our region, generous assemblage members are offering donations to the Community Foundation’s Disaster Fund, including a $75,000 lucifer by a section household who wishes to stay anonymous.
“The Disaster Fund is acceptable and is simply a trusted spot for residents to assistance their neighbors who person been harmed by these storms. This money volition payment those whose homes, businesses and lives person been upended. Contributing to this money is 1 of galore ways successful which everyone tin marque a difference,” said Community Foundation CEO Susan True successful a prepared release.
The Disaster Fund was activated aft the New Year’s storms and is supporting contiguous needs and betterment efforts from tempest and flood-related harm successful impacted communities passim Santa Cruz County. With ongoing tempest warnings, roadworthy closures crossed the county, and evacuations successful advancement for the existent storms, the Community Foundation is successful adjacent connection with nonprofits, tiny businesses and section authorities responding to the situation and tiny businesses struggling with damage.
Education
The pursuing section students were honored for world achievement:
• Clara Perotti, of Santa Cruz, was named to the dean’s database for the autumn 2022 semester astatine Marquette University successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• Natalie Wollmann, of Santa Cruz, was named to the president’s database for the autumn 2022 word astatine Southern New Hampshire University successful Manchester, New Hampshire.
• Robbie Fitzsimmons, of Santa Cruz, was named to the president’s database for the autumn 2022 word astatine Southern New Hampshire University successful Manchester, New Hampshire.
• Estasia Barrientosi, of Santa Cruz, earned a Master of Arts successful acquisition from Mount Mary University successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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