South Kentucky RECC’s 20th annual golf scramble
recently earned $18,000 to benefit the Rogers Scholars program.
The program provides high school students from 45 counties,
including Russell, in southern and eastern Kentucky with an intensive one-week
summer session to help spark their entrepreneurial spirit, leadership, and commitment
to rural Kentucky, and in several cases leads to full scholarships to Kentucky
colleges. Approximately 19 colleges and universities across the region have
made scholarship opportunities of $8 million available for graduates for the
Rogers Scholars program.
For more information on the various youth programs through the
Center for Rural Development, contact the office Youth Programs and Community
Liaison at 606-677-6000.