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Club fund to honor Tank Beavers
ATHENS - The Boys & Girls Clubs of Athens-Limestone County is setting up a scholarship fund in honor of Tanqueray "Tank" Beavers, a longtime member of the organization who was fatally shot Sunday night. In lieu of flowers, Beavers' family is requesting donations to the Tank Beavers Memorial Scholarship, which will go to a college-bound member of a Boys & Girls Club in Limestone County. Beavers, 21, was killed at T.G.I. Friday's restaurant on University Drive in Huntsville. Jamal Woods has been charged in Beavers' death. Police say Woods shot Beavers and three others after he and Beavers exchanged words after Beavers spoke to a woman who was with Woods at the restaurant. Beavers' death came just before clubs in Limestone County convened in Athens on Tuesday to interview candidates for their Youth of the Year award, which Beavers won in 1994, 1998 and 2004, the year he graduated from Athens High School.
Science and Math students share scholarship
NEW YORK -- Sagar Indurkhya and Nicholas Tang of the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics in Durham will share a $40,000 prize after placing third Monday in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology, one of the nation's premier high school science competitions. Their project involved bioengineering research in the area of synthetic biology, an emerging interdisciplinary field related to systems biology that uses concepts based on living systems to design biological networks much like electronic networks. Lingchong You and Jingdong Tian of the Duke Department of Biomedical Engineering served as their mentors. A high school senior from Oregon won a $100,000 scholarship for his research in a new area of mathematics called string topology. The Siemens competition was launched in 1998 to recognize American's best math and science students, with 1,660 entering this year.
Scholarship marks memory of childhood friendship
HAVERHILL - David Witham's fondest memories of growing up on 11th Avenue include playing with his neighbor and best friend, Edward Sheehan.
During the 1940s and '50s, all two young boys needed to have fun were a baseball and their gloves. Television was in its infancy, and few at that time could have dreamed of high-tech gadgets, such as handheld video games and MP3 players.
"Playing outside was what you did," Witham said. "You'd go home when the streetlights went on, or else you'd be grounded."
Witham, 66, now a successful Boston businessman who operates three resorts in Bar Harbor, Maine, retains vivid memories of his friend and recalls moments such as the time they stepped on a hornets' nest in St. James Cemetery.
"We ran for what seemed to be miles," Witham said.
Puddings to help fund scholarship
FUNDRAISING efforts have yielded $7000 to support a memorial scholarship fund in honour of a Wodonga youth whose dream it was to become an air force pilot. Anna Speedie, project officer for the Community Foundation for Albury Wodonga region, is auspicing the Bobby Garratt memorial ADFA scholarship fund. She said a wine tasting night had raised $500 and $1500 had been raised through proceeds of the sale of Cofields wine. Ms Speedie said the fund had also received $2000 from SMC Pneumatics, $3000 from Chris Meyer of Narellan Pools Sydney and $1000 from a private donor. "We are well on the way but still need help to get to the $20,000 mark," she said. Ms Speedie said further money would be raised through a Christmas pudding drive with puddings provided by Yackandandah Bakery and available for sale for $12 each.
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