{"id":213527,"date":"2010-01-22T17:22:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T22:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"2190"},"modified":"2010-01-22T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T22:22:31","slug":"combat-veterans-support-cbc-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/213527","title":{"rendered":"Combat veterans support CBC scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><SPAN class=heading3>NEWS RELEASE<\/SPAN><BR>Jan. 22, 2010&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Contact: Frank Murray, 542-4835<\/P><P>Combat Veterans International, Chapter 3, is donating $15,000 it raised to support scholarships at Columbia Basin College for combat veterans.<\/P><P>The local vets&#8217; chapter sold raffle tickets for a motorcycle they purchased at Thunder Ally Victory Motorcycles in Kennewick. In three months, the veterans&#8217; organization sold enough tickets to pay for the cost of the bike. They went on to raise another $25,000 through the raffle ticket sale. Since most veterans receive payment for some, if not all tuition, the scholarship money will pay for their books, materials, and fees.<\/P><P>In addition to the scholarship funding, Chapter 3 uses part of the money raised to pay for special needs like food for combat veterans. The criteria for the Combat Veterans scholarships require the recipient to either be a combat veteran or child of a combat vet. Two scholarships will be given per quarter.<\/P><P>Chapter 3 is also exploring a funding project with the Yakama Indian Nation to fund scholarships for Native American veterans. For further information or to contribute to the scholarship fund, contact Gene Lamm at 509.308.2482.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RELEASEJan. 22, 2010&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Contact: Frank Murray, 542-4835Combat Veterans International, Chapter 3, is donating $15,000 it raised to support scholarships at Columbia Basin College for combat veterans.The local vets&#8217; chapter sold raffle tickets for a motorcycle they purchased at Thunder Ally Victory Motorcycles in Kennewick. In three months, the veterans&#8217; organization sold enough tickets to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}