Bulletin Board
O.B. teen earns award
for volunteer service
Stefanie Luicci, 17, of Old Bridge has been honored for her exemplary volunteer service with a state-level Certificate of Excellence from the 2002 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program. Luicci was nominated for the award by Old Bridge High School, where she is a senior.
Presented annually by Prudential Financial, in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards honor young people across the United States for outstanding community service activities.
Stefanie earned her award by creating Jeans for Teens, an organization that collects used, clean jeans for New Jersey’s homeless. Over the past two years, she has collected more than 600 pairs of jeans.
A member of the high school National Honor Society and Art Honor Society, Stefanie was named first-team goalkeeper in soccer by several area newspapers in the fall.
Sacred Heart HSA
will host fish dinner
The HSA of Sacred Heart School, Cedar Street, South Amboy, will host a fish dinner from 4-7 p.m. on March 1 in the school cafeteria (Walnut Street entrance).
School parents will cook and serve fish flounder and French fries. There also will be a choice of fish sandwiches on white or rye bread. Side orders of macaroni, cole slaw and potato salad will be included. Pizza will be served for youngsters under age 10.
Advance tickets, which are available at the Sacred Heart Parish House on North Feltus Street, cost $8 for dinner, $6 for sandwiches and $2 for a slice of pizza with soda (extra slices available at $1 per slice). Tickets purchased at the door will cost an additional $2.
Supervised activities in the gym will be provided for children. For more information, call the parish house at (732) 721-0040.
Kilgore Memorial Scholarship available
The New Jersey Press Foundation, West Trenton, has announced it is offering a $5,000 journalism scholarship, the Bernard Kilgore Memorial Scholarship.
High school students must be nominated by the faculty adviser of the school newspaper, or by the editor of a local newspaper.
The scholarship will be awarded to the student selected as the 2002 New Jersey High School Journalist of the Year, a competition sponsored by the press foundation and the Garden State Scholastic Press Association.
For deadline date or information about the scholarship and the application process, go to www.njpa.org/foundation/kilgoreform.html.