Southeast Gas congratulates its Community Service Scholarship winners for 2023. Twenty-five students showed their exceptional dedication to serving others and will be awarded a $1,500 award to attend the university, technical or college that they prefer.
The winners this year are Allie Bedsole of Rehobeth High School Madison Page Bledsoe of Ashford High School; Preston Bourne of New Brockton High School; Kennedy Bullard of Straughn High School; Orlandria Chitty of Abbeville High School; Paine Cole of Dothan High School; Caroline Courson of Opp High School; Mackenzie Daniel of Luverne High School; Lauren Dodson of Cottonwood High School; Kaylen Fuller of Highland Home High School; Madeline Hamilton of Headland High School; Ella Hogan of Enterprise High School; Haley Jones of Daleville High School; Khloe Lampley, of Pike County High School; Kimberly Morton of Russell County High School; Eli Nichols of Brantley High School; Kayley Peebles of Red Level High School; Catherine Pettie of Andalusia High School Jacob Pryor of Greenville High School; Marlon Stabler of Carroll High School; Katie Wilkins of Charles Henderson High School; Joel Wilkinson of Pleasant Home High School; Annie Wingate of Eufaula High School; Rae Winters of Elba High School; and Aiden Wright of Dale County High School.
It is the Southeast Gas Community Service Scholarship is a competitive award available to high school students who give back to their communities with the desire to make the world better. The recipients of this year’s scholarship served in various ways, such as volunteering at the local soup kitchens which focused on health concerns and providing basic medical care at health fairs for senior citizens as well as going into the mission field, supplying dental equipment to families that aren’t served and providing assistance to families suffering from the trauma of their lives, encouraging local Veterans to play with and empowering teammates as friends in teams in the Miracle League, and -above all else -identifying the needs of others and addressing them throughout Southeast Alabama and beyond.
“These students embody their Southeast Gas vision to serve,” says Southeast Gas Board Chair and Andalusia City Councilman Kennith Mount. “Collectively they have thousands of hours in service both locally and regionally as well as globally,” he says. “I am extremely proud to be able to present these students from Southeast Gas as this year’s Community Service Scholarship recipients.”
The Community Service Scholarship program is part of a larger dedication of Southeast Gas to serve area schools with the Giving Back to Schools initiative. Since the program’s beginning on the 15th of May, 2015, 169 children have received more than $250,000 of aid for college. Furthermore, schools located in that Southeast Gas service area receive directly from their Give Back to Schools programs which have a total of more than $1,400,000 in the past 14 years.
Southeast Gas volunteers also spend time working to improve the condition of many campuses by providing landscaping, construction assistance painting, maintenance of gas appliances as well as light carpentry teaching, mentoring, and tutoring among numerous other tasks.
Southeast Gas provides natural gas service to 36 communities in Southeast Alabama, and is owned by 14 cities: Abbeville, Andalusia, Brundidge, Dothan, Elba, Enterprise, Eufaula, Fort Deposit, Greenville, Headland, Luverne, Opp, Ozark and Troy.
The story Southeast Gas presents Community Service Scholarships to 25 students was first published at The Andalusia Star-News.
