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Five recruits honored with military startup grants · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Five recruits honoured with military startup grants. Written by Shaw
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  Local News Network, this article is being read by an
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  automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Five graduating seniors
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  from Bureau County High schools who have enlisted in the
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  military were recognized this may during commencement activities and presented
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  with financial support to help cover the cost of required
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  military gear. The Support Our Soldiers FIE Field of Interest Fund,
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  newly established with the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation, awarded
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  grants to help each recruit purchase items on their military
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  issued packing list, expenses that typically range from two hundred
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  dollars to three hundred dollars. The five recipients are Weston Hearsink,
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  Devon Style and Sarah Luiz from Saint Bete Academy, Braden
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  Crust from Princeton High School, and Maddox Moore and Jacob
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  Boland from Bureau Valley High School. The fund was created
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  by Scott Underwood, co chairman of Flags of Freedom, and
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  Rodney and Terry Johnson, all of Princeton. Currently, the fund
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  is limited to Bureau County students, but the founders are
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  enthusiastic about expanding to other high schools in the region
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  As the fund grows the support our soldiers Field of interest.
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  Fund accepts donations through the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation
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  website at rccf dot org or by mail to one
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  sixteen West Lafayette Street, Sweet two, Ottawa. For more information,
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