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Ashlynn Ganiere named Ottawa Township High School DAR Good Citizenship Award recipient · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Ashlynn Ganiere named Ottawa
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  Township High School Dar Good Citizenship Award, recipient. Written by Matthias Warner
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  by Everlet. Good Citizenship is earning Ottawa Township High School Senior Ashlyn
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  Gannier some recognition as well as a shot at a scholarship. Ottawa
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  Township High School, faculty and staff selected Genier for the school's 2026-2027
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  Daughters of The
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  American Revolution Good Citizenship Award, according to a news release from Ottawa
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  Township High School. She is a young woman of exceptional character, whose
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  kindness, integrity, and work ethic positively influence everyone around her. OTES guidance
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  counselor Jen Rios said. Whether in the classroom, on the athletic field,
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  or serving her community, Ashlyn consistently demonstrate maturity and selflessness beyond her
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  years. The award recognizes students who demonstrate qualities of dependability, service, leadership,
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  and patriotism in their homes, schools, and communities, according to the release.
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  For Ganiere, the award came as a complete surprise. They handed me
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  the slip. You were selected to be a representative. I was shocked,
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  she said. It was very unexpected, but I appreciate it a lot.
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  I'm excited to be the person that they selected. As part of
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  the award process, Gannier gathered two letters of recommendation from her peers
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  and wrote an essay on how a good citizen exhibits patriotism and
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  passes along the dar-valued qualities to the younger generation, according to the
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  release.
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  They gave me the DR characteristics, and I wrote about how those
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  characteristics have shown through me and how that's helped me become a
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  better leader and the successful person that I'm becoming and how that
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  can show younger generations to want to do the same thing, she
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  said. Gagnier's essay is part of them next phase of the award
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  competition. Other honored students from schools throughout the area compete for a
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  scholarship and the local daughters of the American Revolution chapter announces the
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  winner at a December luncheon celebrating all the honorees at the Reddick
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  Mansion in Ottawa, according to the release. Geniali has competed on the
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  Varsity basketball and volleyball teams all four years of high school and
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  said some of her best high school memories come from athletics. I
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  love being involved, she said. Being a freshman on Varsity, all my
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  best friends are now older. They've all graduated, and I don't get
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  to see them as much. But the relationships I've built through every
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  sport have just been amazing. Her involvement extends beyond athletics to organizations
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  including Student Council, National Honor Society, Rotary Interact Club, Key Club, and
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  mentoring programs according to the release. After graduation, Ganier plans to attend
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  Illinois Valley Community College for two years, where she hopes to play
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  volleyball while earning an associate degree in applied science, according to the
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  release. She then plans to transfer to a four-year university to complete
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  her bachelor's degree and become a labor and delivery nurse. The OTHS
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  Dar Good Citizenship Award program is sponsored by the Alini Chapter of
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  the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which is
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  a nonprofit, non-political, women's service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving
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  American history, and securing America's future through better education for children, according
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  to the release.