The AC Phoenix
December 2005
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COLLEGE TUITION
ASSISTANCE
A conservative estimate of coliege costs for a full-time student
runs from $10,000-$30,000; high cost colleges can run from
$40,000-$100,000! Most parents and students think that scholar
ships are only for the students with excellent grades, low-income
families, or the athletically inclined. A small example of the numer
ous scholarships available to students include: Handicapped
Student Scholarships, Members of a Church Scholarships,
Scholarships for “C” Students, Veterans Children’s Scholarships,
Scholarships for Minorities and much, much more.
Though the majority of scholarships are from the Federal
Government and are merit and/or need-based, millions of dollars are
available to students from private sector scholarships. Much of pri
vate sector financial aid goes unused because the parents and stu
dents do not know how or where to apply.
There are organizations that have spent hundreds of hours in
research locating scholarship sources. Te U.S. Commission for
Scholastic Assistance - College Bound is such an organization and
supplies the public with over 1000 different private scholarships
sources. The scholarship list includes the scholarship names,
addresses, application deadlines, summaries about the scholarships
and the amount the scholarship will pay your child.
Many scholarships pay the entire tuition; others can be applied
towards tuition, living expenses, and/or other fees. Most scholar
ships can be used at junior colleges, career and vocational schools,
4 year colleges, graduate schools, medical and law schools.
For information on obtaining these schoiarship iists, send a
seif-addressed, stamped, business size, #10 enveiope to: The
U.S. Commission for Schoiastic Assistance, P. O. Box 650067,
Potomac Fails, VA 20165-0067.
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May your home be blessed with
good fortune this Christmas.
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Cify, County to Receive 5375^000 federal Technology
Grant for Public ^ety Communicotioni
The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services in the U.S. Department of
Justice will give Winston-Salem and Forsyth County a $375,000 COPS Technology
Grant to improve the public safety mobile data network. Congresswoman Virginia Foxx
of the Fifth District announced today.
The money will be used to improve the ability of officers and deputies to receive
such information as arrest records, photographs, and outstanding arrest warrants on
their in-car computers.
The grant was included in the House-Senate conference report on the Department
of Justice Appropriations bill, Foxx said.
"I am delighted that the vital funds I have been fighting for to equip our first
responders were included in the conference report,” Foxx said. “The risk to police
officers involved in potentially dangerous situations is minimized when those in the field
have ready access to critical information. Te Mobile Data Network will greatly help our
dedicated emergency service personnel keep our Forsyth County families safe.”
The grant will finance improvements to the system of towers that serve the public
safety communications system. After the improvements, the eight towers in the city
and county will be able to transmit data to in-car computers. Currently, data is
transmitted from a central location; the towers broadcast only radio calls.
Police Chief Pat Norris said that the grant will make an excellent communications
system even better. “Our new public safety communications system offers
outstanding coverage for our radio transmissions and the COPS Technology Grant will
extend this capability to our need to transmit data to the officer in the field.”
Forsyth County Sheriff Bill Schatzman said the grant will improve the safety of
deputies and police officers by ensuring that they get the information they need. “Every
time a deputy or an officer stops a vehicle there’s a risk. If they can know in advance,
on that rare occasion, that they are dealing with someone who is wanted for a violent
crime, they will be that much better prepared to protect themselves.”
Also speaking at the news conference were, Council Member Vivian H. Burke, the
chairman of the City Council’s Public Safety Committee, and Gloria Whisenhunt, the
chairman of the Forsyth County Commissioners.
The grant is expected to arrive in mid-2006.
Medicaid cuts will mean
our most vulnerable citizens
will be denied access to care
WHERE WILL ALL THE MEDICAID
PATIENTS GO!
WRITE AND CALL YOUR
CONGRESSMAN TODAY!