Thanks to a donation from the Kenneth & Patricia A. Hall Charitable Foundation, the Guinea Heritage Association awarded five scholarships in 2022.

The $1,000 C.B. Rowe Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Isabelle Pohorence.

Pohorence will attend Rappahannock Community College after which she plans to transfer to the University of Virginia, where she will study accounting.

The $1,000 Guinea Heritage Association Scholarship was awarded to Ayden Embry.

Embry plans to study history at Mary Baldwin University and work along the coastlines around the world discovering and studying lost shipwrecks.

Two $1,000 Mac Sisson Technical/Vocational Scholarships were renewed this year, one to Gracie King and the other to Rebekah White.

King will complete her associate’s degree next spring from RCC in the health/STEM field and will be awarded a phlebotomy certification.

White is also attending RCC where she will earn her associate’s degree in nursing and become a Registered Nu...