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ScholarShip NewS

2022 South Florida Fair Awards

More Than $50,000 In Scholarships

The South Florida Fair has awarded scholarships to 19
high school students totaling $50,750, continuing a 40-year
tradition of supporting education. The fair received more than
100 applications from five counties for this year’s scholarships.
Winners received their scholarships in a ceremony with fair
dignitaries and their families during the 2022 fair, which recently
ended. The winners’ scholarships range from $500 to $5,000 and
can be used at any accredited institution of higher learning.
Since the program began in 1982, the South Florida Fair has
awarded more than $800,000 in scholarships. This year they
were awarded in two categories: general and agriculture. The
fair’s scholarship committee selected the winners based on the
students’ grades, need, and an essay each wrote to “Describe Front row: Malayna Estornell, Zachary Fleisch, Gabriel Gerig, Landry Pitts, Carolina Seixas, Leena Bolanos, Moshammet
something you’re passionate about.” Jarin, Nicole Perez, Back row: Blaine Baxter, Jaylin Ifill, Caroline McCray, Megan Enriquez, Kate Deviney, Muhammad
Chaudhry, Ryan Rudnet, William Rimes, Sydnee Gilliam, Evelyn Howe, Thomas Bean of FPL, scholarship sponsor, Not
Scholarship News on page 27 pictured: Camber Pope

Travel

Kakadu And Arnhem Land

Walk About

By Don Kiselewski, MCC, D.S., Palm Beach Gardens Travel Leaders

There is perhaps no place Kakadu protects
on earth where the human one of the world’s
race is more in tune with finest and most
nature than atop the Northern extensive collections
Territory of Australia. It of rock art. These
is here that the indigenous paintings are tangible
people have learned to read reminders of the
nature’s signs and to live Aboriginal people’s
in harmony with them. For long and continuing
more than 40,000 years association with
the Aboriginal culture has nature and respect for
followed these signs and the area. It is through
survived without the life-sustaining agricultural techniques these paintings, and
utilized by the rest of the world. the Dreamtime stories,
That portion of the Northern Territory that juts into the that the recorded
Van Diemen Gulf is politically divided in two. The western history and culture Kakadu’s renowned rock art has recorded and preserved the Aboriginal people’s history and culture
portion was set aside by the Australian government as Kakadu has been preserved for millennia.
National Park, while the eastern portion, under control of the through more than 40
indigenous people (the Aborigine) is called Arnhem Land. millennia. This harmony of culture and nature is truly symbolized in
Even though Kakadu National Park is smaller than Kakadu also protects the entire catchments of the South the World Heritage emblem. The inner workings of these two
Arnhem Land, it’s still the largest national park in Australia. Alligator, a large tropical river, and examples of most of elements is depicted by a square, which represents the work of
The park itself covers nearly 20,000 square kilometers Australia’s “top end” habitats. From this range of habitats man (straight lines and corners), intimately linked to a circle that
(7,646 square miles) and has the distinction of being on a remarkable abundance and variety of plants and animals represents nature, since there are no square corners in nature.
the UNESCO World Heritage List for both its cultural and have developed. Many are rare and not found anywhere else,
natural heritage. and new species continue to be discovered. Travel on page 26