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Local
cartoonist Paul Ackley with a cartoon that was auctioned off in May.
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Fundraiser to feature
local cartoonist, scholarship recipients
GREENVILLE – Local community and political cartoonist Paul Ackley will
be on hand Nov. 21 as the Joining Together for Darke County Youth
auction kicks off to raise scholarship funds for local students. The
event will be held at The Bistro Off Broadway from 7 to 9 p.m.
The auction is a fundraiser for the Senior Scribes Scholarship Fund and
is jointly sponsored by The Early Bird, Blue Bag Media, the Bistro and
County News Online.
A graduate of the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Paul Ackley has
been an active Editorial Cartoonist for over 30 years. In 2009 and
2010, he was awarded ''Best Editorial Cartoonist'' by the Ohio
Associated Press. In 2010, he received the Good Citizen Award for his
Editorial Cartoons from the Ohio House of Representatives. Ackley also
has a drawing displayed in House Speaker John Boehner's Washington D.C.
office.
The Senior Scribes Scholarship Fund has provided nearly $40,000 in
scholarships to area students since 2009. Recipients have been from
seven local school districts. Franklin Monroe’s Jordan Pridemore, the
first student to receive a scholarship from SSSF, is a Ball State
University graduate currently teaching in Indiana. Kent Holmes, a
Greenville High School graduate, will be graduating in the spring,
taking only three years to get his communications degree from Ball
State. Sam Armstrong, a Mississinawa Valley High School graduate, will
be getting his English communications degree at Cedarville University.
He recently conducted a writing seminar for aspiring local writers.
All three, along with several other SSSF scholarship recipients, plan
to be at the auction to talk about how the scholarship program helped
them with their college goals.
SSSF is a 501c3 non-profit established by the Darke County Senior
Scribes, a group of senior citizens with a love for writing. The group
meets at 9:30 a.m. the fourth Thursday of each month at Heartland of
Greenville and writes regularly for the Senior Scribes page published
the second and fourth weekend in The Early Bird. Shortly after they
started meeting as a group, they became involved in community service
and often worked with young people interested in writing. Three years
later they decided they wanted to do more…
They started the Senior Scribes Scholarship Fund.
Keith Foutz, Early Bird publisher, Bistro owner Ted Abney and SSSF
Committee member Bob Robinson hope community members will take time out
of their busy schedules to meet our local talented young people, and
check out the variety of cartoons that could be the ideal Christmas
gift for one of Ackley’s many followers.
Published courtesy of The
Early Bird
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