Lewisburg Fire Chief BJ Sewert presents the Simone Hobbs memorial scholarhip to Tri-County North senior Cora Helms
Terry Baver | The Register-Herald
By Terry Baver
LEWISBURG — Lewisburg Fire Chief BJ Sewert presented the $500 Simone Hobbs memorial scholarship to Tri-County North senior Cora Helms at the May 16 council meeting.
Sewert said the scholarship is given to a graduating high school student who plans to enter into a medical-related field.
“This year we had five applicants. Three of them kind of stood out,” Sewert said
“Since they were all so evenly matched, so to speak, I made a couple of visits to the school and talked to some teachers and some administrators and guidance counselor and they kind of made up my mind for me,” Sewert continued.
“This young lady is quite active and done a lot of things at the school besides her academics and that is what kind of put her over the top,” Sewert said of Helms.
In accepting the scholarship, Helms said she plans to attend Indiana University East in Richmond, Ind., in the fall.
Helms said she plans to major in pre-nursing or biology with the goal of becoming a nurse, specializing in labor and delivery.
“With my mom having a baby, I got some experience with that and I just loved it,” Helms said, adding she had a few job shadowing opportunities this year.
Helms also noted she plans to major in Spanish.
Helms said she has taken four years of Spanish in high school in addition to two college-level Spanish courses.
Helms added she also completed two college-level biology courses.
The scholarship was named in honor of Simone Hobbs, a member of the Lewisburg Emergency Unit and the Lewisburg Fire Department.
Hobbs, who died in 2006, was the wife of Lewisburg Law director Steve Hobbs
In business matters, council approved an ordinance that will allow the fire department to give 15 obsolete air packs and 15 air cylinders to the Miami Valley Career Technical Center.
“The air packs have outlived their certification life. They cannot be legally used by the fire department. The same with the air cylinders, ” Steve Hobbs said.
“Those have to be tested every so many years to make sure they are not going to explode. They are beyond their life expectancy,” Hobbs continued.
Hobbs noted the Miami Valley CTC will use the air packs and cylinders “in non-life-threatening situations.”
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