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Nashua Resident Awarded $1,500 Simon Youth Foundation Community Scholarship

Coby O'Young is among 26 high school seniors in New England awarded Simon Youth Foundation Scholarships this year

Simon Malls and Simon Premium Outlets in New England recently announced that 26 high school seniors, including Coby O’Young of Nashua, were awarded Simon Youth Foundation Scholarships totaling more than $80,000. O’Young will continue his education this fall at Johns Hopkins University with help from Pheasant Lane Mall and the Simon Youth Foundation (SYF), a national non-profit organization dedicated to helping at-risk students graduate high school and to providing scholarship opportunities for college-bound students.

Coby, along with SYF Scholarship recipients across New England, attended a celebratory reception on July 20 at Burlington Mall in Burlington, Mass.

CAPTION (from left to right): J. Michael Durnil, President and CEO of Simon Youth Foundation; Coby O’Young, Award Recipient; Ashley Wheeler, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Pheasant Lane Mall; Ken Brown, General Manager at Pheasant Lane Mall

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