PCSO Scholarship Foundation Awards $15,000 To Area Students

The Pickens County Sheriff's Scholarship Foundation awarded fifteen (15)
scholarships last week totaling $15,000.00.  Sheriff Stone presented each
recipient with a scholarship award in the amount of $1,000.00 to
continue their education at various colleges and universities around the
state.

The Sheriff's Scholarship Foundation was established in 1989 to provide
a perpetual scholarship fund to aid law enforcement personnel and their
children in pursuing advanced educational degrees to better equip
themselves with the skills necessary to solve problems facing our
community in the 21st Century.
This year's recipients are:

Brad Bowen                             Dustin Byers    

Megan Burgess                         Justin Gardo

Lauren Looper                          Stephanie Link

Morgan Looper                         Amie Ellison
Shannon Ellenburg                   Andy Rackley  

Alicia Massingill                        Charles Musselwhite

Alex Albrecht
Briana Atkins
Hannah Ferguson

Since its inception, the Scholarship Foundation has awarded over
$245,000 to law enforcement personnel and/or their children.  These
scholarships are made possible through concerned businesses and
individuals that donated to and participated in the Sheriff's
Scholarship Foundation Golf Tournament.

To honor Sheriff C. David Stone for his foresight and belief in the golf
tournament to raise funds to assist in rising educational expenses, The
Scholarship Committee has renamed the annual golf tournament to The
Sheriff C. David Stone Invitational.  The 2012 Tournament will be held
Tuesday, October 2nd at the Pickens Country Club.  For information and
registration for this twenty fourth annual tournament, contact the
Pickens County Sheriff's Office at 898-5529.