Education

Taylor Parrish, a 2011 Vandalia Community High School graduate, has been awarded a trustee scholarship from Franklin College.

The South Central Archery Club has moved its 3D archery range to the circle drive at Stephen A. Forbes State Park, and its next shoot is this Saturday.
Registration times for the first shoot at the new location are unchanged, 7 a.m.-3 p.m.
Cash prizes will be given to the top shooters in each of five classes.

SIUE
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has announced the names of students qualifying for the dean’s list for spring semester 2011.
To qualify, a student must maintain a grade-point average of 3.5 or better and have 12 hours calculated (B is equivalent to 3.0; A to 4.0).
The students on the dean’s list include:
• Brownstown – Kaitlyn Jo Kramer and Hannah Elizabeth Wrigley.
• Farina – Meghan S. Glaspell.
• Fillmore – Kiley S. Havera.

Blythe Smith of Vandalia was one of 11 Missouri Baptist University  students to travel to Haiti to rebuild a family’s house that was destroyed in the 2010 earthquake. The students went on the mission trip from May 5 to May 14 to assist the work of Bethel Mission Outreach, a multifaceted mission organization located in Croix Des Bouquets, Haiti. This is the fourth consecutive year MBU has partnered with Bethel Mission. The Haitian family of six whose house the group rebuilt had been living in a tent since the Jan. 12 earthquake.