Several students have been selected as this year’s recipients of scholarships in honour of two local young people who died in a kayaking accident.
The $1,500 scholarships from the Zach Sutherland and Kaya Firth Resiliency Foundation were recently bestowed on four students - Kadia Roberts, Makath McClimond, Wesley Michailidis and J’ Ramsankar.
For the first time since 2019, the charitable organization was able to hold an in-person reception that recognized all of the scholarship recipients from the past three years.
The scholarship was founded by the Sutherland and Firth families to recognize and support resiliency in youth who have faced significant loss in their lives.
Zach Sutherland and Kaya Firth, both 21-year-old University of Guelph students, lost their lives in February 2016 during a kayaking trip on the Credit River.
For more information on the scholarship, and to read the recipients’ stories, visit choose2beresilient.com.
Since 2017, the foundation has awarded over $40,000 in post-secondary scholarships to youth who have lost a loved one(s).
