February 2009
PRESS RELEASE
Subject: Elaine Bassett Memorial Scholarship Announcement
Contact Person: Colleen Skjerven, President, 715-358-3439
Dan Brunette, Secretary, 715-362-5253
Organization: Lakeland Area Kiwanis Club
The Lakeland Area Kiwanis Club is pleased to announce that they wish to pay tribute to Elaine Bassett with naming the annual Kiwanis scholarship award in her memory. The “Elaine Bassett Memorial Scholarship” will go to students that are furthering their education in areas which will serve and benefit children.
The Kiwanis Club is “a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time”. The local Kiwanis Club of which Elaine was a founding member, has dedicated its time and energy to helping children in the area through supporting various activities and groups with donations, i.e.: Head Start, Lakeland Sharing, ILI, Junior Achievement, Camp Jorn, the Lakeland Hawks, Camp Manitowish, the Northwood’s Dental Project, the Wildlife Center’s classroom visits in the schools and Builders’ Club to name a few.
Elaine was a catalyst within the club and her insight and wisdom inspired us all. Her belief that children are our future has often inspired us to realize the importance of their development and our role in helping them locally. It seems only fitting that the annual scholarship award be named in honor of her memory since it will help the children she so dearly loved.
Elaine has touched many lives within this community, so if anyone or any business would like to contribute in her memory to the “Elaine Bassett Memorial Scholarship Fund”, the Kiwanis Club will graciously accept donations. Several deposits have already been received so the Kiwanis Club has set up a special account at Citizens Bank. Checks for contributions can be made out to “Kiwanis Club of Lakeland, f/b/o Elaine Bassett Memorial Scholarship Fund and mailed to the Kiwanis Club at PO Box 1182, Minocqua, WI, 54548 or dropped off at any local branch of Citizens Bank.