Three Vail Valley students selected for scholarships

By Randy Wyrick

EDWARDS — Three local high school students might not have been able to go to college if not for a financial boost from Alpine Bank. Now all three are college-bound. The Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholarship program, now in its 20th year, has a twofold purpose: to promote diversity within Colorado Mountain College’s student body, and to give qualified Latino and Hispanic high school graduates a pathway to a college education. This year, 13 students from the college’s six-county district earned the scholarships, three Vail Valley high schools.Alpine Bank is covering tuition, fees and textbooks for two years at Colorado Mountain …

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