By Daily Press staff
The Santa Monica chapter of the Kiwanis Club presented a $50,000 check to the Westside YWCA at the club’s meeting Wednesday.
The donation will be used to renovate a building at 14th Street and Pico Boulevard. The building will house the YWCA’s family programs beginning Sept. 13. Sally Young, executive director of the Westside YWCA, said construction workers will begin revamping the structure’s roof and hardwood floors, with further renovations continuing into the spring.
The Kiwanis Club also awarded 10 scholarships totaling $11,500 to students from Santa Monica College at the meeting.
The scholarship recipients are: Breanne Saenz; Ralph Harding Memorial Scholarship Francisco Osorio; Colin Petrie Scholarship Olalade Abafemi; Dr. Cyril Gail Scholarship Lisa Bellamy; Madeline Petrie Scholarship Christina Oliva; James Wood Memorial Scholarship Zoila Garcia; Morgan Leslie Segal Memorial Scholarship Tasneem Noor; Virgil Kingsley Scholarship Sarah Perry; Ray Carriere Scholarship Bahar Yaghoubian; Carl E. Tegner Scholarship Navid Ghahremani; Kiwanis Achievement Scholarship
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 26, 2004. Read the original PDF.