Scholarships offered to graduating seniors

OCCU

Our Community Credit Union is accepting applications for its high school scholarship program. Six $1,000 scholarships will awarded. Applicants must be 2018 graduating seniors and OCCU members.

Applications and guidelines for the scholarship are available to download at ourcu.com. The deadline to apply is April 30.

Our Community Credit Union is based in Shelton and has seven branches, including one on Vashon.

Photography

The Professional Photographers of Washington is accepting applications for the 2018 Student Photographer of the Year

Award. This contest is open to all high school seniors in Washington State, graduating in 2018.

One student will receive the $2,000 scholarship grant, which will be used to further the applicant’s study in the photographic

arts.

The Student Photographer of the Year will be chosen based upon photographic and scholastic studies and the student’s wish to continue his or her studies in the photographic arts.

The application postmark deadline is Feb. 14; the winner will be announced in March.

For more information or to receive an application, contact Anita Weston at 425-776-4426. Application, information and past student

finalists work is also available online at ppw.org.