At a recent meeting, the Lakewood/Rocky River Rotary Club recognized 21 students of the West Shore Career and Technical District, which is headquartered at Lakewood High School. District Program Coordinator, and Rotarian, Nancy Jo Ralls, gave background information on each student, and told why they were selected as the outstanding student in their specialty. The honorees were Kevin Knab in Accounting and Financial Services; Brittany Parks, Auto Maintenance; Shawn Buehner, Auto Technology; Evan Sorger, Biotechnology; Wayne Burke, Business Management; Emily Stephenson, Career Paths to Teaching; Grace Gilberson, Ashley Strodtbeck, Matt Brannon, and Crystal Walker, Community Based Training at Bonne Bell, Lakewood Library, Lakewood Family Y, and Rae-Ann Retirement Communities; Brannon Mencke, Computer Aided Drawing; Matt Milovanovic, Construction Trades; Raisa Tillo, Culinary Arts; Diane Woodward, Early Childhood Education/ Senior Services; Alexander Colvin, Electronic Technology; Vanessa Packhard, Health Careers Technology; Jocelyn Lash, Interactive Media; Nadia Derezic, Medical Office Management; Sean Murphy, Networking; and Brittany Bir, Service Occupations Training.

These students will also recognized at an assembly at Lakewood High School, in May. The Rotary Club will present plaques and savings bonds to each student. The District’s goals are to infuse technology into curriculum and meet industry standards, to offer a variety of career training opportunities, to partner with post secondary educational institutions to create pathways to foster life-long learning, and to offer direction and specific competency needs that are required in business and industry. This just one of the programs of the Lakewood/Rocky River Rotary Club that assists students in reaching their career goals. Scholarships will be given for students in speech, music and art contests in the spring, as well as $8,500 in college scholarships. The Lakewood/Rocky River meets Mondays at Noon at Umerley Hall, behind Rocky River City Hall, and its companion the Sunrise Club, meets Wednesday at 7:15am, also at Umerley Hall.