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Hiawatha Community Foundation hosting Match Days on Memorial Day weekend

A banner for the Hiawatha Community Foundation Match Days event was hung on Hiawatha’s City Hall on the week of Friday, May 16, the week after Mayor Becky Shamburg made the proclamation that the week of May 18 to May 24 would be deemed as Community Foundation Week, which is the same week that the Foundation will be hosting its Match Days event at the Fisher Center on the morning of Friday, May 23 and the afternoon of Saturday, May 24.

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Middlebrook Scholarship Awarded

Citizens State Bank & Trust Company, Trustee for the H.O. Middlebrook Scholarship Trust, has announced the 2025 award recipient. The Middlebrook Scholarship was created by H.O. and Helen Middlebrook in memory of their son, James Holmes Middlebrook, who died in infancy. Distributions began in 1945, the year James would have entered college. The Middlebrooks themselves were administrators until 1962, when H.O. Middlebrook passed away. Mr. Middlebrook’s will stated that the scholarship be preserved in a permanent trust, with Citizens State Bank & Trust Company as successor administrator. The one-year scholarship was designed to help college students through that critical freshman year. To date, over 300 students have benefited from the Middlebrooks’ gift, totaling $224,700.00 from an original $40,000.00 contribution 80 years ago. This year’s recipient is Acacia Erdley.

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