BW senior Lindsey Adams receives Atlas Butler Award

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Big Wal­nut High School senior Lind­sey Adams has received an Atlas But­ler Heat­ing and Cool­ing Award for Sep­tem­ber for Strength in Service.

Every month Atlas But­ler rec­og­nizes 10 stu­dents from area schools who are nom­i­nated for going above and beyond. At the end of the school year the 90 select stu­dents attend an awards cer­e­mony at Cap­i­tal Uni­ver­sity where 18 final­ists receive $500 to $2,500 in scholarships.

Atlas But­ler pres­i­dent and owner Mark Swep­ston came to the high school last week to per­son­ally present the award to Adams.

“We look for ser­vice in the com­mu­nity,” Swep­ston said. “And any­body can make a nom­i­na­tion — par­ents, stu­dents, teach­ers, guid­ance coun­selors. We received over 300 nom­i­na­tions for the award last year, the program’s first year, as many as 65 to 70 nom­i­na­tions in a month.”

Big Wal­nut High School Ger­man lan­guage teacher Frau Geor­gia Craig nom­i­nated Adams, not­ing that Adams has been instru­men­tal in many lead­er­ship posi­tions in the Big Wal­nut school community.

“Lind­sey is an active mem­ber of Stu­dent Coun­sel, pres­i­dent of her senior class, pres­i­dent of the Leo Club and pres­i­dent of the Ger­man Club,” Frau Craig wrote. “Through these orga­ni­za­tions, she has par­tic­i­pated and led many activ­i­ties which focus on serv­ing our com­mu­nity: food dri­ves for our local pantry, spon­sor­ing fam­i­lies in need dur­ing the hol­i­days, men­tor­ing incom­ing fresh­man, work­ing door to door for our school levy and rais­ing money for Relay For Life — this is just to name a few.”

Frau Craig also said Adams inde­pen­dently raised over $2,000 for the ALS Foun­da­tion, and excels aca­d­e­m­i­cally. She placed fourth in a statewide Sci­ence Olympiad, and par­tic­i­pated in an exchange pro­gram this past sum­mer in Germany.

“It’s hard to find a stu­dent who has excelled in so many dif­fer­ent areas,” Frau Craig added.

For being selected as one of September’s 10 Atlas But­ler hon­orees, Adams earned $250 for the high school.

“It’s very hum­bling,” Adams said. “It’s a great pro­gram that Atlas But­ler has to rec­og­nize stu­dents who serve their com­mu­ni­ties, and it’s nice that the school also gets some money.”

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