The Pacific Beach Kiwanis Club has honored 10 students with its Hope of America Award.
The recipients are Barnard Mandarin Magnet Elementary fifth graders Elsa Luna and Grace Sah, Crown Point Junior Music Academy fifth graders Chloe Aguilar and Filippo Balistreri, Pacific Beach Elementary fifth graders Cali Farrar and Gwen Weber, Sessions Elementary fifth graders Autumn Case and Ayla Reeves, and St. Paul’s Lutheran School sixth graders Violet Powell and Nina Voss.
The Kiwanis Clubs of California, Nevada, and Hawaii established the award in 1984. It recognizes and encourages students who have demonstrated academic accomplishment, leadership and good character. The students should be potential leaders who have sustained our democratic way of life and exhibited outstanding citizenship traits.
Selection criteria includes a capacity for leadership, ethical and moral character and academic competence.
Each student received a plaque and 25 Mr. Frostie dollars.
