{"id":142,"date":"2019-11-26T21:12:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T21:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awssection.allcovered.io\/cleveland\/?p=142"},"modified":"2019-11-26T21:15:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T21:15:45","slug":"annual-christmas-party-and-scholarship-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/cleveland\/2019\/11\/26\/annual-christmas-party-and-scholarship-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Christmas Party and Scholarship Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"142\" class=\"elementor elementor-142\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0e03316 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0e03316\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3f50587\" data-id=\"3f50587\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ba53d71 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ba53d71\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"color: #336699;\">Annual Christmas Party and Scholarship Auction<\/strong><br \/>Tuesday, December 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 2019<\/h2><p style=\"text-align: center; font-weight: bold;\">Toscana Party Center<br \/>4972 East 71st Street<br \/>Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio 44125<\/p><p>Greetings AWS Cleveland Section Members and Friends,<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/sections-www.aws.org\/attach\/cleveland-2019.09_Meeting_Notice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong style=\"color: #336699;\">Click here to view the Annual Holiday Party and Scholarship Auction Notice<\/strong><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/sections-www.aws.org\/attach\/cleveland_201912_Meeting_Notice_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/sections-www.aws.org\/attach\/cleveland-201912-meetingNotice.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"301\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Be prepared for our Annual Holiday Party and Auction by bringing your donations (cash, check, or credit card) to the holiday event. We will accept VISA, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express.<\/p><p>For many years the Cleveland Section named scholarships have continued to assist students learning to weld, students enrolled in four-year university degree programs, and career welders learning a new process, or returning to college and this auction is the primary fund raiser for scholarships.<\/p><p>These three named scholarships, the <strong>John\u00a0Gerken<\/strong>, the <strong>Jack\u00a0Buck<\/strong>, and the <strong>Ray\u00a0Sacha<\/strong>, represent members of the Cleveland Section who not only devoted time and energy to the welding industry but donated money to create scholarships. Each has a specific focus.<\/p><ul style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #222222;\"><li>The <strong>Gerken Award<\/strong> assists a student attend study a welding related program at a community college or university level for up to four years.<\/li><li>The <strong>Buck Award<\/strong> lends a hand to a student developing pipe welding<br \/>skills at the Lincoln Electric Welding School.<\/li><li>The <strong>Sacha Award<\/strong> encourages a student to develop welding skills at the Lincoln Electric Welding School before or during the pursuit of a post secondary degree in a welding related program.<\/li><li>The <strong>Lowbrow Customs Scholarship<\/strong> is for a student in the section attending the Lincoln Electric Welding School.<\/li><\/ul><p>These scholarships are awarded to residents within the Cleveland Section boundaries \u2013 Sandusky to<br \/>Ashtabula, Cleveland to Akron. You do not have to be an AWS member or related to an AWS member to receive a scholarship. There is also a general scholarship fund administered by the Section that is available to qualified candidates.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>RSVP<br \/><\/strong><em>Reservations are STRONGLY encouraged<\/em>. Call <strong>Mike Barrett<\/strong>, 216-383-8345, or email, <a href=\"mailto:mike_barrett@lincolnelectric.com\"><strong style=\"color: #336699;\">mike_barrett@lincolnelectric.com<\/strong><\/a>. We need an accurate head count to insure there\u2019s enough meals for everyone and to save you money. Remember, with a reservation its $25 per couple,<br \/>WITHOUT A RESERVATION, IT IS $25 PER PERSON.<br \/><strong>Cut off for reservations is Thursday, December 5th<\/strong>.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/sections-www.aws.org\/attach\/cleveland_201912_Meeting_Notice_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong style=\"color: #336699;\">Click here to view the Annual Holiday Party and Scholarship Auction Notice<\/strong><\/a><\/p><p>Sincerely,<br \/>The AWS Cleveland Section Board<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Christmas Party and Scholarship AuctionTuesday, December 10th, 2019 Toscana Party Center4972 East 71st StreetCuyahoga Heights, Ohio 44125 Greetings AWS Cleveland Section Members and Friends, Click here to view the Annual Holiday Party and Scholarship Auction Notice Be prepared for our Annual Holiday Party and Auction by bringing your donations (cash, check, or credit card)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/cleveland\/2019\/11\/26\/annual-christmas-party-and-scholarship-auction\/\"><span>Read More<\/span><i>&#43;<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"jsalgado","author_link":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/cleveland\/author\/jsalgado\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/cleveland\/category\/meeting-notice\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Meeting Notice<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Annual Christmas Party and Scholarship AuctionTuesday, December 10th, 2019 Toscana Party Center4972 East 71st StreetCuyahoga Heights, Ohio 44125 Greetings AWS Cleveland Section Members and Friends, Click here to view the Annual Holiday Party and Scholarship Auction Notice Be prepared for our Annual Holiday Party and Auction by bringing your donations (cash, check, or credit card)&#8230;Read&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}