{"id":88657,"date":"2020-05-08T22:35:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T04:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/kira-galbraith-awarded-montezuma-sheriffs-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2020-05-08T22:35:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T04:35:21","slug":"kira-galbraith-awarded-montezuma-sheriffs-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/kira-galbraith-awarded-montezuma-sheriffs-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Kira Galbraith awarded Montezuma sheriff\u2019s scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1b2e00bc-c346-4974-8e43-a5331f53f62d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1758\" alt=\"Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin presents Montezuma-Cortez High School senior Kira Galbraith with the sheriff\u2019s annual scholarship.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin presents Montezuma-Cortez High School senior Kira Galbraith with the sheriff\u2019s annual scholarship.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office has awarded its annual $1,000 scholarship to senior Kira Galbraith.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third year the Sheriff\u2019s Office has presented the award, which aims to honor students for leadership, merit and other exemplary qualities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very honored and very thankful,\u201d Galbraith said.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, she\u2019s off to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, and hopes go to veterinary school. She\u2019s wanted to be a veterinarian since she was 4 years old, when she had a life-changing experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom had this really good friend with a lot of horses,\u201d Galbraith said. \u201cAnd one night, her horse was having a baby, and so we went over there in the middle of the night, and I helped birth this foal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since then, she\u2019s done everything she could to pursue veterinary dreams, including participating in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinheadinstitute.org\/pinhead-internship-program\/the-pinhead-internship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pinhead Internship Program<\/a> to work at the Forest Park Animal Hospital in Panama City, Florida. She heads back there this summer.<\/p>\n<p>She has a well-rounded high school education, participating in band for four years, volleyball for two years and the honors diploma program. And she also supported Montezuma-Cortez Middle School students by serving as an assistant volleyball coach and leading note-taking classes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been really determined to get on the right track for college,\u201d Galbraith said.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of community members was in charge of selecting the scholarship winner. Applicants were full-time, legal Colorado residents planning to attend a Colorado university, college or trade school.<\/p>\n<p>This year, 14 students applied, said Cindy Ramsay of the Sheriff\u2019s Office grants division. The citizens committee looked for qualities including leadership, merit, character, involvement, purpose and need.<\/p>\n<p>Kasey Wallace from Dolores High School was chosen as the runner-up. According to Ramsay, the committee selects a runner-up in case the situation changes \u2013 like last year, when the winner received a full scholarship, and the Sheriff\u2019s Office could pass on the money to the second-place candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to you both for outstanding scholastic achievements,\u201d Ramsay said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Funds for the scholarship program came from MCSO employees and the Mancos Days Committees, according to Ramsay.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ealvero@the-journal.com\">ealvero@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M-CHS senior recognized for leadership, merit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,28,52,60,216,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-88657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-law-enforcement","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88657"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=88657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}