Alex Holt, Sartell, has received a commendation from the National Merit Scholarship organization. The National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. High school students enter the National Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, a test which serves as an initial screen of approximately 1.5 million entrants each year.
CORRECTION
An unnamed reader of a few lines from a Native American poem at the Sept. 25 community memorial service in St. Joseph for Jacob Wetterling was a man, not a woman. The Newsleader regrets the error, which appeared in a story about the service in the Sept. 30 Newsleader.
