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Gibbon Fairfax Winthrop senior Baleigh Peterson receives a $3,000 Minnesota School Board Association Student School Board Member Scholarship at the board meeting Monday. Peterson plans to study Agricultural Communication & Marketing at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul campus.
GIBBON — Gibbon Fairfax Winthrop (GFW) school board student representative Baleigh Peterson of Gibbon received a $3,000 Minnesota School Board Association (MSBA) Student School Board Membership Scholarship Monday.
Peterson is one of just two MSBA scholarship winners among 50 Minnesota applicants.
“To say it was a challenge to name winners is an understatement,” said MSBA Executive Director Kirk Schneidawind.