Rate	Price	Duration
One Month Pass	$10.00	for 30 days
One Day Pass	$5.00	for 1 day
One Year Access	$120.00	for 365 days

Rate	Price	Duration
One Month Pass	$10.00	for 30 days
One Day Pass	$5.00	for 1 day
One Year Access	$120.00	for 365 days

Full-ride scholarship helping CHS grad pursue her dreams

By News-Examiner
Aug 8, 2020
Aug 8, 2020

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Karastyn Bennett is attending Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, in pursuit of her dream of helping conserve wildlife.
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A recent Connersville High School graduate is pursuing her life dream thanks, in large part, to the generosity of a couple who left a generous bequest to provide an all-costs paid scholarship.

Karastyn Bennett said, “I want to travel the world and rescue, rehabilitate, and release marine life.”

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