Polar Grants Scholarships to Area Students

Polar Communications is pleased to announce its 2021 scholarship award recipients.

John G. Walters Scholarship

This year Polar awarded ten $1,000 scholarships in honor of former Polar General Manager John G. Walters. The awards are given to outstanding high school seniors whose parents or guardians are current customers of Polar Communications or its subsidiaries. Applicants are judged on essay content, grammar, academic achievement and community involvement.

This year’s winners are Tyanne Crotty, North Border Pembina; Claire Dummer, North Border Pembina; Signe Ekman, Grafton High School; Ann Estvold, Lakota High School; Noah Helgoe, Cavalier High School; Natalie Hunter, Cavalier High School; Grace Johnson, Park River Area School; Elias Markusen, Park River Area School; Kaia Schluchter, Cavalier High School and Kasey Stegman, Drayton High School.

Polar Leadership Scholarship

The Leadership Scholarship, sponsored by Polar, is awarded to a student who is involved in their school, serves their community, achieves leadership roles in activities, functions or organizations, and strives to reach their highest potential. Applicants must be a senior in high school or freshman or sophomore in college, and their parents or guardians must be Polar customers.

The 2021 Polar Leadership Scholarship in the amount of $2,500 is being awarded to Jenna Maker, a senior at Northern Cass High School. And Chloe Gemmill, a senior at Valley-Edinburg High School.

Congratulations to all our scholarship award recipients!