A crowd of more than 500 people packed into the Lawrence Elks Club on Andover Street on Friday, March 28th for the Valley Patriot’s 21st Anniversary BASH Scholarship and Award Night. Readers of The Valley Patriot raised more than $67,291 by the night of the event to help six local high school students pay […]
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The Valley Patriot’s 21st Anniversary BASH was held on Friday, March 28th at the Lawrence Elks Club attracting a crowd of more than 500 people to watch 7 local students receive a total of $67,291. Among the seven scholarships handed out was the Eugene Smith, John Ratka Memorial Scholarship for Lawrence High School JrROTC commander Jayhronnie […]
Every year The Valley Patriot celebrates our anniversary with a Charity BASH Scholarship and Award night. This year, the Valley Patriot celebrates our 21st Anniversary at the Lawrence Elks Club on Friday, March 28th at 6pm. You can get tickets by contacting The Valley Patriot (valleypatriot@aol.com) or by Clicking HERE. As part of The Valley […]
The Valley Patriot 21st Anniversary BASH Committee is pleased to announce this year’s recipient of the Phil Glendye Special Needs Scholarship for 2025 is Methuen High School Cheerleader Abby Mendes who is going to be studying to be a Special Ed teacher. The Valley Patriot 21st Anniversary BASH will be held at the Lawrence Elks […]
The Movement Family (TMF), a group of volunteers who feed the homeless in Lawrence, attended the Valley Patriot BASH last month to support the newspaper’s charitable endeavors and help raise money for local scholarships. Instead, they walked away with more than $5,800 in donations after being surprised by Jessica Phillips of Enterprise Bank and her […]
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This scholarship at our annual BASH was started last year by Dave Garofalo of the Studio 21 Podcast Cafe in Salem, N.H. for a student going into media or communications. Because we did not have a Methuen High School student on our scholarship program Tom Duggan got permission from Dave to designate this scholarship […]
Valley Patriot – Michelle DeLuca Benedetti Memorial Scholarship winner Liam Robertson received $5,335 at the newspaper’s annual charity BASH last month. The Valley Patriot ~ Michelle DeLuca Benedetti Memorial Scholarship was established by her brother Ken DeLuca with a $500 donation to a Haverhill High School Senior going into Criminal Justice or Social Work […]
This scholarship was started when (then) Greater Lawrence Tech School Board member Jessica Finocchiaro reminded Valley Patriot publisher Tom Duggan that he was an alum of the GLTS after the Valley Patriot had announced the first scholarship for Lawrence High School in 2012. Now a city councilor in Methuen, Finocchiaro was on hand for the […]
Because honoring veterans is so much a part of what we do at The Valley Patriot, each year we honor people who themselves honor our hero service men and women here at home. With the passing of our good friend and hero veteran John Ratka in 2019 this award was immediately named in his honor […]
By: Kane – April, 2022 Kane went on a field trip to Lawrence High School to meet Valley Patriot BASH JrROTC scholarship recipient Cadet Lt. Colonel Katerin Ucles. Kane has only been to dog school, so he felt honored to be invited to tour the JrROTC wing of Lawrence high school. You see, Katerin Ucles […]
The Valley Patriot BASH Scholarship and Award night supporters donated $3,775 to Briana Tratchenberg of Methuen. Flanked by her family, Methuen School Committee member Jana Zanni Pesce and Methuen City Councilor Eunice Zeigler, and former councilor Ryan Hamilton, Tratchenberg was presented a check by Valley Patriot publisher, Tom Duggan. The scholarship was started this year […]
April, 2022 Every year The Valley Patriot holds an annual BASH Scholarship and Award Night where we give out college scholarships to high school students and awards for community heroes. Last week’s BASH was the first event in three years because of the COVID hysteria and lockdowns. Titled “The Official Kickoff of the Return to […]
During the Valley Patriot’s 18th Anniversary BASH Scholarship and Award Night, and only a minute after TMF leader Michael Gorman’s mom received an award for Community Service, Gorman himself took the microphone to thank Mayor DePena for helping the group to feed the homeless. But, before he could finish speaking, Darlene Ford from AAA of […]