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Now You Know: Oct. 31

The Little Ski Hill will open online registration to its popular After School Ski and Snowboard Program tomorrow at 7 p.m.The program runs for seven weeks during January and February and is open to students in first through sixth grades.Bus transportation is available from local schools in McCall, Donnelly and New Meadows and is included in the program registration fee.Each student will receive a Payette Lakes Ski Club Season Pass with registration.Parents can earn a $50 discount by committing to volunteering one day a week throughout the program.For more information contact Program Director, Desi Hines, via email at desi@littleskihill.org.More information and registration is available at the website payettelakesskiclub.org.

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Monahan becomes National Merit Scholarship semifinalist

McCall-Donnelly High School senior Bogdan Monahan was one of 16,000 students nationwide to be selected as a semifinalist for the National Merit Scholarship Program.The nominees will compete for nearly $26 million in scholarships to be awarded in the spring.About 95% of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.Over 1.3 million juniors from about 21,000 high schools nationwide entered the 2025 competition by taking the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of candidates.To become a finalist, the candidate and a high school official must submit a detailed scholarship application with information about the candidate’s academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received.A semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT or ACT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.The nationwide pool of semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S.

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