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Student Receives Exchange ACE Award
Dawn Loggins
The Exchange Club of Shelby honored Dawn Loggins as the A.C.E. Award winner for Cleveland County.  The A.C.E. Award recognizes high school seniors that have Accepted the Challenge of Excellence by overcoming a personal or physical adversity, stayed in school, and worked hard to succeed.
Loggins is a senior at Burns High School.  She has dealt with financial hardship and homelessness.  She described how she has lived in a house without electricity or running water.  She also works 20 hours a week as a custodian.  Despite these hardships, she has made straight A’s, was selected for and attended Girl’s State and Governor’s School, and plans to attend college.  She has been accepted to NC State, UNC Chapel Hill, and will interview at Harvard.
The Exchange Club presented Loggins with a certificate of recognition and $200.
The A.C.E. Award is a program of the National Exchange Club.  The Exchange Club of Shelby is a civic club serving all of Cleveland County.  Club members volunteer to make our community a better place to live through service programs in Americanism, Community Service, Youth Activities, and the Prevention of Child Abuse.  Exchange meets at 6:30pm on the second and fourth Monday of each month at Western Sizzlin in Shelby.


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