Weld Community Foundation awards $815,000 in scholarships

GREELEY — The Weld Community Foundation awarded more than 150 scholarships totaling more than $815,000 to local students at its annual Scholarship Reception, May 10, bringing the total awarded since 1997 to $4.7 million.

The reception marked the first year that the newly established Wilbert R. Wiedeman Scholarship was awarded. By request of the donor, the $7.2 million gift was created into two new, endowed scholarship funds. Four students each received a $100,000 scholarship: two from Greeley Central High School and two  from Windsor High School. 

Alma Olivas Aguilar, the 2007 recipient of the Mildred Hansen and Winograd Family Scholarships who currently…