Student-tended flowers for sale

Hayden Meadows Elementary School will begin presales for its custom hanging flower baskets on Monday.

Green Thumb Productions, Hayden Meadows commercial greenhouse, is selling petunias in a variety of colors, red geraniums and cherry tomatoes. The baskets run $30 each.

Students grow the flowers and vegetables for the baskets, and the money raised from the sales goes back into the self-supporting greenhouse. The school has run the greenhouse for the past four years.

The greenhouse has been used for math and science lessons, and even English composition lessons.

Pre-order coupons will be available in the Hayden Meadows office, beginning Monday morning.

For more information, call (208) 772-5006.

Haiti fundraiser under way at Fernan

The students on the Fernan Elementary School Leadership Team are doing their part to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

Through Friday, the students will be collecting donations that will be sent to the Clinton/Bush Haiti Fund. A jar has been placed on the counter in the office, giving teachers, staff, and parents the opportunity to share in the fundraiser.

For more information, call the school at (208) 664-2659.

Scholarships offered to cancer survivors

The American Cancer Society recently kicked off its 2010 Cancer Survivor College Scholarship Program.

The program gives young cancer survivors the opportunity to pursue a college education. It provides funds each academic year in increments of $2,500 per student, with a lifetime scholarship limit of $10,000.

To be eligible to apply, students must be diagnosed with cancer before the age of 21, and must be 25 or younger at the time they apply; they must be a U.S. citizen and a resident of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada or Utah; be accepted without condition to an accredited university, college, community college or vocational technical school; have a grade-point average of 2.50 or above; and applicants must be a full time student at an accredited university, college, community college or vocational technical school in the upcoming academic year.

To apply, call the Great West Division Patient Service Center at (866) 500-3272 or the National Cancer Information Center at (800) 227-2345. The application deadline for the 2010-’11 school year is Feb. 26.