Napa son wins for community outreach

The York College Phi Beta Lambda-Students In Free Enterprise (PBL-SIFE) Team returned to York as winners after participating in the Denver, Colo., SIFE USA Regional Competition on March 27. Napa native Scott Bingham was part of this winning team. He is the son of Mark and Melody Bingham. Scott is a senior business administration major.

After presenting a report of the team's year-long community outreach projects to a panel of business leaders, the York College SIFE Team was named First Runner Up in the overall competition. SIFE is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to creating economic opportunities in its communities by organizing outreach projects that teach market economics, entrepreneurship, personal financial success skills and business ethics. Its projects are judged at competition on creativity, innovation and effectiveness./Register

Napa student joins leadership program

Tyler Blackwood, a sixth-grader at River School, participated in the People to People World Leadership Forum. Blackwood joined a select group of students in Washington, D.C., last week to earn high school credit while studying leadership and exploring some of the United States' most prominent monuments and institutions.

Blackwood was nominated and accepted for the honor based on outstanding scholastic merit, civic involvement and leadership potential. The program is coordinated by People to People Student Ambassador Programs to fulfill the vision Dwight D. Eisenhower had for fostering world citizenship when he founded People to People during his presidency in 1956./Register