El Capitan High School-
On June 6, 2013, representatives from the Lakeside Firefighter's Association attended the El Capitan High School awards ceremony to award the 3rd annual Lakeside Firefighter's Scholarship. After carefully reviewing the applications of the many
deserving students a committee of firefighters narrowed the field down
to one winner. This year the award went to Tyler Scott Leone.
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| Lakeside Firefighters Corey Palmore, Steve Russo, and Carl Chiodo (L to R) make the presentation at the El Capitan awards ceremony. |
Community
service is one of the major factors on which a college bound Senior can
win this award. Tyler really excelled in this area along with having a
strong GPA. According to his teachers, Tyler has not let his confinement
to a wheelchair stop him from participating, influencing, and
inspiring the community around him. Tyler has overcome adversity to
participate and assist with the boy's basketball and football teams as
well as being incredibly active in the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Tyler has done numerous T.V. interviews at various MDA fundraising events, has been on the MDA telethon, and raises money each year to assemble a team for the MDA walk. He has been the MDA
Goodwill Ambassador of San Diego County and then the Goodwill
Ambassador for the entire state of California! These are just a few of
the things Tyler has been involved with.
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| Tyler joins firefighters on stage to receive his scholarship. |
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| Tyler with the Lakeside Firefighters. |
The Lakeside Firefighters would like to congratulate
Tyler on his graduation from high school and thank him for his
incredible service to the Muscular Dystrophy Association and for being
an inspiration to us all.
Story By: Fire Engineer Carl Chiodo, Lakeside Fire District
Photos By: Fire Captain Rick Dalldorf, Lakeside Fire District
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