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Sarasota News Leader May 24, 2013 Page 52 INTEREST-FREE HOME REPAIR LOANS AVAILABLE Zero percent deferred home repair loans are • Home value cannot exceed $272,195. available for eligible homeowners through the Sarasota Office of Housing and Community • Income must fall within program guideDevelopment, the city has announced. lines: For a one-person household — maximum income of $33,550; for a two-person The program allows income-eligible homehousehold, $38,350; and for a four-person owners to improve their houses by making necessary repairs such as adding new roofs, household, $47,900. air conditioning, windows and doors, a news • Property must be owner-occupied and lorelease says. cated within Sarasota County. No monthly payment is required, the release notes, adding, "The loan will be repaid when • The owner must be current with property the home is sold, no longer owner occupied taxes. or in 30 years, whichever comes first." The maximum loan is $60,000, the release For more information, visit http://www.ohcd. says. sarasotagov.com or contact Jane Hindall, Individuals must meet the following criteria Sarasota Office of Housing and Community Development program manager, at 951-3640. to be eligible for the program: FIFTEEN RCLA TOWN HALL SCHOLARS AWARDED SCHOLARSHIPS Fifteen high school seniors from area public schools who took part in The Ringling College Library Association (RCLA) Town Hall Lecture Series have been selected to receive college scholarships from the Rosemary and Lou Oberndorf Town Hall Scholarship Fund and the Dorothy B. Templeton Scholarship Fund, in partnership with the Community Foundation of Sarasota County (CFSC) and the RCLA, the Community Foundation has announced. School principals selected students to attend based upon academics and community service, the release notes. After the lectures, the seniors were invited to submit a 900-word essay about their experiences meeting and listening to the presentations of Walter Isaacson, Robert Gates, Dr. Benjamin Carson, Capt. Mark Kelly and Tom Brokaw. The 15 top essayists, selected from 52 applicants, were each awarded $2,000 college scholarships and were recognized at the SaraThe students were among the more than 120 sota County School Board meeting on May 21, high school seniors sponsored by CFSC and the release notes. Two students read excerpts private donors, "with significant organization- from their essays. al support from the Sarasota County School District," to attend one of the five RCLA 2013 Scholarships were awarded to Ellis Adler, evening lectures at the Van Wezel Performing Sarasota High School; Alexandra Barth, CarArts Hall as RCLA Town Hall Scholars, a news dinal Mooney High School; Katarina Boehm, release says. Booker High School; Sarah Brickman, Pine