JAY — Eighteen-year-old Ashley Sidney of Livermore Falls has her plans set for her career.
She has always wanted to be a lawyer, she said Tuesday. She is not sure what field in the profession she’ll enter, she said, but she will figure it out as she goes along.
Sidney, a 2011 graduate of Livermore Falls High School, got a little extra help Tuesday to pay for college.
VFW Post 3335 Commander Wallace Tripp gave her a check from the VFW for $500 in scholarship money at the Jay post.
The VFW members award the scholarships by drawing names from a pool of eligible students who are related to veterans in the organization, Tripp said.
Another scholarship will be awarded on Monday, Jan. 9, to Douglas Haley of Rangeley. He is a student at Husson University.
Sidney, a freshman at University of Maine in Orono, is majoring in political science. Once she earns a bachelor’s degree, she plans to go to law school, she said.
She was influenced in becoming a lawyer by her brother-in-law, Hampton Eadon, who is a lawyer, and married to her sister, Jessica, of Columbia, S.C.
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