{"id":46413,"date":"2019-04-15T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/nominations-open-for-alaska-youth-heroes\/"},"modified":"2019-04-15T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T11:00:00","slug":"nominations-open-for-alaska-youth-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/nominations-open-for-alaska-youth-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominations open for Alaska youth heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who&rsquo;s your hero?<\/p>\n<p>As part of its Summer of Heroes scholarship program, Alaska Communications will honor Alaska youth who are making a positive difference in their communities, according to a press release. Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/juneau-teen-named-hero-for-helping-homeless\/\" target=\"_blank\">Juneau&rsquo;s Bergen Davis was honored for helping the homeless<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Five selected youth, plus one from the Employee Program, will each be awarded a $1,500 scholarship through the University of Alaska College Savings Plan, and be given special recognition in their local communities.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone can nominate a hero in their life, who is between the ages of 6-18, and has made a significant contribution to his or her community through acts of kindness or bravery. Individuals and businesses are encouraged to nominate Alaska youth by completing a nomination form by June 28.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the Summer of Heroes program and obtain a nomination form at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskacommunications.com\/About\/Summer-of-Heroes\" target=\"_blank\">alaskacommunications.com\/summerofheroes<\/a>. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 This is a Juneau Empire report.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&rsquo;s your hero? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":46414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-46413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46413"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=46413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}