It’s only been a little more than a year since Rep. Rick Hube, the Republican from Londenderry, passed away while visiting family in Florida.
But his innumerable friends have already met the ambitious fund-raising target for a new scholarship program established in his name.
This past weekend, according to Rep. Oliver Olsen, a Jamaica Republican, the scholarship fund hit the $100,000 mark.
“We hit the goal we needed to meet to properly endow the fund,” said Olsen, a close friend of Hube’s who was appointed by then-Gov. James Douglas to fill out the remainder of Hube’s seat (Olsen won the two-year term in his own right in November).
The money will be used every year to help send one student from Hube’s five-town district to the University of Vermont.
Olsen called the scholarship a fitting tribute to a lawmaker who cared deeply about education.
“We felt this was a great way to remember Rick, and ensure that his memory lives on,” Olsen said.
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