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The Northwest Mississippi Community College Foundation honored outstanding community leaders at the inaugural Northwest Soiree, held on Saturday, March 25 at the Heindl Center for the Performing Arts on the Senatobia campus.

The Cannon Motors Annual Scholarship is for students who maintain a 2.0 GPA and are enrolled in the Automotive Technology or Collision Repair Technology program. Scholarship recipients will receive $2,000 per school year.

The Danny and Dona Plumlee Annual Baseball Scholarship has been established at Northwest Mississippi Community College to be awarded to student athletes from DeSoto County who are playing baseball and who fall outside of the bracket of qualifying for supporting financial aid. 

The festival will be a combination of workshops, critiques, and afternoon/evening performances in the Heindl Center for the Performing Arts. This event serves the region educationally and encourages participation in jazz programs while focusing on clinician commentary and interaction.

"Northwest is a great school, and it is growing. I feel like we need more kids coming into the workforce with a skill and a trade, and Northwest is a great place for that," he added. They decided to name the scholarship Storage Plus, because he feels like that is a name that people in the area will recognize. 

The Northwest Mississippi Community College Foundation is proud to announce its newest endowment funded by Grammy awarding-winning artist and Mississippian, Marty Stuart. The Marty Stuart Scholarship Endowment will provide scholarships for students studying music education, music performance, and/or entertainment industry studies. Other requirements for this scholarship are that students maintain a 2.0 GPA. 

The Northwest Mississippi Community College choirs will perform music themed around love, truth, war, and peace on Monday, March 27 at 7 p.m. at the Heindl Center for the Performing Arts. The choirs that are performing are the Men of Northwest, Northwest Women's Ensemble, Women of Northwest, Northwest Collegiate Chorale, and Northwest Pop Ensemble. 

Funny, warm, romantic and touching, "The Music Man" is family entertainment at its best. Meredith Willson's six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy has been entertaining audiences since 1957 and is a family-friendly story to be shared with every generation. 

Northwest Mississippi Community College humanities instructor Dr. Jay Sarver has been selected as a Mississippi Humanities Council (MHC) Teacher of the Year.