The Scholarship has been in existence since 2010 when the Trust awarded 301 scholarships worth more than $5.4 million. The funds are managed by the Yakima Valley Community Foundation.
Esmeralda Lopez, a senior at Davis High in Yakima, has become one of 252 applicants chosen from across the US as a finalist for 2012 Class of Coca-Cola Scholars.
In the twenty-six years of the Coca-Cola Scholarship program, Ms Lopez is the very FIRST applicant selected from Central Washington...