Sara Dempsey, a senior at the Town of Webb School, was recently awarded the Kirsty Sutherland Scholarship for Culinary Arts and Entrepreneurship through the Community Scholarship Fund and the Sutherland family.
The scholarship was created in celebration of the life and life’s work of the late Kirsty Sutherland. Kirsty exemplified the best of entrepreneurship and devoted her life to the culinary arts.
The scholarship was given to Sara to encourage her, and other young people, to go forward with their career in culinary arts and develop that passion into a business.
Sara, who works at Ozzie’s Coffee Bar in Old Forge—an enterprise begun by Kirsty—will graduate on Friday, June 27th. The scholarship will assist her with her expenses as she enters Johnson and Wales University in the fall to study Culinary Arts and Food Service.