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Remember those cute little neighborhood children who used to ring your doorbell and run away on May Day?

Those same youngsters are now in high school, and they are planning to ring your doorbell again this May 1.

The difference, however, is that this year they won’t be leaving a bouquet and running to hide. This year they will be offering you a brochure about the La Conner Community Scholarship Foundation.

The foundation has been gifted with bequests, donations and memorials that allow it to offer scholarships of varying amounts to the great majority of applicants.

President Vince Wilbur said recently that “while not unique, it is certainly unusual in a town the size of La Conner to have such a vigorous scholarship program. The foundation board members take this responsibility very seriously and seek to award appropriately and as generously as possible.”

In order to maintain the financial health of the foundation, the board annually conducts a door-to-door campaign. La Conner High School students are asked to go from door to door throughout the neighborhoods of the school district to inform residents about the foundation and to ask that each consider a donation to the scholarship program.

Because of community regulations, students are asked not to ring doorbells in Shelter Bay.

“This regulation does not stop donations from that community, however,” Wilbur said. “Shelter Bay families always seem to find a way to send donations to us, and they are very much appreciated.”

Students will be ringing doorbells and knocking on doors in La Conner between the hours of 5 and 7 p.m. this Thursday, May 1.

Your encouragement and support, in whatever form will be very much appreciated.

If the students miss you on May Day, and you’d like to make a donation, please send it to: The La Conner Community Scholarship Foundation, P.O. Box 1277, La Conner, WA 98257.