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Lenoir Community College Associate Dean Carlos Cotto and Workforce Development Coordinator Prudencio Mengel joined their colleagues from the Hispanic leadership in the state at the home of Governor Roy Cooper recently in celebration of Hispanic Heritage recently. Pictured left to right at Cotto and Mengel with the Governor and representatives from the North Carolina Community College System.
A 10th grader at North Lenoir High School has won national recognition and a college scholarship for an essay she wrote in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Shyaé Hood of Kinston was one of four grand prize winners of the 2020 Suddenlink Hispanic Heritage Essay Contest honored in a virtual ceremony Wednesday night and awarded a $1,500 scholarship. She is the first-ever winner from North Carolina.
