The Yolo Children’s Fund recently awarded the 2025 Ewing Scholarships to six worthy Yolo County students to support their attendance at two and four-year colleges. The scholarships are intended to help those who have experienced difficult financial circumstances and overcome significant adversity to achieve academic excellence. Each scholarship is $2000.

Celeste Garcia, Julio Martinez Dominguez and Marcos-Jason Plazola are the Ewing Scholarship recipients for 2025.

Garcia is a senior at Pioneer High School and will attend UC Davis in the fall, majoring in psychology. Martinez Dominguez is a senior at Woodland High School and will attend college in the fall with the goal of obtaining a degree in mechanical engineering. Plazola is currently attending Davis Senior High and will enter college in the fall.

In 2024, Kylie Mills, Sam Arfan, and Giselle Ayala Delgado earned the Ewing Scholarships, and due to their outstanding achievement during their first year of college, their scholarships were renewed this year.

Mills is attending Montana State University, where she is studying terrestrial biology. She is a Presidential Scholar in the Honors College and a member of the Wildlife Society, Geology club and Chess club.

Arfan graduated from Woodland High School and attends California State University Long Beach where he is a premed student.

Ayala Delgado also graduated from Woodland High School and is a second-semester freshman at Woodland Community College with the goal of obtaining a bachelor’s degree and becoming an elementary school teacher.

According to a Yolo Children’s Fund press release, the Ewing Scholarship is funded by the friends of Marty and Cheryl Ewing. Marty served as the volunteer administrative director of the Yolo Children’s Fund for six years until his passing in September 2023. Cheryl served on the Board of Directors of the Yolo Children’s Fund until her death in 2024.

The Yolo Children’s Fund has long been at the forefront of supporting the unmet needs of children in foster care and the juvenile justice system in Yolo County. Its mission is to ensure that every child in foster care or the juvenile justice system has access to the same extra-curricular activities, resources, and opportunities as other County children.

To this end, the Children’s Fund has distributed more than two hundred thousand in grants to more than a thousand children since its inception in 2001.