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Total Amt. Awarded
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$131,250.00
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Local Representatives |
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| Name: Asheley Chaput |
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What has been the most fun, craziest, or most unique job you have ever had? While attending college in New York I cheered on a competitive all-star cheerleading team with my roommate, Sam. One day after practice, our coach approached Sam and I to see if we wanted to work at a murder-mystery dinner party her work was having. Sam and I agreed. Our job was to greet everyone that attended as well as hand out clues after each scene was acted out. In order to fit in, we got to dress in 40’s flapper outfits.
Coming in a close second would be an event that I catered with the steakhouse I was working for while attending college in New York. The manager of the restaurant approached Sam and I to see if we wanted to help at this particular catering event downtown, so we said yes not knowing any details. Well, we soon found out that we would be catering the after party for the concert that Vanessa Williams was performing with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. After setting up the reception room and the food platters, Sam and I snuck upstairs just in time to hear Vanessa sing our favorite song, “Save the Best for Last.” Once the song ended, we both raced back downstairs and made it just in time to serve her meatballs! |
Describe your favorite vacation. As weird as this may sound, I love the vacations my family and I would take when we drove to the destination, wither it be Tennessee, Virginia, Chicago, or into Mexico from Las Vegas. My favorite vacation would have to be the first trip we took to Chicago to see my dance teacher perform as a Rockette. I have so many fond memories of this trip, from stopping at EVERY Burger King from NH to Chicago to see if they were A. open (which most weren’t due to the Thanksgiving holiday) and B. if they had any of the gold Pokémon cards that were out at the time my little brother coveted, to eating a Thanksgiving dinner with the cast of the Rockettes. To top the trip off, after watching the opening night show, my dance teacher came out to the lobby to take me back stage. Not only did I get a tour of the dressing rooms and stage, but I also got to try on the wooden solider hats as well as other costumes from the show. Ever since that night I have practiced my high kicks and dreamt of being a Rockette myself, unfortunately, I am about 2 inches too short! |
How would you define success? To me, success is setting goals and then setting out to accomplish those goals. As long as one exhausts all possibilities and does everything in their power to accomplish those goals, then they have been successful, even if the goal hasn’t been met. Although many people feel as though if you have tried and failed, you are not successful, I think you learn so much in your journey on your road to success that can be useful later on. |
What is your greatest achievement? In August I got a Saint Bernard puppy. This is an achievement that I am proud because I have done it on my own, with little help. Around June of last year I began looking for breeders and I found one in Vermont. One day, my boyfriend, my little brother, and I drove out to Vermont so that I could pick out my new puppy. My parents were very leery of me bringing home a dog that would get so big, but they too fell in love with Bowser the moment he walked in the door. Teaching Bowser has been a lot of hard work, but it’s also fun and rewarding at the same time. It’s so great to know that when he sits at a door to go out, or gives me a high-five for a cookie that I taught him that. For Halloween, I made Bowser a costume (of course he was Bowser, the big bad guy from Mario Brothers, who he was named after) and took him trick-or-treating in my town. Everyone got a kick out him, and he even won best costume in a contest! (Now I know what it is like to be a proud parent and always want to boast about your child!) People laugh when they see this big lug hanging out the window of my little car or see me walking him, but Bowser is like my child and I am so excited to watch him grow and teach him new things! |
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