Former Bradford High School and Michigan State University football star Trae Waynes will be the special guest in attendance at the Mahone Fund’s Reaching for Rainbows Pursuit of Excellence gala at Carthage College on Wednesday.

Mahone Fund will be presenting eight, $4,000 college scholarships and one full-tuition Carthage College scholarship at the event that will take place in the Todd Wehr Center on the campus at 2001 Alford Park Drive. I’m really looking forward to meeting and congratulating the Mahone scholarship recipients for their outstanding achievements in high school,” he said in a Mahone Fund media release.

The Mahone Fund is a component fund of the Kenosha Community Foundation.

Corey Hoskins has been accepted to Wright State University in Ohio, North Central College in Naperville, Ill., Northern Michigan University and Hope International Business College, London.

Jacquelyn Jouett plans to attend either Ohio State University or Purdue University to study speech and hearing sciences.

Manuel Jones has been accepted to the University Wisconsin-Whitewater where he will study information technology with a business analysis emphasis.