The Laraine Mahoney Memorial Writing Award for this year was given to Scarlett Young at the Cooroy State School year six graduation ceremony.
This prize is awarded each year to a Cooroy student who is graduating from primary school and who has demonstrated outstanding writing ability across the school year.
The award, including prize money and a trophy, was established in memory of Laraine Mahoney who passed away in 2018.
She had been a teacher at Cooroy School and was an advocate for literacy.
It is awarded annually by Cooroy-Noosa Genealogical and Historical Research Group in association with the Cooroy Book Club and the Cooroy State School.
