The Hackensack Rotary held its annual scholarship luncheon at Rudy’s Restaurant on Thursday, June 11, 2015. Sixteen scholarship awards totaling twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) were presented to the students. Hackensack Rotary scholarships are made available to graduating seniors who are residents of Hackensack. Scholarships are also presented to children of Hackensack firefighters from a special fund created after the tragic loss of five Hackensack firefighters in the Ford Dealership fire on July 1, 1988.