From staff reports
Caden Highfield, a junior at Oil City High School, is this year’s recipient of the annual Cole McMahon Memorial “Heart of Gold” Award.
The award is presented every year to an Oil City junior in honor of McMahon, a 2001 Oil City graduate who was killed in a crash in October 2006 while on his way to his teaching job at Fort LeBoeuf High School in Waterford.
McMahon’s parents, Malachy and Dolly McMahon, work with Oil City teachers and administrators every year to choose the winner of the award. The student who is picked best demonstrates the hard work and dedication that Cole McMahon possessed, according to the criteria for the award.
Bryan Schwab, a teacher at Hasson Heights Elementary School in Oil City, initiated the award with help from Butch Huey, Harry Dilley Jr. and Pat Madden.
