The scholarship will be given to one or more qualifying Yellow Springs High School seniors (depending on qualified applicants and availability of funds) pursuing studies in journalism, public policy, technical or science writing, advocacy, or creative writing. Scholarship award may be $1,000, or more. Heaton, who was born in Yellow Springs, died in 2019 at the age of 44; she worked at the Yellow Springs News for 15 years as a reporter, associate editor, columnist and photographer.