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Raul Najera, right, of Springdale talks Wednesday to Geovanny Sarmiento, a NorthWest Arkansas Community College board of trustees member, before the start of the college’s annual Scholarship Luncheon at the Shewmaker Center for Workforce Technologies in Bentonville. Najera was a guest speaker at the event and is receiving a scholarship from J.B. Hunt Logistics and Transportation. The luncheon offers scholarship recipients a chance to meet the donors who have supported them during the past year. The college has 99 privately named scholarship awards.