Talent pays off

TOORADIN’S Loren Forscutt has added a study award to her lists of achievements as she storms the world of event management.
In March, the News reported that despite graduating from high school only last year Loren was already achieving significant success, including working at the Big Day Out, Melbourne Grand Prix and organising local music gigs.
She was recently awarded a $1000 study grant from Northern Melbourne Institute of Tafe (NMIT) in Fairfield, where she studies for an Advanced Diploma of Music Industry (Business) for educational achievement and to encourage excellence.
She received a cheque at a special presentation ceremony at the Preston campus.
The former Eumemmerring College Hallam Campus student was rapt at winning the prestigious award so early into her career.
Loren, 18, plans to use the money to upgrade her car.
She travels about 350 kilometres a week to get to NMIT from Tooradin and back, which takes about two hours to get there in the morning and one hour to go home.
She drives a 1992 Rodeo ute without air- conditioning or a CD player and so wants to get a better car to cope with the travelling.
Loren’s stepmother Marlene Hargreaves said as music was Loren’s life, she liked to play music travelling to take her mind off the traffic problems on the freeway in peak hour.