Oak Harbor Lions announce winners in Peace Poster Contest

Cooper Hicks, an eighth grade stu­dent at Oak Har­bor Mid­dle School, cre­ated the win­ning entry in the 24th annual Peace Poster Con­test spon­sored by the Oak Har­bor Lions Club. Cooper was rec­og­nized for his achieve­ment at an assem­bly held at the school on Decem­ber 16. His poster was sent to com­pete against other local win­ners at the dis­trict level. The theme of this year’s con­test was “Chil­dren Know Peace.” It is esti­mated that more than 375,000 entries were sub­mit­ted world­wide. Lions Club Inter­na­tional spon­sors the con­test to empha­size the impor­tance of world peace to young peo­ple every­where. Rep­re­sent­ing the Lions Club, Chris Detray rec­og­nized mid­dle school art instruc­tor Joe Bergman for his assis­tance with this year’s contest.

Sec­ond place was awarded to Quinn Bod­nar and third place, to Kyle Pape. Hon­or­able men­tion prizes were given to Jared Krieger, Shel­bie Tab­bert and Tessa Tyburski. A panel of judges from the Oak Har­bor Lions selected the award-winning posters for their orig­i­nal­ity, artis­tic merit, and por­trayal of the con­test theme.

Lion Pres­i­dent John Crosser said the expres­sion and cre­ativ­ity of the stu­dents impressed him. “It is obvi­ous that these young peo­ple have strong ideas of what peace means to them. The Lions Club is proud that we were able to pro­vide them with the oppor­tu­nity to share their visions.”

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