WELLINGTON ROTARY CLUB ANNOUNCES ITS PEACE INITIATIVE CONTEST PRIZE WINNERS
The Wellington Rotary Club is again sponsoring various contests as part of its Annual Peace Initiative Program. Schools throughout the community participated during April and May in poster, poetry and essay contests. The involvement of the Wellington school children was tremendous and broke previous records for submissions. The object, in all cases, was to present a view of conflict resolution and multicultural understanding aimed at the promotion of world peace and understanding.
The winners have been announced. The Peace Poster competition for all fourth graders proved to be a close decision as there were many wonderful posters from all of the contestants. All of Wellington’s elementary schools participated and a prize of $50 to each schools winning student will be awarded, as well as a $50 prize to the class teacher of each winning student. An overall winner from all of the finalists was chosen and will receive a $75 check.
The poster prize winners were: Sarah Bertrand, (Equestrian Trails Elementary School); Ebony Bacquain (New Horizons Elementary School); Nicole Nicotera (Discovery Key Elementary School); and Ariannie Bobadilla (Elbridge Gale Elementary School). All will receive a $50 dollar prize.
Several posters merited Honorable Mentions: Ariel Gordon, Liam Stoker and Cory Forberger, all students of the Equestrian Trails Elementary School.
The poster judged the best overall was submitted by Tamara Frazier (Binks Forest Elementary School) and Tamara will receive a check for $75.
All of the teachers of these wonderful winners will receive a $50 check for use, at their discretion, in their classrooms.
The overall winning poster will also be used as part of the Rotary Club’s advertising campaign.
The club also received poems from the Middle Schools. The winners were Keaton Shepard (Emerald Cove Middle School) and Etta Kay (Polo Park Middle School). Keaton’s poem “In the Children’s Eyes” and Etta’s poem “Song Bird” both captured the spirit of the peace initiative.
The theme of the essay competition for high school students was based upon the words of the Roman scholar Cicero – “I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war”.
The winners of this competition were Felicia Yan (10th grade, Wellington Community High School) and Samantha Yorke (12th grade, Palm Beach Central High School). All of the students were notified of their success. A special thank you was also issued to all of the teachers at all of the schools for working with their students and co-ordinating their efforts, including-
Mr. Thompson (Binks Forest)
Ms. Mancello (Equestrian Trails)
Mrs. Valdov (New Horizons)
Mrs. Provenzano (Discovery Key)
Dr. Crane (Elbridge Gale)
Mrs. Fontaine (Panther Run)
Mrs. Bodner (Equestrian Trails)
and to the teachers of the Middle and High Schools.
The winners will receive their prizes at the UN Peace Day ceremony at the Wellington Peace Park on Royal Fern Drive at 6pm on September 21st. The Rotary Club wishes to invite all of the winners, their teachers and families, to attend the celebration.
Thanks go out to all the students and teachers who participated and to the volunteers from the Wellington Rotary who contacted all the schools.
The Rotary and the Village of Wellington look forward to seeing everyone at the ceremony on September 21st.
For further information contact: Larry Kemp
Peace Initiative Co-Chair
Wellington Rotary
(Larry.Kemp@comcast.net)