The Gleaner

Ormstown Elementary schools participate in Lions International Peace Poster Contest

le mercredi 04 avril 2018
Modifié à 15 h 53 min le 04 avril 2018
Par Mario Pitre

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By Emily Southwood - Ormstown Lions Club once again facilitated the participation of Ormstown Elementary School and Ecole Notre Dame du Rosaire in the Lions International Peace Poster Contest. The annual contest has taken place worldwide since 1988. Since its inception, the friendly-spirited competition has encouraged children ages 11-13 to creatively express what peace means to them. Once again, both Ormstown elementary schools chose to include the exercise as part of their curriculum in order to educate youth about the importance of peace on a global level. Coordinator, Lion Pamela Mulderrig explains the local significance of the contest when she says: “It provides an opportunity for parents, teachers and Lions to discuss with each other the true importance of peace.” This year, OES teacher Anne Marie McCafferie and teacher Vicki Montcalm of Ecole NDR worked with their students on this year’s theme: “The Future of Peace.” All of these grade six students were asked to create a poster that visually communicated their vision of the future of peace. From Ormstown, Emmy Lacombe from Ecole Notre Dame du Rosaire won first place at the local level, as well as second place at the district level. Second place locally went to Gabrielle Dumas from Notre Dame du Rosaire and Remedy McDonald from Ormstown Elementary School. Tied for third place locally were Marylune Gamache, Sarah Maude Bouguerra, and William Emond, all from Ecole Notre Dame du Rosaire. [caption id="attachment_46378" align="alignnone" width="521"] Students from Ecole Notre Dame du Rosaire with their posters.[/caption] All of the participants’ artwork was evaluated on three criteria; originality, artistic merit and expression of the theme. This year, Lion Mugette Filion, Lion Maurice Filion, and Lion Carol Lavasseur acted as local level judges. Through the numerous tiers of judging worldwide, the posters were eventually whittled down to one grand winner, which this year was a thirteen-year-old girl from China named ZhuoQi Wang. Once again this year, millions of children internationally, and dozens locally, commendably shared their unique image of peace with others so that everyone may have greater tolerance and global understanding. The Lions Club is one of the world’s largest service club organizations. With 46,000 clubs and over 1.4 million members, the Lions club makes for a considerable charitable force. For more information on the contest and to see the worldwide winning artwork visit: http://members.lionsclubs.org/EN/serve/other-ways-to-serve/contests/peace-poster-contest/ppc-winners.php