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Great Salt Lake Bird Festival announces art contest

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 6:49pm

FARMINGTON — The 15th annual Great Salt Lake Bird Festival is announcing its 2013 student art contest.

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Natasha Pruhs, of Taylorsville, won Best of Show for her depiction of a black-crowned night heron for the 2012 Great Salt Lake Bird Festival student art contest. The piece will adorn the cover of the 2013 bird fest program. (Courtesy image)

Taylorsville teen's piece to adorn 2013 Great Salt Lake Bird Festival program

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 11:11pm

FARMINGTON — A Taylorsville teen has captured the Best of Show award in the 14th annual Great Salt Lake Bird Festival student art contest.

Natasha Pruhs’ piece, one of 465 entries depicting the black-crowned night heron, will be spotlighted on the cover of the 2013 bird festival program, said Neka Roundy, festival coordinator.

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Officials decided the upraised hands in this contest-winning sticker in Chicago could be misinterpreted as displaying gang signs. (The Associated Press)

Chicago to change city sticker after teen’s winning design allegedly showed gang signs

Jeremy Gorner, John Byrne Chicago Tribune

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 12:56am

CHICAGO — As controversy swirled, Chicago City Clerk Susana Mendoza weighed concerns from some quarters that gang signs adorned the new city sticker against the feelings of a 15-year-old boy who said winning the contest to design the decal was the best thing that ever happened to him.

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Chicago to change city stickers after teen's winning design allegedly showed gang signs

Jeremy Gorner, John Byrne Chicago Tribune

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 12:58am

CHICAGO -- A 15-year-old boy will lose the honor of seeing his city sticker design adorn Chicago windshields amid questions about whether the artwork contains gang symbols, City Clerk Susana Mendoza said Wednesday afternoon.

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Bird festival student art contest seeking entries

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, January 6, 2012 - 5:01pm

FARMINGTON -- The 14th annual Great Salt Lake Bird Festival announces its 2012 Student Art Contest, sponsored in part by a grant from the Davis County Commissioners' Cup Golf Tournament and Rio Tinto Kennecott Utah Copper.

All Utah students from kindergarten to 12th grade are invited to submit an original drawing or painting in color of a Black-crowned Night Heron using personal observation, field guides, or Internet resources to research their artwork.

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Elementary students getting prehistoric

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 7:23am

OGDEN — The main education room at the Ogden Eccles Dinosaur Park is filled with drawings of dinosaurs – some painted, some colored, some pieced together with paper, but all done by students in Ogden and Weber school districts.

For the last eight years Maggie Favero, the park’s education director, has held an art contest for elementary students to draw anything relating dinosaurs, and it has been a huge success.

This year she had 125 entrants. Three judges selected 18 winners from each school district, with a first, second and third place from each grade, one through six. The first place winners get a $100 gift card to Wal-Mart while second place gets $75 and third gets $50. The teacher of the winners are also awarded.

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