Winners of Fountain Green

Lions Club Peace Poster

contest announced

11-25-2020

Expressing what “peace through service” means to them, five creative students from Sanpete County were chosen as the Fountain Green Lions Club 2020 Peace Poster winners.

The five finalists were chosen from 38 students who submitted posters to the contest at the Fountain Green Theatre on Nov. 10. The theme of this year’s contest was “Peace Through Service.”

The students, ages 11 to 13, attended Fountain Green Elementary, Moroni Elementary and North Sanpete Middle School.

The winning students each received a certificate and a check from Yvonne Hansen, chairwoman of the peace poster contest. This is the 22nd year that Fountain Green Lions Club has sponsored the contest, in conjunction with Lions Club International. Hansen said this contest is an amazing way of encouraging peace in our world one child at a time.

The first place winner was Vicente Ortiz, Jr., a sixth grader from Moroni Elementary; second place winner was Cassidy Curtis, a seventh grader from Fairview and student at NSMS; third place winner was Jane Stucki, a seventh grader from from Spring City and a student at NSMS; fourth place winner was Misty Bailey, a sixth grader from Fountain Green Elementary; and receiving honorable mention was Elsie Bailey from Chester, a seventh grader at NSMS.

The poster from Vicente Ortiz Jr. will advance to the next level of judging.