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Biddeford Food Pantry president Don Bisson, left, presents Biddeford businessman Jim Godbout with a plaque of appreciation for his $15,000 contribution to the pantry after a snowstorm caused water damage to the facility.
BIDDEFORD
Plumber honored for helping food pantry
The Biddeford Food Pantry president Don Bisson recognized Biddeford businessman Jim Godbout with a plaque of appreciation recently for his generosity on behalf of the pantry.
Godbout, president/CEO of Jim Godbout Plumbing & Heating Inc., stepped forward to help the pantry after a February snowstorm caused extensive water damage when a pipe burst at the 162 Elm St. facility. The water poured down through the pantry ceiling, flooding the supply storage area and causing structural damage as well as the loss of a sizable amount of food supplies.
Submitted to the Sierra Sun
More than 280 creative teens across Northern Nevada, including a student from Truckee, will soon be awarded for their original artwork submitted to this year’s Scholastic Art Awards. A panel of local judges sorted through more than 1,200 works submitted in 17 categories for the Northern Nevada visual arts component of the 2021 Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards, overseen by the Nevada Museum of Art. Winners and scholarship recipients will be honored with a virtual ceremony, premiering live on the Nevada Museum of Art Facebook page at YouTube channels at 6 pm this Friday, Feb. 19.
Exhibitions of the American Visions Nominees and Gold Key winning works are on view through March 5 at the Nevada Museum of Art and Sheppard Contemporary at the University of Nevada, Reno, respectively.
Arts Academy students receive an unprecedented 358 awards in the 2021 regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Arts Academy students receive an unprecedented 358 awards in the 2021 regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Students from all seven Interlochen Arts Academy majors netted 358 awards in the 2021 West Michigan division of the regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
Creative Writing students received a total of 191 awards, including 49 Gold Keys, 95 Silver Keys, and 47 Honorable Mentions. Four creative writing students Sara Carmichael, Ella Harrington, Bianca Layog, and Maia Siegel also won all five of the region’s American Voices nominations, with Layog receiving two nominations.
Several students from other Academy divisions also received accolades in the regional writing competition. Pianist Miles Zaud earned a Gold Key for his flash fiction piece, “Lost in Work.” Theatre student Mia Yiannias, pianist Elaine See Toh, singer-songwriter Ava Goldfarb, and pianist
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A total of 39 Shady Side Academy students in grades 8-12 won 71 awards in the 2021 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards regional competition.
The winners include 19 eighth graders from SSA Middle School and 20 students at SSA Senior School.
Twelve students won Gold Keys to advance to the national competition, for which medalists will be announced March 17.
Gold Key art winners were: freshman Benjamin Bischoff in Drawing & Illustration for Last Breath; junior Marnie McCormick in Ceramics & Glass for two works, Molten Bowl and A Bowl Made for Lemons; freshman Yuntong Pan in Painting for Rest; senior Melissa Riggins in Ceramics & Glass for Waterfall; and senior Xinru “Vita” Yang in Drawing & Illustration for three works: two self-portraits and Umbrella.
Palm Beach Daily News
More than 100 works from local students who were 2021 winners of the regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are on exhibit through Feb. 19 at the Armory Art Center’s Montgomery Hall, 811 Park Place in West Palm Beach.
Approximately 1,600 individual pieces and 45 high-school senior portfolios were submitted for consideration from a variety of mediums, including photography, sculpture, 3D objects, textiles, painting, drawing and digital art.
This year, students from schools in Palm Beach and Martin counties will be recognized in competitive categories of Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention. Five works from all categories and grades, selected from Gold Key winners as “Best of Show” for each local program, will be presented as nominees for the national designation of American Visions & Voices Medals.