Lions’ President Ken Haskins and Lion Terry Rubald present a $50 check and a certificate to first place winner Oriah Land.
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The Carson City Host Lions Club announces Oriah Land has won the local competition in the Peace Poster contest.
The contest is an international contest sponsored by Lions International that encourages children, ages 11-13, to creatively express what peace means to them. This year’s theme was “Peace Without Limits.”
Land received a $50 award and will move up to the Nevada district level for further competition. If she wins there, she’ll move up to the international competition. Land is 12 years old and is a student at Eagle Valley Middle School.
Her poster depicted peace on an infinity continuum, with a deep-sea diver on one end and an astronaut on the other. She entered the contest through the art class of Shannon Schnaible, an art teacher at Eagle Valley Middle School.
Larissa Nelson won second place and a $25 award. Nelson is also 12 and a student at Eagle Valley Middle School.
Her poster featured the world with a peace symbol superimposed and surrounded by stick people holding hands continuously around the world.
Lion Terry Rubald presents a $25 check and a certificate to second place winner Larissa Nelson. The Carson City Host Lions partnered with the Boys and Girls Club of Western Nevada, and Eagle Valley Middle School. Both organizations provided supplies and guidance from art teachers to interested students.
Posters entered into the local contest sponsored by the Carson City Host Lions can be viewed at the Carson City Library through Nov. 25.
Starting Nov. 25, Land’s poster may be viewed at the Nevada Artists’ Association Gallery along with other winners from Lions clubs throughout Nevada and the eastern Sierra of California, as part of the Lions District 46 competition.
The winner of the district-wide competition will win $125 and will move on to the international competition.
The international grand prize winner will receive a trip to an award ceremony hosted by Lions Clubs International, where he/she will receive $5,000 and an award. Twenty-three merit award winners will also be selected, and each will receive $500.
For information, visit the club’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/CarsonCityLions or online at https://carsoncitylions.com/ or https://e-clubhouse.org/sites/carsoncitynv/.