The Friends, with the support of the AVRSB and School Superintendent Margo Tait, requested personal sketches and artwork from students who attend classes in a core group of schools in a catchment area spanning Horton District High in the east to Central Kings in the west and all schools in-between, including elementary, middle and high school. Individual students and/or classes (working on a submission collectively) were encouraged to submit original artwork/sketches that answered the question:
“My new library: I want it to be…”
Students could offer their vision of the interior (e.g., what you would like to see in a teen area or children’s area, and what else can be there?) or exterior (e.g. what should it look like?), and use their media of choice. Nearly 250 responses came in from three different schools: Cambridge and District Elementary; Port Williams School; and Aldershot School. Winners were selected from each school in a random draw and awarded a cash prize from the Friends and gift certificates from Boston Pizza in New Minas.
As well, Boston Pizza provided all participants with a coupon for a free kids’ pizza redeemable at their New Minas location, creating a win-win-win situation for them, the Friends of the Kentville Library and the AVRSB students who shared their creation vision.
Winners were:
From Cambridge and District Elementary School:
Tyiesha Young, a Grade 3 student in Ms. MacLeod/Ms. Misner’s Grade 3/4 class
Pictured (from left to right) are Carol Robar from the Friends of the Kentville Public Library Society; Tyiesha Young; and school librarian Jennie Jolly.
From Aldershot School:
Winner Austin Fleming from Ms. Nan Wood’s Grade 5W class
Austin is pictured with Fred Sgambati, PR Committee Chair, Friends of the Kentville Public Library Society.
The final presentation will be made the morning of June 19 to winners at Port Williams Elementary School during an assembly, and student artwork will be showcased for the public outside Sobey’s in New Minas in the near future.
