Press Release
Saratoga News
Brian Babcock 354 3110 Ext 29
bbabcock@community-newspapers.com
The Saratoga Lions Club is sponsoring the Lions International Peace Poster Contest in conjunction with the Saratoga Library.
Lions Clubs sponsor the Peace Poster Contest worldwide in their communities to emphasize the importance of world peace to young people. The contest is open to children ages 11, 12 and 13 years of age. Birth date requirements will be found on the application.
A display of former world wide winners will be in the Saratoga Children’s Library along with all information needed to enter the Contest.
This year’s topic is “The Power of Peace”.
Saratoga Lions Club President Elaine Clabeaux, and Peggy Sue Baker, the Children’s Supervising Librarian are working together to bring this opportunity to all local children.
The starting date is Sept 11, 2009 and all art must be submitted to the Children’s Library reference desk by October 15.
The grand prize includes a cash award of US $2,500. In addition the winner receives a trip with two family members to New York City, New York for the awards ceremony at Lions Day with the United Nations. The 23 merit award winners each receive a certificate and a cash award of US$500.
Last year the winner was a local girl from Milpitas, however entries come in from all over the world.
On November 1 a reception will be held at the Saratoga Library for all participants. Local professional judges will determine the winner for our club.
In addition all attendees will be able to vote for their favorite poster and students will be honored for their participation by the Saratoga Lions Club.
You may view past International grand prize winners at www.lionsclubs.org. Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest service club organization with nearly 1.3 million members in approximately 45,000 clubs in 200 countries and geographical area around the world.
Contact for Saratoga Lions Club is
eac@pacbell.net
Contact for Saratoga Children’s Supervising Librarian is
pbaker@library.sccgov.org
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