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Calendar Highlights Kids’ Talents in First Annual Kirtland Warbler
Festival’s Poster Art Contest
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In 2003, Kirtland Community College
published its first annual Kirtland’s Warbler Festival Young
Artists Calendar featuring art produced by area youngsters.
The 16-month calendar, free to the public, displays colorful
pictures created by 47 students whose work was selected by a panel
of judges from nearly 150 entries representing several area
schools.
The college had planned to charge $5 for the calendars, but
officials decided to make it available for no charge for several
reasons.
“A lot of hard work from a lot of people in this community – most
of them volunteers – has helped to transform the Kirtland’s
Warbler Festival into a premier event among birders and naturists
who visit our area from all over the country to see the bird
during our annual festival in May,” said Kirtland marketing
director Jim Enger, who serves as chairman of the Kirtland’s
Warbler Festival committee. “We felt this calendar was a great way
to give something back and promote the festival as one of the
truly unique events in our community.
“Also, it’s a great opportunity for the college to highlight the
talents of many young artists whose work helps to celebrate one of
the great environmental success stories of our time – the comeback
of a species that not long ago was nearly extinct.”
Kirtland also has donated about 400 calendars to the C.O.O.R.
Intermediate School District so that one may hang in every K-8
classroom.
Sign up for your 2004 KWF Poster Calendar online at
http://warbler.kirtland.edu. And while the calendars
are free, donations will be accepted to help offset the costs of
the festival, which the college has supported for years. Send
donations to KWF Committee, Kirtland Community College, 10775 N.
St. Helen Road, Roscommon, Mich., 48653. |
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