Billboard design contest winner recognized

Published 12:03 am Sunday, December 3, 2017

Valley Point Middle School seventh-grader Lily Woodring is the overall winner of the 2017 America Recycles Day Billboard Design Contest hosted by the Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority’s program Target Recycling at School. The winning design was displayed on two billboards in Whitfield County (one on Glenwood Avenue and the other on East Walnut Avenue) during the month of November.

Woodring’s design, which was chosen out of 106 entries, includes the phrase “I recycle! Do you?” That was one of the themes of the contest. The artwork is an illustration of the Earth surrounded by smiling bottles, cans and paper holding hands with a girl. They’re joining together to make the Earth happy by recycling, which results in the conservation of natural resources.

The contest, now in its eighth year, has a first, second and third place winner from each grade level including sixth, seventh and eighth grade. The nine winners, listed below, received a certificate of participation and a gift bag with items made from recycled materials. The overall winner, whose work was placed on the billboard, was selected from the first-place design from each grade level.

Sixth grade

• First place: Ruby Carrillo, Eastbrook Middle School

• Second place: Ismael Pimentel, Eastbrook Middle School

• Third place: Melanie Figueroa, Eastbrook Middle School

Seventh grade

• First place and overall winner: Lily Woodring, Valley Point Middle School

• Second place: Ashlay Zamora, Valley Point Middle School

• Third place: Javier Ayabar, Valley Point Middle School

Eighth grade

• First place: Rocio Arredondo, Eastbrook Middle School

• Second place: Yosdel Castañeda, Eastbrook Middle School

• Third place: Isaac Fraire, Eastbrook Middle School