Voyageurs National Park will offer an open house and awards ceremony for the annual Kids Art Contest at the Rainy Lake Visitor Center Saturday.
The contest and open house is scheduled to coincide with National Park Week, proclaimed each year by the president.
From 2 to 4 p.m., visitors may view the Kids Art Contest entries, attend the award ceremony, make a craft, and participate in an afternoon of programs. Refreshments will be offered.
Local artist Loraine Lynn Lufbery will offer from 2 to 4 p.m. a painting demonstration during the afternoon.
At 2:15 p.m., winners of the 9th Annual Kids Art Contest will be recognized. At that time, a “whose tracks are these?” door prize contest will be held and participants may make a craft designed to fit this year’s theme, “Wild about Voyageurs National Park.” Refreshments and cookies will be offered.
From 3 to 3:45 p.m., staff with the Lake Superior Zoo will present a program about birds of prey, featuring an American kestrel and a red-tailed hawk. (See accompanying story.) Also at that time, the winner of the tracks contest will be announced.
More than 370 children entered the Kids Art Contest contest.
Kids Art Contest winners are:
Preschool/kindergarten
• First place, Kurtis Patterson, Falls Elementary School.
• Second place, Grant Patterson, Indus Elementary School.
• Third place, Karsen Korpi, Falls Elementary School.
First and second grade
• First place, Owen Peterson, Littlefork-Big Falls Elementary School.
• Second place, Adrion Mannausau, West End Elementary School.
• Third Place, Colby Mark, West End Elementary School.
Third and fourth grade
• First Place, Isaac Dahl, Home School.
• Second Place, Ella Bahr, Falls Elementary.
• Third Place, Chanda Blesi, Littlefork-Big Falls Elementary School.
Fifth and Sixth Grade
• First Place, Mary Dahl, Home School.
• Second Place, Claire Beaudry, North Woods School.
• Third Place, Corrine Dahl, Indus Elementary.
