Geauga Park District
Enter Geauga Park District’s new Family Fun Giveaway by June 3 to qualify to win one of three $500 archery shopping sprees, plus six arrows provided by co-presenter Ohio Premier Archery & Sports in Middlefield...
For more information and registration, contact the park district at 440-286-9516 or visit www.geaugaparkdistrict.org.
Archery For Everyone
Enter Geauga Park District’s new Family Fun Giveaway by June 3 to qualify to win one of three $500 archery shopping sprees, plus six arrows provided by co-presenter Ohio Premier Archery & Sports in Middlefield. Three winners will be randomly selected. Visit the park district website for information.
Chickagami Park’s archery range will be bustling with archery programming for adults, families, and kids ages 9 and older to learn and practice target archery using park district equipment, plus special sessions for scouts and homeschooling families.
All participants must be 50 inches or taller and wear closed-toed shoes, and no children younger than 9 may attend. Completion of a waiver may also be required onsite. Chickagami Park is located at 17957 Tavern Road in Parkman Township.
Nature Writing Contest Winners
Geauga Park District congratulates the winners of its 29th Annual Nature Writing Contest. Read their winning works and learn more about the esteemed contest judges on the park district’s website.
Child Prose
1st – John Gordon, “The Eclipse”
2nd – Avery Blank, “Nature”
3rd – Ahmed Salman, “The Woods”
Honorable Mention – Noah DeLuca, “Skiing the Top of the Mountain”
Honorable Mention – Amina DiCorleto-Khan, “Deep in the Wide Long Forest”
Child Poetry
1st – Evelyn Rice, “The trees are you”
2nd – Ela Yogenthiran, “The Tree I Called Home”
3rd – Tucker Littman, “When I Look Up”
Honorable Mention – Gabrielle Armstrong, “Sunflowers”
Honorable Mention – Sean Walsh, “Rock Life”
Adolescent Prose
1st – Nathan Thomas, “The Flow of the Water”
2nd – Josiah Bihary, “A Beautiful Morning Smallmouth”
3rd – Chrysanthi Constantinou, “Mother Nature Her Remedy”
Honorable Mention – Shriya Iyer, “The Changing Tree”
Adolescent Poetry
1st – Jiawen Hu, “rose thicket”
2nd – Gianna Paterniti, “Nature’s Beauty”
3rd – Zachary Harvey, “The Caustic Blight We Enjoy”
Honorable Mention – Presley Burkholder, “Trees”
Adult Prose
1st – Patricia Fox, “Ephemeral Treasures”
2nd – Hallie Chavez, “The Lessons of Mycelium”
3rd – Diana Kresnye, “Little Stinkers”
Honorable Mention – Jimmy Miller, “Send Me Wings”
Adult Poetry
1st – Kevin Pitorak, “And On And On”
2nd – Lori Black, “Awaiting Springtime”
3rd – Lucy McNees, “A letter to rural northeast Ohio”
Honorable Mention – Tamara Cabrera-Perrine, “It Falls Away”
Honorable Mention – Sarah Marcus-Donnelly, “Vernal”
