More than 120 Manhattan students from grades 2 to 12 created artwork honoring fallen military members as part of the annual Poppy Poster Contest held by the American Legion Auxiliary Post #87.<\/p>\n
“We would like to thank the teachers who encouraged their students to participate,\u201d reads a statement from Post #87 this month. \u201cWe greatly appreciate your support! For their efforts, the Auxiliary will be presenting a cash award to each winner for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place. The 1st place winners from each class will be submitted to the state competition & then hopefully to the national competition.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s winners are:<\/p>\n
Class I: Grades 2 and 3<\/p>\n
1st – Tatem Flikkema (Manhattan Christian)2nd-Ezar Cok (Manhattan Christian)3rd – Montana Sobeck (Manhattan Christian)<\/p>\n
Class II: Grades 4 and 5<\/p>\n
1st Decker Flikkema (Manhattan Christian)2nd Cassie Fenno (Manhattan Elementary)& Cosette Partain (Manhattan Elementary)3rd Jack Spotts (Manhattan Elementary) & Levi DeVries (Manhattan Elementary)<\/p>\n
Class III: Grades 6 and 7<\/p>\n
1st- Teagan Flikkema (Manhattan Christian)2nd- Holland Triemstra (Manhattan Christian)3rd – Holt Hardaway (Pass Creek)<\/p>\n
Class IV: Grades 8 & 9<\/p>\n
1st – Derk Flikkema (Manhattan Christian)2nd- Bailey VanDyke (Manhattan Christian)3rd – Brielle Harwood (Pass Creek)<\/p>\n
Class V: Grades 10 and 11<\/p>\n
1st Joy Taylor James (Manhattan Christian)2nd Emily Straatman (Manhattan Christian)3rd Alexa Vankley (Manhattan Christian)<\/p>\n
Class VII: Special Needs<\/p>\n
1st Nikki Vandyken (Manhattan Christian)2nd Sophie Beiswanger (Manhattan Christian)3rd Molly Hubner (Manhattan Christian)<\/p>\n
The Auxiliary congratulated all the winners and indicated it wasn\u2019t easy to pick them.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease know we had about 125 submissions this year & there were so many amazing posters to choose from!\u201d reads the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 120 Manhattan students from grades 2 to 12 created artwork honoring fallen military members as part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[106403,106133,106404,45180,29892,106134,9518,75,84,83,92800,9,24,63,9520,106402,9828,9512,9515,1979],"class_list":["post-276788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-adventure-travel","tag-aerobic-exercise","tag-american-legion","tag-bicycle","tag-cycling","tag-human-powered-transport","tag-land-transport","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-micromobility","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-outdoor-recreation","tag-pump-track","tag-tncen","tag-trail","tag-transport","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}