Contests
Stratford and District Right to Life
40th Annual Art Contest
Kindergarten - 3 Before I was born. Grades 4 to 6 (Elementary and Home School)God Created Me & You - We all Have Value, Grades 7 & 8 Essay: A Person is a Person, No Matter how Small.
To be held from January to April, 2017
Theme:
"Love and Respect Human Life from
Conception to a Natural Death"
a. Everyone is Special and Unique
b. A Precious Gift
c. Every Human Life is Valuable and Precious
Pictures, collages, posters, banners and hand drawn work accepted.
Any size is suitable.
The deadline for entries is typically the Friday before March Break.
A yearly contest takes place in all of the Elementary Separate Schools, the Stratford Christian School and Home Schoolers - up to Grade 8 - in our area. Last year we had over 700 entries and many students benefited from the prize money.
A bursary to be given to a high school student, who supports the pro-life movement
Each school is given the following information:
*The entries become the property of the Stratford and District Right to Life. We use your work for our meetings, publicity at Fall Fairs, parades, advertising and especially to decorate the Hall for our Annual Dinner.
*Please arrange to deliver or send entries through the school courier service at St. Joseph's School, Stratford or email us for more information.
*To be eligible for the contest you must have your full name, address, grade and school printed on the back of your work.
Teachers: Thank-you for giving the students an awareness of the Respect for all Life.
Art Contest 2016 Winners
Kindergarten
1st Alanah Tscuni St. Patrick, Kinkora $15.00
2nd Andrew Furstac St. Patrick, Kinkora $10.00
3rd Samual DeGroot St. Patrick, Kinkora $ 5.00
3rd Trinity Award St. Patrick, Kinkora $ 5.00
Grade One
1st Eve Binns St. Joseph, Stratford $15.00
2nd Kylie Clark St. Joseph, Stratford $10.00
3rd Declan Tracey St. Joseph, Stratford $ 5.00
Hon Murray Wallace St. Joseph, Stratford $ 3.00
Mention
Grade Two
1st Leah Dale St. Joseph, Clinton $ 15.00
2nd Katherine Reid St. Joseph, Stratford $ 10.00
3rd Isabel Delavega St. Aloysius, Stratford $ 5.00
Hon Holly Grace St. Aloysius, Stratford $ 3.00
Mention
Grades Three and Four
1st Cody Wilos Precious Blood, Exeter $20.00
2nd Choe McCann Our Lady of Mt Carmel $ 15.00
3rd Campbell Ryan St. Columban $ 10.00
3rd Chelsea Peeters St. Mary's Listowel $ 10.00
Grade Five
1st Emma Lincoln St. Patrick, Kinkora $ 20.00
1st Paige DeJong St. Patrick, Kinkora $ 20.00
2nd Olivia Harding St. Aloysius, Stratford $ 15.00
2nd Noah Middleton St. Joseph, Clinton $ 15.00
3rd Joel Martin St. Aloysius, Stratford $ 10.00
Grade Six
1st Mikaela Gibson St. Mary's, Listowel $ 20.00
2nd Emma Ducharme St. Boniface, Zurich $ 15.00
3rd Charlotte Juhnke Our Lady of Mt. Carmel $ 10.00
Hon Brea Thornton St. Mary's, Listowel $ 5.00
Mention
We extend a big "Thank You" to Janet Albert and all the
judges. Congratulations to all the winners. Well done!
ART CONTEST
On Wednesday, June 10th 2015, the Stratford & District Right to Life held its awards
presentation for the elementary school grades for its Annual Art Contest. The
prizes awarded were as follows:
Grade
Jk&SK
1st
$15.00
Alyssa Heins St. Patrick’s Kinkora
2nd $10.00
Emma Groenestege St. Patrick’s Kinkora
3rd $5.00
Maren Marshall St. Patrick’s Kinkora
Grade 1 1st
$15.00
Tessa Burdett St. Aloysius Stratford
2nd $10.00
Rylee Kipfer St. Patrick’s Kinkora
3rd $5.00
Rachel Sinko St. Aloysius Stratford
Grade 2 1st
$15.00
Aveleen Flood St. Aloysius Stratford
2nd $10.00
Erika Horan St. Aloysius Stratford
3rd $5.00
Hayden Nicholson St. Patrick’s Dublin
Grade 3 1st
$15.00
Kyle Mills St. Columban St. Columban
2nd $10.00
Tucker Grillanders St. Columban St. Columban
3rd $5.00
Billie Schooderwoerd St. Columban St. Columban
Grade 4 1st
$20.00
Jacob Hall St. Aloysius Stratford
2nd $15.00
Ella Makohn St. Aloysius Stratford
Grade 5 1st
$20.00
Ava Overholt St. Boniface Zurich
1st
$20.00
Haillie Brouwn St. Boniface Zurich
2nd $15.00
Jocely Boersen St. Patrick’s Kinkora
2nd $15.00
Jakob Krausz Holy Name of
St. Marys
3rd $10.00
Narissa Connolly Holy Name of
St. Marys
Grade 6 1st
$20.00
Alysha Lalonde Our Lady of
Mount Carmel Dashwood
2nd $15.00
Sydnie Miller St. Aloysius Stratford
3rd $10.00
Hayley McAuley St. Aloysius Stratford
Grade 7 2nd $30.00
Alayne Egli St. Aloysius Stratford
3rd $20.00
Candace Abell St. Joseph’s Stratford
Honorable mentions
Grade 4 $5.00
Alaynna Jordan St. Columban St. Columban
Grade 6 $5.00
Kieran St. Aloysius Stratford
Grade 7 $10.00
Leela Pereira St. Columban St. Columban
We congratulate all the winners and thank them for a job well done! We also
wish to thank the judges for their time and diligence!
The following letter was received from bursary award winner, Thomas Horenberg. Thomas we wish you well in all your endeavours!
Dear Stratford & District Right to Life
I would like to thank you for allowing and giving me the Mary Devlin Memorial Bursary. I always appreciated these types of awards beacuse anybody can get the highest mark in a class, but not everyone has the guts to stand up for their faith. I see this award as that: Standing up for faith. I am truly greatful that you saw this character in me and decided that it was worth an award. I will contunue to stand up for life issues because "every life is sacred from the womb to the tomb or conceptions to natural death."
May God bless you in all your works and give you the strength to continue to fight for the truth.
From Thomas Horenberg
Virgina Miller presents the Mary Devlin Bursary Award to Thomas Horenberg of St. Michael Catholic High School
SDRTL Art Contest, 2012


Thank you to all who contributed artwork for this year's art contest. Again this year, there were many creative entries. The judges, Helena Partridge and Donna MacArthur had a formidable task choosing the winners. They are as follows:
Kindergarten
1st Alexa Burtenshaw, St. Patrick's School, Kinkora
2nd Billy Baes, St. Patrick's School, Kinkora
3rd Autumn Mikel, St. Patrick's School, Kinkora
Honourable Mention: Ally DeJong, St. Patrick's School, Kinkora
Grade 1
1st Paige DeJong, St. Patrick's School, Kinkora
2nd Mya Dunn, St. Joseph's School, Clinton
3rd Maria Baes, St. Patrick's School, Kinkora
Honourable Mention: Elena VanNuland, St. Patrick's School, Kinkora
Grade 2
1st Nolan Bannon, St. Aloysius School, Stratford
2nd Alex Morley, Precious Blood School, Exeter
2nd Joel Britton, St. Patrick's School, Dublin
3rd Sasha Lemire, St. Aloysius School, Stratford
Honourable Mention: Carlos Ramos, St. Aloysius School, Stratford
Honourable Mention: Brock Manzo, St. Aloysius School, Stratford
Grade 3
1st Cassidy Campbell, Precious Blood School, Exeter
2nd Maddox Keller, Precious Blood School, Exeter
3rd Hallee Schilbe, Precious Blood School, Exeter
Grade 4
1st Natalie Weinheimer, St. Aloysius School, Stratford
2nd Logan DeGroot, St. Patrick's School, Kinkora
3rd Grace Shantz, St. Aloysius School, Stratford
Honourable Mention: Kylie Nott, St. Joseph's School, Clinton
Grade 5
1st Shawn Barnett, St. Aloysius School, Stratford
2nd Jessica Blowes, St. Aloysius School, Stratford
2nd Samantha Reidy, St. Patrick's School, Kinkora
3rd Justine Rivers, St. Mary's School, Goderich
Grade 6
1st Lizzy Matheson, St. Aloysius School, Stratford
2nd Nicole Castaneda Ceron, St. Aloysius School, Stratford
3rd Claire Lavereau, St. Aloysius School, Stratford
Grade 7
1st Sarah Wilder, St. Boniface, Zurich
2nd Lara Nauwelaerts, St. Joseph's School, Clinton
3rd Melody Colleen Cyr, St. Boniface School, Zurich
Honourable Mention: Stacy Masse, St. Boniface School, Zurich
Grade 8
1st Zoe Bieman, St. Joseph's School, Clinton
2nd Eugeinia Pentland, St. Joseph's School, Clinton
3rd Amber Tugwell, St. Joseph's School, Clinton
Honourable Mention: Remy Bles, St. Mary's School, Goderich