There is joy: A true story
By Anna Perkins
Westfield Township, Ohio
Age 16
Winner
Family. A Christmas tree. Singing carols on a neighbor’s doorstep. Watching her children’s delight at receiving the...
2009 Adult writing contest and youth art winners
The holidays have a special meaning to all of us. It could be the sights and sounds of the children sled riding down the...
Christmas Wishes
Rachel BarkleyAge: 11Uhrichsville, OH
Mary sighed. All she had ever wanted for Christmas previous years had been a horse. But now she had pushed wanting...
The meaning of Christmas
By Destini Smith
Vickery, Ohio
Age 12
Winner
De was in school. It was the end of the day, right before the bell rang, when her...
A friend for Christmas
By Jaclyn Krymowski
Hinckley, Ohio
Age 12
Honorable Mention
Sarah watched the winter snow fall fast, thick and heavy. This would be the loneliest Christmas ever. For...
Holiday writing contest, youth division 2009
Christmas stories of love, wishes, lessons learned and animals filled our mailbox and inboxes in the past few weeks and we couldn’t have been...
A Cat’s Christmas Dream
Athena Pantelides, 10 yrs.
Louisville, Ohio
Snowla the cat was watching the snow fall outside of her house. Snowla’s owner spoiled her. You see...
A coal camp Christmas
Second place: Alex Keck, 17, of Hanoverton, Ohio
It was early December of 1933, the height of the Great Depression in the tiny Pennsylvania coal...
2009 Children, Holiday art and writing contest
Christmas stories of love, wishes, lessons learned and animals filled our mailbox and inboxes in the past few weeks and we couldn’t have been...
The robot farm
By David Krymowski
Hinckley, Ohio
Age 7
Winner
Once there was a robot farm. One of the workers on the farm was a robot named Rusty. Rusty had...
