New Albany Garden Club Poetry Contest Winners

New Albany, Miss., April, 2019 -The New Albany Garden Club recently hosted a poetry contest.

Tracy Vainisi, garden club member and New Albany Middle School Young Gardener sponsor, offered the contest to 6th through 8th grade students. Students wrote poems and created art, both two- and three-dimentional to the theme “Pop Goes the Seed”.

Over sixty poems were submitted to the judging panel at Blue Mountain College.

Sixth Grade winners: Jeb Bolen (3rd Place), Lucy King (1st Place), Will Chism (2nd Place)

Seventh Grade winners: Josie Campbell (3rd Place), Eva Aldridge (1st Place), Julianna Scott (2nd Place)

Eighth Grade winners: Julianne Littlejohn (3rd Place), Brianna Ligon (1st Place), Logan Blakemore (2nd Place)

For more information about the Young Gardeners program at New Albany Middle School, please contact Tracy Vainisi at (662) 534-1820.

-Tracy Vainisi