Mayor Slay Announces Winner of 2012 Holiday Card Design Contest

Grade school students to be recognized at reception

December 13, 2012 | 2 min reading time

This article is 13 years old. It was published on December 13, 2012.

ST. LOUIS -- The winner and finalists of Mayor Francis G. Slay’s annual Holiday Card Design Contest will be honored at a reception in City Hall in the Mayor’s Office at 3:45 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 14.  Nine-year-old Kayla Lokeomanivong from Oak Hill Elementary submitted the winning design, which will be used for the design of Mayor & Mrs. Slay’s 2012 holiday cards.


Mayor Slay will present each student will a certificate of achievement, and Bissinger’s Handcrafted Chocolatier has provided a complimentary gift for each of the finalists.

“First and foremost, I’d like to thank all the students for submitting an entry to my Holiday Card Design Contest,” Mayor Slay said.  “One of my favorite holiday traditions is going through the design entries, and every year, it’s very difficult to narrow down all the entries to the top 10.  I congratulate Kayla for winning this year’s contest, and I am proud to use her design on my 2012 holiday card.”

This year’s Holiday Card Design Contest invited grade school children in the City of St. Louis to submit a design for consideration in the contest.  When the contest closed, 321 entries had been submitted.  The winners are listed below:

Grand Prize Winner
Miss Kayla Lokeomanivong, 9, 4th grader at Oak Hill Elementary
1st Runner-Up
Miss Jahnavi Acharya, 8, 2nd grader at Stix E.C.C.
2nd Runner-Up
Mr. Mykah Massey, 11, 6th grader at Compton-Drew ILC
Honorable Mention
Mr. Damon Eddleman, 10, 4th grader at Woerner Elementary
Miss Chloe Stritzel, 9, 3rd grader at St. Joan of Arc School
Mr. Michael Quinn, 9, 4th grader at St. Roch School
Miss Faith Fritschle, 12, 6th grader at St. Stephen Protomartyr School
Mr. Dzenan Zecevic, 8, 3rd grader at Buder Elementary
Miss Micaela Bowman, 9, 3rd grader at St. Louis Language Immersion Schools
Miss Nadia Kennedy, 12, 7th grader at L’Ouverture Middle Academy

A poster containing the top 10 card designs is on display at City Hall.  The top 10 card designs will also be posted in the Photo Gallery on the City’s web site stlouis-mo.gov.

Contact:  Heather Dunsford, Mayor's Office, (314) 622-3201.

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