
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, October 25, 1993                   TAG: 9310260016
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: 1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ELIZABETH HOCK NEWSFUN EDITOR
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

AND THE WINNERS ARE . . . 3 1 WINNERS WINNERS

Look around you, trick-or-treaters, on Halloween night. Besides the usual array of ghosts, goblins and ghouls, you might pass a tube of toothpaste or a polka-dotted cat going door-to-door. Or maybe you'll run into Princess Jasmine or a live flower pot.

If the entries in NewsFun's annual Halloween Art contest are any indication, there will be a wide assortment of creative characters roaming the streets of Southwest Virginia Saturday and Sunday nights.

More than 700 readers entered our annual contest, which asked entrants to submit an original color drawing of themselves in their Halloween costumes. Now, on to the winners . . .

In the kindergarten-second grade category, the winner is Corey Gallion, a first-grader at East Salem Elementary School. Winner in the third-fifth grade division is Becky Hoke, who is in the third grade at Troutville Elementary. Shar Taliaferro, an eighth-grader at Cave Spring Junior High in Roanoke County, is the winner in the sixth-eighth grade category.

Honorable mention in the kindergarten-second grade category goes to: Paige Griffith, first grade, Monterey Elementary in Roanoke; Cannady Jo Graybill, first grade, Colonial Elementary in Blue Ridge; Anna Lee Burnstein, kindergarten, Crystal Spring Elementary in Roanoke; Sarah Woodyard, first grade, Narrows Elementary; Ashton Sullivan, first grade, Virginia Heights in Roanoke; Allison Boush, second grade, Oak Grove Elementary in Roanoke County; and Wayne Hager, first grade, East Salem Elementary.

Receiving honorable mention in the third-fifth grade are: Heather Rene McCormick, fifth grade, Kling Elementary in Buena Vista; Cristina Arellano, fourth grade, Cave Spring Elementary in Roanoke County; Jason Staples, fourth grade, Glenvar Elementary in Salem; Eric Li, fourth grade, Monterey Elementary in Roanoke County; Lisa Nash, fourth grade, Glenvar Elementary; Apon Chen, fifth grade, Gilbert Linkous Elementary in Blacksburg; Josh Ginter, fifth grade, Mason Cove Elementary in Roanoke County; Kate McQuail, fourth grade, Gilbert Linkous Elementary; Margaret Lemon, fourth grade, Crystal Spring Elementary; Emily Arthur, fifth grade, Margaret Beeks Elementary in Blacksburg; and Chris Buck, third grade, Mount Pleasant Elementary in Roanoke County.

In the sixth-eighth division, honorable mention goes to: Jonathan Mills, eighth grade at Staunton River Middle School in Moneta; Pete Ackley, eighth grade, Cave Spring Junior High; Ashley Atkinson, eighth grade, Cave Spring Junior High; Angela Torres, eighth grade, Staunton River Middle School; Wryene Sharef Brooks, sixth grade, Lucy Addison Aerospace Magnet School in Roanoke; Justin T. Surratt, sixth grade, William Byrd Middle School in Vinton; Neal M. Iwan, sixth grade, Cave Spring Junior High; and Travis Hill, sixth grade, of Roanoke County.

NewsFun will throw a party for the class of each winner in the contest, which was judged by Tracy Budd, a Roanoke artist and art teacher.

Thanks to all of you who entered. Have a safe and happy Halloween.

by CNB