Press release from the Humboldt County Clerk/Recorder/Registrar of Voters:
The
Humboldt County Office of Elections revealed the winning designs of
Humboldt County’s “I Voted” Sticker Contest at the Humboldt
County Fair on Saturday, Aug. 16.
Congrats, Adeline! Second place in LoCO Pollz.
Humboldt
County’s “I Voted” Sticker Contest invited youth and adult
artists to create sticker designs that celebrated voting and
showcased the county’s unique natural environment.
Adeline
Pierce, a student at Sunny Brae Middle School, was named the youth
winner and recognized in for her winning design that featuring a
banana slug. “I love the forest and banana slugs,” said Pierce of
her winning design. “When I was little me and my family would go on
long walks through the forest. I adored banana slugs and would name
them and build them slug houses, so of course I decided to do a
banana slug design.”
Congrats, Carly! First place in LoCO Pollz.
Carly
Haynes, a local educator, was named the adult winner and said her
design featuring an otter is meant to represent one of her favorite
places in Humboldt County, the lagoons by Trinidad. “I also wanted
to stay true to Humboldt’s weirdness which is why an alien
spaceship is seen abducting an elk. I included ‘I Voted’ in
Spanish, Hmong, Pashto and Vietnamese because these are some of the
languages my students hear or speak at home. I wanted everyone in our
community to feel included.”
“Voting
is both a right and a privilege, and this contest was a fun way to
engage our community and encourage voting in Humboldt,” said
Humboldt County Clerk-Recorder & Registrar of Voters Juan Pablo
Cervantes. “I’d like to thank everyone who shared their
creativity, voted for their favorite designs and joined us at the
Humboldt County Fair to celebrate the winners.”
The
Humboldt County Office of Elections is committed to ensuring all
eligible residents have an opportunity to exercise their right to
vote, conducting elections in a fair, accurate and efficient manner,
providing reliable information and the best possible service to
voters, districts, candidates and other interested parties. For more
information, please visit humboldtgov.org/elections.
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