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Art Of Donation Holiday Card Contest Winners Inspired By the Gift Of Life
First Place Card by Jadelyn Chipi Second Place Card by Chloe Chatfield
Third Place Holiday Card by Thu Anh Tran Duong.
Third place tie by Melanie Reyes. Community Choice
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Ninety-three unique pieces of artwork were submitted to LifeLink® of Florida by local high school students in Hills- borough, Lee and DeSoto Counties for the second annual Art of Donation Holiday Card Contest. From these, seven designs were chosen to adorn hol- iday cards for LifeLink®, which will be shared with donor family members, transplant recipients, community partners and the public.
“The artwork submit- ted for this year’s contest was phenomenal,” said Liz Lehr, Executive Di- rector of LifeLink of
Florida. “We loved the unique approach each student took to translate organ donation and trans- plantation into artwork.”
First through third place winners were cho- sen, along with two spe- cial recognition prizes for community choice and Facebook favorite. Jade- lyn Chipi, Gaither High School (Hillsborough County), took first prize; Chloe Chatfield, Blake High School (Hillsbor- ough County), took sec- ond; and in third place there was a tie between Thu Anh Tran Duong, Bloomingdale High School (Hillsborough
County) and Melanie Reyes, Cypress Lake High School (Lee County).
Judging for first, sec- ond and third place was done by a panel of com- munity partners and Life- Link leadership and prizes include an iPad, iPod and Kindle Fire, whereas the community choice and Facebook fa- vorite, which earned gift cards, were chosen by LifeLink volunteers and employees, and others within the donation com- munity, or Facebook likes, respectively.
All of the winners, and nearly all the entries, in-
corporated the themes of selfless giving and kind- ness into their designs. The winning pieces can be viewed at www.LifeLink- Foundation.org/ArtOfDo- nation.
More than 123,000 people across the nation, and more than 5,000 in Florida, await a lifesaving organ transplant. Hun- dreds of thousands more could benefit from tissue donation each year. Please consider register- ing your decision to save lives on Florida’s organ and tissue donor registry today, by visiti n g www.DonateLife- Florida.org on the web, or
while visiting your local tax collector office where driver licenses are issued. Contact LifeLink of Florida for more informa- tion at 800-262-5775. LifeLink of Florida is the non-profit, federally des- ignated community serv- ice organization, which facilitates organ and tis- sue donation in fourteen counties in west and southwest Florida, and Martin County on the east coast. We have been serv- ing this community for more than 30 years, and during that time we have worked with scores of families whose loved ones saved lives.