Human Rights Task Force announces winners of essay contest

January 26, 2015

The Boundary County Human Rights Task Force has announced the winners of the Martin Luther King Day essay contest. The contest had three levels of competition: elementary, middle school and high school, with the elementary writing on “Where Do Human Rights Begin” and the secondary schools writing on “Civil Rights, Human Rights and Education." The Task Force and the judges were pleased with the number and quality of the entries. Winners at the elementary level: first place, Taylor Cromwell; second place, Elisa Balcaen; third place, Corine Spain; honorable mention, Jacob Bremer. At the middle school level, the winners are: First place, Sierra Marie Summerfield; second place, Paxton Tadlock; third, Caleb Peterson; honorable mention, Chrisopher Durette and Molly Anne Flower. Winners at the high school level are: first, Savannah Woods; second, Kim Kramer; and third, Tanner Liermann; honorable mention, Emily Warden, Louis Balcaen, Kim Kramer, Ameriah Macey, and Collin Stone. According to the Task Force, in preparing for their writing, the students gained insight and knowledge into the rights for all people that are written in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and that can be applied in their own lives.