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Chandler Council recognizes poster contest winners
Independent Newsmedia/Jason W. Brooks
The Chandler City Council recognized its second annual Fair Housing Poster Contest Winners at its April 21 study session. Toward the left is winner Aryana B., age 9, a Sanborn Elementary third-grader, with her artwork shown on the far left, next to Council member Angel Encinas. Toward the right is winner Majda K., age 10, a fourth-grader at Conley Elementary, with her design shown here on the far right.
The Chandler City Council acknowledged its second annual Fair Housing Poster Contest Winners at its April 21 study session.
Aryanna B., age 9, a Sanborn Elementary third-grader, and Majda K. age 10, a fourth-grader at Conley Elementary, were recognized as this year’s winners. They took photos with Mayor Kevin Hartke, Council member Angel Encinas and city staff.
April was National Fair Housing Month, and to help educate youth about a person’s right to live where they choose and equal housing opportunities for all, Chandler’s Neighborhood Resources Department invited young artists who live in the city, who are in grades 1 through 6, to enter a poster contest.
The contest theme was “Love Your Neighbor” and all entries were to contain wording and imagery that conveys the theme. Winners were selected by a panel of city staff.
Prizes were given to the students and their families as they departed the council chamber.
Jason W. Brooks is a News editor for the Daily Independent and the Chandler Independent.
He covers the Chandler area for both yourvalley.net and the monthly print edition while writing for and assisting in the production of the Daily Independent.
Brooks is a well-traveled journalist who has documented life in small American communities in nearly all U.S. time zones.
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised there and in suburban Los Angeles, he has covered community news in California, New Mexico, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and northern Arizona.
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