The Hamilton Area YMCA announced that Erin Powers of Hamilton Township is the winner of the “Create the Cover” contest.
“Create the Cover” was launched in the summer of 2014 and open to children throughout the community. Participants were asked to draw a picture of what the Y means to them. The Y staff then selected three entries that best reflected the organization’s core areas of focus of youth development, healthy living and social responsibility, as finalists.
To select a winner, the community voted on the finalists at the Hamilton Area YMCA’s table at Septemberfest.
Powers’ artwork, featuring the line “Healthy Kids Means Healthy World!” will appear on the Y’s December Program Guide, which is sent to 60,000 households throughout the Hamilton area.
Powers is a sixth grader at Reynolds Elementary School. She learned about the contest while participating in the Y’s Summer Camp program.
She is an aspiring actress, enjoys art and cites her mother as a role model.
Her inspiration for the slogan “Healthy Kids Means Healthy World” was drawn from examples she saw at the Y’s JKR Branch.
