![]() ![]() “There were a lot of good ones I didn’t know if I had a chance.” We called the sixth grader after school on Tuesday to tell her the news. Paul International Airport Air Reserve Station.) (Olivia’s grandma, Rebecca Noland, tells us that the 96th Airlift Squadron is part of the 934th Airlift Wing, an Air Force Reserve C-130 unit based at the Minneapolis-St. I also made a runway and the sky from craft paper and a tri-fold board.” I used my brother’s C-130 toy plane and made little Peep hats. My grandma bought the supplies and the Peeps for this project. The squadron flies cargo planes called C-130 Hercules and provides support to military personnel all over the world. The blue Peeps represent the airmen, the red Peeps represent the mechanics and the purple and pink Peeps represent the ‘peeples’ that are a part of the airmen’s families. He flies with the 96th Airlift Squadron in Minneapolis, and this is his 10th deployment. “The peeployment represents my dad and his airlift squadron that recently deployed. “Hello, my name is Olivia Noland, I am 12 years old, and my diorama is a ‘peeployment,'” Noland wrote in an email to the Pioneer Press. Little Peeple winner: “Peeployment” by Olivia Noland, 12, of Eleva, Wis. The judges liked the spirit of this entry Carolann - like so many of us - is longing for spring.Ĭarolann’s prize is a $25 gift card. Her favorite part of her duck pond diorama is the pipe cleaner sun ‘that warms up the ducks.’ Her Peeps are visiting the pond and feeding the ducks on a sunny summer day.” She had some help from her mom with cutting and gluing. She collected twigs and rocks from her yard for the trees, bushes and sticks in the water. “She used magazines, glue and toilet paper rolls to create the background, then Play-Doh for the pond and orange Play-Doh worms. “Carolann can’t wait for all the snow to melt and the ducks to return so she can feed them,” Akervik says. “Carolann loves visiting the duck pond behind her house, so she created this Peeps diorama of her duck pond for the Pioneer Press youth peep competition,” writes Rebekah Akervik, Carolann’s mom. Thanks to all of you for sharing your marshmallow masterpieces with us!Īnd now, here are the winners: Little Peeple (Chicks): “Peeps at the Duck Pond” by Carolann Akervik, age 3, Cottage Grove. We love that so many people have embraced our contest as an annual tradition - a tradition that dates back to 2004. This year, we have loaded every entry into online slideshows (one for the kids, the other for the big Peeps) we have also created a “participation certificate” that diorama artists can download. Paul potholes (a lot of potholes), our long winter and the “impeepment” of former President Donald Trump.Īs usual, we received entries from around the country (including the librarians at the downtown branch of the Guernsey County District Public Library in Cambridge, Ohio, who created tiny versions of Charles Dickens’ novels). In the general category, the 160 entries were focused on grown-up problems and issues, like St. ![]()
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