Children’s Day Logo Contest, Peeps Show: Seacoast community news update

Children’s Day Logo Contest

PORTSMOUTH — Children’s Day, produced by Pro Portsmouth, will take place in Downtown Portsmouth on Sunday, May 7, from 12 to 4 p.m.

As is tradition, Pro Portsmouth invites young artists to share their talent and participate in the Children’s Day Logo Contest. The Logo will be seen on event maps, the event website, Children’s Day T-shirts and all marketing collateral.

Special for 2023! Throughout the year, Pro Portsmouth is asking artists to create logos that honor the City’s 400^th anniversary throughout 2023.

Here are a few guidelines for 2023:

• Artists under age 12 are eligible to submit drawings and designs

• Portsmouth’s 400^th Anniversary - refer to: https://www.portsmouthnh400.org/400-years-of-history

• Please use a maximum of four colors

• The image should be drawn and submitted on 8.5” x 11” paper

• You can use colored paper, markers, crayons and colored pencils to create your design – the key: the image must be flat (so it can be scanned into a computer)

• The deadline for submission is Wednesday, March 31

• Please incorporate the year 2023 in the design.

• Get creative – your drawings should be festive, fun and recognizable.

• Check out previous logos here: https://proportsmouth.org/childrens-day-logo-contest/

Please submit your entries to: info@proportsmouth.org or Pro Portsmouth, Inc., P.O. Box 967, Portsmouth, NH 03802. For more information about Pro Portsmouth and our events go to our website: www.proportsmouth.org.

Dover Library: Calling All Peeps

DOVER — The Dover Public Library is looking for creative Dover residents, Dover students, or Dover Public Library cardholders to enter its annual “Peeps Show” Contest this March.

Here’s how it works: Build a diorama using Peeps of any color or species in a standard size shoe box, no larger than 16” x 16” please. Create your diorama based on a scene from a book. The first eight entries will receive a free plush Peep chick.

Children ages 4 to 8 are invited to enter the Kids Division, and ages 9 to 12 may enter in the Youth Division. Peep Artists 13 to 19 years old may enter the Teen Division, while those 20 or older are invited to compete in the Adult Division. On the back of your shoe box, please include your name, address, phone number, and title of your “Peeps Show”. You can pick up an entry form at the library. All Peeps displays may be dropped off at the Dover Public Library beginning Monday, March 20 through Sunday, April 2. The winner of each division will receive a $25 Target gift card, courtesy of the Friends of the Library. Prizes will be awarded on Monday afternoon, April 3. Peeps should be picked up by 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 8. All Peeps not picked up by the deadline will be discarded or eaten!

For more information, call the Dover Public Library at 603-516-6050.

Riverside Rest Home receives Thank You baskets

DOVER — Students from The Holderness School delivered Thank You baskets to the employees of Riverside Rest Home in Dover, N.H. The private boarding school in Plymouth, made the 90 minute trek to kick start a staff appreciation event that included roasting S’mores and sipping hot cocoa and coffee.

The group was led by Pat Livingstone, a history teacher and coach and Pam Mulcahy, a math teacher . Pam, whose own father passed away of covid in a nursing home , was very compassionate about the crisis. One thing all of students could all agree on was that there is a clear line between life before and after covid.  Staff were surprised and pleased by this gesture of kindness.

If you are interested in volunteering or donating to Riverside Rest Home please contact: Maria Ayer at 603-516-4170

This article originally appeared on Portsmouth Herald: Children’s Day Logo Contest, Peeps Show: Seacoast community news