The Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade Organization’s annual Art and Essay/Poetry contest for local elementary school students culminated with an awards ceremony on Friday, May 21 at the Bayside Historical Society headquarters in Fort Totten in Bayside.
At the event three winners from each grade won prizes, medals and certificates for their work on a patriotic theme either in art or the written word. Additionally, Yuki Choi and Shana Marino, both 8th graders at Divine Wisdom Academy (formerly St. Anastasia’s School) in Douglaston won the grand prize in art and essay, respectively.
The budding young artists, writers and poets shown here received their accolades from (in front) committee chair Barbara Barba and State Senator Frank Padavan.
On Sunday, May 23, the Organization honored this year’s parade Grand Marshal, Major General William Monk III; NYPD man of the year Detective Terrence McGhee of the Joint Terrorism Task Force; FDNY man of the year Chief Edward S. Kilduff and Douglas McKay Community Service Award winner Bud Grant, at dinner at the Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point.
