Students encouraged to participate in 17th annual calendar art contest

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Students encouraged to participate in 17th annual calendar art contest

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Wednesday, 06 October 2010 00:00

Kissimmee Utility Authority invites students to use the power of art to promote electrical safety in the utility’s 17th annual calendar art contest.
The annual talent hunt is open to Osceola County students enrolled in kindergarten through grade five, including public, private and homeschooled students. Students are asked to use crayons, markers, paints or computer-generated graphics to depict an electrical safety message in their entry.
A panel of local judges will select the 12 best entries – one for each calendar month – which will be featured in the utility’s 2011 full-color wall calendar. Each student who submits an entry will be honored with a letter of appreciation and a copy of the calendar.
The 12 winning students will have their artwork featured in the 2011 calendar and receive a $100 cash prize. A grand winner, selected from the 12 winning students, will have his/her name and artwork affixed to a KUA bucket truck for one year and be featured on the calendar cover.
To further encourage participation, the grand winner’s school will receive $500 in art supplies and the school with the most total entries in the contest will receive $250 in art supplies.
The official entry form and contest details are available
on the utility’s website at www.kua.com/calendar. The deadline for entries is 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29.
KUA wins two statewide PR awards
Kissimmee Utility Authority’s 2010 hurricane handbook recently captured two statewide awards in the 2010 Golden Image Awards, an annual competition sponsored by the Florida Public Relations Association. The awards were presented as part of FPRA’s 72nd annual conference in Naples.
The competition recognizes companies that exhibit and employ comprehensive public relations projects that meet the highest standards of excellence in four components of PR programming: research, planning, execution and evaluation.
A Golden Image Award is presented to the top-scoring entry in a respective category. A Judges' Award is presented to an outstanding entry that achieves maximum results while using a minimum amount of money.
In the printed tools division, KUA received a Golden Image Award and a Judges’ Award for its 2010 Osceola Hurricane Handbook. The 40-page guide includes information on emergency shelters, evacuation routes, generator safety and power outage restoration as well as helpful telephone numbers, a disaster supplies checklist and a hurricane tracking chart.
KUA has earned 237 local, state, national and international communication awards for public relations programs, special events, community relations and publications since 1995.