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Poster Contest Winners Help Light Up Des Plaines


Emily Szczurek’s winning poster design.

Artwork by third grader Jacob Sanchez and first grander Emily Szczurek, both students at Brentwood Elementary School, won the Des Plaines “Season of Magic” poster contest this year.

Sanchez’s work combines text with images to show a scene from Santa’s workshop that includes an elf, presents and Christmas magic. Szczurek took a different approach to make her poster stand out from the pack, by placing her entire winter scene into a snow globe. Held in two hands, the globe contains Santa and a young girl in front of a home as well as Christmas trees and snowmen.

“She loves art,” said Emily’s mother, Agnes Szczurek.

Both young artists rode with Santa on a fire engine through Metropolitan Square in Des Plaines Friday (Dec. 7) during the holiday lighting ceremony. They were also on hand to help Mayor Matt Bogusz flip the switch to light up the city’s decorations for the holiday season.

Jacob Sanchez’s winning poster design.

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