West Vancouver — Erin Stromme’s Lake Shore Elementary School fifth-graders won $1,000 to enhance the school’s art department, thanks to a first-place finish at the 22nd annual Winter Wonderland Children’s Art Contest in Portland.
It was the second straight year the school won the event, and the class was given its award at an assembly on Feb. 25.
The students painted a 4-by-8-foot mural of a gingerbread man driving a gift-filled train carrying a polar bear, reindeer and penguins. Guests to Winter Wonderland voted the picture as their favorite.
Stromme used the money from last year’s win to expand the art program to include clay.
“The improvements to the art room gave us a whole new area of artistic expression to explore,” she said in a press release. “We now have an area where our clay projects can dry and cool when they come out of the kiln.”
