Lyonel Doherty
Times-Chronicle
A young girl from Oliver has won a national award for her artwork.
Rayne Hall from Senpaq’cin School won the National Forest Week youth artwork and photography contest for her colourful poster of a house between two trees.
Many entries were received from youths (ages 5-18) across British Columbia as part of FORED’s Youth Engaging Sustainability (YES) program. The theme was “Our forests – continually giving.”
Hall said she created her piece because she likes to surround herself in nature.
“I put a house in my picture because it reminded me of a scene from the movies that had nature in it. I wanted to show nature because I like it.”
Hall said her family enjoys spending time in nature together.
“We play in the creeks and explore the flats. Sometimes we bring tobacco or sage to smudge (as an offering to the land). We like to drum on the land and to honour our Elders like my great grandpa.”
Victor Godin, FORED’s educational director, said these imaginative submissions always delight and surprise them, from nursing stumps that create new plant life to intricate and thoughtful illustrations of forest inhabitants.
This is not the first time Hall has been in the news. Last fall she and her family raised $200 for the homeless in Penticton.
Rayne Hall’s winning entry
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