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Creative Celebration
December 22, 2011
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Dear Participant,
Thank you for your wonderful contribution to the Thanksgiving Day Creative Celebration. In our first year, we received outstanding poems, essays, and artwork that exemplify the creativity of New York State’s young people.
The submissions received are remarkable in what they represent – showing gratitude and respect for family, friends, our troops fighting overseas, and many other important subjects and activities. I am humbled and honored to see such inspiring contributions in response to what is a deceptively difficult question: “What are you thankful for?”
On behalf of the New York State Senate, I would like to offer my wholehearted congratulations to all of the participants in this year’s Thanksgiving Day Creative Celebration.
Sincerely,
Senator Klein
Lincoln Elementary School
- Gabriel Abreu
- Hamida Adey
- Yussuf Adeyi
- Gabriela Alfonso
- Tyler Arias
- Jayden Austin
- Chaneil Barnett
- Erika Cabrera
- Justin Caines
- Joshua Coelho
- Kailah Comrie
- Giuliana DaSilva
- Solana Edjang
- Various Essays
- Ashley Ferreira
- Sydney Ferreira
- Sydney Ferreira
- Sydney Ferreira
- Ella Fieni
- Victoria Figeurido
- Julia Figueiredo
- Maria Garcia
- Chloe Giulini
- Tyler Goncalves
- Tyler Goncalves
- Susan Granata
- Jada Grant
- Bryant Guttierez
- Milan Harrar
- Omari Hart
- Marcos Hoffman
- Alejandro Martinez
- Skye McBean
- Skye McBean
- Victoria McLaughlin
- Roy Michael
- Jayna Monroe
- Ygor Perreira
- Jake Riedl
- Sarah Rodriguez
- Isabella Rosario
- Qays Saleh
- Jennifer Salomon
- Steven Seemungal
- J'Cis Stone
- Valeria Velez
- Lindsay Ward
- Bryan Wilson
- Gabriel Winter
P.S. 97
- Shainnah Aime
- Eniola Arogundade
- Faith Berishaj
- Shahir Choudhury
- Antwuan Fernandez
- Jasmine Garcia
- Joshua Henry
- Maximus Holderman
- Ryan Jaquez
- Kendra Kirrman
- Jie Lin
- Brandon Lowe
- Elwin Luna
- Hector Marlin
- Jacob Morales
- Michael Nguyen
- Benita Ojeriakhi
- Andrea Santana
- Ansareb Swaby
- Mouhamadoul Toure
- Samuel Twum
St. Raymond's Elementary School
Traphagen School
YMA
Yonkers Montessori Academy
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