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Margaret Chase Smith Essay Contest The Margaret Chase Smith Library is pleased to announce the topic of its 19th annual essay contest – immigration policy. The competition is open to Maine high school seniors. Entries are due by April 1, 2015. Prizes ranging from $50 for five honorable mentions to $1000 for first place will be announced on May 1st. For more information or to enter, please contact John Taylor at the Margaret Chase Smith Library, 56 Norridgewock Avenue, Skowhegan, ME, 04976, or by telephone at 474-7133. The topic was selected because of its timeliness
and urgency. Although a nation of immigrants, the United States currently finds itself sharply divided by this issue. Like most Americans, Margaret Chase Smith believed in the ideal of the melting pot. Her maternal grandfather was born in Quebec and immigrated to Maine in the mid-nineteenth century. As Smith entered public life, immigration policy was marked by the rigid national ethnic quotas of the 1920s, followed by economic concerns about employment competition during the Great Depression
of the 1930s, and then by fears of foreign infiltration and Communist subversion during the 1940s and 50s. Against this historical backdrop of alternating cycles of welcome and wariness toward foreigners, the Margaret Chase Smith Library invites students to weigh in with their opinions on what federal immigration policy should be in the twenty-first century. Located in Skowhegan, Maine, the Library is owned by the Margaret Chase Smith Foundation and operated under its auspices by the University of Maine. n
Statewide Student Art Contest Draws Near
Andy Arel of Lewiston comes in to warm up after shoveling during blizzard Juno. at WHITTEMORE & SONS
The 21st annual statewide competition for the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Design Contest is underway. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service invites students in grades K-12 to create designs featuring ducks, geese, or swans in their natural habitats. Designs are judged in four age categories, with awards for first, second, and third places and honorable mentions. Entries must be received by March 15th, 2015. This year the judging will take place at the University of Maine in Oro-
no, on March 27th from 9:00AM until noon. The Maine Best of Show entry will compete with contest winners from other states in a national competition in Washington D.C. The first place national winning design is used to create the Federal Junior Duck Stamp. Proceeds from the sale of Junior Duck Stamps (which cost $5 each) support conservation education by providing awards and scholarships for students, teachers, and schools. Modeled after the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service’s annual Federal Duck Stamp competition, the Junior Duck Stamp contest is part of an educational curriculum that teaches students about waterfowl, the importance of wetlands, and habitat conservation. Proceeds from the sale of Federal Duck Stamps protect wetlands through land acquisition by the National Wildlife Refuge System. Contest rules and entry forms are currently available for download at the following Web site: www. fws.gov/juniorduck/. n
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