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West Lawn student wins laptop
By Harold Reutter
The Grand Island Independent
Posted Oct 07, 2008 @ 10:47 PM
GRAND ISLAND —
On Tuesday, it was two times lucky for fourth-grader Aric Montgomery and for West Lawn Elementary.
First, it was lucky that the Hy-Vee Store in Grand Island was picked to
be one of the locations to give out awards for the company's "Smiles
for Education" program.
Store director John Griesenbrock said not every Hy-Vee location gets to
hand out awards for the annual program. "It's the luck of the draw," he
said.
Griesenbrock said that it was also the luck of the draw that
Montgomery's name was drawn from literally thousands of names that were
entered into the contest.
During the 10 weeks the program runs, people can slide names into the
drop box at each store, he said. Griesenbrock told the students during
an all-school assembly that it's ordinarily not kids who are putting
their names in the drop box.
"It's usually moms and dads, grandpas and grandmas, and aunts and uncles," he said.
As a result, Aric's name was mixed in with students not only from Grand
Island, but from schools and towns all over Central Nebraska.
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