Two Central Lutheran School (Newhall) students placed among the Top 10 essay writers in a contest sponsored by Barnes & Noble Booksellers.
Fourth graders Amanda Ehr (Rich and Karla Ehr) and Jaelen Martin (Brooke and Josh Martin) placed in the Top 10 out of a field of 360 entries written by fourth and fifth grade students in and around the Cedar Rapids area.
Students were asked to submit a 2-5 page essay on the topic, How I Will Remember 2008.
BN employees read all of the essays and narrowed the field to 40, which also included essays by CLS students Braden Bierschenk, Keegan McKibben and Ashley Kochuyt. Those 40 essays were then forwarded to Diana Nollen and Dave Rasdal, writers at the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Nollen and Rasdal then chose the Top 10 essays.
All of the Top 10 essayists received a BN gift certificate.
