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Piatt County Animal Shelter Logo Contest

Eligibility

A contestant must be:

• An individual, not a group of individuals
• 18 years of age or younger on the date the entry is submitted
• A resident of Piatt County

Each contestant may submit only one entry.

Piatt County Animal Shelter board members and their immediate family members are not eligible.

Entry

Contestant's entry:

• Must be created by the contestant.
• Must be in JPEG or GIF format.
• Must be clean, clear and legible when sized for use on the Piatt County Animal Shelter web site and business cards
• Cannot contain copyrighted material or images that have been previously published or are pending publication.

How to Enter

Email the entry by 11:59 p.m., Friday, April 11, 2008 to the Piatt County Animal Shelter Media Coordinator. Include the following:

• Piatt County Animal Shelter Logo Contest in the subject line
• Logo JPEG or GIF as an attachment (not an inline image)
• Contestant's name
• Contestant's age
• Contestant's address
• Contestant's phone number
• Contestant's email address

Winning Entry

All entries will be reviewed by a panel of judges selected by the Piatt County Animal Shelter.  Entries will be judged on the artwork’s creativity, artistic merit, and articulation of the Piatt County Animal Shelter's mission. One winner will be selected.  

The Piatt County Animal Shelter will notify the winner by email and/or by telephone, and post the contest winner’s name and artwork on the Piatt County Animal Shelter web site by Saturday, May 3, 2008.

Legal Stuff

All entries must be received by the Piatt County Animal Shelter Media Coordinator no later than 11:59 p.m. on Friday, April 11, 2008.

The Piatt County Animal Shelter is not responsible for entries that:

• Are submitted in improper form
• Lack required contestant information
• Are late due to computer malfunction
• Are lost, delayed, damaged, misdirected or illegal

No entries will be returned.

All costs associated with making and submitting an entry are the contestant’s responsibility. The Piatt County Animal Shelter will not reimburse or be responsible for any costs incurred in the making or submission of any entry.

By emailing an entry, contestant certifies the following statement "I certify that I am the author of the material I am submitting to the Piatt County Animal Shelter. I assign all ownership rights, including all intellectual property rights, copyright, and trademark, in and to the logo to the Piatt County Animal Shelter. The Piatt County Animal Shelter may alter, modify or revise the logo as it sees necessary to achieve its goals.The Piatt County Animal Shelter may reproduce, distribute, publish, display, edit, modify, create derivative works and otherwise use the logo for any purpose in any form and on any media without further permission from, or notice or compensation to me. The Piatt County Animal Shelter may publish my name and may use my name in a press release announcing the winning logo and in any future advertising campaigns and/or marketing materials. I agree to indemnify the Piatt County Animal Shelter for all damages and expenses that may be incurred in connection with the logo."

The Piatt County Animal Shelter may disqualify any entry based on content and/or production.

Judging decisions are final and may not be appealed.

If no entry is selected, the Piatt County Animal Shelter reserves the right to declare no winner and run the contest again at a later date.

The Piatt County Animal Shelter reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the contest should (in its sole discretion) virus, bugs, non-authorized human intervention, fraud or other causes beyond its control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness or proper conduct of the contest. The Piatt County Animal Shelter reserves the right to disqualify any contestant it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the contest or the contest web site.

All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. Void in whole or in part where prohibited by law.

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This is Progress?

The Piatt County Animal Shelter building project is now officially a demolition/rebuilding effort instead of an expansion/remodeling effort.

On April 5, 2008, Jason Nixon of Nixon Construction, Monticello, IL, determined it will be more efficient and cost effective to demolish The Pontious Farm honey house (except for the foundation) and essentially build from scratch.

Expert Rick Pontious of W.E. Excavating, Monticello, IL, took charge of the demolition effort on April 20th.

We're not talking explosives and a huge, dusty collapse, but it was still cool to watch.

Kids, don't try this at home!

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Monticello Lincoln Grade School Raises Over $1000

In early April, Monticello Lincoln Grade School Principal Eric Hillman challenged his students to give back to the community. He told his kindergartners, first-graders, and second-graders he'd kiss a duck, dance the chicken dance, and possibly perform other "outrageous" acts if they raised money to support the new Piatt County Animal Shelter.

His students—and their teachers—accepted the challenge and held up their end of the bargain with their April pocket change drive, raising over $1000!

On Friday, May 2, 2008, at 1:00 p.m., Principal Hillman held up his end of the bargain in a school assembly in the Monticello Lincoln Grade School gymnasium.

It was, without a doubt, the assembly to beat all assemblies.

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	The entire school waited in eager anticipation. First up: Jane Seitz, Executive Director, and Jacques Nuzzo, Director of Non-human Resources, of the Illinois Raptor Center, enraptured the kids with a peregrine falcon, red-tailed hawk, barn owl, and bald eagle.

Also on hand for some eagle-handling: Ray Wichus, Conservation Officer for Piatt County. By the way, the kids impressed one and all with their knowledge of birds and mammals. Way to go, teachers!

Time for the main event. Principal Hillman had his own ideas about how to prepare for kissing a duck.

However, Mr. Nibbles had other ideas. He wanted to be wooed.

Next up: an amazing frisbee performance by Principal Hillman and his five-year-old border collie Tux (short for Tuxedo). Special thanks to Michelle Hansen of the Piatt County Journal-Republican for her fabulous mid-air shot.

	Principal Hillman ended the assembly with a dazzling chicken dance performance. He insisted school secretaries Jan Trigg and Susan Shiley deserve all the credit for both his dance moves and his costume. The kids had a chance to show their dance moves too.

Overheard several times as the kids left the gymnasium: "This was the best assembly ever!" Mr. Nibbles agreed.

The Piatt County Animal Shelter thanks everyone at Monticello Lincoln Grade School who helped make this our most successful fundraising event to date. We also thank:

• The Illinois Raptor Center—For more information, see illinoisraptorcenter.org
• The Piatt County Journal-Republican and the Champaign News-Gazette for covering this event and helping raise awareness in our community of the Piatt County Animal Shelter mission

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Milky Way Finds a Fur-ever Home

Milky Way was one of several kittens that found a fur-ever home as a result of the Piatt County Animal Shelter kitten shower and adopt-a-thon on June 28, 2008.

Now called Jack, this adorable bundle of fluff now lives with Don and Susan Elmore; Frankie, a golden lab; and Marley, a gray tabby (that Don and Susan adopted from one of The Pontious Farm kitten litters three years ago).

More about the adopt-a-thon...

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