Vote online for your favorite Laurel Run logo

This winning design from 2010 was created by Jennifer Phillips of Silver Creek.

Click here to vote on the Dunkirk Observer's website!

Once again, TRC Foundation is teaming with the Observer newspaper to enable people to help select the logo for the 15th annual Laurel Run.

Each year, we hold a contest among area high school students to design the Laurel Run logo.  Last year, at the suggestion of Observer Publisher John D’Agostino, we opened the voting to anyone on the Internet via the Observer’s web site.  More than 900 people cast votes online, with the winner receiving one more vote than the runner-up

Laurel Hotelling, left, gives Jennifer Phillips the $100 gift card she received for designing the winning logo for last year’s Laurel Run.

Again this year, we were fortunate to have a number of tremendous designs submitted for the contest.  Internal voting at The Resource Center identified the six finalists, which consist of designs created by five Silver Creek students and one student from Sherman.

You can vote until 4:30 p.m. Friday, June 10.  Please vote just once.  For more information, to see the designs and to cast your vote, visit http://extras.observertoday.com/LaurelRun/Laurel.asp.

This year’s Laurel Run takes place July 15-16.  The event was created by Wayne and Elaine Hotelling of Silver Creek in honor of their oldest daughter, who has Down syndrome.  Money raised through Laurel Run is used in two ways: to support disability awareness and prevention activities, and to enhance employment and work training opportunities for adults with disabilities, like Laurel.

For more information about Laurel Run, visit www.laurel-run.com.