2007's winner is Bryan LeBlanc, age 14, from Bedford
The past winners are:
2006 Nathan LeBlanc, age 12, Bedford
2005 Georgia Guttadauro, age 12, Carlisle
2004 Whitney Sharp, Age 17, Concord
2003 Annie Peterson, Concord
2002 Nicholas Cunkelman, Age 12, Acton
2001 Courtney Callahan, Age 13, Acton
2000 Bonnie Petersen, Age 10, Concord
1998 Chris Plating, Age 13, Greer, S.C.
1997 David Ballard, Age 11, Concord
1996 Hawley Tremblay, Age 9, Concord
1994 Ben and Becky DeMott, Ages 12 and 5, Maynard
1991 Mary Alice Barron, Age 11, Concord
1990 Anne-Marie Wulfsberg, Age 13, Concord
1989 Susie Corke, Age 14, Concord
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On Sunday, October 14, walkers in the area’s 27th CROP
Walk for the Hungry will be wearing T-shirts designed by 14-year-old
Bedford artist Bryan LeBlanc.
Last October, Bryan created several designs for the CROP Walk’s annual T-shirt design contest. But he didn’t feel that any of them were “good enough to enter.” A friend sitting beside him from his youth group at the Bedford First Church of Christ Congregational U.C.C. thought differently. She asked Bryan if she could put HER name on the back of his last design and turn it in.
“Sure,” said Bryan, “whatever.” Neither teenager dreamed that this would be the winning entry! Fortunately, when his friend received notification of the award, the parents of the two teenagers became involved and eventually everything was straightened out, and the right artist’s name was able to be printed on the T-shirt!.
Bryan is a freshman this year at Bedford High School. He is playing saxophone for the BHS marching band this fall and will be switching to clarinet in the concert band this winter. This past summer he attended band camp along with family trips to California and Oregon to visit family members. A voracious reader, Bryan is an avid fan of sci-fi and fantasy fiction, with J.R.R. Tolkien and the “Artemis Fowl” books by Eoin Colfer his favoites. He also plays soccer on a town soccer team and is considering joining either an art or drama club at his school.
Bryan saves time from his busy schedule for the activities and missions of his church’s youth group. These include the CROP Walk, in which Bryan and his twin brother have participated for the past three years. Last year Bryan’s brother Nathan also won the CROP T-shirt Art Contest! This is the first year in which the sibling of a previous winner has also won the contest.
Bryan’s T-shirt shows several colorful walkers walking together on a sunny day and balancing pots and other vessels on their heads. Embedded within his design are the words of the walk’s slogan: “We walk BECAUSE they walk.” Bryan says that he tried to show what many of the people whom the CROP Walk helps do every day. “They have to walk a lot of miles each day to bring fresh water and food home,” Bryan said. It seemed appropriate that those who walk in the CROP Walk should be reminded why it is they undertake this walk each year.
A photo of Bryan in the new CROP T-shirt and up-to-date information about this year’s CROP Walk can be found on the Concord CROP web site at www.concordcrop.org. The T-shirt artist will also be available at the walk for questions and to help sell the T-shirts. |
