|  Who
won the Dymocks Golden Paw Award 2006?
On September 25 our
Patron, Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, Governor of New
South Wales, presented the Dymocks Golden Paw Award to Georgia Backhouse
(7) for her painting of a Gastric Brooding Frog.
Her drawing was chosen
out of 7,654 pictures from children all across the NSW and the ACT. It
was the greatest number of entries we received in the five-year history
of the awards.
Competition sponsor Dymocks matched the students effort with a donation
of $1 per drawing to help Australia's threatened animals. At the Golden
Paw Award Ceremony at the Australian national Maritime Museum at Darling
Harbour in Sydney, Dymocks presented us with a big cheque for $8,000!
With this money we
will buy a marine mammal rescue kit to help whales and seals in distress.
Thank you very much on behalf of the animals.
All winning entries along with a list of the top 600 aquatic entries were
on display at the Maritime Museum until 15 October 2006.
At the award ceremony Dymocks CEO Don Grover also announced the winners
of the Wild Tales Libraries.
Congratulations to;
• Lennox Head Public School
• St Thereses Primary, Eastwood
• Albion Park Rail Public School
• Arranounbai School, Frenchs Forest
• Flinders Public School
• Black Springs Public School
This year we will
also give a special prize to the schools with the most entries.
Congratulations;
• Wentworth Falls Public School
• Hazelbrook Public School
Together these two schools sent us more than 760 entries!
Many thanks again to all of you who have made an effort to help us raise
awareness of our threatened wildlife! Special thanks to Dymocks, Future
School Learning Systems, Faber-Castell, the Australian National maritime
Museum and the Department of Environment and Conservation for supporting
the Golden Paw Award.
Carmen Welss
Golden Paw Coordinator
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