Council members joined contest winners and their families and heard some of the winning poems.
Mayor Paul Medany and Deptford council – along with representatives from the township library – presented awards to the winners of the annual student poetry contest on May 6.
For April’s National Poetry Month, the township challenged Deptford students to craft a poem of up to 20 lines around the theme of how kindness matters. One winner of each grade from pre-K to 12 was chosen, and many were in attendance at a council meeting to shared their poems.
The winners are:
Pre-K: Olivia Rose (Pine Acres)
K: Rallie Roche (Pine Acres)
1: Luke Peggs (Lake Tract)
2: Alaynah Klecz-Dombkowski (Good Intent)
3: Aiden Feeney (Good Intent)
4: Aradhya Sharma (Shady Lane)
5: Jocelyn Eichman (Oak Valley)
6: Kaylee Hoff (DMS)
7: Adriana Barbano (DMS)
8: Gunjan Sharma (DMS)
10: Lillianna Kalwite (DHS)
11: Delaney Vanhoof (DHS)
12: Henry Gabriel (DHS)
