2009 Best in Show winner, Felicia Teach	2009 Second Prize winner, Michael Brown

2009 Judges’ Prize Winners:

Best in Show ($800): Felicia Teach          site #22
Second Prize ($600): Michael Brown       site #155
Third Prize ($500): Consuelo Bailey        site #87
Fourth Prize ($400): Dudley Bostwick     site #150
Best Photo in Show ($500): Scott Perry  site #105

2009 Merit Awards (5 $150 prizes, unranked):

Katherine Pike         site #129
Susan Zimmerman  site  #116
Roland Simard         site #67
Philip Lamson          site #173
Jan Kilburn              site #46

2009 High School Student Prizes (6 $30 prizes, unranked):

Allison Stack
Dominic Volent
Olivia Edwards
Zachary Burns
Abby Willwerth
Gabriel Sobczak

2009 Sponsor's Choice Selections (prepaid purchases of art valued at $400  -- these are the selections of the individual sponsors and not judges awards):

Sponsor:                                           Artist whose work was selected:
A-BEST Window                                   J C Airoldi              site #32
Hobbs Funeral Home                            Marnie Souza          site #144
In Memory of Edna Keyes                     D.  Burleigh Philips site #110
Maine Bank & Trust                              Oana Lauric            site #75
Friends of Mill Creek Park                     D.  Burleigh Philips  site #110
City of South Portland                          Jim Baker               site #137
TD Banknorth                                      Terry O’Maley         site #78
Bernie Thibodeau’s Plumbing                 Joseph Barnett       site #146
      & Heating 

2009 Scholarship Winner:

Allison Stack (click here to read more)

2009 Student art selected for promotional materials:

Poster - Jocelyn Miller and Olivia Edwards, 9th Grade (click to see image)
T-shirt - Yusei Kawai, Kindergarten (click to see image)
Program Cover - Brittany Bachelder, Twelfth Grade (click to see image)

2009 Performers:

Gazebo Muscian: Jim Gallant (click here for his website)
Kids in the Park Tent: Julie & Brownie (click here for their website)

2009 Judges:

Alex Rheault, Portland, ME
Brian Reeves, South Portland, ME

2009 Sponsors:

WZAN - radio ad sponsor – $1,200 value
Norway Savings Bank - t-shirt sponsor – $1,000
Saco & Biddeford Savings - Kids in the Park and Face Painting Sponsor – $850
Web page sponsor - Town & Country Federal Credit Union – $400
Hannaford Supermarkets - 4 Class Awards – total $200

Sprague Energy - High School Student Awards – $180

Special thanks to:

Portland Water District, for donating bottled water for show day volunteers.

Mill Creek Dunkin’ Donuts, and especially George Valvanis, for donating donuts for the artists and volunteers.

Jack Reckitt, of Maine Sign in Waterfront Market, for laying out the poster art and donating two large banner versions of the poster.

City of South Portland Parks Department, for its exceptional work before, during and after the show.

David Jacobs for his time and creativity working on updating our website.

City of South Portland staff and residents.