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St. Dominic Student Wins Essay Contest

St. Dominic School student Colton Swartwoudt wins a Christmas essay contest.

In December The Catholic Spirit (a publication of the Minneapolis-St. Paul archdiocese) held an essay contest asking students to write a short essay about their favorite Christmas ornament.  Over 200 entries were received and essay winners were picked in in four age brackets: grades 1-3, grades 4-6, grades 7-9 and grades 10-12.

The Catholic Spirit said 'entries were judged for artistic skill, creativity and reproducibility.'

One of the winning essays was written by St. Dominic School 8th grader Colton Swartwoudt.  

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The ornament on my family Christmas tree I like best is two small sticks held together by some string (and some super glue), which form a cross. Sister Bernelle created it. Most everybody has one but this one is my favorite because Sister Bernelle works so hard for our school and created one of those stick-crosses for everybody in the entire school. That was about 200 students when Sister made them. She puts a lot of hard work into St. Dominic School and she doesn’t get many thank-yous. So this is my way of saying, “thank you Sister Bernelle!”

Congratulations Colton!

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