93.Awarded for New Year's card contest was held.

　The "New Year's card contest" was held by the Izumi Post Office for elementary school students in the city, and they visited two elementary schools that received the Izumi Mayor's Award and awarded a certificate.
　In the New Year's New Year's card contest, we evaluated the message nature and originality and selected the Director General Prize. This is the third time this year, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have not been able to give them a certificate directly to the elementary school studenｔ who was awarded this year.
　The award-winning work in the lower grades is a very original and heartwarming New Year's card in which the rice cakes eaten during the New Year becomes a "Nobit" lovely rabbit. It was a picture that was rich in imagination and soothing. It is a work of a third grader at Shimbashi Elementary School, but this New Year's card was addressed to the homeroom teacher. I would be really happy if I got such a New Year's card.
　The fifth grader of Shimoizumi Elementary School received the award in the upper grades. He made a New Year's card with the eraser stamp that I learned in the drawing class. It is very impressive to see the adorable rabbit with rice cakes. He actually put it out to grandpa and grandma, and he was very pleased.
　There were 874 applications from all 15 elementary schools in the city for this contest. Thank you very much to all the elementary school students who applied. Next year, please make a wonderful New Year's card and mail it.

March 16, 2023 Atsuko Fukagawa, Mayor of Izumi

　■　Director General Prize [lower grade]

　■　Director General Prize [higher grade]