Adventure Cove logo winner

October 3, 2007

Reported by Pam Dixon

Hundreds of area students put their creativity to the test in a competition for the best design for a logo for Adventure Cove playground. Oran Parker, a designer with the O'Carroll Group, helped select the winning logo. Oran says, "There are certain things you're looking for. Does it send a clear message? Do you get the point? Is it interesting?"

Pam says, "After a couple of days of judging, the winning design was selected. Now we're going inside this classroom to surprise the winner."

Nine year old Greg Breinin, a fourth grader at Bell City High School, came up with the winning idea. Greg says, "I was thinking about an alligator at first, so I drew the eyes and then I started thinking what if it would be in a swamp, so that's when I came up with all the trees and stuff."

After the surprise, Oran gave Greg a one on one crash course in developing his logo idea into a professional design. Oran says, "He says it's an alligator behind there, but you really don't know that that's an alligator. It can be a child. It can be just something. So there was this element of mystery, which is kind of cool because the park isn't built yet and even though there's a plan and such, you don't really know what you're going to see at the end. So it's kind of inviting you inside."

Greg won a $100 savings bond and something money can't buy-- pride in a job well done. Greg says, "I might go there and look at my logo again and say... hmm I remember when I drew that logo." And that logo will be around for a long time.

Greg won the savings bond and his art teacher, Lisa Myers, won a $100 gift card for art or school supplies. Greg's logo will soon be on T-shirts, and you'll see a lot of those shirts on volunteers out at the park site off Highway 14.

If you'd like to volunteer to help build Adventure Cove or work in off site jobs like child care or food services, click here or call 491-9151. The park will be built from October 16th through the 21st.