Legacy/Galileo Education Network Student Essay Contest

Congratulations to our 2007 contest winners!

First prize went to the Grade 5 class at Millarville Community School in Millarville, and the Grade 2 class at St. Martin's School in Edmonton. 

The runners up are the Grade 4/5 Immersion class at St. Dominic School in Cold Lake, and the Grade 2 class at Millarville Community School. 

Jenna Geldart, a Grade 7 student at St. Rose Junior High in Edmonton submitted the runner-up for the junior high essay, "Edmonton’s Hidden Gem: The Queen Elizabeth II Planetarium."

Get a head start on the 2008 contest!

With help from a generous, anonymous donor, Legacy is holding its second Legacy/Galileo Student Heritage Essay Contest.

Adopt a local heritage building and write about its structure, about the people who lived in the building, and its significance to the community.

Grades 1-3, 4-6: Take this on as a class project, rather than individual work.  For structure, draw and describe the building.  Essay length: 300 words, plus drawings.

Junior high and high school: Individual entries.  For structure, discuss the style and architectural details.  Essay length: 500 words.

Prize for each selected essay or class project: $100 and publication in Legacy's Summer 2009 issue, on the Legacy web site, and on the Galileo Education Network's web site.

Deadline: February 13, 2009

Please mail entries to: Legacy Magazine, 9667-87 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T6C 1K5

Winter 2009
Complete Contents of Current Issue

After 14 years, Winter 2009 is our 56th issue of Legacy and our last.

As Legacy's publisher/editor/owner, I have been fortunate to work with remarkable people. My sincere thanks to our thoughtful associate publisher Gurston Dacks and encouraging business psychiatrist/music columnist Ron Chalmers. To talented, remarkable designer Mark Dutton. To patient general managers Mary Oakwell, Liz Grieve, and Yoko Sekiya; and determined ad sales manager Andrea Kopylech. And to two of the best, most sensitive associate editors, Eva Radford and Naomi Lewis. Thank you, also, to the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation for supporting school subscriptions and to Enbridge, Elly de Jongh, and Melcor Developments for public library subscriptions. To the Alberta Foundation for the Arts for editorial support. And to our committed advertisers and many loyal readers.

I have looked forward each issue to wonderfully written columns by Paula Simons, Sid Marty, Ron Chalmers, Laurie Greenwood, Johanne Yakula, Dorothy Field, Gordon Morash, and Patricia Myers. And to beautifully crafted prose and poetry by well-known and emerging writers alike.

But I have decided that Legacy's own story will conclude now. Indeed, it has been fun. Thank you all beyond words.

Barb Dacks, Publisher