Artists spotlight for refuge event
The J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge will welcome current Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest winner Mila Linyue Tong, 15, of Virginia, and Florida Junior Duck Stamp Contest Best-of-Show winner Jenny Liu, 16, of Port Orange, to its Art in the Wild. Tong will make a presentation about her art on Oct. 21 and sign junior duck stamps that feature her winning design of a hooded merganser. Liu took first place out of more than 1,200 entries in the Florida contest judging, held every year at the refuge. The Junior Duck Stamp Program, which started on Sanibel, raises funds to educate and engage the nation’s youth in wildlife and wetlands conservation and outdoor recreation. Jaye Boswell, former art teacher at The Sanibel School who started the program, helps judge the Florida contest each year.