The New Era - All about Sweet Home since 1929

The results are in: Megan Kirk, 15, a homeschooled 10th-grader in Sweet Home, won the Sweet Home Public Library's library card design contest.

Her colorful design features a bunch of books (classics) bookended by horse busts, with flowers sprouting up over them. Behind that imagery is a leafy tree and a sky blue background.

According to Megan, daughter of Kim and Paul Kirk, the two stone horse bookends represent the power of the written word, beauty is depicted in the flowers, and the tree behind the books is representative of the life behind everything that has always been written. The li...