By Jessica Robison

Moapa Valley Progress

Bowler students Cianna Mancilla and Gavin Hadley were winners of new bicycles during a drawing at Bowler Elementary last week. OPD provided the prizes at Bowler as well as at Perkins as part of a community food drive that OPD has coordinated. Photo by Jessica Robison.

Grant M. Bowler Elementary School named two grand prize winners during an early morning assembly on Friday, December 16. Cianna Mancilla and Gavin Hadley each won a new bicycle, donated by Overton Power District.

Throughout the last two weeks, the Overton Power District has been holding a food drive. District staff members visited Perkins and Bowler Elementary schools and encouraged students to bring canned goods in to the front office. For each item the students donated, they received a ticket for a raffle.

The grand prize raffled off at each school was two bicycles: one for a boy and one for a girl. OPD also had a separate raffle in their building, so they donated six bicycles overall to six lucky children in the community.

This is the second year that the OPD has run a food drive to donate to Cappalappa. “We hope to do it again next year,” Carma Kimball, organizer of the food drive, said. “We had a lot more success this year.”

They received about twelve boxes of food from each school, as well as an additional five boxes collected at the power district.

“We want to thank the community for all their support,” Kimball said. “You made this successful.”

Also as part of the assembly Friday, the winners of the school’s “Biggest Loser” competition were announced. Seventeen teachers and members of the Bowler staff entered to see who could lose the most body fat. The winner of this year’s competition was Debbie Stratton, who lost almost eight percent body fat with Clint Brill in second place and Trish Andersen in third.