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Designed with Turtles in MindKira Wiedemann turns her love for the endangered sea creatures into award-winning T-shirt artwork.
A10-year-old artist, an elementary school art teacher, a hotel and sea turtles all came together at the right time in the right place and pitched in to help each other.
The artist was Kira Wiedemann, who - until her May 19 fifth-grade graduation - was a student at Tommie Barfield Elementary.
The art teacher was Kathy Anderson, who saw a terrific opportunity for a community-based extracurricular activity that would help wildlife and support the skills of blossoming artists.
The hotel was the Marco Island Marriott Resort, whose marketing director, Mark Vaughan, came up with the idea and brought all the people together.
And the sea turtles - who haven't the foggiest clue of how all this happened, but may survive longer and live healthier because of it - are the females who come ashore to lay their eggs and propagate their progeny, then take off, leaving tiny hatchlings to fend for themselves.
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