Pamplin LOVE sign contest winner announced Saturday

Pamplin Area Legacy Supporters (PALS) unveiled the winning entry in the Pamplin City LOVEWorks contest Saturday. Pictured (from left) are: Mary Hinds (PALS committee member), Vicky Dean (judge), Sarah Blackwell (contest winner), Julie Poole (contest winner), Wendy Richardson (judge and PALS committee member), Debbie Sanders (PALS committee member), Norman Haskins (judge), Mary Cush (PALS committee member), and Regina Schwab (PALS member). Not pictured are judges Patrick Murrey and Anne Jacobs.

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The Pamplin Area Legacy Supporters (PALS) and the Town of Pamplin City announced the winners of their LOVEWorks sign Saturday, May 8, in front of the town hall. Cousins and Pamplin natives Julie Hamlett Poole and Sarah Hamlett Blackwell created the design that will be constructed into a LOVE sign.

“It was a joint project. We both have different strengths. She (Julie) did more of the design, and I’m more into building it,” Blackwell explained.

Poole created the first draft of the sign, and when her cousin (who is also mayor of Pamplin) saw it, she saw something that she would like to work with in terms of the construction of the sign. They joined forces and made some modifications to the plans before resubmitting a final draft. Since she had originally been tasked to serve on committee and help judge the entries, Blackwell recused herself from the judging.

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