Deb Group Announces Winners in Second Annual Happy Hands Contest
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — April 30, 2018 – After receiving over 6,000 votes, Deb Group today announced the winners of its second annual Happy Hands contest, which promotes hand hygiene at schools by having students design custom dispensers. The winner in the elementary school category is Bryson C., a first grader at the Utah School for the Deaf and the Blind in Ogden, UT. Maggie P., an eighth grader at St. Joseph Elementary School in Lockport, Ill., won in the middle school category.
“It’s inspiring to see how the local communities rallied around the student finalists,” said Isabelle Faivre, Vice President of Marketing, Deb USA. “This contest shines a spotlight on students’ creativity and the importance of practicing good hand hygiene to keep everyone at school healthy.”
Both students will receive a $200 gift card. Additionally, each winning student’s school will receive a $500 donation and the winning designs will be custom printed for free on up-to 500 manual Deb soap/sanitizer dispensers for use at the school.
“We’re overwhelmed by the tremendous support Bryson received for his original design,” said Susan Thomas, Director of Communications, Utah School for the Deaf and the Blind. “We’re so happy that Deb Group created this contest to make hand hygiene fun. Bryson’s story also generated interest in donations to the school, an unexpected positive outcome from the contest.”
Students submitted their designs from Sept. 6 – Nov. 30, 2017 and five finalists in each category were announced on Feb. 1, 2018. Submissions were evaluated for visual appeal, overall hand hygiene design, creativity and unique design elements. The public voted online for their favorites during the month of February.
As part of this year’s contest, Deb Group also donated two dollars for each entry it received, contributing a total of $750 to the Houston School District as part of the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.
You can learn more about the Happy Hands contest and register your school for the 2018-2019 contest by visiting www.debhappyhands.com. When you register, you will receive all the contest details and rules, coloring template and lots of hand washing educational materials for your students.
For more information regarding the Happy Hands contest, please contact Christina Alvarez at calvarez@mulberrymc.com or 214-571-6322.
About Deb Group
Headquartered in the UK with North American headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., Deb Group provides tailored skin care programs for a wide range of industries and organizations that value their employee and customer well-being.
The organization encompasses 23 companies operating in 19 countries, with Deb products used over 150 million times every day. The Deb product lines include Travabon®, Stokoderm®, Refresh™, Estesol®, Solopol®, Kresto®, Deb InstantFOAM®, Stokolan® and KrestoGT™.
Deb Group is part of SC Johnson, a privately held, family company and one of the world’s leading manufacturers of household cleaning products, and products for home storage, air care, pest control and shoe care. To learn more, visit www.debgroup.com.
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ADVISORY: Deputy Secretary Censky in Oklahoma TOMORROW
(Washington, D.C., April 30, 2018) – U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Steve Censky will deliver remarks to the Opening General Session of the Oklahoma Future Farmers of America (FFA) State Convention TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 1st.
Deputy Secretary Censky Delivers Remarks to the Oklahoma FFA State Convention
WHAT: Deputy Secretary Censky will deliver remarks to the Opening General Session of the Oklahoma FFA State Convention.
WHEN: TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 1st at 9:45 a.m. CT
WHERE: Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens, Oklahoma City, OK 73102.
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ADVISORY: Secretary Perdue to Receive Government Executive of the Year Award TOMORROW
(Washington, D.C., April 30, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue will join the Service to the Citizen Awards Ceremony hosted by Dorris Consulting International TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 1st. At the ceremony, the Secretary will receive the Government Executive of the Year award for his work to make the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) the most effective, most efficient, most customer-focused department in the entire federal government. Secretary Perdue will offer brief remarks after receiving the award.
Secretary Perdue Receives Government Executive of the Year Award and Delivers Remarks
WHAT: Secretary Perdue will receive the Government Executive of the Year Award before delivering remarks.
WHEN: TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 1st at 12:30 p.m. ET
WHERE: The Willard InterContental, 1401 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004
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Judicial Watch and Allied Educational Foundation Ask Appeals Court to Uphold Alabama Voter ID Law
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it joined with Allied Educational Foundation (AEF) in filing an amici curiae brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit urging it to sustain a district court decision rejecting a lawsuit challenging Alabama’s voter ID law. (Greater Birmingham Ministries, et al. v. Secretary of State for the State of Alabama (No. 18-10151)).
Judicial Watch argues that, contrary to the plaintiffs’ claims in the trial court, there is no evidence that the enforcement of Alabama’s photo ID law has caused any harm to minority voters. The U.S. District Court of the North District upheld the voter ID law earlier this year. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the other plaintiffs then filed their appeal.
In its brief, Judicial Watch argues that an earlier Fifth Circuit Court ruling (Veasey v Abbott) upon which the NAACP based its case was “fatally flawed, unworkable, and contrary to precedent.” In that ruling, the Fifth Circuit broke with standing law requiring that a challenged voting practice or procedure must be shown to actually cause a disproportionate racial impact in order to violate the federal Voting Rights Act.
The Judicial Watch/AEF brief argues that several other court decisions “rightly require that a challenged voting practice or procedure cause a particular, discriminatory result” that causes the loss of equal opportunity to vote.
Opinions in this Circuit and in five others rightly require that a challenged voting practice or procedure cause a particular, discriminatory result, which is significant enough to constitute a loss of an equal opportunity to participate in the political process. This standard … properly restricts its use to actual instances of voting-relating discrimination. By contrast, the Fifth Circuit merely requires proof that a challenged procedure disproportionately impacts members of a protected class and that this impact is “linked to” or “interacts” with a history of discrimination against that class.
The brief further argues that all elections laws could be overturned if the courts adopt the new legal standard urged by the progressive groups challenging the Alabama voter ID law:
Every single voting procedure has a differential effect by race, for every race we choose to consider. This is true of even the most mundane rules concerning clerks’ office hours, the contents of mailings, written materials at the polls, the structure of ballots, translations, kinds of physical accommodations, registration and voting deadlines of every description, and allowable conduct in or near a polling place … If every existing law, and every proposed amendment to existing law, were subject to legal challenge…whenever a social scientist was willing to say that its impact differed by race and “interacted” with our history, the orderly administration of elections would become impossible. Congress never intended this outcome, and the problem of combatting true instances of racial discrimination in voting is hindered, not helped, by such a chaotic state of affairs.
“The Left is playing the race card to try to shut down voter ID laws across the nation,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “There is no evidence that the enforcement of Alabama’s photo ID law has resulted in minority voters being denied an equal opportunity to vote. Voter ID laws secure the votes of all Americans, no matter their race.”
Judicial Watch has taken the lead nationwide in defending state voter ID laws and other commonsense election integrity measures, filing amicus briefs in the Supreme Court and in several circuit courts of appeal and trial courts. In December 2012, Judicial Watch filed a Supreme Court amicus curiae brief in support of Arizona’s proof of citizenship voter registration law. In January 2014, Judicial Watch supported Arizona’s and Kansas’ follow-up to that litigation in their efforts to gain approval from the Obama administration’s Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to change the “federal” voter registration form to include a proof-of-citizenship requirement. JW and AEF then supported the states’ challenge to the EAC with an amicus brief before the Tenth Circuit in July, 2014. Judicial Watch and AEF have filed a number of amicus briefs supporting North Carolina’s implementation of its election integrity reform law, most recently filing in the Supreme Court in March 2017.
The Allied Educational Foundation is a charitable and educational foundation dedicated to improving the quality of life through education. In furtherance of that goal, the Foundation has engaged in a number of projects, which include, but are not limited to, educational and health conferences domestically and abroad. AEF has partnered frequently with Judicial Watch to fight government and judicial corruption and to promote a return to ethics and morality in the nation’s public life.
