Westlake residents win creative art and writing awards

Six Westlake residents attending Birchwood School in Cleveland received awards from the 2012 Scholastic Writing Awards in the new regional affiliate at the Cleveland Institute of Art. The seventh- and eighth-graders’ work was selected from over 100,000 creative works of art and writing. The Westlake winners were, from left, Clive Chan and Kavya Ravichandran (silver key awards); Adam Issa, Vinayak Kurup and Hana Lodi (honorable mentions). Not pictured is honorable mention recipient Christine Bashour.