District 70 artwork featured in phone book

Libertyville Elementary District 70 student artwork will once again appear in the next First Choice phone book.

This fall’s First Choice Yellow Pages Lake County/North Shore area phone book is expected to contain artwork from District 70 students from Adler Park, Butterfield, Copeland Manor and Rockland schools. The 3-year-old project has been very popular among the Libertyville students.

“As an art teacher, it is one of the most exciting things for a student to have their work published,” said art teacher Cindi Sartain.

The nice part about the artwork is that it will be around for at least a year, until another phone book is published. The phone book usually comes out in July.

Sartain says keeping the artwork in front of the public is important because many people don’t know how the arts are supported in the schools.

“This is really a nice idea. It’s great publicity for the phone book company and for our students,” Sartain said. “I’m definitely going to do this again and again.”