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Name a Puffin Mascot (Prizes!!!)

Friday, May 8th, 2009

I already made a post about this opportunity but I really think it deserves another. I went to the website myself and found a great picture of the puffin mascot you will be naming for the Alaska SeaLife Center which now has both Tufted Puffins and Horned Puffins as well as Rhinoceros Auklets!!!

NAME THIS PUFFIN!

NAME THIS PUFFIN!

If you want to help pick this adorable mascot’s name and possibly WIN some prizes…all you have to do is send an email BY May 13th at 5:00 pm Alaska Daylight Time to puffinmascot@alaskasealife.org with the following information:

1.  Your idea for the puffin mascot’s name*
2.  Name of person submitting entry
3.  Mailing address
4.  Phone number
5.  E-mail address

Or mail it to:
Alaska SeaLife Center
Attn:  Puffin Mascot,
PO Box 1329
Seward, AK 99664

You can read more here.

You can name a puffin and win a prize…

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Puffin naming contest comes with prizes

The puffin has landed—but it’s still looking for a name.

The Alaska SeaLife Center debuted its new puffin mascot at the Dena’ina Center on April 18 and launched a contest to name the oversized seabird by Wednesday —just in time for Seward’s harbor opening weekend on May 15-16.

The contest winner will have an opportunity to be “Keeper for a Day” with round-trip transportation for two on the Alaska Railroad between Seward and Anchorage and an education program for the classroom of your choice—either at the SeaLife Center, by our outreach educator in Anchorage, or by videoconference to schools in rural Alaska or outside the state.

Participants can drop off the puffin mascot’s name, along with their name, mailing address, phone number and e-mail address at the center or mail it to Alaska SeaLife Center, Attn: Puffin Mascott, P.O. Box 1329, Seward 99664 or e-mail to puffinmascot@alaskasealife.org.

If more than one entry of the same winning name is received, a random drawing will determine the winner.

Entry deadline is 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

(I tried to Digg this but it was not working–so you can find this posted here at The Seward Phoenix).

INTERESTING FACT
It was onced believed that a Puffin was a fish as well as a bird. People thought it was born from rotting piece of wood floating in the sea, instead of hatching out from an egg as we know it does today.