Laura Ramirez won the grand prize in the Year of the Apple Art Contest with this painting.

Laura Ramirez won the grand prize in the Year of the Apple Art Contest with this painting, “Beautiful Apples.”

Laura Ramirez, 18, of Sunnyside, Washington, was the grand-prize winner in the Washington Apple Education Foundation’s Year of the Apple Art Contest. She received a prize of $750, and her painting, entitled “Beautiful Apples,” will be featured in the 2015 Dow AgroSciences wall calendar.

Other prize winners were Rian Parker of Kennewick; Megan Chen of Moses Lake; Anayit Lupercio and Briana Morales of Sunnyside; Breann Kniffen of East Wenatchee; and Greta Enloe of Leavenworth. Go to www.waef.org to see the winning entries.