The button design of nine-year-old Alena Dietz of Tri-City United Lonsdale PreK-6 School was chosen to be on this year’s Torchlight Parade & Fireworks buttons.
    Any student in fourth grade throughout the Tri-City United School District area, including private schools, home schoolers, and alternative learning programs, had the opportunity to submit a design through Sept. 16, 2026.
    Dietz’s design may be the most colorful design chosen as a winner. She said she found out about being chosen as the winner the morning of Friday, Oct. 9 

Before you know it, the Christmas holiday season will be here. The 2025 Torchlight Parade & Fireworks button contest winner is here to remind us of that.

Soleil Neshek, 9, a student in Brenda Petersen’s 4th grade class at Tri-City United PreK-6 School in Lonsdale, was announced the winner this Monday. She is the fourth student to win the button contest from Petersen’s class of the 13 total contests that have been held.

The button contest was open to all 4th grade students within the TCU School District, including home-schooled individuals.