Two local students were recently honored at the Tennessee Association of Conservation Districts (TACD)Annual Convention in Knoxville for their winning stewardship posters.
Each year the Cumberland County Soil Conservation District hosts a county Stewardship Poster Contest for students in grades kindergarten through twelfth grade. All county first place posters are submitted to the state poster contest.
This year’s poster contest theme was “Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities”, which had to be incorporated into the posters submitted for the contest. Students expressed the importance of trees and forests to our everyday lives.
Lily Dowlen, a student at Pleasant Hill Elementary, won the county K-1st grade category and placed 1st in that category in the TACD State Poster Contest. Her poster was forwarded on to the National Contest.
Cumberland County High School student Kellie Wilson placed 1st in the 10th – 12th grade category in the county contest, and placed 2nd in the TACD State Poster Contest.
(Photo courtes CCSCD: Pictured are (from left) Lily Dowlen, Cumberland County Soil Conservation District Chairman Jeff Dodson and Kellie Wilson.)