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BWL awards 8 area schoolchildren in first annual Earth-friendly poster contest

Eight Lansing-area schoolchildren were honored for their award-winning environmental posters at a ceremony today during the annual spring Adopt A River Day.

Lansing Board of Water & Light General Manager J. Peter Lark, Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero and Erik Larson, Executive Director of Impression 5 Science Center, announced the winners at the conclusion of Adopt A River.

Each child's school will have a tree donated and planted on school grounds, compliments of the BWL.

More than 200 schoolchildren entered the first annual Earth-friendly poster contest, organized by the Lansing Board of Water & Light and Impression 5 Science Center. The contest is meant to foster awareness of the need to be good stewards of the environment.

A winner was chosen from each grade, kindergarten through fifth. Additionally, a Grand Prize winner was announced, as well a prize for the poster with the Best Message.

Winners are:

•  Josie Earle, kindergarten, Wilcox Elementary School, Holt.

•  Nipuili Gunaratne, first grade, Central Elementary School, Okemos.

•  Ana-Maria Pislaru, second grade, Midway Elementary School, Holt.

•  Esther Huff, third grade, Winans Elementary School, Waverly.

•  Kaira Liggett, fourth grade, Winans Elementary School, Waverly.

•  Stella Lee, fifth grade, Wardcliff Elementary School, Okemos.

•  Baileigh Grabow, Best Message, Midway Elementary School, Holt.

•  Olivia Lee Jones, Grand Prize, Pleasant View Elementary School, Lansing.

Olivia Lee Jones' Grand Prize-winning poster now becomes the official Adopt A River poster for a year.

Each of the eight winners received a gift card from Barnes & Noble Bookstore and a free family membership to Impression 5.

More than 500 people turned out for Saturday's Adopt A River Day. More than 200 families each “adopted” a flowering dogwood or ornamental cherry tree. The trees were free, compliments of the BWL, and came with planting instructions and “adoption papers.”

 

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