The Sweet Home Elks Lodge rewarded five Sweet Home area students on Jan. 21 for their essays on “What Freedom Means to Me.”
They were treated to dinner and presented with award certificates. First-place winners Mitch Weidner, fifth and sixth grade, and Lacey Carranza, winners in the seventh- and eighth-grade categories, will continue to the district level and could win a $100 savings bond. The winners will move on to the state and then national…