Arbor Month Poster Contest winner Johnny Lyons, above, a first-grader at Sweet Home Charter School, {{more)) plants a tree on the school campus, his reward as one of the contest’s two winners. Below, Jovia Slover, a fourth-grader at Foster School, helps plant a pink dogwood in the Foster schoolyard Thursday. With her, from left, are teacher Patricia Kagler, Lena Tucker of the Oregon Department of Forestry, and School Board member Nick Augsberger.
The 25 contestants in the contest, which was about a quarter of the number of competitors last year, organizers said, drew posters in which they based on “Trees are __________,” filling in the blank.