The Oregon Department of Forestry and the U.S. Forest Service have announced their 2017 Smokey Bear Poster Contest winners.
Three local elementary school artists have been selected Grand Prize winners in the annual contest, which is in its 36th year. Approximately 100 students participated this year, mostly fourth-graders, but with some from mixed classes.
Grand Prize winners were Natiyah Koenig of Carla Alexander’s fourth-grade class at Hawthorne, Samantha Pineda-Villa of Rachel Markell’s fourth-grade class at…