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Grand Prize Winners of the Smokey Bear Poster Contest show off their work with high school art students who painted roadside versions for display along local highways. The posters will be mounted in various locations before fire season officially starts, and the winners will be invited to ride on the U.S. Forest Service/Oregon Department of Forestry entry in the Sportsman’s Holiday Parade on July 13. At left are art student Addi Ingram and Hannah Sieminski of Foster, whose poster will be placed at Sunnyside Park on Quartzville Road; in the center are Gretchen Cooke, substitute art teacher...