Three local elementary school students are the grand prize winners of the 2006 Smokey Bear Fire Prevention Poster Contest.
Their posters were selected from approximately 350 painted by students in the area’s grade schools. Contestants painted signs warning about the danger of forest fires. Sweet Home High School teacher Gelindo Ferrin’s art students replicated the elementary students’ posters on plywood, which have been placed on the three main arteries leading into the Willamette National Forest.