{"id":22504,"date":"2021-07-30T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=22504"},"modified":"2021-07-30T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T18:04:00","slug":"winners-announced-in-state-poster-contest-on-healthy-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=22504","title":{"rendered":"Winners Announced in State Poster Contest on Healthy Forests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PA_10-12_Polstra-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PA_10-12_Polstra-1024x657.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22505\" width=\"505\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PA_10-12_Polstra-1024x657.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PA_10-12_Polstra-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PA_10-12_Polstra-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PA_10-12_Polstra-1536x985.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PA_10-12_Polstra-2048x1313.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>The 10-12<sup>th<\/sup> grade winning poster by Kathryn Polstra (Columbia County).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>PACD is pleased to announce the five state-level winners of the National Association of Conservation Districts 2021 &#8220;Healthy Forests Healthy Communities&#8221; poster contest.<\/p>\n<p>The winners in each age category are:<\/p>\n<p>K \u2013 1<sup>st<\/sup> Grade: Cora Petrunak, Lehigh County<\/p>\n<p>2<sup>nd<\/sup> \u2013 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Grade: Riley Thomas, Cambria County<\/p>\n<p>4<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 6<sup>th<\/sup> Grade: Brock Wharton, Cambria County<\/p>\n<p>7<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 9<sup>th<\/sup> Grade: Evelyn Warner, Cambria County<\/p>\n<p>10<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 12<sup>th<\/sup> Grade: Kathryn Polstra, Columbia County<\/p>\n<p>To promote the importance of trees, students from kindergarten through twelfth grades entered posters conveying their thoughts and ideas through original artwork. Submissions were judged based on the entry\u2019s conservation message, visual effectiveness, originality, and universal appeal.<\/p>\n<p>PACD thanks all of the participants in the contest for their interest and dedication to conservation. Best wishes to the state-level winners in the upcoming national judging competition.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the NACD poster contest, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nacdnet.org\/general-resources\/stewardship-and-education-materials\/contests\">http:\/\/www.nacdnet.org\/general-resources\/stewardship-and-education-materials\/contests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Poster-Press-Release-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read the press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PACD is pleased to announce the five state-level winners of the National Association of Conservation Districts 2021 &#8220;Healthy Forests Healthy Communities&#8221; poster contest. The winners in each age category are: K \u2013 1st Grade: Cora Petrunak, Lehigh County 2nd \u2013 3rd Grade: Riley Thomas, Cambria County 4th \u2013 6th Grade: Brock Wharton, Cambria County 7th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}