Two Cambria students win state conservation poster contest

The Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown, Pa.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. – Cambria County students Kinley Farabaugh and Kira Dillon earned two winners’ spots in this year’s Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts statewide poster contest.

The theme was “May the Forest Be With You Always,” playing on a slogan from the “Star Wars” movies, and the contest was opened to students from first through 12th grades across the commonwealth.

“This year, students expressed the value of forests in their poster contest submissions,” PACD Executive Director Brenda Shambaugh said in a release. “These young people were creative in expressing the role of forests in sustaining life on Earth.”

Conservation entry

Cambria Heights Middle School student Kinley Farabaugh's entry in this year's Pennsylvania Association of Conservation District's statewide poster contest.

Farabaugh, a Cambria Heights Middle School student, entered a poster in the seventh- through ninth-grade category, featuring a light side of thriving trees, blue skies, a blue lightsaber and the sun, and a dark side with a dead tree, gray clouds, the moon and a red lightsaber.

The middle of the image has a creative Rebel Alliance emblem designed as a tree, with each side representing the overall theme of light versus dark.

Poster contest

Central Cambria High School student Kira Dillon's submission to this year's Pennsylvania Association of Conservation District's statewide poster contest.

Dillon, a Central Cambria High School student, competed in the 10th- through 12th-grade division, and submitted a poster depicting an Earth divided, with one side supported by a gloved hand, deforested areas and polluted streams, contrasting with the other half that was supported with an ungloved hand, lush greenery and clear waterways.

Both posters included the “May the Forest Be With You Always” contest motto.

Farabaugh and Dillon were two of six winners selected in the state whose work will be submitted to the national competition sponsored by the National Association of Conservation Districts this winter.

For more information, visit www.nacdnet.org.