FARMINGTON — Each year Franklin County Soil and Water Conservation District sponsors a poster contest in cooperation with the Maine and National Association of Conservation Districts. The winners were announced recently.

The key to the program is to provide a time each year where students learn about natural resource conservation. The posters produced are a means of getting students to focus on this important topic. Posters are also a means where students can personalize conservation knowledge and attitudes and put them in their own words and images.

First and second places winners in each division from the district’s poster contest are sent to the state level for judging. First place state winners proceed to the national level. Prizes are awarded at each level.

There were 100 posters submitted for the district’s 2002-2003 Food for the Future poster contest. First place winners will receive a $50 savings bond. Second and third place winners will receive a tree to plant as an ornament or as a Christmas tree.

Division I, grades kindergarten to one: first, Kyle A. Tracy, kindergarten at W.G. Mallett School in Farmington; second, Janna Winslow, grade one, home schooled in Farmington.

Division II, grades two and three: first, Branden Thompson, grade two, W.G. Mallett School; second, Ashley Hardy, grade three, W.G. Mallett School

Division III, grades four to six: first, Marjorie Hardy, grade six, Cascade Brook School, Farmington; second, Michaela Yeaton, grade four, Cape Cod Hill School, New Sharon; third, Kassidi Farrington, grade five, Jay Middle School, Jay

Division IV, grades seven to nine: first, Andrew Hardy, grade eight, Mount Blue Middle School, Farmington; second, Sara Lee Josselyn, grade seven, Mount Blue Middle School; third, Kayla L. York, grade seven, home schooled in Farmington.

Division V, grades 10 to 12: third, Ella Coffren, grade 10, Jay High School in Jay.