FARMINGTON – Each year Franklin County Soil and Water Conservation District sponsors a poster contest with the goal to provide time for students to learn about natural resource conservation.

Posters are also a means where they can personalize conservation knowledge and attitudes and put them in their own words and images. This year’s theme is “The Living Soil.”

First- and second-place winners in each division are sent to the state level for judging. First-place state winners will proceed to the national level. Prizes are awarded at each level.

There were 111 posters submitted for the 2004 Franklin County contest. First place will receive a $50 savings bond. Second and third will receive a tree to plant.

Division I: first, Kyle Tracy, grade one, W.G. Mallett School, Farmington; second, Sarah E. Neal, grade one, home-schooled, New Vineyard; third, Hannah Neal, home-schooled, New Vineyard.

Division II: first, Branden Thompson, grade three, Mallett School; second, Kyrie Lee Harnden, grade two, G.D. Cushing School, Wilton.

Division III: first, Hope Gould, grade four, Phillips School in Phillips; second, Ashlie Hardy, grade four, Cascade Brook School, Farmington; third, Dustin Thompson, grade four, Cascade Brook School.

Division IV: first, Marjorie Hardy, grade seven, Mount Blue Middle School in Farmington; second, Welly L. Ramsey, grade seven, home-schooled in New Sharon; third, Ellen L. Clark, grade eight, Mount Blue Middle School.

Division V: first, Jeremie Louis Breton, grade 11, Jay High School; second, Joni M. Josselyn, grade 10, Mount Blue High School; third, Kristy L. Drumm, grade 12, Mount Blue High School.