GILLESPIE
COUNTY SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT #220
Gillespie County, Texas
From the April 2007 newsletter:
District
Honors Conservation Work
The Gillespie County SWCD holds annual poster and
essay contests to raise conservation issues to kids. The posters and essays
were submitted in December 2006 and judged in January 2007. At a March 28 hamburger dinner hosted
by the Fredericksburg Lions Club, the District awarded plaques and savings
bonds certificates to the winners.
The poster winners were:
1st place, Zane Graves
2nd place, Quaid Hall
3rd place, MaKenna Olfers.
Essay winners age 13 and younger were:
1st place, Rebecca Schwarz, St. Mary’s School.
2nd place, Abby Howard-Kneitz, St. Mary’s School
3rd place, Kaylee Olfers, Doss School.
Essay winners age 14 to 18 were:
1st place, Callie Settles, Fredericksburg Christian
School.
2nd place, Zack Graves, Doss School
3rd place, Rachel Lynn Karp, Fredericksburg Christian School.
LCRA donated
plaques for each of the 9 winners.
Security State Bank and Trust donated savings bonds certificates: $100 for each 1st place, $75 for 2nd
place, and $50 for 3rd place. HEB donated cookies for the hamburger
dinner.
As part of the Texas Conservation Awards Program,
the District also honored three ranchers and one teacher for their
conservation efforts. Honored
were:
Burnell R. Bennett; Resident
Conservation Rancher.
Clairlean Friedrich; Conservation
Teacher.
David Darr; Wildlife
Conservationist.
Dr. Leonard Hilliard;
Absentee Conservation Rancher.
We made powerpoint presentations about our four conservation
award winners. Abbreviated text versions are provided at this link.
In February, the winning student entries and the powerpoint
presentations were entered in the Texas State Soil & Water Conservation
Board (TSSWCB) Area II contest, which includes 44 southwest Texas counties. At this level, Callie Settles’ essay
placed 3rd, Zane Graves’ poster placed 3rd, Dr. Hilliard placed 1st as
Absentee Conservation Rancher, and Clairlean Friedrich was runner-up
Conservation Teacher. All four were awarded plaques at the Area
II Awards Banquet in Wall, TX on May 8, 2007.
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