RED RIBBON FIFTH
GRADE RALLIES
POSTER, POETRY & ESSAY CONTESTS - LAKELAND AREA WINNERS
Lakeland, FL – InnerAct
Alliance is proud to announce the winners of its Fifth Grade Rally for the Facts Poster, Poetry, and Essay Contest for Fifth Grade Students in the
greater Lakeland area schools. Contest participants will be recognized during
the Red Ribbon Fifth Grade Rallies, which take place on Wednesday, May 4, 2016,
at 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. at The Lakeland Center.
The prevention rallies
focus on reinforcing critical substance abuse resistance skills before students
enter middle school in the fall. Students were challenged to compose essays,
write poems, or draw posters to illustrate how they live their lives drug free
and show the truth about how most young people do not use drugs or alcohol. Overall
winners in each category will be awarded cash prizes of $100 (first place), $50
(second place), and $25 (third place).
Congratulations to Lakeland Area Rallies Contest Overall Prize Winners
Lakeland
Area Rallies Contest Overall Prize Winners for 9:30 AM RALLY
Poster Category
1st
Place $100.00 - Naline Pierre from
Highlands Grove
2nd Place $ 50.00 - Ava Wilke from Wendell Watson
3rd Place $ 25.00 - Katie Marie Jarvis from Kathleen
Poetry Category
1st Place $100.00 - Leah Nipper from Dr. N.E. Roberts
2nd Place
$ 50.00 - Julie Hollingsworth from Churchwell
3rd Place
$ 25.00 - Taleah Brinson from Crystal Lake
Essay Category
1st Place $100.00 - Gwendolyn Olson from Wendell Watson
2nd Place
$ 50.00 - Madison Fletcher from Padgett
3rd Place
$ 25.00 - Ashtyn Hallman from Highlands Grove
School with the Most Contest Participants
Overall – Kingsford
Lakeland Area Rallies Contest Overall Prize
Winners for 11:30 AM RALLY
Poster Category
1st Place $100.00 - Jonathan McCree from McKeel Academy Central
2nd Place $ 50.00 - Alicia Prevost from South McKeel
3rd
Place $ 25.00 - Susannah Braswell
from Lincoln Academy
Poetry Category
1st Place $100.00 - Tanya Pizarro from Southwest
2nd
Place $ 50.00 - Alyssa Taylor
from St. Paul Lutheran
3rd
Place $ 25.00 - Kylie Spurlock
from Lincoln Academy
Essay Category
1st Place $100.00 - Celeste Ramirez from Blake Academy
2nd
Place $ 50.00 - Malaisha Jones
from Cleveland Court
3rd
Place $ 25.00 - Liam Goff from
St. Anthony
School with the Most Contest Participants Overall – South McKeel
Guest speaker for
the Rallies is Patrick T. Grady, a former middle and high school educator who
travels throughout North America encouraging students to do their best in all
of their endeavors. Grady is the author of “Who Packs the Parachute,” and
co-author of “Teen Power Too,” and “Teen Power and Beyond.”
Another rally
for Winter Haven and Haines City area schools will be held on May 12 at
10:00 a.m. in the Polk State College Gym. Contest winners for those schools
will be announced next week.
InnerAct
Alliance is proud to have provided substance abuse prevention to the Hardee,
Highlands and Polk County communities since 1985 with services including
science-based education in elementary and middle schools, teen-driven social
marketing, and awareness events that touch the lives of youth, parents,
families, businesses, faith-based organizations, community groups and others
with an important substance abuse prevention message.
For further
information on the Fifth Grade Rallies, please call InnerAct Alliance at (863) 802-0777.