Winners of Adrian VFW student essay, speech scholarship programs announced
By Daily Telegram staff
Editor s note: This story has been updated to give Erin Mehan s correct placement in the district essay competition.
ADRIAN Two Lenawee County students have been named the winners of the 2020-21 VFW Voice of Democracy and Patriots Pen Essay programs.
Mario Garcia, a junior at Madison High School, was the first-place winner in the Voice of Democracy essay contest, and Erin Mehan, an eighth grader at Springbrook Middle School in Adrian, penned the winning essay in the sixth-eighth grade Patriots Pen division.
Garcia’s winning essay was titled “Is This the Country our Founders Envisioned?” and Mehan’s essay was written on the topic of “What Patriotism Means to Me.”
VFW Post 7890 leaders recognized various community members who received awards from the organization during the past year.
Karl Johnson with VFW Post 7890 said the post was proud to present the emergency responder of the year award to Cadiz Fire Department Assistant Chief John Mitchell.
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Here the winners are shown with VFW Post members. Front row is Ophelia Hughes, Avery Ryder, and Madison Hughes. Back row is Jim Manter, Post Judge Advocate; middle is Dave Lachepelle, Post Quartermaster; right is Post Commander, Don Frechette.
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JAY Local Jay Veterans of Foreign Wars, Frank L. Mitchell Post 3335 announces the 2020 local winners of the “Patriots Pen” Essay Competition. Local students in the Jay/Livermore/Livermore Falls area submitted essays expressing their views on an annual patriotic theme. The 2020 theme was “What is Patriotism to Me?”.
Receiving first place was Ophelia Hughes, second place Madison Cardes, and third place Avery Ryder. Thirteen local students submitted their essays, and were independently judged by the city leaders from Livermore/Jay/Livermore Falls. Judging is based on how well the applicants understand, develop, and present the annual theme in their essay.