During National Red Ribbon Week the third week in October, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks encourage school-age children throughout the nation to make a life pledge to remain drug free.
The Presque Isle Elks Lodge 1954 collaborated with Governor’s Restaurant and Bakery of Presque Isle on a local coloring contest featuring the Elks’ Drug Awareness Program mascot, Elroy the Elk, and the current Drug Awareness slogan, “Just Say No”.
“The Presque Isle Elks were so pleased to be able to partner with the owners of Governor’s Restaurant and Bakery in Presque Isle, Tony and Sherry Sullivan, as well as the parents who visited Governor’s in Presque Isle with their children during the month of October,” said Alan Harding, Presque Isle Elks drug awareness chair.
The winners of the contest in their respective grades and divisions included: pre-K, Trent Porter and Averi Sylvia; kindergarten, Hunter Grant; first grade, Chase Barnes and Kaiden Nightingale; second grade, Riley Coussins and Kaitlyn Dickinson; third grade, Jayden Lausier and Kolbie Langley; fourth grade, Brett Senal and Addison Fox; and fifth grade, Amelia Donovan.
Each winner received a Governor’s gift card and was entered in the Elks’ district-wide contest.
“It is the hope of Elks nationally that such coloring contests and the conversations resulting therefrom during children’s most formative years will reduce future drug abuse,” Harding said.
