 | Michelle Marchiony, a fifth-grade student at Holy Infant School in Ballwin, Mo., is the Missouri state winner in the 2004 Arbor Day National Poster Contest. The contest, sponsored nationally by the National Arbor Day Foundation and Toyota Motor Corp., asked students to create a poster reflecting the theme “Trees are terrific in cities and towns!” More than 2,000 fifth-grade students from 67 Missouri schools participated. Marchiony's poster will be sent to the National Arbor Day Foundation for national competition and displayed at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. The national winner will be recognized on National Arbor Day Awards Weekend, April 30 - May 1, 2004. |