{"id":9370,"date":"2025-05-09T13:51:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=9370"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:51:42","slug":"area-grade-schoolers-earn-recognition-from-illinois-epa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/9370-area-grade-schoolers-earn-recognition-from-illinois-epa\/","title":{"rendered":"Area Grade Schoolers Earn Recognition from Illinois EPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency honored a group of creative fifth and sixth grade students for their artistic and writing skills used to express environmental awareness, as part of the agency&#8217;s annual Poster, Poetry and Prose Contest. The students selected from throughout Illinois were recognized at a ceremony at the Illinois State Library in Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>Some area students were among those recognized. Special Recognition was given to four students at Beecher City Grade School&#8230;Hunter Burrus, Zoey Charstand, Eden Morrison and Myra Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Also receiving Special Recognition were three students from St. Anthony Grade School&#8230;Adalyn Conant, Caroline Field and Sienna Kaufmann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency honored a group of creative fifth and sixth grade students for their artistic and writing skills used to express environmental awareness, as part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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