AUGUSTA — Keria Letendre, a fifth-grade student at Marcia Buker Elementary School, is one of four winners of the 2024 Lyme Disease Awareness Month poster contest of The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Maine CDC holds the contest for Maine students in kindergarten to grade 8 to help raise awareness about Lyme disease and tick bite prevention. This year, the 15th year of the contest, students designed posters on the theme “Little Tick, Big Deal.”
The other winners are Zelma Young, grade one, Girl Scout Troop 1561; Caroline Cook, grade three, homeschooled student; and Kylie Welch, grade eight, Katahdin Middle and High School.
Hhonorable mention awardee is Leila Schmoyer, grade 7, Gorham Middle School.
To view the winning posters, visit the Maine CDC’s website at maine.gov to view the winning posters.
Each winner received a Maine State Parks family day pass for themselves and tick removal kits for their classmates.
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