State's Attorney Devine Salutes Winners
of Anti-Drug Poster Contest

Cook County State's Attorney Richard A. Devine will honor the winners of the State's Attorney's
Anti-Drug Poster Contest in a ceremony on Tuesday, May 16th at 2:00 p.m. The winning posters will
be featured in the 2007 Anti-Drug calendar, which is distributed to elementary schools throughout
the county as a tool for drug prevention.

The annual contest is open to all sixth, seventh and eighth grade students in Cook County.
The winners of the sixth grade contest are: First place - John Nowobilski, St. Albert the Great
School, Burbank; Second place - Ruba Saleh, St. Beatrice School, Schiller Park; Third place -
Alyssa Visvardis, St. Mary School, Riverside and Ivonne Duran, St. Mary of Czestochowa School,
Cicero; and Fourth place - Diamond Burgess, Calvary Academy, South Holland.

The winners of the seventh grade contest are: First place - Vanessa Ariel Castro, Liberty Junior
High School, Burbank; Second place - Ashley Long, Memorial Junior High, Lansing;
Third place - Sarah Anderson, Ascension School, Oak Park; and Fourth place - Ben Jones,
Memorial Junior High, Lansing.

The winners of the eighth grade contest are: First place - Lisette Franco, Rosario Castellanos School,
Chicago; Second place - Miranda Hill, Memorial Junior High, Lansing; Third place - Kristen LaDuke,
Memorial Junior High, Lansing; and Fourth place - Connie Yan, Mark Sheridan School, Chicago.

Each winner will receive a $50 savings bond donated by Midwest Bank & Trust Company,
tickets to a Chicago Cubs game, tickets to a Goodman Theater performance, and a "Say No
To Drugs" T-Shirt.

The ceremony will take place in the Great Hall of the Chicago Children's Museum at Navy Pier,
700 E. Grand Avenue.

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