Hanna Jones from Mt. Lebanon High School in Allegheny County is the Grand Prize Winner in the 2018 Ohio River Sweep Poster Contest organized by the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission.

Pennsylvania had two other winners-- Luke DeVore a Second Grader in Woodland Hills Academy and Charlise Cooper a Third Grader also in Woodland Hills Academy in Pittsburgh.

The competition, which involves students in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia and Illinois, highlights the importance of keeping the Ohio River and its tributaries clean.  Click Here to see the other winners.

This year's Ohio River Sweep will be held on June 16 to clean up stream and riverbanks in Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Fayette, Washington and Westmoreland counties in Western Pennsylvania.

Click Here for more information on how you can be part of this interstate cleanup event.

(Photo: Grand Winning poster by Hanna Jones and Luke DeVore and Charlise Cooper from Woodland Hills.)

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