{"id":13763,"date":"2024-04-25T11:09:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T18:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/?p=13763"},"modified":"2024-04-25T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T18:09:22","slug":"ehs-writing-121-class-competes-in-if-i-were-mayor-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/2024\/04\/25\/ehs-writing-121-class-competes-in-if-i-were-mayor-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"EHS Writing 121 Class Competes in &#8216;If I Were Mayor&#8230;&#8217; Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1079\" height=\"890\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot_20240422_102919_Instagram-e1713807180967.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13868\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot_20240422_102919_Instagram-e1713807180967.jpg 1079w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot_20240422_102919_Instagram-e1713807180967-300x247.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot_20240422_102919_Instagram-e1713807180967-1024x845.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot_20240422_102919_Instagram-e1713807180967-768x633.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot_20240422_102919_Instagram-e1713807180967-570x470.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1079px) 100vw, 1079px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The City of Veneta made a social media post acknowledging the three local contest winners. (Photo by City of Veneta via Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Students in Mrs. Nelson&#8217;s Writing 121 class competed in the annual &#8220;If I Were Mayor&#8230;&#8221; local competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students created digital media presentations to talk about what they would do to improve the Fern Ridge community if they were mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video presentations were sent to Veneta mayor Keith Weiss who would pick the top three to award prizes to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second and third places were won by juniors JT Myers and Evan Booth, respectively, and awarded $25 gift cards. First place junior Mele Turtura won a $50 gift card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turtura will now be entered in the state-wide contest, and the top student of each age range in the state will have lunch at the Running Y Resort in Klamath Falls from July 18-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First place at the state-wide contest for high-schoolers will be awarded $500, second $300 and third $100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information about the contest can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonmayors.org\/special-programs\/page\/student-contest\">https:\/\/www.oregonmayors.org\/special-programs\/page\/student-contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junior Mele Turtura won first place and will go on to the statewide competition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":13867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13933,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions\/13933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}