Essay competition winners named
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The VFW’s Karen Tanner, left, and Auxiliary Youth Chairman Diane Farmer, center, recently presented awards to local essay contest winners, from left, James Fitzgerald, Jordan Goldsmith, David Rhoades and Okie Hamro.
Each year more than 40,000 students nationally enter the Voice of Democracy Essay Scholarship Competition and more than 131,00 students enter the Patriot Pen Essay Scholarship.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars and Veterans Auxiliary Post 9171 offered these scholarship opportunities to the youth in Van Zandt County students in public, private and home schools.
This year, David Rhoades took first place locally in the VOD Competition.
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