Race Brook Student Wins Local Competition

Hannah Beth Rappaport, a fifth grader at in Orange, was the New Haven County Winner for the Connecticut Fire Prevention Poster Contest. 

The annual contest attracts thousands of students from towns across Connecticut. 

This year, about 30,000 fourth and fifth graders from more than 130 communities designed and produced posters. 

The theme for the 2011 Poster is “FIRE PREVENTION – EVERYONE/EVERYDAY.” These four words, as all the contestants now know, had to appear somewhere on their poster, or it would be disqualified.

Fire safety education is important as a means of preventing injuries, death and economic loss. The poster contest brings an awareness of ways to reduce fires to school children, their parents and the public.