Area students honored for water industry-themed book

Written by Valentin Pineda, an eighth grader at Lakeside Middle School in Perris and illustrated by eighth grade classmates Naisia Alam and Myranda Estrada, Eastern Municipal Water District announces the winners of the annual “Write Off” student story contest. Valley News/Courtesy photo
PERRIS – Three students from Lakeside Middle School in the Val Verde Unified School District were honored this month as the winners of Eastern Municipal Water District’s annual “Write Off” student story contest.The contest is an annual partnership between EMWD and neighboring Rancho California Water District in which middle school students write and illustrate a water industry-themed book, which then becomes part of the agencies’ classroom curriculum for elementary school students in subsequent years.This year’s winning entry was called “The Water District Field Trip.” It focused on a student who attends a field trip to a local water district and gets to meet employees from many different departments. The student learns more about career opportunities and, in the en
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