Winners of Adrian VFW student essay, speech scholarship programs announced
By Daily Telegram staff
Editor s note: This story has been updated to give Erin Mehan s correct placement in the district essay competition.
ADRIAN Two Lenawee County students have been named the winners of the 2020-21 VFW Voice of Democracy and Patriots Pen Essay programs.
Mario Garcia, a junior at Madison High School, was the first-place winner in the Voice of Democracy essay contest, and Erin Mehan, an eighth grader at Springbrook Middle School in Adrian, penned the winning essay in the sixth-eighth grade Patriots Pen division.
Garcia’s winning essay was titled “Is This the Country our Founders Envisioned?” and Mehan’s essay was written on the topic of “What Patriotism Means to Me.”