Grand Island student-designed billboard promotes poison prevention

A local fifth-grader's poster design is gracing two billboards in Grand Island as part of an effort of a state organization to promote Poison Preve...

March 25, 2023
3:40 AM

A local fifth-grader's poster design is gracing two billboards in Grand Island as part of an effort of a state organization to promote Poison Prevention Week. Meelah Tarango, a student at Knickrehm Elementary School, won the fifth grade division of the Nebraska Regional Poison Center's (NRPC) poison prevention poster contest. The Nebraska Regional Poison Center had the contest in an effort to bring attention to National Poison Prevention Week, March 19-25. Now Tarango's winning design can be seen on two billboards in Grand Island: one on North Broadwell (near Dollar General) and another off of Highway 30.

Jessica Votipka