Yorktown Announces Arbor Day Poster Contest Winners

May 3, 2024 – Fifth grader Mackenzie Ingram and fourth grader Marco Silveira are the first-place winners of Yorktown’s Arbor Day poster contest.

Officials announced the winners at Yorktown’s April 26 Arbor Day ceremony, where Girl Scout Troop 2398 led the pledge and read the Four Corners poem while adding soil from the four corners of Yorktown to the tree that was planted in front of Town Hall.

The annual contest’s theme was Fruits & Nuts, which elicited 19 submissions from the Crompond Elementary School, Benjamin Franklin Elementary School and St. Patrick’s School. The students’ works are currently on display in the Town Board Room through May, then the six finalists will be on display at the Town Court lobby for the month of June.

Ingram is a student at the Crompond school and Silveira attends the Benjamin Franklin school. The contest awarded first, second and third place awards to students in the Town’s fourth and fifth grades.

The second-place winners are Maeve Schaefer and Elizabeth Gentilucci, fourth grade, St. Patrick’s and Laura Walls, fifth grade, St. Patrick’s. Third-place winners are Eloise Shriftman, fourth grade, Crompond and Sofia Oppedisano, fifth grade, Crompond.