LIBERTY — Each year, Lions Clubs around the world sponsor the Lions International Peace Poster Contest in local schools and youth groups.

The art contest encourages young people worldwide to express their visions of peace. For more than 25 years, millions of children from nearly 100 countries have participated in the contest.[cointent_lockedcontent]

The theme of the 2015-16 Peace Poster Contest is “Share Peace.” Students ages 11-13 were eligible to participate, and 129 Liberty Middle School art students participated under the direction of art teacher Elaine Snell.

Liberty Middle School Peace Poster Contest winners, from left, are eighth-grader Justin Martin (second), sixth-grader Gracie Jackson (first) and eighth-grader Judith Martinez Lopez (third). Back row are Liberty principal Tim Mullis, art teacher Elaine Snell, Liberty Lions Club president Jean Thomas and chairman of the Peace Poster contest, Oscar Thorsland.

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