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Luverne Elementary student's artwork featured on local billboard

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Mavis Fodness

Emmett Woodley’s artwork is displayed prominently on a South Highway 75 billboard in Luverne.
The Luverne Elementary student completed the artwork for the Sioux Valley Energy billboard as a fourth-grader and as part of the electric cooperative’s annual contest.
“The safety billboard contest is a great way to showcase the students’ creative artwork and lifesaving electrical safety messages,” said Debra Biever, vice president of human resources and member services.
Woodley’s drawing cautions farmers not to leave their augers extended as they drive farm equipment.
His message “Don’t leave the auger out farmers!!!!” is illustrated with a red tractor pulling a grain cart with its auger extended. Sparks are shown coming from the auger as it comes into contact with the overhead power lines.
The son of Kyle and Nicole Woodley of Beaver Creek was one of four winners selected in the cooperative’s annual safety billboard contest conducted in the cooperative’s east-central South Dakota and southwest Minnesota service areas.
Other winners included Bergan Oines (Sioux Valley Elementary, Volga), Taetum Horstmeyer (Robert Bennis Elementary, Brandon) and Avery Swanson (Russell-Tyler-Ruthton Elementary).
The contest winners each received a $50 cash prize in addition to having their posters featured on billboards.
There were 175 entries submitted in the contest that is designed to help teachers incorporate electrical safety messages into their lesson plans.
Woodley was a student in Molly Carbonneau’s fourth-grade class.
The billboards serve as a public service announcement for electrical safety awareness. The most important tool in preventing electrical injuries is educating the public about the potential dangers of working and playing around electricity.

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