Lola Marti

Lola Marti, 12, White Salmon, won $5,000 for her classroom at Wallace and Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School.
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Marti’s winning art design.       

Lola Marti, 12, a sixth grader at Wallace and Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School, White Salmon, earned $5,000 for her classroom after winning first prize in a creative contest highlighting Suicide Prevention Month.

She entered the contest at the suggestion of her art teacher, Patricia Carpenter. The Comprehensive Healthcare contest (www.comphc.org) was open to all students in grades sixth through ninth, encouraging conversations about mental health, according to a press release. The contest invited a creative art or essay that expresses what suicide prevention and mental health mean to them.