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MELVILLE - Ally Huser, age 9, in Grade 4 at Davison School in Melville was smiling ear-to-ear when told that she had won the provincial grand prize for a poster she drew this spring.

Huser entered the Assiniboine Watershed Stewardship Association's (AWSA) annual poster contest after watershed staff went to her class in April to give a presentation centered around the contest theme, ‘Wetlands and Wildlife.’

"We  teach the students about what a watershed is, where their drinking water comes from, the value of wetlands, and the wildlife that rely on wetlands for habitat," said AWSA manager, Jesse Nielsen.

"At the end of the presentation the students get treated to edible model aquifers that we create using Jell-O, candy, whipped cream, and pop. That's always the kids favourite part.”

The poster contest was open to students in two divisions, Grades 3/4, and Grades 5/6.

The AWSA gives out $100, $50, $25 for the first, second, and third place winners for each division within their watershed- an area including the cities of Yorkton and Melville, and the towns Canora, Churchbridge, Kamsack, Langenburg, Preeceville, Saltcoats, Springside, and Sturgis.

The AWSA received a total of 170 posters across the watershed.

The first place winner's poster from each watershed then went up against the winners from each watershed belonging to the Saskatchewan Association of Watersheds across Saskatchewan.

That's where Huser's poster really shined, receiving the majority of the online votes for the Grade 3/4 division.

For that accomplishment, Huser took home an additional $500 and won a pizza party for her class.

When Nielsen asked Huser what she was going to do with the money she won she said, "I'm going to stop at the store on the way home and get a few things for myself, and then I'm going to take my sister and my mom out for supper to a Chinese buffet!"