Students' grease can designs to be on display at library - 'Meet the Artists' event at Fallbrook Library April 21 at 10 a.m.

FALLBROOK –The Fallbrook Library has a new art exhibit showing the clever designs local schoolchildren came up with for this year’s grease can contest offered by Fallbrook Public Utility District (FPUD).

The colorful cans are decorative but functional containers designed for collecting kitchen grease rather than pouring it down the drain. The district holds an annual contest, open to first- through fifth-graders, as part of its “Grease – in the Can, Not the Drain!” campaign.

The campaign began nine years ago as a result of a lawsuit by an environmental agency for having too many se...