Students fashion remarkable entries for FPUD grease can contest

FALLBROOK – Local students in first through fifth grade who created cleaver and whimsical grease cans for Fallbrook Public Utility District’s (FPUD) annual contest is now on display at Fallbrook Library through the month of May.

The colorful cans are decorative, but functional, containers designed for collecting kitchen grease that would otherwise be poured down the drain. The contest is part of the “Grease in the Can, Not the Drain” public relations campaign. More than 700 contest entries were submitted this year.

This year’s top winners are: Paola Gutierrez, first place; Isaac Lopez, s...