Students can enter annual grease-can contest

FALLBROOK – Fallbrook second- through fifth-graders are invited to enter the Fallbrook Public Utility District’s annual grease-can decorating contest.

The contest is part of the ‘Grease – in the Can, Not the Drain!’ campaign, an effort to inform residents that kitchen grease poured down the drain is the number one cause of sewer spills in Fallbrook.

Oils and fat stick to the sewer pipes and clog passageways, causing back-ups and sewer spills.

The decorated cans could solve that problem by remaining on kitchen countertops, lined with a plastic bag and filled with cooking grease, the...