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EHS students compete in Lions speech contest
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Participants in the recent Escalon Lions Club Speech Contest were, from left, Charlotte Shaddix, Yazmin Castro Esquivel, winner Dominic Rissetto, Brooklyn Dugo and Lion Mike Caskey, the contest chairperson. Photo Contributed

This past week, the Escalon Lions Club hosted its annual student speaker contest, staged in the council chambers at Escalon City Hall.

The contest was on Thursday evening, Feb. 6 and the topic for this year’s speech was ‘Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe.’

Participants were, in alphabetical order, Brooklyn Dugo, Yazmin Castro Esquivel, Dominic Rissetto and Charlotte Shaddix. Serving as chairperson for the event was Lions Club member Mike Caskey.

“The winner, Dominic, will compete in the zone Lions contest in Ripon on March 6,” said Lions Club member Robert Swift.

Rissetto will represent Escalon in the contest that will feature winners from several area club competitions.

“There were awards,” added Swift regarding the contest. “One hundred dollars to the winner and each participant other than the winner received $25.”

Following the speech contest on Thursday, the participants were invited to join the Lions Club members for dinner at D’Boni’s Pizza in Escalon.