Promoting workplace safety at her dad's workplace – McCain Foods in Florenceville – has earned a 13-year-old Perth-Andover student a trip to the American capital and $1,000.
Meghan Baker, a Grade 8 student at Perth-Andover Middle School, won first place in the sixth annual American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) kids' Safety-on-the-Job poster contest in her age category.
The daughter of Trent and Kim Baker of Perth-Andover originally drew her workplace safety poster for a calendar competition held at McCain Foods in Florenceville. Kim Froats, an ASSE International member at McCains, sponsored Baker's entry to go on to the ASSE contest and everyone was thrilled when they heard it had won.
Baker's poster entitled "A Pair of Safety Glasses….Priceless", is the first Canadian entry to be named a winner.
