MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL
A Division Of The
Department of Public Safety
Public Information and Education Division - PO Box 568 - Jefferson City, MO 65102

NEWS RELEASE

For further information please contact: Capt. J. Tim Hull
(573) 526-6115
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October 30, 2013
EMPHASIS: 2014 National Missing Children’s Poster Contest

Colonel Ron Replogle, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, invites Missouri's schools to participate in the National Missing Children’s Day Poster Contest. The 2014 contest is open to all Missouri fifth grade students. Students will create 8 1/2" x 14" posters that reflect the 2014 contest theme, “Bring Our Missing Children Home.”

Each participating Missouri school will choose a first place winner and submit that winner to the Highway Patrol’s Missing Persons Unit no later than January 13, 2014. A completed application, found on the Patrol’s Web site, must accompany the poster. Posters shall be mailed to: MSHP Missing Persons Unit, Attn: Beth Holtmeyer, Q/DDCC, P.O. Box 568, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0568. One Missouri poster will be given an overall first place award, and will then be automatically entered in the national competition.

For more information regarding the National Missing Children’s Day Poster Contest, please visit the Patrol’s Web site at www.mshp.dps.mo.gov [select Missing Persons Clearinghouse icon, then National Missing Children's Day Poster Contest link] or call the Missing Persons Unit at (573) 526-6178.

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