Winners Announced for Merced County Competition on Fentanyl Awareness Campaign

The students will create a 30-second, professionally produced commercial to air on local TV later this winter. Photo: KFSN

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KMJ/KFSN) — A student competition to create a drug awareness campaign awarded the winners.

A video contest was held to spread the anti-fentanyl message of “One Pill Will Kill.”

Merced County’s Superintendent of Schools, the district attorney’s office and the sheriff delivered $5,000 to the winning students from Los Banos Valley Community School and Hilmar High School.

The students will create a 30-second, professionally produced commercial to air on local TV later this winter.

The $5,000 checks are designated for each school’s anti-drug and anti-gang program.