LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Laredo Proud Inc. and community partners will host their first binational anti-bullying poetry contest on Oct. 25 at 2 p.m. at the Laredo ISD Performing Arts Center.

The event encourages participants to express anti-bullying messages in English, Spanish or any language of their choice. Attendees are encouraged to wear Halloween costumes.

Each winner will receive a $200 prize. Registration is currently open.

Juan Carlos Mendoza, consul general of Mexico in Laredo, said the contest offers multiple ways for participants to share their message.

“It’s an opportunity for the children, for all the participants, to present not only a poem, to present the problem, to present a song, to present a special performance — dancing, singing, talking about the problems to try to p

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