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editorial staff includes Julie Ann Madden, general assignment news reporter; Hank Krause, sports writer; Scott Roberts and Patti Ericson, sports photographers; Amy Adix and Ruth Salvatierra, news correspondents; and colum-nists: Amy Adix, Deanna Boe, Pat Clark, Mary Lou Klemme, Wanda Philips, Peggy Searls, and the anonymous AFWT writer. The Advertising-Composition Department includes ad designer Karen Taylor-Mortensen and layout composition/ad designer Erica Kjar. The offi ce manager is Nancy Enstrom; and proofreaders are Pat Clark and Peggy Searls. In the Mail Department are Char Hodne-fi eld and Eleanor Bouwman. The local newspaper was begun by Dodie and Joe Hook of Akron, in December 2001. In the last four years, The Akron Hometowner has brought home a total of 86 awards from the Iowa Newspaper Foun-dation Better Newspaper Contest,

including the prestigious Best of Class – Advertising honor twice and three General Excellence Awards. In the 2007 Better Newspaper Contest, The Akron Hometowner received the following honors: • General Excellence Award. • Advertising Best of Class, second place; ad chosen was cre-ated by Dave Cooper for Dirks Motor Company.

First Place Winnings • Coverage of Local Government by Julie Ann Madden. • Coverage of Education by Julie Ann Madden. • Coverage of Agriculture by Julie Ann Madden. • Coverage of Business by Julie Ann Madden. • Best Series by Erica Kjar and Julie Ann Madden, entitled “Diver-sity Day.” • Best Sports Columnist by Hank Krause called “After Thoughts.” • Best Use of Graphics by Erica Kjar and Dave Cooper. • Best Spot News Photo by Joe Hook entitled “Firefi ghters

Respond.” • Best Ad Featuring Grocery-Food-Entertainment by Erica Kjar, for Akron Community Theatre’s ‘Oklahoma!’ production. • Best Ad Featuring Financial, Insurance or Professional Service by Erica Kjar for First National Bank. • Best Ad Featuring Furniture, Furnishings, Appliances or Hard-ware by Erica Kjar for Dirks Hard-ware. • Best Ad Featuring Automotive, Boats, Aircraft, Tires, Gasoline, etc. by Dave Cooper for Dirks Motor Company. • Best Advertising Series Featur-ing Any Service or Merchandise by Erica Kjar for Citywide Rum-mage. • Best Advertising Idea for a Community Promotion or Event by Erica Kjar for Citywide Rum-mage.

Second Place Winnings • Best Spot News Story by Julie Ann Madden entitled “Aug. 1 Storm.” • Best Ad Featuring Furniture, Furnishings, Appliances or Hard-ware by Ashley Hook for Thorson Drug. • Best Ad Featuring Automotive, Boats, Aircraft, Tires, Gasoline, etc. by Joe Hook for Dirks Motor Company. • Best Ad Featuring Miscella-neous by Erica Kjar for Softball State Champions. • Best Special Section by Erica Kjar for National FFA Week. • Best Ad Featuring Agriculture by Dave Cooper for Sioux Fertil-izer.

Third Place Winnings • Best Ad Designer – Erica Kjar. • Best Sports Story by Julie Ann Madden entitled “NHL Stanley

AWARDSCon’t From Page 1

Akron Hometowner wins 31 awards, bringing total to 86cup.” • Best Spot News Photo by Julie Ann Madden entitled “Firefi ghters keeping fl ood vigil.” • Best Editorial Page written by columnists: Amy Adix, Deanna Boe, Mary Lou Klemme, Wanda Philips, Peggy Searls and the anonymous AFWT writer. Page designed by Erica Kjar. • Best Ad Featuring Financial, Insurance or Professional Services by Erica Kjar for Peoples Bank. • Best Ad Featuring Furniture, Furnishings, Appliances or Hard-ware by Erica Kjar for Brock Auc-tion Company. • Best Ad, Series or Section Fea-turing the Promotion of a News-paper by Dodie Hook and Nancy Enstrom. • Best Ad Featuring Agriculture by Emmalee Philips for A-W FFA Alumni. • Best Circulation-Carrier Pro-motion by Emmalee Philips for Westfi eld’s 150th Anniversary. The Colorado Press Association judged nearly 4,000 Iowa news-paper entries in 44 categories in fi ve classes, based on circulation. Daily Class 1 is for newspapers published daily with 9,999 circu-lation and less, Daily Class 2 is for newspapers published daily with 10,000 circulation and more. Weekly Class 1 is for newspapers published weekly with 1,100 cir-culation and less. Weekly Class 2, 1,101 to 2,100 circulation; Weekly Class 3, 2,101 and above circula-tion. The Akron Hometowner com-peted in the Weekly Class 1 cat-egory. Other newspapers winning Gen-eral Excellence Awards included Dailies Class 1: First Place, Newton Daily News; Second Place, Carroll Daily Times Herald; Third Place, Spencer Daily Reporter; Dailies

Class 2: First Place, Des Moines Register; Second Place, Cedar Rapids Gazette; Third Place, Mason City Globe Gazette; Week-lies Class 1: First Place, Akron Hometowner; Second Place, Dayton Review; Third Place, Westside Observer; Weeklies Class 2: First Place, Adel Dallas Co. News; Second Place, Solon Economist; Third Place, Ackley World Journal; Weeklies Class 3: First Place, Sheldon N’West Iowa Review; Second Place- Iowa Falls Times-Citizen; Third Place (tie), Indianola Record-Herald & Tri-bune and Storm Lake Pilot-Tri-bune. During the convention, two Iowa journalists were named 2007 Master Editor-Publishers by the Iowa Newspaper Associa-tion. Recipients of the prestigious awards were Rick Fromm, editor of the Decorah Newspapers and Larry Bushman, publisher of the Fort Dodge Messenger. The awards are presented annually to those Iowa publishers/editors selected from nominations made by Iowa Newspaper Association members and the selections are made by previous Master Editor-Publisher winners. The honorees are chosen based on the following criteria: The nominee has worked hard, thought soundly, infl uenced unselfi shly, and lived honorably. Also recognized during the con-vention were two Distinguished Service Award winners, long-time journalists honored for their con-tributions to the newspaper pro-fession and their communities. Recipients of this honor included Wayne Davis, former publisher of the Seymour Herald and Bob Andersen, editor of the Elkader Clayton County Register. Named “Outstanding Young Iowa Journalists” for their achievements in the newspaper industry were: Christoph Trappe, Cedar Rapids Gazette; Jeff Raasch, Ames Tri-bune and Anitra Wolf, Spirit Lake Dickinson Co. News. The award is presented jointly by the Iowa Newspaper Foundation and the journalism schools at the Univer-sity of Iowa, Iowa State University and Drake University.

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