CREATION

Judge

Born in Saskatoon, Sask., Derek Holtom has worked at daily and weekly newspapers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, with stops in Saskatoon, Dauphin, Prince Albert, Humboldt, and Swan Valley, where he currently serves as editor of the Star and Times. The Star and Times pays special attention to their sports section – it has won the CCNA award for best sports pages for their circulation class three years in a row.

First Place

Port Perry Star

Very interesting story with extremely strong photos and layout –the best layout I saw in this competition. Also fits in well with raising awareness of sport in the community. Bravo.

Third Place

Elmirawoolwich Observer

Another well written piece that raises the awareness of sport in the community. It was actually tied for second after my rankings. Good layout, especially the use of white space, which I enjoy. This could easily have been second.

– Honourable mention to the Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin for their “This hill was made for hiking” story. I thought it was the best at fulfilling the requirements for this class, to raise awareness and participation in sport/recreation. An action shot blown up would have put this over the top

HONOURABLE MENTION

GENERAL COMMENT – Overall the writing was very strong from all entries. The difference often ended up being layout, which accounts for a large portion of the overall mark, and the story not being about raising awareness and participation of sport/recreation. There were some strong sports stories but they lost points not due to bad writing, they simply did not meet the requirements of this class. Ontario communities are well served by the sports writers at their weekly papers.