community service 4 ENTRIES
1
Manitoulin Expositor Harvest Glory Days
2
Richmond Hill/Thornhill Liberal York Region Santa Fund
3
What a wonderful way to engage the entire community in a feel-good exercise during a year of upheaval. The fact that the program has grown every year since its inception is a testament to the value readers place on it. There is not a person, business or organization that does not have access to participating and this inclusivity is admirable, particularly during a worldwide health pandemic. It clearly takes a lot of work photographing and judging the event and that work stands out! The dedication to the print paper as well as the social media sites is commendable. Congratulations on a job executed wonderfully!
Serving the community’s need at Christmastime and helping the most vulnerable is commendable on the part of York Region – especially since the program has been going for more than two decades. That alone is testament to the program’s need and reception. Staff participation is heart warming. Love the graphic with the stockings! Would love to be a fly in the wall when the gifts are received! Well done!
Eganville Leader Save Our Legion
A perfect example of what can happen when the community works together. To raise $83,000 in just six weeks is amazing! Congratulations to the publisher for seeing a need and acting quickly, to the Rotary Club, and the campaign team and the newspaper for jumping on board and turning a news story about a dire situation into a good news story!
Judge GENERAL COMMENT It was a pure delight seeing the quality submissions in the Community Service category. To see such involvement in and dedication to community from a newspaper perspective – especially during what has been a difficult year for everyone – is absolutely heartening. I can only hope your communities care as much about their newspaper as the newspapers so obviously care about the communities they serve. Overall, I found all of the community service projects were shining examples of true community newspapers!
ONTARIO COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION
Jackie Jardine Editor Pictou Advocate Pictou, NS
Silver Quill Award recipient Jackie Jardine has been a journalist for more than 30 years, working in both daily and weekly newspapers. For the past 10 years she has been editor of The Advocate, Pictou County’s weekly newspaper since 1893. When she’s not working, she enjoys reading, writing, and travelling.
2020 | BNC Awards Results
47
