best feature/unit pages 15 ENTRIES
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Fergus Wellington Advertiser Victory in Europe Day
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Walkerton Herald Times Walkerton Water Crisis – 20 years later
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An excellent look at VE Day and selling advertising around it. And there was some good editorial to read.
Not much in the way of advertising support to this special 20th anniversary feature, but well done on the editorial side. Going back and retelling the story so that the story is not forgotten.
Listowel Banner Rotary Club of Listowel 1946 - 2019
A good read on a historical organization being part of the community for more than seven decades. Nice mixture of old photos, to fill the space along with words. A changing of the times as a younger generation is not interested in service clubs in the community, like many Legions and curling clubs across Canada.
Judge GENERAL COMMENT Let’s try to be innovative when we do feature/unit pages, and make sure there’s editorial content, as that is a portion of the judging criteria. The top three stood out for good reason – because of the content and layout. It was not always about making money on the advertisements wrapped around the content.
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Jules Xavier
Editor Shilo Stag CFB Shilo, MB
It has been 37 years since editor Lorne Drury (now retired) offered him his first reporter job at the Brampton Guardian, and he is still going like the Energizer Bunny. A ‘59 baby, Xavier is still having fun at 62, so there’s no thought of retirement just yet. Perhaps after the Stag celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2023. Currently in Manitoba looking after the award-winning army newspaper Shilo Stag, which published its first edition in July 1947, he’s kept busy in a two-person newsroom which focuses on army life, including infantry 2PPCLI and artillery 1RCHA soldiers. Xavier has been with the Stag for nine years, relocating from Vancouver Island following newspaper and radio jobs in Ontario, B.C., and Alberta. Being embedded among soldiers who are honing their fighting skills for deployment to Ukraine or Latvia is a lot more fun than covering school board or city council meetings.
ONTARIO COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION
