The Clarendon Enterprise received three first place honors in the West Texas Press Association’s 2010 Better Newspaper Contest last Saturday, July 30.
Results of the contest were announced during the WTPA’s 81st annual convention in Granbury.
The Enterprise won first place in Photography with a photo by Kari Lindsey of a local boy riding a donkey at last year’s July Fourth rodeo and with a photo of a lightning bolt by Anndria Newhouse. Judges at Tarleton State University called the donkey ride picture an “excellent action shot” which captured the rider’s expression. The lightning strike was called “unique” and described as “not usually seen by most people.”
Newhouse’s lightning photo also captured first place awards at the Panhandle Press and Texas Press contests earlier this year.
Roger Estlack received first place for Editorial Writing with articles on the topics of citizen participation in local government and the community teamwork needed to bring back the Mulkey Theatre.
The Enterprise’s 2010 pioneer edition of The Donley County Leader, featuring events surrounding the 1910 hanging of G.R. Miller also received a first place award.
Enterprise ads by Julie Shields for Cornell’s Country Store were recognized with a second place finish.
The Enterprise competed in Division D for small weeklies. The Albany News was recognized as the top paper in that division for the second year in a row, beating the Enterprise by 25 points.
Attending the convention and accepting the awards on the Enterprise’s behalf were Roger and Ashlee Estlack.
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