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Ma Murray awards for Tri-City News

Ad design, photography and service recognized
Award
Reporter/photographer Mario Bartel took home second place in the Portrait/Personality Photo category for his pic of a local gym owner and third place Sports Photo category for this photo of a disappointed Terry Fox Ravens football player from the 2017 Subway Bowl Triple-A football championship

The Tri-City News brought back the hardware for ad design and special publications, top honours for photography and kudos for two long-serving journalists at the Ma Murray Community Newspaper Awards on Saturday.

Production manager and graphic designer Matt Blair won top honours for the paper, winning both first and second place in the collaborative ad design award (for newspapers with over 25,000 distribution) as well as first place in the ad campaign award and second place in the special publications award for the home improvement magazine Space, which he produced along with contributor Nikki Hope.

Reporter/photographer Mario Bartel took home second place in the Portrait/Personality Photo category for his pic of a local gym owner and third place Sports Photo category for his photo of a disappointed Terry Fox Ravens football player from the 2017 Subway Bowl Triple-A football championship.

As well, Bartel and longtime Tri-City News reporter Diane Strandberg were given Silver Quill Awards for more than 25 years of service in community journalism.