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Show Review wins third place general excellence The Pleasant Grove Review received five awards, including a third place in the overall general excellence category for 1984, at the annual Utah Press Association Convention last weekend. The awards were given at the concluding banquet of the three-day convention Saturday night. The Review competes against newspapers with circulations ranging from 1900 to 3,499 for the annual awards. There are two other categories of competition, one for . papers with larger circulations, and one for those with smaller circulations. cir-culations. r The Review, took first places in two categories. The newspaper was honored for the best news series, a group of stories on the Pleasant Grove Police Department by editor Marcella Walker, and for the best editorial, an indictment of U.S. Steel's policies at its Geneva Plant, written by managing editor Marc Haddock. The editorial was given special recognition and a plaque for being the best in all three categories. The Review also took second place honors for best ad campaign and took third place in the best front page competition. The Pleasant Grove Review's sister newspapers, the American Fork Citizen and the Lehi Free Press, also brought home several awards. The Citizen received the coveted Community Service Award, for which all community newspapers compete without regard to size, and received first place for general excellence. The Citizen earned four other first place honors:' best feature' story, "' best column, best circulation promotion and best ad campaign. It also captured a second place for best news series and three third places for best special section, best photojournalism and best sports section. The Lehi Free Press captured three second place awards, for best circulation promotion, best feature story and best front page. |