2018 BNC Awards of Excellence Winners

Presented May 31, 2019 in Red Deer Alberta at the Friday evening Awards Banquet

Best Local News Story Sponsored by: AWNA

1. Airdrie City View for “Airdrie player survives Bronco’s bus crash”
   Credits: Christina Waldner
2. Okotoks Western Wheel for “Maurice has all charges dropped”
   Credits: Krista Conrad
3. Lacombe Globe for “BOLT Transit escapes termination”
   Credits: Ashli Barrett

Sue Gawlak Best Local Editorial Sponsored by: St. Albert Gazette

1. Taber Times for “Town needs to tread lightly”
   Credits: Trevor Busch, Greg Price
2. Shootin the Breeze for “My Little Corner”
   Credits: Shannon Robison
3. Airdrie City View for “Silenced”
   Credits: Allison Chorney

Best Feature Story by a Local Writer Sponsored by: Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

1. Fort Macleod Gazette for “MAE Belles Women’s club celebrates 70 years of perseverance and success”
   Credits: Frank McTighe
2. Mountain View Gazette for “Locally community-supported agriculture”
   Credits: Victoria Paterson
3. Drayton Valley Western Review for “Over 800 people attend outdoor rally at CETC in Drayton Valley”
   Credits: Cathy Weetman

Higher Education Writing Award Sponsored by: University of Alberta

• St. Paul Journal for “Parent group holds protest, demands clarity”
  Credits: Janice Huser
• Rocky Mountain Outlook for “Campaign aims to create single public education system”
  Credits: Paul Clarke
• St. Albert Gazette for “Games teachers play”
  Credits: Kevin Ma
• Rocky Mountain Outlook for “Motorized recreation forcing grizzly bears out of habitat”
  Credits: Cathy Ellis
• Spruce Grove Examiner for “Study to examine economics of watershed infrastructure”
  Credits: Josh Aldrich
• Okotoks Western Wheel for “Rancher makes commitment to nature”
  Credits: Tammy Rollie
• Red Deer Express for “Prairie Living / The Heart of Alberta”
• Drayton Valley Western Review for “2018 & 19 Drayton Valley”
• Ponoka News for “Ponoka Stampede”
• Fort Macleod Gazette for “Fort Macleod man details Lyme disease struggles”
  Credits: Frank McTighe
• Westlock News for “Beating prostate cancer”
  Credits: George Blais
• Rocky Mountain Outlook for “Menstrual kits help fight ‘period poverty'”
  Credits: Paul Clarke
• Fort Macleod Gazette for “Prairie bus tragedy has touched all Canadians — Macleod Notebook”
  Credits: Frank McTighe
• Innisfail Province for “Jack walked a humble, beautiful path”
  Credits: Johnnie Bachusky
• Lacombe Globe for “Reality doesn’t spare feelings, so neither should the news”
  Credits: Ashli Barrett
• Rocky Mountain Outlook for “Stoney Nakoda Change Makers”
  Credits: Jordan Small, Aryn Toombs
• Cochrane Times for “Symbolism in the medium”
  Credits: Patrick Gibson
• Athabasca Advocate for “The thread through everything”
  Credits: Hannah Lawson
• St. Albert Gazette for “To catch a leak”
  Credits: Kevin Ma
• Shootin the Breeze for “Eagle researcher seeks golden El Dorado”
  Credits: Jess Harrington
• Rocky Mountain Outlook for “Catastrophic wildfire – is this the new normal?”
  Credits: Tanya Foubert
• Rimbey Review for “Rimbey mother/daughter ready for another WWCFL season”
  Credits: Treena Mielke
• Okotoks Western Wheel for “Proctor off and running across Canada”
  Credits: Bruce Campbell, Remy Greer
• Ponoka News for “Weir remembers fun, crazy times as a Golden Seal “
  Credits: Jordie Dwyer
• Lloydminster Meridian Source
• Flagstaff Sedgewick Community News
• Taber Times
• Rocky Mountain House Mountaineer for “Choose your own adventure”
  Credits: Shelly Safronetz, Jean Vos
• Taber Times for “Taber Bowling”
  Credits: Erin Lickiss, Meg Noguchi
• Wainwright Star Edge for “The Golf Course Restaurant is Opening”
  Credits: Carrie Baumgartner
• Jasper Fitzhugh for “Good morning early riser”
  Credits: Melissa Morris
• Lloydminster Meridian Source for “Co-op Agro Grand Re-Opening Ad”
  Credits: Amanda Richard
• Vermilion Voice for “Vermilion Voice Print Solution”
  Credits: Amr Rezk
• Wainwright Star Edge for “Armstrongs Clothing – Not Just the Classics”
  Credits: Carrie Baumgartner
• Lloydminster Meridian Source for “Donny Lee”
  Credits: Angie Jerrett
• Rocky Mountain House Mountaineer for “Caine’s Jewellers Gifts to Cherish”
  Credits: Jean Vos, Shelly Safronetz