The North Shore News set aside its trademark red for silver and gold Saturday night.
The paper collected four Ma Murray awards at the 2015 British Columbia Yukon Community Newspaper Awards gala, held at the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond.
“We are delighted to be recognized for the quality of our journalism and photography amongst the many talented and committed community newspaper publishers here in B.C.,” said publisher Peter Kvarnstrom. “We are indeed blessed with a talented staff who are fully vested in serving our readers with the best possible community newspaper. We are so grateful to serve a community that offers such great stories to be told and photos to be shot as the North Shore.”
Jane Seyd took home the Neville Shanks Memorial Award for Historical Writing for a feature on the restoration and reopening of Queen Mary elementary. Andy Prest won the outdoor recreation writing award for a feature on para-athletes.
Mike Wakefield won silver for sports photography.
Vicki Magnison, Birgit Brunner and team took bronze for Local Food Guide in the special publications award category.
