The S.C. Press Association held its annual meeting on Friday and gave out awards.
I received three awards:
• A first place award for best single front in a small weekly, for a page done for The Lake City News & Post;
• A first place award for best front page design portfolio, for three pages done for The Hartsville Messenger; and
• A third place award for best single front page for the The Hartsville Messenger.
I didn't get to go to pick up my plaques, so I missed out on seeing some old friends.
I am particularly thrilled with the performance of my colleagues at The News & Reporter in Chester. They won at least 23 awards, most ever, and won first place in General Excellence for two- to three times weekly papers. We were doing almost that good when I was there, but never better than third in General Excellence. Travis Jenkins certainly has them rolling along.
Proud of him. Hope they are paying him better than they paid me, because he's earning it.
