The Weyburn Review and Weyburn This Week newspapers won several awards in their circulation categories in the annual Better Newspaper Awards presented by the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association (SWNA) for 2020.
The Review earned two first-place awards, including for Best Post-Secondary Coverage, for a story about Weyburn student Arliss Sidloski winning two prestigious scholarships for her engineering program at the University of Saskatchewan. (The photo above shows the story which ran in the June 10 issue of the Review.)
The other first-place award was for Best Editorial Page in the Class B circulation category, along with a third place finish for Best Overall Paper.
The Weyburn This Week also won for their editorial page, a third place finish for the Class C category.
The “On the Farm” special agricultural section in Weyburn This Week earned second place for Best Special Section, and a photo essay in This Week on the Weyburn Comprehensive School’s Grad 2020 reverse parade won second place for Best Photo Essay.
Editor Greg Nikkel earned second for Best Editorial Writing in the Weyburn Review, and second for Best Education Coverage K-12, for his story about teacher Karen Kennedy-Allin keeping in touch with her students during the COVID lockdown last spring.
A health care story about a mother encouraging people to have naloxone kits available earned a second-place award for Nikkel.
He also earned two second-place photography awards, for Best Colour Photo of a sunset photo at Nickle Lake, and for Best Feature Photo for a lightning shot published in Weyburn This Week.
