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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Mt. Vernon Register-News won a General |
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| Excellence award in the Southern Illinois Editorial |
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| Association's 2005 Better Newspaper Contest; and
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| WHEREAS, The Mt. Vernon newspaper took top honors in the |
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| small-daily division for papers with a circulation of less than |
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| 25,000, as well as in the Best Local News Coverage, Best |
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| Editorial Page, and Advertising Excellence categories; and
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| WHEREAS, The competition also features eight open |
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| categories, and the Register-News placed in two of them; in the |
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| Best Feature Story open category, sports writer Walter Grable |
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| tied for first place for his story "1954's Best Team", about |
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| Mt. Vernon Township High School's State champion boys |
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| basketball team; Managing Editor Jeremy Hall took third place |
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| in the Charlie Feirich Original Column open category for his |
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| column "A blemish on this county's reputation", which was about |
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| problems which an African-American sports writer, Mr. Grable, |
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| was having in connection with some of the people about whom he |
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| was reporting; and
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| WHEREAS, The Mt. Vernon newspaper took second place among |
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| small dailies for Best Use of Photography and Newspaper Design |
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| and honorable mention for Best Local Sports Coverage; about 100 |
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| member newspapers belong to the more than 100-year-old SIEA; |
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| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| we congratulate the staff of the Mt. Vernon Register-News on |
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| winning several awards in the Southern Illinois Editorial |
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| Association's 2005 Better Newspaper Contest; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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