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Time for some year-end nominations

It’s been a quick year, seems like, and the year-end brings to mind several things we have to start working on for 2007. So here are some areas where you can help -- by nominating someone for outstanding community service, by showing off the work of your photographers in 2006 and by submitting a front cover photo for the 2007 KPA Yearbook and Directory.

Vice-President Nominations for KPA/KPS

Nominations and letters of application are being accepted until Friday, Oct. 6 for the office of vice-president of the Kentucky Press Association for 2007.

Any KPA member may nominate any individual who meets the criteria set forth in the KPA bylaws for that position. Additionally, individuals interested in holding office in the Kentucky Press Association may submit a letter of application.

KPA bylaws state: “The only persons eligible for election to the office of vice president are those who are currently serving as elected directors; those who have been elected to serve on the board, provided they have previously served as either an elected or appointed director or those persons who have served three consecutive years as an appointed director.”

Nominations must be sent to David T. Thompson, Kentucky Press Association, 101 Consumer Lane, Frankfort, KY, 40601.

All nominees consenting to the nomination and agreeing to serve if elected will be interviewed by the nominating committee once it has been determined that the nominee meets bylaw requirements.

Following the interview process, the nominating committee will recommend a candidate for vice president to the Kentucky Press Association and Kentucky Press Service Board of Directors.

Following action by the board, the individual will be recommended for approval by the full membership of the KPA during the business session of the 2007 convention in Louisville in January.

The person elected vice president will become president-elect in 2008 and serve as president in 2009.

Lewis Owens Community Service Award

Each year, the Lexington Herald-Leader honors a newspaper person, or a newspaper staff, by presenting its Community Service Award. The award was renamed the Lewis Owens Community Service Award in 1996.

Presented annually by the Lexington Herald-Leader, the award recognizes outstanding community service by a Kentucky newspaper person or staff. The award was originally established in memory of Edwards M. Templin, promotion director of the Lexington Herald-Leader and president-elect of the Kentucky Press Association when he died in 1967. It was later renamed to honor and memorialize Lewis Owens for his many years of service to community and service organizations and to Kentucky’s newspaper industry.

Previous recipients include the staff of the Falmouth Outlook, Merv Aubespin, Tom and Pat Gish, Russ Metz, Max Heath, Betty Berryman, Louise Hatmaker, David McBride, Don Towles, Niles Dillingham, Floe Bowles, John B. and Ray Gaines, Fred Paxton, among several others.

The Lexington Herald-Leader is now accepting nominations for the 2006 Lewis Owens Community Service Award.

The award will be presented in January at our 2007 Kentucky Press Association Winter Convention at the Hyatt Regency. The deadline for nominations is Nov. 10.

If you wish to nominate someone for this award, complete the nomination form and mail by Nov. 10 to:

Tom Caudill
Lexington Herald-Leader
100 Midland Avenue
Lexington, KY 40508

A list of previous recipients is printed in the 2006 KPA Yearbook and Directory.

KPA Photo Exhibit

At the 2007 KPA Winter Convention, (January 25-26 at the Hyatt Regency in Louisville), we will display photos from Kentucky newspaper photographers that were taken in . These are on display during our Trade Show and the exhibit is available for local use, at public libraries for instance, after the convention ends on January 26.

Kentucky is known for having some of the best newspaper photographers in the country and this is our way of displaying the work of those photographers.

This is not a contest and most all photos are used in the exhibit, depending on space available. Photos may be in color or black and white; should be no larger than 11 x 14; and should be mounted, preferably on black poster board. The photo should be affixed to the poster board along with the name of the newspaper and the photographer's name and a cutline, if appropriate. These do NOT have to be photographs that were published in the newspaper.

The deadline for sending photos for the KPA Photo Exhibit is Dec. 15. If your newspaper would be interested in displaying this exhibit after the convention, please contact Sue Cammack or Bonnie Howard at (800) 264-5721.

Please indicate on a cover memo that the photographs are being submitted to use in the KPA Photo Exhibit.

2007 KPA Yearbook and Directory Front Cover

What better way to show a photographer's talent than on the front cover of the KPA Yearbook and Directory? Each year, we select one four-color photograph or a montage from a photographer at a Kentucky newspaper and publish that on the front cover of the directory with appropriate credit given inside the directory.

Any photograph depicting life in Kentucky or a recent event in Kentucky is considered and the photo does not have to have been published in a newspaper to be used on the directory's cover.

The deadline for submitting a four-color photograph for the front cover is Nov. 10.

The photographer whose photo is selected will then be notified and asked to send KPA a four-color separation of the photograph by Dec. 1.

Please indicate on a cover memo that the photo is being sent for consideration for the front cover of the KPA Yearbook and Directory, and include the newspaper and the photographer's name.

Please mail your photo exhibit pictures (deadline Dec. 15) and 2007 Yearbook and Directory front cover photographs (photo deadline is Nov. 10) to:

David T. Thompson
Kentucky Press Association
101 Consumer Lane
Frankfort, KY. 40601

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