People and Papers

Nominations being accepted for annual 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 award will be presented in January at our 2008 Kentucky Press Association Winter Convention at the Marriott Resort in Lexington.

The deadline for nominations is Nov. 15.

If you wish to nominate someone for this award, write a letter of nomination detailing the individual's service to the community and and mail by Nov. 15, to: Tom Caudill, Lexington Herald-Leader, 100 Midland Avenue, Lexington, Ky., 40508

A list of previous recipients is printed in the 2007 KPA Yearbook and Directory.

Tom Spargur has been named publisher of the Middlesboro Daily News.

He will oversee the Daily News and its affiliate publications, which include The Claiborne Progress in Tazewell, Tenn., and The Cumberland Trading Post in Middlesboro. Previously, Spargur served as publisher of five Womack Publishing Co. weeklies in North Carolina and was the corporate advertising director for Womack properties. He succeeds Gary Lawrence, who will remain chief operating officer of Heartland Publications southern division.

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