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Erinn Veach, a 17-year-old junior and managing editor of the paper, said they weren’t sure why. A wall in the classroom displays photos of past editors of the paper.

“There was a guy about eight years ago, but since then it’s been all girls,” Veach said.

In the larger format, The Grizzly Growler of Spring Valley High School netted the best newspaper award under its editor-in-chief, Donovan Souder.

The paper’s news editor, Andrew Mendez, brought home two firstplace awards and a second-place award and was named the paper’s most valuable staffer. The latter award is based on nominations from the newspaper’s adviser. Other awards are judged by Review-journal staff.

Mendez said he’s motivated to make sure the student newspaper is as diverse as the school’s population, which speaks more than 30 languages. Mendez plans to study journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno next year.

“That’s what I want to do for the rest of my life, get these voices heard,” he said.

One of Mendez’s awards was for an article he wrote on the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting, a common subject among works honored in a busy news year in Clark County.

Review-journal Executive Editor Glenn Cook commended the students for their coverage of that shooting and of the debates that erupted on high school campuses after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February. Student work this year also covered the Clark County School District’s budget crisis and search for a new superintendent.

“The ever-higher quality of entries we see never ceases to amaze,” Cook said.

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