Yuma Sun nabs 22 awards in state news/ ad contest
Following the 2017 Arizona Newspaper Association’s annual meeting in Chandler, Ariz. on Saturday, the Yuma Sun took home 22 awards including first place for Best Classified Section.
The Yuma Sun earned these awards in Division 4 — newspapers with a daily circulation under 25,000.
“We are especially proud of our team this year as each award from the ANA is really an appreciation of the Yuma Sun’s hard work
from their peers across the state,” said Yuma Sun Publisher Lisa Reilly. “A special congrats to each of our recipients!”
Awards for editorial
Yuma Sun Staff-Page Design Excellence-Third Place
Yuma Sun Staff — Editorial Page Excellence — Third Place
Yuma Sun Staff — Newspaper Online Site/Web Page — Second Place
Yuma Sun Staff — Reporting and Newswriting Excellence — Third Place
Amy Crawford — Best Headline — A STEDY start to a first full fiscal year and various headlines — Second Place
James Gilbert — Best News Story — Dumpster dozing: Man who fell asleep in trash bin gets trapped in garbage truck — Third Place
Warner Strausbaugh — Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage — 2016 Football Coverage — Third Place
Rachel Twoguns — Best Feature Story — Solemn Reminder — Third Place
Roxanne Molenar — Best Column, Feature or Criticism — After mocking game, family finds its value — Third Place
Randy Hoeft — Best News Photograph — Carver garden — Third Place
Randy Hoeft — Best Sports Photograph — Leaping running back — First Place
Randy Hoeft — Best Sports Photograph — Swimmer on a mission — Second Place
Randy Hoeft — Best Feature Photograph — Fire in the sky — Third Place
Randy Hoeft — Best Feature Photo Layout — Little Roper — First Place
Randy Hoeft — Best Feature Photo Layout — No beach required — Third Place
Awards for advertising
Sue Cannon — Best Black & White Ad — Second Place
Jim Foster — Best Paid Ad Series (Black & White) — First Place
Jim Foster — Best Paid Ad Series (Color) — Third Place
Patty Perez — Best Public Notice Section — Second Place
Sue Cannon — Best Special Section — Third Place
Yuma Sun Staff — Best Classified Section — First Place
Sue Cannon — Best Newspaper Promotion Ad, Series or Section — Third Place
Separatists vow to defy police ultimatum over Catalan vote
BARCELONA, Spain — Catalan separatists vowed Saturday to ignore a police ultimatum to leave the schools they are occupying to use in a vote seeking independence from Spain. As police methodically sealed off hundreds of schools, some parents decided to send their children home and girded for pre-dawn confrontations Sunday with police.
Tensions rose across the country over the planned vote. In the Spanish capital of Madrid, thousands marched to protest the separatists’ attempt to break up their nation, demanding that Catalan leaders be sent to jail. In Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, thousands more also took to the streets to urge their prosperous region to stay united with Spain.
The police deadline of 6 a.m. Sunday for the activists, parents and children in the occupied Catalan schools is designed to prevent the vote from taking place, since the polls are supposed to open three hours later.
Amid outcry over Confederate markers, new ones going up
ATLANTA — While Confederate statues and monuments around the nation get removed, defaced, covered up or toppled, some new memorials are being erected, by people who insist their only purpose is to honor the soldiers who died for the South.
Supporters of these new Civil War monuments describe a determination to hold onto their understanding of history.
“What I want to get across is how much the South suffered, not only through the war but after the war, during the Reconstruction years,” said David Coggins. His Confederate Veterans Memorial Park in Brantley, Alabama, dedicated a memorial to “Unknown Alabama Confederate Soldiers” in September.
Others say race has nothing to do with these new monuments, unlike those erected in the early 20th century.
Mormon leader reaffirms faith’s opposition to gay marriage
SALT LAKE CITY — A top Mormon leader reaffirmed the religion’s opposition to same-sex marriage on Saturday during a church conference — and reminded followers watching around the world that children should be raised in families led by a married man and woman no matter what becomes the norm in a “declining world.”
The speech by Dallin H. Oaks, a member of a top governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, followed a push in recent years by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to uphold theological opposition to gay marriage amid widespread social acceptance while trying to foster an empathetic stance toward LGBT people.
“We have witnessed a rapid and increasing public acceptance of cohabitation without marriage and same-sex marriage. The corresponding media advocacy, education, and even occupational requirements pose difficult challenges for Latter-day Saints,” Oaks said. “We must try to balance the competing demands of following the gospel law in our personal lives and teachings even as we seek to show love for all.”