Yarmouth Vanguard wins national newspaper awards

It’s awards time in the newspaper industry and the Yarmouth Vanguard has just earned a couple first place awards in a national community newspaper competition.

In all the newspaper has been awarded five national awards, which also includes a second place finish and two third place finishes.



We’re extremely pleased and proud and appreciate the recognition these awards bring to our newspaper and our community.



Our series of stories, After the Crash, won first place in the Canadian Community Newspapers Association’s best feature series competition. The 21-page series, with contributions from every member of the editorial staff, detailed the aftermath of serious car crashes and highlighted how these crashes affected drivers and passengers who were seriously hurt, and in some cases, killed.



Our coverage of Canadian Idol finalist Dwight d’Eon led to the compilation of a special section devoted to the West Pubnico singer’s rise to national fame and that section was judged to be the best special section in the CCNA’s annual competition.



A photo essay by associate editor Tina Comeau that captured the images of d’Eon’s mini concert at the Mariners Centre last August was awarded second place in the Best Photo Essay category.



A submission by Vanguard editor Fred A. Hatfield detailing the story of a photograph he took which appeared on the front page of the Globe and Mail newspaper after a boatload of Sikhs landed ashore in Charlesville in 1987 was judged third best historical story in the CCNA’s competition.



As well, a feature photo taken by Hatfield of some kids walking along a sidewalk in Berwick inside empty appliance boxes earned him a third place award in the Best Feature Photo category.



Ther Vanguard has won national awards in this competition for the past several years – for instance last year the newspaper picked up three first place and one second place award.

Some of the newspaper’s stories and photos have been entered in other national and regional competitions, the results of which have not yet been announced.



Each year there are thousands of entries in the CCNA competition in a variety of categories.