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Mail Tribune brings home awards in contest REDMOND � The Mail Tribune garnered 14 awards � including first places in business and economics issues and best sports page � in the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association�s 2000 Better Newspaper Contest. The awards were announced Friday during the association�s annual Summer Publishers Convention at Eagle Crest. The Mail Tribune won best coverage of business and economic issues for its "Our Valley: Faces of Technology" special section. The news staff�s annual project examined the effects of technology in Southern Oregon. Sports Editor Tim Trower and his staff won for best sports page as well as third places for best Sunday sports page and best sports story. The story, "Sully�s loss leaves broken hearts," about a high school athlete who was killed in an automobile accident, was written by Don Hunt. The Mail Tribune won six second places: best inside page design; best special section for "Story of a Century," chronicling the major historical events that shaped Jackson County and written by JoNel Aleccia, Mark Freeman and Bill Kettler; best lifestyle coverage for Paul Fattig�s "Healing the wounds of war," a series on a Medford woman�s humanitarian journey to Vietnam; best news photo for Jim Craven�s photo of a fire that destroyed Carpenter Hill Inn; best editorial for "No GPID bailout," on the controversial Savage Rapids Dam; and best Web site, designed by Sherri Camp. The Mail Tribune finished third in general excellence, behind The Oregonian of Portland and the Register-Guard of Eugene. Other third places besides sports were: best inside page design; best feature story for Aleccia�s "99 in �99: highway fades into obscurity," a series on Highway 99; best editorial for "Our village"; and best silk purse story (turning a sow�s ear of a news story into a silk purse) for Mark Freeman�s "Victoria has a new secret," a story on a high school boy working at Victoria�s Secret. The Mail Tribune staff also received an honorable mention in best special section for the "Our Valley" technology edition. The Mail Tribune competed against The Oregonian, the Register-Guard and the Statesman Journal of Salem in Division A of the contest, for daily newspapers with a circulation of 25,000 or more. Other Southern Oregon newspapers also received ONPA awards. The Daily Tidings in Ashland won two first places, for best sports photo and feature story, one second place and two thirds for dailies with circulation of 10,000 or less. The Grants Pass Daily Courier won four first places � in education coverage, lifestyle coverage, sports story and feature photo � as well as five seconds and five thirds � including general excellence � for daily newspapers with 10,000 to 25,000 circulation. Obituaries | Sports | Business | Classifieds | Tempo | Prime Times | So Oregon Sites | Outdoor Journal | Subscribe | Contact | Movies | Advertise | Real Estate Showcase | Archive | Editorials | Letters to the editor | Religion | Wake-up Call | NIE | Cyber Chef | Job Network | So Oregon Weather | WSJ Northwest | Forums | AP Wire | AP Money | F.A.Q. | Awards Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. The Community Newspaper Subsidiary of Dow Jones & Co, Inc Copyright �The Mail Tribune 2000, Medford, Oregon USA