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NewWest.Net/Boise and Editor Jill Kuraitis Win Top Honors at Idaho Press Club Awards
By Courtney Lowery, 5-03-09
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NewWest.Net/Boise and its editor Jill Kuraitis cleaned up last night at the Idaho Press Club awards, taking home two first-place and three second-place awards.
Jill and NewWest.Net/Boise won 1st place for “General Excellence” in Web sites and Jill also earned first place in the the “Best Online News or Feature Story” category for her piece, ”Commissioner Sends Racist Email Using Official Account” which broke news of the hubbub over Canyon County Commissioner Steve Rule using his government email account to distribute an email comparing Michelle Obama to a poisonous black widow spider.
Jill also won second place in the “General Column,” “Specialty Column” and “Best Online News or Feature Story.”
See the list of NewWest.Net/Boise’s awards below and click here for a full list of the other award winners:
GENERAL COLUMN
1st Katherine Jones – Idaho Statesman – “Mother’s hands; Rose Beal; Paralyzed from the neck down”
2nd Jill Kuraitis – NewWest.Net/Boise – “Listening to Joe; Thankful for Thanksgiving Without Pirates; Important Potato Lessons from Idaho”
3rd Dan Popkey – Idaho Statesman – “Otter disses Mayor Bieter; Boise County brace yourself for Prosecutor Twilegar; Sali’s loss is Idaho Republican Party’s gain”
SPECIALTY COLUMN
1st Michael Deeds – Idaho Statesman – “Entertainment column”
2nd Jill Kuraitis – NewWest.Net/Boise – selection of three
3rd Melissa Davlin – Times-News – “Sweat Assessment – selection of three”
WEBSITE - GENERAL EXCELLENCE - ONLINE DIVISION
1st Jill Kuraitis, editor – NewWest.Net/Boise
2nd David R. Frazier – Boise Guardian – www.boiseguardian.com
BEST ONLINE NEWS OR FEATURE STORY
1st Jill Kuraitis – NewWest.Net/Boise – “Commissioner Sends Racist Email Using Official Account”
2nd Jill Kuraitis – NewWest.Net/Boise – “Dramatic Idaho House Race May Reflect a Changing West”
3rd Rebecca Meany – URS Washington Division
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Comments
Congratulations on the awards my dear good friend. And I have that photo of the Larry Craig bathroom stall to send you, I know it's late, but I haven't caught a flight from Minneapolis in a few months and my photos are all back logged.
Miss ya!
And seriously, do you have those sandwiches for me still? Cause sista, I'm freakin' starvin' out here!
Congrats again! (on the award, not the pastrami)
(you sit on a bucket on a frozen lake with the wind whipping your face and the temperature at 24-below zero and wait to catch a fish. And then when you do, it's a five-inch walleye. Great fun!)
A few years ago there was an article published in the Idaho Statesman. It was in regards to remembering your Mother's Hands. I want to say their was a picture of an older ladies hands along with a very strongly written article about what a Mother's hands go through in a lifetime. At the end of the article the person was remembering what their Mother's hands looked like once she passed on.
I have always loved that article and would it from time to time thinking about my own Mom. I had it bookmarked in my web browser, but I guess articles only stay active for so long because I can no longer "get" to the article. This website is where I was taken when I did a search on Yahoo.com. I hope this is the correct place.
I have a very close friend to me who's mother was just diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. She was originally given months to live but now the doctors see the cancer has spread so much that her prognosis is now only weeks. Her Mom is her best friend just as my Mom is mine.
I would like to see if you have this article that I'm talking about and could please e-mail it to me. If you have the photo that went along with the article that would be great as well.
Thank You,
Justin Brown
Emmett, ID