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Better Newspapers Competition (BCN)
General Excellence (Spring)

This annual competition honours general excellence in Alberta weekly newspaper publishing.
Categories are based on size of community.

In each of these groups, awards are then presented for excellence in General Excellence, Best Front Page, Best Editorial Page and Best Sports Page.

Independent publishers from outside of Alberta generally compose the judging committee and the awards are presented during the annual Spring Meetings held by the Association.

The following are the newspapers that won the 2007 General Excellence BNC. The presentation was made at the Association’s Spring Meeting in June 2008.
Entries submitted were for the weeks of: April 30-May 6; September 17-23, 2007.

Class A:  Under 1,299

Judge: Brad Dupuis, Shellbrook Chronicle

Best Front Page

1. Ft Macleod Gazette
2. Wainwight Review
3. Elk Point Review

Best Sports Page

1. Wainwright Review
2. Ft Macleod Gazette
3. Vauxhall Advance

Best Editorial Page

1. Nanton News
2. Ft Macleod Gazette
3. Bashaw Star

Best All Around

1. Ft Macleod Gazette
2. Wainwright Review
3. Nanton News

Class B:  1,300 - 1,999

Judge:  Terry Villeneuve, Meadow Lake Northern Pride

Best Front Page

1. Wainwright Star Chronicle
2. Grande Cache Mountaineer
3. Crowsnest Pass Promoter

Best Sports Page

1. Wainwright Star Chronicle
2. High Prairie South Peace News
3. Claresholm Local Press

Best Editorial Page

1. Crowsnest Pass Promoter
2. High Prairie South Peace News
3. Ft. Smith Slave River Journal

Best All Around

1. High Prairie South Peace News
2. Wainwright Star Chronicle
3. Ft. Simpson Deh Cho Drum

Class C:  2,000 – 3,499

Judge: Brad Brown, Kipling Citizen

Best Front Page

1. Eckville Echo
2. Vulcan Advocate
3. Lacombe Globe

Best Sports Page

1. Lacombe Globe
2. Taber Times
3. Lac La Biche Post

Best Editorial Page

1. Taber Times
2. Whitecourt Star
3. Hinton Parklander

Best All Around

1. Lacombe Globe
2. Taber Times
3. Vulcan Advocate

Class D:  3,500 – 6,499

Judges:  Janice Jewsbury and Lesley Shepard, Moose Jaw Times-Herald

Best Front Page

1. Strathmore Standard
2. Drumheller Valley Times
3. Stettler Independent/ Yellowknife Yellowknifer

Best Sports Page

1. St. Paul Journal
2. Brooks Bulletin
3. Beaumont News

Best Editorial Page

1. Stettler Independent
2. Brooks Bulletin
3. Redwater Tribune/ Coaldale Sunny South News

Best All Around

1. Yellowknife Yellowknifer
2. Stettler Independent
3. Beaumont News

Class E:  6,500 – 12,499

Judge: Marlene Gaudry, Estevan Mercury

Best Front Page

1. Fort Saskatchewan Record
2. Brooks & County Chronicle
3. Cochrane Times

Best Sports Page

1. Fort Saskatchewan Record
2. High River Times
3. Cochrane Times

Best Editorial Page

1. Cochrane Times
2. High River Times
3. Wainwright Edge

Best All Around

1. Cochrane Times
2. Fort Saskatchewan Record
3. High River Times

Class F:  12,500 and over

Judge: Kevin Weedmark, Moosomin World Spectator

Best Front Page

1. St. Albert Gazette
2. Red Deer Express
3. St. Albert Saint City News

Best Sports Page

1. Okotoks Western Wheel
2. St. Albert Saint City News
3. Sherwood Park News

Best Editorial Page

1. Red Deer Express
2. St. Albert Gazette
3. St. Albert Saint City News/Irricana Rocky View Weekly

Best All Around

1. St. Albert Gazette
2. St. Albert Saint City News
3. Red Deer Express