Wednesday, June 23, 2004

OWAA Awards Banquet Here's a quick recap of tonight's OWAA Awards Banquet, held at the conclusion of the 77th annual conference of the Outdoor Writers Association of America in Spokane, WA. More details will follow tomorrow. Jackie Pfeiffer Memorial Award: Sheila Hunter Outstanding Board Member: Phil Bloom Excellence in Craft Award: Boyd Pfeiffer Jade of Chiefs Award: Bob Marshall Ham Brown Award: Jim Casada Other highlights: Incoming president Marty Malin announced the formation of an Ad Hoc committee to study the possibility of changing the name of OWAA to something that better reflecting the diversity of both our organization and the variety of outdoor communicators who are not yet members, in hopes of better reflecting the nature and scope of our organization and what we do. The OWAA board of directors today decided that the 2007 conference will be held in Roanoke, VA. The People's Choice Award in the Nikon Photo Contest went to Bob Rozinski for his color shot of a marsh wren singling as it clung to two reeds. That's it for tonight. Tomorrow, look for a recap of conference highlights, along with Marty Malin's humorous tale of catching rabbits with his brothers as a kid growing up in Grundy County, Iowa. Later... 11:11:33 PM    comment [] OWAA Banquet Tonight in Spokane I'm sitting in the Red Lion Inn at the Park in Spokane, about to head over to the Spokane Convention Center for the banquet that wraps up the annual conference of the Outdoor Writers Association of America. For the next couple days, I'll be blogging from here. I'll start with a quick overview of the conference and then report on my post-conference trip up the Snake River for sturgeon. But right now, I'm off to the banquet. BTW, in case you care, I'll post the awards winners tonight when I get back to my room. later... 7:29:48 PM    comment []

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