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Metro Newspapers Wins Awards

At the July 27 awards dinner for the California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspapers Contest, Metro Newspapers writers, designers and editors picked up the following laurels. Metro First Place, Best Editorial Cartoon: Steven DeCinzo for his Oct. 5, 1995, cartoon on the O.J. Simpson verdict ("The LAPD Beatings," showing police getting hit by O.J. jurors) Second Place, Best Writing: J. Douglas Allen Taylor's essay for the Nov. 9, 1995, Literary Quarterly on reading in the post-multimedia world. Saratoga News First Place, Best Editorial Cartoon: Steven DeCinzo (Dec. 20, 1995, cartoon commenting on high rate of disability claims among sheriff's deputies) Los Gatos Weekly-Times First place, Best Design: Robin Mendez, Sept. 20 and 27 First Place, Best Editorial Cartoon: Steven DeCinzo, for his Dec. 20, 1995, cartoon (depicting a PG&E Christmas party with PG&E execs making fun of customers) First Place, Best Editorial Pages: Dale Bryant, editor, April 12 and 26, 1995, issues Metro Santa Cruz First Place, Best Investigative Story: Ami Chen Mills for Nov. 22, 1995, story on a yoga guru and his widow's tax problems. Second Place, Best Feature Story: Michael Mechanic for Sept. 14, 1995, article on cockfighting Second Place, Design: Roberta Kiphuth and Michael Kay, Sept. 21 and 28, 1995 Sonoma Independent First Place, Feature Writing: Editor Greg Cahill for article about the mutual manipulation between crime crusader Marc Klaas and the news media Second Place, Best Editorial Comment: Editor Greg Cahill Second Place, Lifestyles Coverage: Arts editor Gretchen Giles and longtime contributor Sara Peyton shared the award -- Giles for a story about the child abuse inflicted on a west county resident, and Peyton for an article about people meeting their soulmates through the romance personals Second Place, Sports Coverage: Contributor Bill English won for an article about Sonoma Crusher owner Bob Fletcher's effort to bring professional baseball back to the county