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Weekly-Times wins awards
The Los Gatos Weekly-Times won awards for editorial pages, design and photography in this year's California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspapers Contest in the 11,001- to 25,000-circulation category.
Editor Dale Bryant won first place for the op-ed section, editorial production manager Robin Mendez won second place for the newspaper's layout and design, and photographer George Sakkestad won a first for his photo essay on a woman dealing with life as a quadraplegic.
The weekly's sister paper, the Cupertino Courier, which is also owned by Metro Newspapers also picked up three awards: first place for a feature photo, and two second-place awards in the public service and feature story categories.
Metro, the weekly alternative newspaper published by Metro Publishing, picked up a second-place award for writing.
Disaster plan for Monte Sereno
City officials in Monte Sereno, mindful that the possibility of disaster is always out there, have put out a disaster awareness book for residents that gives advice on how to deal with wildfires, earthquakes and other natural disasters that might plague the hills.
Called the Hillside Evacuation and Survival Guide, the booklet recently went out to all 1,100 households in the city.
The book includes instructions on fire prevention (and how to keep children from lighting fires), how to survive a wildfire, what to do during and after an earthquake, building a home emergency supply kit, how to prepare for an evacuation and who to call in an emergency. Hint: it's always 9-1-1.
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