Pilot earns six Press Club awards for 2011 work

Pilot staff members Orin Pierson, Ron Loesch and Keith Chaplain earned six awards at last weekend's Alaska Press Club conference in Anchorage. The awards were for work done in 2011 and were entered in the small newspaper category.

Pierson took second and third place for page one layouts published on May 5 and 12 and second for best picture story entitled Jewels and Cowboys published on May 12.

Loesch received first place honors for best scenic photo for “Layers of Solitude” published on July 28 and second place in the same category for “Bubblenet Feeders” published on Sept. 22.

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