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Many of the awards were presented at this week s Illinois Press Association virtual convention.
The work includes five first-place awards four from the Illinois Press Association, one from the Illinois Associated Press Media Editors during contests judged by journalists from the North Carolina Press Association. It also includes an award from the nationwide Associated Press Sports Editors contest.
The Journal Star also placed second in the sweepstakes category for medium-sized daily papers, based on the strength of its individual awards. The paper competes against suburban and downstate media outlets including the (Springfield) State Journal Register, Rockford Register-Star, the (Bloomington) Pantagraph and the Northwest Herald of Crystal Lake. The News-Gazette of Champaign won the division s trophy for the seventh consecutive year.
Are you hesitant about getting vaccinated for COVID-19? The Journal Star would like to hear from you.
Vaccine hesitancy is not a new thing, but it’s taken on a new sense of urgency with COVID-19. Area health departments are doing everything they can to get as many people vaccinated as possible, but it’s difficult when there are a lot of reasons people shy away from getting that shot.
What’s holding you back? Feel free to comment below. Please note your responses may be used in a Journal Star article. You can also contact Journal Star reporter Leslie Renken directly at lrenken@pjstar.com or (309) 270-8503.
Feels like home: Peoria nurse is opening a small assisted living facility in north Peoria
Journal Star (Peoria, IL)
Peoria early this summer, it will fulfill a longtime vision of
Peoria resident
Erin Taylor Nevitt.
As an advanced practice nurse, Nevitt has worked with older people throughout most of her career, and she has long dreamed of opening a small, home-like, senior care facility. I m offering something a little different in the city for people who like living in the city, but don t want to go into a larger, corporate-owned facility, said Nevitt. You hear a lot about the home-like setting everybody says that, everybody advertises that. . But I truly wanted to design the building so it actually resembles a home.