We Won!

This is a terrific day for us here at WKAR! We just learned that we won the 2008 PACE Award of Excellence (for "The War: Michigan Voices") in the Community Relations category. They said "Your achievement truly demonstrates the positive impact of public relations."


(This was the one with the notebook that couldn't close! Needless to say, it was worth the hernia we got delivering the entry!)

This morning we also found out “Michigan Voices” won a first in the Michigan Association of Broadcasters competition in the Special Interest Programming category. Plus Ready To Learn won first place in the Best Community Involvement category and "Michigan At Risk: Whatever Happened to Organized Labor" took two first places (Best Hard News/Current Events Story and News/Public Affairs Special).

And, on top of that we were named Michigan Public Television Station of the Year by the MAB for the third year in a row! WKAR Radio also received two MAB awards as well – a first place and an honorable mention!

It's been a very nice day here and I couldn't keep it to myself!

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About Silda Spitzer...

I don’t usually deal with anything political in my blog, and this isn’t either, really. This is just a call for well-meaning (or perhaps not) commentators and journalists (none of whom will read this blog) to stop saying, “Eliott Spitzer’s wife looks so bad. She used to be such a beautiful woman…” and “She’s aged years in the past few days.”

Sorry, folks, but the woman’s been through hell. And probably the last thing she needs on top of everything she’s been through with her husband is to have news commentators to keep talking about how bad she looks. Nothing like being told you really look lousy to add to your already awful day.

I’m sure she had a few more things on her mind than doing her best to look perky.

‘Nuf said. Had to rant.

Little Bits

So, here are a few little bits from my world these days...

First, art! This was too big to scan, but here is the cover of Rick's "year book" (a book of poetry and photos I put together each year for Valentine's Day). I did that over the weekend, along with some St. Paddy's day tags (just need the fringe part!) and some ATCs. It was nice to spend some creative time!


Also spent some time on a shawl for my aunt's 95th birthday. It's March 1, so I need to knit fast!


My work days have been spent coordinating an award entry for our World War II efforts here at the station last year. We had four television programs, two events, online support, fundraising efforts, a radio programming component and a major communications plan. We've been copying, collating, writing the nomination, re-writing the nomination with a vengeance! We'll know in April if we made it!


Finally, today was the first meeting of our informal Weight Watchers group -- several of us who had a WW at Work program a few years ago decided to regroup and meet weekly. Each of us will take a week to chair, we'll share recipes and support for each other and see what we can do. I took "Get Active" and "Exercise" since these are the things I hate the most and therefore need the most motivation for. (I love Richard Simmons and sweatin' to the oldies, but why sweat when you can glue things together?)

The other good thing is that my weight loss exercise class begins Thursday -- a 12-week plan! So, let's see how I do 10 or 12 weeks from now!