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Linda Worthinton
UM Connection Staff

The Baltimore-Washington Conference Communications staff was recognized for its excellence at the annual meeting of the United Methodist Association of Communicators Oct. 14-17 in Providence, R.I.

The local communicators were presented with 10 awards.

The UMConnection was named the top annual conference newspaper in the denomination.

Melissa Lauber won the Don Doten Award of Excellence as the best writer in the denomination. She also received the Excellence in Writing in the Print News category for her story, "Shalom Comes to City Streets" and was recognized for "Best Annual Conference Writing," in the feature story category.

Kate Thomas, the conference graphic designer, received four awards for her work.

She was honored with the Best Visual Design award for annual conferences for the photo "Poured Out," from the 2008 conference poster.

Thomas also won a certificate of merit in visual design for her work on the Oct. 3, 2007, issue of the UMConnection.

In addition, she received a merit award for the design of the conference Web site at www.bwcumc.org .

Tom Price won the Multimedia Certificate of Merit for his short video MAC/PC parody; and an "Award of Excellence for Videos under $10,000" for his video on opening worship at the 2008 annual conference.