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ITD earns 10 Idaho Press Club awards

ITD outreach efforts the past year earned 10 awards, including two first places, from the Idaho Press Club. News media and public relations professionals from throughout the state gathered in Boise Saturday for the awards presentation.

ITD’s communications staff picked up seven awards in the public relations division, including a sweep of the three awards for feature writing.

Mel Coulter received a first for a story about ITD’s District 2 maintenance shed near Powell serving as a haven for motor vehicle crash victims.
Reed Hollinshead took second for his feature on a Garden City police officer’s alternative education program for traffic offenders.
District 6 communications specialist Bruce King rounded out the sweep with third place for a feature on the Pancheri Overpass project.
Steve Grant earned a third-place award for a series of three news releases.

Hollinshead also finished third in the media campaign category for work on the Eagle Road project, and Coulter garnered a third in media kit for producing a winter driving information package.

A team effort to produce an In-Motion video about a mobile web application for pilots took third place in the best online-only category. Steve Grant, Tony Garcia, Rik Hinton, Mike Pape, Mark Lessor and Mark Hall produced the unique iPad tool for pilots who fly into Idaho’s backcountry.

ITD collaborated with public relations consultants for three other awards, including a first place for a U.S. 95 Thorncreek-to-Moscow project video. Production included Rosemary Curtin, Lindsay Woychick, Ken Helm, Adam Rush and Dave Tuttle.

Curtain’s group (RBCI) was a partner in two third-place awards – Karcher Road and Middleton Road intersection project, online public meeting (public service campaign); and U.S. 95 Thorncreek Road-to-Moscow Guide to the Draft Environmental, Statement (special purpose publication).