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We’re
Growing,
We’re
Winning,
We’re
Celebrating
at
Fifty-Five Plus
Magazine!
It’s a milestone year for Fifty-Five Plus. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Ottawabased
magazine has earned 16 accolades at the 2008 National Mature Media
Awards, for a total of 75 awards for excellence since 2001. The magazine has also
topped 100,000 circulation in Ontario.
Talk about a home-grown success story! In fact Fifty-Five Plus is the only mature
market publication in Ottawa to win for 2008 and the only one in the entire province to
win so many awards this year.
The local business, which features area writers, photographers and designers, has
consistently achieved highest honours – including plenty of gold – since Kanata’s Coyle
Publishing Inc. took over the reigns several years ago.
While some publications collect kudos thanks to syndicated stories and photos, the
community-based efforts of Fifty-Five Plus have garnered acclaim across the continent.
This year, the publication accomplished top marks in a broad range of categories,
from writing to photography to overall excellence.
Commended for their articles on grandparenting, Peggy
Edwards and Mary Jane Sterne won gold for “What Were We
Thinking” and silver for “Mothers and Grandmothers.”
Almonte’s Iris Winston tallied three wins, including gold for
“Flying High on Vintage Wings” and bronze for “An
Animated Life.” Shelagh Needham was recognized with silver
for “Dupuytren’s Contracture.”
Nepean’s Pam Dillon earned awards, including silver
and bronze, for four stories and Catherine Morisset and Vicki
Townson warranted kudos for writing excellence.
Noted photographers Lorraine Brand and Paul Couvrette
also achieved distinction, as did the September 2007 edition
of Fifty-Five Plus.
The National Mature Media Awards competition, in its
17th year, recognizes the finest materials produced for people
aged 50 and older. The top seniors’ magazines in the
United States and Canada submit their best work and in a
field of over 1,000 entries this year, Fifty-Five Plus once
again wowed the judges. So it’s fitting that, after two
decades as a renowned mature market magazine, the publication
is now online, it has upped its circulation to reach
six figures and expanded into the Greater Toronto Area. It’s
a big, exciting move, but readers from across the circulation area can continue to expect
the best. Whether you’re in Ottawa, Toronto, Kingston, Quinte or at www.coylepublishing.com,
you’ll discover topical, informative stories, directed by editor Pat den Boer,
excellent writing and photography, plus clean, eye-catching layout and design, thanks
to PS Design Group.
Fifty-Five Plus publisher George Coyle is delighted with all these achievements.
“We are proud to have earned honours in the National Mature Media Awards every year
we’ve entered.”
“We’re particularly pleased to be recognized for the quality of our publication,
since it’s created by and for people who live right in this region,” says Carole Coyle,
the magazine’s director of promotions and editorial. “Readers – and judges – can tell
the difference.”
Fifty-Five Plus can also be read online at www.coylepublishing.com