PR association announces winners of Image Awards

COURTESY PHOTO Grand Image Award Division B winners Andrea Zeller, Mary Briggs, APR, CPRC, Carolyn Rogers, APR and Brad Taylor of Briggs & Rogers Marketing and Public Relations. The Southwest Florida Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association announced the winners of its Local Image Awards competition — "Super- Powered PR."

The Image Awards competition is conducted annually by the FPRA to recognize outstanding public relations programs in Florida and to both encourage and promote the development of public relations professionalism in the state.

Winners of the 2009 Local Image Awards are:

Division A - PR programs

• LCEC Public Relations Team for Restoration on Deadline Media Workshop: Grand All Image Award, Image Award and Judges' Award

• 2008 Becoming Cosmopolitan Committee and Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc. for Becoming Cosmopolitan: Image Award and Judges' Award

• Pamela Nulman, APR, Marie Mosley, APR and Southwest Florida Susan G. Komen for the Cure for the Susan G. Komen Southwest Florida Race for the Cure 2009: Image Award and Judges' Award

• Priority Marketing and Studio RK for Studio RK Salon Campaign: Award of Distinction

• Priority Marketing and Clinic for Rehabilitation of Wildlife for C.R.O.W. Grand Opening: Award of Distinction

• Gooderham & Associates and Tina Haisman, APR, CPRC for American Beach News Service: Image Award and Judges' Award

• Briggs & Rogers for The SWFL Wine& Food Fest: Award of Distinction

• White House Black Market Public Relations Team for From Our White House to Yours: Award of Distinction

• Debra Webb, APR, Dena Geraghty and Susan Bennett Marketing & Media, L.C. for Grande Dames Tea - Lee County PACE Center for Girls: Image Award

• David Parks, Jr., John Rinkenbaugh and Global-5 Communications for the IROX PR Program: Award of Distinction

• Bill Valenti and Lee Golden of Florida Gulf Bank and Phyllis Ershowsky, APR with PKE Marketing & PR Solutions for Florida Gulf Bank's Downtown Detour Survival Program: Award of Distinction

• Samantha Scott and Joseph Donzelli for Blessings in a Backpack - Tice Press Conference: Award of Distinction

• Lee County Port Authority for Berlin Airlift: Honoring a Historic Friendship Between the United States and Germany at Southwest Florida International Airport: Award of Distinction and Judges' Award

• LCEC Public Relations Team for Marco Island Community Forum: Award of Distinction

Division B - Printed tools of public relations

• Briggs & Rogers for Madden Research Loop Announcement: Grand Image Award and Image Award

• Samantha Scott and Derek Scott for On-TRAC Corporate Brochure: Image Award and Judges' Award

• Shell Point Communications Team for Shell Point Larsen Pavilion 5-Star Press Release: Award of Distinction and Judges' Award

• Briggs & Rogers and Mark Iwinski for Old Corkscrew Golf Club: Award of Distinction

• Shell Point Communications Team for the Shell Point Life Monthly Magazine: Award of Distinction

• Samantha Scott and Tiffany Esposito for Children's Advocacy Center Hard Hat Party Items: Award of Distinction

Division C - Audio/visual tools of public relations

• Shell Point Communications Team for Shell Point Today Process Improvement Hiatus: Grand Image Award, Image Award and Judges' Award

• Debra Webb, APR, Dena Geraghty, Todd Schultz with NBC-2, and Susan Bennett Marketing & Media, L.C. for Grande Dames Tea - Lee PACE Center for Girls: Judges' Award

In addition, the Southwest Florida Chapter presented four scholarships to the 2009 Annual Conference, Florida's premier professional development opportunity for public relations professionals. Scholarship winners were Jessica Clark, APR; Phyllis Ershowsky, APR; Tina Haisman, APR, CPRC and Karen Ryan, APR.

For more information about the Southwest Florida Chapter of FPRA, please visit www.fpraswfl.org.