Monthly News Clip Contest

Monthly News Clip Contest

Sep 2009: Region 7
1st Place General News: “Like Father, Like Daughter”
John Schreiber/Columbia Missourian

Missouri National Guard Cap. Jordan Clark of Shawnee, Kan., left center, playfully sticks his tongue out to mimic his daughter, Abigail , 1, right center, before the start of a deployment ceremony at the Ike Skelton National Guard Training Site in Jefferson City, Mo., Thursday, Sep. 3, 2009. Captain Clark and sixty other National Guard soldiers with the Agri-Business Development Team III will soon be deployed to Afghanistan to provide agricultural training and assistance to Afghan citizens.

Judges’ comments for the category

First Place: Very touching father daughter moment. Very different from what we usually see from these type of events. Second Place: Great reaction on the kids. Third Place: Sad moment. We could have liked to have know their names but the moment was powerful.

Clyde Mueller, Natalie Guillen, Luis Sanchez Saturno

View results from region: 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10

R7 regional point tally

(year to date; the top 10 places are shown, plus ties)

700
J Forbes/Saint Louis Post -Dispatch
510
Rick McFarland/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
468
David Carson/St. Louis Post Dispatch
442
Stephen Thornton/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
400
EMILY RASINSKI/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
316
Benjamin Krain/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
252
Larry Singer/The El Dorado News-Times
240
Eric Keith/Saint Joseph News-Press
Michael Woods/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
220
Tanner Spendley/Texarkana Gazette