Four awards were presented to Colorado Country Life magazine at the annual Willie Awards at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., during the recent National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s Statewide Editors Association’s annual summer institute.
The magazine won first place in the Best Illustration category for the illustration of famous people on the cover of the October 2017 issue. The magazine also received an Award of Merit for the second year in a row for its website coloradocountrylife.coop.
Executive Director Kent Singer received an Award of Merit for a Viewpoint column in the September 2017 issue. Kent wrote how choice is great for craft beers, but not for electricity consumers. And CCL received an Award of Merit for Best Cover for its November 2017 cover of a stack of books surrounded by lightning for the annual book review issue.