Senior Citizens Club donates to Relay For Life

Published 6:33 pm Wednesday, February 1, 2017

: (Mike Voss/Daily News)

Loretta Bailey, a 25-year cancer survivor, displays the $250 check the Pamlico Senior Citizens Club gave to the 2017 Beaufort County Relay for Life fundraising campaign as a corporate sponsor. Bailey, whose husband Luther is a five-year cancer survivor, reminds corporate sponsors and cancer survivors it’s time to sign up for the 2017 Beaufort County Relay for Life campaign. Corporate sponsors and cancer survivors may sign up by contacting Bailey at 252-946-3191.

About Mike Voss

Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.