Helping get that Gator
Published 12:15 am Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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Members of the life skills class at Washington High School donate $350 to the Washington Fire-Rescue-EMS Department’s auxiliary Tuesday. The class raises money by running the Pam Pack Café each month during the school year. The class buys the food, prepares the meals and sells tickets for the meals to WHS faculty members. The auxiliary earmarked the donation to go toward the purchase of a Gator, a small 4x4 utility vehicle that will be used to transport a patient on a stretcher through crowds at events such as Summer Festival or through rough terrain, for the department. (WDN Photo/Mike Voss)
About Mike Voss
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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.
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