The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Beaver wins OCNA for Best Front Page The Oakville Beaver won first place for Best Front Page in the Ontario Community Newspaper Association (OCNA) Better Newspapers Competition (BNC) Friday (May 22). Winners were announced at a gala held at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel. The award-winning entry was for the Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013 front page. It featured a photo of a Canadian flag with a Lancaster bomber as it did a fly past during Remembrance Day services at the Oakville Cenotaph. The feature photo was taken by veteran photographer Riziero Vertolli, who heads up photography for Metroland West Media, Halton Division. John Bkila, Oakville Beaver sub-editor, wrote an accompanying story. The winning entry also contained a story about seniors fighting the elimination of discounts for recreation and memberships by Town Council. Other page elements included a photozone photo displaying a table of poppies serving as a teaser for a photo feature of Remembrance Day at Garth Webb Secondary School. A box at the top of the page drew readers to Bronte Legion's Remembrance Day ceremony and featured a photo of union officials saluting as rain fell. "A clean, snappy look that covers all the bases. Very cool photo, played very big, which is great to see. Very well done," said judge Glenn Mitchell, managing editor of The Morning Star in Vernon, BC, a former director of the B.C. Press Council. "I'm very proud of this award and the true team 9 | Thursday, May 28, 2015 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com The Oakville Beaver won Best Front Page in the Ontario Community Newspapers Association's (OCNA) Better Newspapers Competition (BNC). | Oakville Beaver file photo effort that is behind this win. The Oakville Beaver has a talented staff of reporters and photographers without whom such achievements and the ongoing stellar coverage provided to the community, both in print and online, would not be possible," said Oakville Beaver Managing Editor Angela Blackburn. The win was in the Premier Awards category, for a circulation of more than 10,000.