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Maryland 20878® magazine is published once a month with some of the articles being updated quarterly. News items may be updated more frequently as appropriate. Items more specific to Kentlands and Lakelands are located at KentLakes™ .

We began in Kentlands as Kentlands Dot Us and quickly gained readers, contributors, and advertisers in Lakelands and then in the general Gaithersburg area—including both the 20878 and 20877 areas. We thank our readers, contributors, and advertisers who have made us successful.

Editor:
M. H. Perry

Managing Editor:
Aurelia Carter

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Contributors: Craig Bouquin · Terry Brennan · Maureen Green · Michele Hiczewski · Harvey Kaye · Shari Kersch · Lauren Kingsland · Graceann Macleod · Rick Marvin · Charles Miess · Nancy Millman · Kevin P. Nielsen · Marie O'Donnell · Franklyn Perry · Tiffany Perry · Erin Pickett · Louis P. Solomon · Charles Sullivan

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Posted July 2007

Four Maryland 20878® writers win APEX 2007 Awards including a Grand Award!

Marien Helz has been awarded the APEX 2007 Grand Award in the category Writing for the writing series, Growing Up in Gaithersburg published in Maryland 20878®. The series covers a wide span of topics ranging from being a “paper boy” in the 1950s to a Gaithersburg child who put himself in “Grave Danger” playing in the street in 2006. The articles are inspired by events in Helz’s years growing up, and nearly always have the phrase, “growing up in Gaithersburg,” somewhere in the column. Helz won an Apex Award of Excellence 2005 for an editorial published in Word Worth^®—World magazine of Ideas and the Arts in 2004.

Charles Miess won an Apex Award of Excellence for his column, “Superlatives Grow as the Standards Go” published in the July 2006 issue of Maryland 20878. This is Miess’s fifth Apex award (two received this year), with his first being a Grand Award for “A Journey into Darkness” published in Word Worth^® in August, 2003. The Apex judges had this to say about Miess’s Grand Award column: “What a beautiful story, riveting, with powerful imagery and a warm, inviting style that draws you in and won't let you go. A marvelous example of wordcraft.”

Graceann Maciolek, another 20878 columnist, has also won an Apex Award of Excellence for a column published in Word Worth in May of 2006. In that column, Maciolek writes about her mother who died when Maciolek was just twenty-two years old. Maciolek’s column is extremely moving without a trace of sentimentality.

M. H. Perry, editor of Maryland 20878, has also received an Apex Award for an editorial published in Word Worth, “Rediscovering Rupert Brooke.”

APEX 2007—the 19th Annual Awards for Publication Excellence—is an international competition that recognizes outstanding publications from newsletters and magazines to annual reports, brochures and Web sites.

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The initial selection process for the Apex Awards involves writers, editors, publishers, and agencies selecting their very best work to submit for awards. From approximately 5000 entries, judges select the works which they deem to represent excellence in graphic design, editorial content, writing, and the success of the entry in achieving overall communications effectiveness and excellence. Only about a third meet the high standards set by the judges for an Award of Excellence. Of those, the work of approximately two percent are considered to be of the caliber worthy of a Grand Award.

According to the APEX 2007 judges, "The awards were based on excellence in graphic design, quality of editorial content and the success of the entry in conveying the message and achieving overall communications effectiveness." Of 4916 entries this year, a total of 114 APEX Grand Awards were presented in 11 major categories to honor the outstanding works in those categories.

The APEX Awards for Publication Excellence is an annual competition for writers, editors, publications staff and business and nonprofit communicators. It is sponsored by Communications Concepts, Inc., publishers of business communication reports.

In the Nineteenth Annual APEX Awards, awards were given in 105 communications categories, in 11 main categories including: newsletters; magazines and journals; magapapers and newspapers; annual reports; brochures, manuals and reports; electronic and video publications; Web and intranet sites; campaigns, programs and plans; writing; design and illustration; and one-of-a-kind publications.

Maryland 20878® began as Kentlands Dot Us magazine for Kentlands and quickly expanded to cover the wider surrounding region. It is published by Aurora Artisans^®LLC which also publishes Word Worth^®, and KentLakes^™, and Kentlands Dot Us magazines.

Kentlands Dot Us is the recipient of the 2006 Apex Award for excellence in publication.

We are pleased to announce that our columnists Marien Helz, Graceann Macleod, Charles Miess, and M. H. Perry are each recipients of Apex Awards.

Marien Helz has been awarded the APEX 2007 Grand Award in the category Writing for the writing series, Growing Up in Gaithersburg published in Maryland 20878®. The series covers a wide range of topics ranging from being a “paper boy” in the 1950s to a Gaithersburg child who put himself in “Grave Danger” playing in the street in 2006. The articles are inspired by events in Helz’s years growing up, and nearly always have the phrase, “growing up in Gaithersburg,” somewhere in the column. Helz won an Apex Award of Excellence 2005 for an editorial published in Word Worth^®—World magazine of Ideas and the Arts in 2004.

Charles Miess won an Apex Award for his column, Superlatives Grow and the Standards Go, which appeared in Maryland 20878 in July, 2006.

Graceann Maciolek, who writes our Destinations column, is the author of the column “Scents Memory” in the award winning issue of Word Worth^®.

M. H. Perry received an Apex Award for the editorial in Word Worth, “Rediscovering Rupert Brooke.”

The initial selection process for the Apex Awards involves writers, editors, publishers, and agencies selecting their very best work to submit for awards. From approximately 5000 entries, judges select the works which they deem to represent excellence in graphic design, editorial content, writing, and the success of the entry in achieving overall communications effectiveness and excellence. The very best entries are selected for Grand Awards.

Apex Awards are given by Communications Concepts, Inc.

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