*VPA honors Daily staff members with 52 news, ad awards

Daily Staff Report

NORFOLK -- Northern Virginia Daily staff members received 52 awards for excellence in writing, photography, newspaper design and advertising Saturday during a Virginia Press Association conference.

The organization also presented the Daily with its prestigious Sweepstakes award.

The association, which met at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott, also presented its prestigious Sweepstakes award to the Daily, honoring the Strasburg-based newspaper for accumulating the most points in the 2010 editorial awards competition. The Daily competes with Virginia newspapers with daily circulation of up to 20,000.

The Daily, which accumulated 81 points in the association's editorial contest, has won the Sweepstakes competition 11 years in a row and in 20 of the last 23 years.

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