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Writer's Awards Contest Winners

Past Winning Entries
Following is a list of the winning entries since the beginning of the contest. If the article has been published in the JCHC's magazine, Historically Jeffco, the date of the issue is indicated in parentheses after the author's name. All winners were in the Open (adult) Category unless noted otherwise.

2011
Adult Long Essay: "Camp George West: A History" by Jerry Grunska
Adult Long Essay: "Through the Glass, Darkly: The Stained Glass of Calvary Episcopal Church" by Patricia Hale Killian, PhD

2010
Adult Short Essay: "Delivering People, Goods and Mail" by Patricia Jurgens
Adult Long Essay: "Spivak, Colorado - Historical Haven for Health" by Lia Woodall
Special Merit: "Standing at the Confluence" by Erica D. Walker

2009

Adult Short Essay: "De Forest Colorado, Birthplace of the Electronic Age, or the Forgotten Home of a Two Million Dollar Fraud" by Wayne Gilbert
Adult Long Essay:  "Picnic with Jacques Benedict" by Alice Bakemeir

2008

Adult Short Essay:  "The Lady was a Horse Thief" by Edna Fiore
Adult Log Essay: "The Shattucks of South Elk Creek" by David Nelson

2007

First Place Winner: "Roscoe, Jeffco's Popular, Prolific Placer" by Beth Simmons
Second Place: "Barbara Crane, A Woman's Life in 20th Century Jefferson County" by Pat Jurgens

2005

First Place Winner: "Three Town Founders on the North Fork" by Lee Heideman
Second Place: "A Small Homestead" by Virginia Faluso
Youth Prize Winner: "Great Memories of Red Rocks" by Alex Jorgensen

2004

1st: "The Kidnap-Murder of Adolph Coors III" by Jerry Grunska (2004)
2nd: "The White Ash Mine Disaster" by Scott Bloemendaal (2004)
Honorable Mention: "History of Coal Creek Canyon Volunteer Fire Department" by Janice Brescia (2004)

2003

1st: "Traceries: 1800s Railroads in Jefferson County by Gerald Grunska
Honorable Mention: "Prohibition in Republican County" by Martha H. Martin

2002

1st: "Pleasant Park . . . in the beginning" by Karen Land Cranford
2nd: "Ralston Remains" by Martha N. Martin
Honorable Mention: "Poultry and Fertilizer: A Notable Life's Work" by Fran Hackethal

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2001

1st: "Shaffer's Crossing: A Moment in Time" by Karen Land Cranford (2001)

2nd: "County of Vivian" by Martha N. Martin (2001)

Honorable Mention: "Colorado Industrial School for Girls: 120 Years of Youth Detention in South Jeffco" by Dawn Bunyak

Honorable Mention: "Wild, Wild Edgewater" by Celora Cory Jones (2001)

Honorable Mention: "Influence of the Narrow Gauge Railroad on Small Mountain Communities" by Larry and Joyce Wagley

1st: (Youth) "Amazing Jefferson County Historic Sites" by Melissa Morningstar (2001)

2nd: (Youth) "Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini" by Jillian Mestdagh (2001)

Honorable Mention: (Youth) "The Tower Farm of Lookout Mountain" by Eric Hislop (2001)

Honorable Mention: "A History of the Colorado School of Mines" by Tess B. Oram

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2000

1st: "Pine Valley Ranch Park" by Dorothy J. Donovan (2000)

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1999

1st: "Beer, Bullets, Bombs, and Beyond: A History of Jefferson County's Biggest Employeers" by John Dellinger (1999)

2nd: "Denver's Genesee Park" by David E. Peri (1999)

Youth Category

1st: "Rocky Flats: A Military-Industrial Pandora's Box" by Guy Iseley (1999)

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1998

1st: "A Golden Summer Vacation" by Kenneth Shupe (1998)

2nd: "Growing Pascal Celery in Arvada" by Lawrence Lotito (1998)

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1997

1st: "Dream Catcher: A Brief History of the John Brisben Walker Legacy" by Ellen B. Kessler (1997)

2nd: "For Ten Dollars & Love and Affection: The Dr. Gilbert I. Lininger Story" by Beverly Anne Evans (1998)

Honorable Mention: "The Unrecognized... The First White Explorers in Jefferson County" by Michael Moore

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1996

1st: "Mountains of Memories, Mountains of Dreams: A History of Skiing in Jefferson County" by John  McMillin (1997)

2nd: "The Search for Bradford" by Gerald J. Thomas (1997)

Youth Category:

1st: "Golden in the 19th Century" by Damir Makic (1997)

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1995

1st: "A Visit to Conifer: The Story of the Yellow Barn" by Dorothy J. Donovan (Winter 1995)

2nd: "The Civilian Conservation Corps" by Jay R. Ferguson (Summer 1996)

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1994

1st: "Home of Champions" by Robert J. Olson (Winter 1994)

2nd: "George West and the Western Mountaineer" by Betty Moynihan (Summer 1995)

Honorable Mention: "Tourism in Evergreen: Where Have All the Tourists Gone?" by Vanita G. Cosper  (Summer 1995)

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1993

1st: "Faded Lady: The Story of Troutdale-in-the-Pines" by Vanita G. Cosper (Winter 1993)

2nd: "Beautiful Belmar" by Dorothy J. Donovan (Summer 1994)

Honorable Mention: "The Leyden Mine Fire: Prelude, Disaster and Aftermath" by Ellen Schoening Aiken (Winter 1994)

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1992

1st: "Adolph Kuhrs: And the Founding of His Brewery" by Robert J. Olson (Winter 1992)

2nd: "Jeffco Loves to Read" by Dorothy J. Donovan (Summer 1993)

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1991

1st: "The Blue House Remembers" by Dorothy J. Donovan (Winter 1991)

2nd: "Public Education in Wheat Ridge" by Robert J. Olson (Summer 1992)

Honorable Mention: "A View of Jefferson County's Rather Historical Weather Occurrences" by Mary Jo Regier (Summer 1996)

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1990

1st: "Lakeside Amusement Park" by Robert J. Olson (Winter 1990)

2nd: "Thunder Lizards in Our Midst" by Carla F. Black (Summer 1991)

Honorable Mention: "Arthur Lakes" by Patricia A. Jones (Summer 1991)

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1989

1st: "Tiny Town" by Carla F. Black (Winter 1989)

2nd: "The Land Persists: The History of the White Ranch Park" by Robert F. Bond (Summer 1990)

Honorable Mention: "A Tour of Golden's Railroads" by Dan Abbott (Winter 1991)

Honorable Mention: "The Suburbanization Process of Eastern Jefferson County, 1889--1941" by Robert J.  Olson (Summer 1994)

Honorable Mention: "Kittredge, The Heart of Bear Creek Canyon" by Sandy Nadeau (Winter 1995)

Honorable Mention: "The Everett Bank Failure of 1884: Lessons for Today" by Gay Booth Greenleaf  (Summer 1996)

Youth Category

1st: "A Study of Lakewood" by Jason Graham

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1988

1st: "What-No Jail?" by Georgina Brown

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