Mayor honors Washington volunteer
Published 5:37 pm Friday, November 27, 2015
MIKE VOSS | DAILY NEWS
VENERABLE VOLUNTEER: Washington Mayor Mac Hodges (right) reads accomplishments of Katie Lake, president of Friends of the Brown Library, who was named the 2015 Frannie Ashburn Volunteer of the Year for the state’s northeast region. Lake was recognized by Hodges during the City Council’s meeting Monday. The awards are made by the Friends of North Carolina Public Libraries. In 2007, FONCPL decided to begin an awards program to recognize volunteer work of individual “friends” of public libraries in North Carolina. The award is named for the woman who served as the liaison between the State Library and FONCPL. Lake was presented $150 for use by Friends of the Brown Library. Lake was honored for scheduling speakers at the library, sorting donated books, counting money raised during the library’s annual book sale, helping set up the library’s webpage and other efforts to enhance the library’s presence in the community.
About Mike Voss
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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