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League of Women Voters – Galveston Area Honors Jim
and Lynda Guidry with 2008 Bravo! Award
submitted by Pat Patton
Galveston, Texas (April 3, 2008) Jim and Lynda Guidry, owners of the Guidry
News Service, were honored with the League of Women Voters-Galveston Area’s
2008 Bravo! Award on Friday, March 28, 2008, at Gaido's Restaurant in
Galveston.
Click Here for the
www.GuidryNews.com documentation of
the event.
The Bravo Award recognizes “persons who contribute unselfishly for the
betterment of the Galveston community”. Jim and Lynda Guidry were selected
as recipients because of their devotion and commitment to provide the most
extensive coverage of community activities and events in the Gulf Coast
area, particularly public meetings.
Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas was the Master of Ceremonies.
"In 1996, when Jim and Lynda married, their union resulted in an explosive
whirlwind, I think, of the creative forces that still sweeps the entire Gulf
Coast and keeps Galveston astir," Mayor Thomas
said.
Joining Mayor Thomas in recognizing the Guidrys were elected officials,
community and business leaders, and appreciative friends and family.
"The ongoing message of the evening from the speakers was the integrity,
fairness, honesty, and professionalism of Jim and Lynda Guidry’s coverage of
the news and Guidry News Service’s valuable contribution of presenting the
news in a world-wide format via the Internet," said publicist Pat Patton.
Mary Ross, Co-President of the League of Women Voters-Galveston Area, read a
proclamation issued by Dickinson Mayor Julie Masters designating March 28,
2008, as Lynda and Jim Guidry Day. Mary Ross and Lynn Thompson, a founder of
the League of Women Voters-Galveston Area Bravo Award presented the award to
Jim and Lynda Guidry.
"Lynda and I are very appreciative of the recognition by the League of Women
Voters of the Galveston area," said Jim Guidry after the ceremony.
"We also were pleased to have the opportunity to introduce our associates
who help us provide the news service to our audience on the Gulf Coast,"
added Lynda Guidry.
Jim and Lynda began Guidry News Service on July 8, 1996. Guidry News Service
is a regional news service providing comprehensive coverage of posted public
meetings in Harris County, Galveston County, Jefferson County and Brazoria
County, regular reports from Austin and Washington, D.C., and community news
of interest to the region, as well as photo, audio and video documentation
of meetings and special events in the Gulf Coast Region.
Guidry News Service Webio coverage is rapidly becoming the resource of
choice for reliable information regarding politics, business, industry,
education, arts and quality of life in the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast
Region.
Guidry News Service has two publications: the Gulf Coast E-news which is an
email/Internet publication distributed by email at 4:00 pm daily, and the
Online News Station, GuidryNews.com, which provides Webio coverage free of
charge to the public, as well as advertising opportunities to the region.
The Guidry News Service motto is, “Integrity is our bottom line”.
Jim's experience includes 40 years in broadcast journalism in Houston and
Galveston; as well as six years of service to the City of Houston, where he
established the Public Information Office for the Department of Public Works
and later became special assistant to then Mayor Jim McConn.
Lynda’s experience includes a previous career as an independent interior
designer specializing in adaptive reuse of urban properties, condominium
conversions, commercial and institutional projects and public art,
conducting marketing research for various oil and gas companies and as a
Director of Membership Services for the Galveston Chamber of Commerce. In
1997 Lynda coined the term “Webio Journalism” to describe GNS’s method of
delivering information via the fledgling Internet that included audio
reports accompanied by photos and text.
For more information on Guidry News Service, please call 409-763-6397 or
email Jim or Lynda at
news@guidrynews.com
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