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For Immediate Release
Contact: Jennifer Gillette
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Kelly D. Norris Receives 2007 Silver Award of Achievement

Washington, DC – June 11, 2007 – Kelly D. Norris received the Garden Writers Association Silver Award of Achievement for Magazine Writing.

This national award recognizes individuals and companies who achieve the highest levels of talent and professionalism in garden communications.

Norris received the Silver Award of Achievement for his article entitled The English Influence: Jekyll & Robinson, Part I. The piece was published in the fall 2006 issue of The Heirloom Gardener.

“This is the benchmark for excellence in horticultural communications,” says Steve Dobbs, president of GWA. “These recipients are the cream of the crop. When they write or talk about gardening, people listen.”

Kelly Norris is a Hixson, Shinoda, and Perennial Plant Association Scholar at Iowa State University where he majors in horticulture. He is heavily involved in many horticultural organizations and horticultural communications at the national, regional, and local levels.
Since the early 1980s, the GWA Media Awards program has recognized outstanding writing, photography, graphic design and illustration for books newspaper stories, magazine articles and other works focused on gardening. GWA is an international organization of more than 1,900 professional communicators in the lawn and garden industry.