YSMG wins two Premier Awards at 2026 SWNA Better Newspapers Competition

By Your Southwest Media Group

KINDERSLEY - Your Southwest Media Group took home two Premier Awards and three additional placements at the 2026 Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association Better Newspapers Competition, announced at an online ceremony last week.

Your West Central Voice won the Premier Award in the Salute to Veterans category for its Remembrance Day section, published Nov. 11, 2025. Judges awarded the entry a perfect score, placing it first among 14 submissions in the category.

Hardware on the desk. The 2026 SWNA Premier Award plaques won by Your West Central Voice in the Salute to Veterans category and the Rosetown Eagle for Best Special Section, alongside the SWNA awards booklet.

The Rosetown Eagle won the Premier Award for Best Special Section for "Agriculture Creating Growth," the paper's fall agriculture pull-out published Oct. 28, 2025. The Eagle also took second place for Best Advertisement for a full-page house ad designed by publisher Kate Winquist specifically for the paper.

The Kerrobert Chronicle placed third for Best Editorial Page in Class B, circulation 800 to 1,199.

Winquist was also runner-up for Columnist of the Year for her weekly column, "Just A Gal From Glidden.”

The columnist judge wrote: "Kate Winquist is absolute proof newspaper columnists are not required to publish political opinions, secrets from local police files or the latest gossiped developments in or around the municipality. Kate Winquist is a story teller, and a good one. Kate's tales published in her 'Just a gal from Glidden' weekly column are colourful, funny, factual and more. Sports to notes on a more personal vein, each and every one of them draws a reader closer, offer warmth and trust, and all that fuzzy stuff your community newspaper thrives to live by.”