The Santa Clara Weekly team earned nearly a dozen awards at the recent California Journalism Awards, including top honors in editorial and health reporting. Five reporters on The Weekly team garnered recognition.

Our own Carolyn Schuk took first place in Health Reporting at the California Journalism Awards after she revealed that a community nursing home resident who allegedly beat her roommate to death with a cane was also involved in a potential incident with a different resident prior to the alleged attack.

Reporter Erika Towne received first place recognition for her editorial, “Gillmor Integral in Bringing World Cup to Santa Clara and in Tearing it Down,” highlighting Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor’s initial support to bring the FIFA World Cup to the city and her recent push back against the event. Erika was also recognized for her work covering the perjury trial of former Santa Clara City Council Member Anthony Becker.

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David Alexander received three awards. He was recognized for his coverage of how the Santa Clara Unified School District’s farm supplies fresh produce to the district’s cafeterias, creating a farm-to-table solution for local students. He was also recognized for his coverage of a string of mail thefts at a Santa Clara apartment complex and how a local businessman is using technology to deter similar crime.

Community reporter Diane Andrews also garnered three awards this year. Diane’s piece, Surviving Against the Odds: Civil War in Nigeria and Stolen African Music, profiled Silicon Valley resident and author Josheph Chijindu Agu and his unique personal experiences as a young boy in Nigeria. She was also honored for placing a human face on catalytic converter thefts, after a Santa Clara couple, Joe and Arlene Ramirez, woke up to find their car would not start. And, Diane offered a glance at Sunnyvale’s newest efforts to increase housing through ADUs on multi-unit housing sites.

Sports reporter Andrew Bensch has covered Santa Clara and Sunnyvale sports for several years. This year, Andrew was honored for his coverage of Wilcox High School’s Kai Imahara, the team’s youngest quarterback in decades.

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