Area residents receive awards for speechwriting, scholarship
Two Springfield residents on the staffs of the Illinois comptroller and Illinois Senate president, respectively, won national 2021 Cicero Speechwriting Awards. Jayette Bolinski, a former State Journal-Register editorial page editor who works for Comptroller Susana Mendoza, a Democrat, won two awards for speeches she wrote for Mendoza in the contest’s “state-of-the institution” and “commemorative” categories. The speeches were titled “Selling Illinois” and “100 years of Women’s Suffrage: The Enduring Power of Showing Up.” John Patterson, who works for Senate President Don ...
Source: sj-r.com