Page 2 THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, July 8, 2022 Urban Media Arts (UMA) takes home the 2022 Hometown Media Award for Overall Excellence from Alliance for Community Media Foundation By Ose Schwab C HICAGO ─ JUNE 29, 2022 ─ Ron Cox, Amanda Hurley, and Ose Schwab accepted the 2022 Hometown Media Overall Excellence in Combined P.E.G. Access on behalf of Urban Media Arts (UMA) during the awards ceremony at the Annual National Conference for the Alliance for Community Media in Chicago. This distinction is awarded to an organization that is responsible for any combination of Public, Educational, and Governmental (P.E.G.) access channels and resources. It is part of an awards program that was established to honor and promote community media, community radio, and local cable programs that are distributed on Public, Educational and Governmental access cable television channels. Proceeds go to the ACM Foundation which is exclusively used for facilitating, preserving and promoting education in community media. The video earning UMA this award, edited and submitted by Ron Cox and James Mudge, highlights the various events, services, and opportunities UMA offered the community through the pandemic. In this seventeen-minute video, the voice of Sharon Fillyaw describes UMA as an interconnected hub of creativity, dialog and evolving community. This UMAverse as it is called, is the sense of connection and belonging that has been enabled by UMA through various ways for the community to create and be together - especially during a global moment of challenge. (https://youtu.be/XvV8AyL911M to view video) For Ron Cox the award is a Lawrence A. Simeone Jr. Attorney-at-Law ~ Since 1989 ~ * Corporate Litigation * Criminal/Civil * MCAD * Zoning/Land Court * Wetlands Litigation * Workmen’s Compensation * Landlord/Tenant Litigation * Real Estate Law * Construction Litigation * Tax Lein * Personal Injury * Bankruptcy * Wrongful Death * Zoning/Permitting Litigation 300 Broadway, Suite 1, Revere * 781-286-1560 lsimeonejr@simeonelaw.net Amanda Hurley (UMA), Ron Cox (Former Executive Director UMA), Dana Healy (VP Sales Cablecast Community Media and Ceremony MC), Jessica Rugh Frantz (Director of Development Birdnote), Ose Schwab (UMA), and Mike Wassenaar (President and CEO of Alliance for Community Media). well-timed gift as he retires. It is also an acknowledgement of the input of interns, youth, and program participants that helped the board and staff to translate challenges into opportunities and pivot to reimagine what UMA is and can be in service to the community of Malden that, by its diverse nature, touches the world. Each year, nearly one thousand entries are submitted in dozens of categories to the Hometown Media Festival. OUR OFFICE HAS MOVED TO 519 BROADWAY, EVERETT SABATINO INSURANCE AGENCY 519 BROADWAY EVERETT, MA 02149 PHONE: (617) 387-7466 FAX: (617) 381-9186 Visit us online at: Rocco Longo, Owner WWW.SABATINO-INS.COM These entries are submitted and evaluated on several factors resulting in over 100 award winners. A panel of judges from the industry evaluate the entries. Awards are presented to the most creative programs that address community needs, develop diverse community involvement, challenge conventional commercial television formats and move viewers to experience television in a different way. The Overall Excellence award is granted to a single community media center in diff erent budget categories. “The Hometown Media Awards celebrate both the excellence of work and the diversity of media that appears on community channels being produced around the country. The ACM Foundation is proud of their achievement and of how they represent their communities in their work,” said Mike Wassenaar, president & CEO, Alliance for Community Media. Founded in 1979, the Alliance for Community Media is a national, non-profi t membership organization committed to ensuring access to electronic media for all people. The Alliance for Community Media carries forth its mission by educating, advocating and acting as a resource for the more than 3,000 Public, Educational and Governmental cable channels nationwide. Alliance for Community Media, https://www.allcommunitymedia.org/ Urban Media Arts, https:// www.urbanmediaarts.org Contact: Tina LeGarde │tina@ umaverse.og│781.321.6400 Fairfield University Congratulates 2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Degree Recipients F AIRFIELD, CT. (July 1, 2022) - The following Fairfi eld University student(s) graduated from Fairfi eld University, May 2022. Kelsey Vu of Malden and Carolyn Arena of Revere. At the time of graduation, a student must have earned a minimum of 120 credits and completed at least 38 three- or four-credit courses, depending on the course of study, and have an overall grade point average of 2.0 or better at the conclusion of the senior year.
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