The Record won third place in the Newspaper Excellence category at the 2013 B.C. and Yukon Community Newspaper Association's Ma Murray Community Newspaper Awards recently.
There were more than 40 winners of the silver newsboy trophy at the gala awards ceremony, held at the River Rock Casino in Richmond last Saturday, with more than 130 finalists in all.
The Record also won third place in the 2013 Canadian Community Newspaper Awards category of Best All-Round Newspaper for a paper with a circulation between 12,500 and 24,999.
The award ceremony is scheduled for May 2 during the Ink and Beyond newspaper conference in Ottawa.
More than 250 non-daily publications submitted 2,222 entries for the Canadian awards.
The Burnaby NOW, The Record's sister paper, was a blue-ribbon winner in the Canadian awards, as well.
The NOW received the honour in the category of general excellence for a paper with a circulation of 25,000 or more.
