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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Odessa</b><b>
American’s Patrick Canty Named 2010 Mayborn Award Winner </b></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><b>Austin –</b>The Frank W. Mayborn
Award for Community Leadership was awarded to Patrick Canty, Publisher of the <i>Odessa
American</i>, by the Texas Daily Newspaper Association Monday during the
association’s Annual Meeting in Austin on Monday, February 28, 2011.</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>Canty, the <i>OA</i>’s publisher
since 2003, was honored for his commitment to serving the Odessa community. “Patrick’s
work on behalf of the citizens of Odessa epitomizes the community spirit that
is the legacy of Frank Mayborn,” said Denton Record-Chronicle Publisher and TDNA
board Treasurer, Bill Patterson. </p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:
ideograph-numeric ideograph-other'><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'>Patterson
says Canty’s community service is lengthy, from steering the United Way’s
annual drive as a hands-on volunteer to actually setting up chairs for an
education fundraiser. </span></p>

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ideograph-numeric ideograph-other'><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:
ideograph-numeric ideograph-other'><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'>“Pat serves
on&nbsp;many boards and never does so in name only,” Patterson said. “Pat is on
the Education Foundation board, which exists to raise money to hand out grants
to teachers for innovative teaching ideas and  was instrumental in getting a
program started to provide food to schoolchildren for weekends and evenings.
The education foundation saw the need and partnered with the local Junior
League and then eventually turned the program over to the Junior League. The
program feeds hundreds of children each week.”</span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:
ideograph-numeric ideograph-other'><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'>Canty was
also a driving force behind saving the Midland-Odessa PBS station, working with
concerned citizens to form a non-profit and worked with school district to have
its license transferred to them. He is active on the St. John’s Episcopal
School Board, the Bynum School Board, the University of Texas-Permian Basin Tuition
Advisory Board, School of Business Advisory Board, Development Board and the Performing Arts Center project, a state-of-the-art arts facility being built at UTPB.</span></p>

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ideograph-numeric ideograph-other'><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;punctuation-wrap:hanging;text-autospace:
ideograph-numeric ideograph-other'><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'>Bill
Patterson says Canty is also president elect of the Midland Odessa Symphony and
Chorale, a board member of the Buffalo Trails Council of the Boy Scouts and was
chair of the Friends of Scouting fund drive. He is also a member of the Odessa
East Rotary Club, the Odessa Chamber of Commerce board, Leadership Odessa, the
Ector County Junior Livestock Association Bard and is a member of the Texas
Wildlife Association.</span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span class=interior1><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>A San Antonio native, Canty joined
Freedom Newspapers in 1993 as Editor of the Valley Morning Star in Harlingen, Texas. He was also Publisher of the Porterville (CA) Recorder in 1997, and in
2001 became Director of Training &amp; Special Projects for the Community
Newspaper Division at corporate headquarters. He graduated with highest honors
from East Texas State University with a bachelor's in journalism/photography. He
and his wife, Julie, who has a background in education, are the parents of a 16-year-old
son, Sam.</span></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal>            Mrs. Sue Mayborn, Publisher of the Temple Daily
Telegram and Killeen Daily Herald, established the Mayborn award in 1992 to
honor the commendable leadership and service demonstrated by her late husband
Frank W. Mayborn. It honors other newspaper men and women who have a firm
commitment to community service, and who are devoting the same zeal to that
cause as Mayborn did during his long career.</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>One of the areas in which Mayborn
was most active was in service to education. It is fitting that the recipient
of the Mayborn Award not only will be recognized publicly by his peers, but
also by a scholarship in his/her honor which will be presented to an
outstanding senior journalism student at a Texas college or university.</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal>            The Texas Daily Newspaper Association was
founded in 1921 to represent the state’s largest newspapers. TDNA’s mission is
to provide member services and advocate for the newspaper industry in Texas.</p>

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