1st Place for Annual Report, 2nd for Video

ANCHORAGE—The Matanuska-Susitna Borough's Annual Report, "Incredible Heights" earned 1st place among Alaska public relations professionals Thursday, and a video called "We Do" earned 2nd place at the Alaska Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America at a Jan. 23 awards banquet. Some 130 Alaska public relations professionals are members including business and industry, military, government, and marketing strategy firms.

ANCHORAGE—The Matanuska-Susitna Borough's Annual Report, "Incredible Heights" earned 1st place among Alaska public relations professionals Thursday, and a video called "We Do" earned 2nd place at the Alaska Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America at a Jan. 23 awards banquet. Some 130 Alaska public relations professionals are members including business and industry, military, government, and marketing strategy firms.

The Annual Report category is among the most competitive in the Aurora Award entries. The Borough has earned first place in this field three times of the last six years. The 2013 report highlights the tremendous response of the Borough and its partners to the 2012 flood disaster. More than 40 roads closed. Borough Public Works, contractors, and Alaska DOT, worked incredible hours through rain and high wind to restore access to most roads in less than two weeks. The report also focused on how our Borough is under construction like never before with $214 million in school bond projects, $64 million in road bond projects, a $272 million railroad extension underway, and a State prison recently opened, and more.

Read the 2013 Incredible Heights Annual Report through this link.

Mat-Su Borough Public Affairs Director Patty Sullivan and Media Designer Stefan Hinman produced the annual report and video.

The video "We Do" profiles Borough efforts at delivering services: building schools, animal rescues such as the fire rescue of Hank the dog, who lived only because responder Richard Harrop administered oxygen through a new K9 mask. The video remembers the late Alaska Rep. Carl Gatto through the cheers of elementary school children whose school he helped get built.

The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) chartered in 1947 is the world’s largest and foremost organization of public relations professionals. The PRSA Alaska Chapter was established in 1973. A Connecticut chapter judged this year's Alaska awards. 

Take a look at the video:

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