The Valley Voice won silver in the 2010 West Kootenay Best of Business Awards in the newspaper category. Co-owners of the Valley Voice, Dan Nicholson and Jan McMurray, extend huge thanks to all those who voted for the Voice.

A new year – a new website!

The Valley Voice has revamped its website to start the New Year on a new page.

“We wanted to make the site more lively and attractive, and to re-organize the information a bit. We hope that people will find it easier now to place their advertising with us online,” says Jan McMurray, editor of the Valley Voice.

The site was developed by Nikta Boroumand of Maverick Design and bigbrowneyes.ca. Boroumand lives in New Denver and has built up a successful design business, specializing in graphic and web design.

“It was a pleasure to re-design the Valley Voice site,” she says. “The Voice is everybody’s favourite newspaper, so it’s no surprise that the site is getting lots of hits.”

The site gets about 1500 visits per month. Many people read the paper online, and many also refer to the site for advertising, subscription and publication information.

Dan Nicholson and Jan McMurray, co-owners of the Valley Voice, were honoured to receive a Community Futures Client Recognition Award for Community Economic/Employment Impact at the annual awards banquet on October 22, 2008.