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Contact: Jennifer Bennerotte, Communications & Marketing Director
Phone 952-833-9520 • Fax 952-826-0389 • Web www.CityofEdina.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EDINA 16 receives ‘Making a Difference Award’
Edina, Minn., Sept. 26, 2011 –The City of Edina of Edina’s Communications & Marketing
Department received the “Slumberland Making a Difference Award” during the National Television
Academy of Arts & Sciences’ Upper Midwest Emmys Gala Saturday, Sept. 24.
The Slumberland Making a Difference Award honors the measurable changing of one life, with one
piece of video storytelling. Edina Community Channel 16 (EDINA 16) was selected for the award
for its story “The Moses Miracle.” In the spring of 2010, the Rotary Club of Edina brought 6-year-
old cross-eyed Moses Mwaura from the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, to Edina where he underwent
surgery to correct his eyes and damaged teeth. EDINA 16 followed the process and produced a
documentary for its talk show “In Edina.”
Communications & Marketing Director Jennifer Bennerotte accepted a handsome plaque for the
honor at the Emmys Gala. As part of the award, Slumberland also donated furniture to the Rotary
Club of Edina, which in turn donated it to one of the non-profit organizations it supports, the N.C.
Little Memorial Hospice in Edina. The chairs and end table will be used to furnish a chapel at the
hospice.
“The EDINA 16 team works hard to produce content for the government access channel that
informs the community about their local government and happenings in the community,” Bennerotte
said. “It is very humbling to be recognized not only for sharing that valuable information, but for
making a difference in the community we serve.”
Liz Collin of WCCO-TV also received a Making a Difference Award for her story on Hannah
Kozitza, who choked on a grape at Golden HeartChild CareCenter in North Mankato and later died
at a hospital. Collin’s story led to a change in legislation requiring all daycare workers in Minnesota
to be trained in CPR.
For more information on the City of Edina’s Communications & Marketing Department or its video
programming, call 952-826-0359 or visit www.CityofEdina.com/Communications.
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