Congrats to Alex Folkes

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Congrats to Alex Folkes

By Alex Foster | Thu 4th February 2010 - 8:35 am

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Last night, newly elected councillor Alex Folkes broke the news on his blog that he’d won the New Councillor award in the LGIU c’llr awards.

Obviously I’m very very chuffed at the news and want to thank the LGIU very much indeed.

LDV often share facilities with Cllr Folkes at conference when he’s working as a photographer – indeed much of his work is available for use, if correctly credited, at the Lib Dem Flickr group.

The criteria for the award were:

election for the first time in June 2009
visible positive impact on the political group and/or community
they will have pioneered new projects, made an impact on the political groups’ vision, and/or developed initiatives that have made an immediate impact on the community.

Certainly his regular blog giving details of the issues facing Cornwall, Cornwall Council and Launceston in particular go a long way to meeting those criteria.

Congrats!

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One Comment

Anders Hanson 4th Feb '10 - 12:12pm

Alex wasn’t the only Lib Dem winner in these awards either: http://www.aldc.org/myaldc/news/1380/04/02/2010/Lib_Dems_Sweep_through_in_Councillor_of_the_Year_Awards

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