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After serving in the Navy and working in the IT industry for nearly 30 years, Hurley followed her father\u2019s footsteps and became a community newspaper editor. She began her focus on a journalism career at San Diego Gay and Lesbian News (SDGLN) in 2009, before joining the SDCNN family five years ago.<\/p>\n
Williams has been the editor of San Diego Uptown News for a little over two years. Since moving to San Diego in 2005, he has held roles as senior copyeditor at Union-Tribune and editor-in-chief of SDGLN.<\/p>\n
SOHO\u2019s annual People In Preservation Awards commend and thank community members who are upholding the nonprofit\u2019s mission of preservation and service. This year they will recognize 10 separate projects, including Horton Plaza Park\u2019s restoration, renovations and rehabilitations of private homes, and SDCNN\u2019s media coverage on preservation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Town Crier\u201d honor is reserved for voices in the media who have contributed a significant body of work to promote preservation and raise awareness to their readers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat stands out is how Morgan [Hurley] and Ken [Williams] have included, along with all the other news and business content, a focus on community,\u201d said Alana Coons, education and communications director of SOHO. \u201cThey take this further by embracing each community\u2019s uniqueness and individual stories and history by gathering historians, community leaders, museum professionals, artisans and preservationists from each area to contribute preservation and history news stories.\u201d<\/p>\n
Williams, a resident of North Park, noted that the patchwork of unique communities is one of the reasons he loves living in San Diego.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople who live in each neighborhood are extremely proud of their neighborhood, evidenced by all the street signs [such as in University Heights, Mission Hills, Hillcrest and the Boulevard],\u201d Williams said. \u201cSo each neighborhood takes on a different personality because they are built in different eras.\u201d<\/p>\n
Williams had not experienced this phenomenon in other cities he previously called home, such as Dallas, Fort Lauderdale or his 450-person hometown in Ohio.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody [in San Diego] has a little bit of different history that they can boast as part of their neighborhood and I think pride comes forth from that,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou don\u2019t see [that in] a lot of places I\u2019ve lived over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Williams holds a great appreciation for San Diego\u2019s older buildings and the character they carry, citing the Craftsman, Victorian homes and Spanish Bungalows as examples. He currently lives in a 1932 historical house himself, which includes many of its original design elements, such as a stone fireplace, high ceilings, built-in bookshelves, and a Jack-and-Jill bathroom.<\/p>\n
In addition to architecture, Hurley pointed out that the experiences locals share \u2014 including the struggles and strides of the LGBT community \u2014comprise San Diego\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur LGBT community has a big history here and it has gone from being where the people had to march in the street with bags over their heads [to hide their faces] to our current Pride celebration, which is the largest civic event of the city,\u201d Hurley said.<\/p>\n
In Gay San Diego, Hurley runs \u201cOut of the Archives,\u201d a column from Lambda Archives of San Diego that focuses on the history of the local LGBT community. A recent piece \u2013 \u201cThe history of our [LGBT] bars\u201d \u2013 was extremely popular with readers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have had more response to that column than any of their columns for a year and a half,\u201d she said. \u201cSo clearly that\u2019s what people want to know and talk about, sharing things that connect with their own personal relationship with the history of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hurley, who lives in the Loma Portal area, uses her role in the media to share her views on community history, preservation and progress.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs an editor, I can often speak out on how I feel,\u201d she said. \u201cI think the community has to move forward, but I really want them to preserve the things that can and should be preserved,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is our job to be objective when it comes to reporting the news but we are also a voice for our community to take a stand occasionally on certain things. And preservation can be an area where we could all make a stand.\u201d<\/p>\n
SOHO is recognizing the two editors for the content they oversee in their respective newspapers, including a number of regular columns. Uptown News has \u201cHouse Calls,\u201d which runs every other issue and is authored by Michael Good, a restorative expert on Craftsman homes; and \u201cPast Matters,\u201d written by Katherine Hon, secretary of the North Park Historical Society.<\/p>\n
San Diego Downtown News currently runs two regular columns that deal with history, \u201cGaslamp Landmarks\u201d by Sandee Wilhoit, historian of the Gaslamp Quarter Historical Foundation; and \u201cGrowing Balboa Park,\u201d compiled and written by both Reema Makani Boccia and Ann Wilson, of the Friends of Balboa Park organization. Ann Jarmusch, a SOHO member and former architecture critic for the San Diego Union-Tribune, wrote six issues of a \u201cPreservation Matters\u201d column in 2016.<\/p>\n
Gay San Diego runs a monthly column called \u201cOut of the Archives,\u201d written by Lambda Archives staff, focuses on the history of the local LGBT community and shares information about various collections within the vaults of the organization.<\/p>\n
Hurley and Williams have both also run or penned various other editorials and articles related to history and preservation themselves, such as Williams\u2019 extensive news coverage of the Uptown Planners.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe outstanding articles from numerous columnists and paper-wide content help inform their readers with a larger understanding of San Diego\u2019s development,\u201d said Bruce Coons, executive director of SOHO. \u201cThe myriad of voices and topics illustrates that preservation and history are relevant to all and important in today\u2019s world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also being honored with People in Preservation Awards at the event are: City of San Diego\/Civic San Diego Westfield, LLC; Richard Gentry of the San Diego Housing Commission; Richard and Kim Schwab; Jim Hughes of Friends of Balboa Park; Charles Tiano; Elizabeth Maland; Nicole Purvis; and Bandy Blacksmith Guild.<\/p>\n
Save Our Heritage Organisation\u2019s People In Preservation ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 18, from 4\u20136:30 p.m. at the Marston House Museum and Gardens. Champagne reception starts at 4 p.m., followed by the awards ceremony. Tickets are $45 for members, $55 for nonmembers and available online or by phone. Call 619-297-9327 or visit SOHOsandiego.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2014Para encontrar enlaces de los peri\u00f3dicos de la Red de Noticias de la Comunidad de San Diego, visite sdcnn.com<\/a>. Reach Morgan M. Hurley at morgan@sdcnn.com<\/a> and Ken Williams at <\/em>ken@sdcnn.com<\/em><\/a>. Sara Butler is the web and social media manager at SDCNN. Reach her at web@sdcnn.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Sara Butler Two San Diego Community News Network (SDCNN) editors will be honored at Save Our Heritage Organisation\u2019s (SOHO) 35th annual People In Preservation Awards on May 18. Morgan M. Hurley, editor of both San Diego Downtown News and Gay San Diego, and Ken Williams, editor of San Diego Uptown News, will receive \u201cThe […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":864,"featured_media":239224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"SDCNN editors to be honored for historic preservation coverage","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11551,11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}