Breakfast at the Addys

Greetings and welcome to the 7th Annual Southwest Virginia American Advertising Awards! Tonight we celebrate you - the communications professionals of Southwest Virginia. Your hard work has paid off! The Southwest Virginia American Advertising Awards is the first round of the National Competition. The Gold winners tonight with continue on to District Three Judging, which combines the best of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The winners at the district level then go on to national judging and those winners are celebrated at the annual ADMERICA Conference, which will be hosted in June in Hollywood, Florida. Even though a select few will continue on to the next round of judging, I believe that we are all winners tonight. I have had the privilege to manage our competition the four years, which has allowed me to see the progression in the quality and creativity of the work being produced in our region. We may be a small market, but we take pride in the work we do and the customers we serve - this is clear by the work that each and every one of you entered. Keep up the good work! Congratulations! Alexandra Veatch | President of AAF SWVA

from the President

Alexandra Veatch