GRAVETTE — The Arkansas Broadcasters Association has awarded the 2011 Community Service Award for Medium Market Radio Stations in Arkansas to Harding University’s student-operated radio station, KVHU 95.3 FM. The award recognizes a series of public announcements produced by students and aired o the station. The organization presented the award at its annual convention in Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 3-6.

Ryan Foster, a sophomore advertising major from Gravette, was among the group of students who created the PSAs during the spring semester for anew Searcy-based nonprofit called the Imagine and Believe Foundation. Founded by Searcy Living magazine publisher Christine Walker, the organization provides resources for adoptive and foster families in White County.

The students, who were members of Dutch Hoggatt’s radio productionclass in the spring, wrote and produced a series of eight PSAs, which are also available to other area radio stations that might wish to use them. The emotional creations feature several children of Harding faculty as narrators and provide a glimpse into the ways adoption impacts the lives of children who have no family.

News, Pages 16 on 08/31/2011