Another year, another chance to hang out with your favorite reporters and celebrate your hard work over the last year. Due to popular demand, we’re heading back to Stone Brewing in Liberty Station for a fun, relaxed outdoor gathering, full of good food and drink, twinkly lights and the occasional overheard plane (“the Point Loma pause,” they call it). Pre-sale tickets are $25 for SPJ members and $30 for nonmembers and include a tasty food spread and dessert. Drink tokens, available on our ticket website, are $6 for craft sodas and $11 for a beer or wine (lemonade, iced tea and water are complimentary).

The evening will include a short program when we’ll announce the winners of our special awards and honor our Journalist of the Year, Vicente Calderón. And the silent auction is back, so get your lucky bidding pen ready.

Congratulations to all our winners! (See below for a full list.) It’s been another difficult year and you deserve to celebrate!

As in past years, first-place winners will receive a plaque and second and third place winners will receive a certificate. You can pick up your awards at the event.

When: Thursday, July 21, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Where: Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens @ Liberty Station, 2816 Historic Decatur Road, Unit 116, Building 12

Cost: Presale tickets are $25 per person for SPJ members (join or renew your membership), $30 per person for nonmembers. After July 15 at 12 p.m., prices go up to $30 for members and $35 for nonmembers. You can also purchase tickets at the event ($30 members; $35 nonmembers). Drink tokens ($6 or $11) are available on the ticket website and at the event.

Email us with any questions and we look forward to seeing you!