The Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers presented Bill Hilts Jr. of Lockport, New York, with the Excellence-in-Craft Golden Glow Award at its annual conference last month in Niagara, New York. Hilts has worked in outdoor communications since 1980 across print, television, radio, photography and digital media, and his father, Bill Hilts Sr., received the same honor in 2008. He spent 35 years as Niagara County Sportfishing Promotion Coordinator and 20 years as Outdoor Sports Specialist with Destination Niagara USA, and he helped form the Lake Ontario Sportfishing Promotion Council, serving as its president for more than 20 years. He serves on the board of Catching Dreams Charters, which provides fishing trips for children with cancer, and helped raise more than $3 million through the Greater Niagara BassEye Celebrity Challenge and Lower Niagara River Challenge. He is the outdoor writer for The Buffalo News and a past president of AGLOW and the New York State Outdoor Writers Association.