On September 8, an extraordinary reporting and election conference of the Volyn regional organization of the National Union of Journalists was held in Lutsk. At it, by secret ballot, 60 Volyn journalists elected a new head of the organization. Among the three people who applied for this position – editors-in-chief of the newspapers "Visti Kovelshchyny" Mykola Velma, "Volynska Hazeta" Volodymyr Danyliuk, who had headed the organization for the past six months, and editor-in-chief of "Volynska Reklama" Mykhailo Savchuk – the latter received the most votes. Also during the conference, its participants criticized the period of the organization's activity from December 2003 to the present, when it was headed by Anatolii Yakobiuk and Volodymyr Danyliuk. \n \nThe media professionals also did not overlook the construction of the International Center for Journalists' Recreation on Lake Svityaz, the first stone at the construction site of which was laid 2 years ago. Currently, more than 100 thousand hryvnias have been invested in this project, although many Volyn journalists doubt the expediency of building the center. \n