{"id":16585,"date":"2011-05-18T10:12:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-chamber-gives-out-business-leadership-excellence-awards-slide-show\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T14:10:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T21:10:29","slug":"kent-chamber-gives-out-business-leadership-excellence-awards-slide-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/kent-chamber-gives-out-business-leadership-excellence-awards-slide-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Chamber gives out Business Leadership Excellence Awards | Slide Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Nine individuals or businesses were honored as winners of the annual Business Leadership Excellence Awards by the <a title=\"chamber\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kentchamber.com\/index.asp\" target=\"_self\">Kent Chamber of Commerce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The awards are given to recognize and applaud the exceptional leadership, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit that member companies and their employees embody and share with the Chamber and the community.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The following award winners were announced at the President\u2019s Banquet April 30 at the ShoWare Center:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Ambassador of the Year<\/strong> &#8211; John Schneider of Edward Jones<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Best Practices<\/strong> &#8211; Smith Brothers Farms<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Company Citizenship Award<\/strong> &#8211; Kent Station<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Educator of the Year<\/strong> &#8211; Kent Community Foundation<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Economic Engine<\/strong> &#8211; Oberto Sausage Company<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Government Employee of the Year <\/strong>&#8211; Steve Strachan<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Innovator of the Year <\/strong>&#8211; (tie) Kent Station Family Dentistry and World CNG<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>President\u2019s Award<\/strong> &#8211; Jim Berrios of Golden Steer Steak &amp; Rib House<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Robert E. Lee Award<\/strong> &#8211; Charlotte Nitschke of Community Magazine Shopper<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine individuals or businesses were honored as winners of the annual Business Leadership Excellence Awards by the Kent Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":16586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16585"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}