{"id":17139,"date":"2010-04-14T13:03:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T20:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/chamber-event-a-night-of-excitement-see-the-slide-show\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T15:20:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T22:20:36","slug":"chamber-event-a-night-of-excitement-see-the-slide-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/chamber-event-a-night-of-excitement-see-the-slide-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamber event a night of excitement &#8211; See the slide show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentchamber.com\">Kent Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Annual President\u2019s Gala<\/a> was a night to remember.<\/p>\n<p>More than 300 business and community leaders came out to enjoy all that was good about doing business in Kent. And there also was plenty to bid on, during the gala auction, as well as to watch, when the chamber presented its Business Leadership Excellence Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The awards are to recognize what the chamber calls \u201cexceptional leadership, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit that member companies and their employees embody and share with the organization and the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A list of this year&#8217;s winners:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>President&#8217;s Leadership Award<\/p>\n<p>Shellene Cook<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Robert E. Lee<\/p>\n<p>Gwen Allen-Carston<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Best Practices<\/p>\n<p>Photo Vision Photography &#8211; Don DinAlpha XR<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Education Service<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Voso<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Economic Engine<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Thunderbirds<\/p>\n<p>Kent Station Shopping Center<\/p>\n<p>Innovation<\/p>\n<p>NetIG &#8211; Network Infastructure Group<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Company Citizenship<\/p>\n<p>Allied Waste Services<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Government Employee<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Suzette Cooke<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador<\/p>\n<p>Mark Burns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Annual President\u2019s Gala was a night to remember.<br \/>\nMore than 300 business and community leaders came out to enjoy all that was good about doing business in Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":17140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139"}],"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=17139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17139"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}