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Business awards go virtual

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The AthabascaDistrict Chamber of Commerce Business Awards will be held virtually this year from Oct. 12-16.

ATHABASCA - The nominations are in for the Athabasca District Chamber of Commerce Business Awards, and all those in the running will find in October, during Small Business Week, if they have been recognized for their hard work in a year that has been anything but usual.

From Aggressive Training and Athabasca Boat Rentals to the VanHout Bakery and Vault Body Studio, there are 39 stand-out nominations that were received by customers and clients around Athabasca, and this years awards will also include a COVID twist.

The usual awards ceremony will not take place this year, due to the pandemic, but chamber executive will be meeting up with the winners at their businesses, sometime between Oct. 12-16. It will be filmed and will be able to be seen on the Chamber of Commerce Facebook page.

“It is a virtual Business Awards for 2020,” said chamber president Tova Schwede. “Of course, that is very much due to COVID because normally it would be a very large banquet. Our very best was just under 400 people at one of our banquets, so the awards committee decided in late June, early July, that regardless of what happened, that we were going to go virtual.”

Schwede said winners will be notified they have won an award, just to make sure they are there to accept it, but they won’t know in which category.

Those categories include New Business of the Year, Manager of the Year, the Customer Service Award, the Home-based Business Award and the coveted Business of the Year Award, among others — all sponsored by chamber members. There will also be a new Customer Choice Award that will be decided by online votes. The voting date for that award will be announced soon.

“We will then visit that winner, and we are still ironing out details, but the goal is to have the sponsors with us and the mayor and possibly the reeve, so there’s a lot of coordination that goes into it and we’re just going to do the best that we can,” she said.

 

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