{"id":3077,"date":"2018-01-18T21:13:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T21:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/52.10.1.109\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2018-01-20T01:57:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T01:57:13","slug":"doing-business-hawaiian-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/?p=3077","title":{"rendered":"Doing business, Hawaiian style"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Englewood Historical Society\u2019s Ida May Nicholl and Doug Cohn, a longtime city resident and volunteer recently named Englewood Citizen of the Year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Contrary to speculation, Randy Penn, executive director of the Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce, did not don a grass skirt at last week\u2019s luau-themed awards ceremony.<\/p>\n

But the show went on nonetheless March 28 as the city\u2019s business community honored a few of its own\u2014clad in leis and tropical shirts\u2014at the chamber\u2019s annual business awards gala.<\/p>\n

Several hundred local business leaders convened at Englewood Elks Club for the 32nd<\/sup> annual gala to honor newer members of the community, as well as those who have made their mark for decades.<\/p>\n

Photos by Peter Jones<\/i><\/p>\n

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Jesse and his mom, Sabrina Lemay of Cuttn\u2019 it Loose, take care of business.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mike Chavez of the longtime family-run Sam\u2019s Automotive walks to the stage to accept the chamber\u2019s award for Lifetime Business Achievement. The 63-year-old reconditioning center was founded by Chavez\u2019s father, Sam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An excited Romeo Itu, husband of Colorado Business CPA\u2019s Natalya Korobkova-Ito, celebrates his impending U.S. citizenship ceremony as chamber board member Nancy Byers and Randy Penn, the chamber\u2019s executive director share the enthusiasm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Brad Nixon of the expanding Nixon\u2019s Coffeehouse brand receives the Business of the Year award from Executive Director Randy Penn and Jason Whyte, who chairs the chamber\u2019s board of directors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A collage of Englewood history<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The business of community: Toni Arnoldy, community-relations specialist for the Englewood Police Department, accepts the Community Organization of the Year award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Contrary to speculation, Randy Penn, executive director of the Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce, did not don a grass skirt at last week\u2019s luau-themed awards ceremony. But the show went on nonetheless March 28 as the city\u2019s business community honored a few of its own\u2014clad in leis and tropical shirts\u2014at the chamber\u2019s annual business awards …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chambers","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}