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May Issue 115
Article Provided By: Kyle W Penn
Dear Best in Business Awards Attendee,
We wanted to take a moment to write you today about
The Newsy Neighbour, and the Readers’ Choice Best in Business Awards event.
First off, thank you once again for everything you have done over the course of
the past year to support the community through your constant devotion to small
business and industry. We were so pleased to see such an incredible turnout at
our 2nd Annual Awards Show, and couldn’t have been happier to host
such a talented group of businesspeople at the event.
Since then, however, we have received some feedback
from concerned community members regarding some of the events that took place
that evening, so we thought we’d take the opportunity to address these
disquiets head-on in this letter. While the night was a lot of fun, there were
one or two snags that took place through the show – the most notable of which
was when the bronze award winners were erroneously announced as silver award
winners. For this regrettable blunder, The Newsy Neighbour takes full
responsibility, and is profusely apologetic to anyone who was upset or offended
by what was ultimately an honest mistake due to human error.
In an effort to help explain how such an oversight
took place, The Newsy Neighbour’s owner/designer Aleesha Gosling has consented
to share some personal details regarding that evening. In the days leading up
to the Awards Show, Aleesha was hospitalized with a severe blood infection that
caused her to be bed-ridden, delirious, and nearly unable to walk for close to
a week. However, unwilling to sit out one of the biggest nights of the year for
The Newsy Neighbour and the community, Aleesha checked out of the hospital that
evening – against the wishes of her doctors and with orders to return as soon
as the show was over – in order to be present. Bandaged leg and all, she felt
that she owed the community her attendance, and bent heaven and earth to be
there that evening.
Unfortunately, while Aleesha put on a brave face and
put 100% of her effort into being her normal cheerful, on-the-ball self, she
was dealing with a bit of a cloudy head that night – due to both her incredibly
painful infection and the drugs the doctors had given her that allowed her to
stand on her own two legs at the show, which ultimately led to the sorely
lamentable mistake of a number of businesses receiving the wrong awards.
We have nothing but respect and love for our
community, which is why we started the Annual Business Awards Show in the first
place. We’re not sharing this story with you out of a bid for pity, but rather,
to let everyone know what was going on that evening. We wanted to make it clear
that any mistakes made that evening came from a place of reckless over-commitment
to the business owners of Langdon, Strathmore, and Chestermere, and not because
of any neglectful ignorance.
We also learned a bit about ourselves that evening. One
of the reasons Aleesha pushed herself so hard to be at the Business Awards is
because she felt that the event’s success hinged on her being there to pitch in
and help make it happen. The Business Awards is a huge affair with countless
details to worry about falling into place in order for it to go off without a
hitch. It’s almost too much for only the few people organizing it to handle,
which made us realize something. Over the course of the past nine years since
we started The Newsy Neighbour, the magazine and its involvement in the
community have perhaps grown beyond the scope of our current staff’s small
numbers to be managed successfully.
With this in mind, we’re happy to announce the
addition of a new team members, Kyle Penn, to The Newsy Neighbour! While Kyle
has been helping us on the periphery for some time now, we have recently made
steps to welcome him onto the team in a much bigger capacity. There are lots of
new, exciting changes and ideas just around the corner for The Newsy Neighbour,
and with this new passionate, talented team member, we’ll be in a better
position than ever to run events like the Annual Business Awards, and to
provide Langdon, Strathmore, and Chestermere with an Altogether Different
Magazine.
We’ll wrap this letter up by thanking everyone for
your constant support of both The Newsy Neighbour and of strong, compassionate community
spirit. Everything we do is for you, but we definitely couldn’t do any of it
without you. We look forward to continuing to provide you with great, local,
community-based content, and are excited for everything that lies on the
horizon.
Sincerely,
Your Friends at the Newsy Neighbour Magazine
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