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Nominate O.C.’s kindest business owner
November 27th, 2009, 9:00 am · 5 Comments · posted by Jan Norman, small-business columnist
Do you know an Orange County business owner who is generous, kind, cheerful and goes the extra mile all year long?
Nominate him or her for the 21st annual Holiday Spirit Award.
Through the award, the Orange County Register gives recognition to local business owners who don’t get many accolades for being good to their employees, generous to local charities and always cheerful to their customers.
Click here to send some details of the nominee’s year-round spirit — specific examples help — to small-business columnist Jan Norman or send by snail mail to Jan Norman, Orange County Register, 625 N. Grand Ave., Santa Ana 92701.
Deadline is Saturday, Dec. 12. Winner will be announced Dec. 25.
Click here to read about the 2008 Holiday Spirit winner.
Click here to read about the 2007 Holiday Spirit winner.
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Fred owns Soccer USA and Soccer Life Style, in Tustin and Mission Viejo. Both are soccer specialty store where I can buy soccer equipment for myself and my kids. When it comes to soccer gear, I have many places I can go but I choose to go to either of these stores simply because of Fred. He is very freindly, he is knowlegable, and he gives discounts.
I’d like to nominate him as kindest business owner in OC.
Is it possible to nominate one’s own business? I have a proprietorship that has been helping millions of children online learn Math and Science for free by playing educational games at FunBasedLearning.com (15 million pagviews since 2005).
No employees other than myself, as I only make enough from the ads on the site to pay for my ISP for website hosting with a little leftover for myself (enough to cover development software, but less than minimum wage pay for me per year).
It would be great to be nominated, as then more kids and teachers learning about balancing chemical equations or how to graph points and lines on the coordinate plane could learn about the free fun games at FunBasedLearning.com and use them if they think they are worthwhile.
Sure Sulan you can nominate yourself. But we need name of the business, address and telephone number.
Thanks,
Jan Norman
How about nominating Mr. Garcia from Garcia’s Mexican Restaurant. Every year for Thanksgiving he feeds thousands of needy individuals. this year, I understand that he fed 20,000 people, what a great guy.
definitely not anyone at quickstart intelligence