September 13, 2019
This week, I was notified that THREE of our Auburn businesses were named as finalists by King County Executive Dow Constantine for the 2019 Executive's Small Business Awards!
The King County Executive's Small Business Award event was created nine years ago to recognize the achievements and accomplishments of small businesses throughout King County.
There are seven categories for awards: Small Business of the Year, Rural Small Business of the Year, Exporting Small Business of the Year, Workforce Development Small Business of the Year, Minority-Owned Small Business of the Year, Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year and Green/Sustainable Small Business of the Year.
Here are the Auburn Businesses up for awards:
Rural Small Business of the Year: Blackfish Spirits Distillery
Exporting Small Business of the Year: Impact Bioenergy Inc.
Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year: Rail Hop’n Brewing Co.
Green/Sustainable Small Business of the Year: Forest Concepts, LLC
Winners will be announced at the award event on September 26 and I will be sure to share the results with you!
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Earlier this week, my beautiful daughter Lucky turned 21. Of course, my husband Kemon and I are proud parents of her accomplishments, but mostly for the gracious and compassionate young woman she has become. Nobody, Baby! NOBODY!
"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
- Angela Schwindt
This afternoon, Chief Pierson and I welcomed the newest member of the Auburn Police Department to the team!
Officer Jonathan Faddis was second in his class at the academy and was first in Police Practical skills.
Welcome, Officer Faddis! We are honored to have you on board.
Last night, we opened the first session of our Civics Academy with myself and Director of Administration Dana Hinman providing the foundation for the group in our Government 101 presentation.
If you aren't familiar with Civics Academy, it is an 11-week course that we host for residents to learn more about the inner workings of government, and in particular, our city. Each week is spent doing a deep dive into the different departments and learning about what they do. There's even field trips!
This is our largest class to date with 33 people registered. It is a lively, diverse and curious group that we will enjoy working with this fall.
One exercise we did was a word cloud activity that asked “What words do you think of when you think of government?” Above is the completed cloud. We are going to ask the same question in the final session to see if it changes!
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