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Locals winners named for Aboriginal Business Awards

THOMPSON-OKANGAN – Some local aboriginal entrepreneurs are coming away from the B.C. Aboriginal Business Awards with wins this week.

Troy Fraser Chiropractic of Kamloops has won Business of the Year in the one to two person enterprise category.

Skyride Bike and Board Inc. of Vernon has won an outstanding achievement award for companies with three to 10 people.

River Fresh Wild Seafood of Kamloops has been recognized for outstanding achievement in the Joint Business Venture of the Year category along with the Lower Nicola Indian Band and LNB Construction of Merritt.

The winners of the seventh annual B.C. Aboriginal Business Awards were announced by Premier Christy Clark and will be formally awarded at a gala dinner in Vancouver in October.

The awards were launched in 2008 to honour and celebrate business excellence in six categories.

A total of 15 aboriginal businesses, entrepreneurs, joint ventures and community-owned enterprises will be recognized.

To contact the reporter for this story, email John McDonald at jmcdonald@infonews.ca or call 250-808-0143. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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John McDonald

John McDonald

John began life as a journalist through the Other Press, the independent student newspaper for Douglas College in New Westminster. The fluid nature of student journalism meant he was soon running the place, learning on the fly how to publish a newspaper.

It wasn’t until he moved to Kelowna he broke into the mainstream media, working for Okanagan Sunday, then the Kelowna Daily Courier and Okanagan Saturday doing news graphics and page layout. He carried on with the Kelowna Capital News, covering health and education while also working on special projects, including the design and launch of a mass market daily newspaper. After 12 years there, John rejoined the Kelowna Daily Courier as editor of the Westside Weekly, directing news coverage as the Westside became West Kelowna.

But digital media beckoned and John joined Kelowna.com as assistant editor and reporter, riding the start-up as it at first soared then went down in flames. Now John is turning dirt as city hall reporter for iNFOnews.ca where he brings his long experience to bear on the civic issues of the day.

If you have a story you think people should know about, email John at jmcdonald@infonews.ca

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