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Tulsey Awards Winners Announced
ARCHIVED PRESS RELEASE: Published 11-23-2009
Mayor Kathy Taylor and members of the Tulsa business community
announced the winners for the 2nd Annual Mayor's Tulseys Awards,
held at Cain's Ballroom Thursday.
The 2009 Tulsey Awards recognize the pioneers and innovators of
the Tulsa community. The Tulseys are publicly driven
awards consisting of eleven categories: Civic, Emerging,
Entertainment, Franchise, Green, Interactive, Legend, Restaurateur,
Serial, Young and the Tulseys Entrepreneur of the Year. All votes
were made online at the Tulseys website, www.thetulseys.com, with more
than 14,000 votes submitted.
In a ceremony that slightly mimicked the Oscars and MTV Music
Awards, the 11 category winners were awarded with a golden bronze
Driller statuette to recognize their entrepreneurial spirit. One
nominee had the possibility of receiving two Tulseys by receiving
the most votes in the competition for the Tulsey Entrepreneur of
the Year. This year's 2009 Tulsey Entrepreneur of the Year went to
Blake Ewing, owner of Joe Momma's Pizza by receiving 1,200
votes.
The category winners were:
Civic - George Kaiser, George Kaiser
Family Foundation
Emerging - Melanie Henry,
918moms.com
Entertainment - Ben Sumner, Up Late
with Ben Sumner
Franchise - Chester Cadieux,
QuikTrip
Green - Libby Auld, Elote Café and
Catering
Interactive - Natasha Ball, Tasha
DoesTulsa.com
Legend - Charles Kingsley, Coney
I-Lander
Restaurateur - Blake Ewing, Joe
Momma's Pizza
Serial - Gavin Manes, Avansic
Young - Jonathan Conneely, Bootcamp
Tulsa
**Tulsey Entrepreneur of the Year** -
Blake Ewing, Joe Momma's Pizza
The Mayor's Tulseys culminated the end of Tulsa Global
Entrepreneurship Week. Sponsors of the 2009 Tulseys were: Tulsa
Tech, Tulsa Community College, University of Tulsa, the Tulsa Metro
Chamber and the Lobeck Taylor Foundation.
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