Lowell Area Chamber of Commerce Announces Annual Award Recipients

We received the following press release from the Lowell Area Chamber of Commerce. Below are the recipients of the 2025 Chamber awards, along with the selection criteria for each honor.

2025 Person of the Year Award – Evert & Catharina Bek

To be considered, the recipient must demonstrate the following qualities:

  • Over time, the candidate has freely donated considerable time to the community, school district, church, or humanity. This is over and above the demands of their regular profession
  • The community is a better place to live because of the efforts of the candidate
  • The candidate positively promotes the community in both word and action
  • The candidate possesses new and innovative ideas that benefit the community
  • The candidate cannot be a Chamber Board/Foundation Board member at the time of nomination

Business Appreciation Award – Timpson Transport, Inc.

The business must be established and demonstrate the following qualities:

  • Outstanding service
  • Community investment
  • Employment opportunity
  • Volunteer service/monetary donations to the Greater Lowell Community

Business to Watch – Easy Street Restaurant & Bar
Promising New Business – Los Portales Mexican Bar & Grill

The business must demonstrate the following qualities and be a Chamber Member:

  • Proven ability to improve the economic base within the Greater Lowell Community
  • New business or a new venture of an existing business within the Greater Lowell Community

Brick Award – Care Resources PACE

This award is given to a Chamber Member who has made a commitment to the Greater Lowell Area over the past year. A business must be in the Industry/Retail/Service and/or Non-Profit category to be eligible for this award. This award category does not have to be awarded each year.

  • Capital investment in their business
  • Improving our economic base within the Greater Lowell Community
  • Making an investment to grow and further develop their business
  • Creating vibrancy within the community
  • No consecutive awards

Non-Profit Spotlight – Liam’s Be Cafe

This award recognizes an outstanding not-for-profit business for their service to our community over the past year.

Presented by the Lowell Area Chamber of Commerce, award recipients will be honored at the Annual Gathering of the Membership on Thursday, February 27, 2025, at The Fairway Event & Banquet Center, 13955 Cascade Rd SE. Social hour and cash bar beginning at 6:30 PM, with dinner and awards to follow.

The public is invited to join us for an evening of celebration. The cost is $30 per person or $226 for a table of eight. The deadline to register is February 14, 2025. Learn more at DiscoverLowell.org.

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