{"id":162,"date":"2025-09-26T19:40:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afrocaribrantfestival.org\/2026\/?p=162"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:17:33","slug":"afro-caribrant-festival-wins-good-times-in-brant-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afrocaribrantfestival.org\/2026\/afro-caribrant-festival-wins-good-times-in-brant-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Afro-CariBrant Festival Wins Good Times in Brant Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_flex_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_flex_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_24_24 et_flex_column_24_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module preset--module--divi-text--default\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><strong>Michael Stamou | Brant Beacon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>County of Brant welcomed the local business community for the annual Salute to Brant Business event on Thursday, September 25, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The evening was an opportunity for networking, enjoying local food and drink, an inspiring keynote address, and celebrating local business achievements with awards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a wonderful evening celebrating Brant\u2019s business community,\u201d said Zach Gable, Director of Economic Development and Tourism. \u201cThis year\u2019s theme, Resiliency of Businesses During Times of Uncertainty, was especially fitting and emphasized the importance of working together through challenging times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event was hosted by Jan Vilaca, also known as Spicy Jan, a local entrepreneur and business coach. Keynote speaker Brock Dickinson\u2019s address \u201cIt\u2019s not the end of the world\u201d, focused on understanding opportunities in the next economy though a mix of humour, insight and strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The major highlight of the event was the awards presentation, recognizing the achievements of businesses across five categories: Accessible Brant Award, Brant Farms For All Agriculture Award, Brant Works Innovation Award, Good Times in Brant Award and the Our Future Brant Sustainability Award.<\/p>\n<p>2025 award recipients were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jason\u2019s Wheelhouse \u2013 Accessible Brant Award<\/li>\n<li>McBlain Farms Ltd. \u2013 Tyler McBlain and Family \u2013 Brant Farms For All Agriculture Award<\/li>\n<li>Scotlynn \u2013 Brant Works Innovation Award<\/li>\n<li>Afro-CariBrant Festival \u2013 Good Times in Brant Award<\/li>\n<li>Sika Canada Inc. \u2013 Our Future Brant Sustainability Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nominations for this year\u2019s awards opened in early May and closed on June 25, 2025. Award recipients were selected by a committee of industry experts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful to everyone that took the time to nominate a County of Brant business and support this event,\u201d said Gable. \u201cWe look forward to celebrating with our business community again in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County of Brant welcomed the local business community for the annual Salute to Brant Business event on Thursday, September 25, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrocaribrantfestival.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrocaribrantfestival.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrocaribrantfestival.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrocaribrantfestival.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrocaribrantfestival.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afrocaribrantfestival.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/afrocaribrantfestival.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrocaribrantfestival.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrocaribrantfestival.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrocaribrantfestival.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrocaribrantfestival.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}