County Executive Bellone to Honor Local Independent Business Women as Part of National Women\u2019s History Month<\/span><\/p>\n

Smithtown is home to many influential business women. Thanks to our County Executive, Steve Bellone, local Chambers of Commerce will have the opportunity to nominate one female business owner for the County\u2019s \u201cRecognizing Our Independent Business Women\u201d awards. Nominations are being accepted now through March 11th, 2016. Each Chamber of Commerce is asked to chose a businesswoman who has excelled in her career while giving back to the community.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an honor to recognize the triumphs and accomplishments of our local women business owners because they are the ones who help drive our local economies every day... This program honors the women in our region who have not only strived for success, but provided the blueprint and helped forge the paths for other women and aspiring entrepreneurs to follow.\u201d - Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone<\/span><\/p>\n

The 2016 Recognizing Our Independent Business Women awards program is being held as a portion of Suffolk County\u2019s tribute to National Women\u2019s History Month. \u00a0The awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, March 23 at the Suffolk County Women\u2019s Hall of Fame in the plaza of the H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deadline for Nominations from Chambers of Commerce is Friday, March 11, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n

How to Nominate a local Business Woman:<\/span><\/p>\n

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• Click to Download a Women's History Month 2016 Nomination Request<\/a>\u00a0form or visit Suffolk County\u2019s website, <\/span>www.suffolkcountyny.gov<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
• Each Chamber of Commerce must list three individual reasons and\/or achievements for the nominee. <\/span><\/li>\n
• Submit nominations to Grace Ioannidis<\/a> \u00a0for consideration.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  For more information on the County\u2019s celebration of National Women\u2019s History Month, log on to <\/span>www.suffolkcountyny.gov<\/span><\/a> or<\/span>www.facebook.com\/stevebellone<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  County Executive Bellone to Honor Local Independent Business Women as Part of National Women\u2019s History Month Smithtown is home to many influential business women. Thanks to our County Executive, Steve Bellone, local Chambers of Commerce will have the opportunity to nominate one female business owner for the County\u2019s \u201cRecognizing Our Independent Business Women\u201d awards. Nominations are being accepted now through March 11th, 2016. Each Chamber of Commerce is asked to chose a businesswoman who has excelled in her career while giving back to the community. \u201cIt is an honor to recognize the triumphs and accomplishments of our local women business […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[340,705,213],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communityspotlight","category-suffolk-county-news","category-whatshappening"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smithtowntodaynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/business_woman_awards.jpg?fit=1024%2C685&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6dZB9-12Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithtowntodaynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithtowntodaynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithtowntodaynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithtowntodaynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithtowntodaynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smithtowntodaynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4034,"href":"https:\/\/smithtowntodaynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithtowntodaynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithtowntodaynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithtowntodaynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithtowntodaynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithtowntodaynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}