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Congrats to the winners of the

Awards
2014 Readers’ Choice

By STEVEN BROWN
pared stories on a random selection of the
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winners.
We hope you enjoy these stories, and we
Back in December we sent out ballots to hope you use this supplement as a guide to
Serving Gresham Since 1977
our readers, asking them to vote on their some of the best products and services avail-
favorite businesses, eateries and even
Home of
able throughout The Outlook and Sandy Post
some of the people who work in those es- circulation areas.
tablishments.
We also would like to thank our readers for
What follows on these pages are the results taking the time and energy to thoughtfully ill
of those ballots: The winners of the 2014 out and cast their ballots. Without their help,
Gresham Outlook/Sandy Post Readers’ Choice we wouldn’t be able to make these awards pos-

Awards.
sible.
All of the winners appear on the listing One last thank you: To the readers for se-
printed on Pages 14-17. And throughout this lecting The Outlook and Sandy Post as the No.
special supplement, our newsroom has pre-
1 local newspapers. There is no greater praise.

Voted

Best Eyewear
Three local readers win cash prizes

THANK YOU
By ANNE ENDICOTT
“So we’re going
Pamplin Media Group
to donate the
money to the Cor-
These days, it’s easy to be skeptical if bett PTA and let
•AllPrescriptions someone calls saying you’ve won money.
them decide what

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And apparently, the news is no less credible to do with it.”
evenifitcomesfromthecommunitynewspaper. Third-place
• Most Insurances “I was visiting my mom in the hospital and winner Kirsten
had turned my phone off,” Linda Burbach said. Everett also was
Accepted
“When I checked my messages, I told her, surprised to learn

• Sunglasses
‘Somebody called saying I’ve won $200.’ I had she’d won $100,
no idea what was going on so it was a complete
especially since
surprise.”
she barely re-
• Designer Styles
Burbach was selected as the second-prize
membered illing
winner in The Outlook’s and Sandy Post’s 2014 Everett
out the bottom of
• Computer Readers’ Choice random drawing earlier this the ballot to be

Comfort Eyewear
month. Sandy resident Ryan Weems took home entered in the drawing.
$350 as the irst-place winner, with the $100 “Our whole family has been going to U.S.
third-place prize going to Kirsten Everett of World Class Taekwondo for the last six months,
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We are committed to new Gresham.
so I illed out the form to vote for them,” Everett
Burbach and husband, Randy, were long- said. “After that, I forgot about it. I was totally
MICHAL KORSTM - RAYBANTM
high tech materials and
KATE SPADETM - SILHOUETTETM time Gresham residents before moving to Cor- surprised to win.”
old fashioned services.
bett several years ago. They enjoy supporting Like Burbach, Everett plans to share her un-
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local businesses and plan to donate their Read- expected windfall.
40%
ers’ Choice winnings.
“My heart’s telling me to donate it, but I don’t
Off 2nd Pair of Glasses
“My husband and I don’t need the money know where yet,” she said.

and we weren’t expecting this,” Burbach said.

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