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A crowd of 165 people filled Amarante’s Tuesday night to toast some of New Haven’s private-sector leaders.
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The occasion was Business New Haven’s annual “Business & Civic Awards” event. Editor Abelardo King and Publisher Norma Rodriguez-Reyes (in top photo) of La Voz Hispana (pictured above) accepted the award for minority businesspersons of the year.
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Lindy Lee Gold, who has sat on more civic boards than the typical 100 New Haveners combined, was honored as citizen of the year.
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Business New Haven Publisher Mitchell Young handed the innovator of the year award to Smilow Cancer Center’s Thomas Lynch Jr.
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Wells Fargo (whose employees are pictured) picked up the corporate citizen award, while Matt Murphy of Murphy Distributors was named top small businessperson and Kennedy & Perkins’ Richard Kennedy, Jr. and Dart Messick won the founders award.
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The overall businessperson of the year award went to developer Robert Landino, who is undertaking two separate $50 million building projects in New Haven. (Read about that, and about him, here.)
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