Chamber of Commerce honors leaders

Friday night, the business community gathered at Bay Beach Inn for the Gulf Breeze Area Chamber of Commerce's Annual Awards and Installation Banquet.

Tom Naile took the honor for Community Support (Individual) while Papa John Pizza won Community Support (Corporate).

Other awards were: Continuing Support: People's First; Continuing Support, Individual: Margaret Cunningham; Corporate Sponsor of the Year: Qualified Marketing; Emerging Business/New Member: PODS/Curt Morse; Emerging Leader of the Year: Robert Koonce; Large Business of the Year: OnMedia/Mediacom; Small Business of the Year: Creative Data Concepts; Volunteer of the Year: Cindy Huss; Ambassador of the Year: Dennis Remesch.

New officers are: President: Marc Mellor of Two Men & a Truck; President-elect: Doug Jolly of Qualified Marketing Service; Secretary: Donna Cooper of People's First Community Bank; Treasure: Robert Koonce of First Command Financial Planning; Past President: Jim Nitterauer of Creative Data Concepts; The board of directors includes:

Beth Shoemaker of Advanced Insulation; Jessica Bui of Hospice of the Emerald Coast; Jim Robert of Plastic Engraving; Matthew Salvator of DeWitt Insurance; Christian Wulfers of Edward Jones; Sandy Franz of AmSouth Bank; Todd Hopkins of Office Pride; Melanie McMillen of Breeze Promotions; Curt Morse of PODS; Lisa Newell of Gulf Breeze News; Jay Overman of Pensacolajobs.com; Dennis Remesch of RE/MAX on the Coast; Nevin Shaffer of J. Nevin Shaffer Jr. PA and Dave Szymanski of the City of Gulf Breeze.