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By Janet Forgrieve, Rocky Mountain News
May 5, 2006

Business awards

The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce honored an online marketing company, a language translation provider, an architecture firm and a health care nonprofit with its annual business awards. The group recognized the following organizations and individuals at its annual awards lunch at the Colorado Convention Center:

• Emerging business of the year: Booyah Networks, a Boulder-based firm that works with clients to market products, services and content via the Internet.

• Minority-owned business of the year: Syntes Language Group Inc., a Centennial-based provider of professional translation and interpreting services in all major languages.

• Small business of the year: David Owen Tryba Architects, a firm that has handled a wide range of projects, including office buildings, civic and cultural institutions, mixed-use developments, and historic preservation.

• Nonprofit organization of the year: Inner City Health Center, a volunteer-based facility that provides medical and dental care to uninsured and low-income families.

• Small-business advocate award: Roy Alexander, executive director and chief executive of the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority.

• The luncheon also honored the winners of the Small Business Administration's annual Colorado "small-business person of the year" award. This year's honors went to Mai Tran, president of Fort Collins-based Information Technology Experts Inc., and Bruce Hottman, vice president of ITX.

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