MVE The Heritage Centre emerges as big winner for 2026 at Alberta Business Awards of Distinction

An entrepreneur from Mountain View County has returned from an Alberta Chambers of Commerce event in Leduc with not one, but two awards.

The annual Alberta Business Awards of Distinction ceremony was held last Wednesday and Debora Rice-Salomons, President of Mountain View Events which operates the Heritage Centre at Cremona, was the winner in the category of female entrepreneur.

However, that wasn’t all, she also took home Alberta’s Best of Business Award of Distinction – the top award of its kind in the province. Rice-Salomons says “just absolutely thrilled and honoured to have been selected to receive these awards. It was a great honour. I was so happy to have been able to be in the final of the Best of Business category with some wonderful businesses and very, very proud and pleased that we won.”

Rice-Salomons adds, that M-V-E The Heritage Centre has never won anything of this stature before so they will be working on finding a good place to display the awards and show them off. See the full list of winners for 2026 here.

Listen to 96.5 The Ranch’s Community Hotline conversation with Debora Rice-Salomons.

Galen Hartviksen
Galen Hartviksen
Straight outta northwestern Ontario, Galen moved from his hometown of Thunder Bay to Alberta in 1998. After graduating from the broadcasting program at Mount Royal College (Class of 2003), it was off to the Town of Olds for the launch of the independent radio station (CAB-K Broadcasting). A fan of all seasons, Galen has been News Director & the voice of the Alberta Junior Hockey League's Olds Grizzlys on 96.5 CKFM/ROCK 104.5 for two decades and in 2024 he was excited to have the opportunity to join the team at Vista Radio and My Mountain View Now.

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