LETTER FROM OUR SVP

Albuquerque Journal readers, get ready to add items to that bucket list. For several weeks we asked our readers to vote for their favorite destinations, professionals and businesses in a variety of categories. Journal readers made their choices and they are all highlighted in this premium special section produced by the award-winning advertising and marketing department at the Albuquerque Journal. We are thrilled to showcase these phenomenal businesses to more than 93,000 households. On Friday, Aug. 16, the winners gathered to celebrate the awards and to honor businesses that shape and serve our community. It was a phenomenal evening full of laughter, fun, food and music. In this special section, you will discover — or rediscover — Albuquerque and the treasures that make it “home.” It also takes the pulse of Albuquerque — providing a reference of where to take those special out of town guests during the upcoming Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. On behalf of Albuquerque Journal readers, Journal Publisher William P. Lang and Journal staff, congratulations to this year’s award winners. As New Mexico’s largest newspaper, we are honored to pay tribute to hundreds of Albuquerque’s businesses and people. We hope that you visit each and every one of these businesses. Every one of them is critical to the economy of not only Albuquerque, but to New Mexico. Each deserves to be on your bucket list, as each is unique in its own special ways. I would like to thank this year’s Albuquerque Journal Readers’ Choice sponsors Fidelity Investments, Intel, Nusenda Credit Union, Bay Equity Home Loans, Floorscapes, Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry and Smith’s Food and Drug. Each of these sponsors helped make this year’s event and this special section possible. Pay a visit to them. and see why our readers’ chose them. Let’s make plenty of bucket list moments this year.