The Better Business Bureau (BBB), which serves the San Francisco Bay Area and California North Shore, is proud to announce the winners of the annual regional competition, including Flow Pro Plumbing.

The BBB is proud to announce this year’s Torch Awards for Ethics Winners! The Torch Awards for Ethics competition was created to honor companies that demonstrate their commitment to trust and market ethics. The award embodies BBB’s mission to be a leader in fostering market trust. The Torch Awards are given to companies that strive to excel in dealing with customers, employees, suppliers and the community.

Applications were invited from for-profit, 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6) nonprofit organizations of all sizes headquartered in the 13-county BBB service area serving the San Francisco Bay Area and the North Shore of California. BBB received entries from across the region and from various industries.

We are proud to announce the winners of the 2023 Regional Torch Awards for Ethics. They include:

BBB also recognizes and commends the finalists. Although their entries were not selected for an award, finalists are still recognized for demonstrating strong ethical business practices and for being leaders in the community. There were two Category 1 finalists: Adom Manor Care Home and Armed Force Pest Control, Inc. and three Category 2 finalists: Arrow Ai, Pacific Bay Estates and SFO Representatives, Inc.

“Torch Awards winners demonstrate the highest ethical standards of trust to customers, employees and the communities in which they do business,” said Lori Wilson, BBB President and CEO for the San Francisco Bay Area and California North Shore. “We are proud to present this prestigious award to these deserving companies.”

Each company went through an application process to demonstrate its commitment to ethics and leadership in the community. All applicants were are encouraged to find examples of their organization’s practices that best illustrate each of the four criteria being assessed: company, character, culture, and community service.

They were judged by an independent jury made up of community leaders and entrepreneurs from various industries.

The winners of the 2023 Torch Awards are now qualified to compete in the 2023 International Torch Awards for Ethics. Presented annually since 1996, the International Torch Awards for Ethics honors companies that demonstrate leadership best practices and high standards of organizational ethics that benefit their customers, employees, suppliers, shareholders and communities. To be eligible for the International Torch Award for Ethics, a company must first be a winner of its local BBB awards program.

Thank you to all the companies that entered this year’s competition and congratulations to the winners and finalists!

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BRENTWOOD (KPIX) – The cherry harvest in Brentwood is the one weekend of the year when many city slicker farmers are allowed to play. This year, Mother Nature arranged for weather to add some realism to the romance.

For many in the Bay Area, picking their own cherries on U-Pick farms like the Bacchini fruit tree is a Memorial Day holiday tradition. Six-year-old Isabella Hastings said it could be a little difficult.

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“Because they have to be dark red,” she explained.

Thanks to COVID-19, picking cherries in Bacchini this year was only possible with prior reservation.

Ken Hagan, co-owner of the farm, said online appointments would need to be set up last season. Since then, they have found that limiting the amount has its advantages, such as keeping things from getting too competitive.

“People would actually get possessive of a particular tree and try to keep people away,” he said with a laugh. “It was a very interesting experience for me.”

It still got quite hot on Sunday thanks to the sun and a high pressure system moving over the state. By noon the temperature was in the mid-90s and Hagan said that was ironic because the season so far has been very mild.

“We’ve actually been cooler so far,” he said. “Today we should reach 100 degrees, I think, and tomorrow even hotter. So that will accelerate the maturation of things. “

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It also sped up Darrel Chak as he tossed a box of cherries over to his car and returned to the coolness of his Daly City home.

“I got here around 11 am,” he said. “We’re here maybe an hour and a half and in this sun it gets a little hot!”

On the other hand, Steve Argilla, who lives in Hayward, likes to come to farmland. He said he considers it a fun life experience and doesn’t even care about the heat, although he admits he’s not prepared for it.

“In the Bay Area, closer to the bay, do we rarely get that kind of heat to say I’m ready for any kind of heat like this? No, ”Argilla admitted.

Hagan says the month of May has gotten hotter in recent years. He says this year’s weather pattern – cool temperatures with a warm up on Memorial Day – is actually what it used to be.

What draws people from the city to the cherry plantations every year? There is something satisfying to the soul braving the elements and spending time harvesting your own food, but for most people the heat – like the farm itself – is nice to visit but they don’t want to live there.

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“The great thing is that it’s only an hour’s drive away,” said Hagan. “I mean, you can just get out of here, experience it, and you’ll be home tonight.”

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