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M/ T T . I •Hilmi • • Story continued from page 1. In the last two-and-a-half years, the restaurant has received a com- plete makeover, adding the wine bar and partnering with the Quinte Arts Council to exhibit in the ban- quet space. She and Adrian also own Max Tech and opened Maxwell College downtown a decade ago. Being a woman in business requires delicately balancing the duties of owner, employer, wife and mother, Hilmi said. "The sacrifice we make in order to find a manageable balance is often invisible," she said. Other nominees at the lun- cheon, sponsored by The Intelli- gencer, were Paula Finkle of Pinkie Electric, Kym Riley of Mindful Movements, Lisa Purves of Lisa Purves Garden Design, Karol Marshman of Marshman Jewellers, Janet Gonneau of Cucina Free- man's and Teresa Whitmore of Remax Quinte. Susan Aglukark, Canadian recording artist, was the guest speaker. She told the story of emerging from an Inuit girl on the shore of Hudson's Bay to an artist managing a hit single and the com- modity of her own image. Aglukark said she has finally learned to believe that she deserves praise, and that the but- terflies in her stomach are some- thing to follow. "No one's going to say 'Susan, Fm sorry7 for what we've put you through.' No one said 'OK, you've passed the depressed test,'" she said. "I finally started to feel like a beautiful woman, a woman who had demons but could fight them. "At 39, I'm finally comfortable and standing in a place where you couldn't shake me. I say when and where I can be bought. I let the butterflies guide me and my living is my learning." The Intelligencer had a plaque created that will hang in the foyer of its building recognizing Women in Business award winners from 2002 to today, says advertising director Amy Doyle. <