{"id":686218,"date":"2026-05-22T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686218\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:15:09","slug":"nl-business-leaders-inducted-into-junior-achievement-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686218\/","title":{"rendered":"NL Business Leaders Inducted into Junior Achievement Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(VOCM News)<\/p>\n

Titans of Newfoundland and Labrador\u2019s business community were inducted into the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame last night.<\/p>\n

The event took place in front of a jam-packed room at the JAG Soundhouse in St. John\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The first inductee to take the stage was Brian Chafe, the current CEO of De Havilland and former CEO of PAL Aerospace.<\/p>\n

Next, mother-son duo Regina McCarthy \u2013 founder of McCarthy\u2019s Party, and her son and current president of the company Mark McCarthy were inducted.<\/p>\n

The final inductees were Long Play Capital CEO and concert promoter John Steele, and his mother, entrepreneur Catherine Steele, who received the honour posthumously.<\/p>\n

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John Steele (VOCM News)<\/p>\n

John Steele is the former owner of Steele Communications \u2013 which was the parent company of VOCM and its sister stations for many years.<\/p>\n

Steele spoke about the importance of all of the people that have worked for him and helped him along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis induction involves, literally, thousands of people. Nobody, nobody, is self made.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (VOCM News) Titans of Newfoundland and Labrador\u2019s business community were inducted into the Junior Achievement Hall of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-686218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}