Winners of the first Business Competition by Gorge Owned drew 125 or so people to The Pint Shack Thursday, where five businesses gave their pitches and three earned enough audience votes to snare the right to apply for a no-interest Kiva Zip non-profit loan for start-ups. Emily Reed’s on-line social networking app got the nod, along with Nicole Basset and McKenzie Guinon, for the garment-reuse project Re-Make.

The third winner was Ari Bacharach of Opa’s Goat Grove farm and ranch in Mosier. Fellow applicant, photographer Michael Peterson of Pro Media in Hood River, told Bacharach, “We should do some work together.”