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Marian
Young and Mark Lannan Awarded
2008 Delaware Small Business Persons of the Year
Marian Young and
Mark Lannan, co-owners of BrightFields, were honored as the Small Business
Administration’s 2008 Delaware Small Business Persons of the Year
for the State of Delaware. The award is based on the company’s
staying power, growth in employment and sales, financial performance,
innovative services, response to adversity and contributions to the
community.
Each year SBA’s 68 district offices across the country recognize
their outstanding state small business owners and champions at local
Small Business Week events. The winners then compete with other state
winners in their respective SBA regions to determine the 10 regional
award winners who then compete for the national award in their respective
categories. The 50 state small business persons of the year compete
for the title of National Small Business Person of the Year at SBA’s
National Small Business Week activities in Washington on April 21-23.
New Destiny Fellowship Church Awarded Brownfield Grant
Bethel Temple CDC, The New Destiny Fellowship Church, was awarded a $200,000 US EPA Brownfield Cleanup Grant that will allow them to finish the demolition and remediation of the former Wiley Cork site located on 16th Street in Wilmington. BrightFields is proud to have been able to support New Destiny in receiving the only 2008 EPA Brownfield Grant in the State of Delaware. The funds from this grant along with continued support from the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, which has provided significant Brownfield funding to assist in the environmental cleanup of the Wiley Cork site, will allow this property to be remediated and redeveloped. The Wiley Cork site, a cork manufacturing plant in operation throughout much of the 1900s, ceased operation in the 1990s and left tank cars, drums and process lines filled with materials. Additionally, the land that the cork plant was on had been historically filled with materials not safe for future users of the property. BrightFields has been assisting New Destiny Fellowship Church in the cleanup of this site for 3 years.
Our Milford Office is Now Open!
BrightFields is
pleased to announce the much-anticipated opening of our Milford, Delaware
branch office. The facility, at 282 North Rehoboth
Boulevard in Milford, will serve clients in Sussex and Kent Counties
in Delaware as well as neighboring areas of Maryland.
“Our Milford office positions us to more efficiently serve our
existing clients in central and southern Delaware where we continue
to see growth, as well as to reach out to new clients,” said Mark
Lannan, Principal at BrightFields.
BrightFields built its headquarters, along the Brandywine River, two
years ago after completing a brownfields remediation effort on Wilmington’s
7th Street Peninsula.
BrightFields is Hosting a Child Safety Day
BrightFields, Inc.
is hosting a Child Safety Day on Saturday September 8, 2007 from 9am
– 4pm. At this event we will have the City of Wilmington Police
Department with a booth discussing stranger safety and giving tips to
both parents and children on how to stay safe. The Wilmington Fire Department
will be there to discuss fire safety with children and parents. We will
have an Alex’s Lemonade Stand set up. There will be food and beverages
donated from local businesses and a local McDonalds for the parents
and children. There will also be some fun activities to keep children
busy and WSTW will be broadcasting live from the event. The main focus
of our event, however, will be distributing complimentary child
ID kits to parents at no charge. These kits include a photo
ID card and a CD with encrypted records that hold a photo, a voice recording
and streaming video of the child, as well as other personal information
to help identify a child quickly and accurately in the event of abduction.
The information on the CD can be quickly disseminated to all law enforcement
agencies in the area, helping to save precious minutes in the search
for the missing child.
PDF flyer with more details
"Every 40 seconds, in the U.S., one child is reported missing or abducted." (www.safekids.com)
BrightFields receives "Superstar in Business" Award
On November 8, 2006, BrightFields, Inc. was presented with an Award of Excellence in the Marvin S. Gilman Superstars in Business Awards presented annually by the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce. These awards recognize business and non profit organizations for their achievements and model approach to business management in areas such as high standards for service, profitability, and customer satisfaction. BrightFields received the Award of Excellence in the category of 26-75 employees.
Adding to the plaudits, Senator Tom Carper sent a congratulatory letter after the award’s presentation.
Link
to the DSCC award page
Watch Marian Young's and Mark Lannan's interview, which was shown at
the award ceremony
