RIHEBC awards $517K in grants to 7 nonprofits
THE RHODE ISLAND Health Educational Building Corp. has awarded $516,946 in grants to seven local nonprofit health, education and community services. PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Health and Educational Building Corp. has awarded $516,946 in grants to seven local nonprofit health, education and community services, the quasi-public agency announced Wednesday. The grants, designed to aid organizations in completing major projects, ranged from $9,041 to $100,000. Funded projects will help the organizations grow and expand services to meet…
Register to keep reading or subscribe today and receive unlimited access.
By Kitsey Burns Harrison kburns@yadkinripple.com
Yadkin County Chamber of Commerce members gather for 2015 annual dinner and awards banquet at Tractor Brown’s Museum in Yadkinville.
File photo
Marty Driver, Hands of Hope Clinic, and Jessica Wall, Asst. Human Services Director with the Yadkin Medical Clinic, are among the honorees at the 2020 Yadkin Chamber Awards Banquet.
File photo
Courtesy photo
Lenuel Chamberlain receives the first Farmer of the Year Award in 2009 at the Yadkin County Chamber of Commerce banquet.
Courtesy photo
For more than 30 years the Yadkin County Chamber of Commerce has hosted an annual banquet an awards ceremony in January to celebrate the accomplishments of local businesses and community leaders. In light of the continued safety concerns due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s celebration has been put on hold.
He was born in Plainfield, to parents Rosalie (Nicholson) and Stan Biedron.
Mark was a graduate of the Pingry School, earned a bachelor of arts degree in business from the University of Vermont and continued his studies at the University of Colorado.
He was vice president of sales and marketing at CON-LUX Coatings, Inc., in Edison, a manufacturer of architectural and chemical resistant coatings which his father started in 1947. He worked with his father and brother for 20 years before selling the business to the Sherwin-Williams Co. in 1995.
He co-founded Solid Wood Construction, which specialized in custom-crafted mortise and tenon barn homes, renovations and green buildings. He became an Accredited Professional of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED AP), managed all construction of the Willow School in Gladstone and achieved the first Living Building certification in New Jersey from the International Living Future Institute.