Article and Photos by Margaret Hopper
Silver City-Grant County Chamber PNM Awards 120116
Silver City-Grant County Chamber PNM Awards 120116
Awards ready to be handed out.
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Silver City-Grant County Chamber PNM Awards 120116
Ray Marquez and Alan Walsmith represent W&N Enterprises
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Silver City-Grant County Chamber PNM Awards 120116
Bruce Ashburn, PNM, begins awards program.
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Silver City-Grant County Chamber PNM Awards 120116
Jennifer Tavison shows off the Sun Valley award
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Silver City-Grant County Chamber PNM Awards 120116
Ron Jensen adds words to WNMU's presentation
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Silver City-Grant County Chamber PNM Awards 120116
Eddie Evatt, Bruce Ashburn and Pastor Dale Reece of Glad Tidings Church
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Silver City-Grant County Chamber PNM Awards 120116
Border Area Mental Health Services' CEO Kathleen Hunt and Sylvia Madrid accept the award from Bruce Ashburn.
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Silver City-Grant County Chamber PNM Awards 120116
The awardees
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Silver City-Grant County Chamber PNM Awards 120116
LifeQuest's Joseph Jensen, CEO Debra Frasca, and Cynthia Na+?ez receive award
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Silver City-Grant County Chamber PNM Awards 120116
Ron Jensen and WNMU VP of Business Affairs Brenda Findley accept award for WNMU.
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On Thursday, December 01, 2016, the Chamber of Commerce turned the meeting over to Bruce Ashburn, PNM's Regional Stakeholder Coordinator. Ashburn was there to publicly announce the PNM awards and grants to area businesses and nonprofits who were increasing their business energy efficiency and reducing usage. He said reasons to use the C of C meeting to announce these awards included a chance to invite those not yet Chamber members to become that, and also to get the Chamber and community to know these innovators better.
Ashburn stressed the utilityG