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| North Wind, Inc team participates in the 2010 Bataan Death March | Date Posted: 05/18/2010 |
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Idaho Falls, Idaho – For a 6th consecutive year, North Wind, Inc. a CIRI Company, was a primary sponsor and participated with a team in the 21st annual Bataan Memorial Death March. The resounding boom of cannon fire broke the sound of thousands of participants talking as they waited in anticipation March 21 for the start of the 2010 Bataan Memorial Death March at the White Sands Missile Range, NM. The event drew a record 5,704 participants and for the fifth year, more than two dozen Wounded Warriors, amputees from the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam, took part, once again demonstrating to the other march participants what is physically possible. The Bataan Death March occurred in 1942 after the Japanese attacked the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines, where American and Filipino soldiers were stationed. After three months of fighting the Japanese with insufficient weapons and dwindling supplies, the American and Filipino soldiers were ordered to surrender April 9, 1942. The Japanese forced the soldiers to march more than 60 miles with nearly no food or water. The prisoners were subjected to heinous acts of torture and many were killed or perished while marching. Some of the soldiers who survived the march spent the next three years in Japanese prisoner of war camps until freed in 1945. The opening ceremony for the march included a roll call of the New Mexico National Guard survivors, who were members of the 200th and 515th Coast Artillery units. One by one, the names of those living and deceased were called out as a reminder of what’s called America’s “Greatest Generation.” Some of the Bataan survivors lined up along the starting line and shook hands with the marchers as a show of gratitude to those who were marching in their honor. North Wind Senior Vice President Bruce Miller, who participated as the captain of the first North Wind Bataan Team in 2005 said, “it’s an honor each year for the North Wind Team members to be able to meet and thank the surviving veterans of the Bataan Death March at the event for their service to our Country. Each year there are fewer Bataan veterans and there presence at this event is very inspiration to the participants and also reminds everyone why they are there – to pay tribute to the sacrifices of the Bataan veterans - those who survived and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. North Wind 2010 Bataan Memorial Death March Team (from left to right) Don Minnick, Jace Fahnestock, Brad Nelson, Kevin Edmundson, and Tami Taylor nearing the finish line of the 26.2 mile march. The 2010 Team was made up from employees from North Wind’s Idaho Falls and Kellogg, Idaho offices as well a our Las Cruces, New Mexico office. |
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| North Wind highlighted in Reflections 2009 (Washington Closure Hanford) | Date Posted: 04/29/2010 |
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| North Wind Led Team Receives Contract for Environmental Remediation Services | Date Posted: 04/18/2010 |
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April 15, 2010. North Wind, Inc., an Idaho Falls based environmental services firm, announced that it was one of five companies awarded contracts to perform Environmental Remediation Services for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The contract features a wide range of environmental services at various known or suspected Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (HTRW) and Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC) sites at locations nationwide as well as U.S. Territories. The contract has a ceiling of $50 million, with a basic performance period of three years, plus a two year option year option.
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| Idaho Falls businesswoman supports the Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women through $15,000 sponsorship | Date Posted: 03/30/2010 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – MARCH 16, 2010
The Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women has announced the addition of Sylvia Medina, president and founder of North Wind, Inc., to its ambassador sponsorship level with a donation of $15,000.
“Sylvia’s one of the most dynamic businesswomen I’ve ever met,” said Terry Neese, founder and CEO of the Institute. “She has managed to build a multi-million dollar company from the ground up, while successfully balancing her family life.”
The Institute, a 501c3 organization, created the PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS program, which provides long-term business training to female entrepreneurs from Afghanistan and Rwanda. Education is provided in both countries, as well as in the United States. Since the program’s inception in 2006, 150 women have been directly trained and educated.
Medina has been involved with the PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS program as an enterprising member of the 2010 Leadership Development Committee. The committee formulates curriculum for Leadership Development. She will teach a marketing workshop at this year’s conference.
“I am proud to be involved with the PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS program – anything that helps empower women in business,” Medina said. “The concept of marketing is not always something Afghan and Rwandan women are familiar with, but these skills are essential to running a successful business.”
North Wind, Inc. consults businesses in the environmental, engineering and construction services industries on sustainability and cost-saving business practices.
Before Leadership Development, PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS students participate in In-Country Education, an intensive eight-week business course taught to 30 women in each country that culminates in the development of a business plan. Fifteen women are then selected to travel to the United States for Leadership Development for higher-level business and leadership training, as well as a weeklong mentorship with an American woman business owner and an International Women’s Economic Summit, a two-day conference focusing on the strength and contribution of women entrepreneurs in Afghanistan and Rwanda, the obstacles they face, and the free economy solutions to peace. Each student is then committed to Pay it Forward, where students pass on for one full year the blessings and knowledge they have received through the program to their fellow countrymen and women.
For more information about the Institute and sponsorship opportunities, please visit www.ieew.org.
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| Runway Re-opened at the Air Force Base | Date Posted: 03/17/2010 |
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North Wind recently completed a $27.2M demolition and reconstruction of the North-South Runway serving Charleston AFB, South Carolina and Charleston International Airport. North Wind was the Prime Contractor, with asphalt and concrete paving subcontractors Banks Construction, Summers Concrete Construction and RC Construction, and a Charleston material testing firm, WPC Environmental, providing independent quality control testing of materials. The project required demolition of an existing 7000’ asphalt surfaced runway, construction of a new 15” thick x 7000’ x 150’ concrete runway, new 25’ asphalt shoulders, addition of 1000’ and 800’ asphalt overruns at the North and South ends of the runway, replacement of a 950’ x 75’ taxiway, replacement of all runway and taxiway lights, electrical manholes, ductbanks and cables, lighted directional signs, new under pavement drainage system, multiple large storm drain structures and stormwater retention basins. Construction began on 9 April 2009, the schedule was extended several times for design changes and additional work, and the project was completed on time and budget on 23 Feb 2010. Program Manager – Rusty Gilbert Project Manager - Drew Wright Site Superintendent - Dave Force Quality Control Manager - Don Kellogg Project Controls – Darin Craig Contract Administrator – Cynthia Forbis Read More |
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