LighTec owner Jim Grady has been nominated for the New Hampshire Business Review’s 2007 Business Excellence Award. The winners will be announced on October 3, 2007 at a dinner/reception at The Event Center at C.R. Sparks in Bedford, NH from 5-7PM. Admission is $10.00.

The Business Excellence Awards are given in recognition of the imagination, industriousness, innovation and achievements of people who often don’t get the kind of public recognition that they deserve: small-business owners and operators.

The Business Excellence Awards to be awarded in 14 different categories, honor owners and operators of businesses with 100 employees or fewer. This year’s categories are:

real estate, construction, technology, financial services, retail, transportation, hospitality, health care, law, business services, non-profit, manufacturing, media & marketing and public service.

The Event Center at C.R. Sparks
October 3, 2007
The Event Center at C.R. Sparks
Bedford, NH
5PM-7PM

The Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce has formed a Green Committee because of an overwhelming response from members regarding conservation and becoming more involved with protecting the environment. There are 6 sub committees that make up the Green Committee. Law, regulation and compliance; real estate development and construction;architecture and engineering; education and leadership; cost savings; environmental concern. Kathy Beliveau, Sales and Marketing Manager for LighTec, Inc., has been appointed as the Team Leader for the Cost Savings Sub-Committee and will serve as an advisory board member of the sector groups.

Some of the concerns of the sub-committee are: create and sustain a centralized resource center, publicize testimonials, and best practices. Add a “Green” overlay to BizFest and Infrastructure Summit, develop and manage resources, review other resources that can educate about cost savings practices.

A BLOG has been established on the LighTec website for the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce Green Committee to allow discussion about what resources are available to New Hampshire businesses that will assist them with becoming better stewards of the environment.

The UNH Cooperative Extension is partnering with the community to create the first green roof demonstration site on Manchester’s City Hall Connector. Our goal is to have it in place before the 2008 Presidential Primary when Manchester and especially City Hall are featured nightly on the national news. For more information on how you, your organization or business can be a sponsor, please contact:

Mary Tebo, Community Forestry Educator
UNH Cooperative Extension
200 Bedford Street
Manchester, NH 03101
(phone) 629-9494 ext. 140
(email) mary.tebo@unh.edu

From May 6-10, 2007, the LighTec Staff will be attending the architectural and commercial lighting industry’s largest and most diverse educational initiative in New York—offering 72 courses, totaling more than 210 hours of programming—LIGHTFAIR INTERNATIONAL (LFI) 2007. This year the Conference takes place at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York.

Strategically structured and designed in close partnership with industry experts, conference topics address everything from lighting software and applications, to business and lighting fundamentals, to design innovation and product updates, to project case studies on lighting The Georgia Aquarium, The New York Times Building, museums and America’s department stores. Courses are led by the industry’s most renowned lighting designers, educators, architects, engineers and consultants.