{"id":2968,"date":"2019-05-08T13:21:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.puroclean.com\/warwick-ri-puroclean-disaster-restoration-services\/?post_type=blog&amp;p=2968"},"modified":"2019-05-08T13:21:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:21:18","slug":"puroclean-grit-wins-sanford-veteran-small-business-owner-award","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.puroclean.com\/warwick-ri-puroclean-disaster-restoration-services\/blog\/puroclean-grit-wins-sanford-veteran-small-business-owner-award\/","title":{"rendered":"PuroClean Grit Wins Sanford Veteran Small Business Owner Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Congrats Chris Sanford!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2969 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.puroclean.com\/warwick-ri-puroclean-disaster-restoration-services\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2019\/05\/PuroClean-staff-SBA-Award-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u00a0From left, members of the PuroClean staff: Olivia Lariviere, Richard Minogue, Raquel Pereyra, Alda Hernandez, and Chris Sanford, owner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Sanford, local\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.puroclean.com\/warwick-ri-puroclean-disaster-restoration-services\/about-us\/\">PuroClean Disaster Restoration Services<\/a>\u00a0owner and Navy reservist, deployed to Uganda in 2011 for 18 months, returning to a 61 percent sales dip he strove to reverse, earning the U.S. Small Business Association\u2019s 2019 New England Veteran Small Business Owner award.<\/p>\n<p>As Sanford helped train Ugandan soldiers during Operation Noble Eagle as liaison for the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa in Djibouti to the US Embassy in Kampala and to the Ugandan Peoples\u2019 Defense Force (UPDF), he realized he couldn\u2019t effectively moonlight his company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI naively thought I could complete my Navy job during the day and work on PuroClean at night, but that idea quickly faded away. My team back home did the best they could but without me present to drive sales, our volume fell off significantly,\u201d Sanford said.<\/p>\n<p>Read full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/warwickpost.com\/puroclean-grit-wins-sanford-veteran-small-business-owner-award\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warwick Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To contact PuroClean Disaster Restoration Services, call <a href=\"tel:4017374329\">(401) 737-4329<\/a> or email us at <a href=\"mailto:csanford@puroclean.com\">csanford@puroclean.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats Chris Sanford! \u00a0From left, members of the PuroClean staff: Olivia Lariviere, Richard Minogue, Raquel Pereyra, Alda Hernandez, and Chris Sanford, owner. Christopher Sanford, local\u00a0PuroClean Disaster Restoration Services\u00a0owner and Navy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2830,"template":"","blog-category":[14,15],"class_list":["post-2968","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","blog-category-in-the-community","blog-category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puroclean.com\/warwick-ri-puroclean-disaster-restoration-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puroclean.com\/warwick-ri-puroclean-disaster-restoration-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puroclean.com\/warwick-ri-puroclean-disaster-restoration-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puroclean.com\/warwick-ri-puroclean-disaster-restoration-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.puroclean.com\/warwick-ri-puroclean-disaster-restoration-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puroclean.com\/warwick-ri-puroclean-disaster-restoration-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puroclean.com\/warwick-ri-puroclean-disaster-restoration-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"blog-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puroclean.com\/warwick-ri-puroclean-disaster-restoration-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-category?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}