Business View Magazine - August 2023

95 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 8 BROWNING HARVEY LTD. isolation and testing, so our employees were quite hands-on with that development.” Altruistic efforts Patten lauds Browning Harvey Ltd’s community involvement. “Our main initiative is to keep supporting those who support us,” she says, “which means we try to support as many local organizations as we can. We do sports. We do the nature conservatory. We do education. We do some health care. We do have a wide range of groups that we support. It’s really important to us to continue to support as many local groups as we can. We do have college scholarships to Memorial University. There is a scholarship to the College of the North Atlantic as well, and then there are also the community groups. “During COVID, we actually had a new piece of machinery installed,” she adds, extolling Williams’s work with this. “We had to do a few things remotely. I think it’s a great source of pride for our employees. They were very hands- on, and without the dedication and loyalty of our employees, trying to facilitate implementing this new system (would’ve been impossible).” Lunden praises them for their careful attention to detail, dedication and loyalty. Their behavior was commendable, even at the height of the COVID-related restrictions when Newfoundland and Labrador suffered under a government-mandated lockdown. “To come into our province,” she says, “you had to have government permission, so it wasn’t easy for a technician just to fly in and stay for a day and go. They had to do the whole