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Returning trustee, Erica Loftus, brings her marketing expertise to the BCET board. As the owner of Nala Marketing, a marketing firm she started two years ago, Erica is most interested in helping grow the BCET as a Beaver County asset and increase its visibility in the community. STEAM-Walk grants and the resulting events are her favorite BCET program, but she is very excited to have the opportunity to help all programs grow and gain popularity. The Beaver County Education Trust is happy to welcome her back to the board and looks forward to her help.

One of the most tenured trustees, Mark Breedlove has a strong family bond to the BCET. His father, Howell, was a member of the original board.  When he resigned in 2005, the younger Breedlove was asked to fill the seat. With 41 years of global business leadership experience and serving on several other non-profits serving our youth, Mark brings important perspective to the Trust’s deliberations whether they be about new program opportunities or complex situations that must be navigated.  In his leisure time he serves as president and CEO of Keystone Profiles, a manufacturing concern in Beaver Falls that specializes in drawing steel bars in to special shapes.     His favorite BCET program is Growing with Books, which was just hitting its stride when Mark joined up. He has always believed that "if you can read, you…

Ed McLaughlin served 25 years on the BCET Board Past Trustee, Ed McLaughlin, served a total of 25 years on the Beaver County Educational Board. He was ask by the original founders, Dick Shaw and Bob Smith, to serve as a board member back in 1992. His mission then was simply to support the fledgling organization and education in Beaver County as a whole. The BCET was an off shoot of a more localized effort in Beaver and Ed wanted to see it succeed. Even though education was not an area that the property manager and real estate broker had any expertise, he wanted to understand more and help in anyway he could. He served on many different committees over the years, wherever needed. Further, he dutifully served on the…