Silverdale School celebrates 22 years of partnership and a great team worth keeping

When you’ve worked with the same cleaning provider for more than two decades, you know you’ve found something that works. That’s certainly the case at Silverdale Normal School, where CrestClean has been looking after the school’s cleaning needs for 22 years. Principal Michael Harrop has been at the school for

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