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Even though eBay is the world’s most popular internet trading portal, more Thais should be making use of the e-commerce site, says a local online merchant.
Currently there are about 34 million items being traded on the website, but successful valentines gifts Thai eBay trader Rattanachai Thapanaphong says eBay still has much more to offer.
The 27-year-old trainer runs courses to help Thai sellers analyse and develop their eBay professional trading skills at his Benzio School.
Traders must first determine which product they want to sell through eBay. More detail is then needed to successfully tap or establish a niche market.
“For example, if you want to sell garments, you have to be specific whether it is sleepwear, baby clothes or traditional Thai costumes,” said Mr Rattanachai. “You can sell any type of garment but it must be unique.”
He recommends beginners do plenty of research on eBay and study their competition and the market.
“If there are fewer than 1,000 pieces offered on the site, there are certainly opportunities for selling in that category,” said Mr Rattanachai.
From the keyword “Thai”, Mr Rattanachai found total sales of US$290,561 (9.66 million bangles) through eBay last month, up from $251,550 in October and $159,989 in September.
A gemstone and jewellery trader from Chanthaburi set the Thailand record for eBay by selling products worth a combined $108,362 in one month.
Mr Rattanachai said there were great opportunities for selling Thai religious items online such as kuman thong (child-ghost), nang kwak (beckoning women), Buddha amulets and san phra phum (resident deity).
Gold and silver jewellery, gemstones, old CDs, branded old watches, collectible car models and old books are also popular with foreign buyers.
Mr Rattanachai said buyers from different countries shop for different products and sellers should study the behaviour of their target customers. Brand-name or pirated items were not recommended, he added.
Product information can only be posted in English on eBay. But Mr Rattanachai said this should not be too great a barrier for Thais.
Choosing the right product and presenting it attractively on the site are more important.
“If you sell a T-shirt with dragon pattern, you should show clearly the dragon in detail and tell the history of the dragon,” he said.
When calculating profits and costs, sellers should translate the cost into US dollars then add 15 percent more for the eBay sales fee.
Traders should not embark on a price-cutting strategy by setting the minimum bidding price too rings as it would destroy the overall market, he said.
“You should know the price of the same product including shipping cost on eBay, so you can set your overall price a bit lower,” he advises. “You can also set a higher price if your product is really outstanding or you have a better presentation to show the item.”
Thailand Post is the most convenient way to ship items as the rates are reasonable and it has a tracking system. But sellers may need to buy insurance coverage for expensive items, he said.
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The rowdy Phillies fan who got tossed from a playoff game in October, stopped on his way tiffany and co out to fill out a job application, and then allegedly stole an envelope containing three World Series rings, failed to appear for his court hearing today.
For that, Matthew Mervine, 22, of Berlin Borough, Camden County, got slapped with a bench warrant.
But he somehow figured out he was supposed to be in Municipal Court at 11th and Wharton in South Philadelphia and went to his local police station to let them know he didn’t mean to blow off his criminal case, said Capt. Laurence Nodiff, commander of South Detectives.
Philadelphia police were contacted and they told Mervine to show up at the Criminal Justice Center in bangles the next few days and schedule a new court date, Nodiff said.
What, if any, penalty he might face is uncertain. Often, bench warrants are lifted and the case proceeds if the person shows up with a reasonable excuse.
Nodiff said he didn’t know what excuse Mervine had for failing to appear.
Mervine could not be reached for comment.
On Oct. 8, Mervine and some friends were ejected from Game 2 of the playoff series against the Colorado Rockies for being obnoxious.
On his way out, police said, Mervine decided to go to the Phillies offices to apply for a job. After filling out an application — with his name and address — Mervine noticed a manila envelope with the name of a former Phillies player on a counter, police said. He then swiped it, police said. The envelope contained three 2008 World Series rings worth $1,100 each. The rings are different from the $11,000 rings given to players, coaches and other employees.
The case was easy to solve: the application contained Mervine’s name and address, and the entire episode was caught on video. Within a few hours, police arrested Mervine at his home on Coleman Road, and charged him with theft and receiving stolen property.
Contact staff writer Robert Moran at 215-854-5983 bracelets or bmoran@phillynews.com.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s U.S. Forest Service unit – Mendocino National Forest tiffany jewelry – issued the following press release:
Willows, November 12, 2009 – Beginning Monday, November 16, Christmas tree permits will be available from the Mendocino National Forest for the 2009 holiday season.
This year, permits will be available for purchase from area vendors, as well as either in person or by mail from Mendocino National Forest offices. Vendors are listed below with contact information for the Forest Service.
Permits are $10 per tree and will be sold through Friday December 18. The permits are good through December 24, 2009, and trees may be cut and removed any day of the week in any authorized area of the Mendocino National Forest.
There is a limit of one permit per household and each permit using a valid name and address bangles. Up to four additional permits may be purchased for additional households using separate names and addresses. Individuals must be 18 or older to purchase a permit. The Mendocino National Forest only accepts cash or check as payment for Christmas tree permits and sales are final, with no refunds. Permittees will receive a tree tag and map of the Forest.
To purchase a permit by mail, send a printed name and mailing address, a printed name and address for each permit purchased, a daytime telephone number, and a check or money order made out to “USDA Forest Service” for $10 for each permit to either the Willows, Upper Lake or Covelo offices with “Christmas Tree Permit” written on the outside of the envelope. Mail-in requests received after December 14 will not be filled. A form can be found online at www.fs.fed.us/r5/mendocino/passespermits/christmas/.
If you are planning on cutting a Christmas tree for someone else who isn’t present, a Third Party Authorization must be in possession of the cutter. This form is also available on the Forest Web site.
Permit holders should be aware that federal and state quarantines to prevent the spread of sudden oak death (SOD) are in effect for Lake and Mendocino Counties. Any Douglas fir Christmas tree cut in these counties can only be transported into other SOD quarantine counties, including Alameda, Contra Costa, Humboldt, Marin, San Francisco, Monterey, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano and Sonoma.
All Mendocino National Forest offices will be closed Thursday, November 26 in observance of Thanksgiving rings. Christmas tree permits can be purchased from the following offices and vendors:
Mendocino National Forest Supervisor’s Office Grindstone Ranger District Office 825 N. Humboldt Ave., Willows, CA 95988 (530) 934-3316 Hours: Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Stonyford Work Center 5171 Stonyford-Elk Creek Road, Stonyford, CA, 95979 (530) 963-3128 Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 8 a.m.-12 p.m., 1- 4:30 p.m.
Covelo Ranger Station 78150 Covelo Road, Covelo, CA 95428 (707) 983-6118 Hours: Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-12 p.m., 12:30-4:30 p.m.; Saturday, November 28 8 a.m.-2 p.m.; Weekends December 5, 6, 12, 13, 8 a.m.-12 p.m., 12:30-4:30 p.m.
Upper Lake Ranger Station 10025 Elk Mountain Road, Upper Lake, CA 95485 (707) 275-2361 Hours: Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-12 p.m., 12:30-4:30 p.m.; Saturday, November 28 8 a.m.-12 p.m., 12:30-4:30 p.m.; Weekends December 5, 6, 12, 13, 8 a.m.-12 p.m., 12:30-4:30 p.m.
Black Butte Store 34985 Etsel Ridge Road, Covelo, CA 95428 (707) 983-9438 Hours: Seven days a week 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
M&M Feed and Supply 74540 Hill Road, Covelo, CA 95428 (707) 983-6273 Hours: Monday-Saturday 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
Nancy’s Elkhorn Family Lodge 2745 County Road 306, Elk Creek, CA 95939 (530) 968-5312 Hours: Seven days a week 7 a.m.-9 p.m.
Flournoy Country Store 16140 Paskenta Road, Flournoy, CA 96029 (530) 833-5305 Hours: Monday-Thursday 7 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday-Saturday 6 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 6 a.m.-7 p.m.
Sacramento River Discovery Center 1000 Sale Lane, Red Bluff, CA 96080 (530) 527-1196 Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Squaw Creek Inn & Resort 4425 Sites Ladoga Road, Stonyford, CA 95979 (530) 963-3483 Hours: Wednesday-Friday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday 8 a.m.-8 p.m.
Timberline Bar & Grill 279 Market Street, Stonyford, CA 95979 (530) 963-3074 Hours: Monday and Wednesday 5 p.m.-10 p.m.; Thursday-Sunday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.
Hi-way Grocery 160 E. Hwy 20, Upper Lake, CA 95485 (707) 275-2380 Hours: Seven days a week bracelets 8 a.m.-8 p.m.
Woody’s Gas and Mini Mart 220 E. Hwy 20, Upper Lake, CA 95485 (707) 275-2045 Hours: Monday-Saturday 5:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 7 a.m.-9 p.m.
Cutting a Christmas tree on the National Forest is a great holiday tradition for many families and also helps with hazardous fuels reduction by removing smaller trees from the Forest. Following are some tips to make your experience more enjoyable.
* Plan your trip – check the weather, bring plenty of warm clothes, water, emergency food, tire chains, shovel, a saw or axe to cut your tree, and a tarp and rope to bring it home. Make sure you have a full tank of gas when you leave and are prepared for changing conditions in the mountains! Also, let someone know where you are going and when you plan to be back.
* Keep vehicles on designated roads and be aware of changing weather and road conditions. Wet dirt roads can quickly turn to mud, making it possible to get stuck and causing damage to road, soil and water resources. If there are puddles in the road, mud flipping off the tires or you can see your ruts in the rearview mirror, consider pulling over and taking a hike to look for a tree, or turning around and finding a different area to cut your tree.
* Cut your tree early in the season before favorite cutting areas can’t be reached because of snow.
* Make sure you are cutting a tree on the Mendocino National Forest and not from other federal, state or private lands.
* Cut the tree as close as possible to the ground and leave as little of a stump as possible.
* Attach the permit on the tree where it will be easily visible with the tree packed or tied on your vehicle for transport home.
* To help keep your tree fresh, cut at least one inch off the base when you get home and stand the tree in a container of water in a cool, shaded area, checking the water level daily.
For more information, please contact the Mendocino National Forest or visit www.fs.fed.us/r5/mendocino.For more information please contact: Sarabjit Jagirdar, Email:- htsyndication@hindustantimes.com.
You can call the Colorado blue spruce standing in Lake Superior Plaza whatever you tiffany jewelry want. Minnesota Power isn’t giving it an official label.
A news release from Minnesota Power announcing that the 50- to 60-foot tree would go up Wednesday referred to it as a holiday tree, and that is what it was called in coverage of the event held at 30 W. Superior St. This sparked a debate in the comments section of duluthnewstribune.com, pitting Team Christmas against Team Holiday.
“Some call it a Christmas tree, some call it a holiday tree,” Minnesota Power communications manager Amy Rutledge said Thursday. “When it’s set up for us, it symbolizes the start of the holiday season. It’s important to focus on the fact that it’s a community tree.”
This is the 25th year that Minnesota Power has put up a tree, which was donated this tiffany necklaces year by a local family. It will be lighted Nov. 20, before the Christmas City of the North Parade, and taken down sometime after New Year’s Day.
Rutledge said there was never an internal discussion about what to call the tree. The news release said “holiday tree,” but a Minnesota Power employee referred to it as a Christmas tree on television.
Rutledge said that no one complained to Minnesota Power about what the tree has been called.
The holiday vs. Christmas debate itself seems to be a sort of holiday tradition. During the 1990s, the decorated tree at the White House was referred to as a “holiday tree.” The one recently shipped from Arizona to the U.S. Capitol has been tagged as a Christmas tree, and has been since 2005.
In 2005, the Rev. Jerry Falwell started the “Friend or Foe” campaign to combat what he said was an attack on Christmas. This included boycotting major retailers such as Target and Wal-Mart that used “holiday” instead of “Christmas” in advertising.
A local Catholic priest’s take: If the tree is on Minnesota Power’s property, then they can call it whatever they want.
“If it were on my land, it would be called a Christmas tree,” said the Rev. William Graham, the rings chairman of the Catholic studies department at the College of St. Scholastica. “I think Minnesota Power, since they own the land, they get to decide. They’ll get no lip from me.”
The News Tribune couldn’t confirm Thursday whether the tree stands on company land or public land, but Lake Superior Plaza is clearly a public space.
Rabbi Amy Bernstein of Temple Israel said it should be called a Christmas tree, but she thinks there are good intentions behind calling it a holiday tree.
“It’s an attempt to be inclusive and respectful of other traditions,” she said.
But since there isn’t a tree associated with Hanukkah, Bernstein added, it doesn’t make any sense.
“It’s a Christmas tree,” she said. “Nobody else has a tree.”
Dave Jensch, the station manager at the Northland’s NewsCenter, said the tree was referred to as a Christmas bangles tree during Wednesday’s 6 p.m. newscast show and a holiday tree at 10 p.m.
Jensch said his station typically uses the term “holiday” but has no plans to lose the “Christmas” in the Christmas City of the North Parade, which it sponsors. A name change — to the “KBJR Christmas Parade” — was experimented with a decade or so ago.
“And people went crazy,” Jensch said, adding because of the link to the Merv Griffin song “Christmas City,” it’s unlikely it will ever change.
Bill van Druten of the Lake Superior Freethinkers has a take that goes beyond whether it’s a holiday tree or a Christmas tree.
“It’s foolish to cut down a living tree for that sort of nonsense,” he said. “We can have a very happy December or holiday without destroying nature.”
Credit: Duluth News Tribune, Minn.
Smiling, Haley Christmas tiffany jewelry rides again.
She will ride soon, anyway. Because York County will not stand for somebody stealing a golf cart from a lady with cerebral palsy.
The story of the theft of “Bye-bye,” Haley’s golf cart, ran in Thursday’s Herald. It was snatched last week from her family’s yard in Lesslie. The cart remains missing.
But by Thursday afternoon, Haley Christmas silver necklaces was at Andy’s Used Golf Cars in Rock Hill, deciding whether she wanted pink or blue.
Showing Haley and her father the options was a guy with working man’s gear oil on his hands and tears running down his face named Andy Clabough. A man who heard about the theft and heard from his customers who wanted to donate and strangers who wanted to donate, and without anybody asking, he offered to build a new cart for free.
“Blue!” squealed Haley.
“Blue it is!” called out Clabough.
Before Thursday, Andy Clabough had never heard of Haley Christmas bangles. Yet, before 8 a.m., calls were coming in to Clabough with offers to help.
A guy named Wayne Logan who took his electric cart there for service offered up his cart, no strings attached. Since Haley needed gas, Logan just said, “Put a sign on mine and sell it and use the money for Haley.”
Clabough decided right then and there that this girl was going to get a cart, if he had to pay for it himself.
“I never had a morning like this in my whole life,” Clabough said. “This is about the most amazing thing I ever saw. I come to work today, and I found out that people care so much more about a little lady who had her golf cart stolen than anything else.
“Hit me right in the gut, it did. Been crying all day.”
Clabough took an old plastic jar that once held pretzels and made it into a collection box. People called and offered to bring in cash. One guy offered $400.
A lady named Frances McEntee, who before Thursday never heard of Clabough or the rings Christmas family, started e-mailing and calling friends and fellow parents at St. Anne Catholic School to raise money because she could not sit idly by after reading of this dastardly deed. The school forwarded the e-mail to hundreds.
“I went to the dentist; the hygienist gave me $5 for Haley, and the dentist wrote a check,” McEntee said. “Anybody I talked with wanted to help.”
A guy named Henry Eldridge from Tega Cay came in to Clabough’s shop to get some work done on his golf cart and dropped in a big bunch of money without ever meeting Haley Christmas.
“No way is somebody going to take away Haley’s wheels,” Eldridge said. “Thieves don’t win. Haley wins.”
By 1 p.m., the jar had fivers and ten-spots and C-notes. A C-note is a $100 bill. Clear plastic jars with c-notes look great.
Finally, better than a thousand dollars to help get another cart to replace the one that had cost about $5,000 three years ago when it was bought. Clabough thought he was on his way.
But Clabough didn’t have to pay for a new cart. Paul and Jeryl Christmas, Haley’s parents, didn’t have to pay, either.
A lady named Nicki Nash whose kids go to that St. Anne school made one phone call to her bracelets boss, Founders Federal Credit Union president Bruce Brumfield. Brumfield needed about two seconds to say: “Do what you gotta do; get that girl a golf cart!”
Paul and Haley Christmas came over to the shop to meet Clabough, who sure was getting no other work done Thursday as he fielded phone calls and dropped money in the jar and cried like a baby.
Nash stopped in and told Clabough the cart builder these simple words from behind a huge grin almost as big as Haley’s grin: “Do what you gotta do. Make it happen.”
All agreed that Founders would pay for the base cart, and the donations would pay for the extras to make Haley Christmas‘ golf cart the best cart any girl who likes to sit at the side of the road waving and smiling at strangers ever rode in. And this one will have a security system to make sure it isn’t stolen.
These strangers turned friends decided if the stolen cart turns up, it will be donated in Haley’s name to a charity that needs a cart to get another disabled person around. If there is extra money after the cart is finished, it will go into a foundation or scholarship in Haley’s name to help someone else with cerebral palsy.
“My daughter’s been smiling all her life. She’s 27 years old, but this might be the best day she ever had,” said Paul Christmas, Haley’s father.
Haley gave out as many hugs at that golf cart shop as there were people to accept them. Clabough got his hug and that golf cart mechanic just about floated.
Clabough needs a couple weeks to put together this custom cart. It will have special tires and taillights cufflinks. A radio/CD player, and roof, and special backseats for Haley’s friends and family. A cover to keep out the rain. A gas engine for plenty of get-up-and-go. There will be hubcaps to shine and mirrors to see where she’s been.
But no headlights. Haley’s glowing smile will light the way to wherever she may go.
Andrew Dys 803-329-4065adys@heraldonline.com
The autumn leaves, red and yellow and brown, are tumbling from the trees, resigned to their fate. Weekends are full of football and the scritching of rakes. Lazy squirrels are still munching on moldering jack o’ lanterns left over from Halloween. In other words, it’s beginning to look a lot like silver jewellery Christmas.
Disney released a new version of the Dickens Scrooge story last week, timing it so that “A Christmas Carol” will be lucky to be in distribution past Thanksgiving Day.
Starbucks has already retired its white cups for the duration, replacing them with cranberry-colored, snowflake-flecked seasonal substitutes. Wal-Mart is just one of the retailers already Kringling away like crazy, running television ads with Andy Williams crooning “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” Who knew that the weeks between Halloween and Thanksgiving were the hap-happiest season of all?
The day after Thanksgiving used to be the official launch of the commercial Christmas silver key rings season. Now Sears is running “Black Friday” specials all through November.
Given half a chance, retailers would probably try to get their plastic garlands hung just after Labor Day. (Ho-ho-ho, it’s back to school!) But we’ve been spared that particular encroachment, thanks to a holiday that has proved capable of standing athwart the relentless forces of Christmas-creep — Halloween. Once a quaint bit of Americana built around the simple pleasures of costumes, candy-grabbing and petty vandalism, Halloween has become a marketable and profitable holiday, putting many official holidays to shame. If only Presidents Day had some sort of free-candy angle.
In contrast to Halloween’s stalwart ability to keep Christmas from jumping the queue, Thanksgiving has lost its cultural muscle. The early advent of the Santa season may have less to do with the red-and-green imperative than with the weakness of Turkey Day. What happened to this quintessential American holiday?
Lydia Maria Child’s ode to going over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house is a silver necklaces good place to start in decoding Thanksgiving’s decline. First, there is the anachronistic attention given to grandmother. Thanksgiving is one of the few occasions left, in our fanatically kinder-centric culture, to honor the elderly. Picture the famous Norman Rockwell illustration “Freedom From Want” — at the Thanksgiving table grandpa and grandma have pride of place. No wonder the day gets short shrift.
And then there is all that over-the-river-and-through-the-woods business, which in our day means a choice between stripping for the nice TSA agent or creeping along I-95. Thanksgiving is the official holiday of planes, trains and automobiles. What the modern travel experience lacks in charm it makes up for with sheer ordeal. And what’s the payoff for all this effort? A chance to make small talk with in-laws.
The Food Network may be the only institution in America unapologetically boosting the holiday. For weeks, the cable channel’s programming is packed with turkey tutorials, stuffing suggestions and investigations into the mysteries of cranberry sauce. But Food Network’s programming is less an indication of popular enthusiasm for Thanksgiving than a measure of the fear the holiday engenders. Hostesses know that they will be judged on the juiciness of their turkey, the cooking of which is an exotic undertaking chanced but once a year. And the result must be achieved while juggling a half-dozen side dishes, all the while making the above-mentioned small talk.
None of which would be so daunting if the day meant more to us. Could it be we’ve lost our capacity for gratitude? A successful harvest occasioned thanks back when it was all that stood between us and a long, cold, hungry winter. But now we’re divorced from the seasonal rhythms of the farm, where the harvest is celebrated as the payoff of all the year’s labors. Even in the midst of this Great Repression we enjoy perpetual plenty. What resonance does a cornucopia have to people who have come to expect ripe blackberries in February? If anything, bangles we should be more grateful, but that’s not our nature. Anything we struggle for, we hold dear; anything that comes easy, we take for granted.
Not only don’t we celebrate the astonishing abundance that is our good fortune, we whine and moan about how it makes us fat. Lydia Maria Child’s poem ends, appropriately enough, with dessert: “Is the pudding done? / Hurrah for the pumpkin pie!” A version for our time would read, “Is the pudding sugar-free?” And if that weren’t enough to squeeze the pleasure from the day, no modern Thanksgiving is complete without a college student home from school, lecturing the family on the cruelty of meat. (To which the only appropriate response is: “Does that mean you don’t want the drumstick?”) That same sophomore is also likely to bemoan the grim fate of the Native Americans who made the strategic mistake of helping the Pilgrims avoid starvation. In some circles, Thanksgiving is second only to Columbus Day as an occasion for grieving.
There will be plenty of time next month for all the secular manifestations of Christmas: shopping, trimming the tree, shopping, mugs of frothing Tom & Jerry, shopping, and watching Ralphie get his Red Ryder BB-gun and Clarence get his wings. Oh, and yes, shopping. But before we break out the ornaments and dust off the Vince Guaraldi soundtrack, let’s make the most of autumn and its particular pleasures. Jump in a pile of leaves. Savor the waning daylight. And go ahead. Week after next, eat that second slice of pumpkin pie — just be thankful for rings it.
For the second year, Christmas tiffany will arrive early in Yough River Park with Christmas in the Park on Nov. 21.
“Santa and Mrs. Claus will return this year,” said Lori Kaczmarek, a member of the Greater Connellsville Chamber of Commerce and one of the organizers of the event that is sponsored by the chamber.
Along with photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus, Kaczmarek said that also returning tiffany bangles for the day will be buggy rides, free hot chocolate and cookies for the children and a Chinese auction for gift baskets that were donated by local businesses.
The 10 baskets — including a Steelers basket, a snowman basket, childrens’ baskets and an animal basket — are currently on display at the Greater Connellsville Chamber of Commerce office located at 923 W. Crawford Ave. in the city.
Those interested can also purchase tickets at the chamber office. Tickets for the baskets are one for $1, three for $2 or 10 for $5.
Refreshments will be sold to adults, children will be given treat bags.
Even though the weather wasn’t cooperative for last year’s Christmas in the Park, the tiffany rings chamber is preparing to assemble 400 treat bags for the children.
For more information on Christmas in the park, call the chamber at 724-628-5500.
The event will be held 1 to 4 p.m.
The festivities won’t end there. The New Haven Hose Company will organize the annual Christmas parade after the city has its light-up night at 7 p.m.
New Haven Hose Company volunteer firefighters have placed 140 Christmas trees throughout town and 14 decorations purchased by the chamber. Those decorations line West Crawford Avenue from Pittsburgh Street to Arch Street. The firefighters store and maintain the decorations.
New Haven Hose Company is asking for any donations to help the fire department with the tiffany bracelets Christmas decorations.
Donations may be mailed to New Haven Hose Company, PO Box 415, Connellsville, PA 15425, marked “Christmas Tree Fund.”
Mark Hofmann can be reached at mhofmann@tribweb.com or 724-626-3539.
The study followed the harvest of natural willow from three wetlands using a silver jewellery prototype modified agricultural round baler nicknamed a Bio-Baler. The study reports fuel characteristics and combustion testing of biomass harvested from natural willow rings. Composition of native willow species in the harvested willow rings was determined. We specifically measured regrowth of the biomass and number of regenerated stems per stump 1 year after harvest to determine how different willow species responded to mechanical biomass cutting with the Bio-Baler. The results of combustion testing for the natural willow were essentially similar to those with “conventional” wood chips or planted willows. The ash content was approximately 1.65%, slightly lower than for bangles planted willow plantations. The calorific value of the natural willow was 19.6 MJ kg-1 (dry basis) similar to what is expected for wood and planted willow. Four Salix species (Salix bebbiana Sarg., Salix petiolaris Sm., Salix eriocephala Michx., and Salix discolor Muhl) were identified in the willow rings. Stem biomass increased for all species except S. bebbiana after willow was harvested with the Bio-Baler. Overall, willow regeneration was not affected by mechanical harvesting compared to hand cutting. Regenerated stem density was 93 stems per square meter for mechanically harvested stumps compared to 105 stems per square meter for hand-pruned stumps. Based on the results rings, biomass harvested from natural willow rings has acceptable fuel characteristics when compared to purpose-grown willows and mechanical harvest with a Bio-Baler does not have a negative effect on willow regeneration.
Investigators said Friday that they’d busted a criminal ring that was running a cockfighting, methamphetamine and marijuana operation at a home near Kapowsin in southeastern Pierce County.
Sheriff’s detectives found an active meth lab and hundreds of marijuana plants on a 4-acre property tucked off Meridian Avenue East, spokesman Ed Troyer said. They also seized stolen property, found two assault rifles and confiscated at least 51 fighting roosters, Troyer said.
Investigators arrested a 38-year-old man after the morning raid in the 32400 block of Meridian Avenue East. He was booked into the Pierce County Jail on suspicion of drug charges, possession of stolen property, animal fighting and professional gambling.
Sheriff Paul Pastor said the operation was an example of how animal abuse and other crimes are linked.
“We found weapons, drugs, stolen cars and cockfighting all in one place,” he said. “We will continue to move against locations like these whenever we find them.”
Detectives were looking for at least one other person and say more arrests tiffany could be made.
“We believe they were manufacturing and selling marijuana and meth and fighting animals,” Troyer said. “Right now, we know who the organizers are. There could be other people that we may go after that were out there gambling, too.”
Officers from the Sheriff’s Department, Seattle police, the state Gambling Commission and the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department spent several hours on the property, documenting evidence, dismantling the drug-making operations and rounding up and removing the roosters. Animal control officers from Tacoma and Lakewood also helped out.
The raid began as a search for illegal weapons, Troyer said.
“It snowballed into this,” he said.
Sheriff’s SWAT and meth lab teams serving a search warrant at the silver bangles property found roosters and chickens, some in cages and others tied to posts. Investigators also found a fire pit and the ring where they believe the cockfights took place.
Illegal cockfighting might have been taking place at the property for some time, according to court documents.
A woman granted a domestic-violence protection order against the man arrested Friday wrote in a sworn affidavit filed in December that he “was planning cockfights in the house” at that time.
The bust was not related to another cockfighting silver rings broken up in the Seattle area this week, Troyer said.
Stacey Mulick: 253-597-8268
stacey.mulick@thenewstribune.com
blog.thenewstribune.com/crime
Staff writer Adam Lynn contributed to silver bracelets this report.
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