ACADEMIC TOOLBOX NEWS – JANUARY 2009

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

We hope your new year is starting out on a positive note as teachers and students return to school and the snow continues to fall.  Reflecting on 2008, it was a good year for our store, but brought with it a lot of changes and uncertainty in some areas.  Despite the “bad” news there is a lot to be thankful for and some hope for the future.  Perhaps this will be the year that our government does some self-inspection and returns to thinking about all of us first rather than special interest groups.  I think both education needs and health care fall into the category of general needs that will hopefully be priorities with the state and federal administrations.  On a personal note, my son in law is part of the Vancouver Fire Department that has voted to give up their 4% cost of living raise this year.  We are proud of him and saddened by the government allowing their selves to be in this financial position.

 

We want to THANK YOU for your support this past year!  The store has set another sales record as we approach our TENTH ANNIVERSARY.  It will actually be in June that the store will have been open 10 years.  We want to celebrate by THANKING YOU!  We are trying to think of ways to celebrate this with you and are open to any ideas and suggestions.

 

FREQUENT SHOPPER CARD DRAWING WINNER        

The winner this month of $25 of product of her choice is Darla Kenoyer of Cashmere.  Congratulations!

 

REDUCED PRICES

We are marking down a lot of the slow sellers and some discontinued items.  Hurry in for the best deals.  Print the last page of this newsletter for a coupon that will save you even more.

 

NEW PRODUCT

Just in for the science fair season is a wind turbine kit from Thames & Kosmos called Wind Power.  Recommended for 8 and older, it contains a 32 page manual and 20 experiments.

 

New Webkinz already in for Valentines Day are the Love Monkey and Love Frog.  Get them now while still available.  Both are pink with red and lavender hearts.

Screwball scramble game is new and a challenge for your dexterity.  You work a ball through the maze with jumps and twist.

 

Going to leave it short this month.  Have to go fill out all those tax forms and help preview all the new catalogs that are starting to arrive.  Reminds me, TEACHERS, our new store catalog is on the way from the east so should be here in 7 to 10 days.  We will be asking that any of you that are in town to take a couple to your school as shipping is over $3 a catalog now.  We appreciate it.

 

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs

 

 

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