Signtronix Sign Company Pumps Sausage Sales in Minnesota

Dear Signtronix – I do want to explain a little about our advertising plan since you will note that many of the customers said they had seen our ad in the newspaper versus coming into our business because of the Signtronix sign.

At the end of October we always do a lot for advertising because wild game sausage making is a big part of our business. We have been in business for 36 years and we also have a very good reputation in our area. Therefore, we get lots of customers from word of mouth besides our newspaper campaigns. In the past 24 days, we have had 648 wild game sausage customers come through our doors and much of that is repeat business. With the Christmas Holiday coming up, we will see more new customers, however, it will be hard to tell how many come in because of the Signtronix sign.

We do want you to know that we love the sign and it will work for us!!!

Carol Burshire
Neil’s Quality Meats
Mcintosh, Minnesota

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ARTISTA Program at Anderson Ranch

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Anderson Ranch Teaches Intellectual Skills Through Art (ARTISTA) Program Gaining Momentum at Crystal River Elementary School

A fourth grade student in Nan Fields’s class at Crystal River Elementary School (CRES) raises her hand, “I notice that the light in the bottom looks like night light and the top part has sky so it must be day.” Students continue to raise their hands, offering observations and thinking critically, while teaching artist, Sarabeth Berk, leads an inquiry session about an artwork by Renee Magritte that relates to ideas of electricity and natural light.

The inquiries about artworks are part of bigger lessons that five teaching artists are currently facilitating at CRES with different third and fourth grade classes. In its second year, the ARTISTA program sponsored by Anderson Ranch Art Center will reach approximately 100 elementary students through projects that are designed to integrate school standards, targeted areas of the curriculum—like the solar system or circuitry—and also develop critical thinking and visual literacy.

 

Republic of Georgia-McCain and Obama Showdown

Republican candidate John McCain is coming out swinging, loud and clear against Russia. In a time when the people of the United States would probably prefer a man who seeks out diplomatic solutions, John McCain is outspoken about being firmly against Russia sticking up for Georgia’s breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. McCain backs Georgia, but a bit too loudly and too late to the party.

It would seem that Barak Obama has also been addressing the situation, though with far less horn-blowing… and started doing so several months ago. More to the point, though, McCain’s statements have been aggressive and downright insulting to Prime Minister Putin, while Barak Obama’s was more so the voice of moderation, calling for restraint and non-violent reconciliation.

The last thing the world needs is another Cold War. McCain is calling Putin a “totalitarian dictator” and claiming to see “K, G and B” in Putin’s eyes. McCain’s version of diplomacy will just about guarantee a Cold War (if we’re lucky.) Yet he’s the more outspoken on the situation in the Republic of Georgia. Where McCain sends his wife to talk about land mines, Obama sends Joe Biden to negotiate peace.

If the new U.S. President is going to bring about a different world image than the last eight years under the Bush administration, that president is going to have to lead the nation along a different path. Bush’s brash bashing about has earned the world’s contempt. It will take more of the Obama method and less of McCain’s horn-blowing to see that change come to fruition.

 

Canada Tours and Travel-Luxury MotorCoach

Canada is such a vast nation that most people just fly from point to point and can never truly understand the soul and the spirit of this great land. Motor coach tours are the best way to truly experience Canada travel destinations and revel in the grandeur of this continent-straddling majestic land which borders on three oceans.

To relive the history of this country, you should start from the far eastern coasts, the misty harbors of St. John’s, Newfoundland, home to hardy, crusty people who live from the sea and still speak a version of 17th century English. Your romantic ferry ride takes you to Cape Breton, a chunk of the Scottish countryside dropped into the gray and moody Atlantic.

Then proceed onto Halifax, the metropolitan harbour town which is Canada’s Boston. The phenomenal highway wends its way inland through the rolling verdant hills of New Brunswick and across the continent-cleaving St. Lawrence River, where you may see albino-white beluga whales play. Your next stop is Quebec City, which represents the greatest culture shock you can experience in North America: An ancient Burgundian French city where the narrow streets pass grand cathedrals of stone and tiny bistros.

Quebec is a completely French city and you might want to brush up on your bonjour’s and adieus, as you will need them. The spectacular highway continues along the great river to the huge metropolis of Montreal, still French but with a 21st century flair. A city that never sleeps and parties with true joie de vivre. Onto astounding Toronto, a half-scale lakefront Manhattan which you can enjoy from the top of the world’s tallest freestanding tower.

North to the stunning, isolated wilderness of Lake Superior where bears and moose frolic along the roadsides as you speed by. As you pass the greatest of the Great Lakes the scenery flattens out onto the great prairie, a sea of wheat under infinite skies that will be your companion for the next 1,200 miles.

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Just as the snow caps of the Rockies come to view on the horizon, the booming oil metropolis of Calgary awaits to entertain you. Home to the world’s biggest rodeo and as many oil millionaires as Dallas, this is one cowtown that can really show you a good time. You ascend the heavenly mountains to Banff, a world-class winter sports destination among the finest on Earth, then wind your way through hundreds of miles of completely indescribable verdant snowy mountain magnificence and even some Nevada-desert valleys, to the city continually voted the World’s Most Livable, the staggering Vancouver jutting out into the indigo Georgia Strait on a backdrop of snowcaps.

Your last ferry ride takes you directly on a downtown Victoria sightseeing tour, after a life-changing 5,000 mile and six time zone journey, where you can ride a double decker bus and swear you’re on the English Seacoast. Canada is not just a destination. It is a journey. Experience it all by Motor Coach.