EdenScapes Now Supporting Local Non-Profit Groups
When you make a purchase from EdenScapes — in person or online — five percent of your sale can be donated to the local non-profit organization of your choice.
So far, the local groups participating are: Olympic Theater Arts, Port Angeles Food Bank, Peninsula Dream Machines (they donate to Food Bank, Olycap, and P.A. High. School Autoshop) and Sequim Senior Services (Sequim Senior Activity Center).
Click here for more information.
EdenScapes is located at 404 Shore Road, Port Angeles (almost to Sequim).
So far, the local groups participating are: Olympic Theater Arts, Port Angeles Food Bank, Peninsula Dream Machines (they donate to Food Bank, Olycap, and P.A. High. School Autoshop) and Sequim Senior Services (Sequim Senior Activity Center).
Click here for more information.
EdenScapes is located at 404 Shore Road, Port Angeles (almost to Sequim).
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posted by Tom Harper at 3:44 PM
24 Comments:
This is the first I've heard of EdenScapes so I would have to research them a lot before drawing a conclusion about them.
But I've gotten leery about so called local non profits after learning that a local one I gave to for a few years just enjoys fancy vacations in Mexico while collecting money from others to do some charity work there while they actually lived in a fancy spa resort while there.
One member claimed she didn't claim their trips on her income taxes but wouldn't provide me with three past years of tax returns to prove it.
Screw that, it seems that everyone wants to collect money from others and use it to make them look good while they have the good life.
Like the Dream Machines, well, if you want to help others, sell them dream machines and use your own money to help others.
I've taken to helping others in need one on one, why should someone else get credit for my work and money?
If you want to help others you should of course do that, just do it one on one.
For example, give direct to the food bank.
Like toy runs, they bother me also. They have lots of fun while collecting toys from everyone and it makes them look good.
But what I want to know is how much money they spend on toys, and not their own toys.
Don't get me started, you know how I get. :-)
Ever heard a Harley owner say, "I sold my bike to buy presents for kids." ???
That's a nice thing EdenScapes is doing. More local shops should be doing stuff like that.
With most PA businesses suffering GREATLY, how many can really afford to give away another 5% to charity?
The problem with charity is that is often a way to keep people down. It's a vicious cycle.
Charity means giving gifts. Usually that implies giving them to poor people. Honorable as that may be, it may cause problems, including training recipients to expect more charity. This expectation can be called dependency. Charity is appropriate for emergency response, but must not continue after the need; it hinders sustainable development. At the government to government level, charity encourages embezzlement by civil servants and politicians of the recipient country, as well as somehow entitles the charity directors to pocket large salaries, perks, and incentives -- which negate the whole point of other folk giving to charity.
"With most PA businesses suffering GREATLY, how many can really afford to give away another 5% to charity?"
It's easy... just boost your prices by the appropriate amount. Or maybe they raised their prices when everything was going up a few years back, and then didn't adjust it when prices fell during the recession. Either way "there's no such thing as a free lunch".
that's a mindset.....raise prices. Haven't you noticed that prices out here are much higher than the going rate for EVERYTHING!! Since people can get it in Silverdale, off the internet, or at crappy Walmart cheaper they go there...HENCE why downtown is nearly a ghost-town.
(Walmart the company who's great claim to fame is that their business model is one that undermines local businesses....great move PA)
And, bub, if you don't understand economics....just because there is a RECESSION, doesn't mean that prices fall. Only in the over inflated housing market has that happened, but food costs, utilities, taxes...have all risen. Get a clue...
"that's a mindset.....raise prices. Haven't you noticed that prices out here are much higher than the going rate for EVERYTHING!! Since people can get it in Silverdale, off the internet, or at crappy Walmart cheaper they go there...HENCE why downtown is nearly a ghost-town."
Now now, you cynical nah-sayer.. You obvuiously have not been attending the public information presentations put on by Jeff Lincoln and other promoters of "The Big Stink"! Everything in Port Angeles is great, and getting better by the minute.
Now, here is your paper cup. And your glass of water to wash it down with. Open wide so I can check your compliance.
I'm waiting for J.S. to appear and admonish you bitter nay-sayers with his enlightened hippie neologisms.
Anon 10:58... Okay, dude, chill. Take a deep breath. No, I don't "understand economics", I'm not schooled in finance and I don't grasp all the nuances of the free market.
I do understand "supply and demand" however. If there's high demand then prices will go up to compensate, otherwise prices will fall to get rid of surplus inventory. During the good times, there was a boom not just in America but on the global markets as well. China, India, the U.A.E. and many others needed increased materials to grow their country and pull their standard of living up by the bootstraps. America also did things that, in retrospect, seemed stupid, like converting corn fields from food to energy production. We dug ourselves deep into debt for trinkets. There was more demand than there were supplies. So prices went up.
Then the market dropped and credits froze. Consumers grew nervous about their jobs and stopped spending and started paying down their debt. Since consumers make up 70% of the economy, their cutbacks leave a lot of inventory on the shelves. Companies stopped productions, which exacerbated the job market. But the end result is companies need to get rid of their inventory and get consumers spending again. Some prices went down.
Check out Safeway, they're making a big deal of all these "lower prices" just trying to get you to spend. I honestly haven't tracked commodity markets (like you said, I don’t understand economics), but I'm guessing the cost of steel etc went down. I know when I took aluminum in for recycling recently it was a lot less than it was a couple years ago. So, no, I don't understand economics. But I do know my gas and food bill is lower than they were last year. I'm also eating healthier this year, which should be more expensive. Grab a clue? Why should I when I can check my purchases this year versus last?
Of course, I realize Port Angeles has always been a law unto itself. Prices are high here. Always have been. Part of that is lack of competition due to an isolated area. It costs more to ship things in, and retailers have more of a "locked in" customer base. Or they used to before Silverdale, WalMart and the Internet, and our own economic base of trees and fish fell. Things have changed, but not everyone has changed to compensate. Kind of Darwinism at its finest. Unless the residents of Port Angeles set aside their tribal squabbling and work on bettering the town, Port Angeles will find itself an endangered species within a generation.
my favorite: restaurants charge more per-plate than one star Michelin rated restaurants in PARIS! WTF? It's Sysco foods (or FSA) and, for the most part, ill prepared. There is no reason that restaurants should cost so much (or have low quality). Then they wonder why they aren't getting the customers.....
I, for one, cannot afford it. And, I cannot afford to get sick (again) from badly prepared meals.
I used to go to the Cottage until the nimrod who manages (owns) the place went to the pre-packaged carton eggs (meaning in a milk-carton package)-- a special of the food service companies...."so much easier" (than cracking eggs?), this was AFTER they took of the garnishes (fruit, now the Denny's style orange slice with some parsley..so 1970's) and then removed all the better menu items (lemon pancakes!)
I gave up. All the places in town are shoving grubby food for gourmet prices. I'd rather go to Paris or NYC, or even the SF bay area to eat.
I understand economics, ignore the smoke screens and don't spend more than you have or am sure that you can commit to.
With most PA businesses suffering GREATLY, how many can really afford to give away another 5% to charity?
Charity is an interesting thing, sometimes it really bothers me. Mostly due to the fact that there are a lot of bottom feeders living off of it that give nothing back to society.
I don't know what percentage of my income I use to help others, never keep track of it, and some of it is just in labor and not cash.
Next month I'll spend a few hundred bucks for presents for kids that otherwise wouldn't have much of a christmas, even though it bothers me that their parents may be crap that spend too much money on booze and pot and such I don't think the kids should suffer because of it.
Mutter, mutter, I live on less than a grand a month myself so I think I do my share.
And I don’t pretend to be perfect, just working on some areas is all, that's what journeys are about.
And so called christians bother me living so fancy while collecting money from others to do charity work to make them selves look good.
As a favorite saying goes in some circles, “Jesus, save us from your followers.”
Hell, I'd rather be thought of as a heathen if it comes down to it, at least it's not phony and fake.
"... I'm not schooled in finance and I don't grasp all the nuances of the free market."
That statement alone would get you hired as CEO at most any major business in this country!
Gosh I wish people would come up with a name when they post.
That said... Anon 12:43 PM, November 03, 2009, Your modesty! How unusual these days. And you made me chuckle. So thank you for the fine points and ab exercises.
BBC, Sometimes you are a grump for grump's sake. You need a hug.
And finally, good for EdenScapes. I hope it helps them generate some extra biz. Thanks for posting this info Tom.
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Good morning citizens.
I wish every night could be election night. My associates and I have had a grand time and the fun looks like it will carry on today.
My very good friend Hamid Karzai sent a few of his election "experts" over to help with the ballot "counting." Indeed, voter turn out was higher for this election than any previous election and some citizens were filled with such election fervor that they voted at least twice and as many as five times. In a "democracy" such as this every vote must be counted!
Election hysteria even caused certain deceased citizens to cast their ballot from "the other side." Madame Grusinskaya, the noted medium, has been busy at her ouija board contacting those dear departed who wish to have a voice in the future of this town. I understand votes have been cast by Plutarch, Ludwig van Beethoven and Marie Antoinette among other luminaries. Not to count these ballots would be impolite and likely to result in numerous poltergeist phenomenon occuring. We wouldn't want that, now would we?
If you find bundles of ballots in a trash can, it's best to leave them there. Rest assured my team of election "experts" at City Hall know what's best for all of you.
Cheerio!
Doctor Nosferatu
Ah, yes. NOW Port Angeles will become a success. All we needed were some vouchers for coffee and chocolate. Who knew?
(Portions cut for brevity)
Victoria, Port Angeles business groups share ideas
By Diane Urbani de la Paz
Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES -- Abundant chocolate, free coffee, cleanliness, "meter fairies."
Ken Kelly, possibly downtown Victoria's most enthused champion, flung a slew of ideas at the Port Angeles Business Association on Tuesday morning, just to get a conversation started.
Kelly is general manager of the Downtown Victoria Business Association, a coalition that in just five years of life has introduced numerous new ways of promoting a core business district.
Victoria's perks
There's "Wake Up, Victoria," a giveaway of free coffee for downtown workers every fall; the Christmas "Joy and Light in the City" season during which Santa Claus and helpers hand out 10,000 pieces of chocolate; workshops on old-fashioned window-decorating; a Clean Team that washes sidewalks and scrubs graffiti off walls; and the "meter fairies" who flit around downtown each Saturday.
The sprites, Kelly explained, slip money into parking meters to give people a surprise extra 15 minutes to shop or dine downtown. They leave cards saying "You have been visited by the meter fairy," Kelly added -- and they save people about $4,000 per year in parking fines.
Benefits business, city
The city of Victoria forgoes that revenue, he said, in an example of a partnership that benefits both merchants and city coffers, since the gifts ultimately give people a downtown experience they like to repeat.
The Downtown Victoria Business Association, on its face, doesn't look comparable to its counterpart here, the Port Angeles Downtown Association, whose executive director, Barbara Frederick, attended Tuesday's PABA meeting.
The Canadian group's 2010 budget is about $850,000 funded by a levy, Kelly said, while PADA's budget this year is $95,450, and Victoria's population of 77,000 dwarfs Port Angeles' 19,260.
But instead of dwelling on disparities, Kelly and Frederick chose to talk about how the two cities can work together.
Olympic National Park is one for example, and later this month, another movie episode in the Twilight saga of wildly popular vampire stories will rise.
"As 'New Moon' gets unveiled in the coming days," Kelly said, "both of us are benefiting."
The second "Twilight" movie opens Nov. 20 at the Lincoln Theater in downtown Port Angeles, Frederick said, and while it will also play at Victoria's cinemas, only Port Angeles has spots like Bella Italia, the downtown restaurant where "Twilight's" hero and heroine had their first date.
And only Port Angeles' highway signs point the way to Forks, the town where Bella and Edward's romance flowered.
'Be accommodating'
At the same time, Kelly offered practical advice for Port Angeles merchants.
He urged them to accept Canadian currency, since in today's climate, "you've got to try to be as accommodating as possible . . . to generate as much goodwill as possible."
Frederick said she took away several ideas she wants to try in Port Angeles, such as the "Wake Up, Victoria" gift certificates the downtown Victoria association provides for downtown workers to get free coffee at participating cafes.
BBC, Sometimes you are a grump for grump's sake. You need a hug.
Well, I do like hugs, I hug lots of monkeys, but that doesn't mean I need one from you, ha ha ha
If Barb has anything to do with it, it will be a mucked up mess.
Diane Urbani de la Paz -- and example of what NOT to do when writing. I can't follow her stories...they're all over the map, free-form mental wanderings. Makes me itch to read her stuff. Yucka. What was she trying to say.....can it be summed up in two paragraphs?
"meter fairies"???
Sorry, just have a mental image of tiny girls with wings flying over cars, waving their magic wands and POOF! a ticket magically appears.
"The Downtown Victoria Business Association, on its face, doesn't look comparable to its counterpart here, the Port Angeles Downtown Association.."
LOL! Ya THINK?!?!
And, having seen Vancouver Island's Mount Washington on TV, it looks like Kelly was being generous in saying Port Angeles has something to offer as a "get away".
Oh, maybe that was reported wrong, and it was meant that people want to get away from Port Angeles. Sure looks that way.
"The Canadian group's 2010 budget is about $850,000 funded by a levy, Kelly said, while PADA's budget this year is $95,450, and Victoria's population of 77,000 dwarfs Port Angeles' 19,260."
Victoria makes twice the effort to support it's business community than Port Angeles does.
(Allow me to round out the numbers, just to make this easier)
Port Angele's population is about 20,000, and spends about $100,000 on its' downtown business group.
Victoria's population is about 80,000, and spends over $800,000 for it's downtown business group.
Port Angeles: $50k per 10,000 people.
Victoria: $100k per 10,000 people.
Clearly those Commie Socialists up in Canada hate capitalism, and clearly the red-blooded Americans in Port Angeles know how to support their businesses better.
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