$5,000 Discount Certificate for Bennett Village
March 03rd 2010 Do you know of anyone who is interested in buying a suite in The Gallery at Bennett Village, Georgetown’s new seniors’ retirement living community?
We have a FREE certificate for $5,000 to give away to the first person who contacts us!
There are only nine suites left at The Gallery. The $5,000 discount offer expires March 31, 2010. Email us now!
Wiarton Willie a Poet’s Muse?
December 15th 2009I recently received the following message from a Georgetown friend and subscriber, Helen Tazzman. It’s fun enough to share with everyone:
“Congratulations on the quality of the articles and Mike’s photos in Escarpment Views. I will mail in the subscription renewal when I can safely leave home. The Kubota ad was interesting to me as that company bought out the plant where my father worked so that he was their employee before he retired.
“The Wiarton Willie Festival caught my eye. Last February, I wrote a poem on Willie:
Groundhog Day by Helen Tazzman
Of all the pesky critters,
That one would love to zap,
The worst by far is Willie
Who put Wiarton on the map.
He sleeps for most of the winter
And that’s just fine with us,
If only he rested longer,
He’d save us a lot of fuss.
But no, he goes and shows his face,
When he clearly isn’t wanted,
And casts his shadow on the land,
With more winter we’re now daunted.
If only we could hatch some schemes
To keep him in his bed,
Perhaps some downy pillows or carrots by his head,
Whatever groundhogs fancy, we will gladly bring,
If it will surely give us
A longed-for, early spring.
February 16, 2009
Winner of Tickets for Amy Sky, Marc Jordan, Dan Hill Concert
December 12th 2009 The winner of the draw for two free tickets to the Amy Sky, Marc Jordan and Dan Hill concert on Dec. 17 in Guelph is Carolyn Martin of Georgetown.
Thanks to everyone who entered the draw. We had entries from Kitchener, Guelph, Terra Cotta and Georgetown, making a good representation across the central part of our distribution area.
We also thank Full Capacity Concerts for providing the free tickets for our first draw. We’re pleased by the response to it and we welcome other freebie giveaways for future contests. Keep checking our blog for announcements of other offers.
Free Tickets to Amy Sky, Marc Jordan and Dan Hill!
December 09th 2009 Just a few days left to enter our draw for a free pair of tickets to the big-name concert of the season! The contest closes Sat. Dec. 12 at noon.
Amy Sky, Marc Jordan and Dan Hill will play the River Run Centre in Guelph on Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. Amy Sky is known for “I Will Take Care of You” and “Ordinary Miracles.” Dan Hill had hits with “Sometimes When We Touch” and “In Your Eyes.” They also perform in London’s Aeolian Hall on Dec. 18, for anyone out that way.
For your chance to win free tickets to the Dec. 17 concert, email editor@EscarpmentViews.ca with your name, address and phone number. To avoid being discarded as spam, don’t put the word “free” in the Subject line. We’ll arrange to have the tickets held in your name at the River Run Centre box office. These tickets have been generously provided by Full Capacity Concerts.
If you don’t win but would still like to attend this fun holiday performance, get tickets through the River Run special page.
Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy (and Nature) to Benefit From Gift Offer
December 08th 2009 In time for Christmas gift giving, Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy has added a page to their site to promote the Escarpment Views subscription offer. It includes a photo of last spring’s cover, which features their useful summary and explanation of programs to help Ontario landowners save significant amounts of money. You can read that article in PDF format.
Our offer to help the Conservancy with its work of protecting natural spaces near the Niagara Escarpment is simple. For every new subscription or renewal to Escarpment Views, we will give $5 to the Conservancy if you want to support them. You have to include a note with your cheque for $21, directing us to give them $5. You can subscribe or renew here or just mail us at
Escarpment Views
50 Ann St.
Georgetown ON L7G 2V2.
Robert Barnett, executive director of Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy, points out “Every $5 allows us to acquire the land under 15 trees.” Isn’t that amazing?
Help us to help them protect land, trees and wildlife. Subscribe for yourself or for a friend. Your gift at Christmas can help protect nature forever!
You can read much more info about the work of the Conservancy. What do you think about what they’re doing?
Amy Sky, Marc Jordan, Dan Hill Perform in Guelph
December 03rd 2009 This is a fun experiment for us. We have two free tickets to give away for the Dec. 17 concert in Guelph by Amy Sky and Marc Jordan. Also performing will be Dan Hill, with much less hair than he had as I remember him from my university days. (How is it that we’ve gone grey or bald so quickly?) The 8 pm concert at the lovely River Run Centre promises to be “an evening of beautiful songs and stories with a touch of holiday spirit.”
Here’s the experiment. We will hold a random draw for two free tickets to this concert on Sat. Dec. 12. To enter this draw, email me at editor@EscarpmentViews.ca by noon on Dec. 12. Give your name, address, phone number and email address. Don’t put the word “Free” in the subject line, as my spam filter might reject your message.
We’ll hold the draw after noon on Dec. 12 and contact the winner. The tickets will be left for you in your name at the box office on Dec. 17. These tickets have been generously provided by Full Capacity Concerts.
We’ll be interested to see if our readers and viewers respond to this, our first giveaway. If you do, we might have more of these offers in future. Would you like us to?
Subscribe and Benefit Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy
December 02nd 2009 We’re pretty pleased to announce a new initiative through our subscriptions. Just in time for seasonal gift giving, we’re inviting people to do a good deed for nature along the Niagara Escarpment.
Here’s the deal: if you take out a subscription, for yourself, friends, family or business associates, we will give $5 from each new subscription to Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy (EBC). This is a great charitable organization that works hard and effectively to protect land and natural areas along the Escarpment. So far, they’ve created nature reserves from Caledon to Manitoulin Island totalling 7,170 acres. The habitat of 57 rare and endangered plant and animal species are now permanently protected. We’re delighted that EBC has agreed to work with us.
You can subscribe through this page. And when you send your cheque, let us know that you want to support EBC. This month, give the gift of protecting nature along with a year of great features about life near the Escarpment.
Any comments on whether this initiative makes sense for us?
Added note: Sue commented that she wondered if this offer is only for new subscriptions, not renewals. I should have made this clear, that renewals SURE ARE eligible. I only meant that subscriptions or renewals from now on can benefit EBC. If you’ve already sent your money, you can’t give this benefit retroactively. That would be an accounting nightmare for Mike. We mean this offer to apply going forward. So if you’re considering renewing, go ahead & specify that you want to benefit EBC!
A Magazine Too Good to Cut Up?
November 06th 2009 It happened again just recently. We got an order for some packs of notecards, and it came on the order form in the magazine, but the form had been photocopied.
Almost every order we get, whether for subscriptions or notecards, comes on a photocopy. It happens so often that there has to be a reason. People don’t want to cut up the magazine. People must want to keep the magazine. As evidence that they’re keeping back issues, we noticed that the latest order form was on a photocopy from the summer issue.
This is why we tell our advertisers not to put coupons in their ads. We’re not a newspaper to be cut up and tossed out. Coupons don’t work in a magazine that people are keeping in one piece.
I’m thrilled to see this. It’s a high compliment and a tribute to our contributors and to our art director, Branimir Zlamalik, who makes our issues look so good that people don’t want to rip them apart.
If they don’t keep the back issues, perhaps they pass them on to others. If they don’t do that, we expect and hope they recycle them. That way, our old issues could become part of the recycled stock that goes into our new issues! That would be true recycling.
What about you? What publications do you keep, and what do you do with the ones you don’t?
We Value Escarpment Views’ Subscribers!
August 27th 2009Our autumn issue is rolling off the press, and even before the whole run has been printed, we’re picking up copies to put in the mail for our subscribers. It’s important to us that our subscribers get each issue before anyone else does. It’s the least we can do to show you that we value your support.
With most advertisers choosing to carry the magazine in their facilities, many people are picking up free copies from them. In addition, we send copies out by Canada Post to selected postal routes in order to introduce more people to our magazine. We try to vary the routes with each issue so that we get the broadest reach possible.
So what we offer subscribers is the convenience of having every issue of Escarpment Views delivered directly to you, as well as getting first crack at the stories and photos.
We thank you for your support and hope you’ll continue to help fund our efforts. It means a great deal to us, because people who pay to get a magazine are obviously very interested in it. It’s like a vote of confidence that encourages us to work hard to bring you fascinating material. And with everyone’s subscription fees added up, it helps to cover our printing and mailing costs. You may think that you’re not doing much individually, but we value every single one of you. Some of you have even been generous enough to give subscriptions as gifts. We could not ask for more.
If, however, you do want to do even more, you can help us shape the magazine by sending us your response to each issue, as well as your ideas and photos for future issues. We look forward to hearing from you and having you help strengthen this large Escarpment community.