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ESTATE SALE – quality furniture: entry tables, display cabinets, antique tables, Violin table, Tea Cart from Italy, Lane aromatic cedar hope chest, secretary desk with hutch and chair and more items! You will see fine art, including Hidden Cottage, D. Lewan and Thomas Kinkaid. You won’t want to miss Willow, the pencil dot portrait by a local artist. Also, two upholstered rocking chairs, floral arrangements and two Ducks Unlimited signed duck decoys. You will not be disappointed!

Two days only – Friday and Saturday only (09 July – 10 July) – noon to 5:30pm.

Every thing is sold on a first-come-first-served basis. However, you may register your silent auction for all unsold items.

Unique Motif 285 W Prairie Shopping Center, Hayden, ID

You will also be pleased with the new shipment of handbags, purses and wallets that just arrived! Stop by and see us, today!

TUESDAY special:
ALL Home Decor 40% OFF
Clearance 50% OFF
not valid with other offers and no gift cards

WEDNESDAY special:
Half off purse with purchase of purse, wallet and purse holder combo
Clearance 50% OFF
not valid with other offers and no gift cards – also no credit returns of wallet and holder

THURSDAY special:
Ting-ting and bamboo 50% OFF
Clearance 50% OFF
not valid with other offers and no gift cards

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY special:
THERE WILL BE AN ESTATE SALE – TWO DAYS ONLY
FURNITURE AND ART including Howard Miller and Thomas Kincaid
Don’t miss this special event !!! HOURS: noon – 6pm Friday and noon to 5:30pm Saturday – we will close on or before 5:30pm on Saturday

Most people think of safety management as a cost to business, when, in fact, it can actually save you money. Every week, in every state, two people die from work related accidents (stats are an average: 5200 workers died on the job in 2008). This alone is a very high cost to businesses. Work related injuries are ten times that amount. Establishing a safety manual and orientation training, as a minimum, will cost your business less than one minor work related injury. Developing a safety-conscientiousness in the workplace will go a long way toward reducing or elimination accidents, injuries and fatalities.

If OSHA were to walk into your business today and ask to see your safety program, including your hazard communication policy, fall protection and scaffold use practices, hazard assessments on tasks performed, PPE policy and training and any other such policies and practices, would you give them the deer-in-the-headlights look? or would you be able to produce the documents and stave off some severe penalties and fines?

More important than that: Are you able to demonstrate to your employees that you care about their safety? Do you exhibit a safety-conscientiousness to your clients and the community?

We recently completed a large project for Extreme Industrial Coatings of Spokane, Washington, helping them qualify for a contract with Agrium, Inc, working at one of their mine locations. We completed the project on time, meeting all the requirements of Agrium, Inc and ISNET. Extreme Industrial Coatings (EIC) now has an “A” rating at ISNET, which qualifies them to work at major mining and piping locations. More importantly, EIC has instilled an attitude of safety among their employees and it shows in the way they work and look out for each other.

This is the start of our conversation. In days, weeks, months and years to come, we will be talking about practical things you can do to create a safety attitude in your workplace. This will be useful for business owners and employees, too.

Large or small, we can help you develop a safety management program that is cost effective and will save injury, time loss and even lives. Call Dean at 208-699-6877 for your free consultation.

I was recently in desperate need of updating Quickbooks. I have been using Quickbooks Pro 2007, and this last month, Quickbooks finally shut off the feature that allowed me to email invoices. That bummed me out, I was hoping to get another 5 years on that version of Quickbooks. I wasn’t too happy about spending $199 on a new copy of Quickbooks, but then I found this coupon link that automatically knocked off $40! It’s basically a 20% off coupon.

Here it is: Quickbooks 20% Discount

$40 savings for me is equivalent to taking my wife to a nice dinner, going to the movies twice, buying a new game for the WII, 2 Blue Ray’s (even though I don’t own any)…

So click on the link, or click on the banner that I embedded in the post. Let me know how much this link saved you in the comments below!

SATURDAY CLEARANCE BLOWOUT!
Come in Saturday and receive half off – that’s 50% OFF – ALL Clearance Shelf items.
All Home Decor is 20% OFF, too!!!

CHANGES AT UNIQUE MOTIF -
When you walk in the store, you will notice a large, empty area, in the rear, on the left. That spot is for you! Several people have asked us about hosting Purse Parties at the store instead of in their homes. At first, we did a few but were hesitant to do more because the store was too crowded. But this empty space solves the problem and now the answer is – YES, we will host YOUR PURSE PARTY at the store. Come in and talk to Robin today!

You will see more changes in months to come . . . UNIQUE MOTIF is getting out of the home decor business . . . STAY TUNED!!!

Thank You For Shopping With Us!
/s/ Dean and Robin

REMEMBER: LOCAL MERCHANTS ARE YOUR NEIGHBORS and need your support!

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*   BUY FROM 3 LOCAL MERCHANTS AND
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* local merchant receipts must be less than 10 (ten) days old
* you will keep the receipt but we will mark an “X” on it
* local merchant means the small, local shopkeeper who is your neighbor
* not valid from big box stores, franchises, meals, liquor or porn
* not valid with other offers – expires 30 June 2010
* maximum savings value is $50.00 per item
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GREATER HAYDEN COMMUNITY BUSINESS BOARD
At Unique Motif – GET INFORMATION ABOUT OTHER LOCAL BUSINESSES at the Greater Hayden Community Business Board.

DO YOU HAVE A BUSINESS OR EVENT YOU WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT? Post business cards and brochures on the Greater Hayden Community Business Board. If you have a write up about your business or event, we will publish it on our website. Please send your article and your image to dean@uniquemotif.com .

DOES YOUR BUSINESS HAVE A WRITTEN HAZARD COMMUNICATION PROGRAM? EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND FIRE PREVENTION PROGRAM? HAZARD ASSESSMENT AND PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT PROGRAM? A SAFETY MANUAL AND REGULAR EMPLOYEE TRAINING? Cougar Gulch Group, LLC can help you with this. Safety does not have to be expensive – and it saves lives, health and money. Call Dean at 208-699-6877 for your free consultation.

ARE YOU, OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW, THINKING OF BUILDING A NEW HOME, apartment or office in the near future? Or looking to add on to, or remodel, what you have? IDAHO CONTRACTOR CAN HELP YOU. With Idaho Contractor’s project management services, you are in full control of your project, while the professionals take care of all your red tape, paperwork, scheduling and quality control. Our rates are reasonable and less than hiring a building contractor – even though, we are a building contractor. Our fees are also less than the franchise D-I-Y outfits and we visit your site more often. We save our clients money without skimping on quality. View more information on our website at http://idahocontractor.com/page/your-builder/ and call Dean at 208-699-6877 for your free initial consultation. Idaho registration number RCE-688.

For those of you interested in the Mini Cooper, you might also be interested in it’s bigger brother, the Mini Countryman, soon to be released in the US. I recently setup a forum for the Mini Countryman called Countryman Forums. Check it out!