A HAPPY GOING AWAY PARTY

Yesterday after closing hours, the agents, office Admin person and manager gathered at the The Grill for a short send off celebration for Ashley Stalling our receptionist. Ashley has been working on her Master's Degree while working part time and starts her student teaching next week. Ashley did a great job and was the first person you saw walking into the Coldwell Banker King Thompson's Newark/Granville Office. Her work ethic and smile was outstanding and will be missed by all. Also attending the group was Brittany Kovach, Brittany will be taking over Ashley's duties and will do just as well. The Grill was the perfect place to be on another snowy Friday early evening.

2009 WAS NOT A BAD YEAR FOR THE GUANCIALE GROUP

This past Tuesday, Coldwell Banker King Thompson invited all agents to OSU's Fawcett Center for the 2009 Awards Ceremony. This is when you know if you worked hard and how successful you were compared to other agents.

The Guanciale Group was recognized as #6 of over 46,000 agents nationally in the number of selling units and within the TOP 2% of 100,000 CB Agents Worldwide.

Andrew Guanciale was recognized by being honored with the Community Service Award given to one agent for their good deeds and involvement within their Community.

We also received honors as the Top Listing/Selling & Closing Team in Licking County, along with Andrew, Lisa & Patrick receiving the Quality Choice Award for client service and satisfaction. Earning President Council Elite allows the team to attend special seminars and round table functions for experienced agents.

We we were happy, but back to work for the 2010 goals by Noon on Tuesday.

AIRPORT SHOE SHINE TIME

This morning I was picking up my wife and her Aunt Diane at the Columbus Airport. I planned the entire morning so I could arrive at the airport 15 minutes early, to enjoy a luxury: have a shoe shine. As soon as I walked into the terminal, the shoe shine stand was not there, looked around and found it a few feet away from it's old spot. Then the disappointment came into to play, two shoe shine guys, two chairs and both were taken along with two guys in line. I waited and had to leave or be punished for not being at baggage carousel #3. Young shoe shine guys now wear latex gloves instead of applying the polish where they leave a fingerprint or two.

Click here about a long ago post about people who do not shine their shoes and instructions on how to polish shoes the correct way.

If you want to see some interesting artwork, take a walk down the hallway to the CMH's restrooms next to Cup O' Joe. The artwork displayed was by Curtis Goldstein. Click here for Curtis' blog.

Why is coffee some times referred to as a "Cup of Joe": Josephus Daniels (1862_1948) was appointed Secretary of the U.S. Navy by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913. Among his numerous reforms of the Navy was the abolition of the officers wine mess. From that time on, the strongest drink aboard navy ships was coffee and over the years, a cup of coffee became known as "a cup of Joe".

DEER REPELLENT

I have been thinking about how to scare the deer out of my yard without PETA or the deer friendly people picketing my home and office. Last night I thought about a sling shot. After Google gave me more information than I ever wanted to know, instead of ordering, I first wanted to see what I could purchase locally.

But, this morning I pulled out of the driveway, looked around the neighborhood and decided it would be too expensive to replace the neighbor's windows from misses, so it is back to verbally abusing the deer. Good idea, wrong neighborhood.

Click here to learn about 65 year old Rufus Hussey and his sling shot skills.

BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY

It is not easy being the Immediate Past Chairman of the Licking County Chamber of Commerce. Past Chair Kurt Harden is always ready to help.

Sinatra Motivational Song-Never Give Up

ORGANIZED TEAM WORK

Above you will find a photo of Vicki, Mandy, Cheri & Jennifer of the Licking County Chamber of Commerce. This past week Cheri Hottinger received a prestigious award from the Chamber of Commerce Executives of Ohio, she was awarded as CCEO Professional of the Year. No doubt came into any one's mind that Cheri would not praise her staff while accepting her award. The "Chamber Girls" are a well tuned team, as I drove the three ladies above along with Chamber Chairperson Kim Lust to the awards dinner, I learned a lot about the three women who enjoy their careers at the Chamber and how important it was to be a team player. Click here to learn more about Cheri Hottinger's award.

Below you will perhaps find future "Chamber Girls", because they are team players:

Coach Dino Guanciale at the chalkboard going over "man to man" defence before a big game with his 6th grade Westerville St. Pauls lady team. Once again, team work. This team plays tremendous basketball, with each member knowing how to excel by using all the team's players skills. This is why they won the League Championship last night.