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Weekly Tips for "Power Managing" Your Paddlesports Businesses from Tom Shay and the Paddlesports Industry Association.  This is the second in Tom's series of Power books.

July 18, 2008
Tip #21.  Feature Expensive Items.  When building displays of merchandise, always put the most expensive item at eye level.

Tip #22.  Create a Management Guide Book.  Create a notebook, complete with examples and directions for completing them, containing the numerous forms that your business completes and files with government agencies, insurers, financial institutions, and more.

If you missed his previous tips, read more about Tom Shay and his book 100 Profits+Plus Ideas for Power Promoting Your Retail Business.


Canoe/Kayak/Restaurant Concession Available in Illinois

July 18, 2008

 

Illinois Department of Natural Resources is seeking to contract a paddlesports operator to run the restaurant and a canoe/ kayak rental operation, which provides rafting trips on the State Scenic Middle Fork of the Vermilion River , located in Kickapoo State Recreational Area Oakwood, Illinois.  Interested parties should contact Lisa Wright  for further details.


Ohio State Fair to Include Kayaking Pond

July 18, 2008

 

Those who plan to head to Columbus for the annual Ohio State Fair will be able to check out a new kayaking pond, which will include paddle sports. The pond is the centerpiece of the 8-acre Natural Resources Park that is part of the fair, which runs from July 30 to Aug. 10 at the Ohio Expo Center Read more.


North State Residents Beat the Summer Heat in Kayaks

From Redding.com by Joshua Corbelli

July 18, 2008

 

The rash of north state wildfires is putting a crimp in many residents' outdoor plans. But someday this summer the fires will die down and people will get back out on the lakes and trails.

 

A growing number of north state residents are taking up kayaking to get out on the water. And with the unforgiving summer heat here, kayaking is a good solution for unbearably hot days.

 

"It's great to experience the lake from a different perspective. Being on the water you see things from a different view," said Susan Weaver, a park ranger at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area.

Garth Schmeck, owner of Penguin Paddlers in Redding, says kayaking isn't dangerous.

 

"Kayaking can be for everyone," Schmeck said. "It's the usual assumption that kayaking means white-water kayaking, when, in reality, white water is the least common form of kayaking available."  Read more.


Rafting the Rapids in Utah

From The Washington Post by Karl Vick

July 18, 2008

 

For the first three days, you kind of assume you're in a western.

 

The rock is red. The sky is blue. The clouds, when they show up, are puffy white. It all glides by at the languid, satisfyingly informative pace of a panning shot. When the gaze drifts above the canyon rim, what appears is the signature iconography of a John Ford film: butte, mesa, chimney rock.

 

And then, on the fourth day, you look up and the oarsman is gone.

 

How odd. That looks like him downstream, swimming frantically back toward the yellow raft no longer drifting languorously on the famous Colorado River. Swollen by the largest snowmelt in recent years, the waterway has meandered to the point in southern Utah where there are no more banks to wash over and simply enrich with silt. When the Colorado reaches Cataract Canyon, the stone walls draw closer, the bottom pitches forward and the river accelerates, churning massive waves from left and right to crash together in the middle. These waves are tall, angry and of profound concern to Brian when he reappears, almost magically, in the little boat, grabs the oars and takes a long look downstream.  Read more.

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