Posted by: queensboro on: December 21, 2009
A while back, we brought you news of a Veterans’ Honor Tour for which we embroidered shirts. We made shirts for the tour guides, but they were so busy guiding, that they didn’t get a picture of all three of them, facing the camera, at the same time! Last week they sent me this snapshot [...]
Posted by: Kate on: December 17, 2009
Yesterday was the Queensboro Food Drive for the fall of 2009. We did pretty well, considering our out-of-the-way location, and the fact that most of our customers (probably 97%) are not from Wilmington. We had a surprise visitor for the food drive. Here’s a photo of her:
That’s Manna, a flat coat retriever and black lab [...]
Posted by: Kate on: November 18, 2009
Queensboro accepts donation requests from nonprofit organizations. One of our recent recipients was “Twin Rivers Delivers,” a program of the Twin Rivers Associates, an adult day center in Exeter, NH. Several of the program members are pictured, above, wearing their Weather Resistant Hooded Sport Anoraks from Queensboro.
Four times a week, Twin Rivers Delivers does “bread [...]
Posted by: queensboro on: November 17, 2009
Congratulations LUCKY NUMBER THREE! You’re the big winner!
It’s time to pick your favorite Queensboro Haiku! The winner gets a $150 Queensboro gift certificate, so pick a good one!
Email your friends, tweet it, and put it on Facebook to get votes for your Haiku!
Voting until 5:00 pm EST Wednesday, November 18.
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Wandering naked
Beautiful hats, shirts, blankets
Ah, yes [...]
Posted by: Kate on: November 12, 2009
Find your inner poet today, and write a Haiku for the Queensboro Haiku contest! Post your Haiku as a comment to this blog, and be sure to enter your email address (which we won’t show, but will need to contact you if you win a prize).
The Grand Prize is a $150 Queensboro Gift Certificate!
So, [...]
Posted by: Kate on: October 29, 2009
One of my privileges as the Social Media coordinator for Queensboro is to work with donation requests and recipients. We receive hundreds of letters and requests, many of which have heartbreaking stories attached. We are never able to fill all of the requests we receive, but I wish we could.
Here are some pictures from the [...]
Posted by: Kate on: October 27, 2009
Last weekend was the “Trick or Treat Trot” 5K and Fun Run put on by Communities in Schools, Cape Fear Chapter. Natasha, the Finance Manager for CIS, won one of the first Queensboro Re-Tweet contests recently, for a gift certificate. After she won, I saw her at the first Wilmington Tweetup I went to [...]
Posted by: queensboro on: October 8, 2009
Queensboro’s KCBS teams are doing quite well this year! Congratulations, everyone! Here are some pics from our teams, fresh off some weekend competitions, including the American Royal Invitational, where Caveman Cuisine WON the Reserve Grand Champion with a 1st place in Pork, and a PERFECT SCORE of 180 for their pork entry. The American Royal [...]
Posted by: Kate on: September 29, 2009
I met Bill last year at the Garden Writers Association (GWA) Symposium in Portland. He sent me this fantastic email saying that he had ordered some Queensboro shirts, and for me to be sure and tell my boss that my time in Portland was worth it. On a personal note, I nearly bought out [...]
Posted by: queensboro on: August 31, 2009
Congratulations, Bubba’s Smokeshack!
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