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What a refreshing time of the year!!!! We are outdoors with short sleeves and starting or rebuilding our gardens. It is a joy to see new birth of a dormant tree as thousands of leaves spread all over its majestic branches giving us shade for the hot summer days ahead. It is an exciting time as we start having outdoor barbeques again with family and friends. We see new growth everywhere. We run and play with the kids as we watch our favorite pet enjoy the great outdoors also. Let's go down to the river bank with a can of worms and a fishing pole to enjoy the beauty of it all as we wet our hooks!! Wow! I get excited just thinking about it.
We get excited here when Roger Hill brings in some of his garden grown Watermelons and other vegetables. Gardening is a skill which also takes time to see the results. My wife and I usually have a small garden because she likes to can tomatoes and green beans.
I like to relate gardening to what we do here at Seven Oaks Doors and Hardware. We plant a lot of seeds throughout the year with our customers. Interestingly enough, it all seems to start coming together this time of year. There is something about spring that creates an exciting business atmosphere. We want to thank you for being friends with whom we like to grow. You are our flowers!! Most of you are quite colorful and bring a lot of enjoyment to us. We want to be there for you also. Please contact us, anytime we can be of service.
I appreciate you!
Ed Shimpock
Vice President and General Manager
P.S. Feel free to send any extra vegetables!!!
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Past Project
| Chambers Building, Davidson College
Davidson, NC
After We removed and disposed of existing doors. We installed custom painted SL18 Special-Lite doors to match existing building architecture, complete with continuous hinges, electrified exit devices, and automatic operators. |
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Customer Spotlight
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Our featured customer of the month is Lindie McLain. Lindie has been the Locksmith for Richmond County Schools for 18 years. He has one son, Ben and daughter-in-law Amanda. He also has one granddaughter, Kinleigh. He enjoys being a grandfather, woodworking, fishing, and spending time with his cat "Louie".
"I have been a customer of Seven Oaks Doors and Hardware the entire 18 years that I have been at Richmond County Schools. They always provide excellent customer service and knowledgeable installers. They are courteous, friendly, helpful, and I enjoy working with them. They are my favorite company." Lindie McLain, Richmond County Schools
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Product Spotlight
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Introducing the HMF Express Heavy Duty Hollow Metal Screen Door!
The new heavy duty hollow metal screen door by HMF is ideal for school cafeterias, restaurants, and other areas where security is just as important as fresh air.
This screen door is available in 16, 14 and 12 gauge, and is perfect for retrofit also, as it is available in 1 3/8" and 1 3/4" thicknesses and can be custom made to any size needed. It features integral flush kit construction, fiberglass insulation, and the aluminum mosquito screen is included.
HMF's new hollow metal screen door is also available on their 1 day quick ship program. Call us for more information or pricing on this new product.
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Gardening Tips from our employees:
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Per Roger Hill, Warehouse Manager:- "Don't plant until the ground is warm, around the first of May."
- "When planting tomato plants, wait 10 days to fertilize. Then scratch in a little fertilizer around plant. Go 6 - 8" from plant, dig small hole and place a small amount of fertilizer in hole and cover."
Per Sue Loy, Product Application Specialist:- Plant potatoes in the "dark nights in March".
- When planting tomatoes, I use post hole diggers to plant as deep as possible so they will not suffer as dramatically from drought. I put about a half cup of powered lime and approximately 1 Tablespoon of Epson Salt in the bottom of each hole. This helps prevent blossom rot.
- Tomatoes and peppers are in the same family, so they draw the same nutrients from the soil, therefore they should never be planted in the same row two consecutive years.
Per Ron Hill, Product Application Specialist:- "As a teenager, I worked for a lady who won many first place awards for her roses and the one thing she had me do on a weekly basis was to cultivate her rose bushes and put discarded brown banana peelings around the base of each plant. She claimed this provided the plant with the extra nutrients that allowed the plant to produce hardier buds and the champion flowers that won her many awards."
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May 2011, Vol. 3 - Issue 5
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Annual Easter Egg Hunt
Every year our office has an Easter Egg Hunt during lunch sponsored by Becky Preslar in our Customer Service Department. She hides eggs throughout the office and the employees have fun hunting for them.
Winners this year were from left to right: Kathy Hatley, Robert Parrish, Brenda Hinson
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Hide & Seek ContestSomewhere hidden in this newsletter is a picture of a tomato that looks like the one shown above. Tell us where it's located, and your name will be entered in our drawing. We will take all the entries and randomly draw 1 winner who will receive a $25 gift card. Send your answers to:
trivia@sevenoakshardware.com
Last Month's Trivia Winner Joyce BlankenshipPfeiffer University
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What We Do
We Sell & Install Commercial Hollow Metal Doors, Wood Doors & Fiberglass Doors
We Sell, Key & Install All Major Brands of Commercial Locks, Exit Devices & Door Closers
We Sell & Install Automatic Door Operators
We Sell & Install Computer Managed Access Control and
Wireless Access Control
We Sell & Install Toilet Partitions & Toilet Accessories
SERVICE AREA:
North & South Carolina, South Central Virginia
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We Want to Hear from You
Please send stories or comments about your experiences with Seven Oaks Doors & Hardware, Inc. We would like to recognize you in our newsletter. Contact us:
HERE
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Upcoming Trade Shows
May 4 - 6: South Carolina Society of Hospital Engineers Spring 2011 Educational Program/Exhibitor's Show in Myrtle Beach, S.C. May 25 - 27: North Carolina Public School Maintenance Association Western Convention/Workshop in Ridgecrest, N.C. August 2 - 5: North Carolina Healthcare Engineers Association Annual Conference in Asheville, N.C. .................................................
Questions & Answers This is a new section that we would like to use to help you, our customer, by answering your questions. Please email us your questions to: newsletter@sevenoakshardware.com Question: Why should you always use ball bearing hinges on a door that has a closer? Answer: Because it puts less strain on your hinges, giving longer life to your door hardware ................................................. Customers with birthdays in May! Joyce Blankenship - 2nd Sanford Cain - 7th John Michael Rummage - 9th Douglas Miller - 10th Daniel Green - 13th Cory Jones - 15th J. Lynn Medlin - 15th Mike Walker - 16th Ken McManus - 18th Malcolm Mitchell - 20th Harry L. Armstrong, Jr. - 20th John D. Graves - 23rd Keith Holden - 23rd George Edwards - 23rd Wayne Davis - 24th Jonathan Rhodes - 24th Donald E. Blair - 26th Michael S. Lloyd - 27th Chris Yarboro - 31st
Seven Oaks Doors & Hardware Wishes All of You a Happy Birthday! |
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