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Posted by: BillGardner | August 25, 2008
* People. Stacy Croninger, senior event manager, Creating Keepsakes Conventions; Jennifer Schaerer, editor-in-chief, Paper Crafts magazine, both for CK Media … Jerry Bowman, president, Spellbinders Paper Arts.
* Special Olympics. Athletes at the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Idaho will receive handcrafted scarves made with Coats & Clark Red Heart® Super Saver® yarns. The Special Olympics World Winter Games Scarf Project is in its second year and plans are to give scarves to each athlete, delegates supporting them, and various attending dignitaries. Coats & Clark’s goal is 5,000 donated scarves. More information is available at www.coatsandclark.com.
* Credit cards. If you accept credit cards, do the receipts truncate the card numbers to no more than the last five digits, and not include the expiration date of the card? According to Misty Speake, an attorney with King & Spalding in Atlanta, and a former associate editor of Craftrends, hundreds of lawsuits have been filed related to this issue in the past year based on noncompliant receipts. Penalties can range up to $1,000 per violation. To read the FTC advisory, go to http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/business/alerts/alt007.shtm
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