| AmEx launches travel auction website
Credit card giant American Express is launching a travel auction website for cardholders as part of its "My Life, My Card" strategy. The Going Once website launch is being backed by an experiential campaign centred in London created by OgilvyOne. The company is operating the site as a Dutch auction where the price continues to drop until a bid is placed. There will be nine different holiday packages available – one offered each day. The price will then drop every 20 minutes between 4.20pm and midnight. Destinations offered include Hong Kong, Antarctica and the Greek Islands. Cardholders are also given the option of buying a choice of three fixed-priced packages each day. † .
Secret Garden for Humane Society
The Guelph Humane Society is ringing in summer with it's 8th annual Secret Garden Silent/Live Auction and Tea at the Italian Canadian Club of Guelph on Sunday, April 29. It starts at 12:30 p.m. at the club, 135 Ferguson St., with bidding beginning on items in the silent auction. Bidding ends at 2:45 p.m. when guests will be invited to enjoy afternoon tea while the bids are tallied.The live auction begins at 3 p.m. The main item in the auction is a group tour of five exclusive Guelph gardens. The winner and friends will be driven to each location in a limousine, said a news release, and have refreshments at a beautiful pool house en route. Guests will learn all about pet friendly gardens when guest speaker Denis Flanagan of HGTV's One Garden Two Looks and The Indoor Gardener makes a presentation at 3:15 p.m.
Commissioner Kathy Thompson bids office goobye at open house
COSHOCTON - It's been eight years since Commissioner Kathy Thompson was first appointed to the Board of Commissioners. She was greeted by more than 50 fellow county employees and friends from the community Friday at a going away open house. Thompson will resign Sunday to assume new duties as the executive director of the Coshocton Foundation on Monday, April 16. .
Slater council picks date for next McQueen day
Slater Mayor Stephen Allegri announced the Steve McQueen Day committee had chosen March 23 as the date for the next Steve McQueen Day celebration, during the council's regular meeting at Slater City Hall on Tuesday, April 17. Allegri said that the event should become self-supporting financially. "The city financed it one time," Allegri said. "Now we're looking at making it self-supporting. I think it's real important to point out no events would have taken place if the city hadn't put seed money in them. Now they are self-supporting." In other business, re-elected council members Terry Jordan, Ron Monnig and Brownell Bryant were sworn in. Bryant was then voted mayor pro tem of the council. The council then discussed the open position for the unoccupied Ward 1 council seat.
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