YOUR PLACE CAMP CLASSIC THE VENERABLE COLEMAN COMPANY CELEBRATES 100 YEARS WITH A CONTEST AND NEW PRODUCTS.Camping and Coleman is like bread and butter - and it's been that way for generations. Camp stove? Lantern? The name Coleman is synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as these mainstays. It only took 100 years. The company is celebrating its centennial year with a collection of products and a campfire story contest. The highlight of the product collection will look a little familiar to longtime campers. Coleman has reintroduced and redesigned a steel cooler much like the ice chests the company made for 40 years. This 54-quart cooler, though, has thicker insulation and a tighter-fitting lid to keep your soda and snacks cool even on the hottest California days. The suggested retail price is $99. Also included in the Centennial Collection is the NorthStar propane propane, CH3CH2CH3, colorless, gaseous alkane. It is readily liquefied by compression and cooling. It melts at −189.9°C; and boils at −42.2°C;. lantern ($50); propane grill stove ($90 for electronic ignition Electronic Ignition is a system utilised in automobile engines, replacing contact breaker points in the distributor A reluctor, igniter, and Hall Effect switch are installed in place of the breaker points, and the cam lobes on the distributor cam control the sensor, the ignitor and $80 for match light); Weathermaster tent ($200) and Transformer XE sleeping bag ($50). Sound like equipment you'd like to add to your campsite? Put pen to paper, write up your true Coleman story and you could win an outdoor vacation for four in the Grand Teton region and $2,000 worth of Coleman products. The company is asking for essays of 200 words or less on one of the following themes: 1. Camping with Coleman (any fun outdoors tale); 2. Coleman to the rescue (how Coleman helped in an emergency); 3. Classic Coleman (loyal customer stories). The essays must be submitted by Sept. 26. The company will pick one grand-prize winner who will get the trip and 15 first-prize winners who will receive $1,000 worth of products. Enter online at www.coleman.com or send entry to: Coleman Centennial Story Contest, 2633 Lincoln Blvd., No. 2600, Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , CA 90405. Complete contest rules are posted on the Web site. - Elizabeth Smilor GARDENER'S TIPS: Ready to start planting a summer garden? Before you start digging in soil, scratch your fingernails down a bar of soap, says Mary Ellen Reed in the latest edition of the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Garden Club newsletter. She adds that the soap will prevent soil from collecting under your nails and make washing your hands easier. For information on the club, call the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. District president Robin Pokorski at (818) 361-7873. For tips on gardening tools, see cover story on page XX. - Barbara De Witt De Witt, uninc. town (1990 pop. 8,244), Onondaga co., central N.Y., a residential suburb of Syracuse. HOME IMPROVEMENTS COLOR AID: Deciding what color to paint a room can be a difficult process. One visit to a home improvement or paint store and you realize even white is not just white - there are many shades of Noun 1. shades of - something that reminds you of someone or something; "aren't there shades of 1948 here?" reminder - an experience that causes you to remember something white. If you've collected dozens of paint chips and you're still confused, drop by Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box in Van Nuys between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday. That's when the Glidden Color Cruiser will be there with color representatives, a CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). program that mixes and matches colors, faux finishing demonstrations and, yes, more paint chips. The first 50 visitors will be given Color (at) Home CD-ROMs to take home. The Van Nuys Home Depot is at 16800 Roscoe Blvd. For more information, visit www.gliddenpaint.com. - Daily News CAPTION(S): 7 photos Photo: (1) In 1949, this photo of company founder W.C. Coleman appeared with a magazine article titled ``The Company That Should Have Gone Broke.'' (2 -- 6) no caption (Coleman cooler, NorthStar propane lanter, grill stove, Weathermaster tent and Transformer XE sleeping bag) (7) no caption (someone cutting a rose) |
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