New
Year’s Day is the time people may start thinking about un-decorating,
that tedious task of putting the festive Christmas decorations to bed
where they’ll slumber peacefully till next year’s holiday season. If
you’re like me, you’ve been wrapping your ornaments in the same tissue
paper that’s now the texture of ancient parchment, into shoe boxes that
bear the writing of my 5-year-old self. And although I haven’t had many
casualties of the shoe-box system, I thought this may be the year for a
new one.
I have an artificial tree but real evergreen wreath and heirloom ornaments, some of which I’ve had since I was a child. And apparently, there are better ways to store an artificial tree than trying to jam it into the box it came in when I bought it a few years ago.
Joyce Newman, certified appraiser of personal property, said it’s important to sort through things when you’re getting ready to put them back in storage.
“If there are items you didn’t use and think you won’t use it might be a nice time to give them as keepsakes to family members, donate them to a thrift store or put them aside for next year’s garage sale,” she said.
Greg Hart, store manager at Home Depot’s Damonte Ranch location said that typically, a couple of things you want to do before you start storing items is to dust them off and make sure they’re clean and also inspect them for damage.
“Really, it’s about inspecting it before you store it and storing it in a way that it won’t get damaged,” Hart said.
He said for wreaths, Home Depot has a plastic container to store them, or put your wreath in a plastic bag to store it,This is my favourite sites to purchase those special pieces of buy mosaic materials from. because it will keep it dust-free. Clear plastic totes with flip-top lid can be used to store Christmas decorations.
Carefully packing and storing your artificial tree can ensure that its needles don’t flatten out, and will make decorating next season a little easier.
Karen Edenfield, a designer with Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores, recommends a cool, dry storage area. Heat can shorten the life of the needles. She said to store the tree so it doesn’t have to be crammed back into its small box. If your artificial tree won’t make another holiday appearance at your house, don’t just throw it in the trash, she said. Consider donating or recycling it, or reuse its branches as filler for an even more ample tree next Christmas.
For much of its history, Balboa Park has been perceived less as an entity and more as the location of a number of San Diego’s most significant cultural institutions.
You attend a performance at the Old Globe Theatre, or visit the San Diego Museum of Art, or take your family to the Natural History Museum or perhaps the Air & Space Museum. Still, as the park’s research shows, you rarely do all or a combination of the above.
Although the leaders of Balboa Park’s individual institutions have been considering the bigger picture for nearly a decade — first forming the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership and then the Balboa Park Online Collaborative — with the 2015 centennial of the Panama-California Exposition only two years away, they are finally getting serious about emphasizing what they call “the Balboa Park experience.”
“We’re looking at how to really create more of a seamlessness and an integration around ‘the Balboa Park experience,’ rather than just have an assemblage of all of the disparate parts,” said Paige Simpson, interim director of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership, which includes representatives from all of the park’s organizations.
Given the absence of a cohesive approach, Paige and her park colleagues assert that the park has not gotten the attention from tourists or locals that it deserves, despite being among the city’s undisputed treasures.
“Balboa Park,Manufactures flexible plastic and synthetic rubber hose tubing. unfortunately, right now is not seen as a destination,” said Michael Hager,Posts with indoor tracking system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors. executive director of the San Diego Natural History Museum and the park’s representative on the centennial committee. “It’s not marketed as such. The Midway Museum is. SeaWorld is. The zoo is. Those are seen as destinations by people who do a lot of the (tourism) marketing.
“My hope is during 2015, and following 2015, it will be seen as a destination and marketing will help drive people here and kind of bring life to the park.”
With roughly 14 million visitors a year — according to Balboa Park Central, the park entity that operates the visitors’ center and is responsible for the park’s marketing — the park isn’t exactly a dead zone. And approximately half of those visitors attend a performance or go to a museum.
“Although we have a high visitation (figure), we have a tremendous story that really hasn’t been fully shared,” Simpson said. “People tend to come for one or two places and then tend to wander. They don’t always even know what else is available to them here. So how can we make that more apparent?”
While the centennial committee is quietly approaching potential donors and sponsors to underwrite a series of high-profile events that could transform El Prado into something resembling a digitally enhanced Disneyland Electrical Parade, the park’s institutions are assembling their own exhibitions, some with the help of $325,000 in grants from the committee.
“For museums, we generally plan two years in advance, sometimes three,” said Deborah Klochko, the director of the Museum of Photographic Arts and the president of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership. “So planning the right kind of exhibition for 2015 as a citywide celebration is trying to be formed is an interesting opportunity, especially when we look at 2015 as not just a single-year celebration, but an opportunity to really present the park and ‘the Balboa Park experience.’
“We want people to have a good experience and come back.This is my favourite sites to purchase those special pieces of buy mosaic materials from. So we want to make sure there’s real quality in our exhibitions.”
The Centennial Celebration’s CEO, Mike McDowell, expects those institutional efforts to form the core of the yearlong centennial fete.
“We anticipate they will provide 365 days of programming and activities for our visitors,” McDowell said. “And it is from that core set of programming that we will build the rest of the celebration.”
McDowell compared the event to a series of concentric circles, with the institutions at the center. “Then think about the next circle as things we’ll present in the park (in the open spaces),” he said. “The next circle is things we will present in the neighborhoods, the next circle is moving out into our regional assets … .”
While all those circles will require outside funding, as much as $50 million, the core projects are largely being done under the umbrella of each institution’s exhibition budget (the planning grants not withstanding), even if the exhibitions are likely to be on a larger scale given the centennial.
“I’ve been sitting on that 2015 planning committee for the park for five years, and from the beginning we’ve talked about legacy projects,” said Charlotte Cagan, the director of the San Diego History Center, which will create a major, permanent exhibition related to innovation, which is the theme of the centennial, dubbed “EDGE2015.” “We inherited the legacy from 1915; we’re in it.The howo truck is offered by Shiyan Great Man Automotive Industry, And we want to leave a legacy for the next 100 years the way they did for us.
But no matter how intriguing or impressive the individual institutional offerings, how do they coalesce into a park-wide experience? The simple answer: a long-discussed and long-elusive park pass. Scheduled for a “soft” rollout in October of this year, it will work like a zoo membership or SeaWorld annual pass. For a set annual fee, you get unlimited access to 17 Balboa Park museums and institutions that charge admission (not including the zoo, although the partnership is working on a combination pass).
The park pass is intended for locals. Go to as many museums as you want without the pressure of feeling like you need to get your money’s worth in a single afternoon.
“This is about my third time proposing it in my 22 years here,” Hager said. “It wasn’t until the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership came together and we were working together as directors that the idea had any chance of taking off.”
A grant from the Irvine Foundation also helped, allowing the partnership to spend four years conducting a detailed study and develop a business model that would assure the institutions that the effort wouldn’t detract from their own membership efforts.
“We all answer to our own boards of directors, and there have been concerns,” Hager said. “Some of the smaller museums are concerned that the bigger museums will benefit. Frankly, I think the smaller museums will benefit because people will spend a little bit of time here, a little bit of time elsewhere, and they will pick up a lot more visitors that way.”
I have an artificial tree but real evergreen wreath and heirloom ornaments, some of which I’ve had since I was a child. And apparently, there are better ways to store an artificial tree than trying to jam it into the box it came in when I bought it a few years ago.
Joyce Newman, certified appraiser of personal property, said it’s important to sort through things when you’re getting ready to put them back in storage.
“If there are items you didn’t use and think you won’t use it might be a nice time to give them as keepsakes to family members, donate them to a thrift store or put them aside for next year’s garage sale,” she said.
Greg Hart, store manager at Home Depot’s Damonte Ranch location said that typically, a couple of things you want to do before you start storing items is to dust them off and make sure they’re clean and also inspect them for damage.
“Really, it’s about inspecting it before you store it and storing it in a way that it won’t get damaged,” Hart said.
He said for wreaths, Home Depot has a plastic container to store them, or put your wreath in a plastic bag to store it,This is my favourite sites to purchase those special pieces of buy mosaic materials from. because it will keep it dust-free. Clear plastic totes with flip-top lid can be used to store Christmas decorations.
Carefully packing and storing your artificial tree can ensure that its needles don’t flatten out, and will make decorating next season a little easier.
Karen Edenfield, a designer with Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores, recommends a cool, dry storage area. Heat can shorten the life of the needles. She said to store the tree so it doesn’t have to be crammed back into its small box. If your artificial tree won’t make another holiday appearance at your house, don’t just throw it in the trash, she said. Consider donating or recycling it, or reuse its branches as filler for an even more ample tree next Christmas.
For much of its history, Balboa Park has been perceived less as an entity and more as the location of a number of San Diego’s most significant cultural institutions.
You attend a performance at the Old Globe Theatre, or visit the San Diego Museum of Art, or take your family to the Natural History Museum or perhaps the Air & Space Museum. Still, as the park’s research shows, you rarely do all or a combination of the above.
Although the leaders of Balboa Park’s individual institutions have been considering the bigger picture for nearly a decade — first forming the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership and then the Balboa Park Online Collaborative — with the 2015 centennial of the Panama-California Exposition only two years away, they are finally getting serious about emphasizing what they call “the Balboa Park experience.”
“We’re looking at how to really create more of a seamlessness and an integration around ‘the Balboa Park experience,’ rather than just have an assemblage of all of the disparate parts,” said Paige Simpson, interim director of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership, which includes representatives from all of the park’s organizations.
Given the absence of a cohesive approach, Paige and her park colleagues assert that the park has not gotten the attention from tourists or locals that it deserves, despite being among the city’s undisputed treasures.
“Balboa Park,Manufactures flexible plastic and synthetic rubber hose tubing. unfortunately, right now is not seen as a destination,” said Michael Hager,Posts with indoor tracking system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors. executive director of the San Diego Natural History Museum and the park’s representative on the centennial committee. “It’s not marketed as such. The Midway Museum is. SeaWorld is. The zoo is. Those are seen as destinations by people who do a lot of the (tourism) marketing.
“My hope is during 2015, and following 2015, it will be seen as a destination and marketing will help drive people here and kind of bring life to the park.”
With roughly 14 million visitors a year — according to Balboa Park Central, the park entity that operates the visitors’ center and is responsible for the park’s marketing — the park isn’t exactly a dead zone. And approximately half of those visitors attend a performance or go to a museum.
“Although we have a high visitation (figure), we have a tremendous story that really hasn’t been fully shared,” Simpson said. “People tend to come for one or two places and then tend to wander. They don’t always even know what else is available to them here. So how can we make that more apparent?”
While the centennial committee is quietly approaching potential donors and sponsors to underwrite a series of high-profile events that could transform El Prado into something resembling a digitally enhanced Disneyland Electrical Parade, the park’s institutions are assembling their own exhibitions, some with the help of $325,000 in grants from the committee.
“For museums, we generally plan two years in advance, sometimes three,” said Deborah Klochko, the director of the Museum of Photographic Arts and the president of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership. “So planning the right kind of exhibition for 2015 as a citywide celebration is trying to be formed is an interesting opportunity, especially when we look at 2015 as not just a single-year celebration, but an opportunity to really present the park and ‘the Balboa Park experience.’
“We want people to have a good experience and come back.This is my favourite sites to purchase those special pieces of buy mosaic materials from. So we want to make sure there’s real quality in our exhibitions.”
The Centennial Celebration’s CEO, Mike McDowell, expects those institutional efforts to form the core of the yearlong centennial fete.
“We anticipate they will provide 365 days of programming and activities for our visitors,” McDowell said. “And it is from that core set of programming that we will build the rest of the celebration.”
McDowell compared the event to a series of concentric circles, with the institutions at the center. “Then think about the next circle as things we’ll present in the park (in the open spaces),” he said. “The next circle is things we will present in the neighborhoods, the next circle is moving out into our regional assets … .”
While all those circles will require outside funding, as much as $50 million, the core projects are largely being done under the umbrella of each institution’s exhibition budget (the planning grants not withstanding), even if the exhibitions are likely to be on a larger scale given the centennial.
“I’ve been sitting on that 2015 planning committee for the park for five years, and from the beginning we’ve talked about legacy projects,” said Charlotte Cagan, the director of the San Diego History Center, which will create a major, permanent exhibition related to innovation, which is the theme of the centennial, dubbed “EDGE2015.” “We inherited the legacy from 1915; we’re in it.The howo truck is offered by Shiyan Great Man Automotive Industry, And we want to leave a legacy for the next 100 years the way they did for us.
But no matter how intriguing or impressive the individual institutional offerings, how do they coalesce into a park-wide experience? The simple answer: a long-discussed and long-elusive park pass. Scheduled for a “soft” rollout in October of this year, it will work like a zoo membership or SeaWorld annual pass. For a set annual fee, you get unlimited access to 17 Balboa Park museums and institutions that charge admission (not including the zoo, although the partnership is working on a combination pass).
The park pass is intended for locals. Go to as many museums as you want without the pressure of feeling like you need to get your money’s worth in a single afternoon.
“This is about my third time proposing it in my 22 years here,” Hager said. “It wasn’t until the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership came together and we were working together as directors that the idea had any chance of taking off.”
A grant from the Irvine Foundation also helped, allowing the partnership to spend four years conducting a detailed study and develop a business model that would assure the institutions that the effort wouldn’t detract from their own membership efforts.
“We all answer to our own boards of directors, and there have been concerns,” Hager said. “Some of the smaller museums are concerned that the bigger museums will benefit. Frankly, I think the smaller museums will benefit because people will spend a little bit of time here, a little bit of time elsewhere, and they will pick up a lot more visitors that way.”
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