Current Promotions/Contests:

TIME FOR OUR SPRING 2012 CONTEST!

The Bean Counter Contest – What best represents our ‘more than just Bean Counters’ theme for our new office?

We need your idea/vote:

What do you think would best represent our "more than just bean counters" theme at our new office? Or give us a fresh idea of your own. All entries go into random draw for a $50 Visa card.

Coffee Bean Display	Jelly Bean Machine	Jumbo Calculator

Bean Mascot	Bean Statue on top of building

Send us an email with your contact info to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by May 3rd, 2012. Winners will be contacted directly and announced by May 8th on our website.

2nd Annual Photo Contest:

The BEST (Wow!) or MOST CREATIVE (Oooh!) or MOST FUN

(Woo!) or MOST UNUSUAL (Hmmm!) (plus second and third

place winners)

Send us some of your BEST Summer photos and you could WIN a

$100 or $50 Visa Card!!

The deadline for entry is Tuesday, September 6th, 2011, but we encourage you to

submit entries throughout the summer. Our panel of highly esteemed photography

judges (yes, that would be Steve, Sherry, Linda, and Andre) will perform the difficult

task of selecting the three best photos and we will announce the winners on Friday,

September 9th, 2011.

The winning photos will be posted on our website and included in our next issue of

The Bean Counters Quarterly (family-friendly please)!

Good Luck and Have Fun!!!

Deadline for entry was September 6^th, 2011.

THANK YOU to all those that entered. We had some great entries but unfortunately only 3 places…. The Winners Are….

First Place - "What dirt???" - George Ward:

Winner of a $100 VISA gift card!

What-dirt-George-Ward

Second Place: "It was this big..." Dale Rivers:

It-was-this-big-Dale-Rivers

Third Place: "Cannonball!!!" - Bruce Hietkamp

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These winning photos will also included in our next issue of The Bean Counters Quarterly (family-friendly please)!

Congratulations!!!!

Past Promotions/Contests:

What's a Great Tip for Tax Planning and Easter?

Contest closed on April 25, 2011 and the winner was notified.

The winner is Lynwood Keough of LKP Printing. Congratulations Lynwood! And the answer ???? "Don’t put all your eggs in one basket!"

A Holiday Contest! The Best WORST Christmas Gift Ever

Contest closed on December 15th and winners were notified December 17th!

Well, it appears that a few of our clients have received some “not so great” gifts over the years. There were lots of “bad” entries but the team sifted thru them to come up with the two they felt were the worst.

window-squeegee Congratulations to Linda Shutt who received a Window Squeegie from her family one year. She had just finished a rough year in real estate and the family thought maybe she could head into the city and maybe pick up some cash cleaning car windows! Hopefully the $100 prize will allow her to bury the trauma of this gift.

vacuum A close runner-up, taking home $50 for her grief, is Wendy Wignall. After being forced to close her eyes (as the gift was said to be “too big” to wrap) while the family scurried about, anticipation was definitely building. At the count of 3, she opened her eyes only to find the dreaded….vacuum! Not only was it a house-work based gift, vacuuming is by far and away Wendy’s least favourite activity!

Hopefully you can share these stories with your families to perhaps help prevent that “worst gift ever award”!

THE TRICK IS TO FIND THE MAN IN THE COFFEE BEANS:

This is bizarre - after you find the guy – it’s so obvious.

Once you find him – it’s embarrassing, and you think,

‘Why didn’t I see him immediately?’

man-in-beans

Doctors have concluded that if you find the man in the coffee beans in 3 seconds, the right half of your brain is better developed than most people. If you find the man between 3 seconds and 1 minute, the right half of the brain is developed normally. If you find the man between 1 minute and 3 minutes, then the right half of your brain is functioning slowly and you need to eat more protein. If you have not found the man after 3 minutes, the advice is to look for more of this type of exercise to make that part of the brain stronger!!!

And, yes, the man is really there!!

After you find the man in the beans forward this page to your brainy friends.

Photo of Summer Contest:

Deadline for entry was September 7^th, 2010

THANK YOU to all those that entered. We had some great entries but unfortunately only 3 places…. The Winners Are….

First Place - “Geronimo…” taken by Eska Hawley

Mary-Eska

Second Place - “Dog days of summer” taken by George Ward

Second Place Winner - George Ward

Third Place - "The canoe is this way” by Walter Zuppinger

Third Place Winner - Walter Zuppinger

Stay tuned for our next contest.

Bean Counter Contest

Deadline for entry was March 12^th, 2010

The winner was ...

Christine P. from Arborcorp Tree Experts!!

She was notified via email on March 13^th, 2010 and will be mentioned in our March edition of The Bean Counters’ Quarterly. There were 409 beans and her guess was 412.

Congratulations Christine!!

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