Ladies and Gentlemen, we are pleased to announce that after only one week of sales, we have completely sold out of our old white wood chairs. All of our white garden chairs, usually seen at weddings, will now be made of durable white polyresin. By making this sale, we have made a lot of room in our warehouse for new inventory and new items for your special events. We hope you are as excited as we are.

We would like our customers to know that we are now selling some of our inventory, specifically our white wood folding chairs. For numerous reasons, we have decided to discontinue renting our white wood folding chairs, and are replacing them with a white resin garden chair. Because of this, we are selling our stock of white wood folding chairs at the bargain price of $1.00 a chair. That’s right, one dollar a chair! They are being offered on a self-pickup basis, payment up front. Please keep in mind that these chairs are used, and have been used for a number of years.

We won an award! Well, we kinda won an award. Sorta. LynnCAM TV, who did an episode about us (which we blogged about earler this week) has won an award for the episode that they did on us. We’re kinda flattered that we were a part of them winning for community television for the northeast.

We are pleased to announce that we are featured in a LynnCAMTV special. It is a series on local businesses, appropriately enough named North Shore Business Infrastructure. We encourage our customers to give it a look on Youtube. You can meet some of our employees as well as see some of our equipment up close.

With Easter and Passover fast approaching, we would like to thank our customers for their continued patronage, and allowing us to provide wares and equipment for their important family holidays. Many of our customers are second or third generation renters, and getting their buffet table or extra chairs from us has become as much of a tradition as the family dinner itself. With this in mind, we would like our customers to note the other products that we offer for rental. We can provide china, flatware, and glassware as well as linens in almost any size. We can provide chafing dishes for your buffet, platters for your rolls or matzo, samovars for your after-dinner coffee, even glass pitchers for water or wine. Please browse our website or give us a call to learn what we can offer you for Easter or Passover.

We have a 151 quart portable cooler. Equipped with heavy-duty handles on each end, and with enormous capacity, you can move your party to wherever the mood takes you. Picnic at the park or beach? No problem.

When severe weather changes your event, forcing you to use “plan B,” it can ruin more than your mood. To help our customers who are faced with these difficulties, there is a website that has gathered several articles on dealing with extreme weather and event planning. You can find it here. Although the site is geared more to corporate events and meetings, the basics still apply to our private customers and caterers. We hope you find them useful.

Below is a snippet from Rental Pulse magazine, which highlights the importance of the ARA and ARAM for the events industry. ARAM is the Massachusetts division of the ARA.

ARA member strongly considering a run for Congress

Steve Anthony Colangelo, president of American Event Rentals in Stockton, Calif., is strongly considering a run for California’s 9th Congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives.

Colangelo has served as chairman of the American Rental Association’s (ARA) Government Affairs committee, but has resigned his position with the committee in order to avoid any potential conflict of interest while he explores the possibility of running for office. He also will not be attending ARA’s Legislative Caucus this year.

“Steve has been very active in state and national politics through his volunteer leadership with both the ARA of California and ARA. He’s served on the ARA of California board of directors and on ARA’s Government Affairs committee, serving as chair of the 2012-2013 committee. We never want to lose a leader like Steve, but it was necessary for him to step down, so that both Steve and ARA are fully compliant with federal election rules should he decide to run,” says John McClelland, ARA’s vice president of government affairs. “We very much look forward to working with Steve in the future and we wish him well.”

As the weather becomes warmer, we would like to remind our customers about our popcorn machines. They are a tabletop model, and very easy to use. We can provide written instructions upon request. We also offer the popcorn supplies, such as popcorn bags and the popcorn itself, for a separate charge. We recommend that customers use the popcorn that we supply, as the heating element reaches temperatures that scorch most cooking oils.