Business Beat: Clear Light books has a new location
12/1/2008
The business is offering a 20 percent off storewide sale.
Clear Light features a wide selection of books, posters, cards and gift items.
The books come from 250 local and regional publishers and cover such subjects at Native American, Hispanic and Southwestern culture, children's books, cookbooks and more.
There is a special-order desk that makes it possible to order any book in print.
The owners of Clear Light Book Gallery are the husband-and-wife team of Marcia Keegan and Harmon Houghton, who also own Clear Light Publishing, which started in 1988.
Clear Light Book Gallery is open Tuesday thorough Saturday from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m., with special events taking place Thursday evening from 6 to 8 p.m.
For more information, call 989-9590.
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pdbean Coffee House is turning 2 years old at its newest location and would like everyone to help celebrate.
Tuesday, Dec. 9, marks two years since pdbean Coffee House opened at 2411 Cerrillos Road, next to India House Restaurant. pdbean has been in operation since January 2000 in various locations.
To celebrate, owner Dan Hogan will sell brewed coffee for 75 cents a cup Monday through Wednesday Dec. 8-10.
On Tuesday, the actual birthday, a daylong drawing will occur with gifts and prizes valued at $400. In addition, every fifth customer using the newly opened drive-through window will receive a pdbean travel mug.
For information or carry-out orders, call 473-9092.
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BTWW, a Cheyenne, Wyo.-based specialty retailer of Western apparel footwear and work wear, may be going out of business, but that won't affect the firm's Western Warehouse store at Santa Fe Place.
That's because the local Western Warehouse has been acquired by Boot Barn, a retailer based in the city of Orange, Calif.
In the new Boot Barn, which will receive its new name in the first quarter of 2009, "we will focus on western wear with additions to our work product," said Amy Intabinet, Boot Barn's marketing director.
"I don't think a customer will be able to notice the difference," she said. "Boot Barn is very excited to be in the Santa Fe market and be a part of the community and bring the Boot Barn brand to New Mexico."
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The Social Security Administration has good news for Social Security and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries starting in January — they will receive a 5.8 percent increase in their benefit payments.
The 5.8 percent increase is the largest since 1982 and is based on the rise in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers from the third quarter of the prior year to the corresponding period of the current year.
The average retired worker will receive $1,153 per month in Social Security benefits in 2009, up from $1,090 in 2008.
Those who are considering retirement should visit Social Security's Retirement Estimator, which is available online at www.socialsecurity.gov/estimator.
"The attractive new feature of this calculator is that it eliminates the need to manually key in years of earning information," according to Social Security.
For other questions about Social Security, visit the "frequently asked questions" page at www.socialsecurity.gov.
Bob Quick covers the business beat for The New Mexican. Call 986-3011 or e-mail bobquick@sfnewmexican.com.