Bibelot gift shop adds consignment clothing
Many consignment stores are busier than ever in this economy. Now even Bibelot gift shop is joining in. Its Como store (2276 Como Av., St. Paul, 651-646-5651, www.bibelotshops.com) is accepting women’s fall/winter clothing in excellent condition. Used clothing (up to 12 items) can be brought to the Como location only. Consignors will be notified within a week if items have been accepted. The new ReWear department is expected to open in mid-July on the second floor.
Bibelot should be applauded for adding consignment as part of its "reuse, recycle, refresh" mission, but it’s disappointing that customers will receive 50 percent of the resale price in store credit, not cash or check. Store credit is more valuable at Bibelot than at many consignment-only shops,discount tiffany, but it seems fair to offer more than 50 percent if it’s the only option. Bibelot marketing manager Katie McNamara Howie said the store chose 50 percent after researching the resale industry.
Nordstrom targets men
Just in time for Father’s Day Sunday, Nordstrom’s half-yearly sale for men starts Friday (Mall of America, Bloomington, 952-883-2121, www.nordstrom.com) with savings throughout the department. In the past,tiffany necklaces, it’s been disappointing to see the amount of "special purchase" merchandise brought in, a trick that outlet stores have been using for years. A retailer as revered as Nordstrom ought to save special purchases for its outlet, the Rack. Nordstrom’s department stores have been performing better in a strengthening economy, so the Racks aren’t getting as much "primo" stuff from the full-price stores this year. Shop accordingly.
Garage sales go monthly
American Cancer Society discovery sales (next to Home Depot,tiffany pendants, 6731 Boone Av. N., Brooklyn Park, 651-255-8716, www.cancer.org/mndiscoverysale) continue monthly in lieu of the annual garage sale in October. Occasional sales are a great idea if people can remember to show up. The crowds at the monthly sales so far this year have been less than expected. That’s good news for bargain hunters hoping to beat the crowds.
This month’s sale runs through Saturday and June 24 to 28. Admission is free, and anyone can get 10 percent off if you bring a friend. Items include furniture, housewares, art, kids and adult clothing, new jewelry, small appliances, lawn and garden, sporting goods,tiffany money clips, building supplies and tools. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
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Brenda Edwards carefully sorts through a pile of used baby clothes, weeding out the pieces too worn or stained to resell. It’s a process she goes through often at her "upscale resale" shop to make sure her customers are getting the most for their money.
After five years in a location on 16th Street in Sedalia, Edwards recently relocated her business, New To You Thrift Store, to a space on West Ninth Street.
Edwards was a stay-at-home mom prior to opening the thrift store and credits her daughter as part of the inspiration for launching her business endeavor.
She said as her daughter got older, it got tougher to find clothes for her at a resale store.
"This town needed a place that carried more sizes," Edwards said.
Edwards found a building to rent, took the plunge and has been running her own thrift store business ever since.
"I enjoy the people and it’s something I like to do," she said.
New To You specializes in "gently used" clothing for women, men and children, as well as some new clothing for teens.
"People thought I was just a kids’ store. That’s a misconception. We carry adult clothes too," she said, pointing out a sign in her window advertising extra big sizes for men.
But New To You offers a lot more than just clothing, Edwards said.
She also offers her customers new items such as Avon products, perfumes, colognes, lotions and jewelry.
Other items available at the store include purses, shoes, DVDs, videos, scrubs, maternity clothes and children’s play clothes.
"I look at almost anything. Most is used but there is new stuff,tiffany rings, like the clothes teens like to buy," she said.
The thrift store operates mostly on trade, Edwards explained, and new items are constantly coming in. Customers can bring old and unwanted items and trade for store credit. The credit can be used for up to a year toward any type of merchandise,tiffany money clips, Edwards said.
"It’s hard for me to say no, but there are certain things you don’t want used," she said.
Prices on resale items are reasonable, Edwards said, pointing out that a pair of "gently used" jeans may cost around $6 or even less, but some may be more depending on the brand, she said.
Edwards has noticed some new faces in her shop along with her regular customers, but said business so far has been about the same since the move.
"But of course we always want it to be better,tiffany pendants," she said. "I rely a lot on word-of-mouth."
With the stumbling economy putting a vice grip on many household budgets, Edwards believes more people are looking for ways to save money wherever they can and she believes her business is a way people can do that.
"This is something you can cut back on. You can’t cut back on food or insurance,tiffany key rings," she said.
New To You Thrift Store is located at 1716 W. Ninth St.
Summer hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays. Call 829-4998 for more information.
Most people are aware of the slogan "reduce, reuse,tiffany pendants, recycle" when it comes to bottles, cans and other waste,tiffany key rings, but a Roseville, Minn.-based company is trying to spread the word that the same motto applies to clothing.
USAgain takes donated second-hand clothing and shoes and sells them by the pound to thrift stores.
Two places in Eau Claire, New Generations Child Development Center, 2821 Fairfax St., and VFW Post 7232, 2900 Folsom St., have USAgain donation receptacles.
USAgain CEO Janice Bostic said the for-profit company’s mission is a combination of eco-friendliness and a desire to help those in need.
"We saw it as a business opportunity that at the same time can benefit the environment and other people as well," Bostic said. "I think people are familiar with glass and plastic,tiffany bracelets, but they’re not familiar with textile recycling and the volumes of clothing that go to waste."
USAgain pays the places that host donation boxes pennies on the pound for donations. The company has about 800 donation boxes in Twin Cities and recently expanded to Wisconsin.
About half of the donations go overseas to those in need, Bostic said.
Debbie Monson, bar manager at the VFW, said the money paid to the VFW for donated textiles will go directly to its charities.
"It’s a win-win situation," Monson said.
Veronica Allen, owner of New Generations,discount tiffany, said she agreed to have the donation bins because her business is moving toward a "greener" philosophy.
With her business located at the busy intersection of Fairfax Street and Skeels Avenue, Allen said she expects many donations.
"A lot of people catch the bus there or pass by to go to the pool or the mall," she said.
It may be tempting for many to throw old clothing away, but Bostic said she hopes people in the community will see the value of donating.
"It’s a little bit more inconvenient than the kitchen trash can," she said. "But we hope people will make that effort."
Hanson can be reached at 715-830-5832, 800-236-7077 or rob.hanson@ecpc.com.
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The Shiki Theatre: Natsu echoed with the sound of applause as a specially selected audience was treated to a preview performance of "Beauty and the Beast."
With brilliant lighting and buoyant rhythms, the beauty and her beast returned to the stage in Japan 15 years after their first performance. But the Shiki Theatre Company’s real star was its new theater, translated as Shiki Theater: Summer.
The summer theater offers more accessibility and comfort by increasing seats for visitors in wheelchairs and providing special rooms for families with young children who may cry during the show.
Children who are too small to watch the performance from the adult-size chairs can also borrow cushions to sit on.
The Shiki Theatre Company’s "Beauty and the Beast" is a harmonized mix of its actors’ explosive dynamic musical performances and visually appealing stage design.
The company chose this particular show as it appeals to both children and adults.
"When considering the first performance choice,tiffany earrings, we opted for ‘Beauty and the Beast’ because that was the drama most demanded by our customers," said Nobutsugu Uchida, a Shiki Theatre Company spokesman.
"Beauty and the Beast" will be performed until Nov. 30 at Shiki Theatre: Natsu in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward. Tickets cost Yen 3,tiffany bangles,000-Yen 9,800. For more information and schedules,tiffany rings, call (03) 5776-6730 or visit www.shiki.gr.jp (English available)
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Elma town Councilman Dean S. Puleo pleaded not guilty Friday in West Seneca Town Court to a second-degree har assment count filed by an ex-girlfriend during a bitter breakup.
Puleo, 50, who operates his own law practice on William Street in Cheektowaga, is accused of pushing Kristin L. Puleo, 37, about 10:30 p. m. June 11 outside his Main Street home in Elma after she arrived to retrieve some of her belongings,discount tiffany, according to Erie County sheriff’s deputies.
The Puleos,tiffany rings, who are not related,tiffany bracelets, lived in Dean Puleo’s home for about 18 months before their relationship soured. They reached an agreement June 1 in which Kristin Puleo would move out June 7 in exchange for $3,tiffany necklaces,500.
On June 3, Kristin Puleo filed a report with sheriff’s deputies alleging that the Elma official "slapped and threatened to kill her." Although she didn’t press charges, she sought an order of protection through Family Court, which she later found out was "unenforceable."
On June 5, Kristin Puleo said she was locked out of the house while she was at work. Dean Puleo text-messaged her that she could gather her belongings "at a later date."
That led to the June 11 confrontation.
"If this happened to me, it’s just going to happen to other women," Kristin Puleo said. "I just wasn’t raised to walk away when stuff like this happened."
The allegations were denied by the Elma official on Friday.
"I don’t want to sound wishy-washy, but I’m somewhat afraid of her — she’s violent," said Dean Puleo, who said Kristin Puleo has "stolen things from me . . . smashed my wristwatch and hit me."
The Elma official said he also has filed police reports with the Sheriff’s Office to get incidents on record but didn’t want to file criminal charges.
About the June 11 confrontation, Dean Puleo said that when she arrived at 10:30 p. m., an argument ensued between her and "a friend" of his.
The Elma official said he kept his distance during the ordeal.
"The accusations [of pushing her] I completely deny," he said. "I have never laid my hands on her — ever."
So, what gives?
Kristin Puleo said her ex was "physically and verbally abusive" on several occasions and has a "history of violence."
Dean Puleo accused his ex of breaking his property and rifling through his office and personal possessions.
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," he said as he left court Friday evening. "It’s simply a relationship that went bad and she’s not taking it well."
Meanwhile, West Seneca Town Court Judge Dale J. McCabe said an order of protection was unnecessary in the case Friday because both parties are currently avoiding each other.
The next court session is scheduled for Aug. 13.
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An Orlando man strangled a cat and beat up his girlfriend after he claimed to see ‘demons’ late Wednesday night, police said.
Christian Rizk, 37, is facing several charges including domestic violence and cruelty to animals following yesterday’s attack. He is being held without bond at the Orange County Jail.
Police were called to an apartment in the 1900 block of S. Conway Road around 8:30 p.m. after the man’s girlfriend called 911. She told officers Rizk came home from work in an "altered state of mind" and called her a slew of bad names before strangling a cat and beating her up,tiffany, a report shows.
The girlfriend told police Rizk has a mental condition and was not taking his medication. He’d also been known to cut himself in the past, according to Rizk’s arrest affidavit.
Rizk disconnected the telephone, turned off the lights and told his girlfriend and her son that they were "Satan and demons and that they were dead meat," a report states. At that point,tiffany cuff Links, he picked up the family pet, a cat,tiffany pendants, and strangled it, the victim told police.
After strangling the cat,tiffany earrings, he kicked his girlfriend in the stomach and pushed her into a wall. She ran from the apartment and asked a neighbor for help to call 911.
Rizk threw the cat to the floor in the hallway and wouldn’t let his girlfriend’s son leave the apartment, the report said. The child later told police he was scared during the incident.
When police arrived, the apartment door was shut and locked, forcing officers to break down the door.
Rizk was locked inside the master bathroom and refused to come out. Police needed to check his well-being since he had a history of cutting himself, the report said.
Officers were forced to knock down the door to the bathroom. They used pepper spray, stunned him three times and finally had to use their batons to get Rizk to comply with their orders, the reports said.
Rizk was taken to jail where he remains behind bars.
Bianca Prieto can be reached at bprieto@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5620.
A deputy disciplined for sex acts with another man while working off-duty is under investigation again after his ex-boyfriend accused him of domestic violence.
Orange County Sheriff’s Office investigators confirmed Master Deputy Bryan Villella, 46, is the focus of an internal-affairs criminal investigation — his third since 2002 — but declined to explain the details until officials conclude their probe.
Angel Joel Carrion, who lived with Villella for four years, filed a petition for a temporary domestic-violence injunction Feb. 18.
Orange Circuit Judge Sally D.M. Kest denied the request until Carrion and Villella meet before her at a hearing March 2.
Carrion said in court documents that Villella forced him to "clean the blood, my own blood, at gunpoint" after a beating in 2008.
Villella’s anonymous sexual encounters and online conversations in gay-sex chat rooms often sparked much of the violence, according to court records.
"He likes to be in control and wants you to be submissive," Carrion said. "He would hit me on the side of the head because he used to say it doesn’t leave a mark."
Villella could not be reached for comment.
Carol Wick, chief executive officer of Harbor House, Orange County’s only shelter for victims of domestic abuse, said domestic violence among same-sex couples is on the rise.
"We are seeing quite a few of these cases involving [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] couples," Wick said. "But there is still some hesitancy to report them because law-enforcement officers usually categorize it as domestic-violence battery unless the victim tells the officer they are gay."
Harbor House does not track cases by sexual orientation. It provided outside help to 576 men in 2009, and four of those identified themselves as transgender, Wick said.
Although Carrion is working with the Sheriff’s Office in the investigation, he wants to forget about Villella. "He has cost me so much humiliation among my family and friends," he said.
Villella,tiffany key rings, a 25-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office,tiffany pendants, has faced previous allegations of domestic violence. and sex.
The first allegation of domestic abuse came to light in 2001. His ex-wife, Helen Mackenzie,tiffany money clips, served Villella a temporary domestic-violence injunction, alleging physical abuse during their five-year marriage.
During the Sheriff’s Office inquiry of that case, authorities could not confirm her accusations but said "it is clear Villella and Ms. Mackenzie have a history of domestic disturbances."
In 2002,tiffany necklaces, Sheriff’s Office investigators disciplined Villella for "unbecoming conduct" after his ex-wife called the Orlando Police Department to report that he had deposited more than $500 of her money into his personal account.
Documents in that case show his supervisors took 40 hours from his pay and concluded that Villella’s actions "clearly brought discredit upon himself and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office."
Sheriff’s officials docked 150 hours from Villella’s pay and placed him on one year of disciplinary probation in 2009 for having sex with a male guest in a Royal Plaza Resort conference room while working off-duty security during Gay Days.
Walter Pacheco can be reached at wpacheco@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-6262.
If she could do it again, she would have saved her baby.
That was the theme of Jessica Krsul’s interview Saturday at the Bay County courthouse. Krsul’s 2-year-old daughter,tiffany cuff Links, Haleigh Marie Cain,tiffany rings, was murdered by Krsul’s boyfriend, Dennis Creamer, in December of 2008. Creamer was convicted of felony first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse by a 12 member jury Friday night.
Circuit Judge Dedee Costello will decide if he gets the death penalty at an as-yet scheduled sentencing hearing. Krsul and her mother, Carla Krsul, said they both want him to die.
"My daughter’s dead and he’s still alive and that’s not fair,tiffany bracelets," Jessica Krsul said. She added that if she thought, "in a million years," that Creamer was capable of such an act he would not have been invited into her home or around her daughter. Jessica Krsul’s mother, Carla Krsul, said she hates Creamer with "every thread" of her being.
"I would tell him that I hate him and he disgusts me," Jessica Krsul replied when asked what she would say to Creamer now. "I’m very sorry I ever met him."
Jessica Krsul got drunk and blacked out the night of Dec. 6, 2008 and did not realize that the man she loved and trusted was down the hall from her hitting and kicking her child, she said. She added that it was understood that Creamer would be the one to care for Haleigh on the night the baby died.
"If I ever had a child again I would not do drugs or get drunk and think that I can trust somebody with my child." Jessica Krsul said "I wasn’t there for Haleigh when she needed me the most."
Carla Krsul called Creamer’s killing of her granddaughter the "ultimate betrayal," and added that if she had only known what he would do she would have stepped in before it happened.
"I never suspected that he was just an evil, evil monster," she said.
Creamer’s attorney,tiffany earrings, Assistant Public Defender Kim Dowgul, tried to convince the jury that it was Jessica Krsul who really killed Haleigh. Jessica Krsul said she was shocked when Dowgul started pointing to her as the real killer. No one had suggested she could have done the crime until the trial, she added.
"He had to have a defense," she said. "I’m sorry I ever put (Haleigh) in that situation. I’m sorry."
Creamer performed two video reenactments at the request of the Bay County Sheriff ’s investigators. On the first video he said the slaying was an accident. On the second video he said he beat the baby to death. The second video was thrown out and not shown to the jury. On the first video Jessica Krsul is there with Creamer. She is pale and rocks back and forth almost uncontrollably.
At trial Dowgul said Krsul’s actions on the tape and some of the physical evidence in the case proved that Krsul killed her own baby. Also during the trial Krsul said she was not sure how her DNA got on two items that also contained Haleigh’s blood.
On Saturday Krsul said she was nervous during the reenactment but not because she had done something wrong. She was nervous because she knew Creamer had done something and she did not know what, she said. She was nervous because she was standing near him as he confessed his sins, she added
"It was really hard to stand in front of him," she said.
Jessica and Carla Krsul also thanked Costello, the jury, the State Attorney’s Office and the investigators with Lynn Haven Police Department and the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.
Krsul said she thinks about Haleigh every day and every night before she goes to sleep.
"It’s hard to put your life back together," Carla Krsul said. "We want no one to go through what we went through."
Jessica Krsul has responded to this tragedy by staying off drugs and going to college, Carla Krsul said. She added that her daughter made the dean’s list. Krsul is studying criminal justice and said that she hopes that someday she can help other crime victims.
"Her going to school is how we’re honoring Haleigh," Carla Krsul said.
FORT LAUDERDALE Federal prosecutors dropped a bombshell in court Wednesday, saying they believe multimillionaire Ben Novack Jr’s widow not only played a role in his murder, but also in his mother’s death.
The April 2009 death of Narcy Novack’s elderly mother-in-law was not an accident — as initially determined by local authorities — but the result of a plot in which two men attacked her at her Fort Lauderdale home, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Elliott Jacobson.
He said federal authorities have eyewitness testimony to back up their contention that Bernice Novack, 87, was bludgeoned with a monkey wrench and left to die in her utility room.
Narcy Novack’s attorney called the claim that his client was involved in Bernice Novack’s death "completely baseless" and also reiterated her innocence in her husband’s death.
The stunning accusations came as Jacobson successfully fought an attempt by Narcy Novack to bond out of federal custody as she faces charges related to her husband’s July 12,tiffany pendants, 2009, killing. The prosecutor said she had stood by during the vicious attack on her husband of 19 years, cold-bloodedly urging his two killers to "cut out his eyes and finish him."
With both her husband and mother-in-law out of the way, Narcy Novack stood to inherit their estates, Jacobson said. Ben Novack Jr., whose father once owned South Beach’s famed Fontainebleau Hotel,tiffany money clips, ran an event planning company that took in about $50 million a year.
Narcy Novack, 53, now will be extradited to New York to face federal stalking and domestic violence charges related to her husband’s death there. Though she has not been charged with murder, she still could face life in prison.
No one has been charged in Bernice Novack’s death, but Jacobson said federal authorities are working with Fort Lauderdale police and the Broward State Attorney’s Office on the case.
The Broward Medical Examiner’s Office had concluded Bernice Novack’s death was the result of several falls. Fort Lauderdale police initially determined her death was an accident. Her son found her dead in a blood-soaked nightgown with her jaw and teeth broken.
But the Westchester County, N.Y., Medical Examiner’s Office reviewed evidence in Bernice Novack’s death and determined it was a homicide — that she had been struck multiple times, Jacobson said.
The prosecutor said that in the alleged plot to kill the elderly woman, Narcy Novack’s brother recruited two men. One of them snuck up behind Bernice Novack at her home and struck her with the wrench, Jacobson said.
Narcy Novack helped the killers by providing information about her mother-in-law, Jacobson said.
Jacobson did not go into details about the eyewitness testimony his office has gathered in the case. One of the men who attacked Ben Novack Jr. in a hotel room in the upscale suburb of Rye Brook, N.Y., has been cooperating with federal authorities and has pleaded guilty in a sealed criminal case, Jacobson said. That man is not identified in court documents by his name.
In addition, the second man who attacked Ben Novack Jr. — Joel Gonzalez — has confessed and implicated Narcy Novack in that crime, Jacobson said.
The killers beat Ben Novack Jr. with dumbbells, mutilated his eyes with a utility knife and bound him with duct tape, said Jacobson, a prosecutor from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
In addition to urging the killers to cut out her husband’s eyes, Narcy Novack handed them a pillow to place over her husband’s face during his final moments,tiffany bracelets, according to federal authorities.
A federal grand jury indicted Narcy Novack last week along with Gonzalez, 25, her brother Cristobal Velez, 56, and Denis Ramirez, 35, in connection with the killing of Ben Novack Jr. Velez and Ramirez are accused of having helped plan the attack.
Jacobson said cell phone records as well as hotel video footage support the government’s case against Narcy Novack in her husband’s death.
As Jacobson spoke in federal court Wednesday morning, Narcy Novack sat quietly in a blue jail uniform and listened.
The hearing was her attempt to bond out of federal custody before her arraignment in New York.
Her attorney, Howard Tanner, argued that she was not a flight risk because she had shown up to dozens of court proceedings involving her late husband’s estate. He also said prosecutors had failed to prove she posed a danger to the community.
U.S. Magistrate Robin Rosenbaum rejected his arguments,tiffany necklaces, saying the injuries to Ben Novack Jr. were "vindictive" and there was clear and convincing evidence she was a threat to others.
Following Wednesday’s courtroom drama, the Fort Lauderdale police and the Broward State Attorney’s Office referred all media inquiries to federal authorities in New York. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, where Jacobson works, declined comment beyond what was said in the hearing.
Broward Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua Perper said last Friday that Fort Lauderdale police had not formally notified him they had new information on the Bernice Novack death. However, Perper did say the department had put a "hold" on the case, which he said meant he could not discuss it or release any new information.
Perper could not be reached for comment Wednesday afternoon.
In addition to the criminal charges, federal authorities filed a forfeiture action last week to block Narcy Novack from having any interest in Ben Novack Jr.’s three houses, his car collection, his extensive collection of Batman memorabilia and a $1 million insurance policy.
One of Narcy Novack’s co-defendants, Gonzalez, 25, is scheduled to have a bond hearing Thursday morning in Miami federal court. The two other co-defendants — Veliz and Ramirez — were arrested last week in New York.
Jon Burstein can be reached at jburstein@SunSentinel.com or 954-356-4491.