Steve Whysall will appear at Potters on Saturday, December 6  from 11 – 12:30 p.m. with his new 2009 gardening calendar. A Year in the Garden with The Vancouver Sun’s Steve Whysall is chock full of beautiful photos and monthly tips on how to keep your garden looking great all year long. The calendar retails for $11.95 and will be available for sale at Potters starting December 6th. Hurry in to Potters 192 to get  your signed copy for the special gardener on your Christmas List!

Check out Steve Whysall’s  article about our Christmas Store in the Vancouver Sun here.

1) The machine that loads bulk products like bark mulch and top soil into pickup trucks at the 72nd and 152nd store is called what?
A/ Armadillo B/ Gazelle C/ Mountain Lion D/ Bobcat

2) During the month of December, the 72nd Ave. and 152nd stores generally only sell one Christmas-related product. What is it?
A/ Plastic Elves B/ Life-size Santas C/ Christmas Trees D/ Tobacco & Firearms

3) Gale Heisler of the 192nd store has a famous plump little dog with a pushed-in face named Harley Joe… what breed is Harley?
A/ Rhodesian Ridgeback B/ Pug C/ Bulldog D/ Irish Wolfhound

4) There is a well-known B.C. steakhouse right next door to the 152nd store, what is the name of that restaurant?
A/ Tony Roma’s B/ The Keg C/ Black Angus D/ Sizzler

5)What does the ad guy wear on his head?
A/ ball cap B/ paper bag C/ sunscreen D/ toupee

6) What store houses a full size bull elephant?
A/ 152 B/ 72 C/ 192 D/ none of them (are you nuts?)

7) Regular shoppers of the 152nd store noticed that there were a number of renovations that occurred over the winter… these were not actually planned renovations… what was the reason we had to make these repairs to the front of the 152nd store?
A/ Hurricane B/ Flood C/ Somebody Sneezed Really Hard D/ Car Accident

8. What event goes on every Oct at our 72nd Ave store that 15,000 people line up for?

A/ Staff wet t-shirt contest B/ ½ price Viagra sale C/ Halloween haunted house D/ senior’s chess competition

9) What television network stole our peacock symbol that we use on our Potter’s logo?
A/ NBC B/ CBS C/ TBS D/ CBC

10) Our large selection of Pottery comes from all over the world. Which of these countries does our pottery NOT come from?
A/ Mexico B/ China C/ Vietnam D/ The People’s Republic of Liberia

11) Who are the stars of our T.V. commercials?
A/ movie actors from LA B/ people we found on the street C/ loyal customers like you D/ staff and family who are still waiting to be paid

12/ What large Scandinavian company stole a line from one of our pottery commercials? (Hint: “Start the car…”)
A/ The Bay B/ Ikea C/ Zellers D/ Daniadown

My psychiatrist says there’s a difference between ignorance and apathy, but I don’t know and I couldn’t care less.

Sandy W.
Surrey

Check out our newest TV commercial.  During the commercial one of the actors
 knocks over a planter.

How to Enter Our Contest:

Scoll down to the “leave a reply” section at the bottom of this page and be one of the first 15 people to correctly name the 2 plants in the planter that gets knocked over, and we will mail you a $25 Gift Certificate – valid at any Potters store.

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