News & Views from Draper, Inc.
Here’s an interesting guest post from Randy Reece, our AV Regional Sales Manager for the southwest US, and manager of our California office. Digital Signage is everywhere. In just a few short years signage displays have become so commonplace that we all expect to be informed, whether in a bank, retail store or restaurant. Many…
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One of the most popular tourist attractions in our immediate area is the Hoosier Gym in Knightstown, IN. In 1985 two of my mother’s dearest friends, Peggie Mayhill and Josephine Carter, learned that Angelo Pizzo was looking for a venerable high school gym for his movie Hoosiers. They encouraged him to visit Knightstown’s 90-year-old crackerbox gym.…
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Now that I’m recovering from seeing white dots and peering through the fake fog…the LDI Lighting and Design Show is as strong as ever. Traffic in Vegas is up, and many came to our booth with a positive outlook. Looks promising for a strong upcoming year. I was glad to have the opportunity to show…
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Another successful AV Week has passed at Draper–this year with a bit more fanfare. We invited over 100 of our local vocational students to visit us in Spiceland, IN. We had pre-engineering, graphic design, computer operations, and marketing students. Break-out sessions were led by Draper employees with experience in these fields. Roy Smith, Senior CAD…
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It’s time for AV Week again, and we’re doing things a bit differently this year. In 2011, we sent a group of Draper employees to meet with different classes from our local vocational school. This year, they are coming to us, the Mecca of projection screens. For those of you that have visited Draper before,…
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Every year my town has a summer celebration, called Jubilee Days. It is a great opportunity to see old friends, catch up on the local details, and rediscover why I like to raise my family here. Every once in awhile the town decides to change the set up of our celebration, which causes the town…
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There has been a lot of press state-wide and national about the Cinderella team of the 2012 Little League World Series, the New Castle All-Stars, representing the Great Lakes region. On a beautiful Friday summer night, an estimated 1,500-2,000 supporters from the community joined together to watch a baseball game. It was a great atmosphere…
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New Castle, Indiana is like so many other small towns. It is not quite as obscure as Spiceland (population 800), where Draper is located, but it’s not exactly well known either. For all of you sports fans out there though, our 11-12 year old Little League Baseball team changed that last Friday. For the first…
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Wow, record heat in many parts of the United States. Indiana is part of that–much of our state is dealing with drought conditions. The good news is this past week we have seen a little rain, and great temperatures in the 80’s. Maybe Fall is coming! Actually, yes, fall is coming! The Draper Rental Reload…
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Every year Draper mines the employee pool for children and grandchildren looking for temporary, summer employment. We had 21 hires this summer, and our department, Audio Visual Sales, had the pleasure of working with Samantha Smith. Samantha just graduated from high school and will be starting college later this month. Her plan is to attend…
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