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Empower In Middletown, Connecticut

08-07-09
George Souto
George Souto: Mortgage Company in Middletown, CT

Empower in Middletown, Connecticut is a new business in town which offers a fun, team building, and action packed activity for all who dare to participate, and take the challenge that they offer. Empower in Middletown, Connecticut uses a Zip Line Course, which consists of 5 Zip Lines to engage individuals or groups in developing self confidence, and stronger relationships with others, through different programs designed for:

  • Friends & Family
  • Group Outings
  • Teambuilding Teambuilding
  • Leadership Development
  • Personal Leadership

Empower in Middletown, Connecticut trys to teach team building and self confidence through one or all of the following.

  • Traversing suspension bridges 40 feet in the air
  • Climbing cargo nets up into the tree tops
  • Zipping from tree to tree, obstacle to obstacle
  • Cruising the northeast’s longest, fastest zip line
  • Orienteering scavenger hunt

Empower in Middletown, Connecticut is located on RT 17 just before Durham. Connecticut. I stopped by there this week and was very impressed with what I saw, and will be suggesting it to our Youth Leader at Church as an activity for our Youth Group.

I do not like heights, but after looking at the safety measures that Empower in Middletown, Connecticut takes and the steps to ensure a safe and rewarding experience, I might even give it a try.

The course takes about an hour and a half to two hours depending on the size of the group. As I was there a group was just coming back from finishing the course, and they all felt that it was fun, exciting, and created a deeper bond between them.

I would encourage anyone going by Empower in Middletown, Connecticut to stop in and check out for yourself the Zip Line Course and ask questions of the staff. This promises to be one of those life experiences that you will talk about for many years.

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Info about the author:

George Souto is a Loan Officer who can assist you with all your FHA, CHFA, andConventional mortgage needs in Connecticut. George resides in Middlesex County which includes Middletown, Middlefield, Durham, Cromwell, Portland, Higganum, Haddam, East Haddam, Chester, Deep River, and Essex. George can be contacted at (860) 573-1308 or gsouto@mccuemortgage.com

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08-06-09
George Souto
George Souto: Mortgage Company in Middletown, CT

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Info about the author:

George Souto is a Loan Officer who can assist you with all your FHA, CHFA, andConventional mortgage needs in Connecticut. George resides in Middlesex County which includes Middletown, Middlefield, Durham, Cromwell, Portland, Higganum, Haddam, East Haddam, Chester, Deep River, and Essex. George can be contacted at (860) 573-1308 or gsouto@mccuemortgage.com

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08-02-09
George Souto
George Souto: Mortgage Company in Middletown, CT

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Info about the author:

George Souto is a Loan Officer who can assist you with all your FHA, CHFA, andConventional mortgage needs in Connecticut. George resides in Middlesex County which includes Middletown, Middlefield, Durham, Cromwell, Portland, Higganum, Haddam, East Haddam, Chester, Deep River, and Essex. George can be contacted at (860) 573-1308 or gsouto@mccuemortgage.com

Stone Post Gardens, Middletown, Connecticut

08-01-09
George Souto
George Souto: Mortgage Company in Middletown, CT

After you have purchased your beautiful new home in Middletown, Connecticut, and gone to Smith & Bishel for your new locks, paint, and all the tools and supplies that you will need to prepare you house for moving in. You will next want to go to the Stone Post Gardens in Middletown, Connecticut to get plants and flowers to spruce up the outside of your beautiful new home.

The Stone Post Gardens in Middletown, Connecticut, is located right on Randolph Road, RT 155. At the Stone Post Gardens in Middletown, Connecticut, you will find all of the plants and flowers that you are looking for to make your beautiful new house standout from all the others in the neighborhood.

The Stone Post Gardens in Middletown, Connecticut is a family owned and run business by the Eddinger Family. The Eddinger’s started growing plants for customers on their property in 1992, when their oldest son Matthew at the young age of 15, use money that he had saved to purchase a greenhouse. Since then his four brothers, his mother Bobbi, and father Rich have been helping him run the business.

By 2003 the business was growing more and more, and had out grown the greenhouse that Matthew had bought. It was time to move to a new location, and that location would be the main throughway in the South Farms area of Middletown, Randolph Road, RT 155.

It was at this point that the business became known as the Stone Post Gardens in Middletown, Connecticut. At first the new and bigger greenhouse was a plastic structure, but it enabled the Eddinger’s to increase what they were growing and offering to the public. As you can see from this picture, the flowers and plants are outstanding, and whatever you are looking for you will find here. The Stone Post Gardens became so popular and grew so quickly the plastic greenhouse was soon replaced with the structure you see today.

When you step into the Stone Post Gardens in Middletown, Connecticut, you quickly experience what the Eddinger Family strives to create, “a unique and enjoyable shopping experience where customers can see how to use plants in their individual gardens”. The Eddingers grow over 120,000 plants, and every plant is grown by the Eddinger’s in greenhouses that have been built on their Farm on Chamberlain Road in Middletown.

Once you have visited the Stone Post Gardens in Middletown, Connecticut, there will be no question that you will come again, especially during the holidays to buy a plant for that special person in your life.

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Info about the author:

George Souto is a Loan Officer who can assist you with all your FHA, CHFA, andConventional mortgage needs in Connecticut. George resides in Middlesex County which includes Middletown, Middlefield, Durham, Cromwell, Portland, Higganum, Haddam, East Haddam, Chester, Deep River, and Essex. George can be contacted at (860) 573-1308 or gsouto@mccuemortgage.com

Smith & Bishel Hardware In Middletown, Connecticut

07-30-09
George Souto
George Souto: Mortgage Company in Middletown, CT

When I do a Mortgage Loan for a Borrower, one of the first things that I always advise them to do is to replace all of the locks on their new house as soon as possible, and the place that I tell them to go to is Smith & Bishel Hardware In Middletown, Connecticut. They can go to one of the big boys like Home Depot, or Lowe's, but non of those places will give them the type of personal and professional service like they will get from Scott Bishel at Smith & Bishel Hardware In Middletown, Connecticut.

Smith & Bishel Hardware In Middletown, Connecticut is probably the oldest business in Downtown Middletown. Smith & Bishel Hardware was started by Scott Bishel's Great, Great Grandfather in 1898. For those of you who have a hard time doing math, that is 111 years that this family owned and operated business has been around.

Smith & Bishel Hardware In Middletown, Connecticut is not only the place to go to get your new locks for your new home, it is also the place to go for your paint, tools, and other hardware necessities. Smith & Bishel Hardware In Middletown, Connecticut is especially a great place to go for those hard to find items, like special nuts & bolts, you name the size and shape and they have it.

You will even find things there like corks and faucets for wine barrels since Middletown was the home for many Italian immigrants, making your own wine was very popular, and Smith & Bishel Hardware catered to their needs. And that is exactly what Smith & Bishel Hardware In Middletown, Connecticut does, they cater to peoples needs.

One of the things that I have found Smith & Bishel Hardware In Middletown, Connecticut especially good for is special tools that you just can't seem to find anywhere else. But living in an older house the need for special wrenches and other odd ball items are needed more often then I would care to admit. Scott Bishel is also a professional Locksmith, and I have found the need for his services more than once.

Smith & Bishel Hardware In Middletown, Connecticut has been and will continue to be one of my go to places for hardware needs, and one of the first places that I will continue to tell my Borrowers to go visit.

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Info about the author:

George Souto is a Loan Officer who can assist you with all your FHA, CHFA, andConventional mortgage needs in Connecticut. George resides in Middlesex County which includes Middletown, Middlefield, Durham, Cromwell, Portland, Higganum, Haddam, East Haddam, Chester, Deep River, and Essex. George can be contacted at (860) 573-1308 or gsouto@mccuemortgage.com