European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ida March 2007 stars and stripes Page 19 Bill Murphy the Providence i Tony Giardino 93 better known As Tony the Barber gives a haircut to Richard kerb one of Giardino customers for 54 years loyalty keeps Barber in business at age 93 by Tom Meade the Providence i journal Pawtucket i customer loyalty is the subject of Busi Ness books weekend workshops and executive seminars experts in sales and marketing say win Ning loyalty is far More profitable than acquiring Market share Tony Giardino is doing both the 93yearold business owner has been serving Many of the same customers for More than 50 years two Brothers have been his customers for 70 years and four generations of another family have been coming to his Barber shop for decades he has won Loy Alty and now he is going after Market share buying the Busi Ness of his longtime Friend Joseph Torrisi the Barber shop is the last place where men Are Loyal the last bastion says Bob a customer of Tony the Barber who asks that his surname be withheld a transplanted new yorker Bob has been coming to Tony for about three years Ever since Giar Dino moved to Torrisi shop just Over the Providence line Tony the Barber is Here announces a sign in the window inside the shop is As it has been for decades although it oper ates differently it had always been a Walkin place Joe didst believe in appoint ments says Giardino he didst even have a phone in trying to switch to appointments Only its better for me and better for the customers they dont have to wait in april 2004 a fire ignited in a neighbouring business and Tore through the shop Giardino had run since 1950 Joe Torrisi a competitor invited him to rent a chair in his shop in Pawtucket Torrisi installed the window sign announcing that Tony the Barber is Here and Giardino customers followed when Torrisi fell ill Early this year Giardino offered to buy the business and his Friend accepted the offer he has broadened his customer base with the addition of Tor Risis regular clients and they keep returning the key to such customer loyalty i have a conscience period Giardino says i do a 100per cent Job for everyone mennonites fleeing to to avoid Graven images by Alan Scher Zagier the associated press Huntsville Gro cer the Butcher a Cabinet maker and several other members of the towns mennonite Community Are planning to move to Arkansas Over a Missouri requirement that All Drivers be photographed if they want a License the mennonites a Plain Liv ing sect whose members Are Simi Lar to the Amish but usually More worldly say the 2004 Law conflicts with the biblical prohibition against the making of Graven images we want to respect our govern ment were not trying to fight them but we still have our beliefs said Ervin Kropf a bearded Overall wearing grocer whose Market draws customers from Miles around for the fresh milk Brown eggs and spices supplied by his fellow mennonites Kropf said he is looking to sell his store he said if he cannot find a buyer he will stay in Missouri but rely on someone else to bring in his supplies because he will not be Able to hold a Drivers License without agreeing to a photo around Huntsville Community members say More than a dozen families altogether Are preparing to move South to Arkansas where state Law offers a religious exemption to the photo requirement other mennonite enclaves near Rolla Springfield and Vandalia Are facing a similar dilemma Missouri had an exemption Sim Ilar to Arkansas for More than 30 years that changed in the Security crackdown after sept 112001 now those who object to the subscriber appreciation Coupon just hand this form to your Carrier before april 10 2007 to enjoy immediate savings Nam email delivery address Billing address prepay save up to payment options Check one 3 month save 6 month save 12 month save your Carrier is an Independent business person please Reward Good service of base delivery charges May apply Dod and sofa Home delivery Only your Hometown newspaper signature i yg2ht total and churches in Missouri outnumber Arkansas More than three times As Many mennonite congregations Are in Missouri than in Arkansas Pennsylvania has the most mennonite congregations 2000 source association of religion data archives a photo requirement can have their pictures left off their licenses but the photos must remain on file with the state Many mennonites in Missouri find that acceptable and plan to stay put but there Are a Bunch of us who dont want to do that Kropf said some Community members Call their mennonite neighbors peaceful hardworking taxpayers wrongly ensnared in the govern ments War on terror this whole business of Home land Security is a farce said Joel Hartman a University of Missou Rico Lumbia professor of Rural sociology these people Are no threat whatsoever to the larger society several families have already left the state with others waiting to sell their Homes and businesses said Mark Price Randolph county recorder those planning to leave Huntsville include a Cabi net maker a Butcher and an excavator he said they Are pillars of the Community Price said unlike the Amish and Mem Bers of some other mennonite sects Kropf Kempf and their neighbors use telephones and drive cars though they paint the vehicles Black to make them less showy they eschew radio tvs and computers and dress in Sim ple garb men in overalls and Black shoes women in ankle length dresses and head coverings the men typically Wear beards extreme Dinosaur makeover 75footlong sauropod to be rebuilt by scientists in Wyoming museum the associated press Cheyenne Wyo in a makeover of extraordinary pro portions scientists have dismantled a 75footlong sauropod Dino Saur that roamed Wyoming 150 million years ago and will rebuild it to reflect the latest palaeontological research findings the Fossil display of the Plant eating apatosaurus that had dominated the University of Wyoming geological museum in Laramie for about 45 years will be worked on for a year and then returned to the museum in 2008 according to Brent Breithaupt director of the us museum its basically like extreme Home makeover Only this is extreme Dinosaur makeover Breithaupt said wednesday everything from the tip of its nose to the tip of its Tail the apatosaurus Fossil is one of Only six on display in the world he said the us Fossil display is about 60 percent actual Bone unearthed in the Early 1900s 70 Miles North of Laramie with the rest of the display cast from holds the display was Assem bled in 1960 by us professor Samuel h Knight who died in 1975 we will be Able to add some of the dinosaurs Bones that professor Knight didst have at the time to improve the displays looks such As posing it with its Tail in the air instead of dragging on the ground Breithaupt said