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EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Anita Thompson 425-313-6442
athompson@costco.comfrom the editor’s desk
MANAGING EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR
PUBLISHER Ginnie Roeglin
EDITOR David W. Fuller 425-313-8510 dfuller@costco.com
MAGAZINES BOOKS
T. Foster Jones 425-313-6748 Tim Talevich 425-313-6759 David W. Fuller
Tod.Jones@costco.com ttalevich@costco.com
ONLINE EDITOR
David Wight David. Wight@costco.com
ASSOCIATE EDITORS AS I WRITE THIS, I am looking out over the red rock
Lorelle Gilpin, Ottawa 613-221-2009 Lorelle.Gilpin@costco.com walls of Snow Canyon in southern Utah, having just
Sue Knowles, London 011-44-1923-213113 sknowles@costco.co.uk hiked four miles down the canyon. Nature in one of
Raymond Kyunghwan Kim, Seoul 82-2-2630-2703 khkim@costcokr.com its most stunning outfits surrounds me: wide blue
ASSISTANT EDITORS tephanie E. Ponder, Seattle sponder@costco.com David W. Fuller is Assistant sky, red mountains, sage flora. For me—an inhabit-
Jessica Jihye Han, Seoul jhhan@costcokr.com Vice President, Publishing, and ant of urban, often grey, generally moist Seattle—my
REPORTERS Editor of The Costco Connection. few days in the arid glory of the great Southwest have
Will Fifield wfifield@costco.com been an adventure.
Steve Fisher Steve.Fisher@costco.com Yet, as I review this month’s story on Sir David Attenborough (page 30), I am in
COPY EDITOR Miriam Bulmer awe of the adventures this man has experienced and the relationship he has sustained
CONTRIBUTORS Richard Deitsch, Peter Fretty, Wendy Helfenbaum, Susan Hirshorn, Harvey Mackay, with the natural glories of our world. And I am reminded of another great lover of
Shana McNally, Angela Pirisi, Brian Quinlan, nature, American novelist Wallace Stegner, who wrote that the significance of wilder-
Marc Saltzman, Stephen Smith ness is not that we are able to hike or ride through it, not even that we have access
ART DIRECTOR Doris Winters dwinters@costco.com to it. Wilderness is important as a concept. Just knowing that there are wild places
ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR untouched by man allows us to breathe a bit more freely and let our imaginations
Lory Williams lwilliams@costco.com run more widely.
GRAPHIC DESIGNERS
Ken Broman, Bill Carlson, Grant Collier, Susan Detlor, Sir David has been expanding our knowledge of these places in his half century
Chris Rusnak, David Schneider, Dawna Tessier, Brenda Tradii of exploration and broadcasting. He has shown us the crucial value of the unspoiled,
PRODUCTION MANAGER Pam Sather, Seattle going to great lengths (with such technology as the heli-gimbal, a helicopter-cam-
ASSISTAN T PRODUCTION MANAGER era stabilizer) not to disrupt the very wildness he would have us preserve. Like
Antolin Matsuda, Seattle other great explorer/communicators before him—the 19th century’s Alexander
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR von Humboldt, radio and Cinerama pioneer Lowell Thomas, undersea adventurer
Elaine Emond, Ottawa
COLOUR TECHNICIAN Jacques Cousteau—Sir David Attenborough has made vivid to armchair travellers
MaryAnne Robbers, Seattle mrobbers@costco.com and lovers of nature the imperative of not just understanding but preserving that in
ADVERTISING MANAGER nature which is strange, wondrous and wild. C
Jane Klein Shucklin 425-313-8277 jshucklin@costco.com
ASSISTANT ADVERTISING MANAGER
Kathi Tipper-Holgersen 425-313-6581 ktipper@costco.com
ADVERTISING COORDINATORS
Viviane Pellerin, Ottawa 613-221-2195 Viviane. Pellerin@costco.com
Deborah Lipman, London 011-44-1923-830481 Steve Trump, Seattle 425-313-6969 from the associate editor’s desk
ADVERTISING / PROMOTION COPYWRITER
Bill Urlevich Lorelle Gilpin
BUSINESS MANAGER Janet Burgess
CIRCULATION MANAGER
Rossie Cruz 425-313-6715 rcruz@costco.com
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ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
D. Ted Harris 425-313-2937 dtharris@costco.com
The Great Savings coupon handout, valid March 3
MARCH IS BABY month at Costco, and with a new
baby in the family (my niece), it has become a much-
anticipated event.
COSTCO CANADA HEADQUARTERS
to 9, features diapers and wipes, a ThermoScan thermom- Lorelle Gilpin is Assistant
(Faisant affaires au Québec
sous le nom Les Entrepôts Costco)
eter and a booster seat. In addition, you’ll find a glider Vice President of Marketing,
415 West Hunt Club Road, Ottawa, ON K2E 1C5
rocker with ottoman, a crib and changing table, car seats Costco Wholesale Canada.
Fax: 613-221-2283
and more during baby month at your local warehouse.
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For even more selection during baby month and all year
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long, visit www.costco.ca. Everything from bedding to toys is available on-line for your
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shopping and gift-giving convenience.
March is also the official end of winter or, on a more positive note, the beginning of
spring. It is time to pack away the snow shovel (knock wood) and bring out the garden-
The Costco Connection is published by Costco Wholesale. All edito- ing tools. Our warehouses and Garden Centres (opening mid-April in select warehouse
rial material, including editorial comments, opinion and statements locations) are stocking up on everything you need to get your garden prepared to receive
of fact appearing in this publication, represents the views of the a wide selection of annuals, perennials and trees (see story on page 62).
respective authors and does not necessarily carry the endorse-
ment of Costco Wholesale or its officers. Information in The Costco This year, extend your indoor space outdoors with Costco’s patio furniture collec-
Connection is gathered from sources considered to be reliable, but tions, featuring outdoor dining sets with coordinating sectionals and gathering/chat sets.
the accuracy of all information cannot be guaranteed. The publica- tion of any advertisements is not to be construed as an endorse- All collections available in the warehouses are made with Sunbrella fabric, which is both
ment of the product or service offered unless it is specifically stated stain and fade resistant. Add an island cooking grill to your patio and your outdoor
in the ad that there is such approval or endorsement. Products space is complete. (For more about the island grill favoured by our buyer and Sunbrella,
advertised may not be available at all locations at the time of publication. Publishing offices are located at 415 West Hunt Club Road, see pages 58 and 62.)
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