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Black Friday Free Gift Certificate Sale at Pittsburgh’s Best Day Spa ESSpa Kozmetika Organic Day Spa, 17 Brilliant Avenue Aspinwall, PA 15215, announces its “Black Friday” Gift Certificate Sale scheduled for 4am Friday November 23rd, the Day After Thanksgiving 2007.

Early morning Black Friday sales events are not typically associated with a high-end, luxury day spa. After dozens of red-eyed, fur-coated spa guests lined up in the cold pre-dawn darkness last November 2006, ESSpa owner and former Hungarian model Eva Sztupka-Kerschbaumer decided to make “ESSpa Friday” an annual event.

This year Eva will also offer complimentary champagne, roasted marshmallows, s’mores, gourmet coffee, croissants, mimosas and plans for a live band to keep spirits bright. Such an unusual event is sure to draw hordes of intelligent shoppers from their turkey-induced slumber as they make their way to ESSpa’s beautiful spa located just 8 miles north of Pittsburgh in Aspinwall, PA.Voted by numerous publications as Pittsburgh’s “Best Spa” in 2005, 2006, & 2007 and selected by the USGA as The Spa Services Provider for the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont CC, ESSpa Kozmetika Skincare is highly-regarded amongst Pittsburgh’s well-to-do. But Mrs. Sztupka-Kerschbaumer wants to make her ultra-effective skincare treatments available to all those potential customers who may never think of visiting a spa.

ESSpa will open at 4 AM on Friday, November 23rd, (The Day After Thanksgiving) and offer Complimentary “Buy One Get One Free” Gift Certificates to the first 100 customers through the door.

“Growing up in Hungary, a visit to the spa was part of our regular grooming routine as we rarely went to see a doctor.” explains Eva, who looks like a young Bridget Bardot, “Here in America, people regard spa treatments as an expensive luxury when in fact they provide significant health benefits.

It is my goal to offer traditional Hungarian skincare to as many people as possible, from infants to great-granparents. Our Black Friday Gift Certificate Special will help accomplish this task while allowing me to give something special back to those guests who have supported us. And what a great way to start your Holiday shopping.”

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NORTH CAPE MAY – When Donna Wise-Kelleher passed away Oct. 15 from a brain aneurysm, she left behind three children and a husband and a huge hospital bill.
Self employed as the owner of Salon Allure Beauty Salon here, she had no medical or life insurance.

A benefit has been scheduled Sunday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Serenity Day Spa, 3704 Bayshore Road in North Cape May, located next to Little Italy II.

Donna Reed, owner of Serenity Day Spa, told the Herald, salon owners and employees from throughout the area are uniting for the event. She said Wise-Kelleher passed away suddenly at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital following emergency surgery and a week in intensive care.

“On Sunday, we have people volunteering their time from various salons from Cape May to Absecon,” said Reed. “We have hair stylists coming in, we have nail technicians, aestheticians doing skin care, massage therapists doing massage and foot reflexology.”
“Every single penny that comes in is being donated to the family,” she continued.

In addition, businesses are donating food, gift baskets and gift certificates for the event.
Reed invites the public to get haircuts, manicures, polish changes, facials, pedicures, waxing and massage. She said at the very least, she hopes to raise enough money to offset funeral expenses.

Wise-Kelleher and her husband Marc had three children, Sophia, age 5, Hanna, age 7 and Christopher, age 14.
Free food and beverages will be available. Other fund raising activities include a Chinese auction and 50/50 cash drawing.

For information call 609-889-6900

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As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is currently being observed, the staff at the Parisian Day Spa, Cromwell, CT devised a multi-pronged plan to encourage the spa’s customers, as well as local businesses, to take part in a fundraising effort that so far has paid off handsomely. “This is something that the staff came up with on their own; it was just something that they wanted to do,” explained Patricia Barbaro, co-manager of the spa, which is located at 9 Berlin Road.Once they had agreed on a goal, it was nothing for the staff of 45 to begin laying the foundations for the fundraiser, which was held at the spa this past Sunday. 

“We went around to local businesses, to ask them would they be willing to donate,” Barbaro explained. They reached out to a full range of businesses, she said, everything from car detailing to local restaurants that donated gift certificates. Other businesses contributed supplies or merchandise and the women from the spa fashioned gift baskets with those donations as well as others containing spa products, Barbaro said. “We had a silent auction this past Sunday, from 12 to 4,” Barbaro said, with 100 percent of the proceeds being donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. “We raised $3,200,” a clearly pleased Barbaro reported.In addition to the auction, the spa also offered special fundraising treatments as well on Sunday, Barbaro said. 

“We had the staff offer chair massages, mini massages and paraffin hand treatments, and we charged our customers $1 a minute. And we also were offering mini-makeovers,” which came to an average of $5 to $10 per service, Barbaro said. The staff also offered to donate various services, which were raffled off to customers “so they can come in and have the services for free,” Barbaro said. “It’s our way of way of saying ‘thank you’ for coming in.”The staff hasn’t tallied up the proceeds from the raffle, or from a jeans day, in which the staff paid to wear blue jeans to work, so that’s not included in the $3,200, Barbaro said. Neither, she said, are the proceeds from the continuing sale - for $1 each - of handmade milk chocolate pink ribbons, the symbol of breast cancer awareness. 

The candies are being made by Barbaro’s fellow manager, Michelle Salafia.When the entire fundraising effort, which runs the entire month, ends next week, Barbaro said, she hopes - and expects - to raise between $4,500 and $5,000.“We are proud of ourselves,” Barbaro admitted, and also thankful to the numerous businesses “that donated food and pastries, so we had food and coffee and pastries and wine for our clients who came in.”“We had a lot of great support from local businesses and from our staff,” she added. And it’s continuing, she said. But, undaunted, she is already looking forward to next year, when, she promises, the spa will hold another fundraiser - and, she vows, “We will top” what they made this year 

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TECATE – The luxury spa Rancho La Puerta expects to reopen Saturday after a fire ripped through a portion of the property, destroying three guest houses. Co-founder Deborah Szekely said the historic center of the ranch, which includes a library, dining rooms and landscaping, remains untouched.

The ranch, on the outskirts of Tecate, Mexico, will close 40 of its 87 rooms temporarily to replace roof tiles and windows, said general manager Roberto Arjona.

Resort employees used La Puerta’s water trucks and firefighting equipment to fight the fire Monday, Arjona said.

They were joined by 13 Mexican firefighters, he said.

“I have no doubt that if we hadn’t been prepared, the ranch would have been in bad shape,” he said. No one was injured.

Meanwhile, binational cooperation continued yesterday as Tijuana prepared to send four fire units and about 30 firefighters to work in the Escondido area, Tijuana Mayor Kurt Honold said.

The fire damage in Baja California has been light, and six fires that have consumed 46 acres were under control, said Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada, Mexico’s environment secretary

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The Great Escape Day Spa, located at 420 E. Jackson, will hold its grand opening Nov. 8-10.
 
Open since Sept. 5, the spa offers a full-service hair salon, including cuts, colors, perms and updos. It also provides manicures and pedicures, facial and body waxing, facial massages and body wraps.

The Grand Escape staffs a wide range of specialists that perform the variety of treatments. There are two hairstylists, one massage therapist and two nail technicians who double as estheticians.

“Each person that works here is licensed in (his or her) field,” said Jill McCamant, owner, nail technician and esthetician at Grand Escape. “You won’t come in and get four treatments from the same person.”

Grand Escape also offers a wide range of high quality hair and beauty products. The hair care lines currently offered include Redkin, Biolage and Crew for Men, with possibly more to come. The face and body care products are by Dermalogica, a non-comedogenic professional skin care system that can only be acquired from account holders. Mirabella mineral makeup can also be purchased from the salon to provide a more luminous complexion.

The spa will be having its official grand opening Nov. 8-10. To celebrate, there will be free makeup applications with any $50 purchase of makeup and some specials regarding makeup.
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