The Barber Shop

March 11, 2010
This months member meeting will be held here at The Boiling Springs Barber Shop on Highway 9. Memebers and those considering membership are all invited. The BSBA is considering many different thoughts on how the association can come together to in new and creative ways to stimulate local business. Come be a part of this conversation.

Products for Good
In the spring of 2003, coalition forces in Iraq were called upon to secure the banks in Basra, Iraq. The soldiers found three forms of currency in the banks: 1) US currency that was ultimately used to inject into the Iraqi economy, 2) Iraqi paper currency that was burned, and 3) Iraqi coins that were melted down for scrap metal content....with one exception.

A group of British soldiers led by Captain Chris McGinley & Reservist Robert Brannagan found a collection of brilliant un-circulated Iraqi coins that were decommissioned by Saddam Hussein at the end of the first Gulf War. Captain McGinley and his men came up with a brilliant idea, and obtained all permissions necessary to auction off those coins in London and use the proceeds to rebuild an orphanage in Basra (pictured above left) that had been destroyed during Saddam’s reign of terror. Saddam’s coins were sold, the orphanage in Basra was rebuilt, and the miraculous story of the coins was only just beginning.... Read More