TRIP / Twice as Nice
TRIP stands for Tuition Reduction Incentive Program.
The program uses the services of a certificate broker organization. This organization purchases gift and merchandise certificates in large quantities at a discount from major food and retail chains. As a school organization, we are able to buy these certificates at the discount but in smaller quantities to sell at face value, thereby raising funds for families of our school. Your "rebate" ranges from 1 to 15% percent of the certificate value. "Rebate" percentages are subject to change without notice.
The certificates can be used, for the most part, just like cash or a cheque at the participating stores. Certificates have an expiration date varying from 6 months to 4 years. Some stores limit the amount of change that can be returned from a certificate purchase (see individual certificates). Do not expect any change unless it is explicitly stated so on the certificate.
Below you can find the TRIP forms in PDF format.
Anytime Order Form - This order form is dropped into the TRIP Box or called in and filled daily.
Long Form Order - This order form is dropped into the TRIP Box Monday by 9:00 a.m. sharp, and filled and delivered by 3:00 p.m. Fridays.
Recurring Order Form - This order form is droipped into the TRIP Box box and filled according to your needs.
|
Twice As Nice is a little shop at 313 Victoria Avenue in Thunder Bay, opened Monday - Friday from 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM.
It opened in 1997, when Ben Postuma was in a landfill site one day and was appalled at the garbage bags he saw that were full of clothing, and he thought they could be put to some good use and sold to make money to offset the costs of education at our local independent Christian-based school. Tuition fees to attend Thunder Bay Christian School range from $2,250 - $12,875 annually for each of the 75+ families from approx 16 denominations.
The store is committee run, formed under the authority of the Thunder Bay Christian School, and with over 100 people needed each month to help with the store’s operation, from sorting bags of generously donated clothing to working at the store.
About four times a year the store is cleaned, and most of the clothes removed and loaded into tractor trailers and taken to Barwick, Ontario, all with donated labor and transportation. Here members of the Conservation Mennonite Gospel Mission wash, repair, and pack the used clothing into containers. It is then sent to overseas to disaster areas in Russia, or wherever it is needed. The clothes are sent directly to churches where they are distributed to the needy, not where they can be used in the black market.
2009/2010 Tuition:
The cost is based on a family rate and there are tax incentives. The fees are as follows.
Junior Kindergarten only: $2,250.00: 12 monthly payments @ $ 188.00
10 monthly payments @ $ 225.00
Senior Kindergarten only: $5,700.00: 12 monthly payments @ $ 475.00
10 monthly payments @ $ 570.00
K-Grade 8 only: $9,500.00: 12 monthly payments @ $ 792.00
10 monthly payments @ $ 950.00
Highschool only: $9,500.00: 12 monthly payments @ $ 792.00
10 monthly payments @ $ 950.00
Highschool & SK-8: $12,875.00: 12 monthly payments @ $1,073.00
10 monthly payments @ $1,288.00
Whether you choose the 12 or 10 month payments schedule, the payments begin July 1, 2009.
Please mail postdated cheques to bookkeeper before July 1, 2009.
Note: If you are using TRIP Program adjust July cheque by amount of TRIP credit you have
accumulated by June 2009. This information will be available the last day of school. (June 20/09)
Alternate Payment Schedule
If you require an A/P Schedule for the 2009/2010 school year, contact the school office for a copy.
New schedules must be completed before July 1, 2009. Last year's A/P schedules do not apply to
the new school year.
Every family is guaranteed a tax receipt for the membership portion of tuition. Part of your tuition may be eligible for a tax receipt which is based on the total number of students. The trip program is available as an effective and simple way to reduce tuition payments. Further details to outline the tuition program can be obtained by calling or e-mailing the school office.
Back to the top
|
|
