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Show 4 vsx$r Dont spill the beans! Chamber: Help is 1TV LOEWS out there FARMINGTON Financial, technical and educational aid available for businesses City seeking safer sidewalks The safety of children and is the key behind Farmington City Council's recent application requesting $22,600 in state pedestrian safety funds for sidewalks on State Road 106 from about 500 N. Main Street around the S curve near the Farmington Creek bridge. The city received a HUD grant for $100,000 to improve the area. Farmington City added an additional $45,000. Shoulder widening in the area has taken more funding than expected, said Max Forbush, city manager. Farmington is spending well over $50,000 more of its own funds to construct sidewalk improvements in south Farmington as part of last By AMY PRAY pedestrians Standard Examiner Davis Bureau S t HILL AIR FORCE BASE -Help is out there to make businesses bigger and stronger -they just need to find it. The North Davis Chamber of Commerce hosted a luncheon seminar for its members called The 10 Best Support Programs for Businesses, addressing available financial, technical and educational assistance. r,The chamber touched on various topics during previous meetings, but Chamber Chairwoman Julie Snowball said Thursdays lineup was the first comprehensive collection of support pro- grams provided to chamber i members. Especially information on what kind of loans are out there, other help, for small businesses or ones just starting up, she said after the seminar Thursday at the Officers Club. Those are the people who dont have the time to go out and research all the information themselves. Plus, this is information that everyone can use. Several representatives talked about the most popular topic -money. Northern Utah Capital works with the Small Business Administration to offer 504 loans to businesses Tcady to grow and expand. Spokesman Bob Richards said it businesses can healthy, apply for the loan, which is used to buy or improve land and property, renovate existing buildings or install new equipment. Businesses end up, on average, responsible for only about 10 percent of the costs up front, Richards said. Also available is the Davis County Revolving Loan Fund, providing reasonably priced financing - up to $100,000 - for prosperous, growing companies that want to expand. Layton is developing a similar program for land developers to begin next spring, said Layton Economic Development Specialist Tom Chnstopulos. It will be used to promote large infrastrucbuildture projects and high-ris- e ings. Several organizations and departments from Weber Slate University offer free or reduced-fe- e training programs to business leaders and their employees. Ernie Perkins from the Davis Applied Technology Center said more than 300 companies also tram through his facility. Ilcxible instructors and training schedules, plus state supported and funded training are keys to his programs success. We train when you want it, where you want it and how you want it ... we work around your for-prof- See CHAMBER, 8 years pedestrian safety grant," said Forbush. AMY NEWMAN THE WAITING IS THE HARDEST PART: get Beanie Babies. -- LAYTON She boils cup over a from a lighted piece of cardboard rolled up in a tuna can. She skewers hotdogs on a pitchfork for campfire roasting hamand grills burgers on her cur's manifold After seven miles you stop, hfl the hood, and when an officer stops to see if you need help, you just tell him, 'No, thanks, I'm just flipping my burger. Turn it over, drive another seven miles, and your hamburger is ready." TV perThat's author sonality and be hen Dion Thomas talking Thomas talks, people listen, not just because she delivers several laughs per minute, but because wax-cover- well-know- n i Forbush. Collectors of Beanie Babies swarm store to buy treasures City to increase By LORETTA PARK Building fees in Farmington are going up. The city council voted to conceptually authorize the staff to prepare a formal resolution increasing building permit fees. According to the proposed schedule, permils would increase 6 8 percent and fees would increase 4 6 percent, making an overall increase of about 10 percent. Most of our Bones, Quacks, Stripes and Hippity were just a few of the Beanies that waited patiently on the shelves for owners. The Standard Examiner correspondent YRACUSE-Th- ey con- fess they are addicts. They admit they do not understand the attraction them- selves. But like addicts, they wait almost impatiently for their dealer to open her doors so they can get their next fix. Those who arrived before 9 a m. felt lucky because they had the first tickets to admit them in the small store. At precisely 1 1 a m. last Thursday, Debbie Bird opened the doors of her small gift shop to about 35 people who gathered to buy her shipment of Beanie Babies. Bird, owner and manager of Cottage Treasurers in Syracuse, received her largest shipment of the small bean bag animals. Bird heard horror stories of customers stampeding other stores when the Beanies arrived. She heeded a customer's advice and put one customer, Debbie I ett, in charge of handing out numbers to regu-Id- te how many people were m her small store. 1 ett was one of the first customers to arrive and gave herself No. 4. On the shelves were 39 styles of Beanie Babies. About 1,400 Beanies were available. Within an hour there were only half as many. Almost all of the retired Beanies (those that are no longer being manufactured) left m ijn orderly fashion, with checks. shoppers gingerly picked up the Beanies ot their choices, carefully inspected each one for flaws and also checked the tags for creases, bends or other minor imperfections that would devalue them m the secondary market. Most of the shoppers said they buy them for either their children or their grandchildren. Several admitted they buy the small stulled animals to trade with others. Then there were a few who did not understand the adult fascination with toys. Suanne Dougherty of I fill Air 1 orcc Base said she has heard horror stones of adults shoving and hitting at other stores when Beanies have ar- much-in-dema- Speaker serves up many zany ideas for family fun By D LOUISE BROWN Sunuard Examiner correspondent of her non-stopresentations of zany, delightful ideas for family fun. Describing herself m one word, she says, I un" then adds, It's time to have fun!" Thomas addressed a large crowd at the Sixth Annual Women's Conference entitled Seasons of Life" Saturday, sponsored by Davis Hospital and Medical Center and Lakeside Review. Her appreciative audience reacted with laughter and applause to many of Thomas suggestions for savoring life. Thomas taught that having experiences with others is what brings people together "Watching is not the same as doing," she said Doing things together and having fun connects souls " Thomas stressed repeatedly purchased the toys by the dozens. credit cards and cash used to bail them out of the store. Most customers spent $70 or more. "1 think we sold more Beanies than a doctor can deliver babies in a lifetime," Bird said after the first hour passed. Bird let the shoppers into her store by fives. She did not want to nsk any of her other merchandise being broken by a stampede. Most of the shoppers understood. One or two grumbled Taking about having to wait their turn. But there were plenty of Beanies for everyone. Some of those waiting for the doors to open said they have paid as much as $50 for a Beanie. But Bird sells them for under $7. She said Ty Inc., the makers of Beanies, are cracking down on those who have contracts with them. T he stores are not supposed to sell the Beanies for the secondary market prices. rived. It is so sad people are so obsessed with this toy. T hese arc toys nude for children, Dougherty said. She was buying Beanies for her nieces and nephews who could not find them in Arizona and Washington, D C. Kristie Karren and Melissa Kimbulk stopped at the store to buy Mother's Day gifts. They promised those waiting outside the store they would not buy one Beanie if they were allowed in. The shoppers watched the pair See TOYS 2 a spill p See THOMA&8 building fees work load is in building design," said Max Forbush, city manager. On a residential building valued at $200,760 the Building Permit Fee would increase 472. The proposed increase is in line with the International conference of Building Official (ICBO) valuation schedule and the recently adopted 1997 edition of the Uniform Building Code. Layton Rain postpones fire station opening Maybe nature's trying to tell west Layton they don t need a fire station as long as the rams keep falling to drench the area. A grand opening for the new fire station under construction at 550 N 2200 West has been postponed at least twice because the ground s been too muddy to pour concrete for driveways and finishing touches. Officials set the latest opening date to June 17. Earlier estimates shot for April or May openings If it stays as soggy as it was this weekend, though, who knows when sirens will sound, said Layton Fire Chief Allan Peek. This rain sure doesn t help at all, said Peek, who is anxious to move his headquarters to the new station and more quickly serve tbe west side of town Every bit of ram we get pushes us back he said Coming It s a mess, Saturday Hes tops in flowers Clearfield man wins award from florists group Read about it in the next Lakeside Review PAINTING THE HIGHWAY THE HARD WAY: Tow truck workers hook up a paint truck after it collided wth another car at the intersection of 5 and US 1 93 in Clearfield on Monday afternoon The paint truck was carrying several buckets of latex pnmer, which were cleaned up with a firehoc9 1 sV ?OOR COPY Standaid Examiner Marquee Mclain, 5, of Layton anxiously waits outside Cottage Treasures in Syracuse for a chance to go in and These improvements will greatly benefit children walking along this dangerous route and these extra expenditures are for improvements on state highways. The percentage of pedestrian volume in the area is 51 to 75 percent school-ag- e children from 5 to 18, said H ' |