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Show Thursday, April 24, 2008 Page 4 OREM TIMES WHO'S WHO AND HAT'S HAPPENING 1 ' i Jim ----- ' - 1 t- Tim We'iand Collin Lye and Taylor Weiland slum off some of the sipm created by First Class Signs. First Class Signs helps cheer on athletes Rette Speight First Class Signs was invented invent-ed to cheer on the less-popular, but just as talented high school athletes. "We have five kids, and not all of them are into the popular sports like football and basketball." basket-ball." said Tim Weiland. the owner of First Class Signs. Weiland and his wife. Amy. were living in Chicago when they noticed large, medallion-looking signs hailing the local high school's athletes and sports teams. "It was just a normal part of the city." said Amy. "As soon as an athlete reached the varsity team, they got a sign in the school-yard It's just how it happened." Upon moving to Utah however, how-ever, the Weilands didn't see any signs. Which was weird, said Tim. because surely Utah parents loved their children just as much as Chicago and other family -friendly cities across the nation. I he Weiland s first son participated in traditional and popular high school sports, but struggled to find w ays to get their other children in the spot light since not all of them were necessarily into sports at all. "He got the typical praise of applause and popularity." Amy said. "But then our second sec-ond son was more into other sports that wasn't as spectator friendly, but we didn't want him to feel like he was in the shadows. And we're not ones to complain without a suggestion." sugges-tion." So the Weilands came up with a solution: make him a sign. Now they are making them for anybody who asks. First Class Signs makes circular cir-cular yard signs with 15-inch and 23-inch diameters, as well as a 6-inch version decal for proud drivers. The signs celebrate cel-ebrate everything from sport3 to graduations to missionaries coming home to babies being born. The company has been open for less than a year and has high hopes for the home- First Class Signs Web she: fcsutah.com (contact Tim Weiland, owner) Products include: S39 for a 15-inch diameter sign $59 for a 23-inch sign $10 for a vinyl car decal Prices vary for rentals run business. In addition to purchasing signs. First Class also offers signs for rent which include an "enormous" main sign with several smaller ones dotted across the law n around the main one. "Over the top is what we're going for with the rentals." Amy said. Although the company was started with personal justifications, justifica-tions, the Weilands feel that their idea will be very popular in Utah, if only they could reach the parents of activity participants. Reaching the parents of students has been a difficult endeavor, since any advertising in school media doesn't always make it to the hands of the parents. The Weilands are hoping to spread the trend of parental support by yard medallions through Utah, and are now working on advertising techniques tech-niques to get their product into the hands of their target audience. audi-ence. "We really want these to be more than yard signs." said Tim. "When the signs are taken tak-en out of the yard, we want the kids to be proud of them, and hang them on their walls." Sleepy Ridge clubhouseoffice suites in Orem The Links at Sleepy Ridge is building a 40.000-square-foot clubhouse and office suites in Orem. A ground breaking of the $5 million clubhouse was held on Monday. Mon-day. When completed, the three-story clubhouse will include in-clude a Magleby's restaurant and offer amenities including a full-service pro shop, snack bar, golfer's lounge and tournament tour-nament room that will service ser-vice banquets and wedding receptions. The clubhouse will also offer class "A" office of-fice space for conference rooms and an oasite exercise room with private lockers. Running with Angels laspired and hosted by Pam Hansen who overcame obesity and turned personal tragedy into triumph, the Running with Angels 5K RunWalk will take place May 17 at Thanksgiving Point. Sponsors include Deseret Book, Harmons. Intermountain Utah Valley Val-ley regional Medical Center, Cen-ter, Meadow Gold FM100. Rhodes YourLifeImages.com and reminder band. Proceeds of the event go to Women's Services at UVRMC in Provo. Registration Reg-istration is being taken at Runner's Corner in Orem. 800 S. State St.; phoned in at 801-357-735. www.running-withangels.com. www.running-withangels.com. by mail at Intermountain In-termountain University. 1 134 N. 500 West. Ste 204. Provo. Utah. 84604. Registration includes in-cludes a T-shirt, water bottle, wristband, food and drinks at the finish and prize giveaways. give-aways. Packet pick up is May 16. 4-7 p.m. at UVRMC. Clark Auditorium or at the starting line beginning at 6:30 a.m. Sale and cake cutting to culminate Restores first birthday Habitat for Humanity of Utah County will celebrate the first birthday of its Re-Store Re-Store Home Improvement Outlet with a big sale and cake cutting this weekend The sale will be held Friday Fri-day and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the retail location at 626 N. Freedom Blvd. in Provo. Customers will receive a 10 percent discount dis-count on all purchases and free popcorn and balloons. A birthday cake cutting will also be held Saturday at 11 a m. All interested community commu-nity members are invited to attend this celebration event. Habitat for Humanity of Utah County is a nonprofit, ecumenical organization and is one of more than 2.100 affiliates of Habitat for Humanity International. Affiliated Af-filiated in 1991 by a group of local community members that were concerned about substandard housing in the county, the organization has built and or renovated 28 homes providing more than 44 aduhs and 95 children safe and affordable housing. The affiliate is currently building and renovating homes in the ProvoOrem area To donate or for further information, please contact Rick McBride at (801) 373-7867. 373-7867. Women of Worth Lehi Area Chamber of Commerce President Heather Heath-er Miller said she wants to remind members and business busi-ness owners of the "Women of Worth Hats Off to You" on May 15 at the Tahi-tian Tahi-tian Noni Headquarters, 333 River Park Dr., Provo, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Registration for the conference con-ference is being taken online at lehiareachamber.org. Cost is $30. All attendees are encouraged en-couraged to wear a hat to the conference and donate it for cancer victims. The conference will feature fea-ture Matt Townsend of Marriage Mar-riage Matters. Dr. Leslie Ingersoll of IHC Hospital, a panel of 4 women: Jeanette Jones, Jeanette Bennett, Rene Rioux and Rebecca Merrill. Miss Utah Jill Stevens, Ste-vens, known as GI Jill, will be the final speaker. "The conference not only include these wonderful speakers but also amazing business booths, a delicious lunch, a hat parade for charity char-ity and you," Miller said in her e-mail. 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