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Show Sat/Sun/MonVTues, November 22^25, 2OO83 The Park Record C-8 Now FHA Approved! FROM $190s! ASK ABOUT $7,500 TAX CREDIT. Only Community in Wasatch County offering FHA Financing. Own a 1220 square foot, three-bedroom, two-bath condominium with minimum down payment The community features a clubhouse, swimming pool, walking trails, park, and a close-to-worfc location. A limited number of homes left in the Wasatch County Housing Program for qualified employees of Wasatch County. Come see if you qualify) Free Flat Screen TV or Washer/Drver or Refrigerator with purchase* 1067 So. 500 East, A-102, Heber Ask about Special Incentives. Restrictions apply. See us for details. ift entertaining, girt-giving< Save on holi return the plate. • Set a spending limit on gifts from your j&fcUrfutclosest friends, Holiday entertaining and gift- says Sara E^MfflnSttMhs frugal vilgiving can be expensive. Here are lage.net. Y^praEpKlo a secondhand gift exchange. Or only swap some ideas to trim costs: • Search estate sales and flea stocking stuffcrs. Noel and her hus•markets for inexpensive mis- band give each other the same matched dishes. They make the "favorite -tiflffl3B!?&Qh year. She perfect vessels for delivering home- gets a bd^pcfflBcffipitttes and he baked goodies to co-workers, chooses niift-k\wwtleses. friends and neighbors. Best of all, • Talk to your family about volthere's no need to ask them to unteering or giving charitable gifts BY HEATHER LALLEY For The Associated Press PARK CITY REAL ESTATE AND YOU Craig Reece, CRS PAY ATTENTION TO THE DETAILS Thi.- linlc (hingS'-budi positive and negative-can make a big difrervriLi: u> pro'ipective buyers who are interested in your home. Before you lisi your home, go through the house with a careful eye l:ix .my loose doorknobs popped screen doors, and loose grout around rhe nih am! Uumvi. A coal or troll p.iinr can work wonders to dress up a home. W.i>h ihe windows, lung a pretty plant from the bathroom skylight, .ind i Ic.iii our (he closets. Arrange the furniture to make the room look i.i'];ci. II the loom.-, look cluttered, put your extra furniture into storage. You c-.'.ti o'iiiliu-n Lip .1 loom by increasing [lie wattage or the light bulbs. ' ^linti iln >i.[i,i mile lo showcase your home will pay significant dividends when it's nine ro show it to buyers. The less imagination people must bring with (hem when rhey look at your house in the Park City area, the guaui voui rh.iiKVs ol helling your home quickly and for top dollar. I oi HK'K solid advice on buying or .selling real esrare, call Craig Recce ai 435-6-J7-K0I 7 or toll free at 1-800-553-4666. Craig has been a full time Park City resident since 1973 and a full-time real estate agent since lf)7R. Saddle-vie*, IMUcr Park ?:fio r ••, Aw-nui, IJldg D t j , . f:. -\\ L'T h-lUtn www.DeerVa I leySpeciallst.com Craig@DeerValleySpeclallst.com (435} 647-8017 • (435) 649-7171 (800) 553-4666 al and'^f . w registered service mgrv.sol The Prudential Insurance Company of al hOi.sm-3 opportunity. Each company independently ownod and operated. 185/65R-14 205/65R-15 195/B0R-15 205/55R-1B 205/65R-15 195/60R-15. 225/60R-16 205/55R-16 landscape mode on the crisp, bright screen, and photos can be " .,' viewed this way or in portrait mode. You can also check out the Portable media players are "Genius" feature, which helps you almost essential for any music, build playlists by taking one song video or photo fan - which could as a starting point and suggesting be just about anyone on your holiother tracks with a similar sound or day gift list. feel. Whether you're looking for a • IriverLplayer($70-$100) tiny player that can fit in a back If you like your portable media pocket or something with a larger players simple, affordable and fairscreen and memory capacity for ly bite-sized, irivers Lplayer will fit watching videos, there are plenty the bill. The sleek device comes of reasonable options. with 4 or 8 gigabytes of Hash memHere is a sampling of what is out ory, and its face consists only of a this season: bright 2-inch screen. You press the • Microsoft Zune ($139-5250) sides of I he screen lo control the It's no iPod, but good looks and device. At first, the controls were a a wide range of functions make the lillle confusing, but 1 found ihe simLatest Zune a nice, affordable media player. The device comes turning it on'nySlab while listening plicity appealing once I got used to with 8 to 120 gigabytes of memory, to music enables you to scroll it. and overall the player is fairly depending on whether you want through album covers. Or you am easy to navigate. Videos and photos flash memory or a hard drive. And shake it to sljufflp-Hongs. Be careflll look crisp on the tiny screen, and music sounded good. too. I also dug a $99, 4-gigabyte model that is the iriver software on the device, Nanos cun' f cCntfCfCs. may make it a being phased out is still available. The device sports a touch pad and bit slippery. Videos look great in which was uncluttered and simple. ake il easy and sharp screen V around-the; ;fun to fir player an1 nn all vour music. photo^M^'Ideos. One of its coolest functions is the ability to download music wirelessly from ice online music the Zune IV $$•15 per month store, and l for Zune Pass music subscription, you can also stream sonus over Wi-Fi. • Apple iPodNano ($149-$IW) The latd^jjittfiH^ano is longer and leanef-V.t^RfVUhe previous model, but -ketfjSsWc same 2-inch screen by turning il sideways. The device, which is available in an array of brighLcolors with 8 or 16 .R like the player itself. • XMp3 ($250. plus monthly i subscription fee) It has a slightly clunky interface, but Pioneers XMp3 might intrigue people who love the radio and want portable access to tunes. With a subscription (they run from $10 to almost $17 per month), you can listen to a wide variety of commercial-free XM satellite radio channels thai can be recorded for listening later or paused and played back live. The XMp3 also has a slot for microSD cards so you can listen^to your own music. And if you want to enhance the device's signal indoors, il comes with an external antenna that plugs into an included charging dock. The XMp3 comes with a remote control, too, so if you attach external speakers you can control n from a distance. I mostly jusi adjusted the volume, though, since the 2.2-inch screen is hard to read from more than a few feet awav. Low on cash? CH handmadeforthe holidays BY ASHLEY M. HEHER AP Retail Writer even more personalized and handmade gifts to find them- CHICAGO (AP) - The handmade and craft movement, "Thc ecoiiuflfy is' really hitting encouraged by an online coali- home and forcing people to think tion of do-it-yourselfers, is half a 'how can 1 keep this gift-gifting concerted effort to save money still really .aKnningful on a and half a desire to shun the in- tighter buddfeft'^.'-sJie said. "And your-face consumerism that personalizifitf^jfcdllUl giving that some people see as having led to gift of time aTO bur craft really is a nation that got used to living so much appreciated." .beyond its means. Whatever the So far this year, sales at the reason, observers say it's gaining four-year-{tifli^ta4ii)e handmade steam. Thousands of people have added their names to a holiday artists (o occSsioriaf craflers can petition online, promising to give sell their wares, are up to $64,? only items, they've made them r million, T,haj|/.s,jpore than dojublc selves or handmade items that last--yeaj'te'feroftlljuvn siilf.s figthey've purchased, while asking, ure. And <®^ffiw?Sit^f Michael's friends and family to do the Stores Inc. sSyMheir customer same. Notes one pledger: "When surveys showed that more than the economy is sour, let hand- half of respondents said they made rise to power." Another were more, j j k e l v i o make handcalls buying and giving hand- made gifts:™BflKS^tiian before. made items the "original eco-. nomic stimulus program." based chain trffipfifenth launched Joan Holleran, director of WhereCreativityHappens.com. a research at consumer research how-to Web site for customers, firm Mintel, said the handmade and is hol<^g|-.3fi^£kend workmovement is an extension of people's desire to simplify and who may bilr^S|ffl|fegifts for the seek control over their lives - first time. Meanwhile, the effort the combination of which has helps the store nurture its revcaused them to rethink gift-giv- enue stream when overall retail ing in recent years. sales are sl'fl?tf9i£But with the economy in tail"ConsumcS5Sr*fc much more spin, Holleran said she expected cautious abouf'Spending and I tf 205/B5R-15 215/B0R-1B. 225/60R-16 205/55R-16 paper. Stock up on inexpensive butcher paper or newsprint and let your young artists go to town with fingerpaints, rubber stamps,, even stickers. Each package will be a j one-of-a-kind. • Gel thrifty with decorations. n Use branches, pine cones, wire and fi ribbon lo create your own holidaywreaths. Let kids work on cut1"1 paper snowflakes (embellished^ with gliiter glue for extra sparkle)*"! or other decorations. .1 the musically inclined Gift, wishlist i BY RACHEL METZ AP Technology Writer to take the focus oTf of buying and wanting. Help out at a food bank or soup kitchen. Or agree to exchange gifts that support charities. • Give the gift of lime. Make gift certificates or coupons lo offer free baby-sitting lo your friends or to prepare a home-cooked meal for them. Kids could give breakfast in bed to their parents. A husband might offer candlelight dinner at home. • Lcl the kids make wrapping think they are recognizing in these economic times they have to think about the holidays differently," said Michael's Chief Executive Brian ('. Cornell. But whclher I he movement benefits retailers 1 hollum lines remains lo be seen, said Joan Storms, an analyst at Wudbush Morgan Securities. So far. she said, publicly reported data from major craft retailers doesn't show much signs of a boost from Ihe handmade holiday campaign, Same-store sales •- an important retail metric --- were down 1.5 percent at Jo-Ann Slores Inc. and down more than 9 pere.qnl at A.C. MOOR1, during the thirdquarter., "You'd think thai would he happening." she said. "(But) it's not really apparent to me in the numbers." At Renegade Handmade, a craft consignment shop in Chicago's trendy Wicker Park neighborhood, store owner Sue Daly said business is holding steady this year, despite a nationwide decline in retail sales. And she's planning for biggcr-ihanever crowds at an annual Christmas craft fair being held next month, while increasing the vendor space by a third to sell everything from kitschy collages to knitted scarves and felted wool toys. "Us really on everybody's mind - this blatant consumerism and this hole we've been digging for ourselves by spending and buying," said Craft Magazine Editor-in-Chief Tina Barseghian. "And there has been this resurgence in craft as response to that kind of icky feeling, where after you go shopping you feel kind of gross. Making things is a kind of antidote." At Jo-Ann Stores Inc.. the holiday slogan - developed this summer, before the financial meltdown that curtailed many people's holiday spending plans - is. "Let's Make Christmas." "We anticipated, economically, this<would*be a lough Christmas for people." said Lorraine Schuchart, a spokeswoman for the Hudson, Ohio-based craft and fabric retailer. 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