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Show r p . inn. ' Sheldon Olsen hands out DECA material during the Business Symposium held at Western Park. Students connect to business by Annalee Bassett Many times it is hard for high school students to find a way, or work their way, into the "real" business busi-ness world while they are still in high school and only have part-time jobs. Most of those part-time jobs are either in retail or fast food. But last week a few of the students from the high school were able to put some of the skills they have learned in classes to work. The Uintah Basin Business Symposium, held Tuesday of last week, had speakers both from the basin and from around the state come and give seminars on different differ-ent aspects of business such as advertising, ad-vertising, inventions, business travel, trav-el, etc. For the past month, the DECA DE-CA club has been working with the Chamber and SBDC to help advertise adver-tise the event. It was a lot of work Racism conference held by Kathleen Irving Staff Writer The Episcopal Churches of the Uintah Basin, in conjunction with the Episcopal Diocese of Utah, will sponsor a conference this weekend entitled, "Breaking Free From Racism, Working Together, Living Together." The conference will be held at the Moon Lake Conference Center Saturday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. It is free to the public and lunch will be served. According to the Rev. Barbara Smith, pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Vernal, the conference is being held under the direction of the diocesan commission commis-sion on racism, chaired by the Rev. Canon Alan C. Tull of Provo. The goal is to help people better understand under-stand the hows and whys of racism so it can be conquered. A 90-minutc video, called "Color of Fear," will begin die conference. 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"We use it to help people understand under-stand what is happening and how others perceive their behavior so they can become aware of what they are doing and overcome racist attitudes," she said. "The video also depicts how minorities see themselves them-selves in relation to the Caucasian majority. It is really eye-opening." Smith said racism is a learned attitude atti-tude and hopes the conference will raise awareness so it can be dealt with on a community-wide basis. The conference will also include group discussions and a question and answer period. "This is just a beginning for us," said Smith. "We hope to expand our effort. After the conference we will decide where to go next." For more information on the conference, con-ference, contact Rev. Two Bulls of St. Elizabeth's in Whiterocks at 355-4152. Rev. Mcndcz, of Holy Spirit in Randlett at 545-2400, or Rev. Smith at 789-1806. Rtctivid Ntidtd Cconomy flOOf Cov'i"g Vernal Rofl A Gun OuO Awey uige 28 fi Wa)i Century 21 Da'l Realty tL) Consultant TC I landstatw Serves Wes'en Cnefitai - . seminar during the Business sor. "They will always have conflicting con-flicting appointments and projects that will have to be juggled." As a club, they prepared a promotional promo-tional mix that would let the community com-munity know about the symposium. The theme of the symposium, "Our business is to better your business," was chosen from a variety of other themes that students had brain stormed. From there, creativity was used to draw posters, newspaper ads, and write up radio spots. A group of four students were able to go to the radio station and actually create the radio spots they had planned.' Steve Wiscombe and Vince Merrell were also on the Monday Night Forum to talk about the event. "It was really tough to plan everything we needed for media me-dia coverage in less than a month, especially with the other project going go-ing at the same time," said Leah Goodrich. In fact that was the main thing mentioned when thinking of things to do differently in the future. fu-ture. On the day of the symposium the club practiced skills they will use in the future by giving a presentation to all the business leaders in the opening luncheon. They also acted as facilitators for the convention. The best thing about this is that they gel to use this as a "real-life" project for school. It's what many of the club members arc interested in for careers, and they arc just getting get-ting a head start on what they like to do. 3 Holly Eaton introduces a guest speaker. Winds knock KNEU off air Strong winds arc believed to be responsible for compromising wires that held the KNI-U radio transmission transmis-sion tower erect. The 303 fool lower low-er is located next to the radio station sta-tion in south Ballard. Station officials offi-cials say ii fell sometime after 9 a m, Saturday, Ocl. II when southwest south-west winds snapped iwo of the wires holding the lower. The lower toppled northwatd, landing in a field. There were no injuries. KM U (WaicJ on the radio dial on AM li?0) will he off the air for one lo iwo weeks until a new transmission trans-mission lower can he brought in from New Mexico and installed, said station owner Joe Evans. :-.sV . f XX 'J"'" ii Manila teacher wins $25,000 The Milken Family Foundation National Educator Awards has recognized rec-ognized a Daggett School District teacher as one of Utah's best. Harriet Dickerson learned last week that she had won the $25,000 award during a school assembly. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Scott Bean announced the winner win-ner during his speech to the faculty and student body of Manila High School. Harriet was lauded for her selfless service to her students, her dedication dedica-tion as a teacher and for truly caring for students by taking a personal interest in-terest in each student's welfare. She worked diligently to find summer jobs for her students. She helped students after hours with school work and kept parents informed of student progress. Her career has been one of service far beyond the traditional eight hours-a-day. The monetary award will be given at the Milken Family Foundation National Education Conference next June in Los Angeles, Calif. Remaining afloat in rising tide of data by Reid Goldsborough There's the newspaper in the morning. The radio in the car. Billboards on the highway. Memos and meetings, phone calls and faxes, fax-es, water-cooler chitchat. Special-interest Special-interest newsletters and general-interest magazines. Books. TV. And if you weren't already treading tread-ing water in sea of information you can barely fathom, let alone make use of, now there's the Internet, with its million Web sites, 70,000 mailing lists and 30,000 Usenet newsgroups. The old noggin is only so big. Try to fill it beyond its capacity, and you'll wind up wandering around the streets asking for directions to the Yellow Brick Road. How can you best manage the information in-formation that you know is out there, that you know you should be receiving, so that it benefits your work life as well as your personal life? As a "knowledge worker," my job is to find, filter, process and disseminate dis-seminate information, full-time. "Infoglut" is my enemy. Here are some tips to ward off information overload I've picked up that you may find useful, whether you work with information full- or part-time. Do a Ranking Evaluate your current information consumption. Which sources involve in-volve the most efficient use of your time? Which could you dispense with? One trick is to temporarily keep an information journal. Using a paper pa-per notebook or computer program, jot down the name of each information informa-tion source you use, the goals you have for it, the amount of time you spend with it each day, and how useful it is during each session. After a month, look back. Along with identifying your most and least useful sources, you may be able to identify information holes you need to fill with sources you're not currently using. Be a Prospector Prospect for the best information 3 WM Candidate for Vernal City Mayor Knowledgeable Retired Effieient Mature Integrity I am retired. I have the time, the desire to be an effective mayor Be sure to vote your support and your vote in the coming election for mayor. Thank you! (Paid Political AdveMitpmpnt) 6 Vernal Express Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3 'Festival of Lights' parade planned Time to start thinking about Christmas. The Christmas Committee of the Chamber of Commerce thinks it is and this year they are planning a few changes including a "Festival of Lights" parade. pa-rade. The parade will be held on Friday, Nov. 28 at 6 p.m. All businesses busi-nesses are encouraged to start planning plan-ning now to be a part of this first annual event. "We want businesses, clubs, school or church groups, performing perform-ing groups, family, neighborhood watch or just a gaggle of friends," said Lori Olmstead, Chairperson, "please consider putting together a float, caroling group or 'lighting up' that old tractor or family vehicle vehi-cle for this special event. It should be a bundle of fun." Antique cars are encouraged to sources. Though there are exceptions, excep-tions, often the more costly an information in-formation source, the more time-efficient. For example, state-of-the industry reports and newsletters that summarize sum-marize important industry-specific articles from other publications can be pricey, but they can quickly keep you up-to-date. Watching television news might be free, but we all know how easily TV can turn into a mindless time sink. Filter, Filter, Filter Filter out the junk. Don't feel compelled to read everything that crosses your desktop. Computers can be a help here, or a hindrance. By connecting to the Internet, you can quickly tap into a gold mine of authoritative information relevant to your needs. Or you can waste hours scanning the Web sites of hucksters and hobbyists and reading read-ing e-mail, mailing list and Usenet messages written by rumor mongers mon-gers and idle babblers. If you're visiting a new Web site, look at it the same way you'd scan a book before reading it. Check the table of contents and author biography biogra-phy before diving in. Using a search site such as Excite, my current favorite at http:www.cxcite.com, can unearth worthwhile information you'd be hard-pressed to find elsewhere. But make sure you first bone up on the site's search procedures or you might have to wade through scores of irrelevant hits. Paying someone else to filter information in-formation for you can be worth it on the Web as well as in print. Electric Library at http:www.cli-brary.com http:www.cli-brary.com provides full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers. But don't pay when you don't have to. A new site, NcwsWorks at http:www.ncwsworks.com lets you search through 125 U.S. newspapers, news-papers, for free. "Wclicasting" services such as PointCast at http:www point cast.com "push" information about Concerned Citizens No afraid of challenges on November 4 and join the fun as well as farm machinery. ma-chinery. If you would like to participate just call the Chamber of Commerce 789-1352 and they will have suggestions sug-gestions for you. Parade entries are now being accepted ac-cepted at the Chamber office. There is no entry fee, but a entry form must be filled out. They are able at the Chamber, 134 West Main. Following the parade the lights will go on at the Dinosaur Gardens. Santa Claus will be at the Utah Field House of Natural History during dur-ing the afternoon from 1 to 4 p.m. Goodies for the good boys and girls will be provided by the Current Topics club. Plan now to join in theVernal's first "Festival of Lights" celebration. subjects you specify right to your computer screen. Until these services ser-vices provide better filtering, however, how-ever, it's easy to get overloaded. Following online discussions can . be an effective way to find nuggets overlooked by the conventional media, as long as you don't get overwhelmed by irrelevancy. Mailing list groups are usually more focused than Usenet groups. With both, moderated discussions are always more focused than the more common unmoderated ones. Searching through archived Usenet and mailing-list messages is even more time-efficient. Check out DejaNews at http:www.de-janews.com http:www.de-janews.com and Rcference.com at http:www.reference.com. If your e-mail and Usenet software soft-ware permits filtering most up-to-date programs do - you can. screen out messages about subjects ' or from people you find irrelevant, . and you can create folders for messages mes-sages that warrant immediate attention. atten-tion. Short and Sweet To avoid getting bombarded with e-mail, selectively respond to e-mail, e-mail, and match the length of your response to how eager you arc to chat. A short, polite response indicates indi-cates you've received the other per son's message but need to move on. Save what's worth saving and toss the rest. Avoid letting useful information sink into pile purgatory. purgato-ry. After you've finished scanning or reading, file information into clearly identifiable folders in a file cabinet or on your computer's hard disk. Ours is an information society. Information can lead to knowledge and knowledge to wisdom, but managing information requires some wisdom of its own. Reid Goldsborough is a syndicated syndicat-ed columnist and author of the bwk Straight Talk About the Information Superhighway. He can he reached at rcidgold voice nci.com or hup:wwwvjcc ncl.com-rcidgold Party interest, and the for Vernal City. please give me )RCOPY |