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Show C12 Wednesday, April 2, 2008 Vernal Express eminar raises business public relation skills Dian Thomas hosted a cooking and craft segment on the Today Show for eight years. Before that her camping cookbook, "Roughing "Rough-ing It Easy" made the New York Times bestseller list. She was a "food stylist" for Ziploc and the JB's restaurant chain. The energetic woman with a constant smile was invited to appear ap-pear on the Johnny Carson Show when her cookbook took off, and became a familiar face on several other national television shows. Pretty heady stuff for a girl who grew up in Monticello, Utah. Thomas will be in Roosevelt on Thursday at the Uintah Basin Applied Technology College to educate individuals attending her public relations seminar on what it takes to get their businesses, busi-nesses, products and events out in front of the public. "This is for everyone who works with the media or general public," said Thomas. "This is just as much for the business owner looking for ways to get more publicity for their service or product, as it is for the person per-son who coordinates volunteer services for a school, club or organization or-ganization and wants to improve public relations skills." The story behind Thomas' career is unique and shows the importance of determination and the ability to think outside the box. Thomas' began working at a young age. When the grocer at Monticello's grocery store told Thomas she was too young to stack cans for him - she was 9 when she made the request - she turned her disappointment into opportunity. She went into business for herself, selling worms to fishermen. fisher-men. Her advertising included a smiling worm wearing a graduation gradua-tion cap, with the words, "Educated "Edu-cated worms - so smart they are guaranteed to catch a fish." Her ability to come up with ideas and her refusal to take "no" for an answer led her on a career path she never dreamed possible. Thomas said she was not a good student and didn't even like to read. She found ways to use the skills she did have and obtained a master's degree at Brigham Young University and became a home economies' teacher. She taught high school in Orem for three years before she began traveling to New York'City to appear on daily news and hu man interest shows'- she never returned to the classroom. There is still time to sign up for Thomas' seminar on Thursday. The day-long seminar will be held at the UBATC in Roosevelt from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is sponsored by the UBATC's Custom Fit Department. Eligible businesses can take advantage of Custom Fit funding to reduce the cost of the $169 seminar to $68. For more information and to register call 725-7109. :4 - was r w 1 IIiIjIIj ft ifrf ' . :. J V, T .. H ft! l' . 1 vyuinu k i x - - -- - - . Sponsored b Hie Vernal Express, vern2l.com and Wen's Photo Photo by Mike Murray ' i ! I Y . iff i 1 ,r i i Photo by Diane Dick What comes to mind when you think of winter in the Uintah Basin? Snow covered hills? Wildlife? Outdoor recreation? Beautiful landscapes? The Uintah Basin is all that and much more. Show off your winter photos in our winter photography photog-raphy contest by submitting your outdoor photos today! Email them to kashbyvernal.com or bring them in on a disk to the Vernal Express 54 North Vernal Avenue, Vernal.-Utah. ,:, , ' . Rules: All photos need to have a wintertime theme and taken locally in the Basin between the months of November and March. There are three categories: 1) Sports or recreational activities, 2) Scenery and 3) Wildlife Submissions can be in digital form or 8x1 0 prints Deadline for all submissions is April 1 1 (limit five per person) Phptosjnaii be eaUedtofte .Express office at . , kashbyvernal.com or they can be brought to 54 North Vernal Avenue. VERBAL 1 VESMU KDress Ay Photo by Elaine Gardiner m ". 4?. -ft'" '1 IV ' " - I . ' , M' i rio.i ,! r-.rl Jo, i - , State essay winners Rylee Foy and Andrea Brady were presented with first and third place respectively. respec-tively. Grandparent Brent Holgate is also pictured with Elks member Marty Kay. Youth pizza party recognizes excellence in Basin students The Vernal Elks hosted its annual Excellence In Youth Pizza Party for all the youth who placed in the Hoop Shoot and Junior Golf as well as Americanism Essay Es-say finalists and Most Valuable Student scholarship recipients and their families, more than 60 in all. The winners of the Americanism American-ism Essay contest "What is An American?" received a savings bond and read their winning essays es-says to the audience. They were Andrea Brady, Jesse Phillips and James Prince, all students at Ashley Elementary School, and Rylee Foy from Altamont. Karie Cox of Ashley Elementary wasn't present. The winning essays were sent to the Utah Elks Association for further judging. Andrea Brady placed third and Rylee Foy won the fifth sixth grade state contest. They received savings bonds for their efforts. Rylee introduced his Grandfather, Brent Holgate, about whom Rylee wrote his winning win-ning essay. Cliff Harrison, Junior Golf coordinator, explained the pro- 9 ,6 y A 5UN5UKST TE.RRACE. v. 3Q '0 Two new floor plans now starting at only $159,500 100 Financing!! No closing costs!! 6 Fixed rate 30 year loan!! Why rent? Monthly payments from only $1,000!! 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Adrienne Franscisco received $700 and Allyson Workman $800 from the Utah MVS contest. Jared Bruton placed 2nd statewide. His application was forwarded to the Elks National Foundation MVS committee for further judging. First place nationally is awarded $15,000 a year for four years, a total of $60,000 to the college of the recipient's choice. The Most 'Valuable Student Scholarship program is open to all high school seniors. Smokers urged to 'Kick Butts' today Tricounty Health Department Depart-ment announced Kick Butts Day, a national initiative designed to help youth in fight against tobacco. This year Kick Butts Day falls on April 2, 2008. According to the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, Big Tobacco spends more that $13.3 billion a year marketing their deadly product with messages like "Be Kool," "Pleasure to burn" and "Light and Luscious." That means that in the hour a young person spends listening to his or her favorite CD or watching a TV program, the tobacco industry spends more than $1.5 million targeting them. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, with someone dying of a smoking related disease dis-ease every 72 seconds. As many as 90 percent of smokers start before the age of 19. The tobacco industry addicts more than 1,000 youth every day, and about half of them will die prematurely because be-cause of tobacco. Although health officials have made significant strides in reducing tobacco use, approximately 14 percent of high school-aged youth in the Uintah Basin area continue to smoke. For more information about Utah's war against tobacco, visit www.fighttheugly.com. Kick Butts Day is nationally led by the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. For further information, visit www.kickbuttsday.org. TriCounty Health Department offers End Nicotine Dependence classes on a monthly basis for area youth interested in quitting tobacco use. Help is also available avail-able through Utah's Quitline at 1-888-567-TRUTH. 4-H extension receives GreenWorks! grant , Utah State University Extension Exten-sion 4-H, in partnership with Thanksgiving Point Institute, received a GreenWorks! grant through Project Learning Tree, the environmental education 'program of the American Forest Foundation. The award will help 4-H teen leaders plan, design and implement summer camp programs for 1,600 younger campers. Through the project, the 4-H Growing Leaders Club at Thanksgiving Point will have the opportunity to maintain a garden, begin a solar greenhouse green-house program and develop new gardening activities with Junior Master Gardeners. According to Dave Francis, USU Extension 4-H youth development specialist for science, sci-ence, engineering, technology and natural resources, the grant will provide additional youth activities that touch about the environment through hands-on discovery and will help build leadership and life skills. "We are especially plousod that the prowam will provide an opportunity to utilize a youth-teaching-youth model to learn about the environment," he said. Since 1992, Project Learning Tree has distributed more than $500,000 to fund 730 grant projects proj-ects in communities across the country. The project provides educators with environmental education curriculum resources . that can be integrated into lesson plans for all grades and subject areas. Our Ads are worth the time in the... l VFPHH xpres 64 North Vernal Avenue Vernal, Ulan -435-789 3511 www.vemal.com |