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Show Park Record Thursday, June 23, 1988 Page A9 mmmmmi Chamber by NlANCY VOLMER . If you're a small business owner, or would like to become one, or if you're an employee who comes in frequent contact with Park City guests, the ChamberBureau is offering of-fering two seminars that will help you do your job more effectively. For employees, the Chamber Bureau is offering a summer sum-mer employee workshop where you can learn about new Park City events and activities while understanding the importance of customer service techniques. The workshop takes place on June 29 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Yarrow and includes a trade show where with their services. The cost is $5. For more information call Nancy Harris or Margie Hensley at 649-6100. Business activity increases by 1 6:6 percent Business activity in Park Citv. as measured by sales and use tax receipts, totaled $154,226,000 last year, an increase of 16.6 percent over 1986. The figures were collected and reported by the Utah Foundation, a private research organization. The report was based on gross sales volume before a 3.6 percent allowance for inflation last year. Gross taxable sales volume in Park City totaled $132,272,000 in 1986, $139,116,000 in 1985, Mindbody link to be discussed A free public forum on the mindbody connection will be presented by the Counseling Institute, In-stitute, the Summit County Prevention Center and Charter Summit Hospital tonight, June 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Treasure Mountain Moun-tain Middle School. Research demonstrates there is a definite connection between a person's emotional status and physical health, says Institute director Jim Wheeler. "More and more we are learning that a person's per-son's behavior and how i heshe feels about themselves is related to their general physical fitness." Jenny Merrill, director of activities ac-tivities therapy at Charter Summit Hospital and Nancy Samson, a local aerobics teacher, will present the program. Other presentations scheduled this year by the same agencies in-clude in-clude ; 'Adult Children of Alcoholics" in August, "People in Trasition; Growing New Roots" in October and "Holiday Depression" in December. Soldiers get Travel Guide Soldiers and reservists from 20 states, in Utah for the U.S. Military's largest ever artillary exercise, ex-ercise, will be getting 5,000 copies of the Utah Travel Council's 1988 Travel Guide. Handing out the Travel Guide was the idea of Utah Rep. Lee Allen of Tremonton and Art Brothers, one of his constituents. Lt. Colonel Reece Stein, Public Information Officer with the Army National Guard, says the Travel Guides will be distributed shortly before the exercise is over. "Handing out the travel guides," says Travel Council Director Jay C. Woolley, "is a great idea. While they're on maneuvers, the troops won't have time to really see the state. But once they're through, we hope they'll want to travel around and visit our attractions, or come back on vacation. The guide contains all the basic information in-formation that a traveler needs to plan a Utah vacation. It includes points of interest by region, complete com-plete listings of public and private campgrounds, a calender of events and information on the services offered of-fered in nearly 200 cities and towns. The travel guide is free to the public and is available at the Travel Council offices on Capitol Hill and at the offices of Utah's nine travel regions. Don't forget! Classified ad deadline is 5 p.m. Monday. offers small business Update If you're a small business owner, or would like to own your own business, the ChamberBureau's business forum, "How to Start a Small Business: Basic Business Planning," is set for Thursday, June 30 at noon. The seminar will show you how to formulate a business plan, familiarize you with resources available for small businesses and point out profit-making techniques. The Speaker is Michael Warren, director of the Small Business Development Center at the University Universi-ty of Utah. The forum will take place at the Olympic Hotel and is $15 for ChamberBureau members of $20 $58,294,000 in 1980 and $3,927,000 in 1970. For the state as a whole, business activity in Utah declined for the third consecutive year. Gross sales volume dropped by 1.5 percent in 1987. In addition, the purchasing power of the dollar was down nationwide by 3.6 percent. In contrast to Utah, personal consumption expenditures throughout the U.S. rose by 6 percent per-cent last year. Even after allowing New Resort Randy Montgomery as been named general manager of the Park City Resort Center Project. Montgomery is currently co-owner co-owner of MarketShare, Inc., a Salt Lake City marketing company. He was vice president of marketing for Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort for 13 years, and was also previously publicity director for Park City Resort. The Resort Center includes 114 condominiums, 9,000 square feet of commercial space and 5,700 sq. ft. of. group meeting space, It has been managed for the past two years by Identity Partners. Montgomery's position was effective ef-fective May 1 1988. Work shop and trade show on ChamberBureau agenda The Park City ChamberBureau has two events scheduled for local businesses and would-be-businesses. The first is an employee workshop on June 29 to which staff of all ChamberBureau members are invited. in-vited. Liquor laws, summer events, local recreation and local services will be discussed at the workshop. It will be held at the Yarrow, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. The fee is $5 per person. per-son. Following the workshop, a trade show of Park City services will be on display. Those who wish to participate par-ticipate should call Nancy Harris at the Chamber. The fee to reserve a trade show table is $5. Also sponsored by the ChamberBureau is a business forum June 30 aimed at helping new businesses or those who would like to start a small company. Michael Warren, director of the Small Business Development Center at the University of Utah will speak on formulating a business plan, GamiMMOI For the week ending June 1 7, 1988 Single Family Residence 3 $381 ,900 Condominiums 12 $495,570 Vacant Lots 11 $1,674,245 Commercial Lots 1 $60,000 Multi Unit 0 $0 Farm 0 $0 WEEKLY COMPARISON 1987 732,500 1988 2,611,715 YEAR-TO-DATE COMPARISON 1987 30,977,631 1988 35,728,442 Park City Area ChamberBureau for. non-members and includes lunch. For more information contact Gregg Goodwin or Margie Hensley at 649-6100. Thanks to the Resort Center Merchants Mer-chants Association, Park City is looking prettier than ever. The association donated $1,500 to assist the city's beautification efforts. The money is being used to plant flowers around the Resort Center. The highlight of this weekend's events is the Cherry Coke Fifties Festival on Saturday, June 25. The third annual Fifties Festival begins at 10 a.m. with a car show at the Snow Park Lodge at Deer Valley for inflation, personal consumption was up by 1.9 percent in 1987. Although Utah lagged behind the rest of the nation, foundation analysts point out business activity was up the fourth quarter of 1987. And, unemployment in the state has continued to decline. The report also shows Utahns are currently spending a much smaller piece of their personal income in-come on taxable items than they did in the late 1970s. More of the income in-come presumably now goes to Center GM assisting in the pursuit of profit and informing attendees on the services offered by the center. The forum will be held during the noon hour at the Olympic Hotel Silver Lode Restaurant. Lunch will be served. The fee for members is $15, and for non-member $20. Y Thrift store needs clothes Crossroads Thrift Store needs donations of new and good quality used childrens school clothes to be given free of charge to severaj hundred hun-dred families in need. Crossroads is a 22-year-old nonprofit non-profit agency whose purpose is to meet the needs of low income people peo-ple who are in crisis situations. The thrift store provides clothing at very low or no cost to low and no-income no-income families. The current need is for clothing for children of all ages, especially "back-to-school" seminars Resort. A '50s memorabilia show starts at noon and features collectibles collec-tibles from the era. The evening comes into full swing at 5 p.m. when Chuck Berry performs. Tickets for the concert are on sale at Jans Mountain Outfitters and Smithtix outlets. Cycling enthusiasts will enjoy Utah's Best Dam 150-mile Bike Tour beginning in Park City on Saturday. Help the National Multiple Sclerosis Society by participating in this event. Coming up next weekend: the Oakley Rodeo, Robert Plant in concert con-cert at ParkWest, Michael Martin Murphy and the Utah Symphony at Deer Valley, an old-fashioned July 4th celebration, the Wasatch Canyons Ca-nyons Distance Rides and more. For additional information call the Chamber Bureau at 649-6100. meet interest payments, taxes, housing costs etc. which are not subject to the sales or use taxes. Although the Utah economy was healthy and growing due to mineral and oil mining during the years 1970 to 1978, it declined six of the nine years from 1978 to 1987. This recent slowdown has complicated com-plicated problems facing both the state and local governments in Utah, as sales tax is a major source of revenue for both. New board members Six new members have been elected to the Board of Directors for the Park City Area Chamber of CommerceConvention and Visitors Bureau, executive director Russ Veenema announced June 17. The new board members will be serving a three-year term. They are: Bob Beasley, vice president and co-owner of the Stew Pot restaurant; Robbie Beck-McHugh, marketing director at the Park City Ski Area; Steve Dering, president and owner of Dering and Associates ; Bonnie Park, recreation director at the Park Meadows Country Club; J. Greg Schirf, president and owner of Schirf Brewing; and Barbara Zimonja, president and co-owner of Deer Valley LodgingPark City Resort LodgingSnowed Inn. Outgoing Board members are: Craig Badami, Park City Ski Area; Kim McClelland, Jupiter Property Management; Marilyn Roberts,, ParkWest; and Jan Wilking, Lodestar magazine. The new members will be appointed ap-pointed to the board at the ChamberBureau's annual meeting and staff presentations at the Yarrow Yar-row on July 18, 1988. The annual meeting is from 4 to 6 p.m. and staff presentations from 5 to 7 p.m. clothing. The thrift store is also seeking donations of blankets, sleeping bags, pots & pans, mens shoes and work clothes to be given free of charge to those in need on an ongoing basis. Clothing can be dropped off locally at the Park City Community Communi-ty Church, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon. In Salt Lake City, take donations to 802 S. 600 E. Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Lunch and The ... ,, , ,,., .... , W-njJHgi-i . - , - - - - '-T-jfWl " T " m Serving Daily Mon.-Sat. 11:30 a.m. -9 p.m., Sun. 11:30 a.m. -4 p.m. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Yacht Club Night Burger n' Brew Night Cajun Night Located at Deer Valley Plaza at Deer Valley Entrance 645-STEW Trade show for Sunbirds The Park City ChamberBureau is expecting a flock of returning Sun-birds Sun-birds this summer, and is planning senior orientations on Wedesday, July 6 and Wednesday, August 3 to help familiarize them with their summer home. This year, the Chamber is planning a mini trade-show format so visitors will have a chance to ask detailed questions about each of the services ser-vices available. If you would like to enter a display in that trade show, contact Kim Balogh at the ChamberBureau. The cost to participate is $15. Shadow Ridge will be the site of the first orientation, and the Olympic, the second. Deadlines for registering your business with the Chamber are June 24 for the July 6 show, and July 22 for the August 3 show. Space is limited and will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis. v Welcomes StfiniiieH Live Music & Dancing with the Right Brothers Band Friday, June 24th Saturday, June 25th Bar opens at 5 p.m. Live music 9 p.m.-l a.m. $1.00 Cover Hawaiian shirts get in FREE! A private club for the benefit of members & their guests 573 Main Street, Park City 649-8051 or 649-9971 ROCK 'N ROLL MEDICINE: Friday & Saturday 9:30 P.M. The Alamo for the benefit of Alamo members & guests AND July 3 & 4. ...The Alamo July 5 & 6 Dead Goat, SLC Dinner on Stewpot at Deer the Deck! Valley It |