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Show Ill THE PARK RECORD www.parkrecord.com SATURDAY, JULY 8, 2000 B-7 easiness BUSINESS EDITOR: Bruce Lewis 649-9014 ext 1 1 3 Briefs Granite Construction opens Heber office Granite Construction Company has opened a new area office to serve Wasatch and Summit Counties. The office is located in the MCM Engineering Building at 575 North Mam in Heber City. The new office is staffed by Richard Krebs, area manager, and Andy Dahmen, superintendent. The new location will allow Granite to work more closely with existing and potential customers in both public and private sectors. Granite is one of the state's largest construction companies. compa-nies. Local projects include building the Jordanelle Dam and the widening of S R. 248. o U.S. Bank offers Internet access to canceled checks U.S. Bank can now provide business customers with Internet access to images of paid checks. Image Check Web uses a standard Web browser to allow businesses to view check images the day after they are paid, providing a quick search and status determination capability. Each day's images remain online for 80 days. ChamberBureau appoints new leadership Six new members have been elected elect-ed to the Board of Directors of the Park City ChamberBureau: - Paul Brown, Wasatch Brew PubSchirf Brewing Co. - Justine Fellows, The Lab O Park City. - Bruce "Goose Juhl, Destination SportsTrout Bum 2. - Colleen Reardon, Deer Valley Resort. Jeff Ward, 350 Main Restaurant. - Jeffrey Zogg. Grand Summit Resort Hotel and Conference Center. The new directors officially take their seats at the July 25 Board meeting meet-ing and will serve a three-year term. Great Garb opens Salt Lake location Clothing store Great Garb has opened a new Salt Lake location at 1510 East 1500 South. The firm began operations in 1971 with a Highland Drive location in Salt Lake City, then moved its flagship store to Park City in 1981. SB A Web site gets 9.5 million hits a week The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Web site reached an all-time record number of customers with 9.5 million hits a week. Recently, Forties magazine listed list-ed the SBA site in Its "Best of the Web issue. The site is located at www.sba.gov. GLADSTONE H7 k r 1 .iirir.ri:i r .v -2 1,,;. H-l 111 f 4, asin merchants will mull group 0 Basin commercial association could result by Bruce Lewis OF THE RECORD STAFF "The first contact that triggered this meeting was the May 31 Olympic Planning meeting." said Robbie Beck, who has planned a Tuesday gathering for Snvderv ille Basin business owners and operators, 'it is a benefit for ali concerned to discuss and disseminate dis-seminate information through the group process." While Beck - Summit County's Olympic Coordinator - is not officially advocating the formation of a Basinentered business alliance, she says she has received feedback from business owners that the interest is there. Beck hosted an Olympic information meeting at The Canyons Grand Summit Hotel May 31 The three dozen or so business busi-ness representatives asked a number of questions that indicated they didnt know much about either the pioeess involved or the plans to date for accommodating the crowds expected to attend the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Beck will continue Olympic planning updates regardless of whether the merchants mer-chants decide to form an association She is planning another update in October. The July 11 meeting includes discussion of a business association as one of several agenda items for the 90-minute event. "The idea originally was generated by deciding that we needed a method to better Delta, pilots find turbulence New round of industry consolidations could pose problem for contract talks by Bruce Lewis OF THE RECORD STAFF Parkite Chuck Giambusso is chairman of the Delta Master Executive Council, a part of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALFA). As such, he has been working since last fall on negotiating a new pilots" contract with Delta Au Lines. Progress has been slow despite an early Two to lead Denver agency EAV Scripps Company and MedraNew Group. Inc. have named two newspaper management veterans to fill top positions at the recently created Denver Newspaper Agency. Kirk MacDonald, vice president for Hearst Newspapers and formerly executive vice president and general manager of The Denver Post, has been named president and chief executive officer. MacDonald w ill hav e overall responsibility for the agency. .leff Hiv ely, vice president of newspaper operations for Scripps. has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer. Hively will oversee day-to-day operations oper-ations of the Denver Newspaper Agency. Stock Performance Name oom7w Opn702 Name oom7V6 0fa72 Name ciomtw o?o 702 Name Oontw cn ? AUPNET 2 78 3 00 DAWTECH 113 128 FRNKCOVEV 7X 6 95 MERKTVED 6 69 6 5s" AMERSKI 2 50 275 DELTAAIR 54 44 50 56 GENYSTV ?9 28 MITYLITE 12 ?5 13 25 ALBERTSON 34 56 33 25 DlGlCOUR 7 56 6 38 GEMTNER 13 75 MOO NATRSUN 7 31 7 00 ANESTACP 23 50 24 88 DYNATEC 106 1 2S (LINK 5 44 5 38 NOVELL 9 50 9 25 KIMBERLYCLK 56 25 57.38 DYNATRON 84 81 IVLAUTS 2 38 2 31 NUSK!N 6 38 5 5 BAXTER 70 81 70 31 EF'ELEC 1 34 1 34 OWED 5 19 5 25 NUTRACEUT 3 3' 3 19 BIMUNE K'EW .72 .69 EOUITYOL 2 50 2 64 IOMEGACP 3 94 4 00 OL'E STAR 19 33 19 38 CROWNENG .20 .18 ' EVANSSUT 6 38 6 38 JPREALTY 17 94 1 7 83 SOSSTAFF 3 13 3 06 ALCX)A 28 94 29 00 FXESER 34 94 KROGER 22 75 22 06 SiMONTRk 5 03 5 94 COVOLTEC 2 38 2.03 FlRSECCP 14 75 13 56 SENSARCCRP 22 50 23 75 SKYWEST 38 88 37 06 CYCL03PS 44 ,43 FLEXSENSOR 94 94 MARKERiN 18 18 SOWSTAlR 20 06 18 94 This Utah stock Salt Lake 1 A- formation communicate with the business community in the county outside Park City, that better communications benefit everyone," Beck explained. "There are 1 V businesses in the county outside of the city limits." The meetings pe county officials an opportunity to discuss long-term plans for the I-807S.R. 224 corridor in more detail, she said. It also answers the County Commission's desire to discuss the first phase of a proposed regional bus transportation trans-portation system. Commercial development is at a stage where all the Basins businesses can fit under one umbrella, she explained. "In the long term, the whole business community in the Snvderv tile Basin is a good place to start." Beck vnJ. adding that future development could drive more kval-ied. kval-ied. neighborhood-type business associations associa-tions in future years. If a Basin business ass, vialion dtx-s form, she says, the benefits could (Id both vvavs. "An organization could help as a way to gather and disseminate information, but it could also become p.irt of the process." Beck said "As a group, they can have an impact, for example, working as a group with the Planning Commission to address the concerns con-cerns ot businesspeople." Beck said. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, beginning at 8:30 a.m.. at the Hampton Inn .& Suiters on Landmark Drive at Kimball junction. Presentation topics include Kimball Junction Beautification and Regional Transportation. For more information, call Beck at 644-1677. start between the airline and the pilots' representatives rep-resentatives The contract came up on its " renewable date" Mav 2. Giambusso said m mid April that it was unlikely that Delta pilots would he working with a contract for a few months after the renew able date. The numbers involved are huge Andrew Deane. a Delta pilot and Karen Mcdufty -both spokc-speople for the MEC - said pilots' contributions to Delta totaled SI billion bil-lion in contract concessions. Thev listed examples such as pay cuts, v acalion and benefit ben-efit reductions, and increaM.'d woikkuds as . Please see Industry events. B-9 Scripps. parent company of the Denrr Rik Mountain .V and MediaNews Group, parent company of The Denver Pot. created the agency to handle all of the business operations of the two newspapers news-papers under the provisions of the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1T0. An application seeking approval for the arrangement, known as a joint operating agreement, is pending in the I'.S. Attorney General's office. The agreement calls for the two newspapers to maintain independent and competitive editorial operations. AVtai'H s Group is the parent company com-pany oThe Park Record retort is tromded by Dirreil Reems of - ' ;-' v w v, uv . y v. Take your email with you this Summer. With Afl Wt lnterrt Services you can reefve and send emiwrf-om nywhet in the worfd with our Wtb Mail smxe mpry by 1053109 on to wvAWjHwestnetrinterrt Kep in touch with fahily fih ot even the office. Whether you're traveling on business or vacaton gettmg you erwtl is simple and quick. So you cn get on to more important things. GET ON-UNE TODAY! Call ToO-FfM: 2924itM 0 wnwmmmmmnw HCCMWTT0 OOHMI Calm after the storm . 1 "V ' v Uvf. II ft JUT 3 I. I L " It il j , . , m. ,.n mi n mi mti WeCE LEWIS 4fc f 054) The sidewalks in Q!d Town's commercial core were less sparsely populated popu-lated with shoppers Thursday than they were during the busy Independence Day holiday weekend. A spot check of Park City merchants mer-chants by The Park Record found that the four-day weekend was generally gen-erally better than many had anticipated, especially on Main Street where parade-goers thronged the sidewalks. Several Old Town businesses busi-nesses reported the best sales ever for what has become the first holiday holi-day weekend of the mountain warm-weather season. Nightly Lodging Tally Projected Tally for the week of Jury 11-17, 2000 Total Visitor Nights: 42,936 Weekly High: 6,979 (Sat ) Daily Average: 6,134' Year To Date: 1.319,972 Nightly Lodging Tally Estimates . Occupancy At 40 sun mm too p4r 'aC tor tfc 4fav Actu vp at cxi'nf' wsatcrt wary due to ta$t-rx rinaoon and wvk-vt. KXmCt PARK CITY CHAHftflt BUREAU Data for companies Paitson Ivtstsent Co., Prk On. Beine 40 or 50 isn't what it used to be. That's whv Baby Boomers need life insurance. It's important that your life insurance plan reflects where vou are headed. ItATt MIM tljml r.v p - TEH TXT o o o o o o o o of interest to Utah investors Name utdpxmin U'AHMEO ve;oernl-"! 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