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Show The Prt Record Saturday, September 23, 2000 B-10 Local area gains as Wasatch Front gains The local area benefits from the spillover of economic success from the Wasatch Front, according to a report from the state's Department of Workforce Services (DWS). The seven counties on the periphery of the metropolitan Wasatch Front strip are becoming recipients of the population and economic spillover as available and desirable metro-area land becomes more expensive. These flows are contributing economic diversity to the existing economies of the area, including the cities of Park City, Heber City, Logan, Brigham City and Tooele, the DWS concludes. The state's southwestern comer is now the fastest-growing region of the state, the DWS report finds. The four counties, with their 125.000 residents, have grown rapidly through the lWOs. St. George, anchor city of the area and Cedar City, about 50 miles north along MS, have Kith prospered. pros-pered. Many of the jobs created, however, are tow-wage ones in the service-producing industries. At the same time, Utah's employment rate slowed for the second straight year in 1999 and has maintained the slower pace during the first eight months of this year. The slow dow n follow s a record 11 consecutive years of employment employ-ment growth in the state, with growth peaking at 62 percent in 1994. Utah's unemployment rale for August 2000, at 3.1 percent, w as up very slightly from the 3.0-percent mark for both June and July, according to the Department of Workforce Services. In Summit County, unemployment unemploy-ment stood at 3.7 percent for August, down significantly from 5.0 percent for August 1999, but up very slightly from July 2000's 3.6-percent 3.6-percent rate. Wasatch County unemployment stood at 4.1 per cent in August, up a bit from July's 4.0-percent figure but down from August 1999s 5.0-percent tally In 1999, Utah added 29.400 net new jobs, and the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.8 percent. The average annual w age increase for Utah's nonfarm jobs in 1999 was 3.6 j ercent, slightly lower than 199's 4.4 percent. According to the DWS report. FAMILY Pack rj iui uuus uiiiiij... f a dhf Egg US ftii oxygen Sign up NOW with any of our Total Choice packages and we'll give you three FREE months of the FAMILY Peck! , ACT HOW K and II gu nmuraa I V-- 5AI fcLLHt ItLtVlblUN DIRECTV. 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An average of 41, (IX) individuals individu-als were out of work during 1999. about 3 percent more than 1998. On the heels of an economic expansion of unprecedented duration, dura-tion, J99S and 1999 saw the Utah economy achieve a "soft landing" by making the transition to sustainable sustain-able rates of growth, the Workforce Services report reads. By major industry: - Construction: Last year w as the 11th consecutive one of healthy expansion in the stated construction construc-tion industry, according to the DWS study. About 4.750 net new jobs were created in this industry in 1999. - Manufacturing: Employment contracted to a level lower than the 1997 total. From 199S to 1999, roughly 1.400 jobs were lost in this division. - Transportation. Communications Communica-tions and Utilities: This division added SIX) net new jobs last year for a 1.3-percent growth rate. - Trade: This division's job growth slowed dramatically from its 7 percent pace in 1 994 and 1995. with creation of new jobs in 1999 registering a growth rate of 2 percent. per-cent. - Finance1 nsuranceReaJ Estate: In 1999, the division's employment grow th slowed to 1.700. a 3.1-percent expansion, according to the DWS report. - Services This division created 11.600 new jobs in 1999 for a growth rate of 4.1 percent. - Public Sector By late 1999. federal defense and non-defense jobs were growing, making the federal net job expansion 2.7 percent. per-cent. Wages continued contin-ued their growth in 1999, but at a slower rate than for the year before. In 1W, Utahs average nonagricultural pay was $27,400, up 3.6 percent from the 1998 average aver-age - which itself was up 4.4 percent per-cent from the prior year. mi ifje mean EUIOYSII! 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The maintenance department depart-ment is staving busy and we have a lot of transient traffic needing fuel and services." said Nadim Abuhaidar, new owner of Wasatch Aero Services, based at the airport in Heber City. Abuhaidar now occupies the second-floor corner office in Hagar A at the airport, and is engaged in a wide-ranging program of upgrades of the business - called a fixed-base operator or FBO - which leases the right to provide airport services from the city. "The operation is now networked net-worked and our Web site is being built. The flight school is going online with a scheduling and tracking track-ing system, which will allow students stu-dents to reserve time slots for aircraft air-craft and instructors." he explained. The new system also tracks each aircraft, air-craft, alerting maintenance when items such as oil changes and periodic peri-odic inspections are due. "The students will also enter all their information and it will track things like medical certifications and currency requirements. We'll get an alert if a student is nearing time for a flight physical or if they are trying to schedule an aircraft for which they arent current," Abuhaidar said. "It wonl allow us to dispatch the aircraft if all the regulatory reg-ulatory requirements aren't satisfied." satis-fied." Wasatch Aero is also bringing its aircraft mechanics into the electronic elec-tronic age. Each mechanic currently current-ly uses laptop computers, on which they record maintenance procedures proce-dures performed on each aircraft. At the end of the day, the laptops' information is downloaded into the company's system, automatically updating each aircraft record "The next step is to install a wireless wire-less network for the maintenance operation. As a mechanic works on an aircraft, he will be able to use the network to connect with the Internet, go to the manufacturer's site and read the maintenance man- i channels with our Total Choice mode your home complete. AjguS20 .200CidDes30 ,2000 pafMpatmg 1m: Miy rrt tw cenbemd my oft oSttJ nj L " , . -v . ";: - " ' ." "t ' " ' " i Wasarch Aero J--- - y 5 I v i - E - V BRUCE LEWIS PAS RECORD Wasatch Aero Services' new owner Nadim Abuhaidar stands beside one of several new flight training aircraft the company recently purchased. Wasatch Aero is located in Hangar A on Russ McDonald Field in Heber City. uals on line," Abuhaidar said. The Internet-based sstem will cut mechanics' time spent leafing through printed manuals in the shop, and also ensures that Wasatch Aero has the most current technical maintenance information at all times, he added. Abuhaidar is working with Enterprise Rental Car Company, to place a booth in his operation. "We get a far amount of people who fly in and want to rent a car to go fishing fish-ing or skiing. The rental operation will be much more convenient for our clients." Wasatch Aero just took deliv ery of several flight training aircraft, part of an upgrade Abuhaidar said was needed to continue its relationship relation-ship with Utah Valley Slate Colleges Global Aviation Degree program. As a satellite operation, Heber Citv offers several advan Book Signing: - by Claire Davis r With a quirky grace and wise humor, Claire Davis speaks of heartbreak and quiet joy of life on the snowbound prairie of eastern Montana. ASK US DOLLY'S i ifim rHfir-iiiiffilJ'r-i-iiiikfii launches at Heber Airport tages over UVSCs main Provo flight training operation, he said. "Heber's not as busy" as the Provo operation, which has 7W to H(K) students, Abuhaidar said. "They can come here and be airborne air-borne in 10 minutes or so from when they walk out the door and preflight the aircraft." he explained. Wasatch Aero sponsors an annual annu-al UYSC scholarship in the Aviation Degree program which pays S) percent of the recipient's costs for flight training. In addition to the affiliation wuh the college. Abuhaidar has plans to obtain the latest model of Cevsna's flight training aircraft and affiliate with the Cessna Pilot Training program. pro-gram. He is also in negotiations to form a strategic alliance w ith Great Western Aviation. Such an alliance would allow him to offer an expanded expand-ed range of aeronautical ratings and Winter September 28, 2000 at ABOUT THESE SPECIAL PROGRAMS. - Baby Book ShowersRegistry -Client giftsBulk order discounts -Book Clubs - - - specialties. " We will eventually support 30 to 4U full-time students at any given time, using four aircraft," he said. Abuhaidar is in the process of staffing the flight school and making the final prcparatums for the classroom class-room and the instructors' offices. He's competing with a lot of other employers in trying to hire experienced experi-enced instructor pilots. "The airlines and commuter operations are picking up pilots with less experience than they did before. There are fewer pilots awing aw-ing out of the military, which has been a traditional source of commercial com-mercial aviation's pilots." Abuhaidar explained. He should know: he is a former Navy F A-18 pilot who left the service to pursue his dream of owning an FBO. For more information, call Wasatch Aero Services at b54-3l it ii fit L."! 6:00pm 510 Main Street -502 beriind the Rocky Mtn Chocolate factory I i f i 1 1 1 1 1 ii 4 S |