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Show THE PARK RECORD www.parkrecord.com SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11,2000 B-7 BUSINESS EDITOR; Box lewis 649-9014 ext 113 Local dsntal prac riefs Dedicating a store one of too ten in Eric Miller joins Frontier Bank staff fTTT BTl Tl Cfl 1TTI (J lyJMiiya?u)o lice II Q An Eric Wilier has joined the real estate lending staff at Frontier Bank in Park City. Miller's background includes tending tend-ing tor real estate and construction activities. He has worked in construction construc-tion from 1991 to 1935, then served as a mortgage broker at Pinnacle Mortgage and Mountain Express Mortgage. He graduated from Amherst College in New England in 1991. 0 Parkite adds chairman to her job title Centner CommunicatKjns Inc. (NASDAQ: (NAS-DAQ: GTNR), maker of professional media electronics equipment last week announced that President and Chief Executive Frances Flood had been named to the additional post of chairman. chair-man. Flood is a Park Crty resident Flood has served as Salt Lake City-based Gentner s president since November 1997 and as if CEO since July 1998, the company said in a statement. "Fran has done an excellent job of turning the company around and building build-ing a solid foundation for future growth said Dal Bagiey. Gentner's largest shareholder and most tenured member of the board of directors. o Landmark Inn receives company award The Best Western Landmark Inn at Kimball Junction has received the E est Western Director's Award for outstanding quality standards. The award recognizes member hotels wfiich achieve a score of 950 or more out of a possible 1 .000 points during a cle anliness and maintenance inspection. inspec-tion. The hotel, located at 6560 N. Ian dmark Drive, has 1 06 rooms. o Tourism Symposium set The Park Crty ChamberBureau has scheduled its Sixth Annual Tourism Symposium for Wednesday. 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m., at the Park City Mamott. This year's agenda will again look at various topics related to tourism and features Lou Keller, vice premdent of Pro Model Corp., speaking on Internet marketing for small businesses. Registtation is $20 per person, which inc ludes lunch. For more information, call Vickie Burgess at the Park City Chamber.'Bu'eau at 658-9613. or e-mail at Vickie parkcityinfo.com. Craig Recce, CRS CRLTIVE OTTERS cm Putting togi-thvr an otk-r on a home is easv if thv buyer has a lot ol money , a tcrntic ib and imptvcaMe credit. Many buvers are not in that situation, however And while sellers like to get their asking price, coixl listing agents prepare Ihem tor the possibility ol recei ing otters that involve me compromises. Successtul Realtors know how to put together creative otters and do whatever it takes to make a transaction work It a buyer is low on cash, the agent mav structure an otter that shifts closing costs to the seller, minimimg thr amount ot cash that the buver needs to close A variation ot a lease purchase arrangement might be in order it a bu?r has recently changed jobs or is sett-employed and needs a longer period peri-od ot time to secure a mortgage and or consult .vith an accountant or lawyer. Owner linannng (or part ot the loan can make a difference in some cases It vour agent brings you a complex otter designed to get a buver into vour home, don't sav "no" until you understand the otter. lor rock solid advice on buvmg or selling real estate, call Craig Reeve at 801-47-W17 or toll tree at I -M0-Craig has been a full time Park Citv resident since 1973 and a full-time real estate agent since 178. www.craigrc.com (43S) 647-8017 (435) 649-7171 (800) 553-4666 & rrwdential ' SHI. w mm Sildir,rw OHM ftk i:m rk r,.k 1 1, , l I Misx laH -M Mltl 4 -11 Ts r 9 ufe n " "n" rmtw Ctum Cosmetic dentistry involves cutting-edge procedures by Bruce Lewis OF THE RECORD STAFF Kent Johnson. D.D.S.. moved his dental practice to Park City at the first of this year Less than 1 1 months after I'pvnmg it. his cosmetic cos-metic dentistry practice has been named one of the top ten in the U S. by the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies. Johnson closed his cosmetic dentistry practice near Palmdale and Lancaster. Calif . after nearly 20 years, to rekxrate to Sun Peak Dme just north of Park City. "It s hard to believe, hut no procedure in my practice has been in use for more than two years. The advances in matenals and proceduies has been amazing." the Paik City dentist said Thursday. Johnson specializes special-izes in cosmetic dentistry, using bonding, veneers, tooth-colored fillings and other implant and reconstructive techniques. "Metal used to be the choice for fillings and crow ns W ith bonded porcelain replacements replace-ments where metal was formerly used, we can repair decay without weakening solid tooth structure." Johnvn explained. Traditional dental practices often focus on repamng individual problems, but dont necessarily look at the overall appearance of the mouth. "There are often a host of sell-esteem issues coupled with the appearance of teeth." he said, telling of one patient who had developed the unconscious gesture of covering her mouth with her hand whenever whenev-er she spoke to another person. "She hated the was her mouth kxked. she was ashamed of it." City sales tax receipts lag state and counties for July 0 Wasatch County jumps 34 pet., city down 2 pet. by Bruce Lewis OF THE RECORD STAFF If reports by large retailers which file their sale tax reports on a monthly basis are an indicator, taxable sales in the area were up solidly statewide in July 2t0 when compared to a year earlier Across Utah, taxable sales and services were up by 10 percent. Heber City and Summit and Wasatch Counties were up well more than the slate average. but Park On recorded a decrease for July 21 M when compared to Juh lsNV. Summit County recorded an 11. 8-percent increase in overall sales in July 5xkJ when compared to Julv sales a year earlier, earli-er, while Wasatch County was up a whopping whop-ping 54.1 percent for the same period. A portion of the increases could be attributed attrib-uted to an increase in the number of large retail filers in each county - from 480 to 54f (up 13 percent) in Summit County and from 248 to 2vs for Wasatch County (a 20-percent uptick) from Julv 1W to Julv 2iKK). 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Oct 11 MARKERIN 14 13 SOVVSTAiR 29 50 29 83 J This Utah stock When Order now and receive this FREE "Robot" Calculator GET ON-LINE TODAY! Call Toll Free: tSS-292-NH-l Or Twt www.!lwtlnTn com Johnson describes himself as more of a consultant than a practitioner for such patients. He uses state-of-the-art systems to diagruse problems such as uneven bites, pain in the muscles around the jaw. then explains the findings using cimiputer-hased graphics. "First. I work with the patient to decide the end result the patient wants to achieve. Then we kxk at wav-s to reach that result. There is almost alwavs more than one was to get there." he said of the techniques he uses. For example, when appbmg veneers, most dentists use the existing teeth as models mod-els for the tenirx rar v eneers w hich must be worn for two or three weeks, until the final products aie received from the lab. Johnson's consultation with the patient enables him to create temporary veneers which kxk and feel more like the final models. mod-els. "Most of the time, we get the biggest reaction from our patients when we have applied the temporaries and they get a kxk at what their mouths will kx4 like when the process is complete I have had patients break down in tears, they were so happy with the changes." Johnson said. Johnson also woiks with patients who have bite and muscle-soreness problems, saving the two are frequently inter-related. Trie process is called bite engmeenng. For example, a peivn with a severe overbite -where the top teeth are in front of the lower teeth when the jaw is closed - can sutler Please see Local dental practice. B-10 Heber City also recorded an increase in sales of 20 4 percent, but Park City saw a 2.2 percent decline in sales over July luuu Ifie number of large monthly filers in Park Citv declined bv b.5 percent, from 124 in lsvh io lib in July of 200O. Monthly filers in Heber City increased from 37 to 50 during the same time. The numbers are compiled in the latest report from the Econmic and Statistical I :mi of i he I tab Tax Commission The "July "summary reflects repents filed on a monthly basis by large-volume filers only. July 2UI I'tah taxable retail sales and business purchases of $2-23 billion for large, monthly sales taxpayers increased 10.0 percent when compared to a year earlier. After adjusting for seasonal trends. Julv 2U1 was up 3 2 percent from June 2tUs talk In Jub 2UH). Retail Trr.de, the largest major sector, reported sales of $13 billion, bil-lion, a gain of 5.2 percent from July a year eailier Nationally, retail trade sales growth was much stronger, rising 82 percent per-cent in Julv 20U) hen compared to Julv I'luh taxable business equipment and Please see Area tai receipts. B-9 reiort is promplp by Dirrfll Refats of GET OWE iViONTlHI FREES you sign up before November 1 0. 2000. Oncludiftg FREE Setup) With All West Internet Service you get Unlimited Access ino em Low $19.95 fctonthly Rate 3 Email Boxes ffe the FREE Tech Support DSL High Speed Connect 10M3 FREE Web Space Web Mail emi you No Busy Signals 7 f - ,T X ' "i : rmm ,u . t-V- r - , ' i Olympic legend Stein Erlksen (center) speaks as Staples' CEO Tom Sternberg (left) and SLCC head Mitt Romney look on. Eriksen was responding to the office supply store at Kimball Junction being dedicated ded-icated to he and Romney. "Dedicating each of our stores to people who have contributed relates that store more closely to the community commu-nity it is in," Sternberg said in his remarks. He added that both Eriksen and Romney are builders: Eriksen has built skiing as a sport in tha U.S. and Romney is In tha process of building the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. 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