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Show Wednesday, January 25, 1989 ProvoOrem Chamber of Commerce Orem-Geneva Times Page 19 AIM Improves Provo Businesses Just 25 years ago downtown Provo was the center of activity for consumers and business people. With the growth of strip malls and superstores on the city's outer limits, downtown Provo soon lost its zip. Provo, like many other cities across the country, is striving to revive downtown business-and recent re-cent expansion, remodeling and construction projects show that Provo Pro-vo is on the way up. So says Linda P. Walton, executive ex-ecutive director of the Association of Involved Merchants (AIM). "AIM is here to help promote downtown Provo as a viable business area," Walton said. "We do this through improving retail strategies, enhancing the image of downtown, improving merchant communication and serving as an ombudsman for problem solving." Walton knows where small businesses are coming from. She's president of her own public relations firm, The Walton Group. "It's tough to be in business for yourself," she said. "You feel like you're in a vacuum and it is survival of the fit-test. fit-test. I know what it's like to be a small business owner-and believe me, the best way to solve our problems pro-blems is to combine our resources." And that's what AIM is all about: combining resources to promote pro-mote overall growth. AIM-which is funded by a federal block grant-is administered by a volunteer board of directors. The board is composed of business, government and consumer representatives. New board members recently elected to three-year terms include Stewart Hughes of Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood, Gary House of Smith's Food & Drug and Dennis Morganson from the Pullman Bed & Breakfast inn. Midge Johnson of The Main Street Journal, Alan Tipton from Utah Office Supply and Steve Christopher from Spumoni's Pizza were all named to two-year terms. Continuing board members who will retire at the end of 1989 include board president Thone Heppler from Zions First National Bank, Wil Feller from Goldsmith Company Jewelers and Trieste Goodwill of Joe Vera's Mexican Fiestaurant. Ex-officio board members include in-clude Andy Anderson from the ProvoOrem Pro-voOrem Chamber of Commerce, Margaret Firmage of the Chamber's Women's Division, Ron Madsen from Provo City Redevelopment Redevelop-ment and Raylene Ireland of Provo City. LP PETE'S REPAIR ZeUE, MOBILE HOME SPECIALISTS HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING REPAIRS (ALL MAKES) & FURNACE REPLACEMENTS HONEST RATES NO MILAGE OR TRIP CHARGE FREE ESTIMATES ON FURNACE REPLACEMENTS HIGH EFFICIENT LICENSED OWNER PETE GIBBS "THE ENGLISHMAN" 226-7799 847 S. 800 E, OREM mm 1 I nte&t w Mf" JO ' 1 v 1 i eft P -u.ti A. AUTO MECHANICS Orrln Nelaon Ext. 349 BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Henry Davit Ext. 110 CABINETRY & MILLWORK Ed Nolton Ext. 2S0 lrx ROBOTIC AUTOMATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY Eldon Bailey Ext. 518 DIESEL MECHANICS Paul Hardman Ext. 240 DRAFTING & DESIGN TECH. Doug Jorgensen Ext. 165 GRAPHICS I COMMERCIAL ART Larry Holt Ext. 523 lf you graduate from Utah Valley Community College with an Associate off Applied Science Degree, we guarantee that you will have satisfactory job-entry level skills or we will give you up to nine credit hours of additional training tuition-free. Financial Aids & Scholarships Lower Education Costs Nationally Recognized Trade Programs HighQuality Faculty Good Paying Jobs Co-op Placement Program Contacts with Industry Leaders REFRIGERATION t AlA C0K0IDONMG Allan Davit Ext. 167 1 - " visi v;o-op Placement program uoniacis wiin inausiry Leaders 1 any thyou ' s j Tr $ For More Inf omiation f m U'i&e? rJ S IS5p I Call Utah Valley Community College M ooo fc J 222-8000 1 1'" hindy WELDING HUT Don Phillips Ext. 135 ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY Ralph Merrill Ext. 519 ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY Merlin Smith Ext. 675 COLLISION REPAIR Don Pendergrass Ext 360 LINEMAN TRAINING Carl Crawford Ext. 569 MACHINIST TRAINING Vard Roper Ext. 115 PROFESSIONAL DRIVING Phil Kresge Ext. 568 |