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Show ProvoOrem Chamber of Commerce Monthly Newsletter Page 6 Scoff Signs grand opening (February 17 March, 1999 By: Christa Ta'dy PROVO Scott Signs, owned by Scott and Vikki Masters, Mas-ters, will celebrated the public opening of their new business with a ribbon cutting ceremony February 17. Located in the 820 North Business Park, the family-owned and operated business is a full-service full-service sign shop that works with a variety of mediums. However, How-ever, Scott's specializes in design, de-sign, screen printing, hand lettering let-tering and dimensional signage. The goals and ambitions of Scott Signs are to not only continue con-tinue to design and produce attractive at-tractive signs, but to build the largest stock sign inventory in the Valley, and eventually in the state. Achievement of this goal would enable customers wanting want-ing signs ranging from a real estate es-tate directional to' a hazard or warning sign to come into the shop and select the exact sign to fit their needs. Scott first gained experience in the graphics field when he majored in design 27 years ago. He continued obtaining knowledge knowl-edge on the subject while working work-ing as a graphic designer, art director di-rector and in other areas related to graphics. In 1978, opportunity led Scott into the sign trade. Since soon f ?f J j$: aveOy Scott and Vikki Masters, owners of Scott Signs, along with the Pacesetters from the Chamber celebrate the opening of their business with a ribbon cutting ceremony. then, he has worked in sign shops from Salt Lake City to Albuquerque. Al-buquerque. He even worked for several years in the sign shop at ,Brigham Young University. "Each and every shop I've worked in has given me very different dif-ferent and invaluable experiences," experi-ences," Scott said. "Scott Signs fulfills a dream that has been building through all of those years." ' After receiving her bachelor of science degree from BYU, Vikki set up a successful Mary Kay busi ness in Detroit.' .The experiences experi-ences she gained help to support sup-port the business end. of Scott Signs. Her strengths include: finance, fi-nance, organization and managing manag-ing skills. Chamber's first Business After Hours of 1999 a suttess "Vikki's natural effervescence efferves-cence and love for people suit her well for running the affairs of the office, which in large part involves customer relations," Scott said. - Corporate Awards ... . - rrY r, ma MIL i ii I I II OREM Over 100 Chamber members representing more than 50 different businesses attended at-tended the ProvoOrem Chamber's first Business After Hours for the year at the Golden Corral buffet restaurant February Febru-ary 25. Started only a year and a half ago, this Chamber member-only event is a means to help Chamber Cham-ber members network with one another. Usually, the Business After Hours is held the last Thursday of each month from 5 to 7 p.m. "The Business After Hours was designed to give our members mem-bers an opportunity to network one with another in a less formal environment,'' said Steve Densley, president of the Provo Orem Chamber. "This is just one of the ways the Chairter encourages encour-ages its members to shop with each other." Office Depot, the co-sponsor for February's After Hours gave away two cordless phones as door prizes during the event. The cost to attend the networking network-ing social is $2 per person, which goes to help cover some of the food costs. . . Some of the ProvoOrem Chamber's Business After Hours hosts for 1999 will be Ruby River Steakhouse, Carvers, Carv-ers, The Pizza Factory and Sundance. For more information about the Business After Hours or hosting, contact Jamie Naluai " at 379-2567. system The revolutionary Safety Warning System has won formal approval from the Federal Communications Com-munications Commission to operate op-erate on the 24.05-24.25 gigahertz giga-hertz band for "highway safety alerting and traffic signal control purposes." The action by the FCC paves the way for the Safety Warning System to become the nationwide standard in motorist alert systems. v. "The nation's drivers have shown their support for the safety radar concept by purchasing purchas-ing well over 6 million SWS -enhanced radar detectors"?Com-mented detectors"?Com-mented Janice Lee, president of Safety Warning System, L.C., the organization overseeing development develop-ment of the system, "With the final fi-nal FCC approval we anticipate an enormous demand for transmitters". trans-mitters". - Operating on the same microwave micro-wave frequency as police radar's K-band, Safety Warning transmitters trans-mitters alert drivers over a mile Continued on page 10 "raw zir t ''V . f . f t It l I I hill if i 7Ar-' See us first! We can save you $$$ on all your ! furnishing needs. flkHAElHAp'S 744 South State .Orem, Utali (801) 222-0237 Fine Oak Furniture at Reasonable Prices Master Card, MSA, and Discover 90 davs same as cah |
