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Show Thursday, March 23, 2006 OREM GENEVA TIMES Page 5 ticker mm WHO'S WHO AND TOMB Melissa Mayntz NORTH COUNTY STAFF lvin Harward and his family have the coolest cool-est jobs in Orem: as the owners of Tour Ice, they manufacture I tons of ice daily to deliver to local supermarkets, convenience stores and special events. The company started in the spring of 1972, and today Tour Ice is a major supplier of cubed ice to Macey's, Allen's, Maverick convenience stores and BYU events. Cubes can be supplied in 7-. 20- and 40-pound 40-pound bags. Naturally, the summer months are Tour Ice's busiest season. The company may produce as much as 50 tons of cubed ice per day with their various ice makers, and they also supply sup-ply ice for city celebrations and to markets as far away as Park City, Heber and Evan-ston, Evan-ston, Wyo. During the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games, Tour Ice provided all the ice for the Ice World as well as reserve supplies for different events. In addition to cubed ice, Tour Ice offers hand-carved ice sculptures for corporate and private special events such as banquets, holiday parties, par-ties, award ceremonies and weddings. The designs are virtually unlimited: single or double swans, company logos, arches, animals and specialized sculptures sculp-tures featuring initials or names. "We can do almost anything," any-thing," Harward said, "as long as there's enough base to hold it up." The most popular ice (T Tell Mr lou're Proud! Place a personalized Graduation Notice (Similar to this example) with your own message of congratulations for only... n A III n for 1 photo for 2 photos Your Notice will be published on a special page Thursday, May 25th. Your Graduates Information may be delivered to the Pleasant Grove office 399 East State Road, on or before Thursday, May 18th at noon. North County M Newspapers 399 East State WHAT'S HAPPENING c freeze I I t : it I K" Icing: Richard Harward stacks bags of ice at Tour Ice in Orem. sculpture is a heart with two lovebirds that is frequently requested re-quested for weddings. Ice sculptures start as a 300-pound block of specialized special-ized clear ice, unlike standard cubes that are cloudy. Depending on a design's intricacy, it takes 2-4 hours to carve, but the resulting 150-200 150-200 pound sculpture will last for several hours. "It will make it through pretty much any event without a problem," Harward said. "As the event goes on, they will lose some detail, but the basic shape will stay for eight or nine hours." Traditional ice sculptures cost $225400 depending on the number of blocks needed, Graduate I J Congratulations on your I P graduation! We are all so I Pnud of you-you're making I l ur dreams come true! Road Pleasant Grove 756-7669 JEREMY HARMONNorth County Frozen in ice: A rose is seen encased in ice that will become an ice sculpture at Tour Ice in Orem. Example Below Not Actual Size I "cjwu very much. Dd and Mom, John, I Barbara, Jessica, Billy I and Tyler CODlPeifolll) rrn JEREMY HARMONNorth County LlIiLu This Dealers Is; Overstocked! &. Must' Sell! W) &, UvM ioff Ai; Little As mm This Satujday MdEcKj 25th,, 2QQ6', FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: American Fork, Utah Stuart Gregory, of Gregory Pontiac Buick GMC, and Kim Dangerfield, of Ken Garff Ford in American Fork plan to hold a one-day sales event on Saturday, March 25th, 2006, at oy t. IUUU 5oum lust American Fork. Gregory states that, "due current economic condi- . i rr rions and its effect on sales, they find their dealerships critically overstocked with used vehicle trade-ins. trade-ins. Quite frankly, we've never seen anything like these last few months. We're in a position where we have to liquidate these vehicles vehi-cles in a hurry to bring our inventories back in line." Dangerfield continues, "We're going to hold this unusual. $99 sales event where every used vehicle will be drastically reduced. Some to only $99! To move these vehicles, we'll be pricing pric-ing used cars that could sell for six to nine thousand dollars at the four to six thousand dollar range. This event promises to be exciting. excit-ing. If you've never seen this type of disposal before... make sure you arrive early." To simplify the sale, they will pre-mark every ev-ery used vehicle. The sale lot at 629 E. 1 000 South in American Fork will open for preview at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. All vehicles will be Tour Ice Address: 981 N. Industrial Park Rd., Orem Telephone: 225-5584 Web site: www.tourice.net Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. the size of the piece and the design's intricacy. Tour Ice also offers practical practi-cal ice sculptures such as ice bowls and vases. Bowls may have flowers, pictures or other items frozen inside them as decorations, and they can be used to serve fresh fruit, shrimp and even drinks. "There is a plastic liner if (customers) want to use it for punch so it doesn't melt through the ice," Harward said. Tour Ice has shipped sculptures sculp-tures as far as California, Texas and Colorado via refrigerated refrig-erated trucks. Clients can also pick up the sculptures. Tour Ice's biggest challenge has been the competitive nature na-ture of the business. "Ice is ice," Harward said. "The best you can do is offer clients the best service you can. Don't let them run out of ice!" In order to fulfill customers' custom-ers' needs, Tour Ice will work longer than 18-hour days during dur-ing the busy summer months, including making late-night deliveries to meet requests and keep the ice supply available. "If they need it, we make sure we're there," Harward said. 'Sunn open for inspection at that time. At 10:00 a.m., the slasher will begin slashing prices to the lowest possible price Whoever is sitting behind the wheel of any used vehicle will be given first opportunity to purchase the vehicle at the posted sale price in the windshield. No haggle, no hassle. Used car buyers will be available to bid oft exit IO in on trade to return to normal pricing." "This inventory situation has been very difficult, but it will certainly be an opportunity op-portunity for the consumers who participate We'd rather give the local customers the chance to purchase these vehicles then to send them to the auctions in Salt Lake City," says Dangerfield. Questions regarding this sale can be directed di-rected to: (801) 756-3533 or (801) 763-6800. 763-6800. Vin numbers available at dealership. Web Targeted moves to Lehi Web Targeted, a Utah-based Utah-based Internet marketing market-ing firm, has relocated its headquarters to Lehi. "Our company has grown over 300 percent in the past year, and we ran out of room at the other place," said David Bas-com, Bas-com, CEO of Web Targeted. The company works with clients' Web sites to improve their placement for their keywords key-words in search engines like Google and Yahoo. Web Tar-geted's Tar-geted's new office is located in Lelii at 3305 W. Mayflower Ave., Suite 4 in Lehi. Central Bank celebrates 10 years in American Fork The American fork office of Central Bank will be celebrating cel-ebrating their 10th year anniversary anni-versary with an Open House on Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at their offices located at 175 E. Main, American Fork. Central Bank customers as well as the general public are invited to stop by during those hours for free food and gifts. The American Fork Central Bank office has experienced expe-rienced tremendous growth during the past 10 years. Central Bank was organized in 1891 and now has nine offices of-fices in Utah County from Payson to Lehi. Pleasant Grove resident to manage California facility Daniel T. Child, a long-time resident of Pleasant Grove, has been named manager of the South Bayside System Authority wastewater treatment treat-ment facility in Redwood City, Calif., just south of San Francisco. Child, 48, has 25 years of experience in the management manage-ment of various municipal, industrial, and public works facilities. Most recently, he has been area managervice president of operations since 2001 for Veolia Water North America West LLC. - ins during the sale hours of 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Lenders will be there to arrange low-cost financ ing for virtually every evel of credit his tory. Gregory states, "Please be advised this is a one-day-only sales event. Because of the size of the discounts being be-ing offered, when the inventories have been reduced to the desired level, the sales tags will be removed re-moved and all vehicles will J COPY |