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Show Page 14 0 R E M TIMES Thursday, March 13, 2008 XanGo cuts Lehi workforce J ':"jv' I II I I I II . - . MYSTI SANTIAGO North County Storyteller Nanette Watts tells third, fourth and fifth graders at Rennaissance Academy the tale of the tissue villain. Renaissance Academy hosts storytelling festival Mysti Santiago NOKHCOUi-vyiA" Parents and grandparents alike will learn to create their own magic and adventure if they attend a Pirates in Pajamas Paja-mas storytelling class Friday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., hosted by Renaissance Academy as part of the school's storytelling festival. Storytelling is an avenue for families to express different values and ideas in a memo rable way. "1 think that storytelling is a great way for us to express and to communicate ourselves and our values." says Janette Jones a parent who organized much of the storytelling month at Renaissance Academy. Anyone in the community is invited to attend the class and it is not necessary to have a students that attends Renaissance Renais-sance Academy. There is a suggested $25 donation that will go to the storytelling festi val at Renaissance Academy. "I think that its a great opportunity op-portunity for everyone who does it, to put themselves and their values and the things they think are important into their stories." said parent Janette Ja-nette Jones. Recently, marriage and family therapist Kelly Gagalis-Hoffman Gagalis-Hoffman conducted a study and found that storytelling helps families to create their own family identity, and helps both parents and children to North County Newspapers Daily Herald Publishing Co 399 E. State Rd. - Pleasant Grove, UT 84062 7S6-7EE9 FAX: 755-5274 Q Gemral HefeWinHtf I PBMWMHBBMMHB HH MBHMHHMMM General Msflci Roams HefeWanM Beli Warn Tor Sent DO you need a bed? 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However, because it would cost more than the other alternatives ana have additional operational, safety and maintenance concerns, FHWA and UDOT have determined that The proposed 4800 North Connector is not a reasonable alternative. The public is invited to review the results of the evaluation at the open house. OPEN HOUSE: Wednesday, March 1 9, 5 - 7 p.m. Willowcreek Middle School 2275 West 300 North, lehi Can't attend the meeting? Get more information on the web at udot.utah.govmountainview ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT CLICK. READ. COMMENT. E-mail mountainviewiautah.gov Mail Mountain View Corridor co Parsons Brinckerhoff 488 E Winchester St., Suite 400 Internet Murray, Utah 84107 udot.utah.govmountainview Phone 1.800.596.2556 1 Website for News and Information in Central Utah. KVlii) J see different sides of the same story. The study also found that storytelling can also act as a valuable tool to helps parents express important information with their children in a non-threatening non-threatening and often fun way. The Pirates in Pajamas class will be taught by professional storyteller Steffani Raff. She will teach parents how to quickly come up with bedtime stories using a six step process that 's sure to get those creative cre-ative juices flowing. For more information on the benefits of Storytelling visit www.pira-tesinpajamas.com. www.pira-tesinpajamas.com. The month got kicked off with Nannette Watts, another professional storyteller, who visited last Friday. All the students stu-dents rotated between hearing Nannette 's stories, working on art work and attending storytelling story-telling workshops. The focus on storytelling will continue on March 28, when more professional profes-sional storytellers will come to Renaissance Academy. The professionals wiU goto different differ-ent classrooms sharing then-stories then-stories while some students at the school will have the opportunity oppor-tunity to present their stories alongside the professionals that day. April 4 will be the last day students wiD participate in more storytelling for then-Wonder then-Wonder days' activities. Advertisement Herniated Disc? Sciatica? Leg Pain? UTAH - Have you tried pills, therapy, injections, massage. surgery and failed? Have you wondered if your severe back, sciatica, sci-atica, or leg pain will ever go away? Now there is a back pain guide that your doctor may not even "know about that you can receive for free entitled, "New Break-through in Medical - I" Technology" that Teveals a relatively new surgery-free, non-invasive technology designed to treat severe low "back, buttock and leg pain along with herniated and slipped discs. 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"This is very much a layoff. I'd like to know where they're reallocating me," said the former for-mer employee who spoke to the Daily Herald on condition of anonymity. He said he was one of several workers escorted escort-ed out of the XanGo corporate office in Lehi after a 15-minute meeting with senior management manage-ment on Thursday morning. "There were three people in my department who were laid off, and one of them had been there for three years," he said. "According to the security guard who escorted us out, there were at least 35 people laid off." The former employee said the layoffs occurred after Kent Wood, president of XanGo, Xan-Go, sent out a companywide e-mail on Thursday morning saying he has had to make 'tough decisions" after meeting meet-ing with senior executives in the past few weeks. Freeze said the company was "reallocating corporate resources to align with its continued global expansion and provide premium service to its growing international markets." "As a result of an evaluation evalua-tion of changing global needs, XanGo is implementing a strategic stra-tegic reallocation process that will enable us to deploy personnel per-sonnel and financial resources to assertively advance our service commitment in every one of our 23 international markets," Freeze said m an , e-mailed statement Thursday. "This reallocation wiD impact a small number of employees at our Lehi headquarters, but will position us to continue to support the vibrant growth that has characterized the first few years of our company's compa-ny's history." The cuts come in the wake of what the company CEO Aaron Garrity described as phenomenal international growth last year, which includes a gain of 10,000 international in-ternational distributors, and the opening of new markets worldwide like that of Malaysia, Ma-laysia, where XanGo chalked up more than $1 million in revenue within the first month of doing business in the Asian country. That same year, XanGo Xan-Go also hired 353 employees, introduced XanGo.TV and expanded ex-panded its 300,000-square-f oot distribution center in Spanish Fork. The former employee said he believes the layoffs were due to slowing sales in the U.S. market. Both the U.S. and Canada are XanGo's biggest markets, accounting for more than 50 percent of total sales. "Since the new year began, things have started getting more and more tight. Last week, the senior executives asked managers where they could cut budgets. This week, it's personnel cuts. But XanGo still has many markets like Germany and Mexico where it's growing and doing exceptionally ex-ceptionally well," the former employee said. "Because XanGo only has one product, and the company has based all of its growth in the past five years on that one product, some people speculate specu-late that the product lifecycle of its mangosteen juice is starting on a downward trajectory," tra-jectory," he said. "The remedy would be to come out with new product lines like the new cosmetics line that's being launched this November." XanGo also faces growing competition from more than two dozen rivals that sell fruit juices, powdered drinks and vitamin fizz tablets. That includes in-cludes Tahitian Noni International Interna-tional Inc., which owns Pure Fruit Technologies, a Las Vegas Ve-gas company that markets exotic ex-otic fruit beverages including MangoXan, a mangosteen-based mangosteen-based drink. Not only does Pure Fruit underprice XanGo on MangoXan juice in health food stores, its parent, Tahitian Tahi-tian NonL also sold $2 billion worth of Noni juice in its first 10 years by 2006, according to an Associated Press report last month. But Freeze maintains XanGo Xan-Go has "experienced magnificent magnifi-cent growth domestically and internationally in its first five years of business. 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