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Show SECTION SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, BUSINESS EDITOR I Grace Leong 344-291- 0 2004 gleongOheraidextra.caffi SMALL BUSINESS Giving Corporate Recent cornmunity contributions, devebpments and events Wat-Ma- Stores btc rt wffl host a diabetes Community Education, nonprofit partnership between Utah Valley State College and the Alpine and Plwo school districts, is offering 250 online noncredit classes in 32 categories including entertainment industry careers, desktop publishing and sales and marketing. Classes begin Wednesday. Course fees range between $49 and $69. To get the complete list of online classes, or to register, go to www.ed2go.comuvsce du and click on "Cours- es." For more information, please call Community Education at (801) . awareness, prevention -and management seminar including free health screenings for fcs customers at Wal-Ma-rt stores and Sam's Clubs. Attendees can participate in various health screenings including blood glucose, cholesterol and blood pressure at participating Sam's Clubs on Friday from 10 ajn. to 5 pm and at participating Wal-Ma-rt stores on Saturday from 10 am to 4pm For ad- ' ditional infcrmation, please contact Rachel Oilman at (312) 596-341- ' - 2 " nni J.E. I -- J if I f IT-- '' Y inn i, I inaatiiiiii'iih It. 5 M i a : 863-801- 2. National briefing MMmiHrfTrrwnnvn rmrnzmmsmmaemimmmmmimammimmmmm mmtmmmmmmmm iHHaaHmmMim Sprint AT&T to pay $1.5M in penalties WASHINGTON Under the agreement, Sprint will pay $1.1 million and AT&T will pay , Sprint Corp. and AT&T Corp. will pay nearly $1.5 million in civil The commission said the two companies ei-ther denied service to prospective customers or placed conditions on their service because of their credit reports. Week Ahead Editor's note: Please submit calendar Informaes, events, seminars and conferences to gleongheratdextra.com or fax It to 344-298- I The Utah Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management will hold its Crossroads Conference, an annual gathering for human resource professionals. Keynote addresses will ,' , training initiatives in problem solving, conflict resolution, teamwork, performance management and ethics and Steven Smith coauthor of the internabook tionally "Business Think." Location: South Towne sition Center in Salt Lake City. For more information, visit video-base- d Making waves Provo water feature design and engineering company attributes growth to rebounding hotel industry . Center at the UVSC campus. Time: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Breakfast and 863-889- Utah Valley State College's Halladay Executive Lecture Series this week features Rod- g. far-flun- ney Brady, chief executive and president of Management Corp. Brady. Location: UVSC Ragan Theater. Time: Noon. Cost Free. iBjT De-ser- of Retired Executives Association will hold a small business workshop providing legal, financial and management information to businesses.' Location: Room N4010 in the north building of the Salt Lake County Complex, 2001 S. State I The ber SelOCted I il jflAClOWUXd son. Time: 8:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m. For more information, call MaryLou at -- 746-226- THURSDAY I The Utah Information Technology Association will hold an IT industry breakfast with gubernatorial candidates Jon Huntsman Jr. and Scott Matheson Jr. Each cand ers and desserts will be served. Please RSVP by Wednesday with Stacy Forsyth at 237-211- ' SATURDAY address issues date related to the Utah IT in- Dan Martin ," I Tre agement full-tim- ber of Commerce's Women's Business work Luncheon ture speaker will fea- - Tiffany Berg. Location: Historic . the sleepy back side of Honolulu's airport, a van pulls up to the tarmac and out steps former pro football star Terry Bradshaw. He walks a few paces past sin-planes at rest with their noses in the air and wordlessly takes a seat on a golf cart that takes him to a chartered plane boundforKona. .; No fuss, no paparazzi, no pestering fans at least no one brave . on his . enough to test the glower face. . i ( "That's why people like that come to us. They're in, they're out . and no one bugs 'em, says George Hanzawa, owner of charter and , firm George's Avia- - ' as Bradshaw's golf ... tion Services, i cart puiis away. The alternative for Bradshaw would have been to fry one of Location: Corporate headquarters at 2696 N. University Ave., Suite 290 in Provo Work Force: 20 employees See EDSACLOWARD, E6 , ; night-trainin- f 'w t y . gle-engi- Meeting will feature speaker Judith Rasband, director of the Conselle. Cham' Net-- m Industry: Specializes in the design and engineering of water features and theme parks including water parks, amusement rides and water slides, pools, lagoons, fountains and aquatic life support systems for aquariums and zoos. projects. to the security procedures that would have made him a sitting But duck for autograph-seekers-. reclusive celebrities arent the onry ones leaving the jet set to join the t, propeller pack. Thanks to security delays, rising interisland airfares and the attrac- ' ; s Brlgham Young University Women's 568-3500- Prwo-Ore- HONOLULU HONOLULU-- On I The ; The Provo designer and engineer of water parks and aquatic life support systems for zoos and aquariums is now positioning itself to take on bigger resort and theme park contracts as the entertain- ment and hotel industry rebounds and the Indian gaming industry continues to grow nationwide. Founded: 1975 Hawaii's major airlines and submit . " , Institute of Image ManAll current and former employees and , spouses of current and e former employees at BYU are invited. Location: BYU, 2260 For v , Harman Building. more Information, call Farnsworth at 3740147, Karen Green at 375- - i ; 2133, or visit the Web site at www.byu.edu byuwomen. vo. Formerly: Cloward & Associates Parent company: EDSA Inc. of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Charter flights are taking off in Hawaii will dustry followed by a short question and an-- , swer session. Location: . ' Little America Hotel, Main S. Ballroom A, 500 St, Salt Lake City. Time: 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Cost $25 for members, $50 for nonmembers. For more information, call .' UlTA at (801) by water parks such as the Grand Slam Village at Circus Circus in Las Vegas and Seven Peaks in Pro- EDSACloward LLC I. Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas; 2. Beijing Aquarium, Beijing; 3. Mohegan Sun, UncasviUe, Conn.; 4. Hyatt Regency Waikoloa, Kohala Coast, Hawaii; 5. Lost City, Sun City, South Africa; & Universal's Islands of Adventure, Orlando, Fla.; 7. Geyser Falls Water Theme Park, Choctaw, Miss.; 8. The Scientific Center Aquarium, Sabniya, Kuwait; 9. Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, Scottsdale, Ariz.; 10. Portofino Bay Hotel, Orlando, Fla.; 11. Vshaka Island Marine Park, Durban, South Africa; 12. The Oasis at Pointe South Mountain, Phoenix, Ariz.; 13. Sandy Lane Resort and Spa, Saint James, Barbados; 14. Dora! Got Resort and Spa, Miami, Fla.; 15. Pacific Islands Club, Tumon Bay, Guam; 16. Xanadu, Antalya, Turkey; 17. Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, Co.; 18. Snake River Falls, Sandusky, Ohio. Chamof Commerce will Provo-Ore- hold its Business After Hours at Deseret Morning News. KSL 5 TV, KSL Newsradio 1160 and Deseret Morning News announced an open house in their new Utah County News Bureau. Location: Utah County Media Center, Bank of American Fork building, 1280 S. 800 East In Orem. Time: 5 7 p.m. Light appetiz- Street Cost $40 a per- HERALD EDSAQoward LLC, a Provo company famed for its waterscape work at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas and Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure in Orlando, is making waves locally and internationally. The company's signature water feature designs and engineering rework can be found in g sorts such as the Lost City at Sun City, South Africa as well as near Conferences & Workshops at I The Grace Leong DAILY lunch included. For more information, call UVSC best-sellin- g (801) fecsr" w hum Planning on Thursday through Friday. Topics will include consensus collaborative forecasting, high flexibility scheduling, sales and operations planning and leveraging technology. Location: Sorenson Student be delivered by Kerry Patterson who has devel- I The Service Corps B 851-256- WEDNESDAY award-winning- 1 0 or Pebble at darensthechamber.org. t The Sundance Chapter of the American Produc- tlon and Inventory Control Society will sponsor a two-da- y conference and workshop on Best Practices in Demand Management &Master 5. Deadline for submission is the Wednesday of the week before publication. oped i Court House Ballroom in Provo'. Cost: $12 for members and $15 for nonmembers. Time: Noon. Please RSVP by noon on Tuesday with tion for Utah business- rafe jST Jj $365,000. penalties to settle government claims that the companies violated federal credit laws for customers seeking telephone service, the Federal Trade Commission announced Friday. -- tion of charting one's own course , around the islands, small aviation ' firms say they are working flat out these days to handle a surge in , business from both local and visit-- . ing travelers who are chartering aircraft or even renting planes that u fry themselves, they ' Though the Federal Aviation does not track statistics c such, activity, an FAA ' spokesman said Hawaii's busy , small-fr- y flyers are catching a , CINDY ELLEN mJSSELtKonoMu wind that's blowing nationwide, v- "This is one of the big trends in Steve Tower inspects an airplane that tie chartered froJhMoore Air in aviation now. Not just in Hawaii . Honolulu. Thanks to security delays, rising mterislahxiaufares and the attraction of charting one's own course around theislands, small , ' " See CHARTERS, 6 aviation firms say they're facing a surge in business. ' ; ; ' ; ..... V. |