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Show SECTION SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, BUSINESS EDITOR Grace Leong 2004 gleongOheraldextra.cohi 344-2910 SMALL BUSINESS Giving Corporate Recent community contributions, developments and events rt Pass. Wal-Mar- all-da- t Thirty-eigh- employ- ees of the Utah Community Credit Union in Pro-v-o participated in United Way's annual Day of Caring. UCCU employees volunteered a day of paid;leave to assist with landscaping, painting, cleans, and building picnjo tables at the Boys & Girjs Club in Provo and "assisting with land- scatfjng at the Rural Housing Development in Payson. ; SlniKah and 13 local ski jeerts will offer free skiing fend snowboard-in- g to more than 12,000 fifth- - and in Utah during the 2004-0- 5 winter season. To help maintain Utah kids' interest in snow sports, Ski Utah created the Fifth Grade Passport in 1998, a program allowing all Utah to receive three days of free skiing or snowboarding at 13 local resorts. At the same time, Ski Utah's "Learn to Ski program" will take fourth-grader- s through a classroom ski education curriculum culminating in a ski or snowboard lesson at a resort. Application forms are sixth-grade- rs . fifth-grade- rs six-we- al Xlear available at SkiUtah's Web site, www.skhi-tahlocals.coA $15 processing fee is charged for the passport, $10 for the Snow- -' Wal-MaStores will offer parents an opportunity to create a "Create a Care Bears Memory Book" as part of its "Baby Days" promotioa The program allows parents to experience its Baby Department. Free. Location: Your local t store. Time : Oct. 2, y event. , LDSAudio.com, a distributor of IDS audio books and music in MP3 format, was selected by Deseret Book Co., an LDS book retailer and publisher, to distribute its audio titles and music tracks in digital audio format. Deseret Book and will jointly market products from both companies including religious books, talks, daily devotionals and music by LDS artists. Orem maker f ' V - i , - - r- - r - of nasal washes y, i markets at trade shows, conventions ;v, MvXss; V- 1 if p. 5 Several of Utah's top scientists and researchers received the Grace Leong , DAILY HERACD ;; his grand ear Treating with solution with xylitol was what led Lon Jones, father of the founder of Xlear Inc. of Orem, to come up with the idea of a nasal wash to treat his other patients with ear, nose and Governor's Medal Awards for Science and Technology, a cooperative effort of the gover- nor's office and the state science advisor in the state Department of Community and Economic Development. The recipients include Stephen R. Carter and C Arden Pope of Brigham Young University, Other recipients include University of Utah academics A. Lorris Betz, Noelle E. Cockett Karl J. I if Gordon Lark, Joel S. Miller and WynnR. Walk-e- n and Michael J. Glass ' throat infections. Xylitol is a white crystalline substance that looks and tastes like sugar. It is a naturally occurring sugar alcohol that can be found in birch trees, cane and corn cobs or stalks. Jones, a physician, had the idea to create the nasal spray with xylitol after his studies of alternative antibacterial treat- - ' ments in 1997 led him to a large volume of research done in Finland about the beneficial effects - ', ' J ""X of Dugway Proving Grounds, Richard J. of the Granite School District and Rex S. Spendlove of Hyclone Laboratories. See 6 XLEAR, Xlear Inc. Owners: Nathan Jones, Blaine Yates and Michael Week Ahead Editor's note: Please submit calendar information for Utah business- es, events, seminars and conferences to gleongheraldextra.com or fax it to 344-2985. Deadline for submission is the Wednesday of the week before publication. TUESDAY Utah Valley State College will hold a financial workshop, Managing Per sonal Finances, teaching strategies for reducing debt) building wealth and managing risk. Free. Location: UVSC, Education Bldg., Room 122. Time: p.m. RSVP by calling 86S8230 or register on7-- 9 line at www.uvsc.edusbdc. UVSC will hold its LecIn Entrepreneurshlp seminar. Learn from high-profi- tures entrepreneurs. Free. Location; UVSC, Liberal Arts Bldg., Room 101. Time: Noon-- p.m. RSVP by calling or register online at 1 863-823- 0 www.uvsc.edusbdc. Care for Kids Fouftdtlon will present an ewerilng of dinner and La Caille resistant at 9565 S. Waf&ijh Blvd., Salt Lake City June: 7 p.m. Please funQxation: RS$fc 801-25852- will hold a workManagement shop; Lai nomic community. Speakers will discuss the hottest issues affecting local business today and prepare you for 2005. Enjoy a retreat from the office for a day of engaging speakers and fine cuisine. Time: 7:30 a.m.-3:3- 0 p.m. Cost: $125. RSVP to or Christine at 851-256-7 infothechamber.org. Continental breakfast : rt strategies and connect with resources. Location: UVSC, Education Bldg., Room 122. Time: p.m. Call 863-823-0 register or visit 7-- 9 to www.uvsc.edusbdc for more Information. Con-feren- at Sundance. semi- This Is a one-danar for Utah VaHey's business and civic lead i: ;F W j X W"f FJi - k m. t Location: Corporate head- dark prepare small plastic bottles for xytitol-base- d nasal wash at quarters, production and packaging plant at 119 N. 1380 West in Orem Work Force: 30 workers and lunch included. The UVSC Halladay Ex- ecutive Lecture Series this week will feature speaker Ross Jardine, Baby boomers drive classic car market founder of Investools, formerly Online Investors Advantage, and IMall, one of the first sites on the Internet. Jardine, who has since retired, secured a license from eBay to conduct training classes under its eBay University brand nationwide. Location: UVSC Ragan Theater. Time: Noon. Theresa Agovino THE ASSOCIATED UVSC will hold Strate- UVSC, Education Bldg., Room 122. Time: p.m. Call 868230 to register or visit www.uvsc.edusbdc for more Information. FRIDAY The Chamber of Commerce will host its October Friday Provo-Ore- ,. Forum featuring a debate between gubernatorial candidates Jon Huntsman Jr. and Scott Mathe-so- n Jr. The event Is sponsored by Heritage Web Solutions and the Dally Herald. Location: Provo Marriott at 101 W. 100 North. Cost $18 for chamber members, $25 for guests. Time: 11:30 p.m. Mix and mingle begins at 11:30 a.m. with lunch served at noon. Please RSVP with 7 Christine at or lnfothechamber.org no later than noon on Sept. 28. Submit questions for " Chamber The Provo-Oreof Commerce will hold Its annual Leadership Founded: June 2000 washes made with xylitol, packager of natural sweetener XyloSweet and importer of toothpaste, mints, mouthwash and chewing gum. JOSHUA BROWNDaily Herald a.m.-l:0- 0 THURSDAY si Mark Hassey.left, and Chris Xlear in Orem. HtfgiJ Skirls for Profitable Businesses: Advertising Options tfnd Techniques. This is the second In an eight-paseries to help ' you align advertising r Industry: Maker of nasal ers and community members addressing Important issues in the eco- gies for High Performing Businesses: Training, Evaluating, and Implementation. Location: WEDNESDAY l Thertiye Hassey 1 , ' I ; PRESS Dean Avery recalls being awestruck when his mother's date picked her up in a 1965 blue fastback Mustang. Avery, 11 or 12 at the time, thought the car and its sloping back window were cooL "I'd never seen anything like it before," he said. "It was so eye catching." Avery, now 49, couldnt afford one until four years . ago, when he bought a 1966 Mustang for his wife. Two years ago, he purchased a 1967 for himself. Baby boomers ranging from age 40 to 58 are driving a surge in the classic car market, buying the cars they couldnt purchase when they were younger. Muscle cars such as Mustangs, GTOs and Cameras are among the automobiles propelling the market, said Graig Auction Co., in Jackson, president of Barrett-JacksoScottsdale, Ariz., the country's largest car auction house. Sports cars and street rods are also popular. "These cars just bring you back to your youth," said Avery, a sales manager for an industrial company who lives in San Leandro, Calif. Many of these cars command prices well into five or even six figures. Jackson said a 1969 Camero ZL1 would fetch between $550,000 to 750,000, up from $250,000 two years ago. A 1965 Shelby 3TG50 Mustang would command $110,000 to $120,000, up from $55,000 in 2002. "You are seeing a lot of people who worked their whole life now making age-ol- d dreams a reality," Jackson said "People's money is doing nothing in the . stock market. At least they can enjoy the cars." Still Jackson said most people buy vintage cars not as an investment, but for fun. He said 40 percent of buyers at his company's big annual auction in January were This year, sales at the auction reached $38.5 million, up 35 percent from 2003 and 13 percent from 2001 "Classic cars are like a recreational property ," said Keith Martin, publisher of Sports Car Market Magazine. "Old cars are not good for dairy transport. They - te,, 90's See CARS, 6 grEftEM.6ttbrAJH.'tU 375-- S ( K.M. CANNONLas Vegas A Review-Journa- l the thousands in the Las Vegas Valley being These apartments in Las Vegas are among converted into condominiums. Las Vegas renters caught in tight housing squeeze J.M. Kalil LAS VEGAS REVIEW - JOURNAL Las Vegans seeking new digs or out of towners relocating here have called upon apartment hunter Pat Stanley since 1989. Stanley and her employees at Apartment Finding Service typically had little trouble placing people in a community in which constant building kept rent prices low and supply steady despite a booming population. , Then, last spring, that trend came to a halt. "It's a different world than it has been -- first-timer- 851-256- the debate to i ' 103 TO SlESOKB -- for the last 15 years," Stanley said. "We're having just a terrible time trying to accommodate people, and when we can, they're looking at serious rent increases." A confluence of factors has gripped the Las Vegas apartment market and, in an echo of the red-hhousing market, sent supply plummeting and rents soaring. Escalating costs for land, materials and permits have all but stopped apartment construction in favor of more lucrative ot home building. Simultaneously, thousands of existing See LAS VEGAS, Si E6 - |