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Show PAGE 12 Eg SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, BUSINESS EDITOR Grace Leong gleongheraldextra.com or fax it to 344-298Deadline for submission is the Wednesday of the week before publication. 5. WEDNESDAY I The Orem Small Business Development Center and Startup Princess, a local networking and mentoring group for women entrepreneurs, will host a workshop featuring presenter Nancy Cadjean. Cadjean is the founder and president of Sign Babies and is also host of the Internet radio show, "Babies and Moms: Birth and Beyond." Learn the three questions you need to ask yourself before you make the plunge into the market. Learn what information gives you the green light to go ahead and what information indicates a red light to stop. Location: Provo City Library at Academy Square. Time: p.m. For questions or to register, call Lauor rie Ann at 863-8237-- 9 be speaking on UDOT and the technology used within UDOT. He graduated from the U.S. Registration is required. I The Provo-OreChamber of Commerce will host a new member orientation. Lunch will be provided. Location: Chamber offices, 51 S. University Ave. Time: Noon. Please RSVP to Carly Johnor ston at 851-256-0 ' T7 Joyce M. Rosenberg THE Free. I The Salt Lake Chapter Photos of Shared Vision will host a luncheon featuring Ken Foster, who will speak on "The Critical Ingredients for Small Business Success." 649-375- com. I Alexander's Print Advantage of Lindon will host a global print automation confer- ence from Sept. 13-1Participants will have the opportunity to walk SATURDAY The Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce will host its 105th annual I luncheon, "Rock Star: . Salt Lake Chamber." The event will honor eight retiring chamber board members and. five chamber champions for volunteering to support its programs. Lane Beattie, president & CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber; Scott Hymas, chamber board chair; and Keith Rattie, outgoing chamber board chair, will review the chamber's accomplishments in the past year. They will also describe the Chamber's priorities for the coming year. tion Breakfast. All proceeds will be donated to the Utah Lions Club kechamber.org, or call 328-506- UVSC School of Technology and Computing will host Brent Schvaneveldt of the Utah Department of I The Transportation. He will New farmers enter the field to meet rising demand for locally grown, organic produce or 1 visit: www.saltlakesvn. THURSDAY annualmeetingsaltla A CROP OF FRESH FACES . your time, energy and connections to make your business more profitable; and free yourself up from the things you don't like to do. For more information, call MaryPat at Six Harmons Grocery will host Utah Stores Lions Sight Preserva- Foundation to support programs that harvest, store and distribute corneas for transplants and for eye research and treatment in Utah. The breakfast costs $2 for children and $3 for adults and includes pancakes, eggs, Harmons's fresh ground sausage, hash browns, orange juice, milk and coffee. Lions Club volunteers will cook the food that Harmons is donating to support the event. "Harmons is proud to help raise funds for corneal transplants for people in our community," said Bob Harmon, Harmons's vice president of marketing and advertising. Location: The breakfast will be served at the following Harmons locations in West Valley, Kearns, Taylorsville, Brickyard Plaza, The District in South Jordan and Ogden. For store addresses visit Time: 8:00-11:0- 0 a.m. ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK As the fall semester begins at colleges and universities across the country, thousands of small business owners will be among the students. Many people who run their own companies realize they need to learn more about finance, marketing and managing, and so they decide to squeeze courses into their already tight schedules. Peter Figueredo, CEO of a New York-baseadvertising agency, had run the company for three years when he realized he needed to learn more about operating a business. "I know the actual type of advertising and marketing we do extremely well" Figueredo said. But "how to manage people, set up an infrastructure, finances, human resources was still something very new to me." So in 2004, he began a three-yea- r program on entrepreneur-shi- p at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Besides classroom learning that led to his being granted a certificate from MIT, he came away with a network of other small business owners who he still turns to when he needs help or advice. Michael Cramer had taken plenty of undergraduate and graduate business courses, but realized after he'd founded Adagio Teas that he didn't know enough about public relations. And he knew that "the best way to get people to get to know you is through media stories. I was never exposed to that side of the equation." So Cramer, whose company is based in Clifton, N. J., took a course at nearby Montclair State University. All of Adagio's public relations is now done and the company has gotten itself mentioned in a number of very newspapers, magazines and Web sites. Colleges and universities around the country junior e colleges as well as the g schools are an resource for company owners looking to further their business education. And with many schools catering to small business owners, there is a huge range of individual courses as well as certificate and degree programs available. And e many schools offer programs and online learning. Searching online is probably the best way to find classes and programs, although asking other business owners who have gone back to school is also a good idea, since they can tell you about their experiences. If cost is an issue, you might want to look into courses offered at U.S. Small Business Administratiod en- 225-667- 10. Interested persons ROURKE Associated Press Learn how to profit from 0 should RSVP by Sept. 10 at www.saltlake-chamber.oror by MATT of tomatoes at Blooming Glen Farm in Perkasie, Pa., on English at Penn. Tricia Borneman majored in journalism at Shippensburg University. Murtha, 34, and Borneman, 32, are among a new crop of farmers sprouting up around the country who weren't raised on farms, have college degrees, and in some cases have left other careers behind. Tricia Borneman carries a tray July 24. Tom Murtha studied through its Lindon facility, ask questions about commercial print workflow automation, cjohnstonthechamber. and participate in eduorg. cational seminars ov.i Provo-OreI The the use of technology in Chamber of Commerce printing. Location: 245" will host its Ladles Golf South 1060 West Linworkshop, which will be don. For more informataught by PGA Golf protion about the conferfessional Randy Anderence, please visit www. son, BYU Women's Golf alexanders.com Coach Sue Nyhus and other golf course staff. FRIDAY Members will meet for a 15-2minute golf I The Pleasant Grove clinic, and then hit Business Alliance will range balls for another 20 minutes. A light host a seminar featurlunch will be served. ing Ian Wilson, professor and former dean Starting at noon, you can play golf. You can of UVSC's business then play anywhere college. He will speak from one hole to nine on "Effective Group Decision Making." The holes. We will cover different parts of the event is sponsored golf swing, short game, by Gandolfo's Deli of rules and etiquette. Pleasant Grove. Cost: Cost: $21.95 per $5 for sack lunch from event. To register, call Gandolfo's. Time: Noon. Location: BaseCascade Golf Center at Limited men of Pleasant Grove to first 40 registrants. Library. Please RSVP to For more information on pgbusinessalliance msn.com before Sept. location, time of event, 14 to reserve lunch. please call 851-256- Location: Little America Hotel, 500 South Main Street in Salt Lake City. Time: Noon-l:3- 0 p.m. Cost: $65 per person and $650 for a table of t consultant engineering experience, five years of Army engineering experience and currently as preconstruction engineer for UDOT Region 3. Location: UVSC, CS 404. Time: 11:30 a.m. 0 sbdcuvsc.edu. going back to school 1 Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. with a degree in civil engineering. He has worked for 13 years as a professional engineer with UDOT- '- two years of the mistakes most trepreneurs make; the eight core principals the wealthy use daily to make money; synergistic ways to leverage gleongheraldextra.com Many small biz owners week Ahead Editor's Note: Please submit calendar information for Utah businesses, events, seminars and conferences to - 344-291- 0 2007 ' Joann Loviglio THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tom Murtha studied EngPERKASIE, Pa. lish at Penn. Tricia Borneman majored in journalism at Shippensburg University. Like most college grads, they finished school with a good idea of where they wanted their career paths to lead. Unlike most college grads, it was a dirt path. So on a recent summer day, instead of wprk: office building 40 miles "ing in an in the Philadelphia, pair were tending away to kale, collard greens and broccoli in Bucks County. "We went to college, we were on track to have some sort of professional careers, but it just didn't resonate," Murtha said, "The thing about farming is it engages you on all levels, which doesn't happen with a lot of jobs." Murtha, 34, and Borneman, 32, are among a new crop of farmers sprouting up around the country who weren't raised on farms and in some cases have left other careers behind. "Agriculture has been so subsidized, corpo-ratize-d and globalized," Murtha said. "There's definitely an interest and desire for younger folks to get involved in agriculture." . Murtha and Borneman have been farming together for eight years, the last two at the 70 acre Blooming Glen Farm in Perkasie. Parents of a daughter, they lived in Oregon and New Jersey before returning to Pennsylvania, where they visit farmers markets and operate a community supported agriculture program in which locals do farm work during the growing season in exchange for produce from spring through falL "Beyond the family aspect, it's enjoyable because it's so the office work, the selling, the planting, the mechanical aspects," Borneman said. "Even when it's hot and I'm working hard, I can still hear the birds." Blooming Glen eschews synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, and is seeking certification as organic. Its operators are among many smaller-scal- e farmers who say they're responding to consumers, who increasingly are demanding food that's organic, locally grown, or both. . Recent food scares from last year's nationwide E. coli outbreak linked to California spinach to tainted Chinese imports are raising -- ( . high-profil- e big-nam- ever-growin- Tom Murtha harvests carrots at Blooming Glen Farm in Perkasie, Pa., on July 24. public concerns about industrialized megafarms and the globalized food trade. Other issues include pollution from fuel needed to ship food long distances, genetically modified foods and g chemicals. "It's amazing to me how, over the last four or five years, food issues have creeped into the general psyche," Murtha said. "There's kind of been a food awareness that's risen up, and that rise of consciousness is the tide we're riding." Ben Wenk didn't work on his family's centufruit farm in Aspers; Adams ry-old County, during high school, and mulled a music bug-killin- 350-ac- re education degree. "But when I stopped to think about it, I realized that music was more of a hobby, and farming was what I enjoyed the most and really wanted to do," he said. "I saw an opportunity to See FARMERS, Cli flexible-attendanc- Small Business Development Centers. Many of n-sponsored these centers, which offer advice to small business owners and also have periodic classes, are located on college campuses. You can See SCHOOL, Cll Fake nonprofits are taxing problem for donors always sad to see the end. The kids go back to the relaxed attitudes d that go with hot weather shift, and I don't even want to think about when I'll next see a beach. But the one thing I don't mind about the change in seasons is an opportunity to clean out my closet. Sounds crazy, I know, but there's something about weeding out the old to make room for the new, or at least the recently unearthed, that makes me feel good. I like seeing pieces that I haven't seen in a while, like fall jackets, shirts and boots. In years past, I used to sim- ply pile up the car and take all the stuff to a local Goodwill or ' Salvation Army drop box. Unfortunately, those boxes are not as clearly marked as they used to be. I recently had the experience of putting something in a drop box with a red cross on the front before reading the disclaimer that I'm hand-in-han- long-sleeve- d your local office will have details on even more. I Get documentation. Real , charities are an open book, says Deborah Mitchell, a project editor again. n at charityguide.org. Their records I Pick a organiare public, so they'll be willing to, zation, but don't rely on name offer up any paperwork you ask recognition alone. groups often use names or for, including tax returns and a 501(3Xc) number, which proves symbols that make them appear to be a charity, when in fact they that they are a nonprofit, reliaren't. It's particularly important gious or educational organization. You!ll need the number anyway to be weary when it comes to the donaunsolicited mailings or drop boxes if you plan to write-of- f like the ones you often see outside tion come tax season, so why not of supermarkets and strip malls. request it upfront? All of these should list contact I Ask questions. Don't just asinformation for the organizasume that all thrift stores are tion, including a phone number using their proceeds for a good ' noted it wasn't really an Americause, because they're not. In (try it out), mailing address, and can Red Cross collection bin and a a Web site where you can do a fact, of the 25,000 resale and thrift bit more research. If you're still stores in the country, only about only portion (how much of a portion was unspecified) of proceeds not satisfied, check with the BBB 30 percent of them are run by would goto the organization I to see if it has any information charities, according to The Naor complaints on file about the tional Association of Resale and thought I was supporting. I was Thrift Shops. Before you donate, annoyed, to say the least. organization, says Weiner. Their And Web site, Give.org, lists reports notes Bennett Weiner, chief operating officer of the Bet on more than 1,100 charities, and See CHATZKY, CI J 7T ter Business Bureau's Wise GivI'm not the only ing Alliance one. Here's how to make sure it doesn't happen to either one of us well-know- t Jean Chatzky Talking Money 1 |