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Show Standara-Examiner Chocolate vs. fat and grease Network (J Small town may lose chocolate factory because From 1F of smelly rendering plant The Associated Press RSICANA, Texas - It’s a sweet deal that may run afoul - a foul odorthatis. _ Ayear ago, Russell Stover announced plansto build a candy-makingplant that would bring 600 jobs to this Central Texas town. About $270,000 was invested to purchase land and blueprints for the factory were drawn up. But the rich smell of chocolate may never reach Corsicana if Griffin Industries is allowed to build a grease and fat processing plant nearby. Russell Stover it _claims such a plantwill contaminate its sweets, a charge Griffin vehemently denies. “It’s an issue of simply our ‘inability to locate in proximity to a potential odor source,” said Tom Ward, Russell Stover’s co-president and chief operating officer. “The bottom lineis that that plant is going to cost between $55 million and $65 million of my money, and I'm not going to Book spend that much whenthere is a potential problem,” he said. In an attempt to waylay Griffin from building and saving the Russell Stover deal, Corsicana officials passed an ordinance in January prohibiting rendering plants from locating within city limits. Griffin Industries, in turn, filed a lawsuit in March,alleging that city officials overstepped their boundaries and reneged on prior promises. “IT know of no such promises,” said Ron Lynch, who was previously the public works director and has beenfilling in as city managerfor the past few months. No trial date has been scheduled, but earlier this month Corsicana introduced a second ordinance that would give the city the powerto regulate the rendering plant. William Shirley, a partner with Griffin, says the idea of smells from the rendering plant are “absolutely preposterous” and the companyplanson setting up the plant regardless of the disagreements. “We're not going to emit any odors,” he said. “We have to saving, first in a tax-deferred re- From 1F people are going into debt.” To meet those expectations, many start charging purchases, sending themselves deeper into debt. Kobliner and Kurson agree that for young people interested in a sound financial future, the first priority is to pay off high-interest credit cards. Both recommend making minimum payments on lower-interest student loans while using as much incomeas possible to payoff credit cards. According to Kobliner, young people should not even begin saving money until they have paid off their credit cards. Someone whoputs $1,000 in a savings account might earn $30 in annual interest while running up $180 in interest payments on a credit card with a $1,000 balance, she said, After the credit cards are paid off, the next priority is to begin tirement plan like a companysponsored 401(k) or an Individual Retirement Account(IRA). “You need to get started early and get into the habit” of saving, Kurson said. Kobliner recommends putting as much moneyaspossible into a 401(k) plan or IRA, then trying to put 10 percent of take-home pay into a conservative money market mutual fund or stock index fund. “I try to make the point that the advantages of 401(k)s are so incredible that you don’t want to pass them up in your 20s and 30s,” she said. Her book also addresses such topics as bank fees, insurance, how to reduce tax bills and how to buy a home. A question-and-answersession following a speech Kobliner recently gave at Brown reflected the ambitions and frustrations of a debt-ridden generation worried about the future. To a senior who asked how to start saving on a small salary, meet the state regulations with air scrubbers and so on.” “We havea greatsite, and we're not going to cause anybody any problems,” Shirley said. But Griffin's practices have sparked compiaints and citations at two ofits other sites in Texas. The companyhasfacilities in San Antonio, Houston, Bastrop, Wylie and Dallas. Since Griffin acquired its Bastrop facility in March 1988, the company has been cited 22 times for nuisance level odors, according to the Texas Natural Resource and Conservation Commission. Texas Byproducts, a Griffin affiliate, has had eight violations since September 1991. The Wylie company paid a $12,000 penalty for five of the violations, while the remaining 25 citationsstill are being negotiated, according to Terry Hadley, a spokesman with the TRNCC. The company must ask the TRNCCforair and water permits to operate in the Corsicana area. A group ofcitizens, President of People United for the Environment, or PUE,is fighting to get the permits denied. March Microsoft press release. Microsoft surveys found more than 35,000 positions currently open to certified network professionals. The burgeoning demand prompted Novell to approach the state Office of Education this year to put a Novell-accredited certification course into Utah high schools. Starting this next school year, 18 to 22 of the state’s high schools or ATCs will have accredited Certified Novel! Administrator training programs, said Robert Brems, the state's associate superintendent. In three years every high school in the state should have the program, he said. In Weber and Davis counties, the training will be done at the local applied technology centers, he said. Although Novell's high school program won’t be as extensive as what Chadaz and Harper went through, it is the first step in becoming a network manager. Even without getting further training and certification, students will be able to get good jobs if they pass the CNA certification. Chadaz and Harper got the jumpby taking their program in Kobliner recommended an automatic savings plan, in which a bank automatically diverts a small portion of each paycheck into a savings account or mutual fund. * adult classes offered by the Ogden-Weber ATC. Although it is not Novell-accredited, OgdenWeber ATCstudents can become Novell-certified if they pass a series of tests. The certification is recognized worldwide. Chadaz never questioned that someday he would make his living with computers. “| knew since the sixth grade what I wanted to do,” Chadaz said. What he wanted was a job in the computer field. So he watched the papers to see what fields were in demand. “Networking jobs just boomed,” he said. “The salaries went crazy.” At first, no one would hire Chadaz because he was so young and had no experience. But Workman, Nydegger and Seeley offered him a part-time job at $14 an hour that quickly turnedinto a full-time offer. But, he warns, the field is not for everyone. The course workis demanding and the certification tests are grueling and expensive ($85 a test). Students take about 10 tests to become a certified manager and many never complete the certification process. But the rewards are worth the trouble. “I’m sitting pretty now,” Chadaz said. “I have people saying, "Come workfor us.’” His days are spent installing software, getting a crashed com- puter system running again, up- | grading systemsorsetting up e- | mail for new employees. Then there’s Harper and the love story. He got into the program while searching for classes to take his senior year at Roy High. Soon, he realized he could combine his love of computers with his love for Nadine Barnewitz, a German exchange student he met at Roy High. After completing the program in about six months, Harper went to Germanyto look for work and to see Nadine. It wasn’t easy. Unemployment in what used to be East Germany is at 18 percent, Gudrun Harper, his mother, said. But once the company got a look at his certification and language skills, they hired him immediately. Today, he is part of a companythat sets up computer systems for hospitals, police and businesses in the former East Germany. And because he speaks fluent German and English, he also serves as his company’s translator and travels the world negotiating deals. “He’s doing exactly what he wanted to do,” Gudrun Harper said. “Every since he wasa little boy, he knew he wanted a job where he went to work with a shirt and tie on.” And Nadine? 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