Show Sunday September 15 2002 A10 The Herald Journal w—m— People in business Time for New director Rocky Mountain Home Care wel- comes Becky Larsen RN as the Director of Operations for Northern Utah This nonprofit organization has provided home health services to the people of Utah for 10 years As residents of this community Becky and the staff of Rocky Mountain Home Care are committed to pro- viding competent respectful care to their patients and families They offer skilled nursing home health aides physical occupational and speech therapists and social work ' specialists Home Care Mountain Rocky invites your calls Please contact 0 or toll free them at (435) Bv S Craig Adama Tire education savings account gives you many good reasons why you should start preparing for the future of the young ones you care about For example Education costs have typically risen two to three times the rate of inflation Since 1981 tuition at both private and public colleges has risen over 100 percent while medi- an family income for those age parents in the 753-822- (800)574-766- 6 Joins staff King Hair Styling Salon is happy to announce that Dana Brown has joined their professional staff Dana graduated in July 1999 from New Horizons Beauty College in Logan 45-to-- 54 Commentary New hairdresser King rfair is happy to announce that Amber Hyman has come to join their staff Amher graduated from New Horizons in Logan in 2000 She specializes in highlighting ' penning and cutting She can be reached at 1 18 N Main Logan or at 752-939-0 ' rt " ' !VvVr t - vec w Mike Lacy Mark Lemon Adrienne Robson Mike Petersen El LuceraHeraJd Journal and Lestpn Drake of LetterPress Software pose two-thir- 4 New manager Advanced Title Company has hired Gifford Baugh as the Branch Manager of its Logan office Gif“ ford received undergraduate and master’s degrees in business fromUtah State University and has been serving the real estate needs of Cache Valley as a realtor for the past six years Gifford is a lifelong resident of Cache Valley and currently resides in Providence The Advanced Title office is located next to Lee’s Marketplace on 1400 N Main Logan He can be reached at 787-080-0 - Hired Rocky Mountain Home Care welcomes Bpcky Larsen RN as the Director of Operations for Northern Utah This nonprofit organization has provided home health services to the people of Utah for 10 years As residents of this community Becky and the staff of Rocky Mountain Home Care are committed to providing competent respectful care to their patients and families They offer skilled nursing home health aides physical occupational and speech therapists and social work specialists Selected Dan Dresner has been voted as ARS Advanced Restoration Systems Employee of the Month for Scptem- bet Dan is ARS construction fore- -' man He has been chosen because of his cheerful disposition in the office and his hard work out in the field He moved here from Bay of Plenty New Zealand in the summer of 2000 ' and has been employed with AkS ever since Golfing and snowboarding are two of his loves next to his lovely wife Congratulations Dan Local company provides LDS software for free By Mike Ingraham features writer ark Lacy begins his day with pretty much like your average office creature1 What he sees however well if such a message appeared at a banned and bloodied office like The Herald Journal it would be seen as suspiail cious “Thank you for your help” the letter says “Thank you for providing it from the bottom of my heart” Lacy grinning turns to a visitor “What kind of message is that to come into work and get?” Ire asks In Lacy’s line of work it’s a typical message one out of hundreds from all over the globe The Netherlands New Zealand Italy Latter Day Saints are writing from everywhere to thank LetterPress Software for giving away their product Go to wwwdownloadleaming and get your free “Doctrine and Covenants” program while they last which will be all year The North Logan company is doing its bit to help seminary students and families master their scriptures and in less than a month they’ve given away a few thousand copies : “I guess you could call it our service project” Lacy says with a laugh and if The Shear Shack is pleased to announce the addition of Tamera Oldroyd to their hairstyling team Tkmera has graduated from the Evans Hairstyling College in Cedar City Utah She has trained in hair cuts colors weaves and perms She has had classes in Wella col- -' oring Color Brea and Framesi and has attended seminar for Aztec Colors and Style Cuts She can be reached at 752-531-0' Affiliated Shawn Summers Paradise is a new member of the American Angus Association reports John Crouch executive vice president of the national breed registry organize- -' tion in St Joseph Missouri The American Angus Association with more than 35000 active adult and junior members is the largest beer cattle registry Association in the world ( i Continued on All ” ' ss yet” concedes Leston Drake the company president and company PhD who has just been taking out the ucts trash" 1 If that were the whole story of LetterPress there would be praying going on in suite 160 But instead the place is purring Products like LDS and classroom software may have a future but the present belongs to LetterPress commercial services which is creating training programs for companies and governments Fortune 500 companies such as Motorola and Xerox have been cus tomers and LetterPress is currently cooking up software for Utah’s Department of Workforce Services to train 700 employment counselors It’s as if LettaPress has software that sniffs out money When the corporations started struggling the firm showed the flexibility to switch to government grants and contracts LetterPress is currently tapped into die US Departments of Education (histo- ry software) and Agriculture (food safety) Academia and LetterPress are also in business The schedule board above Lacy’s desk is full showing Letter-Prepartnering with among others the University of Illinois-Chicaon a diabetes project and with the ss go See SOFTWARE on All ds S Craig Adams la a financial consultant in Logan He is among a number of Cache Valley freelance writers whose columns appear in The Herald Journal His financial advice column appears periodically Gird yourself for bad beef market By Clark E Israel sen Cache County New stylist ' the name LetterPress Software gets spread around well good for them It’s not as if they are vendors out hawking 'their wares — “hey getcha '' ‘Doctrines and Covenants!’” But in (ruth they’re finding the LDS market is a tough sell It’s even a tough giveaway “When we give away a gospel product” Lacy says “we might give away a few thousand when our goal is to give away 100000 “We have purposely priced our programs as low as possible $2995 fin: four hour? worth of scripture $14 for presidents of the church or Articles of Faith But even when we do these things it’s hard to get people to know who you are” Recognition has its rewards — it may mean more sales of the prophets program for family home evenings or the Articles of Faith for Primary children It’s an article of faith here at 1770 North Research Park Way that one day people will remember the name Letter-PreSoftware But to be honest says another senior vice president Mike Petersen “You could go to my ward or Mark’s ward and not one soul has ever heard of the work we do” “Well maybe one or two” Lacy says “We haven’t figured out how to make a thriving business of the prod- - range has only increased by 27 percent in the same period More than $74 billion was available to college students in 2000-200-1 from federal state and institutional sources Over' the past decade total aid has almost doubled in constant dollars However of this increase in financial aid was in the form of loans rather than grants A college education is one of the greatest investments you can make The US Department of Labor notes that in 2001 the average annual income of a college gradu- ate was more than $20000 greater than that of somebody with a high:school diploma Contributions may be made in the same year to both ' an education savings account and a qualified state tuition program Additionally tax-- " nee distributions from an education saving account may be taken in the same year as claiming the Hope Scholar- ship or Lifetime Learning tax credits Unlike a regular savings account where you pay taxes on your earnings every year in an education savings account your earnings grow ' free of taxes allowing your funds to benefit from compounding of interest and dividends over time All distributions are excluded from gross income if funds are used to cover qualified high education expenses of the beneficiary Set up an education savings account today tion” It will be aired Fri- day Sept 27 from 9:30 am to 5:45 Beef cattle prices are almost as discouraging as milk prices Beef d cattle inventories are low grain has pm satellite been cheap but cattle feeders have' We will meet lost their shirts Forecasts were for in room 311 profitability but obviously some in the Eccles have things happened Conference No one foresaw 91 1 and few Center on the USU campus A small foresaw the Russian poultry embarregistration fee of $2000 will go However the trend toward heavinclude a workbook a meal and ier carcasses more beef from fewer parking validation at the Parking cattle more poultry and more pork Terrace Conference presenters are has been ongoing Some risks in the market analysts at Cattle-Fa- x a beef business recur member-owne- d information and Market risk associated with cattle ' advisory organization serving proprice and inventory cycles are someducers in all segments of the cattle what predictable Other forces like business We are convinced that seridrought political upheaval war and ous cattle producers will benefit trade sanctions are obviously not from this day long predictable How do beef producers seminar protect their operations from risks? An earlier satellite broadcast that To help answer that question will be of interest to area fanners USU Extension is joining Washingand ranchers is scheduled for SepL ton State University in offering a 19 The drought has had devastating satellite conference entitled “Manimpacts on many farmers and era in Utah USDA has declared aging Risk in Beef Cattle Produc one-ban- i ' i ' Utah an “underserved” state with respect to the use of some USDA programs that can be used by farmers and ranchers who may be affected by drought This satellite broadcast will address the use of crop insurance a major program of USDA’s Risk Management Agency (SMA) and the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assist tance Program (NAP) both administered by USDA’ Farm Service Agency (FSA) Instruction will focus on how fanners might use ' these programs to offset the effects associated with natural disasters such as drought hail and frost We will meet in the conference room at the ASTE building 1798 N 800 E from 10 am until noon Presenters will include Dale Miller from USDA’s RMA regional office in Sacramento: Brenda Harmer from USDA’s Farm Service Agency Utah State office and Dr Bruce Godfrey USU Extension Farm Management Specialist This program will give the latest information to assist farmers and ranchers to evaluate and appropri ' ately take advantage of these programs Other related options out- lined in the 2002 farm bill will also be discussed We will try to keep the session open for questions and answers Recent conversations with Dale and Brenda indicate there are more options available for producers in the coming year than ever before But farm operators need to be prepared and informed so they can take advantage of these programs when appropriate To register for either seminar contact die Extension office 752-626- 3 to reserve a seat Seating is limited so don’t delay if you have the inter- est Clark Israeisen Is a Cache County Extension agent spedalzkig In agriculture He can be reached by emal at daridOexLusuedu He is among a number of Cache Vhley freelance writers whoso columns appear In The Herald Journal as part of an effort to expose readers to a variety of community voices He la not an employee of the newspaper |