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Finishing my degree + making money working at home

lancey — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:37:14 GMT

Hey,
I’m just finishing up my marketing degree (just 3 months left, YES!) and since I’m a college student without a car, I’ve always looked for stuff where I could work from home if possible. Most sutff out there is crap like stuffing envelopes, and crap, but theres some real work at home jobs out there if u know where to look.
Anyway, another guy in one of my classes told me that he was doing market research from home online, and I checked it out. He was working with big companies like Blockbuster, Geico and Target. Anyway, I started doing the same thing and got a job with Gyris Marketing Group. I review products, and give simple reports to these companies about their products. I get paid every couple weeks, and they always have work for me, which is obviously important.
Anyway, I know they are hiring right now, full or part time, so thought I would throw this out cuz I see a lot of crap out there, but this is a legit work from home gig. U can check em out at http://www.gyrismarketingreport.com

Orem program salutes good neighbors

Our Towns Host — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:26:32 GMT

[url=http://heraldextra.com/news/local/central/orem/article_185c8f53-9e56-58ce-b67a-472abb463dd2.html]Ron Beach is the perfect neighbor. He keeps his property nice and tidy, his home clean and neat, and he is always looking for ways to help others. For all of these reasons and more, Beach has received the city's Good Neighbor Award for his SCERA Park North neighborhood.[/url]

Under the auspices of Orem's Neighborhoods in Action committee, the newly created Good Neighbor Award is meant to honor the resident who goes about making life in his or her neighborhood a little bit better.

According to Joyce Johnson, director of the Neighborhoods in Action, the idea started about three years ago in the Geneva Heights neighborhood. During their annual picnic and cleanup, the neighborhood selected an individual to receive a good neighbor award.

How do you feel about the Neighborhoods In Action program? Are there any constructive ways that you see the neighborhood program improving your community?

Happy homeowner

Our Towns Host — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:24:35 GMT

I'm looking for some low-cost tips on how I can boost the value of my home without spending a lot of money. My husband and I are buying a new house and we want to start a chart of small projects that we can do fairly inexpensively while still improving the value of our home.

Disney Movie Club

gracy — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:28:53 GMT

Ice cream contest rewards Orem neighbors for kindness

Our Towns Host — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:54:53 GMT

[b][url=http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/central/orem/article_c9a68693-29aa-56cb-8b2f-a2ac53c1890e.html]OREM -- Melissa Clark was hard pressed to come up with the number of thank-you notes she needed for her neighbors after they cared for her and her family following her double-knee surgery earlier this summer.[/url]

But Dreyer's Slow Churned Ice Cream came to the rescue.

Just two weeks after her surgery, Clark went online and entered the ice cream maker's Neighborhood Salute contest. She penned a paragraph about why her neighborhood deserved an ice cream party.

"I can look out my window any given day and see people helping each other," she said. "I couldn't have gotten through my knee surgery without my neighbors."

How do you feel about your neighborhood? Do you have any stories to tell about good deeds performed by every-day heroes?[/b]

Work begins on FrontRunner station in Orem

Our Towns Host — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:22:30 GMT

[url=http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/central/orem/article_e3c6979a-2005-5491-9c3f-d887aeb94c43.html]OREM -- FrontRunner commuter rail is coming to Utah County as soon as 2013, and in Orem, work has already begun on a train station and intermodal transportation hub just west of Utah Valley University's campus.
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Gerry Carpenter, a Utah Transit Authority spokesman, said crews began working on footings for track lines to the future Orem station six weeks ago. The site that will provide connections from FrontRunner trains to the future Provo-Orem bus rapid transit system and regular UTA buses is located between 1000 South and 800 South on the west side of Interstate 15, east of Geneva Road.

Orem mayor Washburn files for re-election, primary possible

Our Towns Host — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:54:39 GMT

[url=http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/central/orem/article_3809dd93-4d7e-59f0-9c3c-0ad0fd0182e6.html]OREM -- Just over a week into the filing period for the 2009 Orem city municipal election, we know two facts -- Orem Mayor Jerry Washburn will be running for re-election, and, unless anything changes by July 15, there will be a primary election held on Sept. 15.[/url]

Washburn, who previously hadn't decided whether he would seek a fourth term as Orem's mayor, filed his candidacy on July 6. He's served as mayor for nine and a half years after being elected in 1999 to serve out the last two years of the late Mayor Joe Nelson's term.

"Oh, not really," he said when asked if the decision to throw his hat in the ring for a fourth term was a difficult decision. "I love to serve the community. I think it's really been a privilege and honor to be the mayor."