Arizona Daily Sun from Flagstaff, Arizona • 26

f' 26 The SUN, Flagstaff, Arizona, Sunday, January 17, 1988 Business Briefs 0 Wal-Mart to open this fall While plans were under way to open a Wal-Mart Discount Department Store this spring, weather complications have postponed that date for the fall, says Wal-Mart company officials. Theyre not going to start construction until early spring, about the time the project was supposed to be finished, said Stacey Duncan, of the Wal-Mart stores corporate offices in Arkansas. So it may be fall of 1988 when Wal-Mart is scheduled to open. The 9.6 acre site, located in the 2500 block of U.S. 89A in Woodlands Village, will consist of the store and later expanding to 101,922 square feet, with another 83,000 square feet being proposed for a grocery store and retail shops.

The $5.5 million project will create between 120-150 jobs upon the Wal-Mart stores opening. New Bobby McGee's to open PHOENIX Bobby McGees, U.S.A., Inc. announced this week that they have signed a franchise agreement with the Greater Union Organisation Party Ltd. (Greater Union Group) of Sydney, Australia. It is projected that some 5 to 8 Bobby McGees Conglomeration restaurant nightclub concepts will be opened over the next 3 to 5 years.

The first property will be located in the Harbourside Festival Marketplace in the center of Darling Harbour and is projected to open this July. Bobby McGees, U.S. inc. is a Phoenix-based operator of 21 restaurant nightclubs in the western United States. There are four properties located in Arizona, 13 in California, one in Texas, one in Hawaii and two franchised properties in Colorado.

Bobby McGees has become famous for costumed character waiters providing entertainment. Projected sales for 1987 are an estimated $60 million. Mining history symposium set PHOENIX Though hard to find, early miners left their tracks in Arizona. In many instances the only specific tracks are found in public records dating back to 1536. And the stories to be These stones will be integrally woven into the theme The History of Mining in Arizona, a major symposium scheduled at the Phoenix Civic Plaza Jan.

24. The symposium will be open to the public at no charge and is sponsored by the Society of Mining Engineers (SME). It will precede the SME Annual Meeting and Exhibit, Jan. 25-28. Refreshments will be available for purchase.

The symposium has been designed as a service to the public and to those in the mining industry and to remind everyone of the role mining has played in Arizona. Included with the symposium will be a display whichis scheduled to include over 200 photos, paintings and sketches, assay equipment, minerals of all districts, mine lamps and candle holders, bronze statues, model brass railroad locomotives, stock certificates of Arizona mines, and one of the largest Bisbee minerals collections ever displayed. Eleven presentations will cover the History of Mining in Arizona and will run from 9:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Jan.

24. The exhibit will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Civic Plaza Ballroom, corner of Jefferson and Third St. For further information contact the Arizona Mining Association in Phoenix, 1-602-266-4416.

Free tax assistance available Free tax assistance is available for the lower income elderly. Persons over the age of 65 who pay property taxes in Arizona may be eligible to receive a partial return ofthose monies even if they dont need to file income taxes. Tax sites begin Feb. 1st at the Flagstaff Adult Center, 245 N. Thorpe Drive on Wednesdays between 10 a.m.

and 2 p.m. Also at St.Pius Church on the corner of Fourthand Cedar Street on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information or to answer questions and to set up appointments before February, call Cherie Potter at 774-03490 or Bill Shimasaki at 779-5349. Co-owners Ed Raabe and Paul Seyler Businesswomen to meet Exhibitors are invited to participate in the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) mini-conference and trade fair scheduled for March 2 at the SunBurst Resort Hotel Conference Center, 4925 N.

Scottsdale Road. Expanding Business Horizons is the theme for this years event, beginning at 11 a.m. and continuing until 5 p.m. A wide range of product and service exhibits are being sought. According to NAWBO member Essie Fleischer, exhibitors must be NAWBO members.

Sales transactions can take place. Registration deadline is Feb. 10. More exhibitor information can be obtained by calling Fleischer at 1-840-6285. The mini-conference, which is open to the public, costs $30 for NAWBO members and $40 for nonmembers.

To register, send a check, payable to NAWBO Phoenix Chapter, along with name, company, address and phone number to NAWBO, P.O. Box 17327, Phoenix 85011-7327. For more information on the miniconference, call 1-468-3426. According to the organization, NAWBO is the only national membership organization for women who own businesses and is a voice for women entrepreneurs. The organization provides a network and support group for women-owned businesses, the fastest growing segment of the small business community.

The Phoenix Chapter, which received its charter in January 1985, meets the first Wednesday of the month and has 65 members. Forest Highlands in progress (-S' Mi a. Co-owners Robert and Barbara Donahue with salesmen Donahue adds motorhome rentals In an effort to help alleviate the high costs of insurance and ease in family traveling, Donahue Equipment Co. has recently started renting, motorhomes from a Mesa-based motorhome and van rental agency, Cruise America, according to the companys owners, Robert and Barbara; Donahue. A family-owned business specializing in sales and service for foui years in the construction, mining and logging industry, the Donahues say they will eventually have five to six motorhome rentals available at their location, 500 N.

Grant. For more information, call 774-1969 or 779-6973; or 774-1123, for truck rentals. games and playground areas for children. The dramatic growth of the Phoenix metropolitan area has resulted in increased interest in Flagstaff as a second home location. Northern Arizona offers desert dwellers the opportunity to experience a refreshing high country climate, Mehen added.

More than 90 percent of the homes will be purchased by those living outside the Flagstaff area. KVNA Radio unites with KENR KVNA Radio, AM 690 has recently purchased KENR FM, a 100,000 watt station. They began programming at 6 a.m. Friday. The area covered will include a 100-mile radius from Flagstaff.

While KENRs call letters were changed to KVNA FM, the station has also become the most powerful AMFM combination in Northern Arizona, according to Ed Raabe, station manager and program director for KVNA. The FM portion will play mostly soft rock from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s, while KVNA AM will continue with its adult contemporaryoldies format. It will operate on a 24-hour basis. Raabe, a California native who originally petitioned the FCC four years ago asking for a FM channel in Flagstaff, says their goal is make the best use of whats available and to concentrate on doing a lot of promotions, which includes expanding their AM station from its current 1,000 watts to 10,000 watts by the end of this year. The principal owners of KVNA AM FM who are also all actively involved in the day-to-day operations of the radio station, are Ed and Becky Raabe, Paul and Rosa Seyler, and Dick, Darlys and Steve Herman.

For more information, call Raabe at 526-2700. Cost analyst wins photo contest Greg Garrett, a Flagstaff cost center analyst for 15 years with the Southern Division of El Paso Natural Gas, has won the best of show award in a company photography contest and had his picture appear on the cover of El Paso Pipeliner magazine. Im quite pleased at winning, said the 35-year-old husband and father of three. Garrett, who says he is basically an amateur who likes to take photos as a hobby, noting that he does mostly landscapes. The photo, a scenic of rustic barn in a horse pasture near a red sandstone cliff taken at Capitol Reef National Park in Central Utah, was the best photograph in a contest with themes of people, places and pets.

There were 243 photos submitted by 46 people, judges said, including 148 entries in the places category. Legal secretaries plan seminar The Arizona Association of Legal Secretaries will be conducting their 1988 Spring Seminar at the Holiday Inn in Mesa on Feb. 27. This seminar, which will begin registration at 8 a.m., will consist of two sessions. The first session pertaining to Real Estate Foreclosure.

Topics to be discussed will be encompassing procedures and statutory requirements for trustee sales and judicial foreclosures. All interested individuals should contact any AALS officer or the Registration Chairman, Anita McConnell, 7006 S. 41st Place, Phoenix 85040. Fees for the seminar (NALS members $40 and non-members $55) will include course materials and luncheon costs. We will also be offering a discount to firms with five or more attendees.

Regal 8 gets legal aid callers Regal 8-Legal Aid? Legal Aid-Regal Sound alike? To Directory Assistance operators all across the country it must. Because people using directory assistance for legal aids phone number are instead given Regal 8s. Regal 8 Inns phones are ringing away with callers trying to find answers to problems ranging from divorce to accident insurance. Answering the phone used to be easy, one San Antonio employee remarked, Callers just wanted to know our room rate and location. So to clear the lines of communication, Regal 8 Inn is sending its mascot, King Regal VIII, on tour.

King Regal will drop in on telephone companies in cities around the country bearing gifts that spell out Regal 8 Inn. State board of accountants meet The Arizona State Board of Accountancy will conduct its regular meeting open to the public on Monday at 8:15 a.m. The meeting will be in Suite 140, 3110 N. 19th Phoenix. Continuing Professional Education Hearings have been scheduled at 10 a.m.

i During the boards regular meeting, Executive Sessions are scheduled, pursuant to A R.S. to consider complaints, investigative matters, personnel matters and other matters on which the board needs to receive legal advice. Information concerning the board's agenda for the meetings may be obtained by calling 1-255-3648. Meetings and hearings are open to the public. The first phase of an $8 million community, The Cottages at Forest Highlands, is scheduled to open three model homes in April.

Composed of 31 homes, The Aspen Cottages, as it is called, is primarily a second home community, according to Gail Dudley, president of the Forest Highlands Group. It is located six miles south of Flagstaff and east of U.S. 89A and being developed by the Forest Highlands Group, a limited partnership. Nestled within the largest pon-derosa pine forest in the United States, the 31-unit Aspen Cottages, made up of two and three bedroom homes, will be the first turn key homes within the Forest Highlands community, says Cottage Development Co.s James P. Mehen.

Even though it hasn't been decided how many phases will be constructed, Dudley noted that there will be at least three phases, maybe more in the future. Flagstaff-based contractor Jamison-Henderson Construction, Inc. has been selected to build the cottages. We want to utilize Flagstaff contractors and suppliers as much as possible, said Mehen, and Jamison-Henderson has more than 25 years experience as well as the ability to handle a project of this size and nature. All three models were designed by Bill Kopp of Kopp Design Drafting in Flagstaff.

The 18-hole golf course, which is the centerpiece of the 653-acre Forest Highlands community, has been completed, says Dudley, and is scheduled to open on July 4th. Other amenities include the clubhouse and pro shop, tennis courts, a swimming pool, hiking trails, areas for lawn SOUTHWEST SAVINGS 1 YEAR CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT Annual Rate Annualized Yield $50,000 deposit 8.25 8.51 999 deposit 8.10 8.35 SAFE SECURE INSURED For up-to-the-minute rate information on any Southwest certificate of deposit, call our 24-hour Rateline toll-free: 1-800-352-6665 (in Phoenix, cadi 241-6195). SOUTHWEST SAVINGS Accounts insured Yavapai College Serving Yavapai County and North Central Arizona PUT SOME CLASS INTO YOUR LIFE REGISTER SOON Coconino County Extension Office, 2501 N. 4th Suite 5, Flagstaff. CLASSES BEGIN JAN.

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