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Transfer Days: 9 am - 1 pm Taylorsville Campus Student Center Event Hallway Come visit with 4-year schools, and enter to win a tuition waiver! February 3: Utah State University (10 am - 1 pm) February 10: Utah Valley University February 18: Southern Utah University February 19: Dixie State University February 20: Westminster College February 24: Brigham Young University February 26: Weber State University February 27: University of Utah

Nine small businesses will receive the Utah Small Business Development Center’s Regional Client of the Year award Friday at the State Capitol during Rural Legislative Day. Each winner represents nine regions in Utah that work with the Utah SBDC. The businesses represent a broad range of products, services and innovations offered by Utah’s entrepreneurs. This year’s winners are: • Bella Vida Laser & Aesthetics, Orem • Breeders N Feeders LLC, Tooele • Caregiver Support Network, Kaysville • Grandpa’s Kitchen, Ogden • Healthy Express Weight Loss and Management, St. George • Ooh La La & Friends, Vernal • South Mountain Builders, Inc., Salt Lake City • Stan’s Burger Shak, Ephraim • Unshoes Minimal Footwear, Cedar City Rural Legislative Day was started in 2011 by the Governor’s Office of Economic Development’s Rural Division to inform lawmakers about issues impacting rural Utah. The Utah SBDC operates 10 service centers and 4 satell...

Christopher Speer is one of countless examples showing that a start at Salt Lake Community College can lead to great things. Until Speer enrolled at the College, he was a professional freestyle skier for seven years with three different industry-related companies. In 2008-2009 Speer had his sights set on an education in business, starting out at SLCC while also taking on a management role at a small company that refurbishes wheels and hubcaps. “Lacking an inventory system and organization, the company needed a lot of work to recognize its potential,” Speer said. “Drawing from the communication, leadership and technical skills I was learning in my SLCC courses, I was able to rally the troops at the small business in support of strategic projects to organize and grow the company.” Speer said SLCC instructors gave him the “technical acumen and confidence I needed to become a successful business leader.” With his “new skills” from SLC...

Gerald Narciso grew up reading Sports Illustrated , Time and People , gravitating toward features and human-interest stories. Even in college, however, Narciso, 33, didn’t imagine he’d one day write stories that would appear in the New York Times , Los Angeles Times and dozens of other newspapers, magazines and websites. Narciso was born in Calgary, Canada, and at age 8 his family moved to Salt Lake City. He graduated from Judge Memorial Catholic High School. In 2003 he earned a degree in marketing from Westminster College. Without any solid job prospects, he enrolled the following year in Salt Lake Community College to study graphic design. “I thought it would be a good compliment to my marketing degree from Westminster College,” he said. Narciso started freelance writing while at SLCC, stringing for the Salt Lake Tribune as a high school basketball reporter. He also contributed to Utah Sports Magazine , Utahjazz.com and...