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WSU Professor: Giving gift cards 'doesn't make sense' economically

Last updated Monday, December 10, 2012 - 9:15am

OGDEN — E.K. Valentin doesn’t quite grasp the advantage to holiday gift cards over cash, but as a Weber State marketing professor, he felt bound to study them.

“They really don’t make sense from an economic standpoint,” Valentin said of gift cards. “You are trading a high degree of liquidity of cash for a more restricted gift card, which may have to be used at a specific store. Recipients can spend cash on anything they want, and givers save hours of shopping time — but noncash gifts remain the most popular because of their emotional and symbolic aspects.”

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Carol Permar (left) and Katie King-Brockman work together to tape a package being mailed to a soldier in a war zone Tuesday at Myers Mortuary in Ogden. Mortuary workers and other community volunteers filled hundreds of stockings with candies, snacks and convenience items to be sent to U.S. troops overseas.

Stocking stuffers sending holiday cheer to military stationed overseas

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 7:17am

OGDEN — Several hundred soldiers serving in Afghanistan will have a brighter holiday season, thanks to local donors in the Top of Utah.

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Some gifts need some explanation

Leslie Meredith Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 1, 2012 - 8:46am

Getting a new gadget can be awkward. You know it's expensive. You know it's "cool" or at least you know you're supposed to think it's cool. But you don't really know what it's for.

You are not alone. My daughter, home for the holidays from a Senate internship in Washington, D.C., shared this story:

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Community donations prove 'someone cared' at Christmas

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 12:35am

LAYTON -- Daneen Adams could not help but tear up when a young mother of two visited the Family Connection Center the week before Christmas, picking up gifts for her kids as part of the Sub4Santa program.

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Delong Puk, 14, picks out shoes at the Target in Riverdale on Thursday. Students at Mount Ogden Junior High in Ogden raised money so other students at the school could go shopping for themselves and others and enjoy Christmas with their family. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Junior High students reach New Level of Fundraising

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 23, 2011 - 1:47am

OGDEN -- A slow economy didn't have any effect on students' giving at Mount Ogden Junior High School this year.

Students raised more money with their Change for Children event than ever before -- almost $8,600.

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Thieves steal gift packages from Bountiful porches

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 12:04am

BOUNTIFUL — Police say a watchful neighbor helped them nab a pair of suspects who were stealing packages — meant for under the Christmas tree — from front porches.

“A neighbor saw a suspicious car pull into a driveway and then a man get out and take something off the porch,” said Police Lt. Ed Biehler.

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Tech. Sgt. Steven Frazier, an active-duty member of the 388th Fighter Wing, watches Rigby (center) and Oslo, both 3, go through their Christmas stockings at the Burke family home in North Salt Lake on Thursday. Each year, airmen from Hill Air Force base deliver donated gifts to hundreds of children in foster care through the Utah Foster Care Foundation's Giving Tree program. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Hill airmen deliver Christmas to foster care children

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 16, 2011 - 12:59am

NORTH SALT LAKE -- Christmas came early for Top of Utah foster care families Thursday.

About 80 uniformed airmen from Hill Air Force Base's 388th and 419th fighter wings gathered at the Utah Foster Care Foundation offices in Ogden to help package and deliver Christmas gifts to foster and adoptive families in Weber, Davis, Morgan and Cache counties.

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United Way: Time to give to 'Santa'

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 12:30am

OGDEN -- Parents, here's your chance to show your children how spoiled they are.

Saturday, you can take your kids to the United Way of Northern Utah offices and have them hand toys, clothes or gift cards for those in need over to Santa Claus himself.

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Warning to all husbands: Do not take this gift advice!

Mark Saal Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 8:35am

Need a little help with your Christmas shopping? Have I got the Ideal Holiday Gift Idea for you.

It's readily available, it's reasonably priced, and it's reportedly the No. 1 toy in the United Kingdom, Germany, Holland, Spain and France. (Memo to self: Cancel European dream vacation.)

Now, if you're reading this over breakfast, I do recommend you put down that spoonful of cereal for the next five minutes or so.

So then, what's the season's hottest toy for Christmas? It's called ... wait for it ... the Doggie Doo Game. You heard right, people. Family game night just got a little cruder.

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Toys for Tots has 800 requests to be filled in Top of Utah

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 9, 2011 - 7:26am

OGDEN -- Marcia Hamblin has more than 1,200 Christmas toy requests from families in Weber, Morgan, Box Elder and Davis counties on the Toys for Tots program this year.

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S. Ogden police sponsor angel tree

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 12:06am

SOUTH OGDEN -- The South Ogden Department of Public Safety is again sponsoring an angel tree.

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Church plans gifts yard sale Sunday

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 12:09am

OGDEN -- Immediately after Sunday's church service at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden, 705 23rd St., members will hold a gifts yard sale. The sale is expected to start around 11:45 a.m.

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