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On Thursday, Sara Yearsley (left) and Amanda Gentry prepare 72-hour kits for the emergency-preparedness fair to be held Saturday at Weber State University. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

WSU fair to help families prep for quake

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 11:29pm

OGDEN — Eight hundred plastic Easter eggs aren’t destined for Sunday baskets.

No, the colorful eggs have Saturday duty, teaching the importance of earthquake preparedness to kids who attend Weber State’s “ShakeUp: Drop, Cover, Hold On” event.

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Pat Wheeler, of Weber State University’s Goddard School of Business & Economics, offers advice Monday on what questions to expect during an interview, how to write a resume and cover letter, how to follow up and how to network. (NANCY VAN VALKENBURG/Standard-Examiner)

Expert from WSU shares how to land a job in today's economy

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 26, 2012 - 9:40pm

ROY — Before you face a job interviewer, face yourself in the mirror.

That’s the advice of Pat Wheeler, who coordinates Weber State University’s Goddard School of Business & Economics.

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10 questions to expect during job interviews

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 26, 2012 - 9:17pm

Following is a list of questions job applicants may be asked. Pat Wheeler, of the Weber State University Goddard School of Business & Economics, suggests preparing brief, to-the-point answers to each question before a job interview. She also suggests interviewees dress professionally and send a prompt thank-you note after the interview.

Click here to learn more about Wheeler and her advice.

Wheeler's 10 job interview questions:

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North Ogden’s new communications policy to be tested

Dave Greiling Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, March 9, 2012 - 11:20pm

Email is a wonderful tool, making communications faster and broadening the universe to which you can easily send information. Facebook and Twitter take it several steps further, but email still has its niche.

But whether that niche is an effective tool as city officials’ only way of communicating with the media — well, we’re about to find out how well that works.

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North Ogden city media relations policy

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, March 9, 2012 - 11:15pm

This is the new media policy announced by the North Ogden City Council this week.

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Garrison Clark competes at the Utah Regional Braille Competition in Salt Lake City on Friday. Forty students from around the state, including 14 from the Top of Utah, gathered Friday at the Utah State Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired for the annual event.(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Visually impaired students use right touch at braille competition

Dana Rimington Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, March 3, 2012 - 7:48am

SALT LAKE CITY — Sixteen-year-old Ellie Price, of Logan, can take a reading test with her eyes closed, and she’s not the only one.

Forty students from around the state, including 14 from the Top of Utah, gathered Friday at the Utah State Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired for the annual Utah Regional Braille Competition.

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Speaker: Utah on better quake footing than Ore.

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 6:08pm

OGDEN -- Utah is famous as earthquake country, with the Wasatch Mountains serving as an obvious natural marker for the fault line that built them hundreds of millions of years ago.

The earthquake potential of western Oregon was a much better-kept secret until the past decade or two, said Scott F. Burns, a geology professor at Portland State University.