Reading Time: 3 minutes How did you get started in the pizza industry? Well, it actually all started with my family. My family has had a pizzeria in Arlington, Massachusetts for about 36 years now and so pretty much me and my sister were raised in the business. Before we could drive or anything else we were making pizza at the shop.
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Boston stares away from Orem at a roughly 2500 miles. Italy, much farther. Luckily, a man named Nicola DellaCioppa Jr. has transplanted a little slice of both to the happy confines of the Orem/Provo area. That slice, (offering slices) is Nicolitalia Pizzeria, which provides – per its tagline – “Homemade Boston Italian Style” pizza.
Reading Time: 2 minutes You’re a sports-loving fanatic and it’s the summertime, which means it is downtime for many professional and collegiate sports. What should you do to pass the time while you wait for them to start up again? Collecting sports cards and memorabilia is how college students are still able to enjoy sports during the off-season in the summer.
Reading Time: 2 minutes You hear a lot about the need to support local businesses lately, but rarely do you hear about those unsung heroes of local business: Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is as local as it gets. No matter your locale, bam, there’s a Wal-Mart. Orem, Lindon, American Fork, Saratoga Springs, even the cross-eyed illiterates in my hometown of Payson have one (it’s right next to the corpse of the ill-fated Starbucks.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Cookie Cutter Chaos Jack Waters Elitist minds hiding in a fa?ade of faith Duplicitous factions feign to exonerate Launch the oxymoron, Pre-empted holy war. Opposition claiming victory While never checking score. Ammunition fires to conquer future dreams Armed with bullets, blasphemes, and bigotry.
Reading Time: 2 minutes 1. Pioneer Books: Best place for a book with a past You know how Savers is totally ripping you off on used book prices? Pioneer Books offers trades as well as purchases with books that aren’t just the latest Dan Brown easily found in the clearance bin at some of those corporate booksellers.
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ll admit I was warned. Still, I couldn’t beat the price, and I really needed to get to Fort Worth. So, I paid for round- trip tickets on a national bus line, the Greyhound. No amount of warning could have prepared me. Of course, if people had given me more advice and less “Well, (snort) have fun with that,” I think I would have been much better off.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Springville Museum of Art will be accepting entries for this year’s Quilt Show July 9-11. The entries will be juried and accepted quilts will be on display at the museum July 17 to Sept. 2. The exhibit is sponsored by the Museum alongside the Utah Valley Quilt Guild.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Nestled between a conglomeration of businesses on the border of Orem and Provo lies a small café that epitomizes the melting-pot paradigm of true urban living. The Cybergate Café is the brainchild of three distinct personalities with passions of their own.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Enrollment at UVU is expected to continue increasing into the fall semester, according to statistics being tracked by Institutional Research. “Historically speaking, as the economy slows and job opportunities decrease, university enrollments generally increase,” said President Matthew Holland.