Title: Mikaela Shafer What´s new? Answering this simple question has led Mikaela Shafer to explore and chronicle Ogden in the blog, Indie Ogden Utah. Shafer moved to Ogden eight years ago from the Portland area with her daughter and then-husband. Indie Ogden Utah started out as a Mom blog. “I just talked about things I and my oldest daughter were doing, and places … [Read more...]
Skinworks School of Advanced Skincare
In 2005, Natalie Parkin was working in IT selling telecommunications and long distance services to corporations when one of her friends told her that Skinworks School of Advanced Skincare was going up for sale. “The telecommunication world was falling and there was a lot of out of work people,” says Parkin. “I was looking for a business to buy, so I bought the school.” Not … [Read more...]
Chili Beak Roasted Chili Oil: Add More Flavor to Your Food
If you’re looking for something a little different to give your seafood, pizza, hummus, potatoes, ceviche or eggs more pizazz, then Chili Beak Roasted Chili Oil is just what you need. The beginning Giselle and Jason McClure, owners of Chili Beak, started hand-making chili oil about five years ago (and selling it four years ago) when they ran out of the … [Read more...]
Escape to a New Life
“Where we going Mom, where we going?” the kids asked repeatedly as they followed their mother day and night for about three weeks through jungles and across rivers and swamps in Cambodia. “Almost there, almost there,” lied Rem Kros to her five kids as they fled their village in Battambang Province. With swollen feet, bloody and blistered from traveling miles a day … [Read more...]
B & W Apothecary
In 2003, after spending a year deployed in the hot dry air of Iraq as an Army diesel mechanic and later experiencing skin cancer, Brandi Nealis decided her skin needed some TLC. As a result, B & W Apothecary was born. Her project started five years ago when she experimented with making her own lotions. “It took forever to get the right consistency and learn … [Read more...]
Skkull Queen Makeup
Making herself and others into monsters and zombies had been just a hobby of Vanessa Ward of Skkull Queen Makeup, until people hired her to do their makeup for corporate parties and as head makeup artist for Insanity Point Haunted House. Vanessa taught herself the art of monster makeup with trial and error and some help from makeup artists on Instagram and YouTube. Brayden, … [Read more...]
SPICE Kitchen Incubator Start-Up Adds Spice to SLC Cuisine
Spice Kitchen Incubator is allowing new immigrants from countries such as Bhutan to start businesses on a shoestring, making the American Dream come true for refugees Kamal and Geeta Niroula, owners of the Bhutan House Restaurant. Five years ago, the S.P.I.C.E. Kitchen Incubator (Supporting the Pursuit of Innovative Culinary Entrepreneurs), came out of a demand … [Read more...]
Youth Climbing Program—Momentum Indoor Climbing
Lead climbing, top roping, crack climbing, and bouldering can all be done indoors at Momentum Indoor Climbing gyms (Momentum). “Indoor climbing is an up-and-coming sport,” Katie Thorup, Momentum’s youth program regional manager for Utah, says. “Climbing has made it into the 2020 Olympics, giving kids the opportunity to take this extreme sport to higher levels.” Mo Mini, Base … [Read more...]
The “U” on the Mountain
The Block U emblazoned on Mount Van Cott, is lit up during home games for football, basketball, and gymnastics. If you see the red and white lights flashing the Utes have won another game or meet. The “U” can be seen from many areas across the valley, east of the University of Utah campus in the Wasatch Mountain Range. University of Utah seniors first painted their … [Read more...]
Self-taught Provo Baker Wins Food Network’s Cake Wars Two Times
The Mighty Baker Pete Tidwell, owner and head baker at The Mighty Baker pastry shop in Provo, didn’t originally want to be a baker. In high school he helped out at his brother’s Gandolfo’s Delis here in Utah. “Working at the deli is where I really gained the love of working with food,” says Tidwell. He attended BYU and received his degree in Communication with an emphasis … [Read more...]
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