Local Business

Let's go digital! (photos)

BY CRAIG FRY - SUN PHOTOGRAPHER

Wednesday's all-day Go Digital Yuma featured a variety of speakers and workshops to help businesses take their names and products to the next level through digital technology and a social media presence.... Full story

Yuma second in nation for mobile homes

BY HILLARY DAVIS @YSHillaryDavis

Yuma is well-supplied with manufactured homes. According to a U.S. Census Bureau report, 29 percent of housing units in the Yuma metro area are mobile homes. That’s plentiful enough for second in the nation, not too far behind Farmington, N.M.... Full story

New building at Yuma Honda latest in 'car row' construction

BY CHRIS McDANIEL - @YS_CMCDANIEL

Despite the poor economy, business is booming for the “car row” dealerships east of the Big Curve along 32nd Street.Over the past two years, several dealerships have built new showrooms and service centers to accommodate the increase in c... Full story

Go Digital Yuma seminar coming Wednesday

BY HILLARY DAVIS @YSHillaryDavis

Attendees at next week's Go Digital Yuma seminar can get their digital marketing questions answered by a diverse bunch of local and regional business leaders — experts who have their fingers on the pulse of social media, websites, smartphones, ... Full story

BBB provides tips to build an e-commerce website

By Better Business Bureau

Building a business can be profitable and rewarding but also demanding. Reaching and retaining customers can present ongoing challenges to both new and established businesses.While brick-and-mortar storefronts meet the marketplace needs of many busin... Full story

Business Glance 5-18-13

BY JOYCE LOBECK @YSJoyceLobeck

Chamber mixerThe Yuma County Chamber of Commerce monthly mixer will be 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday at InnSuites, 1450 S. Castle Dome Ave. Cost is $5 at the door.For more info, call the chamber at 782-2567.Business women to meetThe Yuma chapter of American ... Full story

Agriculture Glance 5-19-13

Seed Dynamics to host symposiumSeed Dynamics Inc. will host an educational symposium Thursday at the Pivot Point Conference Center on vegetable seed science and technology for seed dealers, producers and growers.Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the ... Full story

Comings and Goings: Firehouse Subs

BY JOYCE LOBECK @YSJoyceLobeck

Firehouse Subs is coming to Yuma with plans to open a restaurant at 1630 S. Pacific Ave. in Yuma Plaza Shops A. The company anticipates opening in early fall.The sandwich shop was founded in 1994 in Jacksonville, Fla., by brothers Chris Sorensen and ... Full story

Bemoaning bedbugs: Residents speak out on critters

BY HILLARY DAVIS @YSHillaryDavis

One man wakes in the dead of night, when the bugs are most active, to round them up by hand. Another spends hours on the phone every week, calling inspectors and lawyers and regulators and advocates. And yet another sprays insecticide directly onto h... Full story

Sups to take public comment on downtown building purchase

BY HILLARY DAVIS @YSHillaryDavis

The Yuma County Board of Supervisors will take public comment Monday on the county's anticipated purchase of a downtown building.The county is gearing up to take out a $7.5 million loan to purchase and renovate the currently vacant 50,000-square foot... Full story

Crop of the Week: Artichoke seed

By Kurt Nolte, Yuma County Cooperative Extension director

• Vegetable seeds represent one facet of vegetable production that, in some cases, covers up to 10 months. Grown specifically for seed production, these vegetables, including artichokes, are planted in early fall when temperatures start to cool ... Full story

Approval of land use will allow construction of low-income housing

Developer intends to build two-story multi-family apartment complexes

BY MARA KNAUB @YSMaraKnaub

Following a public hearing with no comments, the city council approved a land use designation that will allow development of new multi-family low-income housing in the area of 2nd Avenue and 12th Street.Wallace Hunter, on behalf of El Toro Casitas LL... Full story

Yuma sees seasonal jobless spike

But job orders continue to come in

BY JOYCE LOBECK @YSJoyceLobeck

Yuma County's jobless rate jumped to 30.3 percent for April, according to the latest numbers released Thursday by the Arizona Department of Administration.That compares to an unemployment rate of 25.9 percent for March and 26.3 percent in April 2012.... Full story

Algodones merchants fear murder is stirring up rumors

BY CESAR NEYOY - BAJO EL SOL

LOS ALGODONES, Baja Calif. — The murder of a young mother in this city in April led to what merchants and residents here say are ill-founded fears of a crime wave that are being fed by social media.And that, in turn, has them worried the town's... Full story

Program nets $2.5 million in Yumans' tax refunds

BY MARA KNAUB @YSMaraKnaub

Volunteers with United Way of Yuma County netted $2.5 million in refunds for local residents during the last tax season.IRS-certified volunteers working with the agency's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program also helped taxpayers save $1.5 ... Full story

Growing farm-fresh physicians

BY MARA KNAUB @YSMaraKnaub

In a time of national doctor shortages, Yuma Regional Medical Center is taking steps to “grow farm-fresh family physicians.”Six newly graduated physicians – five women and one man – will begin their postgraduate training on Ju... Full story

COMINGS AND GOINGS: Cancer center moving to YRMC corporate building

BY JOYCE LOBECK @YSJoyceLobeck

Effective Tuesday, the American Cancer Society's Cancer Resource Center will be located at the Yuma Regional Medical Center's Corporate Center at 32nd Street and 4th Avenue extension. Previously located at YRMC, the Cancer Resource Center moved due t... Full story

CROP OF THE WEEK: BLACKBERRIES

BY KURT NOLTE

• Current acreage in Yuma devoted to blackberry production is limited to those niche producers who grow blackberries primarily for the local market. Among them is Silvas Farms, which now has blackberries for sale or U-pick at 3392 W. County 16-1... Full story

Yuma nurse wins national award

BY MARA KNAUB @YSMaraKnaub

Mildrima Lim leads by example and never hesitates to jump in and serve.The director of nursing at Life Care Center of Yuma gets to know her patients personally and follows through with their care even after they've been discharge from the facility.Fo... Full story

Agriculture Glance 5-12-13

BY JOYCE LOBECK @YSJoyceLobeck

Seed Dynamics to host symposiumSeed Dynamics Inc. will host an educational symposium May 23 at the Pivot Point Conference Center on vegetable seed science and technology for seed dealers, producers and growers.Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the me... Full story

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