Want to “Do the Puyallup” and get paid for it this year?

Here’s your chance. The Puyallup Fair needs nearly 3,000 seasonal workers to put on the yearly extravaganza, and they start accepting applications and conducting interviews on Aug. 6.

The jobs range from food service and retail sales to booth operators and barn workers. Most pay minimum wage ($8.07 per hour); a few skilled positions pay more.

Apply in person at the fair’s employment office, located on the north end of the fairgrounds, west of the Red Gate and next to the Sky Ride Station (9th Ave. Southwest between 4th St. Southwest and 5th St. Southwest).

The fair runs from Sept. 5 through Sept. 21 this year. The employment office will be open from 8:30 a.m. until noon, and 1-4 p.m., Monday through Friday through Sept. 21.

The Champaign, Ill.-based company is bringing its sandwich operation to Pierce County.

I spotted one this week by the Tacoma Mall in the same parking lot as Red Robin. The chain has nearly 700 stores nationwide.

Here are some menu highlights:

Gourmet Veggie Club: Double provolone, real avocado spread, sliced cucumber, alfalfa sprouts, lettuce, tomato, & mayo. (Try it on my 7-grain whole wheat bread. This veggie sandwich is world class!) Calories: 855

The J.J. Gargantuan: This sandwich was invented by Jimmy John's brother Huey. It's huge enough to feed the hungriest of all humans! Tons of genoa salami, sliced smoked ham, capicola, roast beef, turkey & provolone, jammed into one of our homemade French buns then smothered with onions, mayo, lettuce, tomato, & our homemade Italian dressing. Calories: 1,008.

I took a quick peek in the store today and saw a sign advertising sandwiches for $5.85.

According to the company's Web site, two Jimmy John's restaurants are located in Seattle.

I'll let you know more soon.

Comcast will hook you up with a Wii game console if you agree to subscribe to digital-television from the company.

The cable provider lost some basic video customers in the first quarter and is looking to lure some back, with upgrades.

Here are the details: Customers who sign a two-year contract by Aug. 17 for Comcast’s Preferred Plus or Premier Triple Play packages, which cost about $130 to $160 each month, will receive a Wii system, the company announced today.

By my math that means you will have to commit to spending at least $3,120 on Comcast services during the next two years to get the $249.99 game system. (Price comes from bestbuy.com.) But then you come out of the deal with cable, phone, Internet and a Wii.

The game consoles may help court telephone and Internet customers, who cable companies rely on for growth as the video market matures. Bloomberg News reports. Comcast’s first-quarter revenue from Web access rose 12 percent to $1.75 billion, while digital-phone sales doubled to $573 million, the company reported in May.

Don't be alarmed if you see dozens of emergency vehicles speeding toward Sea-Tac Airport Wednesday morning.

They'll be headed to the first large-scale mock crash exercise in 25 years at the airport.

The exercise will be staged on the soon-to-open third runway from 9 a.m. to noon. The third runway is on the airport's west side. The exercise is not expected to interrup air travel.

The airport will use a mock-up aircraft fuselage to simulate the main body of the crashed aircraft and derelict cars to represent large pieces of debris from that aircraft.

As many as 75 pieces of emergency equipment are expected to participate in the exercise along with about 175 firefighters and 100 volunteer "victims." Police and other agencies will also take part in the emergency drill.

The efforts to squeeze more revenue out of the airline business model continued today with news of two new money-saving measures.

Emirates Airlines, the carrier that just announced a plan to buy nearly $12 billion worth of Airbus planes, said it is eliminating the printed version of its inflight magazine to save weight and fuel.

The magazine's contents will be available on screen on the aircraft's in-seat entertainment systems. Northwest Airlines and Japan Airlines have announced they will trim the size of their inflight publications but won't eliminate them.

While eliminating the magazine will save only a few ounces from each seatback, multiplied by thousands of seats in the Emirates system, the weight savings will be considerable. Weight savings mean fuel savings. The less weight the aircraft has to lift, the less fuel it burns.

Meanwhile, Phoenix-based US Airways has notified its top-level frequent fliers that it won't grant them bonus miles beyond what other less frequent fliers receive.

In most frequent flier programs those fliers who pass a certain benchmark of miles in a year receive more credit for each mile flown. The programs are designed to reward business fliers who frequently pay the highest fares and who travel most often.

The airline said its survey of business fliers showed that free upgrades to business class or first class were more important than bonus miles.

Alaska Airlines today unveiled a new feature on its Web page designed to give budget-conscious travelers an easier way to find low fares.

Here's how it works: Travelers enter their preferred travel dates in the on-line reservation booking system. Then they choose the low-fare calendar search option. That option will display the lowest fare to their destination for the remaining days of the month.

The new option will allow travelers with flexibility in their plans to quickly pick the lowest cost roundtrip, the airline said.

Emirates, a Mideast airline with global ambitions, announced it wants to buy nearly $12 billion worth of new Airbus planes.

The announcement of the letter of intent to buy 30 Airbus A330 and 30 A350XWB planes came at the delivery ceremony of the first Emirates Airbus A380 superjumbo jet in Hamburg, Germany.

Emirates is Airbus's best customer for its A350XWB and for A380.

Fueled by oil revenues, the carrier is ambitiously marching to make its Dubai hub the axis of world air travel.