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A metallic flower sits on display at Bill Hedgecock’s home in North Logan. “I’ve been welding for 45 years, and I’ve always done art,” says Hedgecock. “I thought, ‘Why don’t I just combine those?’” Read about the metalworker and his creations on Page 8.
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S THE YEAR HEATS UP (but the temperatures don’t), you’ll notice more and more events are making their way into Cache Magazine. There’s always a lag between Christmas and the first or second week of February, and it seems we’re finally crawling out of the black hole of Cache Valley entertainment. The first thing I want to direct your attention to is the Vittles & Fiddles fundraiser, taking place this Saturday (read about it on Page 3). The Whittier Community Center is home to dozens of do-good valley organizations and fundraisers take place there throughout the year. This particular event costs only $12 per person and all funds raised go toward building the Adventure Playground. According to their Web site (www.whit
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tiercenter.org), the Adventure Playground is a “100 percent disabled-inclusive park in Cache Valley to be built entirely by volunteers at the Whittier Community Center. The design of the playground comes from the imaginative ideas and suggestions of local schoolchildren.” How cool is that? So check out all the information for the fundraiser and be sure to join in the fun — from authentic Mexican music to “Jawaiian” performances to delicious food from chefs around the valley, I can guarantee you’ll have a good time (and be doing something for your community at the same time)! Flip through the rest of the magazine to find information on other upcoming events, including a bluegrass band, a barbershop quartet, an art exhibit at USU, a concert celebrating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and more. And it will only get better from there! Have a great weekend, everyone! — Jamie Baer Nielson Cache Magazine editor
Sen. Bennett to join chorus for concert honoring Lincoln
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Shelter seeking volunteers who want to read with cats
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Cute
USU to host inaugural juried photo exhibition
pet photo of the week
This dog is available for adoption! Pet: Rolf From: The Cache Humane Society Why he’s so lovable: “Rolf is a large, lovable German shorthair pointer. He is a neutered male about 5 years old, house-trained and loves to be inside. He seems good with other dogs, mainly females. Rolf loves adult attention and is probably good with kids. We don’t know if he is a hunter, but he comes very quickly and reliably when called. Probably because of his hunting instincts, he is not good with cats.” For more information or to meet Rolf, call 563-6692.
Slow Wave is created from real people’s dreams as drawn by Jesse Reklaw. Ask Jesse to draw your dream! Visit www.slowwave.com to find out how.
he Whittier Community Center is housed in the historic Whittier School (built in 1908) at 290 N. 400 East in Logan. Many local civic, nonprofit, arts and educational organizations call the Whittier Center home. Current programs being sponsored by the Whittier are Aikido of Northern Utah; Cache Employment and Training Center; Centro Cristiano; Cache Valley Civic Ballet and School of Ballet;
piece band specializing in “Bluegrass and a Bit More,” which is also the title of one of their CD releases. Their music is a mix of traditional and original tunes, vocals and instrumentals, bluegrass and folk, upbeat
and sentimental songs. Kaneala Ablau and friends is a four-member band made up of USU students from Hawaii. These musicians perform on drums, guitar, keyboard and vocals in a band called Ram-
Cache Valley Boys and Girls Club; Cache Pilates Studio; the Cache Valley Multicultural Center; Inishfre Irish Dance; Narcotics Anonymous; the Society of Friends-Logan Meeting; Sub for Santa; People First (recreation for young adults with intellectual disabilities); Bear River T’ai Chi Ch’uan; Bridger Folk Music Society; Dog Training; VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance); United Way, Yoga; the Apostolic Assembly;
Contra Dance; the Society for Creative Anachronism; the Cache Valley Bee Keepers’ Club; La Espada de Dios; Middle Eastern Dance; Boomer Dance; and Kung Fu. The Whittier Center also orga-
mage. Their music mixes Hawaiian traditional sound with reggae in a musical genre called “Jawaiian.” A genre of music originating from northern Mexico, Viento Norteño has become popular
nizes and hosts a number of events throughout the year that are focused on Cache Valley’s children and families. The center serves as many as 1,600 people in the community each week. This year the Whittier Community Center’s Centennial Celebrations will feature several special events including: Valentine’s Day dinner-dance (Feb. 14); Renaissance Faire (March 29); Aikido Workshops and Dem-
in recent years in every clime. Luis and friends have been together for two years, combining their talents to perform regularly in Utah. Once you’re done with dinner, head down to the Pink Café to enjoy coffee, dessert and musical performances in a more intimate setting. This year’s café will feature acoustic guitarist Allen Christensen and Latin guitarist Antonio Arce. Access to the Pink Café is included with your ticket. Christensen has performed for many years around Cache Valley with the band The Whilers and currently with Raindogs, which provides the music for many memorable evenings at dances and parties around the valley. Arce grew up absorbing the intricacies of Latino music in his southern Bolivia and northern Argentina homes. He sings and plays from the different styles of acoustic guitar that he learned from others in his travels through South and Central America, and from a favorite style called “Trova.” Tickets for Vittles & Fiddles are $12 per person and will be available at the door. For more information, call 753-9008.
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food, music and fun is slated to take place at the Whittier Community Center’s annual Vittles & Fiddles fundraiser — “Bluegrass and Beyond” — starting at 5:30 p.m. this Saturday, Jan. 31. The Whittier Community Center at 290 N. 400 East in Logan has hosted this event every year for the past nine years to raise funds for a variety of improvement projects at the building. This year, all funds raised will help build Adventure Playground, a 100 percent disabled-inclusive park to be built entirely by volunteers this spring. Additional donations are appreciated. Dinner will be served in four half-hour rotations starting at 5:30. At the end of each rotation cooks will be replaced by other chefs with new dishes. Come and enjoy a single meal or stay for the evening and sample everything. Banjoman & Co. will take the stage first, followed by Hawaiian musicians Kaneala Ablau and friends. Logan’s Viento Norteño (Wind of the North) will wrap up the evening with authentic Mexican music for dancing from the Norteño tradition. Banjoman & Co. is a four-
onstration (April 12); Adventure Playground Build Week (May 1217); Whittier School Centennial Reunion (June 7); Community Picnic and ADA Celebration (June 28); Book Sale (Aug. 23); Multicultural Food and Music Festival (Sept. 20); Meet the Candidates Night (Oct. 15 or 23); Halloween Carnival (Oct. 31); Historic Christmas Cantata (Dec. 13); and a children’s Christmas party (Dec. 20).
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Rhythms
‘We show them it’s something special’ Spring Creek Bluegrass Band to perform on USU campus
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HE BRIDGER Folk Music Society will present the Spring Creek Bluegrass Band in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, at the Ellen Eccles Conference Center Auditorium on the Utah State University campus. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $15 at Sunrise Cyclery, KSM Music or the USU Spectrum and TSC ticket offices. They will also be available at the door for $18 for adults; $15 for students with ID; and $10 for youth ages 16 and younger. Doors will open at 7 p.m. This award-winning Colorado bluegrass band is breaking into the national scene with a passion that’s winning over fans everywhere they go. Their music builds on the fundamentals of traditional bluegrass but their repertoire consists of original or little-known songs that are molded into a fresh sound through intricate instrumental arrangements and pristine vocal harmonies. Their power-packed performances are redefining what can be accomplished on
The Spring Creek Bluegrass Band (from left): Chris Elliott, Jessica Smith, Taylor Sims & Alex Johnstone.
acoustic instruments. Spring Creek includes Alex Johnstone playing mandolin and fiddle; Jessica Smith on bass; Taylor Sims playing flatpick guitar; and Chris Elliott on banjo. Judges at two prestigious band competitions agree that Spring Creek has what it takes to deliver the high, lonesome sounds in the Appalachian tradition. The band
won the 2007 Telluride Bluegrass Festival band contest and the 35th annual Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Festival band contest. They are the first band to win both titles in the same summer. Not only are their songs becoming jam standards, they have also been covered by international touring acts and their song “High Up in the
Mountains” won the Independent Music Awards Vox Populi Award for Best Americana Song. In concert, the Spring Creek musicians mix in a little something for everyone — don’t be surprised to hear an Elton John or Gillian Welch cover squeezed in between a blazing fast Carter Stanley instrumental and a Bill Monroe tune.
Band mates agree they want to have a hand in initiating new and younger audiences into the bluegrass fold: “I’m into the idea of playing for general audiences where people might be exposed to traditional bluegrass for the first time,” says Rockygrass 2007 banjo champion Chris Elliott. “When I first saw younger people playing bluegrass, I thought, ‘Wow, this could be really cool. If more young people are exposed to bluegrass at the right time, they’ll like it, too.’” Bassist Jessica Smith agrees: “We really want all generations to appreciate bluegrass. Some kids think it’s just sleepy music for older people. We show them that we have real energy and passion; we show them that it’s something special.” Spring Creek has released two independent CDs: “Rural & Cosmic Bluegrass” in 2006 and “Lonesome Way to Go” in 2008. Looking ahead, Spring Creek has signed with the 50-year-old Rebel Records label to produce another CD this March. They are also booked to play at several festivals across North America including Old Settler’s Music Festival in Austin, Texas; Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Festival in the Yukon Territory of British Columbia; and the famous MerleFest in Wilkesboro, N.C.
Barbershop harmony coming to Allinger Community Theatre in Montpelier, Idaho HE SOUNDSCAPE T Quartet will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, at the
Allinger Community Theatre in Montpelier. Tickets are $8 and will be available at the door. Soundscape is a barbershop quartet from Pocatello. They are members of the Idaho Gateway Chorus, a chapter of the Rocky Mountain District of the Barbershop Harmony Society. Soundscape sings and perFrom left: Steve Erlandson, Gary Dunn, Christopher forms a variety of a cappella song Midgyette & Mike Louden. styles in four-part harmony.
Formed in 2002, the group has headlined shows in Idaho and Wyoming and has also entertained audiences in Utah, Colorado and Ohio. Soundscape ranks in the top 7 percent of all quartets registered in the world, and is currently ninth in the nine-state Rocky Mountain District. In 2005 Soundscape won a prestigious scholarship to attend Harmony University in Columbus, Ohio, where they were the featured quartet in the closing concert. At the 2007 International Barbershop Con-
vention in Denver, Soundscape was one of only three “Tag-in” quartets. Members of Soundscape are Steve Erlandson, tenor; Gary Dunn, lead; Mike Louden, baritone; and Christopher Midgyette, bass. When asked why Soundscape was formed they said, “(We) began singing together with the goal of creating a highquality four-part barbershop sound combined with an entertaining and competitive level performance.” For more information, contact Becky Smith at 208-847-3800.
USU to host inaugural juried photo exhibition
“Debra Estes (15),” 2008, by Stephen Chalmers
Poetry contest now taking submissions REATIVE C Communication is now accepting entries for
its Spring 2009 Essay and Poetry Contest: “A Celebration of Young Writers.” More than $3,000 in prizes and awards will be given out to poets, writers and schools in the area. Essay contest divisions include grades K-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12, with 10 top winners in each division. To enter an essay, write up to 250 words on any non-fiction topic. Deadline for this contest is Tuesday, Feb. 17. Poetry contest divisions are the
same, also with 10 top winners in each. To enter, submit one original poem of 21 lines or fewer. Deadline for this contest is April 14. Aspiring writers can submit their essay or poetry online at www.poeticpower.com, or snail mail it to 1488 N. 200 West, Logan, UT 84341. Please label your entry “Poetry Contest” or “Essay Contest” and include the author’s name, address, city, state, ZIP code, current grade, school name, school address and teacher’s name. For more information, call 713-4411.
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TAH STATE University’s department of art has organized a juried photography exhibition, “The Tippetts Intermountain Competitive Exhibition.” In its inaugural year, the 2009 exhibit’s theme is “Borders, Boundaries and Ranges,” and features the creative work of artists from the Intermountain region. The exhibition will be on display Feb. 2 through Feb. 20, with an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 2, in the Twain C. Tippetts Gallery in the Chase Fine Arts Center at USU. The Tippetts Intermountain Competitive Exhibition was open to artists older than 18 who currently reside in the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington or Wyoming. The exhibition honors Twain C. Tippetts, a longtime USU arts faculty member and administrator. He began his tenure as art department head in 1956. He spent years traveling across a six-state region meeting emerging artists and eventually exhibiting their work, gaining a reputation for his passions, said USU’s current art department head, Carolyn Cardenas. “Twain Tippetts exhibited definitive photography and clay work of the West all while telling folk
and wanderlust stories with a spry, humorous wit,” she said. “He collected watercolors, drawings, prints and paintings and led student tours to artist studios across the globe, all the while finding any location he could to exhibit these passions. By following his tradition, he set the context for this show.” The show features work from nationally recognized photographers Stephen Marc, Julie Anand and Stephen Chalmers. In all, work from 17 regional artists explores the exhibition’s theme. Additional artists include Carolyn Guild and Noelle Berlage from Utah; Daniel Kasser from California; and Craig Goodworth from New Mexico. The show’s juror is Sarah Linford, a USU alumna who received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2004. After graduation she completed a graduate degree in the history of art at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. Linford has worked in a number of museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Clark Art Institute, as well as curating special projects for a private art gallery, Eckert Fine Art. She currently works for Economics Research Associates as a museum consultant. For more information about the exhibition, call 797-3460.
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All mixed up
Former Cache Magazine editor to speak as part of Distinguished Alumni series AGAZINE EDITOR M and former newspaper reporter and editor Jeremy Pugh is
the next guest in the Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series at Utah State University, a program sponsored by the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. He will speak at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, in the David B. Haight Alumni Center on the USU campus. The event is free and everyone is invited. Pugh’s presentation — “If I Don’t Know it, I Can Fake it Until I Do: Why Resourcefulness Is the Most Important Thing to Learn in College” — will run approximately 30 minutes and will be followed by a question-and-answer period. The speaker series was created to show how the guests’ education
at USU impacted their careers, Dean Niemann said. “The experiences of our accomplished alumni will help students and community members understand the connecPugh tions between their education and their lives,” she said. Pugh is a 1995 USU graduate with a degree in English literature. He also has experience in the department of journalism and communication and in the photography area of the art department. He serves as editor-in-chief of Salt Lake magazine and during the past three years has overseen an overhaul of the 19-
year-old publication, both in content and design. Following graduation, Pugh wore many hats in his professional career at newspapers around the state of Utah. He began at the copy desk in St. George at The Spectrum then moved into reporting everything from education to wildland firefighting in both Cedar City and St. George. He moved to The Herald Journal in Logan in 1998, first as the police and courts reporter then as editor of the paper’s weekly arts supplement, Cache Magazine. A longtime contributor to Salt Lake magazine, Pugh accepted the editor-in-chief position in 2006. For information on the Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series, call 797-4072.
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Film New this week “Taken” Rated PG-13 ★★1⁄2 A great deal of the allure here comes from the wild juxtaposition of its premise: the idea of Liam Neeson — esteemed, acclaimed, 56-year-old Liam Neeson — kicking all kinds of butt in a Euro B-revenge thriller. Yes, Pierre Morel’s film moves with breathlessly incessant fluidity and speed; that’s a given from the director of “District B13,” working from a script cowritten by Luc Besson, for whom this sort of trashy adventure is his baguette and butter. But cast someone you’ve never heard of in the lead role — someone who didn’t receive an Oscar nomination for playing Oskar Schindler, for example — and it might not have worked so well. Neeson seems to be having a blast unleashing chaos as former CIA operative Bryan Mills. Bryan’s been trying to live a quiet life in Los Angeles, where he’s moved to be closer to his 17-year-old daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), whom he neglected for years while he was tracking baddies around the globe. But when Kim gets kidnapped while on vacation with a girlfriend in Paris, Bryan must dash over there to prevent a group of Albanian goons from selling her into sex slavery. It’s all sordid and unseemly but if you can get past that, “Taken” is also unexpect-
edly fun in a guilty-pleasure sort of way. Bryan is inordinately violent for a guy his age — he can take down anyone, anywhere, regardless of their weaponry — but he’s also got a MacGyverlike resourcefulness. PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, disturbing thematic material, sexual content, some drug references and language. 91 min. “The Uninvited” Rated PG-13 (N/A) A review for “The Uninvited” was not available from The Associated Press. In lieu, please accept this synopsis from www.RottenTomatoes.com: “Korean horror continues its ascent with this remake of Kim Jee-Woon’s ‘Changhwa Hongryon.’ Emily Browning stars as a young woman whose mother has recently died. When she returns to live with her father, she discovers he is engaged to a woman (Elizabeth Banks) whose pretty looks belie sinister motives.” PG-13 for violent and disturbing images, thematic material, sexual content, language and teen drinking. 87 min. “New in Town” Rated PG (zero stars) Good people of Minnesota: Stand up! Fight back! Take back your state and your culture and your accent! Because if you don’t, movies like “New in Town” will continue
to blow through and tear things up at your expense, allegedly in the name of comedy. This soggy fish-out-of-water slog, starring Renee Zellweger as a Miami executive forced to move to tiny New Ulm, Minn., is chock full of stereotypically folksy folks, people whose conversations are peppered with plenty of “Oh, yas” and “You betchas.” All the women like scrapbooking and all the men like ice fishing. All of them. Even if it had tried to capitalize on the popularity of “Fargo” and come out as a parody more than a decade ago, it still wouldn’t have been remotely funny. The generic title alone should indicate how utterly bereft of creativity “New in Town” truly is. Lucy, who’s climbing the ladder at a snack food corporation, is assigned to one of its factories in the frigid north with the ultimate task of shutting it down. Before she takes a single step in the ice in one of her myriad pairs of stiletto heels, you know how this is going to turn out. And you know the second she clashes with blue-collar union rep Ted (Harry Connick Jr.) that the two will eventually fall for each other. Of course the story is familiar and formulaic — it’s the flat, hokey, one-note way Danish director Jonas Elmer gets us there that’s so depressing. PG for language and some suggestive material. 96 min.
Still playing “Slumdog Millionaire” Rated R ★★★ Despite the exotic nature of its foreign locale — the teeming, cramped, impoverished streets of Mumbai, India — this is every inch a Danny Boyle film. The hope within the squalor, the humor within the violence, they’re all thematic trademarks of the British director of the druggie drama “Trainspotting” and the zombie saga “28 Days Later.” Only this time, Boyle takes his wildly high-energy visual aesthetic and applies it to a story that, at its core, is really rather sweet and traditionally crowd-pleasing. The unassuming Dev Patel stars as our slumdog underdog, Jamal, an 18-year-old who comes from nothing but is on the verge of winning more money than anyone’s ever won on the Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” The game show’s host (an ideally smarmy and egotistical Anil Kapoor) grows unshakably suspicious as Jamal prepares to face one last question for the top prize of 20 million rupees and has
him hauled in for police questioning (by the ever-imposing Irrfan Khan). Simon Beaufoy’s complex script, based loosely on the Vikas Swarup novel “Q & A,” glides effortlessly between Jamal’s interrogation, his unlikely success in the television hot seat and his rough-and-tumble upbringing, which provided the life lessons that serve him so miraculously well now. Jamal reflects upon the desperate times he shared with his older brother, Salim (Madhur Mittal), after their mother was killed in a savage anti-Muslim attack. He remembers the cruelty of the Fagin-like figure who forced them and other orphans into slavery. And he recalls fondly the time he spent with Latika (stunning former model Freida Pinto), his first love who, as a scared child, became the brothers’ third Musketeer. The cinematography from Anthony Dod Mantle gives even the most depressing images an unexpected beauty, with Chris Dickens’ expert editing keeping the action moving fluidly. R for some violence, disturbing images and language. 120 min. — All reviews by The Associated Press
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T’S NICE TO SEE filmmakers occasionally spin a story of fresh romance for the aging set. Yet it’s disappointing that “Last Chance Harvey” casts actors with the craft and chemistry of Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson into a love story as sappy and shallow as any other in Hollywood. Reuniting the “Stranger Than Fiction” co-stars, writer-director Joel Hopkins provides plenty of room for them to say and do endearing things. But the drama and emotion hang so heavily on cliche, blind chance and mawkish sentiment that “Last Chance Harvey” comes off as a halfhearted exercise for two great actors aiming to charm the pants off each other and the audience. Almost inevitably, Hoffman and Thompson are charming. Even they can’t turn Hopkins’ thin story into a credible tale, though. Both lead characters come with overly convenient backstories to set up their incipient romance. Hoffman’s Harvey Shine is a New Yorker who wasn’t good enough to realize his
Aisle Seat By The Associated Press
★★ “Last Chance Harvey” Rated PG-13 up a conversation, Harvey should be fully in wallowing self-pity mode. Inexplicably, he shifts to pickup stance, insinuating himself into the rest of Kate’s day with persistence that borders on stalking. If the bond that quickly forms between them works at all, it’s because of Hoffman and Thompson’s warmth and tenderness, which compensate for some of the unlikely turns and artificial behavior Hopkins’ script forces on them.
dream to become a jazz pianist and now faces the prospect of losing his job as a jingle writer for commercials. Amid the career pressure, Harvey heads off for the wedding of his daughter (Liane Balaban) in London, where he has an uncomfortable reunion with his ex-wife (Kathy Baker) and suffers heartbreak when his little girl says she wants her step-dad (James Brolin) to give her away.
Harvey has a couple of chance encounters and nearencounters with Kate, a London lonelyheart who surveys travelers for the government at Heathrow airport. We get to see Kate on yet another blind date turned sour and witness a few moments with her mildly daft mother (Eileen Atkins) before she and Harvey meet up for real at an airport bar. By the time the two strike
The rest of the cast is left standing around awkwardly, Baker with barely a walk-on, Atkins stuck with a pointless subplot that goes nowhere. Implausible as their weekend romance proves, Hoffman and Thompson are enjoyable to watch, a couple of pros able to inject a degree of kinship and compassion even into a story as cloying as this. But just as Harvey and Kate come to realize about their own empty little lives, Hoffman and Thompson deserve better. “Last Chance Harvey,” an Overture Films release, is rated PG-13 for brief strong language. Running time: 92 minutes. Two stars out of four.
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‘Harvey’ has overload of cliché, chance
I Photos, clockwise from above: 1) Bill Hedgecock stands by a cluster of wind spinners featuring colored metallic leaves he made at his home in North Logan; 2) A close-up of one of the metallic leaves; 3) A metallic tree; 4) A metallic eel; 5) A metallic flower; 6) Hedgecock does some welding on a leaf in his garage; 7) The artist holds a metallic tree he made.
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North Logan artist turns welding, art into unique creations ** By Emilie H. Wheeler ** Hedgecock says he plays with the item to turn it into a threedimensional object. “My stuff is a little bit different than other people’s,” the metalworker said. “I want to show shape and motion.” His classic leaf spinners, which come small enough to catch the wind while hanging on small tree branches or large enough to stake into the ground, have
layers of yellow, orange and silver leaves that spin in opposite directions from the adjacent layers. Hedgecock’s wall hangings are also typically threedimensional, depicting a slithering eel or a school of fish. The hobby has satisfied him personally. “There was something missing in my life,” Hedgecock said. Because of his
employment at Ducworks, Hedgecock buys his metals from the Cache Valley company. He also brings home wires of different thickness to incorporate into his pieces or make into art on their own. Hedgecock said none of his work is brazed — it’s all welded. Occasionally, he applies patina to his pieces to create a greenish film over the metal, or he’ll create a more clear surface area on the metal. Over the past several years, Hedgecock has sold his work at the Summerfest Arts Faire in Logan and art festivals in Park City, and he has some pieces on Etsy.com, a Web site that provides a way for individuals to sell and buy handmade items. Hedgecock will also create work on request. For example, recently a woman in Cache Valley wanted a slightly adjusted version of an intricate lionfish he keeps in his basement. “Everybody likes something a little different,” he said. Hedgecock’s fulfillment comes when he sees customers or family members enjoy his hard work. “I like making something that people like, that they like to put in the yards or their homes,” he said.
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“Things Have Changed ... Thirty Years Ago” by (Ret.) Deputy Sheriff D. Richard Meacham (Cache County Sheriff’s Office)
January 9, 1977, was the day that I was hired by Sheriff Darius Carter. I was the weekend dispatcher and the jailer working swing Friday, swing Saturday, days Sunday, grave Monday and grave Tuesday. The Sheriff’s Office and Logan city each had their own frequencies and dispatchers, and car radios only had four channels. I was with the Sheriff’s Office for three years before I went to the Police Academy at Westminster College in Salt Lake. Things have changed. The Patrol Division consisted of a sergeant and three deputies per shift. Sometimes you might be alone on graveyards — the only deputy working the whole county. The city cops would back us if it was a hot call. Sheriff Carter would buy used cars from Saxton Motor in Smithfield and we would put a light bar and siren in them and away we would go. Things have changed. Rich County did not have a jail. If a Rich County deputy or trooper made an arrest that could not make bail, the deputy would bring the suspect to Logan and put him in our jail. The daytime jailer would take the trustee to Albertson’s once a week to buy groceries for the jail and the inmates did their own cooking. Inmates did not want to make the cook mad at them for fear of not getting fed. Sometimes it did happen. Things have changed. Hyrum city had its own Police Department and Richmond and Trenton had Dave Sparks as the town marshal. Captain Cheshire came to the Sheriff’s Office as a deputy when Hyrum disbanded the department and the Sheriff’s Office took the contract. When Logan Regional Hospital needed blood that they didn’t have on hand we were called on to do blood shuttles. A trooper would pick up the blood from a hospital in Salt Lake and drive to the Davis County line and another trooper would take it through Weber County to the Box Elder County line where a trooper or deputy would take it to the county line at the Sardine summit and a trooper or deputy would bring it on in to Logan Regional. We could get blood or needed drugs to Logan in just over an hour. Things have changed. Now we have Life Flight, pepper spray, Tasers, radios with 20 channels. Police package vehicles, motorcycles, ATVs, SWAT teams, dive teams, mountain rescue teams, semi-auto handguns instead of revolvers, and Cache County’s monument to crime and divorce three stories tall 1st District County. Things sure have changed!
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Shelter seeking volunteers who want to read with cats
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HE CACHE Humane Society is currently seeking volunteers for its pilot program of “Reading With Cats,” a unique opportunity designed to increase literacy skills of children and adults. The pilot program will last from Feb. 7 through March 7; days and times will be arranged with the volunteers. Anyone interested must be willing to come at least once a week to the shelter and read with a cat, take an orientation class and, most importantly, give feedback on the program. If interested or for more information, contact Lynda Esplin at lynda. cachehumane@hotmail.com. Reading With Cats is a fun program started by the Cache Humane Society in Logan; there are similar programs around the country that use dogs and sometimes
Celtic festival coming to Evanston, Wyo. ELTIC MUSIC C enthusiasts will celebrate the creation of a new annual
Celtic festival, “Ceili at the Roundhouse,” on Feb. 20 and 21 in Evanston, Wyo., a 45-minute drive east of Park City on I-80. The festival starts at 3 p.m. Friday and goes through 6 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $2 and good for both days. The highlight of the festival is sure to be the internationally known Irish band Dervish from Sligo Ireland, who will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Davis Middle School. Tickets are $10 for students and $15 for adults at the door; $5 can be saved by purchasing in advance at www. DervishTickets.com. Evanston will be kicking off Dervish’s 2009 U.S. tour that will sweep across the country. During the day at the Machine
Shop, several other bands will perform Friday and Saturday: • Shanahy of Salt Lake City performs traditional Celtic music on fiddle, highland pipes, cauldwind pipes, uilleann pipes, whistles and more. • The duo Willson and McKee entwine harmony vocals that ripple the emotions with traditional and original ballads on an array of instruments, including dulcimer, harp, accordion, guitars and bouzouki. • The duo Cranachan of Evanston features master hammered dulcimer player Marty Smith accompanied by Carolee Bowen on the mandola. • Additionally, CH Bagpiping will be on the premises performing unforgettable piping favorites including “Scotland the Brave,” “Highland Cathedral,” “Amazing Grace,” “Danny Boy” and more.
Perhaps the most exciting thing for musicians at Ceili at the Roundhouse festival will be the Irish jam session, to take place after the Dervish concert. Festival-goers are encouraged to bring their fiddles, flutes, bodhrans, guitars and mandolins — anything that fits the genre. Hosted by the Evanston Irish Session group, the jam session will start around 9 p.m. at Sud’s Brothers Brewery, 1012 Main St. Spectators are welcome. Other attractions at the Machine Shop include a children’s area with a castle; crafts such as weaving, tartan invention, Bridget’s Cross and Celtic knots; and educational workshops including bodhran, fiddle, step dancing, songwriting, poetry and more. For more information about the festival, visit www.CeiliAt TheRoundhouse.com.
cats, but this program uses only felines. The purpose of the Reading With Cats program is to give adults and children a place and opportunity to increase self-esteem, confidence, health and reading skills by reading aloud to an unconditionally loving, nonjudgmental, supportive, purring therapy cat. Reading sessions will be for participants with different needs. There will be times set aside for parent and child to come and read together; preschoolers and kids up to fifth grade will
have a more structured reading time. There will also be times available for adults who need to improve reading skills, for adults where English is a second language, and for adults to read to a cat for relaxation and fun. Each group will be scheduled together except for open reading times, when anyone can come. Reading sessions will be during shelter hours. The Cache Humane Society Shelter is at 2370 W. 200 North in Logan; learn more about them at www.cache humane.org.
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Craig Jessop leads the American Festival Chorus in warm-ups shortly before a rehearsal last November.
Sen. Bennett to join chorus for concert honoring anniversary of Lincoln’s birth
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TAH SEN. Robert F. Bennett is the featured guest for a concert that celebrates the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Bennett will narrate Aaron Copland’s “A Lincoln Portrait” in the concert offered by the community-based American Festival Chorus, directed by USU music department head Craig Jessop. The concert, “Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration,” will start at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center at USU. Tickets are $10 and free to USU students with current ID and available through the Caine School of the Arts Box Office, 797-8022 (http://boxoffice.usu. edu) or at the door. In addition to Bennett, a number of other guests are involved in the multi-media concert celebration. In addition to the Copland work, the chorus will present “America the Beautiful,” “Shenandoah,” the story of “The Battle Hymn of the
Republic” and other traditional favorites appropriate for the patriotic tribute. “This concert is a combined cultural celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the 100th anniversary of the organization of the NAACP, Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday and the inauguration of the first African-American president,” Jessop said. Jessop invited Bennett to join the American Festival Chorus for the performance, and the senator was able to work the invitation into his schedule. “Sen. Bennett is a great advocate for the arts and we are honored to have him join us,” Jessop said. “He was a natural choice — he loves music and he loves the arts. He has a great love of this country and for Abraham Lincoln.” “A Lincoln Portrait” is an orchestral work written by American composer Aaron Copland, known for many selections that are folk-based or reflect the American character,
including “Fanfare for the Common Man,” another work that will be featured in the Logan concert. The work is narrated with excerpts from Lincoln’s writings and speeches, including the Gettysburg Address. The work was composed and introduced in 1942 as part of a patriotic effort commissioned by conductor Andre Kostelanetz. Bennett joins a long list of distinguished narrators who Bennett have performed with orchestras and choirs in “A Lincoln Portrait,” including Walter Cronkite, Henry Fonda, Charlton Heston (with the Utah Symphony), Katherine Hepburn, Al Gore and more. An online blog refers to a 2005 narration done by Barack Obama in Chicago, complete with YouTube video. Bennett was re-elected to a
third term in the U.S. Senate in 2004. He is a respected leader in Washington, D.C., and as a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee and a member of the distinguished Joint Economic Committee, he is at the center of national economic policy discussions. From his seat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, he is the ranking member for the Subcommittee on Agriculture. He was elected to the Senate in 1992. Additional concert highlights include a guest performance by Pamela Laws, a noted gospel singer and Jessop friend. “Pamela is from Florida and is among the truly great gospel singers in the country,” Jessop said. “She appeared with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and we became friends. She is coming out of friendship and love. She is a great, great singer.” Laws is featured in a number of spirituals and gospel tunes and joins the concert finale, the story of the “Battle Hymn of the
Republic.” Theater arts department faculty member Kevin Doyle will act as master of ceremonies for the evening and will narrate the story of the “Battle Hymn.” Adding visuals to the evening is the work of James Westwater, a Salt Lake Citybased professional photographer. “He is passionate about symphonic music,” Jessop said. “He has combined his skill as a photographer with his love of music and has developed a process he calls ‘photochoreography’ that has been seen across the country with many professional orchestras.” Three projectors and screens will project images that accompany the music in “A Lincoln Portrait” and in Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man.” The American Festival Chorus is a community choir supported by USU’s Department of Music and includes more than 260 singers. Its members include university students and community members.
Gory work makes for a good story By The Associated Press
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“The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death” by Charlie Huston (Ballantine Books, 272 pp., $25)
HERE ARE mysteries that are not for the faint of heart. Charlie Houston’s latest is not for the faint of stomach. “The Mystic Arts of Erasing all Signs of Death” is the grittiest — and funniest — of mysteries. Firmly in the pulp tradition, darkness and danger are always threatening Web Goodhue, the book’s hero. Web, once a dedicated elementary school teacher, has become an unemployed slacker because of a tragedy that befell him teaching. His caustic attitude has cost him most of his friends. The one exception is Chev, a tattoo parlor operator and friend from childhood with whom Web lives
and occasionally helps out. But even Chev is on the edge of kicking Web out. Then Po Sin, a “huge, round” Chinese American, comes to Web’s rescue. Po Sin has a job for a guy with a strong stomach with his company, Clean Team. Clean Team is a different kind of cleaning service: It removes the mess left behind by death — murder, suicide or just natural causes that go undiscovered for a while. The blood, brains, bone and body fluids are all part of a day’s work. Web, who initially thinks he will ditch the job, discovers he actually finds the work satisfying, despite the macabre nature of the business. “The roaches swarmed me. So I freaked a little. A couple of hundred cockroaches come
9-year-old offers some sage advice on approaching girls By The Christian Science Monitor
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HAT WILL ALEC GREVEN have left to wish for when he grows up? At the age of 9 he is already a noted expert on relations with the opposite sex — and a published author. It all started in Ms. Dupree’s thirdgrade class in Castle Rock, Colo. Alec won a class writing contest with an entry called “How to Talk to Girls.” Before he knew it, he was on the local news. Then the Ellen DeGeneres show came calling. Shortly after that, Alec had an agent. Alec says all the information in “How to Talk to Girls” comes from life on the playground. (However, he notes in his introduction that his statistics are based solely on interactions at Soaring Hawk Elementary School. “They aren’t worldwide,” he writes. “I would have had to do a lot more research for that.”) But as far as it goes, Alec’s advice seems excellent. Boys should dress nicely and ask good questions. (“Did you see that episode of ______?” and “I heard you went to ______. What did you do?” are two recommended conversational openers.)
Boys should not show off, act hyper, appear desperate, be mean or use attention-getting gambits like flapping their arms like a chicken. They should also exercise care when it comes to pretty girls. (Pretty girls, says Alec, are the ones with “big earrings, fancy dresses and all the jewelry.”) “Pretty girls are like cars that need a lot of oil,” he warns. “The best choice for most boys is a regular girl.” The reason? “About 73 percent of regular girls ditch boys,” estimates Alec, but “98 percent of pretty girls ditch boys.” Alec is at least as realistic as he is romantic. “Winning victory means the girl you like likes you back.” But, he warns, “It is very rare” and “Sometimes it takes years!” Boys who do win a girl’s heart have to keep working at being courteous, clean, normal and modest or they will “have to start all over again!” If things don’t work out, Alec sagely counsels, “Just let it go. Whatever happens, don’t let it make you crazy.” He then concludes, “That’s it. I am all out of ideas.” But really, what more is there to know?
spilling out of the ... nooks and crannies of a dead shut-in’s festering den and start racing each other up your legs to see which can be the first to crawl into your facial orifices and see if you don’t freak.” The book is filled with interesting characters — Gabe, the silent man who works for Clean Team; Dingband, Po Sin’s nephew; Web’s mother Theodora, who grows her own marijuana and bakes pies at her Wild Blackberry Pie Farm in Oregon; Web’s father, L.L. Crows, once a successful Hollywood script doctor. Web meets the woman of his dreams, Soledad, while cleaning up after her father’s bizarre suicide. And through Soledad, he meets her half brother, Jamie, a self-styled movie producer,
trying to sign up some 13-yearolds who “had a top-ten mostviewed clip on YouTube for over a week.” Jamie is in deep trouble — he has hijacked a truckload of almonds, and the criminal owners are threatening to kill everyone, including Web and Soledad, unless they get the loot back. In between all these goingson, there is bad blood between Clean Team and its rival, Aftershock Trauma, which quickly turns violent. And, of course, there is the trouble that made teaching, and riding a bus, impossible for Web. Fast paced and at times screamingly funny, “The Mystic Arts ...,” won’t be to everyone’s taste, but for those who like black humor and offbeat stories, it’s top rate.
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Book reviews
Book teaches young readers to find another side to ‘scary’ people By The Christian Science Monitor
OME PEOPLE “S are a little bit scary,” thinks a little girl
with wild red hair. “But then, sometimes (most times, maybe, I think) sometimes they really are not.” That’s the lesson to be learned in “The Little Bit Scary People,” Emily Jenkins’s warm, wise story for young readers, accompanied by the evocative illustrations of German illustrator Alexandra Boiger. Somewhere in a big city a little red-haired girl and her scruffy black dog encounter a menacing-seeming cast of characters. There’s a punky skateboarder, a belligerent bus driver, an oddball student who mutters to herself in science class, a feisty Goth teen and more. All of these figures, the little girl confides to
her dog, seem “a little bit scary.” But that’s before she lets her imagination take her to happier places. She can picture the bus driver making a special pancake breakfast for her children, the skateboarder snuggling in bed with his cat, and the student learning to ride a bike with the loving help of her mom. And, suddenly, none of these people seem scary anymore. (In fact, it turns out, the Goth teenager is the little girl’s sister — and she has a dad and brother who are
similarly transformed.) Jenkins, whose other books include “What Happens on Wednesdays” and “That New Animal,” has a lovely touch when it comes to conveying the warm interiors of family life. Boiger’s characters deftly demonstrate the speed with which a hint of menace can melt into kindly quirkiness. Even the settings switch from stark to lush and cool to warm each time the little girl uses the laser beam of her imagination to find the sweetness under a daunting exterior. Jenkins’s story is intended for children, but its message is universal. It’s hard to fear anyone once you’ve pictured him with a kitten on his lap. We all have a soft center somewhere and often it requires only a bit of creative thinking to locate it.
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From Sunday’s New York Times
* This week’s New York Times Bestseller List * PAPERBACK (TRADE) FICTION 1. “The Shack” by William P. Young 2. “Sundays at Tiffany’s” by J. Patterson 3. “Revolutionary Road” by Richard Yates 4. “The Reader” by Bernhard Schlink 5. “... Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini
PAPERBACK NONFICTION 1. “Dreams from My Father” by Barack Obama 2. “Marley & Me” by John Grogan 3. “The Audacity of Hope” by Barack Obama 4. “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson 5. “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” by Tucker Max
PAPERBACK (MASS) FICTION 1. “Revolutionary Road” by Richard Yates 2. “The Appeal” by John Grisham 3. “Plum Lucky” by Janet Evanovich 4. “The First Patient” by Michael Palmer 5. “Married in Seattle” by D. Macomber
CHILDREN’S BOOKS 1. “Barack Obama: Son of Promise ...” by N. Grimes 2. “Wabi Sabi” by Mark Reibstein 3. “Barack” by Jonah Winter 4. “Gallop!” by Rufus Butler Seder 5. “Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed” by Mo Willems
Answers from last week
Ongoing events USU’s Psychology Department is offering free treatment to adults with obsessivecompulsive disorder as part of a research study. Treatment is delivered in eight weekly one-hour therapy sessions. Common types of OCD include cleaning, checking, hoarding and repeated moral concerns. If interested in participating, contact Michelle at 797-8303. The Thomas Edison Charter Schools are now accepting applications for enrollment for the 2009-10 school year. If applications exceed available class space in any grade, a random drawing will be held to fill those seats. If applications do not exceed class space, enrollment will continue until classes are filled. Applications received before Feb. 20 at 3:30 p.m. for classes with limited space will be included in the random drawing. For more information, call Edison North at 787-2820 or Edison South at 752-0123.
Friday Pianist Radoslav Lorkovic will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at a local private residence. For tickets and directions, call 757-3468. To learn more about Lorkovic, visit www. radoslavlorkovic.com. Skaters from Cache Valley and throughout Utah will gather for the 2009 Utah Winter Games Figure Skating Competition on Friday and Saturday at the Ogden Ice Sheet, 4390 Harrison Blvd., Ogden. Freestyle events will take place from 1 to 8 p.m. Friday; and improv, artistic and showcase events will be from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. Top-placing competitors will qualify for State Games of America in Colorado Springs. For more information, visit wasatchfigureskat ing.com or call 801-399-8740. Beehive Homes of Logan (an assistedliving home) is under new ownership and will be hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony at noon Friday at 352 S. 500 West in Logan. The public is welcome to attend and meet residents and staff. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call 787-1484. Brandon Saunders will play live music from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave., Logan. For more information, call 752-4777. The Mollies will perform with Jordan Booth and We Fight the Giant Squid (indie folk rock) at 8 p.m. Friday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave., Logan. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/ whysound or e-mail info@whysound.com.
Guests can also create beaded jewelry by replicating examples at the museum or creating an original design. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 797-7545. The Relay for Life 2009 Kick-Off will take place from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Cache Valley Mall main entrance. Come join the fight against cancer. To register or for more information, contact Larraine Boyd at 760-5595 or larraine.boyd@usu.edu. The 2009 Winter Trails Day will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Hardware Ranch (up Blacksmith Fork Canyon). This event is for all ages and will focus on ways to have fun and stay fit, warm and safe during winter. Discover nature through snowshoe hikes, accessible recreation using adaptive equipment, snowmobiles and cross-country ski demonstrations. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.wintertrails.org. The annual Vittles & Fiddles fundraiser will take place from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East. A variety of local cooks will prepare their specialties. Banjoman and Co. and Polynesian cultural music will play on the main stage. Dinner will be served from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and the evening will end with a dance to authentic Mexican music performed by Viento Norteño. In the Pink Café enjoy coffee, pastries and the musical talents of Allen Christensen and Antonio Arce. Dinner is $12 per person. This year’s proceeds will help build Adventure Playground. Additional donations are appreciated. For more information, call 753-9008 or see Page 3 in this week’s magazine. Auditions for “Damn Yankees” will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden. All roles are open. Prepare an upbeat Broadway musical song. No accompanist will be available so bring your own or a minus track. No roles for ages 15 and younger. Callbacks will be from 2 to 4 p.m. the same day. For an audition form or more information, visit www.terraceplayhouse.com. Why Sound will present Battle of the Bands: Part Two at 6 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $5.
Sunday Bruce Moulton will play live music from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave., Logan. For more information, e-mail hollydialala@hotmail.com.
All are invited to participate in a Peace Vigil every Friday between 5 and 6 p.m. on the east side of Main Street between Center Street and 100 North in Logan. For more information, e-mail info@loganpeace.org.
Beginning Sunday, the Cache Valley Christian Center will meet at Cinefour Theaters in North Logan (behind Iggy’s and Wingers restaurants). Services will be in both English and Spanish at 10:30 a.m. For more information, call 753-5312 or visit www. cvchristiancenter.org.
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Visitors to this week’s “Saturdays at the Museum” program at USU’s Museum of Anthropology will learn about the cultures of Africa while viewing and discussing items from the Besotho, Dogon and Zulu tribes.
The Unicorn Children’s Theatre will host auditions for the March mainstage show, “Saint George and the Reluctant Dragon,” at 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 2, in the Bullen Center Unicorn Room, 43 S. Main, Logan. Casting is
for two girls ages 12-14 and two boys ages 14 or older. For more information, call 752-9062.
For more information, call 752-7242 or e-mail allisonr@brag.utah.gov.
The Cache Valley Retired School Employees Association will meet at 1 p.m. Monday at The Copper Mill Restaurant. Debra Smith from BRAGG will give a presentation on “Retirement and Isolation.” All retired school employees in the valley are invited to attend. Reservations are necessary; contact Barbara Jensen at 753-1070.
The USU Department of English Speakers Series will continue with associate professor Phebe Jensen, who will present “Religion and Revelry in Shakespeare’s Festive World” at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in USU’s Haight Alumni Center. Admission is free and everyone is invited. For more information, call 797-3858 or e-mail marina.hall@usu.edu.
An adult quit-smoking class will take place from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Bear River Health Department, 655 E. 1300 North, and will consist of four one-hour sessions. Anyone interested in taking the class will need to register in advance; cost is $25. Those who complete the class will be refunded $15. For more information or to sign up, call 792-6510.
A Quarterly Arts Summit will take place at noon Wednesday at the Bullen Center, 43 S. Main. In this forum, those who plan arts events meet to coordinate their calendars, share best practices and discuss issues of common concern. Everyone is invited. For more information, contact Tricia at 753-6518 ext. 11 or thancock@CenterForTheArts.us.
Booklore will meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the home of Janee Walker, 429 Blvd., Logan. There will be a program.
Tuesday The Cache Woodcarvers will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Cache Senior Citizens Center, 240 N. 100 East, Logan. The club will be carving spoons out of black walnut. Everyone is invited. For more information, contact Deb at 752-9491. A SCORE Business Workshop, “Start and Grow Your Business,” will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday at the Cache Business Resource Center at BATC’s West Campus, Room 1901 (NW entrance). Cost is $30 for full workshop. To register or for more information, call 753-6780 or e-mail croberts@cachebrc.com. “Smart Money Moves!,” a series of personal and family finance workshops, will be taught from 6 to 8 p.m. every Tuesday in February in the Cache County Administration Building Multipurpose Room, 179 N. Main, Logan. Cost is $15 per person for materials and refreshments. A spouse/partner may attend for an additional $5. For registration information, call 752-6263.
Wednesday The Cache Valley Historical Society will host a discussion with Randy Williams and Barbara Middleton titled “Oral Histories from Logan Canyon” at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Room 840 at the Bridgerland Applied Technology College. The society will also recognize its two scholarship recipients, Kandice Newren and Jami Van Huss. For more information, contact Kent at 753-0103. Clio Club will meet at the home of Janice Shousen at 1 p.m. Wednesday. Janice will also present the program. The Bear River Area Agency on Aging will host a “Maintain Your Brain” meeting the first Wednesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the large conference room at BRAG (east entrance of the building). This meeting is for the Utah Alzheimer’s Association’s innovative project that involves doing something proactive and preventative regarding dementia.
A Backcountry Awareness Expo will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Plaza 255 (255 S. Main, behind Blackstone Restaurant). Booths will be presented by the area’s backcountry experts showcasing the latest safety products as well as basic training in CPR, the use of avalanche equipment, maps, avalanche forecasting and more. Admission is free. Cache Valley Transit District General Manager Todd Beutler will speak at the Logan Kiwanis Club meeting at noon Wednesday at The Copper Mill. For more information, contact Curtis at 563-0618.
Thursday The Northern Utah Woman’s Council of Realtors will host a business luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Thursday at the Iron Gate Grill, 517 W. 100 North, Providence. Topic will be “Technology and Tricks of the Trade.” Cost is $13 for members or $20 for guests. RSVP to Valerie Hall at 753-5978 ext. 225 or valerie_ hall@countrywide.com. A Master Gardener Program has been scheduled in Cache County starting Thursday. This is a 40- to 50-hour course for $95 that offers in-depth training in multiple subjects so Master Gardeners can better serve the public. Each participant is required to complete 40 hours of community service. For more information, call the Cache County Extension Office at 752-6263.
Upcoming event The 22nd annual Valentine Chocolate Festival will take place at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Bullen Center, 43 S. Main, Logan. Tickets are $5 per person and will be available at the door. A fundraiser for Logan Planned Parenthood, the Chocolate Festival gives the public a chance to taste and vote for their favorite chocolate creations donated by local professional and amateur chefs. A silent auction of all entries will begin at 6:30 p.m. and live auction of the winning desserts will follow at 8. For more information, visit www. thechocolatefestival.org.
Call 752-2121 ext. 329 to have your event listed in the calendar!
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