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What’s inside this week Dennis bites the bullet and gets a haircut

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Arts & Entertainment Calendar On the cover: Faculty costume designer Nancy Hills looks through a set

of costumes in one of the dressing rooms at the Morgan Theater on campus at USU Wednesday. Read more on page 8. (Alan Murray/ Herald Journal)

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’ve been in USU’s costume shop a couple of times, due to a story I was writing last spring. Four talented students had won awards for costumes, lighting, makeup and set design at a festival in St. George. They were invited to spend a week in Washington D.C., where they would attend workshops from theater professionals. They were clearly excited.

As we talked, they told me about all the research and skill involved in the process in theater design.

While I’ve been to several productions, I must admit I never thought too much about what goes on behind the scenes months and months before actors take stage.

At USU, theater designers are assigned their productions for the following school year in the spring. Then they start researching time periods and apparel associated with the place the play is supposed

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to take place. One student, for example has researched Asian clothes for the play “Issun Boshi.”

The student who won for lighting had to research Asian puppet theater for the same play and chose colors to set the mood for each scene and angles that would bounce off 20-foot, on-stage puppets.

Drawing sketches was involved for the makeup artist and costume designer. The woman who won for set design had to create scale models for the play “Sweeney Todd.”

As we sat in the costume shop, one student began to work on another student’s hair for a play that was going on that night. Another student was working on masks. The atmosphere in the room was surely creative as students bounced ideas off one another.

Read more about USU costume design and the upcoming play “Our Country’s Good” on page 8. Students and faculty have been creatively working once again.

— Manette Newbold Cache Magazine assistant editor

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International circus act performs at USU

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rtists create scenes and stories, earthbound and in mid-air, through the art of juggling, dance and aerial performance as the Finnish contemporary circus group Circo Aereo performs Monday, Feb. 21, at Utah State University Kent Concert Hall.

“With skilled magical cameos, four Circo Aereo performers will create a half-circus, half-cabaret arrangement using music, props and costume changes for an unforgettable fantasy experience,” said Kristi Chester, publicity manager for Baylin Artists.

Circo Aereo will perform acts from its 2010-11 tour “Espresso: European New Circus for the 21st Century.”

“Espresso” is a combination of traditional circus art, cabaret and contemporary circus, based on movement and will be presented at Utah State University Monday, Feb. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Concert Hall, Chase Fine Arts Center.

“‘Espresso’ is a high speed ride through the labyrinth of the history

of circus — the kind of voyage where one’s gaze can only grasp

images, glimmers of light and movement,” Chester said.

“‘Espresso’ is like a treasure chest full of the things of which circus

is made, filled with beautiful sights, meticulous joint efforts and inventive surprises,” the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat wrote in a review of the company’s performance.

Since 1996, Circo Aereo has performed at several renowned festivals and theaters in 30 countries around the world.

The performance at USU begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Concert Hall in the Chase Fine Arts Center. Tickets are $8-$15 for reserved seating.

More information and tickets are available at the Caine College of the Arts Box Office in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, online at arts.usu.edu and by calling 435-797-8022.

Folk band to play at local bakery

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By Shaunda Wenger of Nibley

he next Crumb Brothers Bakery concert features an up-and-coming trio, The New Folk Revival, on Saturday Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m. at Crumb Brothers Bakery, 291 S. 300 West in Logan.

New Folk Revival features Pat Lambert on guitar and lead vocals, Eric Wagner on various instruments and lead vocals, and Joe Farmer on bass and harmony vocals. The band began with Lambert and Wagner in early 2010, with Farmer adding the bass note in the fall of 2010.

While the band is new, the members have more than 50 years of combined musical experi-

ence behind them. As the band name implies, the band plays mostly folk music, including some originals and other tunes from the Celtic and American folk music repertoire. Influences include Nancy Griffith, Emmy Lou Harris, Kate Wolf, Gillian Welch, Bill Staines, and Adrianne Young. With a variety of songs both new and old, the band presents these with rich vocal harmony, a dash of humor, and tasteful instrumentation.

Lambert began playing guitar as a child.

Over the years she has played solo for a wide variety of events and church gatherings.

Farmer has been per-

forming for more than 35 years, playing guitar, mandolin, and bass. He played with Wagner and others in the Down Home Band for 13 years, a band which played regularly for Logan’s Summerfest Art Fair and Festival of the American West.

Wagner is a singer and multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, harmonica, violin, and cittern.

He began performing in 1985 with the band County Line in Moscow, Idaho.

Tickets are $13 and are available by calling 757-3468. Seating is very limited, so advance purchase is recommended.

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All mixed up

USU hosts annual Pow-wow

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he 38th Annual Pow-wow

hosted by the Utah State University Native American Student Council (NASC), “Echoing Traditional Ways,” is Feb. 25 and 26 in the Nelson Field House on the Logan campus.

Prizes include a $1,000 winnertakes-all drum contest. Dance categories include: golden age, traditional, grass, fancy, jingle, tiny-tots and a NASC committee sponsored switch dance. There is also a give-away for senior citizens. The $2,000 Iron Man Grass Dance Special, sponsored by the Denny Family, is cancelled.

Special guests include the Crazy Horse Singers of South Dakota, Jermaine Bell of Riverton, Wyo., Meredith Kanip of Fort Duchesne, Utah, Jeremy Garcia-Standing Soldier, of Cedar City, and Miss Indian Utah State University, Gabrielle George, who is passing on her crown earlier in the week.

Dancer registration fee is $5 and drum registration is $25.

TONECIRCLE, A Celtic-fusion band, will S be perform at 7:30 p.m. on

Participants of the 2010 USU Pow-wow during the Grand Entry.

Registration fees are due at the door. Registration table opens Friday, Feb. 25, at 3 p.m. in the Nelson Field House.

Grand Entry begins Friday at 7 p.m. with ongoing processions occurring at 12 and 6 p.m. the following Saturday. Parking is available in the Taggart Student Center Parking Terrace and the open air lot, east of the Field House.

Admission is $3 for the general public and $2 for senior citizens and USU students with ID. Chil-

dren 7 and under enter free. A concession and fry bread stand will be available. For more information on overnight stay and group rates, contact the University Inn at (435) 797-0017. For vending opportunities, contact the USU Native American Student Council at 435-797-1728 or nasc@aggiemail.usu.edu.

If you’d like more information, or to schedule interviews with the Native American Student Council, call Sandra McCabe: (623)-363-1115.

Local museum presents chocolate’s history

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earn about the rich and robust history of chocolate at Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology on Feb. 19.

Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology offers a sweet activity at its next “Saturdays at the Museum” offering Feb. 19.

An exhibit, “How Sweet it is: The History of Chocolate,” recounts chocolate’s history that is as rich as it is robust as the sweet treat.

From the fruit’s early roots in South America to the modern Valentine’s Day chocolate-filled hearts, the treat has made an impression on many and varied societies. The Saturday event is a celebration of chocolate, sure to satisfy anyone’s sweet tooth, event organizers said.

Celtic-fusion band Stonecircle coming to Taggart Center

The museum features educational displays on the origins and history of chocolate around the world. Activities include Chocolate Bingo Trivia, chocolate carvings and sculpture and M&M ™ chocolate painting activities.

The USU Museum of Anthropology is on the USU campus in the south turret of the historic Old Main building, Room 252.

In addition to its Saturday program hours, the Museum of Anthropology is open to USU students and members of the public six days a week, with regular hours Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.

For Saturday activities, free parking is available in the adjacent lot, south of the building.

Funding for Saturday events is provided by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.

More information about the IMLS is available online (www.imls.gov).

For more information about this event, call museum staff at (435) 7977545 or visit the museum website (anthromuseum.usu.edu).

The Museum of Anthropology is part of the Anthropology program at USU.

Saturday, Feb. 19, at Utah State University’s Taggart Student Center Auditorium.

Stonecircle has been performing acoustic Celtic fusion music since 1993.

The group is known for its unique arrangements of traditional tunes from England, Scotland, Ireland and Brittany, as well as writing original Celtic-based pieces.

The band features George Schumaker on guitars, Bronwen Beacher on violin, Nina Cooley on flute, Tiffany Draper on tin whistle, bodrhan, and vocalist Mary Johnston-Coursey, who dances as well. They currently have four CDs to their credit, with the latest titled “Asterisk and Dragonflies.”

Tickets are $15 advance; $18 at the door. Advance tickets may be purchased at KSM guitars, Sunrise Cyclery and USU Spectrum Ticket office.

For more information, see stonecircle.com and bridgerfolk.org or call Eric Wagner at 760-3278.

A violinist since age 7, Bronwen went to Loyola University, New Orleans on scholarship studying music therapy and violin performance. She found herself playing in a gothic band and jamming with Irish musicians. She was also the only white singer in the Loyola University gospel choir. For the past decade Bronwen has played in classical, rock, Celtic, bluegrass, folk, and alternative ensembles.

Nina Cooley was born in Texas and attended Southwest Texas State

University, the University of Texas at Austin, and graduated from The Evergreen State College, where she received her degree in music and minored in music theater.

Tiffany Draper is a native of Utah. She began piano lessons at age 8 and played various instruments throughout elementary and junior high school. In 2007 Tiffany found her instrument of choice — the Irish flute.

As a child, Mary Johnston-Coursey studied piano and voice. In the early 1980s, she began collecting Irish music. She went on to become a professional dancer and choreographer.

In addition to working with musicians and dancers, she has collaborated with poets, storytellers, visual artists and performance artists.

George Schoemaker began playing the ukelele at age 4 and began teaching himself guitar when he was 6. He has played the guitar off and on ever since then.

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HE CACHE VALLEY Center for the Arts presents The 5 Browns at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 28 and March 1, in the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Tickets are $26 to $38 with discounts for USU students, half off for kids ages 5 to 18 and 15 percent off for groups of 15 or more. No discounts will be available on days-of-show.

The Julliard-trained sibling superstars have taken the piano world by storm with their inventive interpretations of classical standards. This concert will feature works by renowned composers Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein, and John Williams Greg Anderson, and Franz Liszt, among others. Whether they take on “Psycho” from the Herrmann/Hitchcock medley in a relentlessly driving, heavily dissonant piece that sets nerves on end or Dario Marianelli’s work in “Atonement” where the score excerpts open and close with the slow, sad music associated with the tragic love affair

between an aristocratic Englishwoman and a commoner, The 5 Browns dazzle with their complex compositions.

“Prodigies, siblings, and piano rocks stars, The 5 Browns are inspiring audiences everywhere,” said Wally Bloss, executive director for the Cache Valley Center for the Arts. “We are thrilled to fill the Ellen Eccles Theatre stage with five virtuosic piano players and their Steinways. This young and gifted group has mastered the pure collective sound of the piano.”

The 5 Browns – Ryan, Melody, Gregory, Deondra and Desirae were born and raised in Utah and were piano players since early childhood. Playing came as naturally to them as eating or sleeping and as early as age 9 they had each made their debut with a major symphony orchestra. When Desirae began to plan for college – Deondra, a year younger, decided to accelerate her education in order to attend with her sister

with Sony BMG Masterworks and their success grew with the 2005 release of their debut album on RCA Red Seal. Simply titled The 5 Browns, the New York Post proclaimed: “One family, five pianos and 50 fingers add up to the biggest classical music sensation in years … When these kids do Rachmaninoff, they’ll make you forget about Marshall amps.”

By the end of 2005, the 5 Browns were one of the top classical artists of the year. In 2009 they signed a contract

– the family began looking into music schools and scholarships before deciding on New York’s Juilliard School. One year later when Gregory, Melody and Ryan were accepted to Juilliard, they became the first quintet of siblings to study simultaneously at the prestigious school.

After their decision to join forces, the young piano virtuosos caught their first wave of critical attention in 2002 when People magazine dubbed them the “Fab Five” and at about the same time they were featured on Oprah and 60 Minutes. Soon thereafter, the 5 Browns signed

with El Music and produced their fourth album, taped a PBS television special at the Tuacahn Amphitheatre and published a book, “Life Between The Keys.”

The 5 Browns released three studio albums, Browns In Blue (2007), No Boundaries (2006), and The 5 Browns (2005) that all went to #1 on Billboard Magazine’s Classical Album Chart.

Women composers honored in concert

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s a part of Women’s History Month, Utah State University’s Center for Women and Gender hosts a concert honoring women composers.

The concert, “Center Stage: Music by Women Composers,” is Friday, Feb. 18, 7:30 p.m., in the USU Performance Hall.

“The theme of Women’s History Month this year is ‘Our History is Our Strength,’” said Ann Austin, director for the center. “Certainly this applies to the tremendous women in music, so we want to honor them by playing their music while

inspiring another genCraig Jessop, dean eration of women in of the Caine College of the Arts. music as well.”

The concert features “Music is someUSU students and facthing that is an ulty performing famous innate part of our compositions by women lives, so we want composers, including to remember the “Barn Dances” by Libby women in the Larsen and “Sonata for world of music Flute and Harp” by Car- whose talents we men Petra-Basocopal. enjoy every day,” Instrumentation ranges said Diane Stuart, from piano to the harp the center’s program coordinator. to voice.

The event is hosted by “This concert is a the Center for Women small tribute to and Gender in partnerwomen musicians ship with the Caine Col- everywhere.”

A photography lege of the Arts.

The music is directed exhibit at the Perby Cindy Dewey, interformance Hall, im department head for highlighting the USU’s music departindependent spirit of ment, and narrated by women, is open to the

public before, during and after the performance. The exhibit fea-

tures photographs taken by USU photography students, and nearly 98 percent of the photos in the exhibit are by women.

Tickets are $8 general admission and $5 for USU students and faculty.

More information and tickets are available at the Caine College of the Arts Box Office in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, online at arts.usu.edu and by calling 435-7978022.

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‘Prodigies, siblings and piano rock stars’

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hackneyed pop culture references and familiar Elton John songs, with “The Eagle” one of those everythingRated PG-13 but-the-kitchen-sink scripts ★★1⁄2 The gladiatocobbled together by comrial thumbs-up or thumbsmittee. The concept is down is a key plot point clever enough — I mean, in this ancient Roman adventure. The movie itself come on, who doesn’t like yard gnomes? — but merits more of a thumb that’s pretty much all this wriggling horizontally, film from director Kelly nudging upward for its preAsbury (”Shrek 2”) is. Like cise detail and gorgeous landscapes but downward “Snakes on a Plane,” the title is the gag, and it tells for its somewhat hollow you all you need to know. characters and their admiAnd of course, “Gnomeo & rable but monotonous Juliet” is in 3-D. While addsense of honor. Channing ing a third dimension can Tatum and Jamie Bell provide an inspired sense deliver solid though unreof perspective and makes markable performances some of the details pop in as a former Roman soldier a tactile way — the chips and a British slave on a in the gnomes’ paint, the quest beyond the edge smudges of dirt on their of the known world to faces — it is, as always, retrieve the standard of a unnecessary. “Gnomeo lost legion that vanished in & Juliet” does feature a the wilds of 2nd- century strong voice cast, though, Scotland. Director Kevin led by James McAvoy, Macdonald (”The Last Emily Blunt, Michael Caine King of Scotland”) crafts a technically sumptuous epic, and Maggie Smith, with cameos from the likes of glorious to the eye though Dolly Parton, Hulk Hogan often dry and uninvolvand Ozzy Osbourne. ing to the ear. The movie Some of the one-liners is based on Rosemary and visual bits hit their Sutcliff’s 1954 novel, “The targets, but for the most Eagle of the Ninth,” a tale part, reheated gags and written for young readers sequences that recall earthat simply does not ripen lier, better animated films well for the modern grownare the norm. 84 minutes. up audience at which the film is aimed. The intense “Just Go With It” skirmishes and images are Rated PG-13 suited for adult crowds, yet ★1⁄2 Adam Sandler and the ideals and emotions that bond the main charac- Jennifer Aniston’s romantic ters are boyish and stunted, comedy, idiotic even by their usually low big-screen leaving the movie caught standards, is stuffed with between mature action unpleasant narcissists sayand shallow characterizaing and doing the dumbtions. 114 minutes. est, often cruelest things in hope of cheap laughs.

“Gnomeo & Juliet” They fail; there’s barely Rated G a titter’s worth of humor ★★ This animated riff on in this bloated mess that “Romeo and Juliet,” with drones on for nearly two yard gnomes standing in hours. Based on Walter for our star-crossed lovMatthau, Ingrid Bergman ers, doesn’t have a single and Goldie Hawn’s 1969 original idea in its pointy, comedy “Cactus Flower,” ceramic head. Spirited and the movie casts Sandler brisk as this family film as a plastic surgeon and can be, its energy cansupposedly nice guy who not disguise the fact that has spent two decades it’s an awkward mash-up pretending to be a misof Shakespeare puns,

treated husband so he can score with sympathetic women (yeah, real nice guy). When he finally falls for somebody (Sports Illustrated swimsuit goddess Brooklyn Decker), he enlists his assistant (Aniston) to pose as the wife he’s divorcing. And the lamebrained lies build from there. Director Dennis Dugan, whose collaborations with Sandler include “Big Daddy” and “Grown Ups,” lets scene after unfunny scene linger painfully. Nicole Kidman somehow got roped into a supporting role in this dreadful affair, but don’t you make the same mistake. Just run from it. 116 minutes.

“Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” Rated G ★★★ Part biopic, part concert film and all crowd pleaser, this celebration of the pop phenom knows exactly what it needs to do to send its target audience of tween girls into a tizzy of giddy screams. That includes an effective use of 3-D from director Jon M. Chu (”Step Up 3D”), so get ready for plenty of shots of Bieber looking longingly into the camera, while singing one of his infectious tunes. Bieber is 16, with an androgynous look that recalls Hilary Swank in “Boys Don’t Cry” and a playful, non-threatening way about him. And he genuinely seems like a good kid — it’s hard not to like him. Sure, “Never Say Never” plays like an extended infomercial for Bieber, similar to recent 3-D movies about Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers. We get no real sense of who Bieber is, whether he has any fears, if he misses normal-kid stuff. But along those lines, Chu does an excellent job of conveying the incomparable thrill of being young and bursting with love for your first idol crush. 105 minutes.

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couple of years ago, Liam Neeson starred as a former CIA agent in “Taken,� searching for his kidnapped daughter and kicking as much butt as necessary to find her.

Now, he’s continuing this fascinating latecareer path, remaining in action-star mode as he creeps ever closer to 60, in “Unknown.� It’s a chilly little thriller about amnesia, mistrust and lost identity, with the kinds of chases and explosions you’ve seen countless times before. Interchangeable Euro baddies lurk in the shadows, seemingly omniscient and omnipresent, waiting to strike. Nothing and no one is what it seems, which makes the unpredictability somewhat more predictable.

Still, Neeson’s always-intelligent screen presence, his nuance and gravitas, help elevate “Unknown� beyond its preposterous elements. And he gets great help from a classy supporting cast, including Frank Langella, Bruno Ganz and Sebastian Koch.

And, to be fair, the film from Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra has its suspenseful moments, including the startling, precisely staged car accident that sends Neeson’s character on his dangerous journey.

Collet-Serra’s last film was “Orphan,� about a creepy 9-yearold girl who wreaks havoc on her unsuspecting adoptive family. “Unknown,� which Oliver Butcher

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by Didier van Cauwelaert, doesn’t have anything even remotely resembling the gnarly, jaw-dropping twist of that earlier film, but it’s got some surprises here and there, and it ought to keep you guessing for a while.

Neeson’s character, botanist Dr. Martin Harris, has plenty of his own guessing to do.

He’s traveled to Berlin for a scientific conference with his beautiful wife, Elizabeth (January Jones), but soon after they arrive at their luxurious hotel, he realizes he’s left his briefcase — with their passports — at the airport. When he hops in a cab and dashes back to retrieve it, a chain-reaction crash sends the car skidding through the streets and off a bridge into a river. The driver (Diane Kruger, vaguely de-glammed) pulls him from the vehicle, saves his life, then runs off.

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he has only vague memories of who he is; against a doctor’s orders, he hurries back to the hotel to find Elizabeth. Not only does she look him in the eye and insist she has no idea who he is, but she’s there with an entirely different man (Aidan Quinn) who says he’s Dr. Martin Harris — and he has the passport to prove it.

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the kind of icy, blonde good looks that Hitchcock often favored, so you know there’s more to her than meets the eye.)

From here, Martin goes on a quest to piece together what happened. He seeks out the cab driver, whom he learns is an illegal immigrant named Gina, hoping she can provide some clues as to who he is

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he British convicts sent to the first penal colony in New South Wales didn’t exactly bring a change of clothes to their new world. The eight-month ocean voyage from Portsmouth, England, to present day Australia left the passengers’ attire rotting off their bodies.

Costume designer Nancy Hill spent nearly a year preparing for Utah State University’s production of “Our Country’s Good,” which takes audience members a half a world away, where London’s shiny Royal Marines live alongside the gritty convicts of the city’s underbelly in the 1780s.

Hills’ research for the production brought together a swatch of color and textures for the dozen actors in the show — most of whom are double cast to play both English officers and convicts. In one scene, an actor is tightly buttoned in a red coat, shiny boots and white wig. Seconds later, he’s down to ratty cloth, playing the role of a dusty prisoner in an unfamiliar landscape. Velcro and some other tricks of the trade, Hills said, make for faster costume swaps.

“There’s always interesting challenges,” said Hills. “It’s like putting together a puzzle.”

Creating older-looking costumes, she explained, is key to setting the right mood for the play.

“I really took to point on all the prisoners’ costumes,” said Hills. “Whatever we can do to make it look like it’s really worn out — like it’s lived through the wars, the better.”

New clothes look much older after Hills and her students use paint, shoe polish,

sandpaper and even a cheese grater to stress the fabrics. She and her staff even printed a flour sack logo onto one of the woman’s costumes, recreating a common practice at the time when women convicts used anything available to make clothing.

“There was some documentation that the clothing the women wore was almost rotting off them by the time they got there,” Hills said. “It was literally tattered.”

Hills and USU’s costume shop manager Amanda Profaizer built the officers’ red wool coats that frame the stage like pieces on a chessboard. Each of the coats has 28 gold-colored buttons, which Profaizer and her students painstakingly sewed to the costumes.

The characters in the play are based on the same people who made the ocean voyage to the new territory. Captain Arthur Phillip would become the first governor of the land, and it was he who suggested that convicts could do something more productive than simply waste away as captives.

The story is about the convicts performing a play as part of new style of incarceration aimed at bettering the prisoners. The convicts and military officers later discover that art, specifically theater, has a redeeming quality on humankind.

“It’s a story of the very first convicts who were sent to New South Wales,” said Hills.

“In Britain at the time, prisons were packed because they used to send prisoners to the colonies, but that little war of independence kind of put the kibosh on that.”

Prisons were so full that English officers even packed prisoners into ships anchored

in nearby harbors to keep them anywhere but on England’s soil. In those filthy conditions, she added, prisoners contracted cholera and died. In 1787, the first fleet of ships set sail to the southern hemisphere with hopes of new space for a growing prison population.

Hills says Phillip proposed that the prisoners perform a play, arguing that art and theater have a transcending effect on people.

“Theater is an expression of civilization,” his character says in the first scenes of the play, arguing that the Greeks had learned social virtues from attending the theater.

At Wednesday night’s final dress rehearsal, Hills sat on the seventh row in a mostly empty Morgan Theatre watching for the minutest of details, ensuring the proper use of period hats and ties and timing rapid costume changes.

Director Adrianne Moore, whose mother is Australian, jokes that she comes from “good convict stock.”

“The argument the play makes is that this group of brutalized and deprived people have an extraordinary transformative experience because of their participation in art,” she said.

Hills says one of her favorite things is seeing students naturally come into character when they put on a costume for the first time.

“They look at me and go, ‘I get it; I know who I am now,’” she said. “It’s really fun to watch it all happen.”

“Our Country’s Good” runs Friday and Saturday and Feb. 23 to 26.

Opposite page: Some sketches of characters for “Our Country’s Good.” Clockwise: Jennifer Cawley sews a blue coat for a costume in “Our Country’s Good” on USU campus Wednesday. Student Lance Rasmussen hangs a completed costume on a rack. Jennifer Cawley works on a costume. Student Katie Marsh sews buttons onto a British Royal Marine coat for a costume.

Story by Matthew K. Jensen Photos by Alan Murray

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Costumes help tell the story in ‘Our Country’s Good’

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he British convicts sent to the first penal colony in New South Wales didn’t exactly bring a change of clothes to their new world. The eight-month ocean voyage from Portsmouth, England, to present day Australia left the passengers’ attire rotting off their bodies.

Costume designer Nancy Hill spent nearly a year preparing for Utah State University’s production of “Our Country’s Good,” which takes audience members a half a world away, where London’s shiny Royal Marines live alongside the gritty convicts of the city’s underbelly in the 1780s.

Hills’ research for the production brought together a swatch of color and textures for the dozen actors in the show — most of whom are double cast to play both English officers and convicts. In one scene, an actor is tightly buttoned in a red coat, shiny boots and white wig. Seconds later, he’s down to ratty cloth, playing the role of a dusty prisoner in an unfamiliar landscape. Velcro and some other tricks of the trade, Hills said, make for faster costume swaps.

“There’s always interesting challenges,” said Hills. “It’s like putting together a puzzle.”

Creating older-looking costumes, she explained, is key to setting the right mood for the play.

“I really took to point on all the prisoners’ costumes,” said Hills. “Whatever we can do to make it look like it’s really worn out — like it’s lived through the wars, the better.”

New clothes look much older after Hills and her students use paint, shoe polish,

sandpaper and even a cheese grater to stress the fabrics. She and her staff even printed a flour sack logo onto one of the woman’s costumes, recreating a common practice at the time when women convicts used anything available to make clothing.

“There was some documentation that the clothing the women wore was almost rotting off them by the time they got there,” Hills said. “It was literally tattered.”

Hills and USU’s costume shop manager Amanda Profaizer built the officers’ red wool coats that frame the stage like pieces on a chessboard. Each of the coats has 28 gold-colored buttons, which Profaizer and her students painstakingly sewed to the costumes.

The characters in the play are based on the same people who made the ocean voyage to the new territory. Captain Arthur Phillip would become the first governor of the land, and it was he who suggested that convicts could do something more productive than simply waste away as captives.

The story is about the convicts performing a play as part of new style of incarceration aimed at bettering the prisoners. The convicts and military officers later discover that art, specifically theater, has a redeeming quality on humankind.

“It’s a story of the very first convicts who were sent to New South Wales,” said Hills.

“In Britain at the time, prisons were packed because they used to send prisoners to the colonies, but that little war of independence kind of put the kibosh on that.”

Prisons were so full that English officers even packed prisoners into ships anchored

in nearby harbors to keep them anywhere but on England’s soil. In those filthy conditions, she added, prisoners contracted cholera and died. In 1787, the first fleet of ships set sail to the southern hemisphere with hopes of new space for a growing prison population.

Hills says Phillip proposed that the prisoners perform a play, arguing that art and theater have a transcending effect on people.

“Theater is an expression of civilization,” his character says in the first scenes of the play, arguing that the Greeks had learned social virtues from attending the theater.

At Wednesday night’s final dress rehearsal, Hills sat on the seventh row in a mostly empty Morgan Theatre watching for the minutest of details, ensuring the proper use of period hats and ties and timing rapid costume changes.

Director Adrianne Moore, whose mother is Australian, jokes that she comes from “good convict stock.”

“The argument the play makes is that this group of brutalized and deprived people have an extraordinary transformative experience because of their participation in art,” she said.

Hills says one of her favorite things is seeing students naturally come into character when they put on a costume for the first time.

“They look at me and go, ‘I get it; I know who I am now,’” she said. “It’s really fun to watch it all happen.”

“Our Country’s Good” runs Friday and Saturday and Feb. 23 to 26.

Opposite page: Some sketches of characters for “Our Country’s Good.” Clockwise: Jennifer Cawley sews a blue coat for a costume in “Our Country’s Good” on USU campus Wednesday. Student Lance Rasmussen hangs a completed costume on a rack. Jennifer Cawley works on a costume. Student Katie Marsh sews buttons onto a British Royal Marine coat for a costume.

Story by Matthew K. Jensen Photos by Alan Murray

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Done with rebellion: I finally cut my hair

A

fter heeding the unsolicited advice of many mirrors, I recently succumbed to my first hair

By Dennis Hinkamp cut in nearly 23 years.

If my friends were less forgiving but more honest they probably would have told me it looked ridiculous 10 years ago.

But bad hair, alcoholism and all other dark addictions are things you have to overcome on your own schedule.

I’m not sure the tipping point to snip was, but it was partially that I was tired of being the landmark at the party.

“Yeah the bathroom is bly had its roots in sloth just to the left of the and rebellion. I don’t middle-age guy with have anything against the bad ponytail.” To barbers, hair stylists and say I had a ponytail their ilk. I have quite was hyperbole anyway. fond childhood memoWilly Nelson has a ries of going to the barponytail. Half the NFL bershop with my father, now seems to have visbut those were different ible ponytails. What times.

I had was more like a In the Midwest vernearly-dead-swayback sion of the 1960s barber horse tail. shops were men’s-only Most people don’t clubs where men gathunderstand that hair ered every two weeks doesn’t just keep growwhether they needed a ing until you start steptrim or not. The streets ping on it when you walk. Most people’s hair might have been burning with war protests has a terminal length; mine was about 11 inch- and racial tension, but the barbershop was an es and shrinking. Years, stress and daily chlorine interracial non-combat zone where men went to don’t make for sustainjoke, brag and gossip. I able hair. probably gleaned more I honestly can’t about sex, politics and remember the day or economics sitting in the reason I stopped cutbarbershop than my first ting my hair. Like most changes in life, it proba- two misspent years in

Slightly Off Center

college.

Far removed from parental influences and left to my own devices, I just stopped attending to my hair or consulting mirrors. Once you get past the scraggly in-between length, uncut hair is surprisingly carefree. When you have long hair you can wake up in the morning, find a rubber band, pull a handful of hair behind your head, wrap twice and you’re set for the day.

I know that in our futurerama age of denial, I don’t have to give up on hair. There are surgical procedures, chemicals and all manner of prosthetic replacements.

The epitome of contradiction is the phrase “nice toupee, can’t tell.”

No, I think I’ll just let my remaining hair go down with the ship and enter a new life phase of stylish hats.

Those who define themselves by their hair are doomed to be a victim of it.

Dennis Hinkamp will update his profile photo soon. He is among a number of freelance writers whose columns appear in The Herald Journal as part of an effort to expose readers to a variety of community voices. He is not an employee of the newspaper. Feedback at dhinkamp@msn. com

Utah State University

Brian Regan to entertain at Ellen Eccles

C

omedian Brian

Regan will be coming to the Ellen Eccles Theatre, Friday and Saturday nights, Feb. 18 and 19.

Regan fills theaters nationwide and has released two critically acclaimed Comedy Central specials and DVDs: “The Epitome of Hyperbole,” released in 2008 and 2007’s “Brian Regan Standing Up.” According to fans Regan has set a standard of excellence that others continually try to follow.

Regan’s theater tour has visited more than 80 cities each year since 2005. His material has been considered to relate to a wide audience and is especially revered by his peers, who continue to grow Regan’s fan base. In March 2010 Regan set the record for most consecutive shows by a comedian at Abravanal Hall in Salt Lake City with five sold out performances. The previous record was four shows set

by Jerry Seinfeld in 2005.

With his first appearance on “The Late Show with David Letterman” in 1995, Regan solidified his place on the show and has now made more than 20 appearances. He also includes regular visits with Conan O’Brien on his schedule.

A dorm room favorite, Regan’s 1997 CD, “Brian Regan Live,” has sold over 150,000 copies and consistently charts in iTunes Top Ten Comedy Albums.

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Books

Book demolishes myth that 50 is the new 30

By Ann Levin For The Associated Press

W

hen veteran screenwriter Tracey Jackson stopped getting work in Hollywood, she tried to convince herself that she wasn’t another victim of an industry that worships youth. For months, the 40-something Jackson humiliated herself in meetings pitching movies aimed at teenage boys to the slighter older crowd of boys who reign in Tinseltown.

When that didn’t work,

Jackson wallowed in self- Avenue diner around the pity. Finally, after months corner from their apartof trying to resuscitate ment where she would her near-comatose career, charge up to $1,000 a Jackson sucked it up month on her mother’s with the help of a quote credit card. Voila! The from Virginia Woolf — kid shaped up, and Jack“Arrange whatever pieces son had a project, and come your way” — and eventually, a new career. made a documentary Jackson, whose screenabout taking her spoiled writing credits include teenager to the slums of “Confessions of a ShopaIndia. holic,” relates this tale There her daughter, of upper-middle-class then enrolled in a private suffering and redemption school on Manhattan’s in “Between a Rock and Upper East Side, expea Hot Place: Why Fifty rienced what it was like Is Not the New Thirty,” a to use a pit toilet and eat self-help book that purgruel for lunch instead ports to tell female baby of at the fancy Madison boomers the truth about

aging.

Chapter by chapter, Jackson takes on topics about which much ink has been spilled since the first boomer qualified for a senior discount. These include menopause (a nightmare) and the related topic of sex after menopause (try sex toys); diet and exercise (essential), and how they might stave off age-related disease (along with MRIs, EKGs and CT scans); finding a new, rewarding job (vital) if you’ve been downsized from your first (inevitable); sending the kids off to college

* This week’s New York Times Bestseller List * Hardcover Fiction 1. “Tick Tock” by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge 2. “The Girl ... The Hornet’s Nest” by Stieg Larsson 3. “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett 4. “The Inner Circle” by Brad Meltzer 5. “Dead or Alive” by Tom Clancy with Grant Blackwood Paperback (Trade) Fiction 1. “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen 2. “Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese 3. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson 4. “True Grit” by Charles Portis 5. “Little Bee” by Chris Cleave Hardcover Nonfiction 1. “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand 2. “The Pioneer Woman” by Ree Drummond 3. “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” by Amy Chua 4. “Decision Points” by George W. Bush 5. “Cleopatra” by Stacy Schiff Paperback Nonfiction 1. “Heaven is for Real” by Lynn Vincent 2. “Inside of a Dog” by Alexandra Horowitz 3. “The Big Short” by Michael Lewis 4. “Committed” by Elizabeth Gilbert 5. “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls Hardcover Advice 1. “The 4-Hour Body” by Timothy Ferriss 2. “The Investment Answer” by Daniel C. Goldie and Gordon S. Murray 3. “Veganist” by Kathy Freston 4. “As One” by Marhdad Baghai and James Quigley 5. “Sexy Forever” by Suzanne Somers

(devastating); plastic surgery (do it!); post-50 money woes (scary but not hopeless); post-50 dating woes (manageable with the Internet); and finally, the biggest woe of all — watching loved ones die (terrible, but what can you do about it?)

Jackson works very hard to convince us that 50 is not the new 30, and that if we believe otherwise, we are “delusional.”

She marshals statistics, reminisces about her own

mother and grandmother at 50, tosses off one-liners like the comedy writer she once was, and recounts uplifting anecdotes and aphorisms from her circle of highachieving friends, relatives and physicians.

The book isn’t without its funny and poignant moments. The problem is, it exists to demolish a slogan — that today’s 50-year-olds are 20 years younger than their chronological age — that no one in his or her right mind would believe to begin with.

Tatum O’Neal releasing second memoir, ’Found’ Keep your reading list updated at www.nytimes.com/pages/books/

NEW YORK (AP) — Tatum O’Neal has not finished telling her life story.

The Academy Awardwinning actress has a second memoir, “Found,” scheduled to come out in June.

The book, published by HarperCollins, is a follow-up to “A Paper Life,” which was released in 2004.

HarperCollins

announced Monday that the new book will be “part memoir, part Hollywood tell-all, part personal journal.”

The 47-year-old O’Neal was 10 years old when she won an Oscar for “Paper Moon,” but she has since struggled with substance abuse.

She also was estranged for years from her father and “Paper Moon” costar, Ryan O’Neal.

“Found” will coincide with the airing of “Ryan and Tatum: The O’Neals,” a reality show on OWN about O’Neal and her father.

“Our Vall ey”

by Shann a C. Hug ie

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“Death”

by Greg Lamb People kill things everyday From love to idle time.

And some things die anyway From lives to idle minds.

It couldn’t really hurt to die No more than it hurts to live.

The people left always cry When there’s nothing left to give.

Death is just the final sleep As dust to dirt we go.

In little piles of dirt we sweep And winds outside still blow.

And the wind kills time itself It eats away this earth.

And everything once known as wealth The wind will turn to dirt.

by Alex Lamb

To know death is to know the wind That whispers through the trees.

And death is just another friend Blowing on the breeze.

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Crossword

www.ThemeCrosswords.com

By Myles Mellor and Sally York Across 1. ___ computer 8. “The Sound of Music” figure 14. Zig or zag 18. With concentration 20. Shack 21. Drop starter 23. Smoothie on Twitter?

25. Con 26. Unit of capacity 27. ___ and terminer 28. Forest runner?

29. Food preserver 30. Pluto’s aka 32. Lake Woebegon’s county 35. Get carried away?

37. French vineyard 38. Deep red garnet 41. Deleted message on Twitter?

45. “Mi chiamano Mimi,” e.g.

47. Yorkshire river 48. Water nymphs 49. Holiday tradition on Twitter?

54. “Way Out West” comedian 55. Blood pigment 56. Chancel 57. It paves the way 58. Emerge 62. Descend, using 99Down 64. “A ___ slumber...”

(Pope) 69. An end to sex?

70. Catullus composition 71. Accords to end hostilities on Twitter?

74. Grayback 75. James Fenimore Cooper’s “___ Myers” 76. In a wicked manner

77. Always, to Keats 79. Like some lakes 81. Many college grads 82. Material 85. Goatish glance 86. Frisson 88. Fashion trend on Twitter?

92. Colorless oily liquid 95. Prick 96. Avant-garde artist John 97. Virtual toy on Twitter?

100. Overhauled 104. It can be shocking 105. Furtive summons 106. Kind of appeal 108. Pitcher, of a sort 110. Computer software toolkit 113. King ___, founder of the Zhou dynasty 115. Coin in Cancún 118. Turkey club?

119. In abeyance 120. Know how to manuever shrewdly on Twitter?

124. Atom smasher 125. ___ ticket 126. Diminish 127. Auspices 128. Undergarment 129. Flush Down 1. Deep-six 2. Cover completely 3. “Ready ___ Go!” 4. More anxious 5. It may bring down the house 6. One of four Holy Roman emperors 7. Word with ball or possum 8. HBO’s “Da ___ G

Show” 9. Jackson’s first solo hit 10. Cups of tea 11. In a defensive stance 12. See 63-Down 13. Burger variety 14. “Luka” singer 15. Be entitled to 16. Showed 17. Adjudicator 19. Original matter 22. Car bars 24. “Idol” winner Allen 29. Moth repellent 31. Toper 33. Sole supporter?

34. Aligned 36. Ancient Roman coins 39. ___ child 40. The Old Sod 42. “Humanum ___ errare” 43. Most kempt 44. Channels 46. You can bank on it 49. Crush 50. Bibliophile 51. Occlude 52. Edible mushroom 53. Fishing gear 54. Stop order?

57. “Because ___ Young” (1960 Dick Clark movie) 59. Yes ender 60. Online newsgroup system 61. Smoldering 73-Down 63. 12-Down, for example 65. KLM announcement 66. Leather sticker 67. Rolodex abbr.

68. Ship duty 72. Moseying ones 73. See 61-Down 78. Canada’s ___ Island

National Park 80. One to grow on?

83. “Yadda, yadda, yadda” 84. A bit cracked 87. Like a schlimazel 88. Pampered one?

89. Buddhist temples 90. “Our Time in ___” (10,000 Maniacs album) 91. Blind guts 92. Natural alcohol 93. 12-year-old, e.g.

94. Barking sharply

Aretha Franklin talks return to stage

A

retha Franklin, who says she’s back at “150 percent,” is planning to return to the stage in May for her first post-surgery performance.

The Grammy Awardwinning singer will also release an album that month with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. More personally, she’s working on losing more weight from her frame, which is noticeably slimmer since her December surgery.

The 68-year-old Franklin underwent surgery for

an undisclosed ailment in December.

At the time, word spread that her situation was dire, and she received a multitude of prayers and well wishes from fans. She dismissed reports that had her on her death bed.

Franklin, who canceled several performances last

year because of illness, has set her first concert since surgery on May 28 at the Seneca Niagara Casino in Buffalo, N.Y., and is set to release her long-awaited album, “Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love,” the first week of May. R. Kelly is one of the album’s songwriters.

95. Exacted revenge 98. Bantu language 99. See 62-Across 101. Joined, in biology 102. ___ pants 103. Squeal

114. Triton 116. Hold back 117. Capital near the 60th parallel 120. Short flight 121. Skater Babilonia

Answers from last week 107. Auntie ___ 109. Beat (out) 111. Medicinal berry 112. Jiffs

122. Zee preceder 123. Chinese dialect

Friday

Stokes Nature Center invites curious toddlers ages 2 to 3 to join them for Parent Tot from 10 to 11 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 18. Explore animals, plants, and nature through music, crafts, and games. This program is parent interactive, and all toddlers must have a parent present. The program fee is $3 ($2.50 for SNC members).

For more information, call 755-3239 or visit www.logannature.org.

Emme Packer w/Matthew Quen Nanes, Made in Spain, Sarah Olsen will perform acoustic music at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 18, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cost is $5.

Hilary Murray will perform from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 18, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave.

The Utah Mobile Vet Center (MVC) will be visiting the Logan Work Force Services office (180 N. 100 West, Logan) Friday, Feb. 18 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Vet Centers provide readjustment counseling to combat Veterans and their families.

Walk-in visitors are welcome, however appointments are encouraged. Anyone wishing to schedule an appointment may contact Travis Larsen (located at the Salt Lake Vet Center) at 1-800–613-4012, ext.

1294 or 801-584-1294. For more information visit www.vetcenter.va.gov.

Participants will learn all about snowflakes, including how they form and why they make different shapes, observe them in their natural habitat and recreate them with art. Activities are ongoing and no registration is required; all are welcome to drop in anytime. For more information, call 7553239 or visit www.logannature.org.

Come wearing your prettiest dress to the Princess Tea Party from 10 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 19, at the Mansion, 35 W. 100 South. Tickets are $10 per girl, parents and escorts are free. The event is a fundraiser for Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City. Tickets are now on sale and you can reserve by phone and pay when you arrive. Call now and reserve your ticket at 225-5101.

Waving at Daisies with TBA will perform acoustic music at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 19, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cost is $5.

Enjoy the Bear Lake Chocolate Festival and dinner with OPTIONS for Independence at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 19.

Dinner prices will vary. To sign up, schedule transportation or for more information, contact Mandie at 753-5353 ext. 108.

“Lillium” will be singing at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 19, at the Pioneer Valley Lodge, 2351 N. 400 East, North Logan.

For more information, call 792-0353.

The Western Singing Duo TumbleTIS LOGISTICS is sponsoring a weeds will perform at LD’s Cafe in Richseminar on the subject of “Terms of Sale” mond Saturday, Feb. 19, from 6 p.m. to presented by John Sweigart, a pioneer in closing. the field of supply chain and logistics with over 35 years in the business. The complimentary seminar will be held Friday, Feb. 18 from 12-1 p.m. at TIS Logistics, 550 N. Matt Whitaker, director of the Cache Main St., #120 (Clock Tower Plaza), Logan.

Community Food Pantry, will speak on The information would be beneficial for anyone working in shipping, transportation, “Hunger in Cache Valley” at 9:50 a.m. supply chain and logistics. Light snacks will Sunday, Feb. 20, at the First Presbyterian Church. His presentation will be in the be served. church’s Westminster Hall, downstairs. The room is accessible from the lower entrance on 200 West, near West Center St. in Logan. Visitors are welcome to hear about Please join us Saturday, Feb. 19 at growing hunger problems faced by indi10:30 a.m. for the Bear River Chapter of viduals and families with limited resources. the Daughters of the American Revolu-

Sunday

Saturday

tion at the Logan Library, 255 N. Main, Logan. Our special guests will be Dallas Holmes speaking about “History of Place names in Northern Utah.” Enter the library on the west side of the building. Our meeting will be in our regular conference room on the east side of the building. Visitors are welcome.

Stokes Nature Center invites all ages to Snowflake Science, a free program held from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 19.

Doctor Mongo and Harry Harpoon! will give a Sunday Brunch performance on Sunday, Feb. 20, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave.

Monday Come join the Cache Valley Stone Society at our annual spring public learn-tocurl clinic, held this Monday, Feb. 21 at the Eccles Ice Center (2825 N. 200 East)

from 7:15-9:15 p.m. Club members will teach beginners the basic skills and techniques of the sport of curling. Clinic costs $5 per person. Wear loose fitting clothing, a sweatshirt and clean soft-rubber soled shoes. Must be over 10 years old to curl, and youth need to be accompanied by an adult. Contact Doug Jackson-Smith at 435760-7377 for more information.

Tuesday

852-0280 or 208-339-7384.

Those caring for an elderly loved one can join us on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. in the Chapel Room at Pioneer Valley Lodge, 2351 N. 400 East, North Logan to learn more about a new Adult Day Center in Cache Valley. Call Mary Bennett at 753-5203 or Doug Stephenson at 753-0317 for more information.

Refreshments served.

“To Preserve the Nation,” a Constitution class led by Scott Bradley will be held Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. at the Booktable (upstairs). No charge. For more information call 753-2930 or 753-8844.

Eccles Ice Center’s next session of Learn to Skate begins Feb. 22 and 24.

These are six-week sessions with clases for all ages and abilities. Cost is $45 including skates, with a family discount available.

The Eccles Ice Center is located at 2825 N. 200 East, North Logan.

Thursday

Did you know that what you’re using to clean around your house could actually be bad for you? Jamie Sagers will teach how to make healthy laundry detergent and cleaning supplies from 7 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at the Macey’s in Providence. The event includes give-aways.

Logan High will be holding parent teacher conferences on Feb. 24 from 4:30-7 p.m. and Feb. 25 from 9 a.m. to noon. Thursday night teachers will be located in the Crimson gym. On Friday morning you can meet with the teachers in their individual classrooms.

Join OPTIONS for Independence for Movie Night in Brigham City at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 22. Cost of the movie is $4.50. This activity is part of the Community Integration Program at OPTIONS for Independence which encourages people with disabilities to take part in the variety of recreational and leisure activities available within the community. To sign up, schedule transportation or for more information, contact Mandie at 753-5353 ext. 108.

David Sidwell presents a class titled Heritage Cooking from 7 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 24, at the Macey’s in Providence. Sidwell will demonstrate how to make some of his family favorites.

USU Extension in Cache County presents “Dinner Date Night in the USU Skyroom” on Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 6:30 p.m. You and your partner will enjoy dinner and a workshop to help learn how to make your relationship even better. Dr. Brian Higginbottham, USU Extension family and marriage specialist will speak on appreciation. The cost is $6 per person or $10 per couple. The Utah Commission on Marriage is co-sponsor of this event. Phone 7526263 to reserve your spot.

Pintech Computers will be offering free computer classes each Tuesday night at 6 p.m. On Feb. 22 the subject is: Taking a Journey through Windows 7. Classes are held at 270 N. 400 West, Suite C, Hyrum.

Call 435-245-8324 for more information.

Wednesday Celebrate FFA week with the Preston Chapter at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 23, in the Preston High School Auditorium.

Tickets are $12 in Advance and $15 at the door. For tickets call Preston FFA at 208-

BATC Fashion Merchandising students present their first Promo Expo from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 24, at the college, 1301 N. 600 West. Admission is $2.

Vendors will be on location for all prom necessities, including florists, tux and dress shops, shoes, etc. Each vendor has donated prizes to give away at the event.

There will be a fashion show every 30 minutes. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call KaDee Rawlinson at 750-3235.

The Bear River Heritage Area and the Bear River Association of Governments would like to announce a free webinar sponsored by the National AgrAbility Project, called “Emergency Preparedness for Farmers, Ranchers and other Rural Residents with Disabilities.” It is scheduled to be broadcast Thursday, Feb. 24 at 1 p.m. in the ground floor conference room at the BRAG office at 170 N. Main, in Logan. The scheduled duration of the webinar itself is one hour, and there will be an additional Q&A session of up to 15 minutes. The program is intended to help farmers and ranchers, family members, and other rural residents with disabilities who may be vulnerable to emergencies because of restricted physical abilities and greater physical isolation from neighbors and emergency services.

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