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Blanche Astle of Logan gets a dab of paint during the Bridgerland Landscape Artists meeting at the Cache County School District offices in North Logan on Wednesday. When this group of 15 people meets every week to paint, it’s a very meaningful experience for those involved. In fact, group members are like family, leader Earl Miller says. Find out what has brought several of them together for more than 10 years on Page 8. Photo by Braden Wolfe
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NE OF THE THINGS MY husband and I are looking forward to most when we build our dream home is the gigantic library we’re going to include. In our oversized planning, it will include floor-to-ceiling shelves filled with books, leather recliners and a built-in surround-sound music system. There will also be a big outdoor sitting area with lots of plants and flowers and, of course, a waterfall. Sure, it might sound outlandish, but that doesn’t mean we’ll ever stop adding to it or thinking about it (until maybe, just maybe, we get a price estimate to build this remarkable piece of architecture). There’s just something soothing about a library, or even just the feel of a book in your hand. I don’t know how people read books on a device like the Kindle — I still buy books and, every time, fan the pages
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and breathe in the scent of literature. I think the Logan Library is one of the greatest places in Cache Valley, yet I have a bad habit of having to own any book I read. I love filling up shelves with books, even though I know I probably won’t read them again. Like I said, there’s just something soothing about being surrounded by books. I’m excited to leave work today because I know there’s a whole series — seven books! — waiting on my doorstep from www.ama zon.com. It’s a good thing I have to read them in order; oftentimes I’ll come home from Borders or Hastings or the library with a stack of books and a huge decision before me: What am I going to read first? Often I’ll read the first chapter of each book until one of them hooks me enough to keep me reading. Heck, I’ll even read two or three books at a time if they all drag me in. Now you know what I’ll be doing Saturday afternoon; how about you? Have a great weekend, everyone! — Jamie Baer Nielson Cache Magazine editor
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This dog is available for adoption! Pet: Coco From: Cache Humane Society Why she’s so lovable: “Coco is an energetic female yellow Labrador retriever. She is 5 years and 2 months old. She is very friendly and happy and needs a home where she can run and play. Coco pulls on the leash but her tail is wagging the whole time. She loves treats, so she would be easily trained. Loves kids and would make a great family pet. Gets along with other dogs, but unknown about cats. Will need to be cat tested before adoption. Will need help with housetraining. Give Coco a chance to be the best dog ever!” Coco’s ID number is 2009-7550. To learn more about adopting her, call 792-3920 or drop by the shelter at 2370 W. 200 North in Logan.
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Irish fiddler Eileen Ivers returning to Cache Valley
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INE-TIME All-Ireland fiddle champ and Riverdance show-stopper Eileen Ivers and other old-time musicians will celebrate the story of the immigrant’s journey during her 2010 tour of “Beyond the Bog Road — An Irish-American Experience” at 7:30 p.m. March 1 and 2 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre in downtown Logan, 43 S. Main. Tickets are $21-$32 and can be purchased at www.EllenEccles Theatre.org or at the Cache Valley Center for the Arts Ticket Office in the Bullen Center. Ivers’ recording credits include more than 100 contemporary and traditional albums and numerous movie scores. The Bronx-born Irish-American is a nine-time All-Ireland fiddle champion, original music star of Riverdance, a founding member of Cherish the Ladies and a best-selling recording artist. Ivers toured to Cache Valley in April 2005, selling more than 1,700 tickets. Her unique performances appeal to all types of listeners and audiences of all
ages. This performance is the perfect opportunity to engage young musicians in celebrating Irish-American music, but also the incredible and engaging style Ivers has mastered. Created by Ivers, “Beyond the Bog Road” is a multimedia concert of music, story, dance and film. The concert celebrates the journey of the Irish immigrant and showcases how Irish music and dance have integrated with various North American roots to create one of the richest cross-fertilizations of folk music styles in the world. The “Beyond the Bog Road” CD will be released later this year. Ivers will be sharing the stage with some old friends including Irish vocalist Niamh Parsons, three-time All-Ireland accordion champion Buddy Connolly, multi-instrumentalist and producer Greg Anderson, and bassist Leo Traversa. This concert will feature dance by Matthew Olwell, Kristyn Fontanella and special guests from Utah’s Crawford School of Irish Dance. The backdrop for
Kim MacAfee (played by Emilee Cooke of North Ogden) and Conrad Birdie (played by Tyson Price of North Ogden) go to the icehouse in the Heritage Theatre production of “Bye Bye Birdie!,” opening this Friday, Feb. 26.
the show is video designed by DJ Mendel, who has recently directed Rosanne Cash’s “Black Cadillac in Concert” and the award-winning “Accidental Nostalgia.” The daughter of Irish immigrants, Ivers grew up in the culturally diverse neighborhood of the Bronx, N.Y. Rooted in Irish traditional music since the age of 8, Eileen proceeded to win nine All-Ireland fiddle championships, a 10th on tenor banjo and more than 30 championship medals, making her one of the most awarded persons ever to compete in these prestigious competitions. In 1999 Ivers established a touring production to present the music that now encompasses Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul. The ensemble headlines prestigious performing arts centers, guest stars with numerous symphonies, performs at major festivals worldwide, and has appeared on national and international television. For more information, visit www.eileen ivers.com.
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‘Bye Bye Birdie!’ opens Friday at Heritage Theatre in Perry YE BYE BIRDIE!” “B will play at 7:30 p.m. every Monday, Friday and Sat-
urday, Feb. 26 through March 20, at the Heritage Theatre, 2505 S. Highway 89, Perry. Matinees will start at 2 p.m. March 6 and 13. Tickets are $9 for adults and $8 for seniors and children. For reservations, call 435-723-8392. Set in the 1950s, “Bye Bye Birdie” is about Elvis-type rock star and teen heartthrob Conrad Birdie, who is being inducted into the Army. Due to bad contracts, Conrad’s manager/songwriter, Albert Peterson, will become bankrupt. So Rosie
Alvarez, Albert’s long-time secretary and girlfriend, comes up with a scheme to make Albert some money so he can get out of the music business and marry her (he wants to be an English teacher, but his super-controlling mom, Mae Peterson, doesn’t want her “sonny boy” to leave their joint company and, heaven forbid, marry Rosie). So Albert writes a song called “One Last Kiss” that Conrad will sing to a randomly selected teenage girl (Kim MacAfee) live on “The Ed Sullivan Show” before kissing the girl and heading out for the Army. Rosie is convinced
the publicity will vault the song to No. 1 and make Albert rich. Meanwhile, jealousy ensues in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where Kim, local president of the Conrad Birdie Fan Club, has just been pinned by Hugo Peabody. Cast includes Tyson Price of North Ogden as Conrad Birdie; Emilee Cooke of North Ogden as Kim MacAfee; Jessica Knowles of Ogden as Rosie Alvarez; Doug Shepherd of Liberty as Albert Peterson; and Jared Henderson of North Ogden as Hugo Peabody. For more information, visit www.heritagetheatreutah.com.
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Science series explores Utah’s red landscapes
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USU geologists conduct a field survey in Southern Utah near Glen Canyon.
Chamber Orchestra to feature teen soloists at Winter Concert HE CACHE CHAMBER T Orchestra, a community-based ensemble of more than 90 players
under the baton of guest conductor Dr. James McWhorter, will present its Winter Concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28, in the Kent Concert Hall on the Utah State University campus. Admission is free and everyone is invited. The evening’s program will feature concerto movements performed by two young piano soloists, Camille Jensen and Steven Ban. Jensen, 15, will perform “Allegretto Commodo” from Poulenc’s “Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.” Daughter of Gary and Nancy Jensen, Camille is a student at Logan High School and studies piano with
Betty Beecher. Ban, 13, will perform the “Vivace” from Haydn’s “Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.” Son of Drs. Lihong Teng and Heng Ban, Steven is a student at Mount Logan Middle School and studies piano with Anarie Petroff and professor Gary Amano. The program will open with the “Manfred Overture, Op. 115” by Robert Schumann, set by Müller. Following the concertos the orchestra will conclude with a duo of Russian composers known for their expansive orchestrations for strings, percussion, brass and winds, with Glinka’s “Oriental Dances of the Black Sea Region” and the “Finale of Symphony No. 2,” also known as “Little Russian,” by Tchaikovsky.
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says much of the science of geology has grown out of research of the Colorado Plateau, which covers a strikingly scenic area spanning the Four Corners states of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. “Recent findings are helping us unravel even more information about this geologically critical region,” he says. Following Pederson’s presentation, attendees are invited to bring their “mystery” rocks and fossils for identification by USU geologists. Participants will enjoy free refreshments along with a variety of hands-on geological exhibits in the ESLC atrium, including a stream table with flowing water. The presentation is part of Science Unwrapped’s “Origins” series, which begins in January and continues through the spring. For more information, call 797-3517 or visit www.usu. edu/science/unwrapped.
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SU’S SCIENCE Unwrapped program will feature “Cutting Canyon Country: The Origins of Utah’s Red Rock Landscapes” at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, in the Eccles Science Learning Center auditorium on campus. Featured speaker will be biologist Joel Pederson. Guests are invited to bring their “mystery” rocks or fossils for identification following the program. Admission is free. When taking in the spectacular vistas of Grand Canyon, Arches, Zion and other national parks of Utah’s famous red-rock landscapes, visitors often wonder how the landforms got so high and so deep. For more than a century, geologists have wrestled with these two conundrums about the 130,000-square-mile Colorado Plateau: how it was uplifted and how it eroded. Pederson, associate professor in USU’s Department of Geology,
ridger Folk Music Society’s second annual Local Talent Night will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, in the Taggart Student Center auditorium at Utah State University. Admission is $5 at the door. Proceeds will benefit the folk society, a local non-profit, all-volunteer organization dedicated to supporting folk music in its many forms. This year’s local talent includes Banjoman & Co., Sean Damitz, Julian Brown, Sons O’Valley and Joe Morales. Banjoman & Co. plays lively, foot-tapping music, a mix of traditional bluegrass and folk and
original tunes, vocals and instrumentals. Dave Taylor is Banjoman, group founder and lead singer. The company will feature Scott Williams on fiddle and mandolin, Brian Judy on guitar and Kathy Taylor on bass fiddle. All four join in on the vocals. The group has released three CDs and performed at many venues from Brigham City to Lovell, Wyo., and from Idaho Falls to Murray. For more information on Banjoman & Co., visit www.sonicbids. com/BanjomanCo. For more events sponsored by Bridger Folk, visit www.bridgerfolk.org.
N CELEBRATION of the season of St. Patrick, the Bridger Folk Music Society will present the sixth annual Celtic Night at 7:30 p.m. March 5 and 6 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main, Logan. Tickets are $10-$19 and available at www.bridgerfolk. org or at the door. Students with a valid ID will be admitted at half price one hour before each performance. A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit Four Paws Rescue and the Cache Humane Society. This year’s program will feature the local Inishfre Irish Dance Co., Kelsey Crane and Logan’s upcoming new Celtic band, Cuhulainn. Audience members will experience a variety of dances and dance styles from Ireland and Scotland intertwined with instrumental music, singing, storytelling and singalongs.
Cuhulainn
Logan’s newest Celtic band will be performing a number of traditional Celtic selections along with a few more modern compo-
sitions. Cuhulainn is a combination of musicians including Maureen Killila (vocals, keyboard), David Hunt (fiddle, guitar, mandolin), Laurie Baefsky (silver flute, wooden flute, pennywhistle, piccolo), Harvey Neuber (guitar, concertina, banjo, etc.), Julie Zufelt (keyboards), Ryan Russell (drums) and Chris Mortensen (bass). Together these seasoned musicians represent more than 100 years of musical experience. In addition to the dance accompaniment, Cuhulainn has chosen a number of classic Celtic pieces along with some newer tunes familiar to all. Their musical arrangements blend traditional musical form with modern “Celtic-fusion” instrumental combinations.
Inishfre Irish Dance Co.
The company has been dancing and performing around the Utah/Idaho area since 2003. Started and directed by Julie Zufelt, the company consists of nine dancers with a wide range
of experience. This year’s cast includes Dance Sterling Scholar Kate Jensen, a longtime student and company member of Inishfre. Zufelt, with a background in ballet and piano studies, arranges and choreographs the danc-
“Lola Hollow” by Woody Shepherd, oil and acrylic painting on hardwood panel, 80 inches by 72 inches.
es, staying true to the traditional dances and styles of Ireland. After visiting Scotland and Ireland and having been inspired by Riverdance, Zufelt became immersed in Irish step-dancing. She has chosen a program of both hard-shoe and soft-shoe dances that will be set to tra-
ditional Celtic music with a little “New Age” feel thrown in for good measure. Also, the company is pleased to include a cameo appearance by U.S. National Highland Dance Champion Kelsey Crane. A Utah native, Crane has been Highland dancing for 13 years.
USU professor opens exhibit of latest landscape paintings until Friday, March 26. “perception shapes reality.” OODY “The work itself represents For example, leaves, he said, W SHEPHERD, a therapeutic place and simu- could be painted in a variety professor of drawing and painting at Utah State University, shares his most recent landscapes at his solo exhibition, “New Paintings,” opening Tuesday, March 2, in Studio 102 of the Chase Fine Arts Center on campus. The exhibit focuses on the beauty of landscape in Cache Valley and is free and open to the public. A reception in honor of the artist will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 4, in Studio 102. The exhibition will be on display
lates the cross between looking at the actual landscape and forming an internal interpretation,” Shepherd said. Shepherd, who is in his fifth year teaching at USU, said he has worked on this collection of paintings over the course of the last year, and following the exhibition display in Studio 102, the artwork will travel to exhibit locations in different states. The artist said he enjoys representing the same thing in different ways because
of ways — they could be painted carefully, stamped or quickly sketched — and the combination of these individual leaves pile up. The viewer observes and interprets the painting based on individual visual perception. Originally from Alabama, Shepherd received his bachelor’s degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and went on to Yale, where he received a master’s of fine art in painting and printmaking.
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Film New this week “Cop Out” Rated R ★1⁄2 This clumsy postmodern buddy cop flick stuffs as many genre references as it can into the ceaseless patter between Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis. They play our paired police — detectives Paul Hodges and Jimmy Monroe, respectively — and they might as well be in different movies. Willis, a veteran of cop films, is our unmistakable straight man. Almost charmingly, he’s actually trying to solve crimes. Hodges, however, is a parody. One can’t help wondering how his partner — let alone his wife (Rashida Jones) — can treat a cartoon so much like a human. Kevin Smith, for the first time directing from a script not his own, never comes close to raising the movie to the level of its buddy cop inspirations. Harold Faltermeyer’s synthesizer-heavy score recalls his soundtrack from “Beverly Hills Cop,” which “Cop Out” falls well short of. R for pervasive language including sexual references, violence and brief sexuality. 110 min.
Still playing “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Rated R ★★★★ Director Lee Daniels assembles some of the unlikeliest ingredients — Mariah Carey, Mo’Nique, and a lead actress plucked from an anonymous casting call — to create a wondrous work of art. The film isn’t easy to watch and will test your tolerance for despicable behavior as a long history of physical abuse and incest unfolds involving an illiterate, obese Harlem schoolgirl. Yet “Precious” will steal your heart. Daniels crafts a story that rises from the depths of despair to a place of genuine hope. Gabourey Sidibe offers a phenomenal screen debut as Precious, who makes an utterly believable and electrifying rise from an urban abyss of ignorance and neglect. This is great American cinema. R for child abuse including sexual assault, and pervasive language. 109 min. “Shutter Island” Rated R ★★ Martin Scorsese clearly had a ball making this one, which seemingly hurls everything the director knows about filmmaking up on screen in a blazing, masterful technical triumph. But even with Leonardo DiCaprio leading the superb cast, this crime-and-paranoia thriller is long and wearying — brilliantly constructed, obsessively detailed, yet dramatically a piece of pulp schlock that’s been overdressed and overstuffed to disguise a ponderous and absurd story. R for disturbing violent content, language and some nudity. 138 min. — Reviews by The Associated Press
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insane-in-themembrane update of the George A. Romero cult horror movie “The Crazies” opens with a brief shot of fire, devastation and small-town apocalypse, followed by a title card that takes us back to the same Iowa farm community two days earlier. We see white-picket fences, clapboard houses and good neighbors, and hear birds warbling and Johnny Cash singing “We’ll Meet Again,” a song whose title hints at the nature of the alarming events about to transpire. When these Middle American folks do meet again, those pitchforks they’re carrying won’t be intended for bales of hay. Romero sandwiched his 1973 “Crazies” in between his more celebrated zombie movies, “Night of the Living Dead” and “Dawn of the Dead,” both of which have been remade, too, with varying results. While “The Crazies” isn’t a zombie movie per se, it derives much of its horror from the same fear — the enemy lurks both within and without you. There’s a very real chance you might turn into a monster. Eisner’s remake maintains the dynamic of that unease, while Scott Kosar and Ray Wright’s screen-
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play gives the audience a rooting interest by whittling down the political subtext and making the movie more of a survival story. It helps, too, that Eisner’s budget probably exceeds that of all of Romero’s movies combined. Eisner puts the money to good use, delivering a beautifully shot film that contains equal measures of style and gore. We first sense something might not be right in Ogden Marsh when Rory (Mike Hickman) wan-
ders into the middle of the high school baseball field during a game. He’s carrying a shotgun and wearing a faraway look in his eyes. The town sheriff (Timothy Olyphant) assumes he’s drunk and tries to talk Rory down. He doesn’t succeed. After that, locals begin trickling into the office of the beautiful doctor (Radha Mitchell), complaining of fevers and being tired and not feeling “right.” Germs seem to be spreading — and so is the news. Soon, we see Ogden Marsh from
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satellite, with the words: “Initiate containment protocol.” Uh-oh. Romero made his mark during the Vietnam and post-Vietnam era, and, as he went along, his anti-military broadsides became bolder and more pointed. He split his “Crazies” evenly between the military containment forces and the infected
“The Crazies” Rated R
townspeople. Heroes were in short supply. Eisner narrows the
focus to the farm folk, while holding onto the idea of a federal government that will stop at nothing to cover its tracks. Interpret that as you like. What “The Crazies” really taps into is our pervasive unease over disease, that moment when the person sitting next to you on the subway or airplane or, yes, the movie theater sneezes or breaks into a coughing fit and you realize you’re unarmed. Never mind the pitchfork. Just don’t leave the hand sanitizer at home. “The Crazies,” an Overture Films release, is rated R for bloody violence and language. Running time: 101 minutes. Three stars out of four.
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‘Crazies’ taps into our fear of infection
Donna Forsberg of Logan works on one of her pieces during the Bridgerland Landscape Artists meeting at the Cache County School District offices in North Logan on Wednesday.
Above: DeAnn Chambers of Providence works on one of her pieces during a Bridgerland Landscape Artists meeting. Right, top: Mearl Bair of Providence works on one of his pieces. “It’s just a fun way to pass the time,” says Bair, who enjoys painting bears and teepees.
Above: DeAnn Chambers paints during a Bridgerland Landscape Artists meeting. Left, bottom: Brenda Cutler of Providence works on one of her pieces. Cutler is the youngest member of the group, having only attended for about a year.
ORTH LOGAN Earl Miller looke the room, he did 12 other artists. H very close-knit g like-minded peo “We’re just like family,” Mille Most of them have been painting for six, seven, eight years or mor body really helps everybody else great group.” Miller and a group of 13 other ley residents — Eileen Clements to attend on this particular day — Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon in Room at the Cache County Schoo building. The group, which identi as “The Bridgerland Landscape A cializes in water- and oil-based pa A couple members of the grou been meeting together since the when they attended a painting cl by Brenda Anthony. Anthony ch occupations about 15 years ago a got “roped into” monitoring the voluntary basis. One of Miller’s primary duties ing the Sun Room on a weekly b is easy because the district admi “bend over backwards to help us “Oh, I don’t mind at all becau retired and don’t have anything t I love to paint,” said Miller, who majority of the group members i citizen with grandchildren. Miller, who is affectionately r by the group as its “leader,” does class. Rather, he and the rest of t ees teach one another and share and ideas. Well, that and they co about one another’s lives like mo time friends do. “We help each other,” said De who will turn 90 in April. “I nee help,” he added with a chuckle. Rogers, like the rest of the me in the group, does not paint for a although this does not mean he i ented artist. Instead, painting is a many of them consider “the high our week,” DeAnn Chambers sa
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it’s so enjoyable. And this passion for art, coupled with the friendships formed as a result, have brought Chambers and many others to the Sun Room every Wednesday for nearly a decade, if not more. Chambers has had an affinity for drawing and painting all her life. She developed this passion from her mother, who was a professional artist. The Providence resident also has a brother who has done well for himself with his art background — “he’s the talented one,” she said with a laugh — in southern California. “She put a pencil in my hand when I was 3,” Chambers said of her mother. Chambers and her husband served LDS Church missions to Finland and New Zealand, and she derives much of her inspiration from her experiences in those countries. Most of the Bridgerland Landscape Artists base their paintings on the virile beauty of the Rocky Mountains. Many of the artists enjoy painting animals, birds, mountain streams and lakes, and several of them like to create desert scenes. Blanche Astle, for one, enjoys painting cacti. Astle and her neighbor, Donna Forsberg,
have been attending this group for more than 10 years. Astle and Forsberg developed a enthusiasm for art when they took a class at Utah State University from Kent Wallis in the 1970s. Wallis, a Cache Valley native, is now nationally renowned for his work. Being a part of this group has just increased Astle and Forsberg’s love for painting. “If you don’t have something like this to keep you going, you neglect painting ... so (this group) inspires us to keep going,” Astle said. “Everybody helps out and tells you what you need to do and what you don’t need to do,” Forsberg added with a laugh. Two other Bridgerland Landscape Artists, Mearl Bair and Bill Maedgen, are also neighbors. Bair and Maedgen, who is the jokester of the group, have both painted a vast number of pieces featuring various backdrops of national parks in the western United States. Earlier this week, Maedgen — who did a painting for each of his grandchildren as a 2009 Christmas gift — was working on a piece featuring the Grand Canyon. Many of Bair’s paintings incorporate scenes from Cache Valley. The Providence
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Members of the Bridgerland Landscape Artists meet every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon in the Sun Room at the Cache County School District building. Their passion for art, coupled with the friendships formed as a result, have attracted some members for nearly a decade, if not more.
resident recently completed one featuring the sinks in Logan Canyon. “It’s just a fun way to pass the time,” said Bair, who enjoys painting bears and teepees. What makes Bair’s experiences with the group even more enjoyable is he gets to spend more time with his daughter, Merlynn Gunnell. Gunnell started attending the group a couple of years ago, and particularly enjoys painting southwestern backdrops and cacti like Astle. Of course, being around Bair is the most enjoyable part for Gunnell, who also uses water- and acrylic-based paints. Helen Lauritzen is the only other member of the group who uses water paints on a regular basis. “I just love this time to be with Dad and learn from him,” Gunnell said. Lauritzen, like the other artists, does this for fun, but her work has been featured at the Bountiful/Davis Art Center. Lauritzen was recently honored by the Cache Valley chapter of the Utah Watercolor Society. Maedgen has also had some of his paintings displayed at the aforementioned art center. Many people in the group make it a point to praise Lauritzen, a resident of Logan, and her talent for painting. Lauritzen first developed a love for art while working for a company in Salt Lake City. It was there she discovered vitreous enamel, which is a glass coating that is generally bonded to a metal or another enamel, then fired at around 850 degrees. “Her paintings have a lot of details, whereas a lot of watercolors tend to blend together,” Bair said of Lauritzen. Other regulars of the group are Elizabeth
Miller, Carolyn Davidson, Irene Bodily — who recently completed a piece featuring a beautiful sunset — and Brenda Cutler. Davidson set up a blog for the group a few years ago, and it can be found at www. bridgerlandlandscapeartists.blogspot.com. The Providence resident has a fair amount of experience as an artist and taught an adult oil painting class in Logan at one time. “It was kind of fun to do, because we can share our painting with our kids who are a long ways away,” Davidson said. Elizabeth Miller, who has been painting on and off for nearly 25 years, got started when she took a class with Forsberg at Leah’s Cottage, a former Logan craft store. Cutler is the youngest member of the group, having only attended for about a year. When interviewed for this story, the Providence resident was working on a piece featuring her son and his companion, who are currently serving LDS Church missions in Mexico. On the last Wednesday of May, members of the group — which is always looking for new people to participate, Earl Miller said — will put on an open house, displaying their work to family members and friends. Like the group itself, don’t be surprised if this tradition is still going strong 20 years from now. “I never thought about it lasting this long, and I don’t see any stopping to it,” Earl Miller said. “I think it’s just going to keep going on and on and on.” “Until we all keel over,” Bodily interjected, eliciting laughter from all around the room.
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By Brenda Schoenfeld
By Lonn Kirk
AWHC invites all to Volunteer Orientation
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HE AMERICAN West Heritage Center in Wellsville will host its annual Volunteer Orientation on Saturday, March 13. New and returning volunteers will meet at 9 a.m. for the annual pancake breakfast and introduction to opportunities for the coming year. The orientation is a lively introduction to the myriad of opportunities that exist for pioneer wannabes and others. The event is free to the public. “Entire families come and volunteer here,” said David Sidwell, program director at the Heritage Center. “It’s so fun to see the kids with their parents, all having a good time here doing old-fashioned things and helping people understand and live our heritage.” Potential volunteers attending orientation can expect to participate in hands-on activities in many of the various areas available, including 1917 farm life, pioneer life, mountain man and
fur trade activities, and other “behind-the-scenes” volunteer opportunities. Everywhere you look at the Heritage Center throughout the year, volunteers help make it happen. At the organization’s largest event, Baby Animal Days, scheduled for April 8-10, volunteers help take care of and help visitors interact with the animals, help take tickets and other tasks. Some will even help manage the baby bears that are scheduled to make an appearance this year. Volunteers may also find themselves helping set the scene and assisting visitors to enjoy Daily Adventures, and at other events and functions. Many dress up for the part and come in pioneer clothes or clothes from 1917. Part of the orientation includes how to find clothing that represents the period by either making it or borrowing it from the Heritage Center.
Bruce Draper enjoys volunteering in the 1917 heirloom Victory Garden at the American West Heritage Center.
Other volunteer opportunities include performing in the Heritage Family Players or at
other venues such as summer melodramas and special dinner events. Volunteers are also
needed for the many handcart treks conducted each summer. Some volunteers help organize special events or fix antique machinery. Behind-the-scenes opportunities include helping set up and take down events, running sound equipment, managing databases, doing graphic design work, helping with social networking or even taking photographs. The Heritage Center also has plenty of opportunities for large groups to come and do service, whether it be church groups, youth groups or others. A quick glance at their schedule indicates a large number of Boy Scouts doing service projects for their Eagle awards, too. For large group inquiries or Boy Scout Eagle projects, contact the Heritage Center at 2456050; orientation is more for single volunteers or families. For more information, visit www.awhc.org.
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TAH STATE THEATRE will present Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour Lost” at 7:30 p.m. March 4-6 and March 10-13 in the Morgan Theatre of the Chase Fine Arts Center on campus. Tickets are $13 for adults, $11 for USU faculty and staff, $9 for all non-USU students, free to USU students with a valid ID, and available at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office in the Chase Fine Arts Center, FA 138B; by calling 797-8022; or online at box office.usu.edu. “Love’s Labour’s Lost” is a comic tale of a king and his men and their oath to swear off the biggest “distractions” in life — women, sleep and food — in order to be entirely devoted to their studies for three years. The comic structure of the play begins at the opening and continues throughout, beginning with the oath the four men take to not allow women in their court, to sleep only three hours a night and to fast once a week. Immediately after agreeing to this oath, the king receives word that a lovely princess and her ladies have arrived in town — guests who definitely make the oath harder to live by. Utah State Theatre’s production involves 18th century-style design elements. Nancy Hills, costume designer for USU’s theater arts department, said the story is delightful and the colorful use of costumes only adds to the unique person-
Joanna Noall as the Princess of France and Jonathan Baker as King Ferdinand from Utah State Theatre’s production of “Love’s Labour Lost.”
alities of the characters portrayed. The creative use of apparel will help audience members to better follow each developing love pursuit, she said. A comprehensive study guide created by research assistant/literary manager Josh Patterson and USU honors creative arts students specifically for “Love’s Labour’s Lost” is available upon request. To obtain a free electronic copy, e-mail jlbob1@hotmail.com.
Folk Music Society to host performance by John Lilly RIDGER FOLK MUSIC B Society will host John Lilly in the first of a series of house concerts along the Wasatch Front, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 12, at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East, Logan. Coffee and baker items will be served starting at 7 p.m. Cost is a suggested donation of $15. Seating is limited; for tickets, contact Lisa or Ron Goede at 752-9650, 757-5420 or queenrags@ gmail.com. Lilly is a multi-talented acoustic music performer from Charleston, W.Va., specializing in Americana, country roots and traditional folk music. He writes new songs that sound as old as the hills, and performs older songs like they were made yesterday. According to one reviewer, “If Hank Williams had a sunny disposition, he’d be John Lilly.”
Lilly has released four self-produced CDs. His latest, “Haunted Honky Tonk,” achieved the No. 1 position on both the Freeform American Roots (FAR) and the Euro Americana radio charts. “Broken Moon,” released in 2000, earned enthusiastic reviews and widespread radio airplay. Recognized internationally as a Lilly powerful performing songwriter, Lilly won the national Ghost Writers in the Sky songwriting contest in 2005. He also won a customized guitar for his original song “Blue Highway.” For more information about John Lilly, visit www.johnlillymusic.com.
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Yep, there is such a thing as ‘real pizza’ And one local restaurant comes just about as close as you can get By Lael Gilbert
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HEN YOU SEE
the word “pizza,” something inevitably pops into your head. It might be a memory of an impossibly deep Chicago-style pizza packed in casserole-like layers of olives, sausage, tomato sauce, cheese and saturated dough. It might be the delicious paradox of thin-crust pizza — crunchy on the bottom, chewy in the center — that you folded sloppily into your mouth in your dorm room. Or maybe the savory smell of caramelized ham and pineapple, or the mellow aroma of wet mozzarella melting rapturously with sweet plum tomatoes and basil in the intense heat of a wood-fired oven. In Chicago it is thick. In New York it is thin and wide. Greek immigrants in the northeastern U.S. slathered dough with olive oil to make it crisp and topped it with feta cheese and Kalamata olives. California pizza became a platform for non-traditional seasonal produce like bean sprouts and shaved carrots. Vermont pizza replaced tomato sauce with a drizzle of real maple syrup over breakfast sausage and eggs. The western U.S., ironically, popularized Hawaiian pizza, topping ours with sweet
(VPNA) based in Naples, Italy (and backed by the European Union), authentic pizza must be cooked in a wood oven. Jack’s got one. It cooks at an infernal 900 degrees. Jack’s job is to stand in front of the cave-shaped opening, shoveling around the rapidly rising dough. Cooking a pizza at home can take 10 to 20 minutes, but in a wood-fired oven like Jack’s, the pizza is done in two. The high heat removes the moisture from the thin crust quickly, making it crispy on the outside and leav-
texture with no grease. This type of cheese begins extremely mild, noted Julie, but as it cooks it absorbs the intense flavors of the other toppings — the sweet acidity of tomatoes, the pineapple and sliced ham. fragrant fresh basil and the Everyone has their own woody taste of smoke and idea about what constitutes a extra virgin olive oil. great slice. Considering the The Carlisles seek history and passion associated out the best possible with the food, writing about ingredients, purchasing them “pizza” is like tackling the locally when they can. The topic “The Bible” or “The Chiflour in the dough comes from nese Empire” or “Logan Park Central Milling Flour on Center Strips.” Where does one begin? Street. Their Gouda, Gruyere I began at Jack’s Woodfired and Feta come from Rockhill Oven at 256 N. Main in Logan. Creamery. The dough is handI found Jack and Julie Carlisle made. The sauce comes from working around the large fresh tomatoes — seeded by Italian-built wood-burnhand. The basil is fresh, ing pizza oven in the fragrant and whole. center of the restauIt becomes slightly “I know what rant. Sticks of apple crisp on the top of wood were stacked you are thinking: real my pizza. loosely against the For the Carpizza? But there is such a wall. White-hot lisles, this all coals lit the intething. Italians cared enough began as one rior of the oven, serious hobby. about pizza to ‘copyright’ the cooking fragrant They built a yeast dough. I wood-burnmethod, and to delineate the was there for ing oven in some real pizza. ingredients that go into an their yard, just I know what to experiment. authentic one. There is you are thinkThey’d never been ing: real pizza? even an organizato Italy, or even to But there is such a New York City for thing. Italians cared tion.” that matter. They’d enough about pizza to never tried to emulate “copyright” the method, the authentic Pizza Napoand to delineate the ingreletana … it just turned out dients that go into an authentic that what the Carlisles liked one. There is even an organizawas basically the same pizza tion. ing it chewy on the inside. the Italians had perfected over According to the Verace I ordered the Margherita hundreds of years. You start Pizza Napoletana Association pizza (at Jack’s it is called “That with really good flour and make One Pizza,” but if you ask for a a wet dough, said Julie. That Margherita, they’ll know what way you get a good rise in the you are talking about). This hot oven, and get exceptional classic Italian pizza is made texture. with high-moisture mozzarella, My Margherita was exceptomatoes and fresh basil leaves tional. The salty mozzarella — and, according to VPNA, is absorbed a mild smoky flavor the only certifiably authentic from the oven accentuated by pizza in existence. a bit of parmesan and smoked Jack cut generous slabs of provolone. The mottled brown fresh mozzarella (the kind crust had just a hint of char and packed in brine) and scattered was well balanced by sweet them with sauce on the handtomatoes, clean-tasting basil stretched dough. It melts in a and chewy cheese. Pizza at creamy pool and has a chewy Jack’s needs to be folded to be
eaten properly. Because the focus of the pizza is flavor, not structure, the crust isn’t super-inflated. It’s the toppings you taste. The Carlisles encourage pizza seekers to order no more than three toppings. If you get more than that, said Jack, the flavors are muddled, too intense, and the thing doesn’t cook properly. When you go to Jack’s, I recommend ordering one pizza per person. The prices are reasonable, and the current lunch special is a downright deal. My companion and I ordered one small (9-inch), as well as two “mini” (6-inch) pizzas that came with the lunch special. When we left, we weren’t carrying any boxes. The large (12inch) may feed more than one, but I’d lean to the hungry side when ordering. To clear them of any liability, the Carlisles’ pizza does not conform to all the freakishly strict standards maintained by the VPNA. The price of importing San Marzano plum tomatoes from the south of Italy and south European-produced buffalo cheese would be cost prohibitive, for one. And they don’t measure their stretched dough to the centimeter. So if you want a technically correct VPNA pizza, fly to Italy. But if you want a pizza that is authentic at heart, with a dash of Cache Valley, go to Jack’s. Lael Gilbert is a food lover and freelance writer living in Logan. She 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. She is not an employee of the newspaper. Feedback at laelgilbert@gmail.com.
‘Point Omega’ leaves you wanting more The Christian Science Monitor
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ON DeLILLO IS well regarded for his facility with plots, the strange inner lives of historical events that veer toward paranoid conspiracy but, in the hands of a fine novelist, produce compelling fiction. In the novels “White Noise,” “Libra,” “Underworld” and “Mao II,” this sense of plot — that there is some latent subtext, a peculiar psychology, to the act of terrorism, an atomic bomb or presidential assassination — comes freighted with metaphysical portent. In “White Noise,” the airborne toxic event is not only an industrial disaster that leads to a bewildering government rescue operation; it’s an emblem of the everyday madness of our commercialized age. Each of these novels also relies on DeLillo’s ability to conjure indelible images, and despite the uneven success of his last novel, “Falling Man,” that novel contained such an image, in the form of the titular falling man, a performance artist whose ritualized, controlled falls harked back to office workers falling out of the Twin Towers on Sept. 11. The image became a perverse sort of visual koan, reminding all who observed it, characters and readers alike, that it shared the inscrutable power of the horrific attacks to which it referred. Perhaps, then, the most revealing part of DeLillo’s latest novel, “Point Omega,” is that it has no image or vast plot to refer back to, no history-spanning event that can
provide some center of gravity. The novel concerns Richard Elster, an academic who was an adviser to the planners of the Iraq war. But here the war is elsewhere, its brutal reality forgotten. Elster has fled to a cabin in California’s Anza-Borrego Desert. He’s joined by Jim Finley, a documentarian who wishes to interview Elster about his experiences in one long take. One would think that the Iraq war, with its fabricated intelligence, its bevy of self-interested actors — from Ahmed Chalabi to Curveball to Douglas Feith’s Office of Special Plans, which Elster may have worked for — would be prime material for DeLillo. Add to that an otherworldly desert landscape, which Finley often describes as “science fiction,” and one of DeLillo’s recurrent inspirations (film’s cultish aspect), and the circumstances seem perfect. Except that, like Finley, we never quite get there. For Elster is reticent about telling his story. He agrees to let Finley join him in his desert hideaway, but he still hasn’t agreed to appear on camera. Instead, the men spend nights outside under the desert sky, drinking liberally and rhapsodizing in the idiosyncratic brand of dialogue that the author continually makes both glib and compelling. In one of these conversations Elster says, “War creates a closed world and not only for those in combat but for the plotters, the strategists. Except their war is acronyms, projections, contingencies, methodologies.” When Finely narrates that
Elster “chanted the words, he intoned liturgically,” an experienced DeLillo reader thinks: Yes, of course, this is the author’s inimitable style, which lays bare our false orthodoxies; which shows how the confidence of power, of secret knowledge, contains its own kind of vanity.
But this progress toward Elster’s eventual confession is interrupted by the arrival of Jessie, Elster’s daughter. When a potentially tragic event occurs, everything changes. The novel speeds up, but it leaves the characters even more adrift. “Point Omega” is bookended by descriptions of characters observing “24 Hour Psycho,” Douglas Gordon’s video-work that appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in 2006. The installation consisted of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “Psycho” slowed down to two frames per second and projected on a translucent screen hung in the middle of the room so observers could watch the attenuated video from both sides. This arrangement allows to the viewer to see the film’s mirror image on the screen’s opposite side and to examine previously hidden inconsistencies. DeLillo describes the installation well — in a series of frames showing an empty staircase, “suspense
is trying to build but the silence and stillness outlive it” — but there’s an austere vagueness that matches the chapter titles of “Anonymity” and “Anonymity 2.” The moving images are slowed down so much as to be not indelible but opaque. And such is the frustrating experience of reading “Point Omega.” Gesturing at some of DeLillo’s great themes and introducing a potentially great character in Richard Elster, the book manages to be worthwhile. But at about 120 pages, it never gets where we’re promised: Elster’s testimony remains tantalizingly unheard. Like the mysterious man watching the video installation, who wants to watch the movie for 24 consecutive hours rather than stopping when the museum closes, the reader here is left desiring more. Because Jim Finley is right: a true account of the war’s planning is an important story indeed, even if it were to arrive packaged as fiction.
* This week’s New York Times Bestseller List * HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. “Game Change” by John Heilemann 2. “The Politician” by Andrew Young 3. “Staying True” by Jenny Sanford 4. “I Am Ozzy” by Ozzy Osbourne 5. “On the Brink” by Henry M. Paulson Jr. PAPERBACK (TRADE) FICTION 1. “The Last Song” by Nicholas Sparks 2. “A Reliable Wife” by Robert Goolrick 3. “Dear John” by Nicholas Sparks 4. “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson 5. “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold PAPERBACK ADVICE 1. “Food Rules” by Michael Pollan 2. “Cook This, Not That!” by David Zinczenko 3. “The Five Love Languages” by Gary Chapman 4. “What to Expect ...” by Heidi Murkoff 5. “The Belly Fat Cure” by Jorge Cruise CHILDREN’S BOOKS 1. “The Lion and the Mouse” by Jerry Pinkney 2. “The Easter Egg” by Jan Brett 3. “Listen to the Wind” by Greg Mortenson 4. “Amelia Bedelia’s First Valentine” by Herman Parish 5. “All the World” by Liz Garton Scanlon
Keep your reading list updated at www.nytimes.com/pages/books/
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Cash defiant till the end on ‘American VI’ By The Associated Press
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OHNNY CASH HAD MANY musical personas, but his wicked sense of humor was never far below the surface. So when Cash signs off of “American VI: Ain’t No Grave” with “Aloha Oe,” we can feel his wry smile and his continued defiance of death in his final years. These songs, the last from the American Recordings series he started in 1994, were recorded in 2002-03 in the last year of Cash’s life. “Ain’t No Grave” is one of those albums you can’t separate from the events that shaped it. Cash’s wife, June Carter Cash, died during the recordings and the singer’s health was declining quickly.
It’s impossible not to imagine the spectre of death over Cash’s shoulder as he chose these songs with producer Rick Rubin. And it’s impossible not to imagine Cash shaking his fist at the reaper. That’s the message in the title track
as Cash sings: “There ain’t no grave can hold my body down.” As with most Cash material, though, there is nuance here. Mixed in with the defiance is some acceptance (Kris Kristofferson’s “For the Good Times”) and even curiosity (Tom Paxton’s “Where I’m Bound”). If this is indeed Cash’s last original material, as Rubin says, it’s a fitting end, though one come to soon. CHECK THIS TRACK OUT: There’s lots of good stuff here, but “Ain’t No Grave” is the show stopper. Cash’s voice is weak but resolute and Rubin lays on acoustic guitar, bass and banjo. There’s also the sound of footsteps and chains, foretelling the appearance of death.
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Ongoing events An 11U Super League baseball team is looking to fill or three spots for the 2010 RMSB season. If interested, contact Deron at 787-8583 or Steve at 755-2908 to arrange a practice session/tryout.
Friday The 37th annual “Echoing Traditional Ways” Pow-Wow will be held Friday and Saturday at the Nelson Field House at USU. Gathering will include a traditional dance competition with cash prizes, plus Native artisans selling Native American art and craft items Indian tacos and frybread will also be available. Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for senior citizens and students with ID, and free for children 7 and younger. Dancer registration is $5. Jake Lott will perform live music at 6 p.m. and Logan’s News Boys will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza, 99 E. 1200 South, Logan. For more information, visit pier49logan.com. This week’s peace vigil will mark the milestone of 1,000 U.S. military deaths in the war in Afghanistan and mourn the untold numbers of Afghans and Pakistanis who have perished, from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Friday on the east side of Main Street between Center Street and 100 North in Logan. For more information, e-mail info@loganpeace.org. USU music professor Michael Christiansen and a group of colleagues will be featured in the second annual “An Evening in Brazil” at 7:30 p.m. Friday at USU’s Performance Hall. General admission tickets are $15 and student tickets are $5, all available at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office in the Chase Fine Arts Center, FAC 139-B; by calling 797-8022; online at boxoffice.usu.edu; or at the door. The Cache Special Needs Mutual Activities Program will host a Valentine’s ball, “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” from 7:30 to 11 p.m. Friday at the Cache Stake Center, 250 W. 1200 North, Logan. Music will be provided by D.J. Land. Best dress or formal wear. Attorney Glade A. Myler will present “Mama, Don’t Let Your Sons Grow Up to Be Lawyers (or Why Do I Need English and Math)” as part of USU’s HASS Alumni Lecture Series from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday at the Haight Alumni Center on campus. Admission is free and everyone is invited. Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will lead a dog-sledding trip to Jackson Hole on Feb. 26, 27 and 28. Volunteers are always needed. For more information, call 713-0288. The Sunshine Terrace Foundation will host a free health fair from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday at Pioneer Valley Lodge, 2351 N. 400 East, North Logan. Everyone is invited. A series of films exploring the changing nature of American society and the experiences of those who cross real and perceived
boundaries continues with “The Least of These” (not rated) at 7 p.m. Friday in Old Main Room 121. All films are free and open to the public, but seating is limited. For more information, contact Scott Foster at 797-7373. Everybody for Everyone will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Caffe Ibis Gallery Deli, 52 Federal Ave., Logan. Everyone is invited. For more information, call 753-4777. A Flatline Tragedy will perform with Fire in the Skies (metal) at 8 p.m. Friday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover charge is $6. For more information, visit www.myspace. com/whysound.
Saturday Banjoman & Co., Sean Damitz, Julian Brown, Sons O’Valley and Joe Moralesand will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Taggart Student Center auditorium at Utah State University for Bridger Folk Music Society’s second annual Local Talent Night. Admission is $5 at the door. For more information, visit www.bridgerfolk.org. Sarah Olsen will perform live music at 6 p.m. and J&L Jazz will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza. Everyone is invited. This week’s USU Museum of Anthropology “Saturdays at the Museum” series will feature “Dance Marathons” and will include the history of dance marathons, samples of music and images of past marathon participants. The USU Ballroom Dance Team will be available all day to teach dance steps to visitors. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call 797-7545 or anthromuseum.usu.edu. The Utah premiere of Peter Askim’s “Islands” and the world premiere of Andrew Kohn’s “Two Bits” will play at 11 a.m. Saturday at USU’s Chase Fine Arts Center, Room 214. Admission is free and everyone is invited. This month’s Unicorn Pillow Theatre show, “1940s Radio Mystery,” will play at noon and 2 p.m. Saturday at the Bullen Center, 43 S. Main. Admission is $2 for ages 2 and older and free for those younger than 2. Tim Holwig will perform at 3 p.m. Saturday at Pioneer Valley Lodge. Everyone is invited. The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge will show “Desert Wars: Water of the West,” a film discussing water scarcity and the politics and prioritization of water use in the West, at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday in the Wildlife Education Center. There will also be other educational activities and games. Program is free, open to all ages and family-friendly. For more information, call 435-734-6444. Why Sound will host a singer/songwriter competition: part two at 7 p.m. Saturday. Performing artists include Julia Mecham, Nick Gittins, Steven Halliday, Duo and Billy Hansen. Admission is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whysound.
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Rehearsals for the 11th annual performance of “Love’s Greatest Gift,” a cantata for choir and orchestra to be held at the Logan LDS Tabernacle over Easter weekend, will begin at 6 p.m. Sunday at the LDS chapel at 100 East and 200 South. The choir is open to all and the orchestra to players of high school performance level or higher. For more information, visit www.lovesgreatestgift.com.
Canyon Elementary will host Family Literacy Night from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Every Canyon Elementary student who attends will receive a free book. There will be entertainment, games, refreshments, prizes and more.
The Conger Frew Duo will perform at noon Sunday at Caffe Ibis Gallery Deli. The LDS Cache Singles group will host a fireside at 7 p.m. Sunday at 340 W. 700 South in Logan. USU professor and Utah Festival Opera director Michael Ballam will speak. The Post-Mormon Community Cache Valley chapter meets for dinner and socializing every Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at a local restaurant. Newcomers welcome. For more information, visit www.PostMormon.org/logan.
Monday The Cache Valley Stone Society will host two Learn-to-Curl clinics, from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday and from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, March 7, at the Eccles Ice Arena, 2825 N. 200 East, North Logan. Cost is $10 for adults or $5 for USU students and kids younger than 18. Wear warm, comfortable clothes and clean, rubber-soled shoes. Options are available for wheelchairs and non-flexible participants. For more information, call 760-7377. Hyrum city and BATC Fashion Merchandise students will produce Hyrum’s annual Royalty Pageant for female high school seniors at 7 p.m. Friday. Pageant will consist of personal interview questions, a display of talents and interests, presenting yourself on stage, and answering one question from the judges. There is no charge to enter or attend, but deadline for entry is Monday. For more information, contact Stephanie at 245-4405.
Tuesday 11U Super League baseball tryouts will be held between 5 and 8 p.m. Tuesday at 235 E. 3850 South in Nibley, and from 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the Logan Rec Center. You must be 11 or younger on April 30 to play. For more information, contact Paul at 512-2288. Lincoln Elementary will host Family Literacy Night from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Every Lincoln student who attends will receive a free book. There will be entertainment, games, refreshments, prizes and more, including the Cat in the Hat and other Dr. Suess characters. Auditions for the musical “Pirated!” will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday at the Heritage Theatre in Perry. Those auditions for singing parts should be there promptly at 7 p.m.; those trying for non-singing parts should be there by 8 p.m. To download an audition form and for audition specifics, visit www.herit agetheatreutah.com.
Career Services at USU will host a Career Fair from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Taggart Student Center (second floor) on campus. For more information, call 797-7777 or visit www.usu.edu/career. Scott Bradley will lead a “To Preserve the Nation” Constitution class at 7 p.m. Wednesday at The Book Table. There is no charge. For more information, call 753-2930. “Jazz and Cocktails” — featuring the Jon Gudmundson Quartet — are served up from 8 to 10 p.m. every Wednesday at Le Nonne, 129 N. 100 East, Logan. In addition to its regular menu, the restaurant also features a selection of crepes on Wednesday nights. For more information, call 752-9577.
Thursday “Behind the Curtain” at the Utah Festival Opera will be held from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. Thursday at the Dansante Building, 59 S. 100 West, Logan. Evening program includes a tour of the historic Dansante, UFO costume shop and vault, set design shop and wigs and props. There is no charge, but reservations are required; call the UFO Box Office at 750-0300 ext. 106 or contact Jackie at 750-0300 ext.121. The March of Dimes will host a March for Babies Team Captain Kickoff from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday at Logan Regional Hospital, Classroom 8. The ambassador family for the Cache/Box Elder walk will tell their story about having premature babies. The March for Babies will be held May 22 at Willow Park; to sign up, visit www.marchforbabies.org. For more information, contact Cindy at 245-7966. BYU professor Brian Q. Cannon will discuss the book “Utah in the Twentieth Century” at 7 p.m. Thursday in USU’s Merrill-Cazier Library auditorium (Room 101). Admission is free and everyone is invited. The book will be available for purchase, along with a book signing, following the lecture. Evening will also include the announcement of the winners of the Leonard J. Arrington Lecture Student Writing Awards. For more information, call 797-2633. The Knotty Knitters meet from 6 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday at the Senior Citizen Center in Logan. For more information, contact Cathy at 752-3923.
Upcoming event Women throughout the world will be honored for International Women’s Day on March 6, at Global Village Gifts, 146 N. 100 East, Logan. International Women’s Day is a day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. For information, call 713-4347.
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