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Digging for treasure

In “the nation’s fossil capital,” Jesse Bowen says, some of the most exquisite fossils on the planet are concentrated in an area of roughly 80 square miles. Bowen is betting his livelhood on his ability to find and sell them.

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Jesse Bowen compares his fossil-hunting career to gambling.

You never know what you’ll find, and every stone you flip has the potential to make you a lot of money. Last fall, Bowen hit the jackpot.

On the cover:

What’s inside this week William Moore gives tips on hosting a wine party without going broke

A folk music legend is coming to Logan (Page 4)

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From the editor

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HEN I WAS A KID I had a semi-illustrious career in the theater. I played several distinguished roles, including Oberon in my seventh-grade production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and Jem Finch in BYU’s production of “To Kill A Mockingbird.”

But it wasn’t all high class and high art. At the age of 15, I had a minor role in a play that Utah County theater critic Eric D. Snider once reviewed as the worst play he had ever seen. It was one of the rare community theater productions he assigned an F rating. I won’t reveal the name of the play here, but I will say that it required me to run around the stage muttering made-up gibberish that was supposed to be a Native American language.

But even that play, as bad — and

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potentially racially offensive — as it was, taught me a lot. It taught me about perseverance, even in the face of a weak script and tiny audiences. And I made a lot of friends in the process.

In the magazine today, there are notices about several local theater productions, most involving young people. I recommend you check one out this weekend. You probably won’t see any CGI explosions or high-speed car chases, and the paparazzi won’t likely swarm the cast as they exit the building.

What you will see is a dedicated group of actors, directors and crew who have worked countless hours to put on a performance you won’t see anywhere else. The experience is unique with every new cast and every new performance, even with a classic production like “Oliver,” soon to be playing at Preston High. The theater gives a real and living experience. That’s more than you can say for that “Finding Nemo” DVD.

— Devin Felix

Film critic Andy Morgan takes on Disney’s “Race to Witch Mountain”

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Scamper has been with us for a long time and he’s eager to find his forever home. He truly is a devoted doggie to his human friends.” His adoption fee is $125. If you would like to meet Scamper please call Lisa at 752-3534 or e-mail scfourpaws@hotmail.com. Of course there are plenty of other animals available for adoption at Four Paws! For more information, visit www.petfinder.com/shelter/4paws.html.

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Renowned Italian pianist to play at USU

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TALIAN PIANIST Roberto Plano, the sole international performer at Utah State University’s 2009 Wassermann Festival, will perform at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 19 at the USU Performance Hall.

Tickets for all Wassermann Festival recitals are available through the Caine School of the Arts Box Office, 797-8022, or online at http://csaboxoffice.usu.edu. Reserved seating is $15 for each concert, and student tickets are $7.50.

Plano is among a group festival director Dennis Hirst calls “young hotshot pianists.” The New York Times said Plano plays with “artistic maturity beyond his years.”

Plano first appeared in Logan the

year following his appearance at the 12th annual Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, where he was a finalist. He was the first-prize winner at the 2001 Cleveland International Piano Competition, a Laureate of the 2003 Honens International Piano Competition and the 2006 AXA Dublin International Piano Competition.

“Roberto has one of the richest tonal palettes of anyone I’ve ever heard play,” Hirst said. “Someone with a rich tonal palette can, in 10 seconds of playing, evoke an enormous range of emotional responses from a listener.

Roberto is truly a master at that.”

Plano’s recital program is diverse, opening with a major work by Schuman, the “Davidsbundlertanze, Op. 6,” which will feature both fast

and animated portions and slow and expressive portions.

The work includes 18 character pieces that provide music for dancing, artistic elevation, romantic love and longing, and the exploration of the recesses and contradictions of one’s mind, according to an online description of the work.

Following an intermission, Plano will return with works by Mozart and Bartok and conclude with “ConcertEtude in B-flat Minor, Op. 28, No. 4”

by E.V. Dohnanyi.

The Wassermann Festival will next feature American pianist Kevin Kenner Tuesday, March 24. For information on the Wassermann Festival, visit its Web site at www.usu.edu/wassermann.

Salzburg Chamber Soloists

“Joseph” now playing at Old Barn Theater The Old Barn Community Theatre in Collinston will present “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” every Monday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. from March 6 to 28, with matinees March 14 and 21 at 2:30 p.m.

“Joseph” is a humorous, light-hearted show that retells the story of Joseph from the Bible with excitement, energy and a musical score that includes calypso, country and Elvis.

This classic musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber has charmed audiences around the world for years with songs such as “Close Every Door” and “Any Dream Will Do.” The Old Barn Theatre is located at 3605 Bigler Road in Collinston. Call (435) 458-BARN for reservations.

LED BY CONCERTMASTER

Lavard Skou-Larsen, the acclaimed Salzburg Chamber Soloists will perform at 7:30 p.m.

March 24 and 25 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main, Logan. Tickets are $20, $26, $27 and $32 and can be ordered and printed online anytime without any additional fees. Visit www.

CenterForTheArts.us or call 752-0026 for more information.

The ensemble was founded in 1991 by Skou-Larsen and a few colleagues, whose aim was to perform orchestral chamber music with the freedom of soloists. Skou-Larsen brought together 22 first-class musicians whose inspiration was the unforgettable Sandor Végh, whose

charisma had influenced many members of the group considerably.

Throughout their first year, the orchestra toured the United States and Canada. From 1992 to 1995, Boris Belkin was artistic director of the ensemble.

In 1995 they played in La Folle Journée Mozart in Nantes, France, and ended the year with a second tour to South America, winning that year’s critics’ prize for best foreign orchestra.

Since then, the orchestra has performed in many important concert halls around the world.

In 2006 they performed 17 concerts in Salzburg and 100 concerts worldwide to celebrate 250 years since Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s birth.

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Rhythms

Three guitarists to put on show

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ACK PETERSON, one of the country’s finest guitar performers and educators, will join faculty members of USU’s guitar program for a special concert Wednesday, March 18, featuring Petersen, Mike Christiansen and Corey Christiansen. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the USU Performance Hall.

Bassist Lars Yorgeson will join the three guitarists for the concert.

Advance tickets are $5 but are free for USU students with a valid ID. For tickets, call the Caine School of the Arts Box Office at 797-8022 or visit the box office online at http://boxoffice.usu.edu. Tickets will also be available the night of the concert at the door.

USU faculty member Corey Christiansen studied with Petersen at the University of Southern Florida while earning a master’s degree. Earlier, he studied with his father, Mike, who heads the guitar program at USU. Since returning to USU, Corey has maintained a busy academic schedule while he

continues to tour and record.

The program for the concert will feature a variety of music, including swing, Latin and blues and works by guitar masters Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian.

“Jack is considered one of the finest jazz guitar performers and educators around,” Mike Christiansen said. “His approach to jazz is systematic, fun and user-friendly.”

Petersen taught at North Texas State University in Denton, Texas for 12 years and at the University of Northern Florida School of Music. He also taught at the Berklee College of Music for three years.

He has served on the faculty at many clinics, including the Stan Kenton clinics, the National Stage Band clinics, the Jamey Aebersold Combo camps, the Clark Terry Summer Jazz camps and the Summer Music Camps of Sweden.

Petersen has performed with a long list of jazz legends, including Stan Kenton, Doc Severson, Art Van Damme, Joe Morello, Johnny Smith and others.

Arlo Guthrie and friends coming to play at Ellen Eccles Theater

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OLK LEGEND Arlo Guthrie will perform live at the Cache Valley Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. March 27 and 28 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre as part of his Lost World Tour.

Tickets for the performance range from $22 to $36 and can be purchased at the Cache Valley Center for the Arts Ticket Office at 43 South Main, online at www.CenterForTheArts.us or by calling 752-0026.

Guthrie will play new songs along with a few classics, accompanied by his son Abe Guthrie, the Burns Sisters, Terry A La Berry and Bobby Sweet.

Over the last four decades Arlo Guthrie has toured throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, winning a broad and dedicated following.

In addition to being an accomplished musician — playing the piano, six and twelve-string guitar, harmonica and a dozen other instruments — Arlo is a natural-born storyteller

whose hilarious tales and timeless anecdotes are woven seamlessly into his performances.

His career exploded in 1967 with the release of “Alice’s Restaurant.” Other popular hits include “Coming Into Los Angeles” and his distinctive rendition of Steve Goodman’s “City of New Orleans.”

If you’ve been to an Arlo Guthrie concert in the past 20 years it’s likely you’ve seen Abe Guthrie’s great smile, heard his adept and tasteful keyboard accompaniment and his powerful supporting vocals. Abe started performing professionally with his father in the early 80s.

The three Burns sisters have been singing together all their lives. They met Arlo Guthrie in 2004 at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Woody’s hometown of Okemah, Okla.

Terry “A La Berry” Hall has been performing professionally since age 13.

He appears on 10 of Arlo’s CDs and played at Carn-

egie Hall, Lincoln Center, the White House, The Today Show and shared the stage with Bonnie Raitt, Carly Simon, Joe Cocker, John Denver, Willie Nelson and Pete Seeger, to name a few.

A Berkshire native and sixth-generation musician, Bobby Sweet began performing at age 7 in his father’s band. He has played shows with Vince Gill, George Jones, Asleep at the Wheel, Willie Nelson, The Bellamy Brothers, Waylon Jennings, and many others. He has written songs that have aired on many hit television series such as “Touched By An Angel,” “Walker Texas Ranger,” “Judging Amy,” and “Soul Food.”

Guthrie’s Lost World Tour began in October, coinciding with his first release of new songs in 12 years.

The CVCA Ticket Office is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and an hour prior to curtain.

USU alum to be visiting artist

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HE BRIDGER Folk Society will present the Fifth Annual Celtic Night at 7:30 p.m. March the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum 14 and 16 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Inishfre Irish Dance of Art. He has taught photogCompany, Leaping Lulu — with raphy at Yale and at Brown guest bassist Chris Mortensen University and currently lives — and Maureen Killila will in Providence, R.I., where he present a full evening dance, teaches at the Rhode Island music, story and song beginning School of Design.

The Visiting Artist Program at 7:30 pm. Ticket prices range from $10 to $18 and can be purpresents visits by nationally chased at the door, in advance known artists, art critics/writers and art historians. Lectures, at the Eccles Theatre, 43 South workshops, group discussions Main St., in Logan or online at www.bridgerfolk.org/celtic.html. and exhibitions by the artA portion of the proceeds ists are free and open to the from this year’s performance public. Guests are selected for their national and international will go to benefit Cache Valley’s reputations, the ways in which Four Paws Pet Rescue and the their art reflects diversity with Cache Humane Society.

Inishfre will present new respect to the media used and dances and a few of the old their varied backgrounds. favorites. The dancing will be Future guests in this year’s intertwined with liberal helpings Visiting Artist Program include potter Chris Gustin from of instrumental music, singing, story telling and sing-alongs.

Massachusetts on April 1 and

graphic designer Golan Levin from Pennsylvania on April 8.

USU art department programs are a part of the Caine School of the Arts, based in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

For more information about the Visiting Artist Program at Utah State, contact program director Marilyn Krannich at 797-7373.

Photo by Mindy Hansen

HODE ISLAND photographer Steven B. Smith will be featured in several activities at USU as part of the Department of Art’s Visiting Artist Program March 23 and 24.

Smith will present a public lecture Monday, March 23, at 7 p.m. in the Performance Hall, at approximately 1090 E. 675 North, Logan. The lecture will be free and open to all.

He will also teach a workshop for photo students from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 24.

Smith’s work has chronicled the transition of the western landscape into suburbia. He was awarded the First Book Prize for Photography by the Honickman Foundation and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for his book, “The Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of the Suburban West.”

Smith received his bachelor’s of fine art from Utah State University and his master of fine art from the Yale School of Art. He has received Guggenheim and Aaron Siskind fellowships. His work can be found in many public and private collections, including

Dance and music at Celtic Night

“TimpGate,” pigmented inkjet print, a part of “Close to Nature” project, Steven B. Smith, who will visit USU on March 23 and 24.

Members of Inishfre Dance Company will perform at Celtic Night.

Inishfre Irish Dance is a Logan company that has been performing since 2003. The company consists of nine dancers with more than 50 years total experience.

Inishfre features a program of hard-shoe and soft-shoe dances set to tradtional Celtic music with a little “New Age” feel. Lo-

gan musical group Leaping Lulu will prove accompaniment.

Leaping Lulu features inventive dynamics and energetic arrangements. In addition to performances in Cache Valley, they have played at the Sundance Film Festival and the Celtic Stew Irish music festival.

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Film New this week “Waltz With Bashir” Rated R ★★★1⁄2 Unlike anything

you’ve ever seen before, this will change your ideas about the possibility of film. It’s an animated documentary, which probably sounds like a contradiction in terms, but even describing it that way threatens to place it in the kinds of tidy, well-defined boxes that “Waltz With Bashir” consistently defies.

Maybe it’s best just to describe what director Ari Folman has done.

The former Israeli army soldier finds himself unable to recall his involvement in a massacre that occurred during the Lebanon war in 1982. A longtime friend, who’s still haunted by what he saw back then, reminds Folman of it at a bar one night, but Folman can’t even reach the slightest sliver of a memory in his mind. And so he goes back to visit his fellow former troops, both close pals and people he hasn’t talked to in ages, and tries to piece together the bloody events that took place at the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. He even talks to veteran war correspondent Ron Ben-Yishai for his insights. Folman then gathered the video footage of all those conversations and, in a hand-drawn process that took four years of painstaking work, had it illustrated by a team led by animation director Yoni Goodman and artistic director David Polonsky. The result is breathtaking: With bold strokes and delicate details, it looks like a graphic novel come vibrantly to life. One of the year’s best pictures,

“Waltz With Bashir” will stick with you long afterward, both for its startling content and striking imagery. R for some disturbing images of atrocities, strong violence, brief nudity and a scene of graphic sexual content. 87 min.

Still playing “Coraline” RatedPG ★★1⁄2 The first stop-

motion animated film to be conceived and shot in 3-D is visually dazzling but strangely joyless. Henry Selick previously directed “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “James and the Giant Peach” for producer Tim Burton, and the darkness that permeates “Coraline” calls to mind Burton’s

trademark twisted sensibility. “Coraline” is wildly imaginative, distinctly detailed and painstakingly rendered. Blessedly, the three-dimensional effects are only reach-out-and-grab-you gimmicky a few times — mostly, they provide texture and perspective.

But there’s no lightness to the adventures; they feel overstuffed and airless. What whimsy there is often feels labored and smothers the story. And the movie might actually be too scary for many children.

Selick also wrote the screenplay, based on Neil Gaiman’s bestseller about a little girl who becomes trapped in a parallel version of her world. Eleven-yearold Coraline (voiced with gusto by Dakota

Fanning) discovers a door in the living room of the dreary boarding house where she lives with her parents (Teri Hatcher and Hodgman), who are too busy working to pay attention to her. Once she crawls through a long, spooky corridor, she finds a home that looks just like hers, only it’s welcoming and vibrant.

And the woman preparing goodies for her in the kitchen — the Other Mother, she calls herself — is warm and nurturing. That is, until her psychotically possessive tendencies take over. PG for thematic elements, scary images, some language and suggestive humor. 100 min.

-Associated Press

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DON’T KNOW how Disney does it, but the “magic” in Magic Kingdom must actually be some cinematic voodoo, or maybe an illegal substance sprinkled over popcorn and/or injected into the Milk Duds, because I cannot figure out how the House of Mouse can cram a genetically engineered plot and actors into a saw-itcoming-a-mile-away predictable 90 minute movie and still have me walk away pleased.

I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised. Aside from making the world’s best animated features and having an amusement park that makes me feel like I’m 10 years-old again, Disney pumps out cookie-cutter feature films faster than you can say Joe Jonas. Think “College Road Trip,” “Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” “Bridge to Terabithia,” “The Pacifier” and “The Game Plan” and you’re sure to get my drift.

If you’ve seen the trailer or posters for “Race to Witch Mountain,” then you know the film is built around Dwayne Johnson. That ho-hum name makes it sound like your local plumber or the guy who waves to you at Wal-Mart is headlining for Disney, but in fact Dwayne Johnson is actually — get this — the actor formerly known as “The Rock.” Yep, Captain Pecs and Biceps, better known as The Guy your Wife Wishes Would Replace You. Seems Mr. Johnson is in the midst of a makeover and is hoping to be in the same league as Will Smith and Tom Hanks, a veritable Swiss Army knife of cinema.

Screening Room

By Andy Morgan

★★★ “Race to Witch Mountain” Rated PG

Disney’s “Race to Witch Mountain,” a remake of the studio’s 1975 film “Escape to Witch Mountain,” hopes to meld Johnson’s snarky wit (see last summer’s “Get Smart”) and his forte for action (see “The Scorpion King,” “Doom” and “Walking Tall”), thereby pleasing mom, dad, brother and sister. And, let’s not forget the overall goal, a new ride at Disneyland that you will pay $70 to ride once, of course only after waiting in line for two hours.

Recession! Ha! I spit in your face!

“Race to Witch Mountain” takes place in Las Vegas and Johnson plays Jack Bruno, a cab driver with a spotty past trying to turn his life around and distance himself from his

days jacking cars for a local mobster. These guys apparently don’t like it when you quit and they show up a few times in the movie requesting Bruno’s services. Either way, his cab driving isn’t paying the bills, so when two teenagers appear in the back of his cab, like they were teleported from Sweden, with a fat wad of one hundred dollar bills, Bruno is inclined to ferry them anywhere they please.

The blonde brother and sister combo is Sara (AnnaSophia Robb) and Seth (Alexander Ludwig) and not only

do they possess paranormal powers that would make them magic headliners in Vegas, but they are from Outer Space, on the lam from the Men in Black after zipping through a wormhole and crash-landing on Earth. Of course, they’ve crash-landed on purpose, to

save their planet and ours.

Apparently, and this seems to be a big problem throughout the universe, their home world has run out of atmosphere and the residents are divided into two factions — those who want to stay and solve the problem and those who want to invade Earth and use our planet as a place to crash. Yes, the inevitable plug to save the environment is crammed in that small scene and Al Gore gets a nickel for inventing global warming, but it doesn’t really knock the movie from its tracks. Nor do the jokes about absolute government authority and the Patriot Act get in the way of a good time, either. But I digress.

Jack Bruno, being the kind, soft-hearted convicted felon he is, can’t take the kid’s See MOUNTAIN on p.14

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Embedded

Treasures

Local digger says fossil market is a gamble, but one that can really pay off

Story by Dave Sweeney Photos by Meegan M. Reid

Left photo: Jesse Bowen talks about one of the many fossils in his shop in Millville on Tuesday.

Above middle photo: Jennifer Siddoway prepares a fossil at Jesse’s fossil shop in Millville on Tuesday.

By Dave Sweeney staff writer

If digging for fossils is like playing the slots, Jesse Bowen hit the jackpot last fall when he unearthed a 7-foot alligator fossil valued at half a million dollars.

In an economy gone sour, Bowen likens the fossil business to gambling.

And he’s all in.

“It’s not really work, ’cause every time you dig up a piece of stone, every time you flip it over, you never know what’s going to be there,” says the 29-year-old at his Millville-based business, Bare Bones. “It’s more like playing the slots than it is work, you know. It’s a gamble, but it’s a calculated gamble and a fun gamble,” he continues above the combined drone of Radiohead and a sand blasting machine.

A self-taught digger, Bowen worked for Green River Stone Co. for about six years before breaking off on his own. He decided to name his business “Bare Bones” because, he says, “I started with barely nothing and it turned into something” — namely, an alligator specimen which, according to him, is the largest ever found in 120 years of commercial digging.

Last fall, Bowen took out a lease on his own quarry in southwestern Wyoming, about 45 miles east of Bear Lake. Here, in “the nation’s fossil capital,” he says, some of the most exquisite fossils on the planet are concentrated in an area of roughly 80 square miles.

That was probably not the best time to go solo,

Bowen admits, but it almost instantly paid off.

He’d only been digging for six weeks when, around Oct. 15 — “right before the weather kicked us out” — he stumbled across the find of his life. Feeling bewildered, he broke into a spontaneous “quarry dance — which is what happens when you find something good,” he recalls.

Back in his Cache Valley shop, limestone and shale slabs of fish and palm fronds lie scattered atop work tables. Some are nearly finished, while others wait to be discovered. These fish, Bowen says, date from the Eocene Epoch and are 45 to 55 million years old.

He gestures toward what he calls a “mortality layer” — a relatively rare chunk of rock where some 20 small fish happened to die together.

After the majority of a fish has been uncovered, Bowen says, he uses a vibrating pen like a mini jackhammer, working to raise the rest of the bone from its stone backing.

While he talks, Troy and Jennifer Siddoway, who’ve known Bowen from his days at Green River Stone Co., work to give old bones new life. Jennifer gently applies touch-ups to one specimen in the corner while her brother operates a humming sand blasting machine, carefully working to remove eons of dirt and filament from another fish.

Even in a down economy, Bowen says, the fossil trade has lucrative potential. Between

June and October, an average day’s dig can yield $2,J500. The smallest individual specimens are worth about 10 bucks, Bowen says, while some of the best specimens are incorporated into 5-foot murals, which fetch $5,000 wholesale and up to $8,000 on the retail market.

Still, it’s a high-risk, high-reward profession and not all finds can be used.

Bowen grabs an incomplete, footlong fish from one work table and points to the faintly outlined vertebrae of a second, smaller fish extending from the first. He didn’t realize he’d found a fossil within a fossil, he says, until midway through the restoration process, and by then it was too late.

“I didn’t know it, but I screwed it up and cut it out,” Bowen says. It was a $12,000 oops.

From the quarry to the market, a fish this size requires about 30 to 40 hours to prepare. It might land in the living room of a basketball player or movie star, or be purchased by a private collector from the United Arab Emirates.

Bowen says his clientele includes “pretty much anybody and everybody,” though lately business has slowed with the ecomony.

So he’s headed out to Oregon on March 14 to try to “scare up some money” during a three-week art show.

The Bare Bones Web site is still under construction. If you need a 7-foot allligator, or just more information, Jesse Bowen can be contacted at 760-1004.

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The Cache Magazine Bulletin Board “My Heart Told Me”

by William Phillip Humphrey My heart told me that, you’re the one for me.

If you want to settle down we’ll start a family tree.

We’ll move out to the country, . where the kids can romp and roam ers, flow and s We’ll plan some tree we’ll build a little home.

My heart told me that, two can live as cheap as one.

So if you’d like to go along, we can have a lot of fun.

Then five little kids In their teenage years Friends were all important I shed lots of tears.

“Family”

by Bonnie Young

They grew and married All moved away I’m still important But not in the same way.

Five little kids My how they grew They laughed and played And I did too.

They were my whole world They relied on me.

I thought they always would Silly me!

Five little kids With children of their own Wrapped up in busy lives I’m all alone.

Five fine adults With a mother up in years, Taking care of all her needs Calming all her fears.

“Fire and Ice: Floating Like Swans” Story by Tracy Nielsen Where is the road? We squint into the blizzard, the hypnotic flakes as big as snow moths. My wife, Iris, yells a sailor’s oath as we fishtail sideways on the glare ice under the downy carpet of snow. We have turned near Mack’s Inn, Idaho, and into the 4-foot-tall white tunnel the locals call a road. There is a cabin rumored to be in the area, 6 miles away, nestled into the arctic tundra, the hot tub on the deck steaming away. UFOs float several feet off the ground ahead and then materialize into snow machines on top of the road banks. We travel 4 miles and then come to the turnoff to the ranch.

Snow has filled in the ruts and we float on a cushion of goose feathers. We pass through the ranch gates and enter a small maze of trails that show no sign of tire tread. We drive up a hill and past snug, warm-looking cabins and enter an even narrower tunnel. We find No. 5 and figure it must be open since there seems to be no office. Locked!

We curse and head back down the maze of roads and ask a man having a smoke where in blazes the office is.

“Well you don’t want to go the way you’re headed. Head back where you haven’t been until you see a shed called ‘Office.’ That ain’t it. Drive left till you see a home. That ain’t it, neither. Turn right there and go up a hill and there’s a home on top of that. That’s the one you want.” We finally get checked in and make it to our cabin. We walk in snow over our boots up the steps and inside. The

Photo courtesy Tracy and Iris Nielsen

yellow glow of the lamps reflects off the pine logs and lends a nostalgic glow that is a balm to our spirits that have been squashed from cubicles, fluorescent lights, and neutral to negative dealings with people who spend too much time indoors crammed into small cells called offices. My back and shoulder arthritis is killing me from the heavy lifting of recycling, endless light changing, and months of thankless snow and ice removal in my job in building maintenance. Iris’ head is ready to blow from the stress of her buyer job at Spacely Sprockets. A locally produced beverage and quality hot tub time would work wonders.

We clear the foot of snow from the hot tub cover, lug it off and climb in. The bubbling water steams as we gaze upward at the flakes of snow melting above our heads. The deck light illuminates the snow-covered pines of the forest around us, as avalanches of heavy snow roll off the roof. The heavy scent of pine mixes with frost crystals. We humans can find bliss and some measure of peace in the stressful lives we lead. It can be as simple as snow and hot water. We dream that night of floating

Help her with her shopping Make sure she takes her meds.

I wonder what people do Without their little kids.

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clouds and swans. A Fleetwood Mac song comes to mind: “Bare Trees.” The lines read, “I walked alone in the cold of a winter’s night, You were home all snug in your bed.”

We wake to a silver sun backlighting the snow drifting from the dawn sky. We hear the trumpet of tundra swans overhead while hot coffee perks and bacon sizzles. Breakfast in the middle of nowhere is a gourmet feast, with Folger’s coffee — “the richest kind,” as Mrs. Olsen used to say. After hot coffee and hot food, I’m ready to head out on skis. The hybrid boots and boards are a great innovation, combining the lightness of cross-country gear with the warm boots and easily turned metal-edged skis of downhill. I float down a sledder’s trail as he whizzes by on his snow machine. We wave amiably at each other. There is plenty of room for both on this gigantic plateau of the Greater Yellowstone. We are both having fun in our own way. I remember being lost on Swan Peak in Logan Canyon in a whiteout and following a sledder’s trail back to the highway shed. The trail saved me from sure frostbite. I hear honking and watch six swans float by in the snowy sky like avian angels. They vanish into the snowfall like feathered ghosts.

Trumpeter swans are found from the Bear River

by Preston, Idaho, to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and points farther north. They need open water to survive, and thrive in the water by hot springs. They are beautiful, graceful birds that once faced an uncertain future. Sighting them is like a blessing from the Creator.

The days float by, time slowed by no cell phone service, no people prattling away on cell phones, no TV, no news, worries floating away on the clouds of steam, the swirling eddies of snow, leisurely meals and good conversation. We shrug off the heavy coat of responsibility and float in the steam and snowflakes, basking in the timeless elements.

Preston High school will present “Oliver” March 20, 21, 24 and 25 at 7 p.m. in the Preston High Auditorium.

General admission is $6 and student tickets are $4. Tickets may be purchased in advance at the Preston High School office from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or each night at the door. There will be no group rates this year.

The cast consists of 45 students plus numerous behind-the-scenes crews. Live music will be provided by a pit orchestra, directed by Jill Durrant.

This production is filled with drama, music and dance.

The production is a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the orphanage and joins up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets. Oliver Twist, played

by Linda Seare, is sold to a Dunstable undertaker after asking for more dinner at the orphanage.

The production is directed by Jed Broberg, with Paul Sear as choral director, and Kimberly Hobbs as choreographer.

Unicorn Theatre putting on show with 7-foot dragon Unicorn Theatre will continue to perform “St. George and the Reluctant Dragon” Friday, March 13 and Saturday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m., with a matinee performance at 2 p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $6 for adults and $4 for kids ages 3 to 12.

Tickets are available at boxoffice. usu.edu, by calling 797-8022 or at the door before the show.

W. Vosco Call has adapted the age-old children’s favorite into a play the whole family will enjoy.

The show stars a seven-foot dragon played by accomplished local actor, Kent Hadfield. The company spins the tale of four young people who discover they must preserve two members of two endangered species: an old medieval knight and the last remaining dragon on earth.

The dragon costume has articulated jaw and ears, and both adult and children audience members fall in love with the character as he is protrayed by Hadfiled.

AVA offering ceramics classes The Alliance for the Varied Arts will present ceramics classes this spring.

Participants will learn how to hand-build a work of art or use a pottery wheel to make a masterpiece rise up from the clay.

Classes are available for adults and for children as young as 5 years old. Classes will start Monday, March 16. Visit the AVA Web site at www.avaarts.org for dates and times of classes. Call 753-2970 for more information or visit the AVA Gallery at 35 W. 100 South, Logan.

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Several options available for wine parties

S

O YOU WOULD like to have a wine party. What is the theme or purpose of the party?

The least expensive for the host is to have everyone bring a bottle of wine. This is like a smorgasbord, and the wines will be of varying quality and type. I have not found this type of wine tasting to be very appealing.

The next up is to focus on one type of wine and have everyone bring a bottle of say Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon. Again, the quality will be mixed, but this is a good way to explore different flavors of a single varietal, and the host can focus on the condiments. Also, with a single varietal you can mask the name and have people rate the quality of wine for their taste.

This concept encourages much discussion about the wines.

The most expensive for the host is to provide all of the wine. Many years ago I had collected several vintages of Ridge Lytton Springs Zinfandel, so I had a vertical tasting party.

These were all excellent Zinfandel wines, but I was surprised at the different opinions in rating the wines. These were mostly friends that liked Zinfandel wines. Several years ago I went to a wine tasting of different Zinfandels of mostly the same vintage. Again, the host purchased all of the wine. This wine tasting was very successful, with lots of discussion. It was delightful for me since I was the only male invited to the tasting.

I think the most enjoyable wine tasting is to have a multicourse dinner and serve a different wine with each course.

To do this at home you need a minimum of six guests. Having this type of dinner at a restaurant is expensive but less stressful on the host. One of my favorite suppers of this type was at the Wine Cask in Santa Barbara, Calif. This restaurant was in business for many years, but I am now informed that, like many others, it has closed the doors. There are other ways to sample and taste different

Cache Wines

By William Moore

wines, and I have tried to give a few ideas.

I continue to be disappointed in the selection of French wines in our local store. I became desperate to have Beaujolais and chose the 2007 Louis Jadot Beaujolais at $9.99. Although easy drinking, it did not have the fresh berry flavor that I look for in this wine, but it is the best in Logan. I think back to the bevy of 2005 Beaujolais wines that graced our shelves for over a year. The 2006 vintage was a total wash. A highly-rated fullflavored red wine is the 2005 Domain La Garrigue Vacqueyras at $18.21. This is a nonfiltered Rhone wine rated over 90 by the Wine Advocate. Almost an inexpensive version of a Chateauneuf-du-Pape, this wine is a 75 percent Grenache blend with a mixture of Syrah, Mourvedre and Cinsault.

For years I wrote off Spanish wines as being cheap, raw and often sweet. No longer, and the small section of Spanish wines is loaded with value. My favorites are Grenache, Grenache blends and the Mourvedre red wines. The Spanish often refer to Grenache as Garnacha, Mourvedre as Monastrell. By either label these are enjoyable wines. I like the 2007 Casa

Recommended F 2007 Louis Jadot

Beaujolais at $9.99 F 2005 Domain La Garrigue Vacqueyras at $18.21 F 2007 Casa Castillo Monastrell at $10.61 F 2005 Bodegas Castano Hecula Monastrell at $11.70 F 2007 Zabrin Atteca Garnacha at $16.99 F 2005 Capcanes Mas Donis Barrica at $13.99 F 2006 Marquis Phillips Shiraz at $15.99 F 2007 Foxglove Chardonnay at $14.99 F 2007 Alma Rosa Chardonnay at $18.99 F 2007 Leasingham Magnus Riesling at $11.99

Castillo Monastrell at $10.61.

This wine from Jumilla area has been aged in seasoned oak for six months. Another favorite is the 2005 Bodegas Castano Hecula Monastrell at $11.70

from Yecla. Both of these wines are layered with dark berry flavors and hints of chocolate. A longtime favorite is the 2005 Capcanes Mas Donis Barrica at $13.99. This flavorful red wine is 85 percent Grenache and 15 percent Syrah. This wine is also aged in oak for 9 months.

Slightly more expensive is the 2007 Zabrin Atteca Old Vines Grenache at $16.99. This is one of best pure Grenache wines available. All four wines are rated above 90 by the Wine Advocate, and I agree wholeheartedly with these ratings. These wine growing areas in Spain are south of Valencia, near the Mediterranean.

The 2006 Australian Shiraz wines are slowly being depleted. A good one still on the shelf is the 2006 Marquis Phillips Shiraz at $15.99. This dark red wine, rated 92, is barrel fermented and aged in oak for 12 months. While all of the red wines listed above come in at 14 percent alcohol, this one has a hefty 15.5 percent. I wish the winemakers would back off these high alcohol wines.

I noticed that there are quite a few California Chardonnay

wines on sale this month, and this would be a good month to pick up some bargains. Two chardonnays that have been recommended in the New York Times and rated above 90 by the Wine Advocate are the 2007 Foxglove Chardonnay at $14.99, and the 2007 Alma Rosa Chardonnay at $18.99.

The Foxglove is compared to a delightful white burgundy. Both wine have tropical fruit flavors and are light on the oak.

After tasting four of the top 100 wines from the Wine Spectator I highly recommend the dry and beautiful 2007 Leasingham Magnus Riesling at $11.99 from New Zealand. The best Riesling I have tasted in ages.

William Moore is retired from the Utah State University chemistry and biochemistry department and currently lives in Smithfield. 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.

Contact him with feedback at wmoore3136@msn.com.

* This week’s New York Times Bestseller List * HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Promises in Death” by J.D. Robb 2. “The Associate” by John Grisham 3. “White Witch, Black Curse” by Kim Harrison 4. “One Day at a Time” by Danielle Steele 5. “Run for Your Life” by James Patterson PAPERBACK (TRADE) FICTION 1. “The Shack” by William P. Young 2. “The Reader” by Bernhard Schlink 3. “Sundays at Tiffany’s” by James Patterson 4. “Firefly Lane” by Kristin Hannah 5. “Revolutionary Road” by Richard Yates PAPERBACK (MASS-MARKET) FICTION 1. “The Grand Finale” by Janet Evanovich 2. “The Whole Truth” by David Baldacci 3. “Montana Creeds: Dylan” by Linda Lael 4. “Secrets” by Jude Deveraux 5. “First Comes Marriage” by Mary Balogh

Keep your reading list updated at www.nytimes.com/pages/books/

PAPERBACK NONFICTION 1. “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin 2. “Dreams From My Father” by Barack Obama 3. “Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin 4. “The Middle Place” by Kelly Corrigan 5. “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” by Tucker Max

‘The Missing’ likely to try readers’ patience “The Missing” by Tim Gautreaux (Alfred A. Knopf, 368 pages, $24.95) Near the beginning of “The Missing,” Sam Simoneaux — freshly back from World War I and thrilled to have landed a cushy job at a New Orleans department store — observes that he’s pretty much set for life.

Exactly one paragraph later, everything goes to hell.

With that highly predictable start, Tim Gautreaux launches into an unfocused, overlong ramble through the Deep South of the 1920s. Through the story of Simoneaux’s search for a missing child, Gautreaux seems to strive for some kind of definitive statement on violence and human nature. Instead, he’s likely to try the patience of all but the most devoted fans of Southern fiction.

“The Missing” begins with a clever touch. After a gut-churn-

ing boat ride across the Atlantic, Simoneaux and the rest of his Army battalion arrive in France on Nov. 11, 1918 — Armistice Day. They think they’re lucky, until they’re assigned to spend the next months wandering the battle-scarred French wilderness, detonating unexploded bombs.

We learn that Simoneaux has a particular distaste for violence: When he was 6 months old, he survived a bloody attack by a vengeful gang of drunken halfwits who slaughtered his parents and both his siblings.

So when an explosive mishap nearly kills a young French girl, it’s a chance for Simoneaux to ruefully reflect on the random horror of it all: “Sam stared at the moonstruck wreckage around him that extended from the North Sea to the Mediterranean and beyond, understanding that Amelie’s lot was but one particle of the overall catastrophe.”

Actually, that sounds more like Gautreaux than Simoneaux.

“The Missing” is one of those books where the omniscient narrator keeps crediting characters with insightful observations that sound a lot more like, well, an omniscient narrator.

Gautreaux relies often on this

kind of exposition to drive his plot forward. Upon returning from the war, Simoneaux gets a job as a department store floorwalker (basically a plainclothes security guard), and thinks he has it made — until a little girl is kidnapped from right under his nose.

The girl’s parents blame Simoneaux, and the department store owner informs him he can return to his job only if he finds the girl. The parents are Mississippi riverboat musicians who had been featuring their daughter, a gifted singer, in their act, and they suspect her kidnapper first spotted the girl at one of the boat’s stops along the river.

This launches Simoneaux on a somewhat improbable quest, as the girl’s parents persuade him to get a job on the riverboat and travel up and down the river with them in search of their daughter.

“The Missing” is at its best

New biography tells of FDR’s labor secretary, a woman with ‘unerring instinct for social justice’ “The Woman Behind the New Deal” by Kirstin Downey (Doubleday, 398 pages, $35).

Reading the biography of FDR’s labor secretary, Frances Perkins, brings to mind the old saying about how Ginger Rogers had to do everything Fred Astaire did, except backward and in high heels.

Perkins, the first female cabinet member, not only had to do more than her male counterparts to prove herself, she had to do it while dealing with rough-and-tumble labor leaders, a husband in and out of mental institutions, condescending bureaucrats and some Congress members hellbent on impeaching her.

Perkins would have notched a place in history simply by taking the job. But she earned

it through a jaw-dropping number of accomplishments: She took a major role in shepherding through Social Security, unemployment insurance, child labor laws and the minimum wage.

Perkins came from a welloff New England family, but immersed herself in the progressive movement of the early 20th century. Her social consciousness was galvanized when she witnessed young working women leaping to their deaths in the horrific 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Co. factory fire in New York City.

As a public servant, Perkins was the rare creature with the heart of a reformer and the cunning of a political operator.

She cultivated powerful people who could help her, such as her early mentor, New York

Gov. Al Smith. But her career took off when she hitched her wagon to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Downey portrays a woman with an unerring instinct for social justice, particularly when it involves helping workers who

were suffering under the heel of management. The author makes a convincing case that Perkins belongs in the top tier of New Dealers.

One problem with the book is that Perkins lacked the sort of larger-than-life personality that can propel a narrative through dry patches, such as legislative battles over Social Security. And for all her heart, Perkins comes off as aloof. She was either unwilling or unable to charm the public and kept the press at arm’s length.

Still, the story of a cabinet member who really did care and really did make a difference is relevant now. Reading her story seven decades after her heyday, it seems a shame that Frances Perkins isn’t in Washington today.

-Associated Press review

when Simoneaux wanders off the boat and in search of clues to little Ellie’s disappearance.

Gautreaux vividly portrays a nasty, backward clan led by a menacing matriarch who knows more than she’ll tell about the kidnapping.

But most of the characters are sketchily drawn, and feel like little more than devices to keep the plot moving.

Gautreaux stages some effective misdirection as he builds toward resolution of what seems to be the novel’s central mystery, but then you realize you’re just a little over halfway through the book. The pace seriously drags after that, and by the time Simoneaux confronts yet another backwoods clan — this one even more Faulknerian than the first — you’re more than ready for it to end.

-Associated Press review

Second novel scores author big paycheck NEW YORK (AP) — In a time of cost-cutting in the publishing industry, wallets opened wide for a long-awaited second novel.

Audrey Niffenegger’s “Her Fearful Symmetry,” her first book since the million-selling 2003 novel, “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” has been acquired by Scribner and will be published in September, spokesman Brian Belfiglio said Tuesday.

The advance was at least $4 million, according to two publishing officials with knowledge of the negotiations. They declined to be named, saying they were not authorized to discuss financial details.

Virtually all of the major publishers had bid for the novel, the story of twin American girls who live near a cemetery in London.

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Crossword

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“NICE ENDINGS” by Myles Mellor & Sally York Across 1 April animal?

4 Software maker 9 Charges 13 Defunct ruler 17 Mesozoic, for one 18 Small constellation 19 Promises 21 Almond 22 HAPPY 26 Vaporizes 27 Fun, slangily 28 Contend 29 Anabranch 30 Salami server 31 Endurance 32 Raised walkway 35 Mother or human 38 About 42 LOVE 49 Jewish month 50 Shoe material 51 Actor Pitt 52 Brandish 53 Small drum 55 Extract 56 Mandela’s org.

57 Bridal pathways?

58 Indian flatbread 60 Carry on 62 Tall tale 64 In great demand 65 Scrutinize 66 Drawing 69 Hangup 70 Cooking meas.

73 Board member, for short 75 Hide-hair connector 76 “West Side Story” song 78 Pour, as wine 82 Detergent brand

MOUNTAIN Continued from p.7 huge wad o’ cash and instead vows to make certain they get off this rock — no pun intended — safe and sound. Along the way, they are constantly hounded by the boss of the Men in Black, Henry Burke (Ciarán Hinds), as well as an extra-terrestrial assassin called a “siphon,” which is Disnesian for ripoff. Frankly, I have no way to describe this except to say that somehow,

85 Tide type 87 Fix, in a way 88 Dig, so to speak 89 ___ gin fizz 90 Pizzazz 92 Drop 93 JOY 97 High-hatter 98 Clumsy 99 Frost 100 Aardvark entrees 101 Enjoying 104 “Be-Bop-___” 109 South African rock band 113 “M*A*S*H” setting 115 Put forth 117 PEACE 120 Boils one’s blood 121 Bear 122 Cylindrical 123 Delectable mushroom 124 Neck part 125 Meets 126 Advances 127 “___is never finished, only abandoned,” da Vinci 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Down Cure facility Tourist island Hairy-chested Teen bane Udders His “4” was retired Literary theorist In-box contents Kind of rock “Duck soup!”

Old English letter Cleaned up, in a way

13 “Bill & ___ Excellent Adventure” 14 Ella’s forte 15 Organic radical 16 Pretext 18 Tummy toners 20 Sudden uprises 23 Certain religious adherent 24 Sweet spread 25 ___ gestae 30 More sarcastic 31 Craziness 33 “___ alive!”

34 Learned 36 Goya’s “Duchess of ___” 37 Pint-size gull 38 Eastern ties 39 Casting need 40 Ad headline 41 15, 23, and 31, e.g.

42 Cookie quantity 43 Its license plates say “Famous potatoes” 44 African capital 45 Discontinue 46 Accommodate 47 Afresh 48 Narrow sleeper 54 Greedy consumer 57 Jack-in-the-pulpit, e.g.

59 Word with book or message 61 Feminine side 63 Fox relative 67 Fair-sized musical group 68 ___-Roman 70 Rome’s river 71 Boat propeller 72 Beeped

someway the creature from “Predator” and The Green Goblin lost an interstellar game of strip poker and had to give up their outfits to some fishfaced amateur space gangster. Add to fleeing from bad guys a trip to a UFO Convention, where the threesome adds a smokin’ hot astrophysicist to their cadre (Carla Gugino) and borrows an RV from a conspiracy theorist (Garry Marshall), and it’s easy to see the breakneck speed the movie maintains from

74 slamic pols: var.

77 Start from scratch 78 Small amounts, as of cream 79 First place?

80 Small salmon 81 Kuwaiti, e.g.

83 Hubs of activity 84 Albanian currency 86 Even if, briefly 89 Sovereign yes-men 91 Oolong, for one

start to finish.

Andy Fickman, who directed Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in “The Game Plan” (and who also directed “She’s The Man,” one of my guilty pleasure movies) helms “Race to Witch Mountain” and does a good job of keeping the audience’s attention through the entire picture.

I know I poke fun at it’s plot and inherent goofiness, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like it. Sure it’s not an Oscar contender and it’s oftentimes acutely

94 Sound wave gizmos 95 Dodge 96 Marine fish 100 “___ before beauty” 102 Settles in 103 Be silent, in music 105 Back talk 106 Ancient city NW of Carthage 107 Colony member 108 Crack 109 Like, with “to”

predictable, but it’s worth seeing, especially with the family.

Andy Morgan is a lifelong Cache Valley resident and a member of the Utah Film Critics Association.

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. Send comments or questions to andrewamorgan@gmail.com.

110 “Buona ___” (Italian greeting) 111 Leak 112 Vaulted recess 113 German philosopher 114 Alero, e.g.

115 Get ready, for short 116 Elects 118 Clavell’s “___-Pan” 119 Bauxite, e.g.

Answers from last week

Friday

Saturday

Robert Linton will play live music at 7 p.m. and Scott Olsen will perform at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 13, at Pier 49 Pizza, 115 E. 1200 South, Logan. Pier 49 Pizza has live music featuring local talent every Friday and Saturday evening. For more information, call 713-4949 or e-mail irv@pier49.com.

Preschool puppet storytime will take place from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 13, at the Brigham City Fine Arts Center. This event is geared toward 3- to 5-year-olds, accompanied by an adult, with siblings welcome. A small craft project is included. A $1 donation per child is suggested.

Brandon Saunders will play live music at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at Pier 49 Pizza, 115 E. 1200 South, Logan. Pier 49 Pizza has Brandon Saunders will play live music at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at Pier 49 Pizza, 115 E. 1200 South, Logan. Pier 49 Pizza has live music featuring local talent every Friday and Saturday evening. For more information, call 713-4949 or e-mail irv@pier49.com.

Former Ms. America Susan Jeske will host two seminars, from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Hampton Inn, 1665 N. Main, Logan. She will give information on toxic compounds often hidden in personal care products and give advice on safety. Attendees will receive a voucher for a free hotel stay.

Admission is free. For more information, contact Leica Merriam at 760-2742.

Sassafras will perform with Jason Kempton, Jeni Sage Sidwell and Genevieve Edwards (Americana/folk/acoustic) at 7 p.m. at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave., Logan. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www. myspace.com/whysound or e-mail info@whysound.com.

Dr. Clay Christiansen, tabernacle choir organist, will be the featured soloist at the debut recital of the newly rebuilt Logan LDS Tabernacle Organ at 7 p.m. Friday, March 13, as part of the Tabernacle Concert and Lecture Series. organists Christine Clark, Jonathan Rose, Brandon Clayton and Tyler Anderson will also be performing. Admission is free and everyone is invited. A reception will follow at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 85 E. 100 North.

Unicorn Theatre will present “St. George and the Reluctant Dragon” at 7:30 p.m. March 13 and 14, with a matinee at 2 p.m. Saturday, at the Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 W. Center, Logan. Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for children ages 3-12, and are available at boxoffice.usu.edu, by calling 797-8022 or at the door the night of the show.

Cache Valley Peace Works will show the film “A Soldier’s Peace,” by Cache Valley residents Marshall and Kristin Thompson and others at 7 p.m. at the Cache Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 596 E. 900 North.

Todd Milovich will play live music from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 13, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave., Logan. For more information, e-mail hollydialala@hotmail.com or call 7524777.

Pickleville Playhouse and the Copper Mill Restaurant will present a special showing of the musical “Forever Plaid” at the Copper Mill Ballroom in downtown Logan. Show-only tickets are $14.95, and dinner-and-show tickets are $31.75 for adults and $23 for children 11 and younger. Call 435-750-5151 for reservations or visit www.picklevilleplayhouse.com.

OPTIONS for Independence will host this week’s Community Integration Program activity on Friday, March 13, at Angie’s Restaurant.

CIP aims to involve people with disabilities of all ages in recreation and leisure acitivities that are available to the general public and to promote the accessibility of community recreation and leisure options. Transportation provided; 48-hour advance reservations are required by contacting Mandie at 753-5353.

Open Mike Night will take place from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the Brigham City Fine Arts Center, 58 S. 100 West. The Hyrum Senior Center will serve lunch at noon and have a game day at 12:30 p.m. Vocalists, pianists, poets, comedians and ensembles are invited.

There is no admission fee for performers, with a recommended $2 donation for non-performers. For more information, call 435-723-0740 or e-mail bcfineartscenter@aol.com.

Griswold will perform with Ovidius and Continentals (indie rock) at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave., Logan. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whysound or e-mail info@whysound.com.

The Logan High Wind Band will play in concert at 2 p.m. in the Logan High auditorium. Dr. James Michael Bankhead will be guest conductor and Dan Stowell will be guest soloist.

The Shamrock Shuffle will take place Saturday, March 14, at the Smithfield Recreation Center. The events includes a 5K and 1-mile run. Both races begin at 10 a.m. Preregister at the Smithfield Recreation Center or register starting at 9 a.m. the day of the race. Cost is $5 for adults and $4 for students and Sun ‘n’ Snow Running Club members. Wear something green on race day to receive $1 off. For more information, contact Barbara at 563-5009.

Tundra Swan Day will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. Activities include a digital photography workshop, a live pelican appearance, storytime, Birding 101 with Bill Fenimore and more. Costs vary; for more information, call 435-734-6436 or visit http://bearriver.fws.gov.

Green Leaf Gifts and Greenhouse will host two workshops, “Create Your Own Living Wreath” and “Build a Succulent Terrarium,” March 14, 18 and 28. Cost is $15 or $20 and includes all supplies. Rent space is also available in the greenhouse for personal use. For more information, call 770-6337.

Pickleville Playhouse and the Copper Mill Restaurant will present a special showing of the musical “Forever Plaid” at the Copper Mill Ballroom in downtown Logan. Show-only tick-

ets are $14.95, and dinner-and-show tickets are $31.75 for adults and $23 for children 11 and younger. Call (435)750-5151 for reservations or visit www.picklevilleplayhouse.com.

The Cache Public Shooting Range and the Cache Valley Vaqueros will host a Cowboy Action Shoot (CAS) match starting at 9:00 a.m.

The cost will be $7 per shooter. The range is located at 2851 West 200 North. Eye and ear protection required. Spectators welcome. For more information contact: Bruce Tarbet at 5639371 or Rod Felshaw at (435)723-1651.

The Cache Gluten Intolerance Group will show some gluten-free main dishes perfect for the family at a free cooking and community class from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. call 753-3301 to make reservations.

Wednesday

Sunday

Grant Underwood, a BYU professor and lead editor of the first two volumes in the Joseph Smith Papers Project, will present “New Discoveries: Joseph Smith’s Revelation Texts — Versions, Variations and Revisions” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, in Old Main Room 121. The lecture is free and open to all.

The Interfaith Service for this Sunday, March 15, will be on Druids, the secret societies and the ancient mystery schools, including a discussion on their temple rites and ceremonies. Service starts at 4 p.m. at the Faith and Fellowship Center, 1315 E. 700 North, Logan.

Montana Skies will perform with Heber Skies and (TBA) (classical/jam band/jazz) at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave., Logan. Cover charge is $6. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/ whysound or e-mail info@whysound.com.

Monday The Package will perform with Silence InSight, Tanner Lex Jones and Zach Argyle (indie rock) at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave., Logan. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whysound or e-mail info@whysound.com.

Tyler Vance will host his MFA Thesis Exhibition the week of March 16-20 in USU’s Twain Tippetts Exhibition Hall in the Chase Fine Arts Center. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission is free. A closing reception will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 20. For more information, visit www.tylersthesis.blogspot.com or e-mail tyler@tylervancestudios.com.

The Bear River Heritage Area will host a public meeting on at 10 a.m. at the Bear River Association of Governments, 170 North Main, Logan. Interested community members, heritage based business representatives and heritage sites and project leaders are encouraged to attend. The meeting will include discussion of ongoing heritage area initiatives. Following the meeting, there will be a luncheon honoring Cindy Bilskie, who is retiring in April. Contact Lisa at 713-1426 or lisad@brag.utah.gov with questions, and to RSVP for the luncheon.

The Hyrum Senior Center will hold Fit Over 60 at 10 p.m. and serve lunch at noon.

Tuesday Alena C. Johnson will host a free workshop, “Money Management in Troubled Economic Times,” from noon to 1 p.m.

Tuesday, March 17, in USU’s Eccles Conference Center Room 205/207. Everyone is invited; RSVP at www.valueaddedworkplace.usu.edu.

USU Extension in Cache County offers free gardening and landscaping classes from 6 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday in March in the new Cache County Administration Building Multipurpose Room, at 179 N. Main, Ste. 109, Logan. Topics covered will include vegetable gardening, home fruit production and general landscaping. For more information, call 7526263.

A Mental Health Provider Conference on traumatic brain injury will take place Wednesday, March 18, at the USU Innovations Campus in Logan. CEUs will be available for social workers, professional counselors, MFTs, CRC-S, UPAs and Crisis Team training hours for law enforcement officers. For more information, visit biau.org or e-mail julie@ cpd2.usu.edu.

The Cache Valley Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol meets from 6:30 to 9 p.m. every Wednesday at the Military Science building on the campus of USU. CAP is the auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force and runs a JROTC program for students ages 12 to 19. For more information, visit www.CacheValleySquadron.org, call 770-4862 or e-mail info@cachevalleysquadron.org.

Lisa Clawson of Great Harvest will share recipes, ideas and stories at a free cooking and community class from 7 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, March 18, in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Call 753-3301.

Clio Club will meet at 1 p.m. at the home of Christie Needham, 250 W. Center St. Donna Nielson is in charge of the program.

Thursday Music Theatre West will present “Broadway Showcase 2009” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at USU’s Morgan Theatre. Tickets are $12; call 797-8022 or visit boxoffice.usu.edu. For more information about MTW, visit www.musictheatrewest.org.

The Hyrum Literary Camp will be held at 6 p.m. at the Hyrum Civic Center. Ninelee Darley will tell about her experiences in China and anyone is welcome to attend.

A Stoel Rives Intellectual Property Seminar, “Strategies for Protecting and Sharing Your IP: Patents, Trademarks and Licensing,” will take place from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in the Space Dynamics Lab Auditorium Calibration Optical Research Lab, 489 E. 1650 North, Logan. Business owners, technology company representatives and managers, and other company leaders are encouraged to attend. To register, visit www.stoel.com/ipseminarLOGAN.

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