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A Tale of Two Totters Local documentary follows Cache Valley teens’ quest to set the world record for teeter-tottering and their struggles on the cusp of adulthood

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March 26 - April 1, 2010

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What’s inside this week ‘Dragon’ a light-hearted marvel from DreamWorks

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On the cover:

A poster for the feature-length documentary, “A Tale of Two Totters,” set to premiere at 7 p.m. April 1 at the Caine Lyric Theatre. When four young men decided to set a world record by spending 100 hours on a teeter totter, local teacher Andy Lorimer was there to capture it on film.

Read more about the film, the boys’ record attempt and their struggles on the cusp of adulthood on Page 8.

From the editor

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WAS BROWSING THE Internet the other day when I came across a Web site listing all the official month-long, week-long and daily holidays occurring in March.

You would be surprised at the number of things people celebrate every day around this country. For example, March is Adopt a Rescued Guinea Pig Month, Deep Vein Thrombosis Month, International Ideas Month, National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month, National Kidney Month, Play the Recorder Month, and National Caffeine Awareness Month, to name just a very few.

The week just past was World Folk Tales & Fable Week, and this upcoming week (March 28 through April 3) is National Cleaning Week. I can honestly

Slow Wave

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say I’m sad I missed Panic Day (March 9), Potato Chip Day (March 14) and World Tuberculosis Day (March 24), but today I will be sure to celebrate Make Up Your Own Holiday Day (March 26). I might mark Weed Appreciation Day on March 28 by spending some time in the garden not pulling weeds, and I’ll be sure to pay my respects to Texas for Texas Loves the Children Day on March 29.

When I started to think about what holiday I might make up for Make Up Your Own Holiday Day, I realized there is probably next to nothing out there that hasn’t been declared a “holiday.”

I mean, we’ve already got a National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day (Jan. 3), Barbie-in-a-Blender Day (July 27) and Weary Willie Day (Dec. 9) — what could possibly be left?

Have a great weekend, everyone!

— Jamie Baer Nielson Cache Magazine editor

One woman’s quest for the elusive Chew

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Parker Quartet concludes CMSL season

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audio interviews and by blogAILED BY THE ging and interactive Web techNew York Times as nology throughout the U.S. “something extraordiThe Parker Quartet’s memnary” and by the Boston Globe bers all hold graduate degrees for their “fiercely committed performances,” the Parker Quar- in performance and chamber tet will perform for a Cache Val- music from the New England Conservatory of Music. They ley audience as the last concert come from Los Angeles, Housof the Chamber Music Society ton, Wisconsin and Seoul, of Logan’s 2009-10 concert Korea. They series. have been proThe filed in Time quartet will Out New York arrive in and The BosLogan on ton Globe. the cusp of ★ Who: The Parker Quartet The quarits appoint★ When: 7:30 p.m. March 30 tet has been ment to the ★ Where: Manon Caine Russell- awarded first-ever Kathryn Caine Wanlass several major Artists-InPerformance Hall at USU music awards Residence ★ Tickets: $24 single, in the last five Program $10 student with ID; years. In 2005 with Minavailable at the concert door they won the nesota Pubor at csaboxoffice.usu.edu Concert Artists lic Radio ★ More information: Visit www.

Guild Compe(MPR) and cmslogan.org or call 752-5867 tition and the American Grand Prix and Public Mozart Prize at the Bordeaux Media (APM). This residency International String Quartet includes performance and Competition. Most recently, interview broadcasts on Performance Today and Classical FM. they won the 2009-11 Cleveland Quartet Award.

They will be responsible for The quartet spends a great live regional concerts and edudeal of time working with cational outreach programs in young musicians through eduMinnesota and its surrounding states. The quartet’s experiences cational residency activities.

This year the Parker Quartet will be shared by video and

“Something extraordinary”

will spend three days working in residency programs with Utah State University, Logan High School and Mount Logan Middle School music students, with monetary support from the Chamber Music Society of Logan, Logan city and the Utah Arts on Stage Program.

For their March 30 performance, the Parker Quartet will feature music from Schumann, Dvorak and Schoenberg, beginning with Schumann’s “Quartet in F Major Opus 41, #2.” It was

written in 1849 and is one of only three quartets he wrote. The piece features a striking slow first movement followed by a set of variations with more than one theme. Schumann was a driving force in the young romantic movement in Germany.

The second performance will feature Dvorak’s “Selections from Cypress B 152.” Dvorak wrote a set of 18 songs based on poems of Moravian writer Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky and called them the Cypresses. In later

life he rewrote 12 of the songs for string quartet. The music is known for being gently romantic, rarely sentimental and full of Dvorak’s gift for fluid melody.

The last selection will be Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg’s “String Quartet in D minor Opus 7,” written in 1905. It was his first quartet and is considered the masterpiece that sealed his reputation as a composer. It is remarkable for its density and intensity of orchestration with only four instruments.

Exhibition highlights USU’s published authors TAH STATE U University’s Merrill-Cazier Library will host an exhibi-

tion highlighting recently published books by USU authors.

The exhibit, presented in conjunction with USU’s annual Research Week, features books and authors honored in the 2010 edition of “Research Matters,” an annual publication highlighting research output at USU. The exhibit opens March 28 and continues through June 26 in the library’s atrium. A reception honoring the authors will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 1, at the library.

Three faculty authors (Mary Barkworth, Christopher Cokinos and Victoria Grieve) will speak briefly about their publications at 5:30 p.m. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

“With this exhibition, the library seeks to celebrate our faculty’s contributions to human knowledge as well as the library’s role in preserving, maintaining and making available the scholarly record,” said Jennifer Duncan, head of collection development at Merrill-Cazier Library and the exhibition’s coordinator.

The exhibit includes 21

books by authors who represent 13 academic departments at USU. The books and subjects demonstrate the depth and breadth of research under way at the university, Duncan said.

The books cover such diverse topics as genome mapping, 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the anthropology of childhood, cyber-physical systems, weapons of mass destruction and strategic culture and climate warming.

Barkworth, associate professor of biology and director of the Intermountain Herbarium, will discuss her book “Grasses

of the Intermountain Region,” a heavily illustrated manual reflecting the current taxonomic thought on a variety of grasses.

Cokinos is an associate professor of English and editor and founder of the journal “Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing.” He will discuss “The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars.”

Grieve, assistant professor of history and author of “The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture,” will describe her work illuminating the role of visual arts during the New Deal.

An example from Victoria Grieve’s book. Woodcut poster published as part of the Federal Art Project between 1936 and 1938 and now housed at the Library of Congress.

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All mixed up

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All mixed up

On stage: Hollywood comedian TJ Miller

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OMEDY Central’s TJ Miller will perform at 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday, March 27, at USU’s Morgan Theatre. Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door and are now available at the USU box office or online at www.csa.usu.edu. Students and faculty can purchase now and get two for $15.

For $12 you will also get a ticket to Miller’s new movie, “She’s Out of My League.”

For more information, call 797-8022 or 787-2508.

Miller co-stars as Stainer in “She’s Out of My League.” He was named one of Variety’s Top 10 Comics to Watch and one of Entertainment Weekly’s Next Big Things in Comedy.

In 2010, Miller will appear in “Gulliver’s Travels,” “Get Him to the Greek” and “Unstoppable,” and will voice a character in “How to Train Your Dragon.” Currently he is in New Zealand

Jay Baruchel and TJ Miller in “She’s Out of My League.”

filming “Yogi Bear,” in which he’ll play Ranger Jones. He has also starred in ABC’s “Carpoolers.”

Miller performs improvisation, sketch and stand-up comedy and was a member of Green Company of the Second City National Touring Companies for almost two years. He performed improvisation with the house

team Bullet Lounge at IO, stand-up at numerous comedy venues in Chicago, as well as sketch comedy with the group Heavy Weight. He even eats most of his meals standing up.

Originally from Colorado, Miller performed comedy for about four years before moving to Chicago. He has appeared on PBS’s “The

Standard Deviants” and in various DVDs and school educational programs. He has done an online microsite for KFC plus a national Quaker Oatmeal commercial and national print campaign.

Miller has also done voiceover for Old Style, Second City Las Vegas and The Chicago Historical Society.

He studied classical acting at B.A.D.A in Oxford, England, and circus arts at Frichess Theatre Urbain.

After moving to Chicago, Miller performed at comedy venues all over that city and in New York, improvised with the group Chuckle Sandwich and Sturgis (IO), and performed sketch with Heavy Weight at The Chicago Sketchfest and Second City Unhinged.

In 2007, Miller moved to Los Angeles, where he continues to reside, and by his own admission, struggles to find meaning in an uncertain world.

Renowned jazz guitarist coming to USU TAH STATE U University will host a concert by internationally acclaimed

Choreographer to discuss work, present dance performance dancer and Plos rofessional choreographer Juan-CarClaudio will perform and

discuss his creative work and sources of inspiration in a performance and lecture at 7 p.m. Friday, March 26, at the Performance Hall at USU.

The performance and lecture are free and open to the public. Claudio and two others will present a dance performance followed by a 15minute question-and-answer session. For more information, call 797-7373.

jazz guitarist Martin Taylor at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 27, at USU’s Performance Hall.

Tickets are $20 for the public or $5 for students and available at the Caine School of the Arts box office in the Chase Fine Arts Center, by calling 797-8022 or online at http://boxoffice.usu.edu.

Prior to the concert, Taylor will be featured in a workshop presentation for interested guitarists, also presented Saturday, March 27.

USU guitar students are admitted free, with $5 admission for all others. For time and location, contact Mike Christiansen at 797-3011.

In 1999 Taylor was given an honorary doctorate from the University of Paisley, Scotland, and in 2002 he was appointed MBE

for “Services to Jazz Music” in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, which he received personally from Queen Elizabeth II at an investiture at Buckingham Palace.

Taylor is self-taught and his career spans four decades. During that time he invented and developed a way of playing the guitar that is admired — and often imitated — by guitarists around the world.

His solo shows combine virtuosity, emotion, humor and strong stage presence. He spends much of the year traveling the world playing in concert halls in Europe, North America, Japan, Asia and Australia.

In addition to earning the Order of the British Empire, Taylor received the prestigious BBC Radio 2 “Heart of Jazz” Award in 2007 in recognition of his career in music, was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award from the North Wales Jazz Guitar Festival for his “Contribution to Jazz Guitar Worldwide” and was voted Best Guitarist in the British Jazz Awards for a record 11th time.

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HE YOUNG ARTIST CUP Committee, in association with the Performing Arts Department at Mountain Crest High School, will present its 11th annual Young Artist Cup Competition at 7 p.m. April 1 and 2 in the Mountain Crest auditorium.

Instrumental and vocal performances will be Thursday and piano and string performances will be Friday. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

Students compete for cash prizes and trophies in six areas: graphic arts design, female vocalists, male vocalists, strings, brass/winds/percussion and piano.

This annual event showcases the

musical talents of Mountain Crest students. Contestants will vie for cash and trophy prizes awarded to first-, secondand third-place winners in each category. As in years past, the logo for this year’s Young Artist Cup was selected from submissions

by Mountain Crest students in a competition that was held earlier this year.

The design of 11th-grader Mary Osborne was chosen to represent the 2010 Young Artist Cup. Osborne will receive a trophy and cash prize for her work.

Past participants have gone on to

excel in music and the performing arts. Sharee Hatch Thompson, firstplace piano winner in 2000, earned her master’s degree in organ performance from the University of Kansas and is a guest organist on Temple Square. Jessica Roderer, first-place piano winner in 2004, won her division in the Inter-

national Liszt Competition held in Los Angeles. Rhiannon Hansen, secondplace vocal winner in 2006, is touring with the Broadway national tour of “Legally Blonde: The Musical.” Other past contestants have gone on to tour with national and international performing groups.

Meet the mysterious Leon Redbone HE CACHE T Valley Center for the Arts will present pop culture icon Leon Redbone at 7:30 p.m. April 20 and 21 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Tickets are $16, $18, $20 and $22 and can be purchased at www.EllenEcclesTheatre. org or at the CVCA Ticket Office, 43 S. Main, Logan.

Redbone is one of the world’s most mysterious and fascinating performers. He is known for his distinctive white fedora,

dark glasses, mustache and scruffy baritone voice. This Neo-Vaudevillian crooner captivates audiences with a combination of pre-World War II ragtime, urban folk, jazz, blues and Tin Pan Alley classics. Accompanied

by Paul Azaro on piano, this performance blends lyrical satire, cynicism, comedy and skilled instrumentals.

Though his iconic guise has been thoroughly satirized in mainstream media, it’s easy to overlook what a gen-

uinely gifted artist he remains — a role he inevitably tries to downplay. “In some ways I’ve always been complacent in my approach to music,” Redbone says. “So in some ways maybe I’m the pure definition of consistent.”

The careers of performers who reside in the limelight are usually short-lived and overexposed. So it’s refreshing to encounter Leon Redbone, who has for decades remained so musically resonant and personally elusive.

We don’t know his birthday, but for the last three decades and counting, nobody could mistake him for any other performer. His voice, personality and style are completely unique.

“I’m just an entertainer, and I use music as a medium for entertaining,” he says in his trademark rumbling voice. “But I’m not really an entertainer, either, because to be an entertainer it implies you have a great desire to want to entertain.”

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Race is on for this year’s Young Artist Cup

Photo by Nancy Depra

Farm animals, bears and critters, oh my!

O Utah’s most beloved and popular events, Baby

NE OF NORTHERN

Animal Days, will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 8, 9 and 10 at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville.

Members of the Heritage Center will also have early access to the Jensen Historical Farm at 9:30 a.m.

“Farm Animals Only Jennifer Christensen and Kieran Safe enjoy feeding a calf.

Days,” will be provided for animal interaction without the large festival events (and for a reduced cost) from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 6, 7, 17, 24.

The festival highlights the coming of spring and the baby animals of all kinds that come with it.

This year baby bears will make their appearance April 8, 9 and 10

only courtesy the USU Charter Credit Union. The bears are coming from Yellowstone Bear World near Rexburg, Idaho, and their presence adds an additional wild flair to the event as they romp and play under the Pavilion.

To avoid ticket lines at the event, you can purchase tickets at Macey’s in Providence or online at

www.awhc.org.

Baby Animal Days serves as a major fundraiser for the Heritage Center, a non-profit organization devoted to preserving and celebrating the heritage of the region.

Funds derived from the event go to supporting school programs, exhibits and other vital educational activities.

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Film New this week “Hot Tub Time Machine” Rated R ★★ John Cusack heads back to the 1980s with this time-travel adventure that’s occasionally amusing but mostly is as lazy, self-involved and garish as that chintzy decade itself. Casting Cusack, one of the most enduring stars to rise out of the ‘80s, adds some promise. If this guy signed on (he’s also a producer on the movie), it cannot be as dumb as it sounds, right? It pretty much is as dumb as it sounds, though, landing closer to the moronic monotony of “Dude, Where’s My Car?” than the inspired idiocy of “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.” Cusack and co-star Craig Robinson are fine as half of a foursome whose drunken night in a magic hot tub hurls them back to 1986, where they have a chance to fix their loser lives. But much of director Steve Pink’s comedy hinges on character actors Rob Corddry and Clark Duke, who overdo everything with a shrillness that makes the movie’s crass jokes and gags all the more obnoxious — and a lot less funny than they might have been. R for

strong crude and sexual content, nudity, drug use and pervasive language.

99 min.

Still playing “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” Rated PG ★★1⁄2 The film adaptation of Jeff Kinney’s wildly successful cartoon novel series manages to put flesh and bone on the books’ stick figures without altering the series’ mildly subversive comic tone. That fidelity plays mostly for the good, though the books’ moronplagued, middle-school protagonist — sixth-grader Greg (Zachary Gordon), who, let’s be honest, comes off as kind of self-absorbed, lazy and petty — loses some of his appeal when viewed under the harsh light of the camera. What’s funny on the page is less sympathetic on the screen, meaning the wimpy kid who’s going to win the hearts and minds of most moviegoers is not the title character, but his best buddy, supernerd Rowley (Robert Capron).

While Greg tries various “rackets” to win popularity, Rowley remains true to his own passions. He’s the hero, while Greg is kind of a wet blanket. PG

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“Repo Men” Rated R ★ In this movie’s happy future, if you need a pancreas, you can get a pancreas. It’ll cost you $618,000 and, if you miss one of your “easy” payments, you’ll find yourself hounded by a hired goon who will slice you open, retrieve the organ and leave you bleeding to death. But at least you enjoyed a little extra time with your loved ones, right? With any luck, that time wouldn’t be spent watching empty-headed thrillers like “Repo Men,” a trashy movie that offers its slick dystopian vision as a pretense to lacerate a few dozen bodies in a fashion that makes “Nip/Tuck” look like “Marcus Welby, M.D.” The movie’s plot

thickens after an on-thejob accident forces Jude Law’s repo man to have a literal change of heart about his career. The hunter becomes the hunted, and the movie trades its meager social satire for buckets of blood, but not improving a lick in the process. R for strong bloody violence, grisly images, language and some sexuality/nudity. 111 min.

“Bounty Hunter” Rated PG-13 ★1⁄2 In this rarely humorous, action-laden romantic-comedy by director Andy Tennant (“Hitch”), Gerard Butler, the buff, smirking Scottish star of “300” and “The Ugly Truth,” plays Milo Boyd, a former cop turned bounty hunter who gets the job of his life: the opportunity to drag his ex-wife (Jennifer Aniston) to jail. Aniston,

somewhat incredibly, is a hard-nosed crime reporter for the New York Daily News. While tenaciously pursuing a lead on a suspicious murder, Hurley misses a court appearance for a car accident, and the judge issues a warrant for her arrest.

But neither actor is playing a character as much as they’re playing movie stars. You’re always fully aware that you’re watching Jennifer Aniston and

Gerard Butler‚ and perhaps that’s the idea. For better and worse, “The Bounty Hunter” is merely an opportunity to sit in the dark with these two likable, attractive stars, rather than piece together distorted glimpses of them in the tabloids. PG-13 for sexual content including suggestive comments, language and some violence. 110 min.

— All reviews by The Associated Press

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YOUNG VIKING boy named Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel, “Knocked Up�) lives in a small town called Berk.

Berk has a slight pest problem, he explains, but it’s not rats or cockroaches. It’s dragons.

A verity of dragon species attack the town often, carrying off livestock and burning down houses. They should move, but apparently Vikings have stubbornness issues.

Stoick the Vast (voiced by Gerard Butler, “300�) is the leader of the town. The biggest, burliest Viking of all of them, there’s nothing he likes more than slaying dragons. In fact, it’s a right a passage in the small town of Berk to become a dragon slayer.

Hiccup desperately wants to become a dragon slayer, but there’s one problem: He apparently wasn’t born with a single burly Viking gene in him. He’s a twig of a man. How is he ever going to fight these huge, fearsome dragons?

With his brains, of course.

Hiccup is somewhat of an engineer. The story really begins when Hiccup catches a dragon called a Night Fury — nobody has ever seen one and lived to tell the tale.

Speaking of dragons, the animation design and thought that went into creating each and every species is astounding. The

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human characters aren’t given much thought, but the dragons are something else. According to imdb.com, Toothless, the name Hiccup gives his captured dragon, is patterned after Stitch from the marvelous Disney film “Lilo and Stitch.� That’s no surprise since “Lilo and Stitch� writers Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois tackle the screenplay here.

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The action scenes might frighten younger, more sensitive viewers.

In the end, “How to Train Your Dragonâ€? doesn’t give us anything new or groundbreaking. Much of it is predictable, clichĂŠd storytelling, but there is

something to say about the ride that gets you through that storytelling, and oh, what a ride it is!

Film critic Aaron Peck has a bachelor’s degree in English from Utah State University.

He is not an employee of the newspaper. Feedback at aaron peck46@gmail.com.

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hat’s crazier than trying to set a world record by riding a teeter totter for 100 hours straight?

Producing a high-quality feature-length film about the attempt almost entirely on your own might come close, and that’s just what Andy Lorimer has done.

On a whim, four recent high school graduates — Cameron Thompson, Greg Payne, Scott Salveson and Randy Richards — decided to break the world teeter totter record. When Richards canceled about a week before the attempt began, Tanner Sears joined up.

Lorimer, who was the boys’ film teacher at Fast Forward High School, decided their It’s pretty m attempt would make a good subject for a ing-of-age story documentary, which he story is that th could use as his master’s thesis project at just graduated Utah State University. and they’re tryi That film, “A Tale of their mark in th Two Totters,” will premiere this week, about and they have 19 months after it all choices to mak began.

The movie follows the four young men on and off the teeter totter.

He filmed them with their families, at work, at home and at school. There’s also plenty of footage of the guys going up and down for hours on end, through rain, sun and fatigue.

Lorimer says he shot about 60 hours of film, which he’s distilled down to an 80-minute film.

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Photo by Eli Lucero

Andy Lorimer works on the final edit of his movie, “A Tale of Two Totters,” in his office at USU on Wednesday.

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Local documentary follows Cache Valley teens’ quest to set the world record for teeter-tottering and their struggles on the cusp of adulthood

It’s a movie about young men making a crazy record attempt, but ultimately, it’s about people on the cusp of adulthood stepping into the unknown, Lorimer says. t “It’s pretty much a coming-of-age story,” he says. “The real story is that these kids just graduated high school, and they’re trying to make their mark in the world, and they have all these choices to make.”

The metaphor is so obvious it’s trite, but so apt it’s irresistible: This is a film about life’s ups and much a com- downs.

And Lorimer went through y. The real his share of ups and downs hese kids in the process of making the high school, film. He performed all the filmmaking duties usually ing to make carried out by several people: he world, He ran the camera, edited the footage, pieced together all these the storyline and did nearly ke. everything else. A friend helped with some of the editing and another did the music, but Lorimer carried out the bulk of the work on his own.

He flew to Washington and Arizona to interview the women who set the first world teeter totter record and to New York to talk to the man who holds the record for holding the most . world records. He also flew to California to

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interview one of the record participants who is now on an LDS mission. The traveling costs all came directly out of his own pocket.

The process has taken up a substantial chunk of his life over the past year and a half, and it’s often taken him away from his wife and two children.

“My youngest was born a month after they got the teeter totter, and I realized the other day that I’ve missed his life so far, and it’s sad to realize that,” Lorimer said. “But my wife is extremely supportive.”

As supportive as she is, she’s also very excited for the movie to be finished, Lorimer said.

Lorimer plans to submit the documentary to film festivals in hopes of being pick up; his goal is entrance to the Sundance Film Festival next year. He recognizes that is a lofty goal but feels confident about the film and thinks it has a chance. Ultimately, he hopes the documentary will get noticed and open opportunities to make a full-time career in film.

“We’re hoping this opens the next door, whatever that might be,” he says.

Whatever happens, creating “A Tale of Two Totters” has been an amazing experience with young men who have become his close friends.

“Going through this with them was really cool,” Lorimer says.

— By Devin Felix

Photo by Eli Lucero

Andy Lorimer has created a documentary titled “A Tale of Two Totters” about four people trying to set a world record for the longest time on a teeter totter.

★ What: “A Tale of Two Totters” premiere ★ When: 7 p.m. Thursday, April 1 ★ Where: Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 W.

Center St., Logan ★ Admission: Free

★★★★

Visit www.ataleoftwototters.com for more info and to view film clips and the trailer.

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By Nelson Naylor

By Brenda Schoenfeld

to help rebuild

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Chile

N LIGHT OF the recent tragic events caused by the earthquake in Chile, there will be a “Rebuilding Chile” Benefit Concert at 7 p.m. Friday, April 2, at USU’s Kent Concert Hall.

Performing artists will include John Schmidt, Jake White, Lea Cabrera (“American Idol” finalist) and a Chilean band.

This event will be hosted

by Miss Utah and the USU International Student Council president.

All the proceeds will go to the Chilean Red Cross.

Tickets can be purchased at the CSA box office (797-8022) or online at www.boxoffice. usu.edu.

HE LOGAN T Downtown Alliance has partnered up

with Fresh Market and The Logo Shop to celebrate Easter with a traditional Easter Egg Hunt at noon Saturday, April 3, at the Cache County Courthouse. There will also be a fire truck display and children can get their picture taken with the Easter Bunny. The hunt will start promptly at 12:30 p.m.

The Logan Downtown Alliance has had an annual Easter event but this is the first year for it to take shape in the form of a hunt.

The Alliance has been sup-

porting local businesses for many years and one of their main goals this year is to help educate shoppers and retailers alike about the impact of buying local.

While you’re downtown for the Easter Egg Hunt, be sure to sign up for the downtown e-newsletter, pick up one of only 500 special parent packs and stop by your favorite merchant or downtown restaurant.

The parent packs will have some fun offers, awesome

deals and a lot of good information about the downtown area.

The Easter Egg Hunt is for children younger than 10 only. Be sure to bring your Easter baskets and family. In the event of bad weather, the event will be held indoors at The Emporium.

For more information about Utah’s Buy Local program, visit www.buy localfirst.com or contact the Logan Downtown Alliance at logandowntow@ gmail.com.

Buddy Mondlock up next at Crumb Brothers Bakery HE BRIDGER FOLK MUSIC T Society will present award-winning songwriter Buddy Mondlock at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 27, at Crumb Brothers Bakery, 291 S. 300 West, Logan. Tickets are $13 and available by calling 757-3468, or you can take your chances at the door.

Seating is very limited, so advance purchase is recommended.

Buddy Mondlock writes songs. He does it so well that some great songwriters have recorded his songs on their own albums, including Guy Clark, Nanci Griffith and Janis Ian. When Mondlock’s not on the road you can find him in Nashville, but he grew up in Park Forest, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. His parents paid for guitar lessons when he was 10, and they never asked, “When are you going to get a real job?” He sang Crosby, Stills and Nash songs with his sisters and answered his little brother’s questions from the top bunk.

In 1987 he was a New Folk Award winner at Kerrville and released his first album, “On the Line.” Mondlock did some writing with this other new kid in town named Garth Brooks (they had the same manager), then Janis Ian heard him singing at the Bluebird Cafe and asked him if he’d like to write with her. Their song “Amsterdam” got recorded by Joan Baez.

Nanci Griffith asked Mondlock to sing on a show she was taping for Irish television.

She ended up liking the song so much that she recorded “Comin’ Down in the Rain” on her Grammy Award-winning collection, “Other Voices, Other Rooms.”

Mondlock’s new album, “The Edge of the World,” is his most personal recording to date. The song cycle is an introspective journey from childhood through to the recent breakup of a marriage and beyond.

For more information, go to www.bridg erfolk.org or www.buddymondlock.com.

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Benefit concert

Downtown Alliance to mark spring with Easter egg hunt

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Help raise awareness during Child Abuse Prevention Month

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pril is nationally recognized as Child Abuse Prevention Month and the Child & Family Support Center will be hosting an entire month of activities aimed at raising awareness that child abuse happens even in Cache Valley. The Support Center is a private,

non-profit agency dedicated to strengthening families and protecting children. The CFSC offers support and educational opportunities for all parents in the community to be successful in raising their children. Throughout FY 06-07, the

CFSC WISHING TREES April 1-30 The CFSC maintains an ongoing with list of items needed to help keep their programs running. Pick a tag off the tree, purchased the listed donation, then bring it to the CFSC at 380 W. 1400 North in Logan. To reserve an entire tree for your business, family reunion, church group or special event, call 752-8880.

FLAMINGO FLOCKING April 1-30 With a minimum donation of $25, brighten someone’s day by sending a flock of flamingos to the Cache County home or business of your choice. Flocks are put up by 9:30 a.m. and removed by 5:30 p.m. USU Charter Credit Union will match donations up to $1,000.

STEPPIN’ UP FOR CHILDREN April 1 Join the CFSC from noon to 12:30 p.m. for a short presentation at the Cache County Courthouse to show your support for keeping children safe. A pair of shoes for each child in Cache County with a substantiated case of child abuse over the past year will be placed on the steps. A ribbon-cutting ceremony to kick of Child Abuse Prevention Month will also take place.

RECOGNITION/DRIVE FOR SOMEBODY’S ATTIC April 2-10 Somebody’s Attic, a secondhand thrift store, donates the majority of its proceeds to abuse prevention agencies within the community. Staff and volunteers at both locations (39 W. 100 North, Logan, and 3 S. Main, Smithfield) gladly accept used toys, clothing and household items. During this drive, everyone is encouraged to clean out their closets and help fill the shelves at Somebody’s Attic.

VOLUNTEER LUAU LUNCH April 5 If you have volunteered at the CFSC, let them honor you with lunch!

There will be an open house between 4:30 and 6 p.m. A brief presentation will be given at 5 p.m.

BABY ANIMAL DAYS April 8-10

The CFSC will host a booth at the American West Heritage Center’s Baby Animal Days. Come and participate in a bean bag toss and buy a balloon for the kids.

Child and Family Support Center provided more than 10,488 hours of care to 3,219 children who visited the 24-hour crisis/respite nursery and the CFSC Therapy Department served more than 150 victims of abuse. For more information, call 752-8880 or visit www.cachecfsc.org.

BLUE RIBBON BENEFIT DINNER & AUCTION April 16 This year’s theme is “Roarin’ Twenties” — dress up in themed attire for the fifth annual dinner and auction at The Copper Mill Restaurant. A delicious dinner, live band, entertainment and silent and live auctions will be part of this event. Cost is $45 per person or $400 for a table of 10.

SAM’S CLUB BBQ April 17 Stop by Sam’s Club between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. for hot dogs, chips and drinks served by the Sam’s Club crew. All proceeds will benefit the CFSC. CAITLAND PHOTOGRAPHY CHARITY EVENT April 17 Call 792-4453 to schedule a portrait session at Stork Landing. Fee is $35 for a 10-minute mini-session for one to two children ($10 per additional child). Two 5-by-7s of one pose will be included. You can choose which pose from an online gallery of two or three poses. Ann profits will benefit the CFSC. “MEXICAN MADE EASY” COOKING CLASS April 23 Learn to prepare (and sample) delicious Mexican food recipes at Kitchen Kneads. Cost is $25. Register online at www.luvto cook.com or by calling 752-9220. All proceeds, plus 20 percent of all sales between 6 and 9 p.m., will go directly to the CFSC. DINE OUT AGAINST CHILD ABUSE • April 26: Texas Roadhouse (4 to 10 p.m.), Firehouse Pizza (5 to 10 p.m.), Le Nonne (4:30 to 9:30 p.m.) and Cafe Sabor (5 to 10 p.m.) will all donate a portion of their meal proceeds to the CFSC. • April 27: Angie’s Restaurant and Iron Gate Grill will join the cause.

RACE AGAINST CHILD ABUSE May 1 This family fun run/walk features a 1-mile, 5K or 10K course. There will also be music, food, awards and trophies.

Pre-registration by April 24: • 1 mile w/shirt, $14; without shirt, $10 • 5K and 10K w/shirt, $10; without shirt, $16 • Immediate family rate: $40 (plus $4 per shirt) Registration between April 25 and May 1: • 1 mile w/shirt, $20; without shirt, $15 • 5K and 10K w/shirt, $25; without shirt, $21 • Immediate family rate: $50 (plus $4 per shirt)

By Lael Gilbert

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OTHING SETS MY heart a-pattering like the complex yeasty smell of fresh-baked bread.

The multi-layered crackle of a well-made artisan loaf puts me at the gates of heaven. Baking bread is a magical combination of art, science and experience.

It is the archetype of the expert homemaker, but it is not something at which I’ve ever truly succeeded. The first time I tried whole wheat bread (I kid you not) one bite of the wheatbased Masonite I had created caused my gums to bleed.

My bread is better than it used to be. It rises. It smells right. It thumps a good hollow .sound. It is good when it is hot. But it is kind of pasty, and there is an ethereal quality of bakery bread that has eluded me. I call it The Chew. A good chew is what you get when you bite a slice of Crumb Brothers ciabatta drizzled with honey, or eat a good bagel or pizza. It is something I haven’t been able to duplicate at home. The Chew is partially responsible for keeping bread appetizing when it is no longer hot, and I couldn’t make it happen in my loaves. I was at a dead end, bread-wise. I adjusted lots of things, but I never thought about my flour.

Little did I know that just four

blocks away was the answer to The Chew.

My sister’s neighbor is The Pie Lady of Kaysville.

She sent my sister on a trek to stock up on her flour of choice, Central Mill’s organic unbleached pastry flour. The Pie Lady insists on it, said my sister. It is the only flour she uses; nothing else makes the cut for her crusts. I looked up the address she gave at Center Street and 100 East in Logan.

There had to be a mistake. I know that neighborhood. I walk that way weekly during Gardener’s Market season, and had never noticed a flour store.

But there it was, set in the middle of the block, an unobtrusive red-brick building fronting towering silos. I’ve lived in Cache Valley long enough to know the ins and outs of the local businesses.

I’d never heard of the nationally known Central Milling Company. One of the biggest producers of organic grain products in the West, their flour is sought after by foodies and bread artisans all over the U.S, especially California.

I visited the small brick building and picked up a 50-pound bag of bread flour (they don’t come any smaller).

Honestly, I was doubtful flour could make that big of a difference for my bread. One wheat flour is as good as any

other, right?

Wrong, said Zach Perry, quality technician, tour guide and unofficial flour educator at Central Milling. Flour isn’t simple. When wheat is milled to make white flour, the germ and bran are removed from the kernel (even though they contain nearly all the fiber and B vitamins, they are removed because they also interfere with the elastic properties of the gluten, vital to the texture of the bread).

Flour has starch (complex carbohydrates). It also has protein. Soft wheat produces low protein flour for cakes, biscuits and pie crusts.

Hard wheat has enough gumption (and protein) to develop higher amounts of gluten — the elastic stuff that allows yeast breads to rise (and gives a good chew).

When you buy flour from the grocery store, there is no way to know what the properties of the flour in the bag are.

Wheat crops vary from year to year. Protein and mineral levels change. Some flour makes good bread, some doesn’t, said Perry.

Central Milling uses a cocktail of three to six dif-

ferent wheat grains to get high-protein bread flour that meets their specifications.

They work closely with farmers to help them select seeds that will grow well organically and still produce wheat with the kind of properties they are looking for. They have an onsite quality testing lab. They use old varieties and local varieties of grain.

They don’t try to breed out the color.

Wheat is generally bred to be as white as possible, said Perry. Organic wheat has more color and more flavor, he said. They don’t add bleach, they don’t use pesticides or herbicides, and you avoid the chemical sewage sludge produced by conventional farming when you choose organically grown products, he said.

Central Milling uses local wheat when they can, but can’t fill the demand for their organic products with only Utah wheat, said Perry. About one-third of their wheat comes from Utah; the rest comes from the mid-western United States and Canada. And part of their wheat is ground indirectly by local river water.

Since last year, a diversion from the canal turns a genera-

tor under the mill that fuels one-third of their energy needs. They are also the oldest continuously operated business in Utah, Perry said.

Which is all very cool, but what about my bread?

I cracked open the big bag as soon as I got home. The first difference I noticed was the texture of the dough. It was silky, much softer than what I was used to, but not gluey. It reminded me of Play-Doh, in a good way. The dough was easier to knead and still rose significantly higher than what I’d accomplished before.

And then there was The Chew. The finished product had good texture and a nice springy bite. I was impressed.

I’m currently cooking my fourth loaf with Central Milling Company’s flour. I haven’t yet been able to do the cold bread test, since the first three loaves were consumed too quickly. I have hopes for this one since everyone at my house is currently at work or school. Except me, I’m home.

We’ll see.

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. Feedback at laelgilbert@ gmail.com.

Book review

Chelsea Handler bangs out another hilarious book

By The Associated Press

C spins a series of gutbusting tales in her latest,

HELSEA HANDLER

completely outrageous, laughout-loud book. “Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang” offers a bevy of essays as unflattering as they are hilarious.

Fans of Handler, a standup

comedian and host of E! television’s “Chelsea Lately,” are treated to a plunge down the rabbit hole with the follow-up to her best-seller, “Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea.”

“Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang” adds new dimension to the definition of dysfunction, and it’s hard to

tell whether her outlandish stories are designed more to amuse herself or her fans.

Handler can bend the truth with greater ease than a pro weightlifter. She convinced Heather McDonald, a “Chelsea Lately” staff writer, that McDonald had been hired to write a comedic screenplay recalling the explosion of the

Challenger space shuttle. And she conned her boyfriend into going to a dog’s funeral under the guise that she’d killed the canine with seafood.

She hits her stride when discussing family. Her portrayals of her home life are chaotic and likely exaggerated, but so much fun to read.

While her relationship with

her siblings is tumultuous, it’s also loving and fun, garnished with a little absurdity.

The book’s strength lies in the passages about family. The Handler siblings share a corn ball sense of humor (and they refer to their father as “Platypus”). It’s a different twist on what makes a happy household, but it’s an effective one.

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One woman’s quest for the elusive Chew

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UDITIONS FOR singers and dancers to perform in the Broadway-style bigband production of the 2010 Celebrate America Show, “Hooray for Hollywood,” will be held between noon and 2 p.m. Saturday, April 3, at Thomas Edison School, 200 E. 2600 North, North Logan.

Dancers should wear a dance leotard and tights, and bring dance shoes. Singers need to come prepared to sing both a Broadway and a ballad-style

song. Wear clothes you can dance in. Producers are also looking for a young girl to sing and tap dance Shirley Temple-style. Call 753-1551 to schedule an audition time.

Female dancers and male and female singers will perform in a dynamic production with a live orchestra, plus receive three hours credit, a rehearsal stipend and payment per show. For more information and to download an audition packet, visit www. celebrateamericashow.com.

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Answers from last week

Ongoing events WIC offers breastfeeding classes at the Bear River Health Department, 655 E. 1300 North, Logan. Pregnant women and their partners are encouraged to attend. This one hour class is offered to the public at no cost.

Spanish classes are also available. For more information, call 792-6451.

Millville city will celebrate its sesquicentennial on June 12. Individuals or families currently or formerly from Millville may submit their information for the 1990-2010 edition of the “Millville Memories” book to millville150@gmail. com. Submissions will be accepted until April 15 and should be 200 words or fewer (picture may be included). Also include your name, parents’ names (optional), children’s names, how you came to live in Millville and what made/makes this a great place for you/your family to live.

Friday Unicorn Theatre will host auditions for its April Pillow Show, “Run to the Roadhouse, Nellie,” at 4:30 p.m. Friday in the Unicorn Room at the Bullen Center, 43 S. Main. All ages are welcome. For more information, call 753-6518 ext. 10.

The Utah State Pikes will throw a White Out Party Friday at the Pike house, 752 E. 700 North. Wear your white tees and get your dancing on; please, no alcohol. Music will be provided by DJ Breezy and DJ Cameron Weeks.

Admission is a $1 donation to Common Ground Outdoor Adventures. Everyone is invited.

Jessie Jo Kerr will perform live music at 6 p.m. and Anne Winn and Janet Patch from the band Hot Flashes will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza, 99 E. 1200 South, Logan.

Everyone is invited.

The Hispanic Health Coalition will sponsor a Spanish Town Hall Meeting from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East, Logan. Presenters and a panel will address issues related to impaired driving and underage drinking. There will be free pizza and raffle prizes.

Broadcast journalist Amanda Butterfield from KSL will speak as part of USU’s Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series at 11:30 a.m.

Friday at the Haight Alumni Center on campus. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

For more information, call 797-1195.

Cache Valley Civic Ballet will present “Firebird” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Tickets are $8-$12 and can be purchased at the Eccles Box Office, 43 S. Main.

For more information, visit www.cvcballet.org.

A benefit concert for the Dennis Sorensen Family, who lost their home to an explosion last October, will be held at 7 p.m. Friday in the Mountain Crest auditorium and will feature Western Music Association Male Yodeler of the Year Larry Wilder. Also appearing will be local duos Saddle Serenade and Tumbleweeds.

Tickets are $5 per person or $25 per family and available at Macey’s, The Book Table and Ridley’s in Hyrum. Wilder will also conduct a “How to Yodel” workshop at 10 a.m. Saturday at The Book Table. Cost is a $10 donation.

An old-fashioned barn dance will be held from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Friday at Pioneer Valley Lodge, 2351 N. 400 East, North Logan. There will be music by Rick Rose and lots of food.

For more information, call 792-0353.

In cooperation with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, the Logan Quakers and Unitarian-Universalists will present the NRCAT video “Ending U.S.-Sponsored Torture Forever” with discussion to follow at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Unitarian/Universalist house, 595 E. 900 North, Logan. Admission is free and everyone is invited. Donations will be accepted. Potluck snacks and child care will be provided. For more information about the video, visit www.torture isamoralissue.org; for more information about the event, call 753-4017.

B, at the Eccles Theatre Ticket Office at 43 S. Main St., or by calling 797-8022.

building, 294 N. 100 East, Logan. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

“Letters to God” will play at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday at Cinefour in Logan. Tickets are $3 and all proceeds will be donated to the ACS/Relay for Life. This film features the song “Everything Is Beautiful,” written for Smithfield cancer victim Tyson Busenbark, who passed away Aug. 1, 2008. For more information, contact Susan McClellan at 881-2225.

The Bear River Tai Chi Chuan Society will start its spring quarter beginning class from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Whittier Community Center. For more information, call 563-8272 or visit bearrivertaichi.org.

The Willow Valley Singers will perform at 3 p.m. Saturday at Pioneer Valley Lodge.

A conference titled “Traumatic Brain Injury: The Silent Epidemic” will be held Saturday at the Eccles Conference Center at USU. This is a multidisciplinary conference open to first responders, veterans, health care providers, lawyers, athletic trainers, TBI victims and the public. Registration is $40 for students and $100 for everyone else (lunch is included). For more information, visit tbiconference.usu.edu.

Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology will host its Girl Scout Archaeology Badge Workshop from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 3. Space is limited and registration is required by Friday. Cost is $10 per Scout or $5 per adult and includes a badge, T-shirt for the girls and lunch for Scouts and adults. To sign up or for information, call 797-7545.

Cache Companion Animal and Education Services will host Companion Animal Education Day from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East, Logan. Cost is $5 per person or $15 per family. There will be speakers and workshops throughout the day, as well as morning activities for kids. For more information or a complete schedule, visit cachecares.net.

Everyone is invited to join a weekly peace vigil from 5:30 to 6 p.m. every Friday on the east side of Main Street between Center Street and 100 North in Logan. For more information, e-mail info@loganpeace.org.

A Flatline Tragedy will perform with Killbot, Fire in the Skies and Swamp Donkey (metal) at 8 p.m. Saturday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover is $6. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whysound.

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.

Stokes Nature Center will host a Kids’ Jam in the Canyon for ages 4-8 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Anna and Kara of the kids’ band Juniper Day and Leanna (SNC’s Parent Tot teacher) will lead participants in some acoustic music-making fun including rhythm dance, singing and an instrument craft. Cost is $3 ($2.50 for SNC members). For more information or to sign up, call 755-3239.

Saturday USU’s Museum of Anthropology will present “Medieval Madness” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. as part of its “Saturdays at the Museum” series. Shire of the Côte du Ciel, the local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism, will recreate the medieval world with various activities, including hand spinning, making chain mail, sword-fighting, calligraphy, period games and more.

The Western singing duo Tumbleweeds will perform from 6 p.m. to closing Saturday at the Cracker Barrel Cafe in Paradise. Everyone is invited.

Quinn Christensen will perform live music at 6 p.m. and Spencer Jensen will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza.

The American Festival Chorus and Orchestra will finish out its season with Franz Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation” on Saturday in USU’s Kent Concert Hall. Tickets are $12, $16 and $18 (half price for high school and junior high or middle school students with student ID). Tickets are available at the CSA Box Office in the Chase Fine Arts Center 139-

Monday Political ecology geographer Paul Robbins will present “The Mosquito State: How Insects Manage Bureaucracies in the Age of Vector Disease Control” as part of USU’s College of Natural Resources Distinguished Geographer Lecture at 6 p.m. Monday in Room 105 of the Natural Resources building.

Admission is free and everyone is invited.

The Sports Academy will host a Lifeguard Certification class beginning Monday. Classes will be held in the evenings. For more information, contact Mark at 770-5561 ext. 117.

Dandy Lies & Daffy Dealings (poetry/hip hop) will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $5.

OPTIONS for Independence will visit the Brigham City Museum and enjoy lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. Lunch prices will vary. For more information or to schedule transportation, contact Mandie at 753-5353.

Macey’s cake decorator Megan Stettler will demonstrate how to make beautiful cakes and cookies just in time for Easter at a free cooking and community class from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. This will be a hands-on class; bring a rolling pin and pizza cutter. Seating is limited; call 753-3301 to reserve your spot.

Wednesday Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will lead a recreation night activity at 6 p.m.

Wednesday at the Logan Rec Center. Cost is $3. There will be basketball, wally-ball and other gymnasium sports. For more information, call 713-0288.

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 753-8844.

ZUMBA classes start Wednesday at Dance Illusion in downtown Logan. Cost is $20 per month. Registration is required; call 512-9900.

“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. For more information, call 752-9577.

Thursday The Cache County Sheriff’s Office and Cache County Community Emergency Response Team Council will offer an eightweek course for people interested in learning how to take care of themselves, their families and their communities in an emergency, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. every Thursday through May 27, at the Cache County Sheriff’s Office.

There is no fee for the course, however, training materials and supplies will cost $45. To sign up or for more information, call 563-5143.

Stephanie Skewes will teach kids ages 4 to 14 how to make the best April Fool’s Day dinner from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Seating is limited; call 753-3301 to reserve your spot.

Tuesday

An Autism Spectrum Disorders Support Group will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, April 1, at the Logan Regional Hospital in classrooms 1 and 4.

The Bel Canto Women’s Chorus will perform “He Is Risen — Alleluja” at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday at the Logan 4th and Yorkshire Ward

The Knotty Knitters meet from 6 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday at the Senior Citizen Center in Logan.

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