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Daniel Bialkowski uses a trimming tool on a ceramics project during a pottery class sponsored by the Alliance for the Varied Arts at the Bullen Center in Logan on Wednesday. “Passionate,” “relaxing” and something “to get lost in” — these are ways students in the weekly class describe what the art means to them. Read about the class and its participants on Page 8. Photo by Alan Murray/Herald Journal

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HIS MORNING I WOKE up a little confused — my calendar said April 1, but there were 6 inches of snow on my patio!

One heck of a mean April Fool’s Day joke if you ask me.

I know we shouldn’t be surprised; as much as I can remember, this happens to Cache Valley every spring. But that doesn’t mean I have to approve of it or, heaven forbid, accept it. Instead I stormed around my house complaining that it was cold and I didn’t want to pull out my winter coat again, ranting and raving that apparently spring will never get here and we’ll all have to live in piles of snow and below-freezing temperatures for the rest of our lives.

A bunch of my friends on Facebook

Slow Wave

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woke up this morning to sunny skies and warm temperatures, and even had the nerve to brag about it in their status updates. They had plans to wear flipflops and get together for play dates at the park; my sister, niece and mom were going to spend the day outside planting a garden.

While they’re all reveling in their sunshine, I’ll be singing Christmas carols in my backyard, trying to remember what it feels like to go outside without a coat, to grill steaks and corn on the cob, to wear sandals and roll down the windows in my car and go camping.

Oh well. I guess it gives me just one more excuse to spend the weekend inside, curled up with the cats and a good book.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

— Jamie Baer Nielson Cache Magazine editor

Farm animals, bears and critters, oh my — it’s Baby Animal Days!

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(Page 10) Check out this week’s “Photos

By You” feature!

pet photo of the week

This dog is available for adoption!

Pet: Ebony From: Cache Humane Society Why she’s so lovable: “Ebony is a sweetheart of a dog who loves people and cuddling.

She is an active gal and loves to run and hike, great off-leash obedience, does not run away.

Excellent candidate for agility or flyball. Ebony loves to be with her people and is learning housetraining, and doing a great job. She does great with older children, unknown about small kids.

She is NOT good with cats and eats chickens.

Ebony is also learning to play with other dogs.

She likes to chew, but only chews on her toys or bones. Ebony is still a big puppy and needs lots of interaction and love. Very friendly and obedient.” Ebony is in foster care; call the shelter at 792-3920 for more information or to meet Ebony.

Slow Wave is created from real people’s dreams as drawn by Jesse Reklaw. Ask Jesse to draw your dream! Visit www.slowwave.com to find out how.

Mixing physics, math and ... origami?

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disciplinary fusion of origami and ORLD-RENOWNED mathematics, Lang has a repertoire physicist, engineer and of more than 500 designs, some of origami artist Robert J. which have been exhibited at New Lang will present “Math’s Paper York’s Museum of Modern Art, Trail: The Origins of Mathematics and Origami” at 7 p.m. Friday, April Paris’ Carrousel du Louvre and Japan’s Nippon Museum of Origami.

2, in the Eccles Science Learning During his USU talk, Lang will Center auditorium on campus as discuss origami part of USU’s Scigeometric concepts ence Unwrapped that helped solve series. Admission is complex engineerfree. Refreshments • Robert J. Lang Origami: ing problems includand activities will www.langorigami.com ing delivery of giant follow the presen• National Library of Virtual space telescopes to tation. For more Manipulatives: nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/ their cosmic desinformation, visit vlibrary.html tinations, creation www.usu.edu/sci• USU College of Science: of safer airbags in ence/unwrapped or www.usu.edu/science compact spaces and call 797-3517. development of Lang, who holds life-saving medical devices such as advanced degrees from Caltech and Stanford and resides in the San Fran- cardiac stents.

Following Lang’s presentation, cisco Bay area, became interested in attendees are invited to try simple origami at the age of 6. While buildorigami designs and other hands-on ing a successful math and science activities, view math-inspired artcareer — Lang has been awarded work by local middle school students 50 patents and has patents pending and, at computer workstations, expeon semi-conductor lasers, optics and rience the fun of geometry exercises integrated opto-electronics — he offered through the USU-developed, continued to pursue his love of orionline National Library of Virtual gami design.

Manipulatives.

Considered a pioneer in the cross-

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Robert J. Lang’s origami design, “K2, opus 391,” is a polypolyhedra constructed of 60 uncut rectangles. Lang will discuss how origami concepts can solve mathematical challenges at 7 p.m. Friday, April 2, at USU.

Downtown Alliance to mark spring with Easter egg hunt

Indie acoustic duo You & Yourn are coming back to Why Sound

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ALEO WILL perform with You & P Yourn, Something Simple

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Shop to celebrate Easter with a traditional Easter Egg Hunt (for children younger than 10) 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. Other visitors include Tigger, Pooh and Big Blue. In the event of bad weather, the event will be held indoors at The Emporium.

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 supporting 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 enewsletter, 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.

and Logan’s Newsboys (acoustic) at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover charge is $6. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/ whysound.

Love, then music, then marriage ... the story continues.

Since 2001, Heather and Nic Dillon have recorded together as You & Yourn and toured throughout the U.S. and Canada, performing with the band Winter in Alaska and under their former name, Casados.

Their newest self-engineered/ recorded project, “It Would

Make Things Worse,” is a culmination of a sonic evolution that has brought them out of the pedestrian indiefolk-singer-songwriter genre and into their current coat: lyrically driven, atmospheric chamber-folk. Here you will find a gentler, more deliberate

dynamic that alludes not only to the more gleeful aspects of life and love, but also the darker.

“It Would Make Things Worse” was released on Parasol Records on Oct. 27, 2009.

For more information, visit www.youandyourn.com.

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Rhythms

Jazz drummer stops at USU

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ming,” “Beyond Bop ENOWNED Drumming” and “The Jazz jazz drummer and Drummer’s Workshop,” educator John and his instructional DVD, Riley will perform with Utah State University’s big “The Master Drummer,” bands and the All Northern are considered essential standards in the world of High School Jazz Band jazz education. at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Riley will participate in April 7, at USU’s Perfora jam session from 7 to 9 mance Hall. Tickets are $8 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, at for general admission or Why Sound, 30 Federal free to USU students and can be purchased at boxof- Ave., Logan. Admission is $5. Also, Riley will fice.usu.edu or by calling demonstrate the evolution 797-8022. of jazz drumming for Jon Riley has performed Gudmundson’s History of with many of the greatest Jazz course at 10:30 p.m. names in jazz, including other all-star locals, many Miles Davis, John ScoTuesday, April 6, in the of whom might make an field, Bob Mintzer, the Fine Arts Visual building, appearance at one of her Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Room 150. He will also Utah shows. coach USU jazz combos Carnegie Hall Jazz Band Two albums, an EP, and teach jazz clinics and University of North and lots of touring into at 12:30 and 1:30 p.m.

Texas 1:00 Lab Band. her career, Sample is Wednesday, April 7, at the Besides his career as a quickly shedding any world-class jazz performer, Performance Hall. traces of up-and-comer.

For more information, Riley is recognized as one With a potent mix of of the finest jazz educators call 797-8022 or contact Jazz drummer and educator John Riley will perform with hard work, conviction, Jon Gudmundson at 797in the world. His books, Utah State University’s big bands and the All Northern an uncanny and tireless “The Art of Bop Drum3003.

High School Jazz Band at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 7. ability to connect with audiences, relentless enthusiasm, a stunning voice and an enviable HE CACHE VALLEY folk, jazz, blues and Tin Pan catalog of great songs, Alley classics. Accompanied Center for the Arts will it’s easy to see why. present pop culture icon Leon by Paul Azaro on piano, this With lyrics that “cut performance blends lyrical Redbone at 7:30 p.m. April to the bone” (Salt Lake satire, cynicism, comedy and 20 and 21 at the Ellen Eccles City Weekly) and “just a skilled instrumentals.

Theatre. Tickets are $16, great, great voice” (Peter Though his iconic guise has $18, $20 and $22 and can be Mayer), Sample’s songs are getting noticed. They purchased at www.EllenEccl- been thoroughly satirized in won her a slot on 2010’s esTheatre.org or at the CVCA mainstream media, it’s easy Cayamo Cruise and the to overlook what a genuTicket Office, 43 S. Main, mainstage at Folks Fest inely gifted artist he remains Logan.

2008, and she was a final— a role he inevitably tries Redbone is one of the ist at Telluride, Kerrville, to downplay. “In some ways world’s most mysterious and Mountain New Song, SisI’ve always been complacent fascinating performers. He ters and more. She’s also in my approach to music,” is known for his distinctive shared stages with Darrell Redbone says. “So in some white fedora, dark glasses, Scott, Melissa Ferrick, mustache and scruffy baritone ways maybe I’m the pure Willy Porter and more, definition of consistent.” voice. This Neo-Vaudevillian winning new and devoted For more information about crooner captivates audiences listeners each time.

Redbone, visit his Web site at with a combination of preFor more info, visit Photo by Nancy Depra World War II ragtime, urban www.leonredbone.com. www.bridgerfolk.org or www.sarahsample.com.

Songstress Sarah Sample up next at Crumb Bros. Bakery HE BRIDGER T Folk Music Society will present a concert

with songstress Sarah Sample at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 10, at Crumb Brothers Bakery, 291 S. 300 West, Logan.

Tickets are $13 and available by calling 7573468, or you can take your chances at the door.

Seating is very limited, so advance purchase is strongly recommended.

Sample might reside in Seattle but her heart and taste for life’s little pleasures belong to Utah.

The sweet folk goddess has spent the past several years refining her craft in several states, soaking up all the lessons and experience that make her latest release, “Born to Fly,” her best effort to date. Sample’s raw, graceful voice is stronger and more selfassured, enhancing lyrical content that cuts to the bone. The album is further strengthened by producer Scott Wiley (who also worked on the new Fictionist LP) and contributors including Paul Jacobsen, Ryan Tanner and Pat Campbell, among

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Farm animals, bears and critters, oh my!

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NE OF NORTHERN

Utah’s most beloved and popular events, Baby 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.

Additionally, four additional days, “Farm Animals Only 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, in addition to the popular farm animals, baby bears will make their appearance April 8, 9 and 10 only, courtesy of 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.

Many favorite activities will be returning to the festival this year such as pony rides, wagon rides, living history demonstrations, animal demonstrations and shows, and Turtle Town, among others. This year, the Heritage Center’s new 1/8scale train will make its debut appearance. Also operating will be the Heritage Center’s other traditional venues: the 1917 Jensen Historical Farm, Pioneer Settlement, Mountain Man and Shoshone encampments, Patch’s Woodwright Shop and a millinery shop. Another new attraction is Camp Rendezvous, the Heritage Center’s new large-group campsite with many old-fashioned activities

Donate at Baby Animal Days The American West Heritage Center encourages all visitors to Baby Animal Days to bring donations for the Cache County Food Bank. Though it’s not Christmas, canned food and especially common personal hygiene products and diapers are still needed at this time of year for many in the community. There will be a large donation area upon entering the event.

Jennifer Christensen and Kieran Safe enjoy feeding a calf. for young and old.

The Li’l Buckaroo Rodeo will also be returning with stick pony barrel racing, mutton bustin’ and a greased pole with money for the taking — if you can climb the pole. Parents can sign up their children ages 6 to 10 at the Heritage Center’s Rodeo Grounds for the barrel racing and mutton bustin’. Prizes will be given to the winners

in various categories. Visiting presenters will also be featured each day of the event with animal shows and other springrelated subjects and entertainment. Willow Park Zoo and performers will take place on or near the event’s festival stage.

Another popular feature returning this year is the Heritage Center’s Treasure Hunt, a kids’ scavenger hunt through

AVA looking for high school artists HE ALLIANCE FOR T the Varied Arts’ annual High School Art Show is just

around the corner. The show will open with a gallery walk Friday, April 16, and run through May 14 at the AVA, 35 W. 100 South, Logan.

High School students’ original and current artwork can be submitted between 1 and 6 p.m.

April 13 and 14 for display in

the show. For more information, e-mail ava_gallery@ yahoo.com or call 753-2970.

Submission rules and requirements include: • There is no specific theme.

• All artwork must be clearly labeled with the artist’s first and last name, title of the piece, school and age.

• A completed submission form must be included; these

can be downloaded at www. avaarts.org.

• Artists do not have to sell their work but if they choose to they will receive 70 percent of the selling price. The AVA keeps 30 percent to cover administrative costs of selling the piece.

• Two-dimensional art must be securely framed.

• All entries must have a wire securely fastened to the

frame and strung across the back of the work (side to side) so it can hang from an ‘S’ hook and chain system. Taped yarn or string is not acceptable. The frame does not have to have glass in it.

• Three-dimensional art must be securely fastened so the piece does not fall apart or break when being moved into place.

history for candy and prizes.

A variety of food vendors for lunch and snacks will be available at the event, plus vendors of hand-crafted and heritage items and a plethora of crafts for children and adults.

For more information about Baby Animal Days or any of the other upcoming events at the Heritage Center, visit www. awhc.org.

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Film New this week

violence, sensuality and mild language. 101 min.

“The Last Song” Rated PG ★★ Have you heard the one about the two photogenic kids who meet cute in a Southern beach town, overcome differences in class and temperament and fall madly in love only to find that, in this cruel, cruel world, tragedy finds a way of trumping hormones? Dear God, it’s “Dear John,” right? Yes. But it’s also “The Last Song,” the second Nicholas Sparks movie to hit theaters in the past two months, a development only moonstruck teen girls and the facial tissue industry will welcome. Sparks wrote “The Last Song” at the behest of Miley Cyrus, the Disney Channel star who will soon end her run on the “Hannah Montana” TV series and wants to expand her brand into movies. Her young female fan base will likely be OK with her first try. Others might be tiring of Sparks’ use of death as a plot device. With Greg Kinnear and Liam Hemsworth.

PG for thematic material, some

“Clash of the Titans” Rated PG-13 ★★ Who wants to be a god, anyway? That’s the principle twist inserted into the remake of the sometimes fondly recalled, technologically dated 1981 film about the fury of the gods of Mount Olympus and the rise of the young, earthly demigod Perseus. This time, Perseus (Sam Worthington) bears a distaste for his godlike nature. He fights a serpentine Medusa, the sea monster Kraken and other mythical beasts for mankind, not for the deities. Liam Neeson plays the angry god Zeus, while Ralph Fiennes, in a cloud of black smog, plays Hades. Directed

by Louis Leterrier (2008’s “The Incredible Hulk”), “Titans” will lure moviegoers chiefly by its digital effects (which are good but forgettable) and its promise of 3-D spectacle (which, having been converted from 2-D to 3-D in post, disappoints altogether).

Worthington, the Australian star of “Avatar,” doesn’t supply

the charisma the movie needs and the whole thing feels like a joyless slog. PG-13 for fantasy action violence, some frightening images and brief sensuality.

106 min.

Still playing “How to Train Your Dragon” Rated PG ★★★ DreamWorks Animation has been at the head of the pack for adorable, fast-talking critters with movies such as “Over the Hedge,” ‘’Kung Fu

Panda” and the “Madagascar” series. With DreamWorks’ latest, writer-directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois tone down the glib factor and tell a pretty good action yarn, a boy-and-his-dragon story filled with fiery Viking battles, swordplay and dazzling aerial imagery. For small children, the movie may not rate as high on the laugh and sight-gag meter as some of those earlier, more slapstick-y DreamWorks tales. After a slow, rather droning start, though, the film takes off on an exhilarating ride through

the ancient Norse world, the hardscrabble landscape also a pleasant change from the softer realms of other cartoons. Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera and Gerard Butler lead the voice cast in the story of a misfit Viking teen who befriends a wounded dragon and discovers the beasts make better allies than enemies.

PG for sequences of intense action and some scary images, and brief mild language. 98 min.

— All reviews by The Associated Press

“C

LASH OF THE Titans” is a dramatic movie. You know how I know this? Everyone speaks in gruffly hushed voices and barely audible whispers, or they just yell at the top of their lungs. There’s no happy medium, no regular conversations. Just dramatic whisperings that put the overly dramatic whisperings of “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King” to shame.

The people of ancient Greece have become disenchanted with their gods. Men have grown prideful and forgotten that Zeus (Liam Neeson) gave them life in the first place. In an act of defiance, men topple a large statue of Zeus — they have declared war on the gods. Immediately afterwards, the soldiers responsible are attacked by winged beasts that start throwing them into the sea. You’d think these types of encounters with the power of the gods would dissuade the humans from doing anything else so reckless, but they’re a stubborn bunch.

Saved as a child, Perseus (Sam Worthington) is a demigod — half man, half god — and Zeus’ son. Perseus is found at sea by a fisherman who adopts him and raises him as his own.

After Perseus’ adopted family is killed by the god of the Underworld, Hades (Ralph Fiennes), Perseus swears revenge. Being half god, he may just have a chance. Zeus agrees to let Hades loose on the Earth to teach the humans a lesson.

Hades appears and disappears in a giant cloud of billowing black smoke. Being leader of the Underworld plays hell — pun intended — with your complexion. When in human-like form Hades shuffles around, hissing his words like a snake and generally carrying around that overall sour demeanor we’ve come to expect from the Prince of Darkness. The rest of the gods are given bright, shining armor and sit atop Olympus growing stronger from the prayers of the people (we know this because the movie sees fit to repeat this

The Reel Place

By Aaron Peck

fact over and over again in case we missed it the first time).

Perseus, in a matter of minutes and an explanation simply of having a god inside him, goes from pitiful fisherman to world’s most powerful warrior. No montage needed; there’s no time, even for montages. “Clash of the Titans” has one goal and one goal only: to show as many action scenes in its runtime as it possibly can. We’re thrust from battles with undead kings to battles with giant scorpions to battles with Medusa to battles with the Kracken, all the while meeting

★ 1/2

“Clash of the Titans”

Rated PG-13 new characters and never coming to know any of them.

Films like “Clash of the Titans” face the unfortunate reality that they’re going to be compared, at one point or another, to the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. But there’s one

major difference that separates films like “Clash of the Titans” from “Lord of the Rings” — Peter Jackson knew that in “Lord of the Rings,” for every awe-inspiring action scene he must have numerous characterbuilding scenes leading up to it.

What point is there for an action scene when it contains characters you don’t care about? Perseus runs from one battle to the next without us ever getting to know him, let alone his band of rag-tag fighters. There’s no one to care about here, which makes the action scenes lackluster no matter how spectacular they were intended to be.

Regarding the 3D of the film, it’s a perfect example of how 3D can completely ruin the look and feel of a movie. From what feels like an afterthought, the 3D accompanying “Clash of the Titans” is some of the worst on the market. Like looking through a ViewMaster, this 3D kills whatever spectacular imagery might be lurking somewhere in this movie.

In the end, “Clash of the Titans” fails miserably trying to make us care about anyone or anything that’s happening on screen with the 3D adding insult to injury. Far too many scenes are jaw-droppingly corny, cringe-worthy or both.

What could have been a fun and exciting fanciful adventure comparable to “Lord of the Rings” becomes nothing more than “Transformers 2” of the ancient world.

Film critic Aaron Peck is not an employee of the newspaper.

Feedback at aaronpeck46@ gmail.com.

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‘Titans’ is bland, corny, cringe-worthy

Top photo: Daniel Bialkowski talks with Tammy Jewkes as Jeanniene Posey works on a bowl. Bottom photo: Bialkowski talks with a student while working on his project.

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t’s been years since Julie Rivet has gotten her hands on some clay, but a few weeks ago she felt it was time.

“Clay is a really passionate art form,” the Richmond resident said Wednesday. “I like to get my hands dirty.”

In her second week in an Alliance for the Varied Arts ceramics and pottery class, Rivet worked off to the side of others who were using the potter’s wheel. As a hand builder, Rivet’s art uses the same medium but an entirely different approach than those who use the wheel.

“I’m just trying to come up with different ideas,” she said, adding that since it’s been some time since she’s worked with clay her mind is still gearing up.

This week, Rivet worked on a triangular vase with a sculpted animal climbing up the side of it.

Rivet is just one of a handful of adults who attend Beth Calengor’s AVA class each week. The class is composed of those experienced in ceramics, those just beginning and those like Rivet, who are coming back after years away.

AVA ceramics/pottery brings together amate experts, all levels in be In addition to teaching adults, Calengor teaches children’s, pre-teen and teen ceramics classes. She’s been involved for more than a decade and even taught children’s classes through the AVA when it was based in Logan’s Whittier Center years ago.

Ceramics education is limited in Cache Valley, Calengor said. She doesn’t know of any other children’s classes but says adults can enroll in classes at Utah State University.

Calengor was an art major in college and first took a ceramics class then. Since she started teaching, she’s worked to learn how to teach beginners as efficiently as possible.

“The wheel is really much more difficult than it looks,” she said. “But I try to find a way to explain how to use it as

simplistically as po Tammy Jewkes is beginners, if you do the pottery class sh eighth-grader about She said she always getting into ceramic her husband saw a l class, she decided t “It’s just someth said. “I’m trying to the inner artist in m Jewkes, a Smithf said she’d like to e create a plant pot, possibly a utensil h Five-year veteran Posey calls the hob “I kind of get los said. “My mind is thing else other tha making.”

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ors. She wants to “perfect” her bowls, she said, so she works a little slower than others might.

“I’m not interested in production,” she said. “I just want to have fun.”

After class students finalize their projects, the items fill up a gas kiln just outside the Bullen Center, where the classes are held. Lab technician Daniel Bialkowski works the kiln, which is fired up about every five to six weeks.

The 22-year-old Bialkowski said he’s been involved with ceramics since he was a child.

Working in the studio for him is a “nice mental release,” he says.

Calengor said although classes have already started, students are welcome to still enroll if space allows. The adult 10-week class tuition is $135 plus $15 for clay. Children ages 5 to 10 can take a five-week or 10-week course for $55 or $90, respectively. Pre-teens and teenagers 11 and older can also take five- and 10-week courses for the same price, but must pay the $15 extra for clay. Tuition prices are pro-rated if students enroll after classes start.

by Alan Murray

Marlene Conner uses an extruder to shape clay into a handle for a mug in her AVA ceramics class at the Bullen Center.

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Dear America ...

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EAR AMERICA, Turn off your cell phone, the TV, your computer and get your hand out of that bag of chips. Look at yourself. You’re fat, distracted and falling behind the rest of the world in just about everything other than monster truck racing. It’s a wonder the sheer weight of North America hasn’t tipped the Earth’s.

In fact, that might be the cause of global climate change.

You had to know this was going to happen. We’re staging an intervention and putting you on a 12step recovery program until you can prove you can handle your capitalism. It won’t be that bad; we’ve done this many times before.

This is not a new fascist, socialist or totalitarian idea; Republicans and Democrats have successfully mandated dozens of things that freedom-loving, god-fearing, gunwielding Americans don’t want.

The short list includes auto insurance, seat belts, motorcycle helmets, speed limits, infant car seats, dog leashes, air bags and state safety inspections. Smoking is banned in most public buildings and highly taxed everywhere. New York City banned trans-fats; Chicago banned foie gras (goose liver); and there are counties and cities that ban alcohol. Banning and mandating stuff is actually one of the few things we have been able to agree on — you don’t have the right to do whatever you want when the rest of society has to pay for your reckless behavior. Life and liberty trump pursuit of happiness.

This is why we either have to give everyone health care as a taxpayer Christmas gift or require it as the price of admission to a safe and sane country.

Why? Because this scenario plays out for millions of Americans every year: Should I buy a new pair of skis or health care? After about two seconds’ thought and a look at the ski report, you buy the skis and a ski pass. You hit the black diamond slopes, have a fall and blow out your anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments as well as sustain some internal hemorrhaging. You get airlifted off the mountain and deposited at the nearest emergency room in hopes of saving your leg

Slightly Off Center

By Dennis Hinkamp

and/or your life. Even though you don’t have health insurance and the most valuable thing you own is a 1989 Subaru wagon, the hospital is probably not going to give you an ice pack, two Advil and send you on your way. They are going to fix you up. But who is going to pay?

Well, we all are. Bingo! Socialized medicine rears its ugly head.

Of course buying health insurance sucks. Really, just about any insurance is a joyless purchase because you are going to remember all the times you didn’t use it and wish you could had just spent the money on beer and lottery tickets.

Life insurance is the ultimate irony because it doesn’t benefit the person who buys it at all. It is totally about peace of mind for the living and sharing responsibility as a responsible citizen of a once-great nation. Try health care reform.

Just like seat belts and taking your shoes off at the airport, you’ll get used to it.

Dennis Hinkamp thinks it’s a good thing we have health care reform with all the threats of violence flying around. He is among a number of freelance writers whose columns appear in The Herald Journal as part of an effort to expose readers to a variety of community voices. He is not an employee of the newspaper.

Feedback at dhinkamp@msn.com.

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by Terri Barnes There was once a humble man, Who walked this earth alone.

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Not everyone cared for him, He stood out in a crowd, For he was very different, Kind of gentle but very proud.

He went to many temples To teach to those who cared; And to those who would just listen And to those who were not scared.

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New exhibit celebrates ‘Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity’

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HILE ENGLISH traveler and author Thomas Bowdich was visiting western Africa in 1817, the strip-woven cloth kente captured his attention and he wrote, “It has the general blaze of splendor and ostentation.” Bowdich also wrote that the cloth was an incredible size and weight, an extravagant price and worn like a Roman toga.

Besides the spectacular cloths described by Bowdich that were worn by the rich and powerful, the kente genre also includes simple warp-striped plain weaves and solid color cloths worn by average citizens.

The Brigham City MuseumGallery is providing the background for the national traveling exhibition “Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity,” set to run

April 6 through May 25.

Kente cloth is made by the Asante people of Ghana and the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo and is the best known of all African textiles. The origin of the word kente varies, with some scholars suggesting it means basket (kenten) and others stating it means to open and press (kete).

The museum is offering free programming in conjunction with “Wrapped in Pride”: • An evening for educators is scheduled to foster appreciation and understanding of kente cloth and African cultures from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 6. Educators will have the opportunity to view the exhibit and determine if they want to bring their students at a later date.

• Africa Heartwood Project founder Andy Jones will speak

about his foundation and visits to Africa at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 28. The Africa Heartwood Project is a nonprofit group committed to supporting African artisans in sustainable livelihoods, project-based humanitarian work, community cultural outreach and Africa drum and dance in the community.

• From 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 1, activities with an African theme have been planned for families at the museum. On the same day at 2 p.m., the Salt Lake African Drum and Dance Ensemble will perform on the stage in the Senior Center, which is located above the museum. The public is invited to all events.

The museum is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturdays. Admission is free. For more information, call 435-723-6769.

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Everybody wins at annual Spice on Ice

By Lael Gilbert

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HEN CACHE VALLEY chefs flaunt their culinary stuff, everyone wins. There certainly weren’t any losers at Spice on Ice, the annual food competition at the George S. Eccles Ice Center on March 25. Some of the best professional chefs of Cache Valley pitted their talents during the annual cook-off and fundraiser for the ice arena.

It all started with the appetizers. Spicy fresh tuna and roasted red pepper sushi were served with chipotle sauce and knockoff-your-socks wasabi under a lighted ice sculpture at the table of chef John Simpson of Culinary Concepts. Pounders chef Kip Loy showed off his food prowess with a silky smooth Lomi Lomi salmon salsa with fresh Ogo seaweed and a crispy noodle-wrapped prawn smothered with guava ginger sauce and a single house-smoked spare rib with a sweet passion fruit glaze. There were a lot of happy, sticky faces in the room.

Although the meal was actually served next to the ice rink rather than on it (I had visions of ice skating waiters and wore my thickest socks), the food had plenty of spice. We passed around platters of pink, pungently smoked salmon with sweet coconut vanilla rice, complex and pleasantly spicy coconut curry chicken and dryaged sirloin with earthy twicebaked blue cheese potatoes. The hardest part of the evening was taking only my share.

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Photos courtesy Brooke Snow Photography

The 2010 Spice on Ice cook-off kicked off with appetizers of spicy fresh tuna and roasted red pepper sushi served with chipotle sauce and wasabi at the table of chef John Simpson of Culinary Concepts.

Elements, Greg Chambers from Firehouse Pizzeria, Ash Oberoi from Indian Oven, Ted Mathesius from Hamilton’s, Sham Singh of Tandoori Oven, and Jeff Woolley of USU Catering wowed the audience with their mouth-watering presentations.

The chefs more or less donated the food and their efforts for the fundraiser, and for a chance to win coveted awards … People’s Choice, Judge’s Choice and Overall Chef of the Year.

Ultimately only one chef could win — well, actually two in the case of the People’s Choice award. The votes for first place were miraculously tied between

those who loved the peppery steak medallions topped with cherry sauce and blue cheese served by McKay of Elements, and those who preferred the piles of thick spiral pasta smothered in lemon cream sauce with tender citrus-infused white shrimp from Chambers at Firehouse.

If you didn’t make it to the event, you may have a chance to taste one of the People’s Choice award winners. In 2009 Chambers included the winning entree from the competition on the Firehouse Pizzeria menu.

He is currently considering including the 2010 winner on his menu.

The Judge’s Choice award went to Woolley and USU Catering’s seared Kobe beef tenderloin cooked to a perfect medium rare. Broccoli greens and spicy tomato fennel sauce gave the ensemble a pleasantly bitter ying to the yang of the flavorful meat, sweet nutty butternut squash dumplings and Porcini mushroom ragu.

The Judge’s Choice award was based on points earned for presentation, texture and flavor.

The Overall Chef of the Year award went to McKay of Elements. My thick piece of peppery steak was that melt-inyour-mouth variety of meat. I

cut it with the side of my fork and followed each bite with a creamy dollop of buttermilk whipped Yukon Gold potatoes.

The peppery bite of the steak was cut by a sweet cherry-port reduction sauce and the sweet mustiness of blue cheese. It was perfectly balanced, good quality food, and basically heaven on a plate. In the words of my table mate, Dan White of Logan, you don’t often get a steak that good. This award was based on an equally weighted average of the Judge’s Choice and the People’s Choice scores.

I wondered at the absence of some of the other good restaurants and caterers in the valley. The awards are prominent enough to benefit them with publicity, and most chefs love a good food battle. But the event didn’t suffer from their absence.

In the end we were left with very full stomachs and with a good feeling around the table that only really great food can create. Although I knew the well-organized event was held to raise money for a great local amenity, the only non-profit ice arena in the West, I could only think how lucky I had been to take part (and from some platters more than my part) of some of the best professional food in Cache Valley. I won’t miss next year’s event.

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.

Paul Theroux takes turn at fiction

By The Associated Press

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NSTEAD OF exploring an exotic landscape, Paul Theroux, who is known for his travel books, explores the strange world of human emotions in “A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta.”

American travel writer Jerry Delfont is wasting time, maybe even wasting away, in Calcutta, India. Delfont, a writer of marginal talent, is now worried that even that is gone. He has a “dead hand” — writer’s block.

One day Delfont receives a letter from Mrs. Merrill Unger, a mysterious American also

living in Calcutta. She writes of a horrifying experience that Rajat, a friend of her son, has had. Rajat woke up in his room in a seedy hotel and found the corpse of a young boy on the floor. Rajat fled in panic.

Mrs. Unger wants Delfont to find out what happened. She believes his skill as a writer makes him the perfect person to solve the mystery.

Delfont is no detective, but he agrees to investigate so he can maintain a link with Mrs. Unger. His admiration of her soon becomes infatuation — helped along with steamy sessions of tantric massage.

“Was it possible to desire anyone more than I desired Mrs. Unger? I didn’t think so, even in middle age, after all my lessons in love. I had never felt this way, utterly abstracted and dependent ...”

Delfont makes slow progress in his investigation, but he steadily unravels the secret of both the dead boy and Mrs. Unger, although that takes longer than it should, especially after he attends a sacrifice to the goddess Kali with her.

Theroux has a bit of fun when he makes an appearance in his own novel: A meeting is set up between Delfont and

Theroux, a meeting Delfont doesn’t want.

“What I knew about Theroux was what everyone knew about him. He was known for being intrusive, especially among the unsuspecting — strangers he met on trains, travelers who had no idea who he was, people thinking out loud in unguarded moments.”

The book hardly qualifies as a mystery, but that won’t matter to Theroux’s fans. His journey though India and the revelations Delfont makes about his neediness, his writer’s block, and his remaining potential add up to a satisfying read.

‘Surrendered’ an epic novel of grief, survival The Christian Science Monitor

HANG-RAE LEE C may have written the feel-bad novel of the year. The

author of “A Gesture Life” and “Aloft” has already proven himself a literary force to be reckoned with, but he’s ratcheted things up a notch with his epic of grief and survival, “The Surrendered.”

Toggling between 1950s Korea and New York and Italy in 1986, “The Surrendered” tells the story of June, an orphan who lost her entire family during the Korean War; Hector, an American soldier; and Sylvie, a missionary’s wife who runs the orphanage where June finds refuge. Something then goes terribly wrong at the New Hope orphanage.

In 1986, June is a New York antiques dealer who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and wants to find her grown son before she dies, Hector is a janitor and semifunctional alcoholic, whom June is determined to drag with her on her quest, and Sylvie is dead.

June and Hector haven’t

seen each other since the marriage of convenience that got June into the United States.

And neither is comfortable in the other’s presence, given certain survival instincts and the circumstances surrounding Sylvie’s death.

All three main characters are shaped by unendurable losses, although they all endure. Hector proves especially physically resilient — he shrugs off life-threatening injuries with an ease that depresses him.

Even decades of alcohol abuse can’t put a dent in his glowing good looks. (The parallels with Achilles get pounded home.)

“His, it could be supposed, was the sentence of persistence.”

June, before her diagnosis, also radiated health and vitality; and Sylvie’s golden beauty attracted everyone who saw her. Sylvie grew up the only child of two aid workers in the 1920s and ’30s. “She remembered her father telling her ... how this world was littered with those cut off in midbloom, all this wasted beauty and grace, and that it was their

humble task to gather as many as they could and replant them.

It didn’t matter that they were stomped and torn. That the soil was rocky and poor.... She was sure this was true of the children. But what of a person like her? Could one ever reroot her own long-trampled self?”

Lee is not one for comforting platitudes. In the battle against death and chaos, Hector thinks, “Love was the prime defiance, of course, most every story told of that, though well short of love there was the simple law of association, just nearness and contact....” Is that enough consolation, the novel asks, in the face of the loss of everyone you love? (In fact, Lee goes overboard with the casualty list: There are two deaths near the end that seem piled on unnecessarily.)

In the first 30 pages, June loses both parents and all of her siblings in a variety of heartbreaking ways. (The beginning actually works as a great test case as to whether “The Surrendered” belongs on your reading pile.) As an adult, June reflects on the dogged

tenacity that kept her alive as a starving child: “even though she held no illusions of being an admirable person, she had always been capable of making her way, no matter what.”

Hector’s life is shaped by guilt over his dad’s death, and the torture he fails to stop as a soldier doesn’t help his mental wellbeing. He takes a job digging graves, so that he doesn’t have to witness any more pain, and after the war ends up as a handyman at New Hope orphanage.

Sylvie’s secrets date to an earlier era and are even more horrifying. The cumulative weight of tragedies is enough to make it seem as if the characters in “King Lear” were merely having an off week.

Lee delineates, in thoughtful detail, the emotional toll survival has on his characters.

(His depiction goes beyond the usual pop psychology checklist of survivor’s guilt.)

In addition to Homer, Lee weaves in references to the battle of Solferino in Italy, quoting extensively from an account by an eyewitness to that tragedy.

The doctor treating June argues that survival itself is admirable: “We cheat time, June, all of us, where we’re ill or not.... And I don’t want to hear about ‘quality of life’ or some such. Life is quality of life. If you can take nourishment and communicate and conceive of tomorrow, then another day is riches enough.”

But for Lee’s characters, surviving at any cost has left them with a terrible question: Was it really worth it?

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Answers from last week

Friday Utah State University will host its fourth annual Beat Night at 7 p.m. Friday in the Taggart Student Center Ballroom. This year’s event will feature “Awkward While Airborne, the Buddy Wakefield and Andrea Gibson Tour,” selected poems by Beat poets and performances by student poets. A gallery walk beginning at 6 p.m. at the TSC will showcase USU’s student artists; art will be available for purchase. Tickets are $5 in advance or $7 at the door and available online at beatslam.usu. edu. Unique coffee mugs have been created by members of the USU Ceramics Guild as souvenirs for this year’s attendees; advance ticket purchase guarantees a custom mug. For more information, call 797-3853 or e-mail star. coulbrooke@english.usu.edu.

“Love’s Great Gift,” the annual Easter cantata performed every Easter, will be held at 7 p.m. Friday and Sunday at the Logan LDS Tabernacle. Admission is free and everyone is invited. For more information, visit www.loves greatestgift.com.

In 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 at USU’s Kent Concert Hall. Performing artists include John Schmidt, Jake White, Lea Cabrera (“American Idol” finalist) and a Chilean band. 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.

Stokes Nature Center invites curious children ages 2 and 3 to join Parent Tot Nature Hour from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday. Toddlers will explore animals, plants and nature through music, crafts and games. This program is parent interactive; all kids must have a parent present. Cost is $3 ($2.50 for SNC members).

To register, call 755-3239.

Eric Wagner will perform from 7 to 9 p.m.

Friday at Caffe Ibis Gallery Deli, 52 Federal Ave., Logan. Everyone is invited. For more information, call 753-4777.

Cache County Republican Women will host a luncheon at noon Tuesday at the Logan Golf & Country Club, 710 N. 1500 East. Guest speakers will be Sen. Bennett’s wife, Joyce, and son, Jim. Cost is $15. RSVP by Friday to Karen Petersen at 245-6801.

The Child & Family Support Center will recognize the 25-year anniversary of Somebody’s Attic on Friday. Refreshments will be served all week at both store locations, 39 W. 100 North in Logan and 3 S. Main in Smithfield. Sales from Somebody’s Attic go to fun abuse prevention programs in our community.

Saturday Senior humanities classes at Sky View High School will create a large-scale reproduction of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” on a gym floor using breakfast cereal on Saturday. More than 150 students will be involved

in the planning, prep and production of the image. This event will be documented by Ripley’s Believe it or Not. There will be a free public viewing from 1 to 5 p.m. that day at Sky View, 520 S. 250 East, Smithfield. For more information, contact Doyle at 770-4538.

Nibley city will host an Easter Egg Hunt for ages 0 to 10 at 1 p.m. Saturday at Heritage Park, 2500 S. 800 West. There is no cost. The Easter Bunny will also be giving out prizes.

For more information, call 752-4031.

Auditions for singers and dancers to perform in the 2010 Celebrate America Show, “Hooray for Hollywood,” will be held between noon and 2 p.m. Saturday 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.

The CMA will host its monthly chapter meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Golden Corral. A ride will follow at noon.

Hyrum’s annual Easter Egg Hunt will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday at Hyrum City Square.

There will be an egg hunt, relay races and the Easter Bunny.

Why Sound will host its Singer Songwriter Competition: Part 3 at 7 p.m. Saturday.

Admission is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whysound.

A free bounce house, crafts, games and an egg hunt will be at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (581 N. 700 East) from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Everyone is invited. For more information, call 752-1453.

The Cache Valley Folk Dancers and Bridger Folk Music Society will host their monthly “first Saturday” contra dance at 7:30 p.m. at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East, Logan. Live music will be provided by Band a Trois of Idaho with guest guitarist Don Anderson and calling will be by Kay Forsyth and other local callers. A $5 donation is suggested at the door.

The Family to Family Network will sponsor an accessible Easter Egg Hunt for children of all abilities at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Angel’s Landing Park in Logan. For more information, contact Karin at 754-7037.

Bring your kids (ages 2 to 14) to the Macey’s Little Theater any time between 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday while you do your shopping in peace. Kids will make an Easter craft and have a treat; they can also stay and watch a video. For more information, call 753-3301.

Sunday The new Cache Valley Swap Meet will open Sunday at the Cache County Fairgrounds. This flea market will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. most Saturdays and Sundays.

Items include clothes, computers, jewelry, kids’ toys, baby supplies, hardware items, handmade items, home items, balloons, tools, books, used items, new items and more. Local restaurants will provide snacks. Everyone is invited to attend, buy or sell. For more information, call 755-6106 or 757-4417.

Zac Bettinger will perform from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday at Caffe Ibis Gallery Deli.

The Post-Mormon Community Cache Valley chapter meets for dinner and socializing every Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at a local restaurant. Newcomers welcome. For more information, visit www.PostMormon.org/logan.

Monday MedSource will offer free assistive technology maintenance training and assessments on Monday. For more information or to schedule a home visit, contact Janice at 7535353 ext. 102.

A Gold and Silver Extravaganza will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the Crystal Inn Hotel & Suites, 853 S. Main, Logan. There will be free appraisals and in most cases offers to buy people’s jewelry, gold, silver, coins, diamonds and watches. For more information, call 801-661-7349.

Tuesday The Cache Carvers woodcarving club will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Senior Citizen Center in Logan, 236 N. 100 East. Professional spoon carver Gary Loveland of Brigham City will demonstrate his tools, techniques and shavehorse. Everyone is invited. For more information, call 563-6032.

The Utah Symphony Chamber Orchestra will perform “Music D’energie” at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday at USU’s Performance Hall. Admission is $15 for adults and $8 for students, available at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office in the Chase Fine Arts Center, Room 138-B or at http://boxoffice.usu.edu. For more information, call 797-8022. No children younger than 8 are allowed in the Performance Hall.

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will lead a climbing activity at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Rockhaus. Cost is $8. For more information, visit www.cgadventures.org or call 713-0288.

IFA Garden Department Manager Don Sproul will talk about how to get your yard and garden ready for spring at a free community class from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. There will be giveaways and refreshments. Seating is limited; call 753-3301 to reserve your spot.

Wednesday Scott Bradley will lead a “To Preserve the Nation” Constitution class at 7 p.m.

Wednesday at The Book Table (upstairs).

There is no cost. For more information, call 753-2930 or 753-8844.

The USU Women’s Center will celebrate its Women Over 65 Lifetime Achievement Award at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in USU’s Evan N. Stevenson Ballroom, Taggart Student Center. This year’s recipients are Carolyn Barcus, JoAn Criddle and Marilynne Glatfelter. A reception will follow. For more information, email niki.godfrey@usu.edu or at call 797-1728.

Kris Special will perform with Water and Walls and Katie Jo (acoustic rock) at 8 p.m.

Wednesday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover charge is $5.

Thursday A Cache Valley Comedy Night featuring Brad Bonar (host/magician), Spencer King and headliner Richard Stockton will be held at 7 and 9 p.m. Thursday at Smokin’ Blues Barbeque, 71 E. 1200 South, Logan. Two shows have already sold out; get your tickets early by calling 787-2233.

The Knotty Knitters meet from 6 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday at the Senior Citizen Center in Logan. Everyone is invited to work on their crochet, knitting, needlework, crossstitch projects and more. For more information, contact Cathy at 752-3923.

Upcoming events Why Sound will host its Singer Songwriter Competition: Finals at 7 p.m. Friday, April 9.

Admission is $5.

An overnight scrapbook retreat will be held April 9 and 10 at the Crystal Inn in Logan.

Cost is $50 per person and includes a room, gift, dinner and breakfast, drawings, contests and prizes. For more information, contact Lori Hurd at the Red Rooster Scrapbook & Gift Barn, 435-730-1797.

Hyrum city’s sesquicentennial celebration will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 10, in the Mountain Crest School auditorium. Program will feature speaker Hyrum Smith, the Hyrum Community Choir Children’s Chorus and a sesquicentennial quilt drawing.

USU’s Museum of Anthropology will host its second annual Prehistoric Artifact Road Show from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 10, at part of the ongoing “Saturdays at the Museum” program. Guests are invited to bring items to the museum for a panel of USU archaeologists to evaluate and answer questions (monetary estimates will not be provided). There will also be various children’s activities. For more information, call 797-7545.

The Cache Valley Watercolor Society will host its monthly meeting Tuesday, April 13, in the northeast classroom of the Logan Library.

A critique will begin at 6:30 p.m.; at 7 p.m. artist Edward Mendenhall will demonstrate how to make “color explosion portraits.” Please bring a black-and-white photo (5-by-7 or larger) printed on transparency paper; a full sheet of watercolor paper spattered with watercolor blotches, spots, drips; and any “drawing” colors to trace or draw your own design. For more information, contact Edward at 258-5269.

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