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Laura Mae Miller’s all-natural Jewel Soap smells good and moisturizes, but it’s also good for various skin conditions, which is Laura’s favorite part: “I like sharing that there is hope.”

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What’s inside this week Dennis has plenty to whine about this time of year

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Laura Mae Miller pours a mixture for soap into a mold at her Jewel Soap shop behind her home in Garland. Miller, a member of the Mennonite community, has been making soap for several years.

Read more about her all-natural soap (using goat’s milk, lye, palm oil and olive oil), shampoo, lip gloss, lotion and “TLC Balm” on Page 8. Photo by Alan Murray/ Herald Journal

From the editor

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ODAY’S COLUMN ON Community-Supported Agriculture (see page 11) made me think, for no obvious reason, about the days when we used to have a milkman.

I remember the gray box sitting on the porch of the house I grew up in, and I remember leaving him treats and notes on occasion. I’m not sure I ever actually saw the guy, but it was like he was part of the family. It was because of him, after all, that I was able to eat my cereal in the morning and snack on Oreos at night.

Now, after many years, I’m thinking I need a milkman again. No, I probably won’t draw him pictures of flowers, but I’m pretty sure I’ll appreciate his delivery as much as I ever did, if not more.

We go through milk at our house like you wouldn’t believe. Between the two

Slow Wave

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of us, we drink about a gallon every two days, and we’re always having to go shopping just because “we’re out of milk!” It’s gotten to the point that we don’t know what to do with ourselves if we run out and neither of us remembered to pick any up. Nothing sounds good for dinner, we can’t eat breakfast, we can’t have cookies ... it’s almost like the world has stopped turning.

So I’m pretty excited about having it delivered. Rosehill Dairy in Hyrum delivers two days a week, so if I play my cards right, I should never have to go to the store just for milk again. That in itself is a selling point for me. They will also deliver eggs, bread, sour cream, cheese, jam, juice and more. But my favorite part? I’m going to order a whole pound of “squeaky cheese.”

Have a great weekend, everyone!

— Jamie Baer Nielson Cache Magazine editor

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Film..........................p.6-7 Book review..............p.10

HJ film critic offers up his 2010 summer movie preview

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Cute

(Page 11) Grow — and get to know — the food you eat

pet photo of the week

This dog is available for adoption!

Pet: Phil From: Cache Humane Society Why he’s so lovable: “Phil is a big, lovable goof! He gets so excited to play with you and would love to just play all day. Phil needs a family that can match his high energy needs and desire to play. He loves being petted and loved and would make a great buddy. Because he gets so attached to people, he would do best with his family most of the time, not confined outside all day. He loves rope toys and will toss them around by himself and play fetch with them. During his handling tests it was determined he may not be good with toddlers as he doesn’t like being grabbed and pulled. He knows some obedience behaviors but still needs a little work on leash walking.” Phil’s ID number is 2010-8088. For more information, call 792-3920.

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.

Skaters to present ‘Lights, Camera, Axel’

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HE CACHE VALLEY

Figure Skating Club will present its annual spring show, “Lights, Camera, Axel,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 30, and Saturday, May 1, at the Eccles Ice Center, 2825 N. 200 East, North Logan. Performers will be skating to music from movie blockbusters. Admission is $5 for general admission and $8 for reserved seating. Children 3 and younger get in free. For more information, call 787-2288 or visit www.cvfscutah.org.

Members of the Cache Valley Figure Skating Club, USU Figure Skating Students, and the Hot Chocolate Club will be skating to some of Hollywood’s most popular songs from movie blockbusters.

Guest skater Rachel White will accompany the Cache Valley skaters. White is from the Bountiful area and currently skates with Salt Lake Figure Skating. Some of her accolades include placing fourth at the 2010 Central Pacific Regionals, becoming a threetime Pacific Coast Sectionals competitor, the 2005 Switzerland Gletscher Cup Champion and a two-time U.S. Nationals alternate. White has 12 years

From left: Emma Brownell, Savannah Larson and Kendal Witbeck. of skating experience and is known for her amazing spiral.

Show co-director and Skating School Director Sue Schiff said that the skaters, whose ages range from the tiniest of performers to adults, have been

preparing for the show since January, though the two weeks just before the exhibition were “crunch time.” Whether getting ready for a show or on a bigger scale, a lot can happen in a short time.

A great deal of time and hard work has gone into the show this year. Not to be forgotten are the many bumps and bruises that have also accompanied the skaters as they prepare. Asked how she keeps going through

a tough practice with a lot of falls, one skater said, “I say to myself, I got to get that right. I just get back up.”

Schiff said learning to fight through hard times is a life skill every skater masters.

“Skating not only teaches physical skills on ice, but other abilities too,” she said, including “communication, public presentation and to win and lose graciously.”

Ever since the Eccles Ice Center opened in 2002, the number of figure skaters in Cache Valley has been on the rise. In fact, the United States Figure Skating Association magazine has honored the rink for its record number of Learnto-Skate signups. Seeing the promising skaters that have developed already makes it easy to wonder what’s next.

The Eccles Ice Center offers skaters a vast amount of freestyle practice times as well as Learn-to-Skate programs to help teach young skaters the fundamentals of figure skating.

Learn-to-Skate sessions are held Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and typically last six weeks at a time. The next session begins Tuesday, May 25.

‘Green Beam’ shines again T UTAH STATE A University’s April 30 Science Unwrapped presentation,

Cache Valley residents will see a nighttime sight they haven’t seen for several years: The Green Beam. Formally known as the Rayleigh Scatter Lidar, the bright-green laser situated atop USU’s Science Engineering Research building is used to study atmospheric dynamics.

Tight funding has limited the lidar’s use in recent years but the familiar green beam will shine for Science Unwrapped’s final presentation for spring 2010, “Light Years: The 50th

Anniversary of LASER,” at 7 p.m. Friday in the Eccles Science Learning Center auditorium on campus.

Admission is free and everyone is invited.

John Sohl Atomic and laser physicist John Sohl from Weber State University will be the featured speaker.

“LASER stands for ‘Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation,’” says Sohl. “We’ll talk about the sci-

ence behind this amazing technology that impacts our lives in increasing ways.”

Following Sohl’s presentation, attendees are invited to try hands-on activities including an exhibit developed by USU’s award-winning chapter of the Society of Physics Students. The undergraduate student group received one of 20 national LaserFest Outreach Grants and has created laser mirror mazes to share with the community. Free refreshments will be served.

For more information, call 797-3517 or visit www.usu.edu/ science/unwrapped.

Herald Journal file photo

Physics research assistant Josh Herron demonstrates USU’s “Green Beam” instrument.

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Rhythms

Electro/pop band coming to Why Sound

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PEAKEASY TIGER WILL perform with IB and Beacon Hill (electro/pop) at 8 p.m. Friday, April 30, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whysound.

The buzz surrounding this Denver quintet is building to a roar worthy of the band’s namesake — Tiger. Speakeasy Tiger has been described as “a danceable symphony of revolving doors, torrents of emotion and stories of exploding stars in the periphery of vision” (Denver Syntax). A most unlikely group of personalities and artistic direction united in their motivation and love of music, Speakeasy Tiger has bred a sound accessible to the masses as well as selective audiophiles.

At the center of the band’s music are the vocals of Kyle Simmons. A professional recording artist since the age of 14, Simmons has pushed her voice in new directions to reflect her evolution as a frontwoman. Ranging from a purr to a roar, Simmons’ voice lays bare the emotions expressed in her lyrics.

A longtime collaborator and friend of Simmons’ is Pete Schmidt. A classically trained pianist, he brings talent and a passion for music to the keyboards.

However, in a live performance, it is Schmidt’s animated mastery of the keytar that brings the crowd to its feet.

Acting as both a compliment and a lead to Schmidt’s synth are Tavis Alley’s delay-heavy guitars that are “primed for stadiums and airwaves” (Absolute Punk).

Being the final addition to the Speakeasy Tiger lineup, Alley has solidified an essential piece to this infectious puzzle breaking through the Denver music scene.

Lucas Gordon, on drums, has a background in fast and aggressive music, which requires great technical skill on the drums. That technique applied to a dance-rock style is the heartbeat of the band. Metronome-like in his drumming, he tightly directs the live show.

Lauren Gale, a self-confessed “lowfrequency addict,” is clearly in her element on the bass guitar. The joy she receives from the music is evident in her performance. Having studied music extensively, she knows her way around the fretboard, but it is her creativity that truly shines through.

In concert, these distinctive elements combine to create a performance that is more than just that; it is an experience.

The audience connects to the energy of

the band and in turn moves to, and is moved by, the music. With their debut album, “The Public,” Speakeasy Tiger is determined to carry their tunes to the

people who inspired the album in the first place: the public.

For more information, visit www. speakeasytiger.com.

Jazz band honors music of Woody Herman T HE JAZZ KICKS Band, sponsored by the USU music department and led

by Larry Smith, will present its Spring Concert at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 4, in the new Performance Hall at USU. Admission is $5 for the general public and free for all students, including high school and grade school students.

This concert will feature the music of Woody Herman, whose musical

career began in vaudeville. During his elementary school years he began performing as a dancer, singer, clarinet and alto sax player. In his teens he played and sang with dance bands.

Herman began leading his own band in 1936 and continued as a leader for more than 50 years. His band, dubbed the First Herd, began attracting a lot of attention during the final years of World War II as an exuberant group of young musicians having a great time playing swing music. In the later 1940s, Herman started the Second Herd, which featured a number of the finest young musicians of the day playing a more modern style.

The Second Herd also became known as the Four Brothers band, named after the piece that

featured Herman’s new saxophone section lineup, three tenors and one baritone. During the years that followed there were many more Herds, all featuring hot, swinging original jazz tunes and clever arrangements of popular tunes and standards. One of Herman’s final performances was at Logan High School in 1978.

The Jazz Kicks Band will be performing music from all stages of Herman’s career, beginning with his 1939 hit “Woodchopper’s Ball” (featuring Ken Peterson on clarinet, Jon Gudmundson on baritone sax and Todd Fallis on trombone). The saxophone section is spotlighted on “Four Brothers,” and trombonist Roger Karren and trumpeter Grayson Osborne solo in “Opus de Funk.” J. Paul Ward plays a flugelhorn solo in

“Come Rain or Come Shine,” bassist Jim Schaub, tenor saxophonist Mike Reeder and soprano saxophonist Greg Wheeler are soloists in “Pools,” and Liz Woolley’s pianistics are displayed in “That’s Where It Is.” Also, drummer Travis Taylor shines on “After You’ve Gone,” trombonist Sarah Houghton and baritone saxist Jon Gudmundson will solo on “The Great Escape,” and Monica Fronk will sing “Willow Weep for Me” and “Easy to Love.”

Many Jazz Kicks Band members played in the Crestmark Orchestra that played for the popular Glenn Miller Shows; now they play for the popular “Celebrate America Show,” which runs Sept. 9, 10 and 11 this year in the TSC Ballroom at USU.

‘Androcles & the Lion’ up next at the Unicorn NICORN CHILDREN’S renowned local talent of Lee Daily and Keri Larsen and is directed by U Theatre will present “AndroRichie Call, who has just returned cles and the Lion,” an uproarious production based on Aesop’s classic fable, at 7:30 p.m.

May 6, 7 and 8, with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m., at the Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 W. Center, Logan. Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for kids and available by calling 797-8022 or online at boxoffice.usu.edu.

“Androcles and the Lion” is about a Roman slave who finds an unlikely friend in a lion. Experience the adventure, see the lion and meet Androcles and all her madcap friends. The play stars the

from Rutgers’ prestigious graduate theater program.

For more information about a coloring contest for ages 3 to 12, visit unicornplays.blogspot. com. Finalists and their families will go backstage, meet the cast and receive a free bookmark. Grand-prize winners will also receive an autographed poster from the show and get their pictures taken with the lion and his friends.

For more information about the show, call 753-6518 ext. 10.

On stage: ‘Anne of Green Gables’ OGAN HIGH SCHOOL WILL L present “Anne of Green Gables” at 7:30 p.m. April 30 and May 1 and 3 in the Logan

High School auditorium. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students.

The play captures the charm and excitement of L.M. Montgomery’s enduring classic. Set in the early 1900s, this is the story of Anne Shirley (Shirley Tyler), a skinny, red-haired chatterbox who comes to live with Matthew (Brad Rasmussen) and his sister, Marilla Cuthbert (Meg Campbell), at Green Gables.

Whether you are an “old friend” of Anne’s or meeting her for the first time, this charming play will forge a lasting Conner Nesbitt as Gilbert and Shirley Anne Tyler as bond between you and one of literature’s Anne in Logan High’s “Anne of Green Gables.” most unforgettable characters.

History buffs invited to AWHC conference

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From left: Ryan Dalrymple, Laura Rowley, Chris Rowley, Jim Dalrymple.

Electron Deception on their way to Logan LECTRON DECEPTION “Trondezvous,” and had a Christmas single featured on the music E will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, and style website 21st & Ivy. The May 7, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover charge is $5.

The Provo-based band formed in late 2008 and has performed alongside many notable Utah acts including Neon Trees, Shark Speed, Elizabethan Report and others. In 2009 the band released its debut EP,

band is also notable for being composed entirely of family members — lead vocalist Laura Rowley and drummer Jim Dalrymple are married, while Laura’s brother Chris Rowley plays bass and Jim’s brother Ryan Dalrymple plays keyboard.

HE FOURTH annual, family-friendly Intermountain Reenactors and Living History Conference will be held April 30 and May 1 at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville. The conference will feature workshops and presentations about life skills from the past that will appeal to old and young.

There are also sessions on how to be a presenter of just about any topic for non-history museums, parks and other venues. Storytelling, team driving, blacksmithing, showmanship, effective interpretation, pioneer cookery, 19th century life and manners, and other topics will be among the subjects explored.

A special workshop on Scandinavian pioneer music will be presented by keynote speaker Clive Romney, a well-known pioneer music expert and LDS songwriter. There are specific workshops and sessions for adults and for children, and the conference is priced so

Wes Pound teaches conference participants all about oldfashioned fiber arts.

families can attend together.

On Friday, April 30, longer workshops will be presented on a variety of topics. Participants will also enjoy the fourth annual Living History DutchOven Cook Off, where any living history organization or other team may battle for top culinary honors — and every-

one else can enjoy the food.

After dinner a special melodrama party will be held with 19th century theatrical activities.

Three light meals will be included in the price of the conference. To save money, individuals and families can “camp out” in one of the pioneer buildings at the Heritage Center for free, or conference participants can choose to lodge in one of the official conference hotels for a reduced cost.

“Living history” is usually defined as dressing up like people from the past and actually doing the things that were done in the past using old methods and techniques. In this way, history is made more real and more fun for many.

Re-enactors often take the personae of characters from the past and try to re-create them for audiences.

To register for the conference or to find out more information, including prices, call 245-6050 ext. 10 or visit www.living historyconferencesite.org.

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Film Still playing

New this week!

“The Back-up Plan” Rated PG-13 ★1⁄2 This gets sitcommy early and often, and just for good measure, throws in old TV favorites Tom Bosley and Linda Lavin in brief, one-note roles. But regardless of their presence, or that of the appealing (and frequently shirtless) Alex O’Loughlin in his first leading-man role, this is a vehicle for Jennifer Lopez, who is front and center and looking flawless at all times. The first time we see her character, Zoe, she’s at the doctor’s office with her feet in the stirrups being artificially inseminated, wearing false eyelashes and perfect lip gloss.

In case we couldn’t possibly imagine what she’s thinking, the script from Kate Angelo (a former sitcom writer) offers this helpful voiceover: “Oh, God, I hope this works. I’ve wanted this for so long.” Yeah, it’s like that. Director Alan Poul (who also has a TV background) hits every obvious note, complete with pratfalls, pregnancy cliches and cheesy pop-music cues that signal the characters’ emotions in painfully literal fashion. He also cuts away to Zoe’s adorable Boston terrier for cheap reaction shots so frequently, it could be a drinking game. All these devices are in service of a plot that’s pretty thin.

Zoe is prepared to have a baby on her own, only to meet and fall for the hunky Stan (O’Loughlin).

Since they get together pretty early, the rest of the movie consists of contrived flare-ups that threaten to keep them apart. PG13 for sexual content including references, some crude material and language. 104 min.

source material originated as a “man-crush love letter” to “Lethal Weapon” screenwriter Shane Black. But instead of producing a heady homage to slick, ’80s action movies or a winking salute to Sam Peckinpah and his wild bunch of losers or even a faithful adaptation of a serviceable comic, the filmmakers have watered down the material to the point of irrelevance. PG-13 for scenes of intense action and violence, a scene of sensuality, and language. 98 min.

“The Losers” Rated PG-13 ★1⁄2 Deadly only in its dullness, this coma-inducing, comicbook-adapted action flick aims to serve as a placeholder until “Iron Man 2” arrives with the summer’s heavy artillery. That “The Losers” and its ragtag band of Special Forces operatives fail to achieve even that modest goal speaks to the filmmakers’ utter lack of imagination as well as the busy smugness with which they offer their smorgasbord of nothingness. The comic-book

“Oceans” Rated G ★★★1⁄2 Fish that look like rocks — or scarves, or a jeweled brooch, or anything but fish — are among the fascinating underwater creatures that inhabit “Oceans.” This stunningly beautiful documentary is the second in a series from the new Disneynature label, which gave us “Earth” exactly one year ago on Earth Day. Whereas that film followed wildlife across the globe, “Oceans” takes a plunge deep into its waters, with jaw-dropping

“Furry Vengeance” Rated PG ★ Brendan Fraser has built a small, dorky industry by being an exceptionally smiley fellow.

In “Furry Vengeance” (directed

by Roger Kumble), he plays a father, Dan Sanders, who has moved his family to the Oregon woods, where he hopes to please his demanding boss (Ken Jeong) by overseeing a

new suburban housing development. His wife (Brooke Shields) and his mopey teenage son (Matt Prokop) miss the city. As Dan supervises the “Rocky Springs” development, an uprising takes form and the forest’s animals (a mixture of real-life, trained animals and CGI) resort to guerrilla warfare. The irony is that Dan’s company purresults. Directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud provide a truly immersive experience, without the three-dimensional IMAX effects of the similar — and similarly awe-inspiring — “Under the Sea 3D” from 2009. Having spent seven years working on “Oceans,” including four years gathering footage, they’ve created countless how’d-they-getthat? shots. The narration from Pierce Brosnan can get a bit cutesy at times, but that’s probably to make “Oceans” as palatable as possible for the young viewers to whom much of the film is intended. Like its recent predecessors, “Oceans” also contains a message about the importance of protecting our underwater expanses and the beings that call them home from pollution and climate change: familiar but, unfortunately, still necessary words to hear. G. 84 min.

“Kick Ass” Rated R ★★★1⁄2 Director Matthew Vaughn has made a superhero action comedy so funny fans might

ports to be “green”; Dan is due a lesson in what it takes to be eco-friendly. (The message is courtesy production company Participant Media, which made “The Cove” and “Food Inc.”) No animals may have been hurt in this hammy production, but Fraser was.

PG for some rude humor, mild language and brief smoking.

91 min. need to see it again just to catch the gags they missed from laughing so hard the first time.

The film is seriously, nastily violent, both satirizing the excesses of superhero flicks and showing genuine, hurtful consequences of the cartoon action Hollywood serves up. As an 11-year-old masked vigilante, supporting player Chloe Grace Moretz simply owns this movie, deliriously complemented by Nicolas Cage as her doting but dotty dad. They team up with a costumed comicbook geek (Aaron Johnson) to take on a crime boss (Mark Strong) and his son, a supervillain wannabe (Christopher Mintz-Plasse). Alternately sweet, savage and scary, Moretz makes you believe she really could beat the stuffing out of grown men two or three times her size. It’ll never happen, but she deserves a supporting-actress nomination come Academy Awards time. R for strong brutal violence throughout, pervasive language, sexual content, nudity and some drug content — some involving children. 118 min.

“Date Night” Rated PG-13 ★1⁄2 Steve Carell and Tina Fey’s night out is not so much a bad date as a sad date. These are two of the funniest people ever on television, yet this big-screen comedy is a dreary, uninspired waste of their talents — and those of the top-name cast inexplicably appearing in throwaway roles, including Mark Wahlberg, Mark Ruffalo and James Franco.

The movie manages the barest glimmers of the droll humor of Carell’s “The Office” and the snappy wit of Fey’s “30 Rock.”

Carell and Fey have an easy, affectionate rapport as run-down parents whose big evening out leads to mistaken identity and sets them on the run from crooks.

The actors try hard to make it work, but the lowbrow sensibilities of director Shawn Levy leave them tottering through painful verbal exchanges, lame stunts and other dreadfully unfunny hijinks. PG-13 for sexual and crude content throughout, language, some violence and a drug reference. 88 min.

“The Last Song” Rated PG ★★ Have you heard the one about the two photogenic kids who meet 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 violence, sensuality and mild language. 101 min.

— All reviews by The Associated Press

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NE, TWO, FREDDY’S

coming for you ... again?

No seriously, Freddy’s back again? How is that possible? He’s a psycho killer and all, but still, he’s been through a lot since the original “A Nightmare on Elm Street” back in 1984. After all those sequels, you’d think arthritis would have set into those knived fingers of his.

The sixth “Elm Street” movie allegedly was the “Final Nightmare,” and still more films followed. Now, we have a reinvention of the first movie — let’s not call it a remake, that would be crass — with Jackie Earle Haley filling in for the venerable Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger.

Wes Craven’s core nugget of a concept remains intact in “A Nightmare on Elm Street”: that if you die in your dreams, you die in real life. It was truly inventive and disturbing then — the idea that falling asleep could be deadly — and it allowed for an exploration of the frightening power of the subconscious.

With his jaunty fedora and torn sweater, his hideous, scorched skin and his arsenal of one-liners, Freddy could be anywhere at any time. There was no way to stop him. At some point, you’ve gotta fall asleep.

By now, though, the novelty has long since worn off, and

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★★ “Nightmare on Elm Street” Rated R cheap, generic scares are all that are left. The first feature from commercial and musicvideo director Samuel Bayer has a more artful look than you might expect from a horror remake; he also directed Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video, and his “Elm Street” has a similar steamy sheen. Some of his dream imagery can be

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striking, too: a young woman walking barefoot through the snow in her bedroom, or a carpeted hallway that turns into a river of bloody sludge.

But there’s not much in the way of genuine suspense. If one of Bayer’s characters is experiencing a quiet moment alone — in a car, in bed, in front of the bathroom mirror —

you know we’re only seconds away from a loud, screechy shock cut. It’s obvious, and it’s repetitive.

As for the story, the script from Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer pretty closely follows the original. A group of teenagers played by actors in their mid-20s (Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy,

Thomas Dekker and Kellan Lutz) find themselves haunted by the same menacing man: Freddy Krueger, who chases and slashes at them in their dreams. Why this happens to them now, simultaneously, seems arbitrary but, whatever.

They’re all connected to him through their childhood but they can’t figure out how (Krueger’s pedophilia is spelled out more explicitly in this one, which seems like a needless and gratuitous attempt to shock us). And one by one, he takes them out, despite their best efforts to stay awake.

Haley seems wasted in the role, though. This is someone who can really act, who can be deeply creepy, as evidenced by his Oscar-nominated work in “Little Children.” Here, he seems smothered by the special-effects makeup, the distorted voice, the cheesy puns: “You really shouldn’t fall asleep in class.”

Not that any of this matters, though. The last shot clearly sets up another “Nightmare.”

Who says Hollywood has run out of original ideas?

“A Nightmare on Elm Street,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release, is rated R for strong bloody horror violence, disturbing images, terror and language. Running time: 92 minutes. Two stars out of four.

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This season, Laura Mae is sure she’ll have enough to go around, having spent much of the winter in her backyard workshop making about 240 bars of soap each week.

She’s also experimenting with some different products — lavender sachets and soap in three new scents: tea tree with peppermint, Flower of Love and sage.

Old favorites like Jojoba Care, Oriental Spice, Forest Glades and her bestseller, lavender, also will be back this year.

As an added touch, each bar of soap is individually wrapped in fabric for a look that is crafty and homemade but still elegant.

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“The Jewel Soap Poem”

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This aesthetic runs through the Miller family’s tidy property. The 3.5-acre farm includes a garden, brick home and pens for animals, including the two milking goats, Jewel and Lavender.

Outside Laura Mae’s small workshop is a wind chime she made from old silverware; inside a handmade quilt sits on the back of a rustic chair. The curtains are made from old flour sacks trimmed with ribbon.

“Laura Mae has always been very creative,” said her mother, Marilyn. “She can make something out of nothing.”

Near the Millers’ home on 5200 West are about a dozen other families who are also Mennonites, a group that immigrated to America with the Amish during the 18th century but hold distinct beliefs.

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Laura Mae and Marilyn acknowledge that their unique garb — long dresses and small white hats — can draw questions at the Gardeners’ Market, but both say they enjoy discussing their religion.

“I used to be shy but I’ve gotten better,” Laura Mae said.

“I’ve made a lot of friends.”

The mother and daughter also get a lot of satisfaction from selling Jewel Soap, particularly to people who use it for skin conditions.

Because many customers need her products for health reasons, Laura Mae keeps her prices low — soap is $4; lip gloss goes for $2 a tube.

“We had such problems with allergies ourselves, so I like sharing that there is hope,” says Marilyn. “There are things that can help.”

Laura Mae and Marilyn Miller sell Jewel Soap every week at Logan’s Gardeners’ Market.

The market is held May 8 to Oct. 16 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays at Merlin Olsen Park, 100 S. 200 East, Logan.

Shoppers can also visit Laura Mae’s workshop to learn more about soap making and purchase her products at wholesale prices.

For more information, contact the Millers at 257-1822.

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Some of Laura Mae Miller’s bars of soap, top, and skin creams sit on a shelf at her shop, Jewel Soap.

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Cure the soap at room temperature for five weeks (the lye totally dissipates during this process).

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Springtime is whine time

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PRING IS THE cruelest month in the Mountain West. Yes, I know spring technically occupies three months as one-quarter of the four annual seasons.

Here, it really only lasts a month. And it doesn’t even last a distinct month; what I’m saying is that you get about 31 days of spring out of the calendarcorrect 92-day season.

Everything about this season seems to be in conflict. You can’t put away the snow shovel and you can’t awake the grumpy lawn mower from its winter hibernation. You can’t plant vegetables with confidence yet the weeds are growing like weeds in hungry anticipation of late summer wildfires.

You could go skiing but you’d have to miss your softball game to do it.

You can’t park your car on the street overnight even though the city has decommissioned its snowplows for the season. You wear a sweater on the way to work but just sweat on the way home. It’s raining on 200 East but it’s snowing on 800 East. The swimming pools are starting to open but elsewhere people still might be ice fishing at Bear Lake.

Things that lurked below winter’s white blanket are now slowly returning to life, but they are not all spring flowers. Depositing two poops a day for the last four months, your tiny dog’s creations are now emerging like stinky little zombies from their snow-covered graves. Your friends are also emerging and are magnetically drawn to the farmers’ market, which opens three months before anything on a farm is actually ready for harvest.

In May the farmers’ market is really just a bake sale and hippie crafts mart.

Road repair crews pop up through the snow like volunteer tulips and just when you were looking forward to icefree cruise-controlled freewheeling, four lanes narrow into one until late October when the cycle repeats itself.

Orange cones are the perennial flower of the West.

Springtime is the time when I look at my house and think, “Spring cleaning or arson, which will it be this year?” Since I just publicly said the word “arson” I probably am not going to get away with it. So that leaves me with the inevitable.

Slightly Off Center

By Dennis Hinkamp

The longer days and disappearance of snow always make me wonder where all this stuff came from. Is Deseret Industries sneaking into my house and yard and unloading stuff? These clothes seemingly belong to someone with bad taste who was either much fatter or thinner than I. Then I discover I have four bikes. How did I get four bikes when there are only 53 days warm enough to ride a bike around here? And what about all that compost that didn’t compost? It looks just as fresh as the food I put in my freezer in November. Didn’t I get rid of the old lawn mower after I bought the new one? … apparently not.

But at least I found the two left-hand gloves and the Iowa State sock hat that went missing.

The emerging days of warmth make me want to run and bike and soak up sun, but I have to rake and prune and put dead branches on the curb to hit that one-week window when the city picks up the stuff. “Avatar” is just out on DVD but I feel the need to spend more time outside and less time hibernating with technology.

It must be spring again. After 29 years here, you’d think I would remember.

Dennis Hinkamp made up less than ten percent of this. Feedback at dhinkamp@msn.com.

Book review

Local author writes captivating thriller

By Teresa Jones

A“Hanging By the Thread” appears to be a

T FIRST GLANCE,

classic battle between good and evil. At second glance, that’s exactly what it is.

Donald B. Anderson joins the growing company of new authors from Cache Valley with his first — but hopefully not last — novel.

Within its first pages you witness the death of the president, a scene quickly followed by the accidental discovery of a mysterious three-page document written by a malevolent group called The Thread.

An unlikely trio makes a clumsy attempt to decipher the document’s contents before enlisting the help economics professor Dr. Harold Isaacson. He is passionate about what he teaches and becomes the agent for Anderson to educate the reader about economic and political freedom. From the novel: “When people imagine a country that becomes free, they often imagine a country where the people can choose their leaders. This is political freedom. Political freedom is an important part of total freedom. If I’m politically free, I can pick who governs me.

“Economic freedom, on the other hand, means I’m free to make choices, so long as in doing so I do not infringe upon the rights of others. If I am economically free, I can freely buy and sell, produce and exchange, own and trade. I am entitled to enjoy the fruit of my labors and bear the burden

of my poor choices. Economic freedom is to have the right to private property and is what the Founders meant by ‘the pursuit of happiness.’ Many early constitutions in various states in America talked about the pursuit of property as being an unalienable right. What we do with our resources is at the very heart of our efforts to be happy. That is what I mean by economic freedom.”

It’s clear the author is committed to teaching the fundamental principles of freedom; at the very least, to clarify what freedom means. It’s a principle that is misunderstood and misrepresented in conversations around dinner tables, in classrooms, boardrooms and chat rooms.

Anderson deftly weaves a series of seemingly unrelated circumstances into an intriguing tale of deceit, the appetence for power and the determination of a courageous few to disable and disarm an enemy. The story is an easy parallel to present-day political and economic perplexities. Dr.

Isaacson asserts: “This document lists most of the major changes in economic policy in America over the past five or so years. These have not been good changes, in my opinion. “... We now have a nearuniversalized health care system. We have major price controls compared to 15 years ago. We have had massive growth in entitlement programs — more than at any period except perhaps the Great Depression.”

You will find yourself cheering the heroism of the fledgling defenders of freedom as they are thrown into a battle with an unknown but ever-present enemy. When you finally discover what happens to whom and why, you’ll likely want to close the book. It’s instinctive, but resist the impulse and commit yourself to the appendix. It’s a collection of 10 lectures presented by Dr. Isaacson four months after the story’s end. Their primary purpose is to explain in greater detail the connection between economic freedom and the happiness of humankind.

For any reader who enjoys a sit down with a captivating political thriller, you will enjoy this book. For any reader who is even marginally interested in politics, economics or the Constitution, it’s a book for you as well.

For more information about Donald B. Anderson or “Hanging By the Thread,” visit hangingby thethread.com.

By Lael Gilbert

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ALWAYS GET A LITTLE

nervous attending meetings like the open house I went to on Monday. I know those food purists mean well, but I really don’t need another food philosophy designed to make me feel guilty.

Yes, that cantaloupe I had for dinner probably came from a chemical-laden clear-cut field in Brazil harvested by underage workers getting little pay that was shipped under-ripe across thousands of miles of highway in a truck spewing carbon to a mega-corporation grocery store that doesn’t provide worker health benefits. But I can’t do much about it. I gotta eat.

So I was really quite surprised to leave this particular open house a little excited … and hungry. Peppery chives, juicy tomatoes, dark purple berries straight from a bush scant miles from my house, scarlet beets grown in Cache Valley soil and savory farm chickens that died happy were all offered to me by the actual farmers who raised them.

These were CSA farms.

Community-Supported Agriculture is a brilliant idea. A CSA farm is a way for food-eating people like me to buy local, seasonal food directly from a farmer near their community. This is how it works: A farmer offers a certain number of “shares” for sale to the public at the beginning of the growing season.

Typically the share consists of vegetables for a family of four based on what is currently in season, but other farm products may be included. In return you receive a box of seasonal produce (usually at a central pickup location) each week throughout the farming season.

This is different than the food co-ops (like Bountiful Baskets and Field to Families) that have recently become deliriously popular in Cache Valley. Food co-ops are grocery store foods offered at discount prices straight off the back of the semi-truck, which is cool. But CSAs are more cool.

When you buy a share in a CSA farm, you are creating a relationship with the farmer who is producing your food. You invest in his or her success, you see how your food is

produced (often following organic principles), and you participate in the ups and downs of farm life (based on weather, temperature, rainfall and other things happening outside your window). Cucumbers might grow great, and you get lots of cucumbers in your weekly basket; winter squash might not do so great, but you will know why when you talk to the farmer. In short, you get to connect in a very real way with your food.

This arrangement creates rewards for both the farmer and you. The farmer spends time marketing the food early in the year, before their 16-hour days in the field begin.

They receive payment early in the season, which helps with the farm’s cash flow. They have an opportunity to get to know the people who eat the food they grow.

And what about benefits for the people who buy shares in the farm?

Imagine a fragrant baked eggplant parmigiano on your table. Now imagine that two short days earlier — that eggplant was hanging on a vine a few miles from your house, at the peak of purple ripeness, chock-full of flavor and vitamins.

That eggplant has your name on it.

The initial payment is significant, but if you calculate it by the week and factor in the good you are doing for your community, for your health and for the planet, you are getting a deal. Even if you don’t factor those last three in, it isn’t a bad price. But you should, as those who watched the queasy documentary “Food, Inc.” on PBS recently already know.

The farmers I met at the open house encouraged people to visit the farm where they’ve invested, to see how their food is produced and to talk to the farmer. (I plan on visiting my plants too, you know, just to give them some moral support.)

Some farms even offer member social events to help develop relationships and to learn more about how food is grown.

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 lael gilbert@gmail.com.

CSA farms located in/near Cache Valley: Sun River Farms

★ Location: Elwood, Utah (near Tremonton) ★ Product: Variety of fresh vegetables and herbs grown on organic principles ★ Price: Full share, $550; half share, $300 ★ Production: 17-week season ★ Delivery: 4 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays at 120 Water St. (downtown Logan) ★ The farmer says: “Garlic freaks will love our variety.” ★ Contact: 757-7507 or sunriverfarm@ yahoo.com

The Bryan Palmer Farm

★ Location: Wellsville, Utah ★ Product: Variety of fresh vegetables, herbs, honey and flowers grown on organic principles ★ Price: Full share, $320-$380 depending on package ★ Production: 28-week season ★ Delivery: At the farm or at the Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market ★ The farmer says: “We make beautiful bouquets available each week.” ★ Contact: 245-4579 or csautah1@gmail.com

Heritage Valley Organics

★ Location: Tremonton, Utah ★ Product: Chicken, duck, turkey and goose, managed under organic principles ★ Price: $360 ★ Production: 20 weeks ★ Delivery: To be decided ★ The farmer says: “The birds are not caged, and small grains to feed them are raised at the farm.”

★ Contact: 770-2365 or mbanca@nebonet. com

The USU Student Organic Farm

★ Location: 800 E. 1750 North, Logan ★ Product: Variety of fresh vegetables, occasional berries ★ Price: Full share, $528; half share, $308 ★ Production: 22-week season ★ Delivery: Pick up at the farm ★ The farmer says: “CSA fees go to paying student wages at the farm.” ★ Contact: E-mail jennifer.reeve@usu.edu for a sign-up sheet

Corbridge Country

★ Location: Malad, Idaho ★ Product: Berries and beef (all-natural grain and all-natural grass fed) ★ Price: Varies by weight; deposit requested ★ Production: At request, depending on cattle weight ★ Delivery: Price includes cutting, packaging and delivery ★ The farmer says: “A day at the ranch (hayride, horseback riding, BBQ) is included with meat purchase.” ★ Contact: 208-766-2644 or corbridgecountry@gmail.com Other farmers that didn’t present at the open house, but still seem cool: ★ Tagge’s Famous Fruit: 801-755-8031 ★ Tveit Gardens: Nibley, Utah, 770-8714 Go to CSAUtah.org for more information on these farms.

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Grow — and get to know — the food you eat

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2010 Summer Movie Preview

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t’s that time of year again and the summer box office season is right around the corner. So what can we expect from this year’s summer movies? Well, it does have its fair share of scheduled sequels — heavy hitters like “Iron Man,” the “Shrek” franchise and “Sex in the City” are guaranteed to

MAY 7 “IRON MAN 2”

We’re starting the summer off with a bang. “Iron Man 2” is the first big blockbuster film to hit theaters this season. Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as the armor-clad avenger, this time up against a whole slew of baddies, with the biggest and baddest baddie, Whiplash, being played

by Mickey Rourke. Superhero films usually end up suffering from the Overload Disease as the franchise wears on; while I have faith in Jon Favreau, sometimes these superhero movies can get bogged down with way too many comic book characters on the same screen.

MAY 14 “ROBIN HOOD”

Ridley Scott, director of “Gladiator,” pairs up with Russell Crowe yet again, but this time they’re headed to Nottingham. Crowe takes up the Robin Hood mantel but, while Scott’s hyper-kinetic directing style may lend itself well to the material, this version of “Robin Hood” could easily slip into the dangerous realm of 90 percent action, 10 percent plot.

bring in big box office dollars.

Remakes and adaptations — TV shows, video games and even a comic strip — take center stage as the “A-Team” finally makes its way to the big screen. Also, keep a lookout for the release of a few 2010 Sundance movies.

“LETTERS TO JULIET”

What would the summer season be without a good old-fashioned chick flick to take a date to? “Letters of Juliet” stars the suddenly popular Amanda Seyfried and is one of those movies that with one look at the trailer, you feel like you’ve already watched it.

MAY 21 “SHREK FOREVER AFTER” It’s been three years since the lackluster “Shrek the Third” hit theaters.

I’m not expecting much from this “Shrek” film, but it may pleasantly surprise; it’s just too hard to forget how bad the third one was to really get excited about a fourth.

“MACGRUBER” Straight from the SNL skit “MacGruber” starring Will Forte, this is one of the worst ideas for a movie this summer.

The reason the SNL skit is funny is because it’s only 15 seconds long,

and always ends up the same way: with MacGruber being blown up.

How in the world they are going to turn that into a 90-minute comedy is beyond me.

MAY 28 “PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME”

Disney is adapting the popular “Prince of Persia” video game series into an action movie — think “National Treasure” — that should be fun for the whole family. The trailers make headliner Jake Gyllenhaal look like an awkward action hero, but we’ll see.

“SEX AND THE CITY 2”

Since the first “Sex in the City” movie made an obscene amount of money, this movie was foreordained to happen. I really don’t see an end in sight, frankly; as long as they keep making money, I’m sure they’ll keep making these movies.

This is likely going to be the night when husbands stay home and watch the kids while the women have a girls’ night out.

By Aaron Peck

JUNE 4 “MARMADUKE”

I take back what I said about “MacGruber” being the worst idea for a movie this summer. Basing a movie on the comic strip “Marmaduke” takes the cake. With the Great Dane voiced by Owen Wilson, this is going to be one of those movies parents will dread taking their kids to.

“SPLICE” (Sundance Alert!): “Splice” was one of the most talked about movies at this year’s Sundance. It’s a marvelous little horror/thriller starring Adrian Brody and Sarah Polley as a couple of genetic scientists who create a new species that begins mutating. It never turns overly gory and definitely hinges on the acting of Brody and Polley. Keep an eye out for this one.

JUNE 11 “THE A-TEAM”

Yes, that “A-Team.” They’re back with Liam Neeson as Hannibal, Bradley Cooper as Faceman and,

“THE KARATE KID”

What do your parents buy for you if they’re both big-time movie stars?

They buy you a movie, of course, and let you star in it. Will and Jada Pinkett Smith basically bought the rights to “The Karate Kid” so their son, Jaden, could play the star. ’Nuff said.

JUNE 18 “TOY STORY 3”

The most exciting sequel this summer is Pixar’s third installment in the “Toy Story” franchise. Pixar has yet to really disappoint, especially when we’re talking about the “Toy Story” movies. The only fear here is that “Toy Story 2” remains one of the best animated films of all time, and it will be hard for “Toy Story 3” to come close to reaching the bar it set.

Airbender,” M. Night Shyamalan had to change the name so it didn’t get confused with James Cameron’s “Avatar.” Departing from his norm, Shyamalan takes on making a liveaction adaptation of the famous Japanese cartoon of the same name.

The trailers look amazingly cool, but it is M. Night, whose last film was “The Happening.” And that’s not saying much.

“TWELVE”

(Sundance Alert!): This Sundance film is directed by Joel Schumacher and follows a bunch of rich kids around New York, looking at their lives and how hard they have it being rich. It got raked over the coals at Sundance by the critics — and for good reason. This movie is a downer of epic proportions, and it’s hard to relate to a bunch of kids who have everything but act like they have nothing. Poor them.

“TWILIGHT: ECLIPSE”

No description needed here — this is probably the most anticipated movie of the summer for each and every teenage girl and their moms.

“THE LAST AIRBENDER”

Originally called “Avatar: The Last

(Sundance Alert!): I predict people will be singing the praises of “Cyrus” come July. This is a funny movie starring Jonah Hill and John C. Reilly that came out of Sundance with a buzz that has carried it to a July release date. Definitely one of the best comedies of the year.

JULY 16 “INCEPTION”

Can’t wait for the third installment in the “Batman” series to get your next Christopher Nolan fix? Well, “Inception” is the cure. The trailers make it look like a mix of an espionage thriller and an acid mind trip; I have no idea what to expect, but I do know I want to see it.

“SALT”

“KNIGHT AND DAY”

JUNE 30

“CYRUS”

JULY 23

JUNE 25 Tom Cruise is a super spy and Cameron Diaz is the helpless bystander caught in the middle.

I’m on the fence about this movie — it could either be “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” fun or “Mission Impossible 2” terrible.

finding out who their birth father is, the story takes an interesting twist.

Definitely not a movie for the prudish, but a great movie nonetheless.

JULY 9 “PREDATORS”

Yet another entry in the long list of “Predator” movies. They’re fun, sure, but when will they say enough is enough?

“THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT”

(Sundance Alert!): One of the big surprises at this year’s festival is this film starring Julianne Moore and Annette Bening as a lesbian couple who have two teenagers born as the products of artificial insemination.

When the teens become interested in

Angelina Jolie plays a sexy spy who has to go on the run after she is labeled a traitor. It seems pretty generic, but with Jolie on the screen, anything could happen. I’m not sure whether to be excited or indifferent about this movie.

JULY 30 “GET LOW”

(Sundance Alert!): “Get Low” played opening night of the Sundance Festival this year, and for good reason. A near masterpiece crafted by Aaron Schneider, “Get Low”

stars Robert Duvall and Bill Murray.

It is a period piece about a hermit in the woods (Duvall) and his idea of having a funeral party for himself before he actually dies.

Downright hilarious at times and deeply touching at others, this is certainly a film to keep an eye out for.

AUG. 13 “THE EXPENDABLES”

About the only film in August worth mentioning is this ultrapacked-to-the-gills action flick directed by Slyvester Stallone and starring just about everyone who has been in an action movie since 1980. It’s sure to be a testosteronefueled cinematic experience that hopefully brings back some nostalgia of older action classics like “Die Hard” and “Rambo.” They just don’t make them like that anymore, and I think that’s why Stallone is heading this up.

Film critic Aaron Peck has a bachelor’s degree in English from USU. He also writes for BlogCritics.org, HighDefDigest.com, and is starting up a new movie website called The ReelPlace.com. He currently lives in Logan. 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 aaron peck46@ gmail.com.

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sadly, not a recasting of Mr. T as B.A. Baracus. What else is there to say here other than you pretty much know what to expect going into the “A-Team” movie: explosions, oneliners and more explosions.

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Fundraiser to feature Craig Jessop HE SMITHFIELD T Health Days Committee will present Craig Jessop and the American Festival Chorus for an inspiring evening of music at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 6, in the Sky View High School auditorium. This highlight of the Health Days celebration is a special fundraising event to raise scholarship money for winners of the annual Health Days Scholarship Program. Tickets are available in advance at Lee’s Marketplace in Smithfield and Logan for

$10 per person, or at the door the night of the concert for $15 per person.

Jessop is a native of Cache Valley and former music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He is currently head of the music department at Utah State University and the director of the 270-person American Festival Chorus.

Also performing this evening will be the winners of the Stratford Loosle Young Musicians Competition. Everyone is invited.

Alan Murray/Herald Journal file photo

Craig Jessop leads the American Festival Chorus in rehearsal for an upcoming performance in 2008.

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Answers from last week

Friday

Logan. For more information, call 753-4777.

St. John’s Episcopal Church will host an organ recital at 7:30 p.m. Friday in celebration of the centennial of the church building on the corner of 100 North and 100 East in Logan.

Speakeasy Tiger will perform with IB and Beacon Hill (electro/pop) at 8 p.m. Friday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace. com/whysound.

“Hot Flashes” band members Anne Winn and Janet Patch will perform at 6 p.m. and easy-listening jazz duo Kirk & Linden Jazz will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza, 99 E. 1200 South, Logan. Everyone is invited.

The fourth annual Intermountain Re-enactors and Living History Conference will be held Friday and Saturday at the American West Heritage Center. To register for the conference or for more information, call 245-6050.

The Mountain Crest High School Drama Department will present “Clue,” an interactive murder mystery dinner theater, at 6:30 p.m. Friday. This is a fundraiser for the MCHS Thespian Troupe. Tickets are $8 and must be purchased in advance. For more information, call 245-6093.

The Fusion Theatre Project’s latest production, “Do Not Hit Golf Balls Into Mexico,” will play at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 W. Center, Logan.

Tickets are $13 for adults, $11 for senior citizens and USU faculty, $9 for non-USU students and free to theater faculty and USU students. Visit www.boxoffice.usu.edu.

Logan High will present “Anne of Green Gables” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Monday in the Logan High School auditorium.

Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students.

USU’s Ceramics Guild Spring Sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the ceramics studio, Fine Arts Visual, Room 123. Prices begin at $8; cash and checks are accepted. For more information, call 797-3566.

A dinner concert with the Imperial Glee Club will be held at 6 p.m. Friday at The Bear River House, 88 W. 1000 North, Logan. Admission is $10 per person or $16 per couple at the door. For more information, contact Callie at 753-9046 ext. 731.

Bear River Head Start will host an open house for all its classrooms throughout the valley from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday at 852 S. 100 West, Logan. The community is invited to come learn about Head Start and fill out applications. For more information, call 755-0081.

The Cache Valley Figure Skating Club will present its annual spring show, “Lights, Camera, Axel,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Eccles Ice Center. For more information, call 787-2288 or visit www.cvfscutah.org.

The Humane Society is offering low-cost spay and neuter clinics open to the general public every Friday in April. Walk-ins are welcome from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. or call 792-3920 to reserve a spot.

Tim Holwig will present a singing and dancing program on the new dance floor at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Pioneer Valley Lodge, 2351 N. 400 East, North Logan. Everyone is invited.

The ... Gypsies will perform Friday at Caffe Ibis Gallery Deli, 52 Federal Ave.,

Atomic and laser physicist John Sohl will present “Light Years: The 50th Anniversary of LASER” as part of USU’s Science Unwrapped series at 7 p.m. Friday in the Eccles Science Learning Center auditorium on campus. For more information, call 797-3517.

Saturday Mendon will celebrate May Day beginning with the winding of five May Poles at 10 a.m.

Saturday on the town square. A program will follow. Everyone is invited.

A Four Paws Rescue Adoption Day will take place from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at PetSmart, 1050 N. Main, Logan. If you’d like to meet someone in person, call 752-3534 and leave a message.

An American Cancer Society Relay for Life Garage Sale Fundraiser will be held from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the Stokes Car Entertainment parking lot, 1835 N. Main, Logan. All profits will be donated to Relay for life Cancer Research. If you would like to donate items for the sale, call 764-2098.

Becky Kimball will perform at 6 p.m. and former Ryan Shupe & the Rubberband member Colin Botts will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza. There is no cover charge.

The USU Museum of Anthropology will host “Affairs of Flight” as part of this week’s “Saturdays at the Museum” series. The film “October Sky” (PG) will play at 10:30 a.m. and USU’s Aviation Club will present an overview of the history of flight at 1 p.m. Another short film on flight will follow. For more information, call 797-7545 or visit anthromuseum.usu.edu.

$5 per person or $20 per family. For more information, contact Marie Drollette at 7878892 or meyoree@aol.com.

the Nation” Constitution class at 7 p.m.

Wednesday at The Book Table. There is no charge. For more information, call 753-2930.

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 The Crickets with calling by Kay Forsyth. A $5 donation is suggested at the door.

Anyone who played Grasshopper Ball with Lonnie Loveday is invited to celebrate the dedication of the Grasshopper field, which will be named after Loveday, at 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday in the field behind the city offices in Smithfield.

Sunday 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.

Caffe Ibis Gallery Deli will have live music Sunday. Everyone is invited.

Monday The Hyrum Library will host author Amy C. Maddocks at 7 p.m. Monday. Maddocks is the author of “Too Precious for Earth.” She will speak about her book and share her experiences. Refreshments will be served.

Come celebrate Cinco de Mayo with dinner and games at 6 p.m. Wednesday at OPTIONS for Independence, 1095 N. Main, Logan.

There is a food donation of $3. For more information, contact Mandie at 753-5353 ext. 108.

A Quarterly Arts Summit will be held at noon Wednesday at the Bullen Center, 43 S. Main, Logan. For more information, contact Tricia at 753-6518 ext. 11.

Paul Munson with Sun Oven International will talk about solar cooking from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Seating is limited; call 753-3301.

MedSource will offer free assistive technology maintenance training and assessments Monday. For more information or to schedule a home visit, call 753-5353 ext. 102.

“Jazz and Cocktails” 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.

The Cache Valley Retired School Employees Association will meet at 1 p.m.

Monday at The Copper Mill Restaurant. Craig Mortensen will be performing music from the ’60s. All retired school employees in the valley are invited to attend. Reservations are necessary; contact Barbara Jensen at 753-1070.

Thursday

Tuesday Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will lead a cycling activity at 4 p.m. Tuesday near Benson. Cost is $3. For more information, call 713-0288.

The Cache Carvers will meet at 7 p.m.

Tuesday at the Logan Senior Citizen Center, 236 N. 100 East, Logan. Everyone is invited.

For more information, call 563-6032.

Stokes Nature Center invites adults to “May Swenson’s Poetics of Natural Selection” from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday. Cost is $3. For more information, call 755-3239.

The 2010 Race Against Child Abuse will be held Saturday. Race features a 1-mile, 5K or 10K course. Register at www.cachecfsc.org or call 752-8880 for more information.

The Jazz Kicks Band will present its spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the new Performance Hall at USU. Admission is $5 for the general public and free for all students, including high school and grade school students.

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will lead a four-day trip to Zion National Park on Tuesday. Volunteers are always needed.

For more information, call 713-0288.

The Lightwood Duo will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the new Dahle Performing Arts Center in Dayton, Idaho. Admission is $10 at the door. For more information, call 208-747-3502.

Shauna Flammer will celebrate Mother’s Day by making muffins and other brunch foods at a free cooking class from 7 to 8 p.m.

Tuesday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Seating is limited; call 753-3301.

The 2010 Cache County Dairy Princess Pageant will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday at USU’s Eccles Conference Center. Tickets are

5 Years and Counting will perform with Cities Underground and The Show (rock/ pop) at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Why Sound.

Cover charge is $6.

Wednesday Scott Bradley will lead a “To Preserve

Unicorn Children’s Theatre will present “Androcles and the Lion” at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m., at the Caine Lyric Theatre. Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for kids and available by calling 797-8022.

Neighborhood Nonprofit Housing will host an open house celebrating the completion of six houses built by owner-builders in the Mutual Self Help Housing Program from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday in the Shadow Crest Subdivision, 2600 S. 900 West, Nibley.

A celebration for the National Day of Prayer will be held at noon Thursday at the Historic Courthouse, 200 N. Main, Logan. For more information, contact Dane at 753-5312 or visit nationaldayofprayer.org.

The Boy Scout’s new Sea Scout “Ship” will have its first meeting Thursday at the Sheriff’s Complex, 1225 W. Valley View Hwy. This meeting is open to young men and women between 14 and 20; parents are also welcome to attend.

The American Festival Chorus, conducted

by Craig Jessop, will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Sky View High School auditorium.

Tickets are $10 in advance at Lee’s Marketplace in Smithfield and Logan or $15 at the door the night of the concert.

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

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