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SHELDON HARNICK

TONY AWARD WINNER SHARES HIS MEMORIES OF ‘FIDDLER’

The Herald Journal

AUGUST 2-8, 2013

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August 2-8, 2013

COVER 8 Tony Award winner

Sheldon Harnick drops in on Utah Festival Academy

MUSIC 4 Concerts at Noon Series

continues at the tabernacle

BOOKS 11 C.J. Box releases

new book ‘The Highway’

THEATER 3 Cache Valley Center for

the Arts announces season

4 Magician Byron Grey

returning to Cache Valley

5 ‘Oklahoma’ hits the stage at the Old Barn Theatre

5 Martin Harris pageant starting up in Clarkston

MOVIES 6 The world could have got

by without a ‘Smurfs’ sequel

7 Aaron Peck gives three stars to new ‘2 Guns’

CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week

Above, Christina Ricci, Katy Perry and J.B. Smoove are some of the celebrities who provide voices for “Smurfs 2.” (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Animation). On the cover: Lyricist Sheldon Harnick speaks Tuesday at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. (Eli Lucero/Herald Journal)

FROM THE EDITOR I first started in newspapers as a sophomore in high school, so after working on various publications throughout my scholastic career and spending two decades at The Herald Journal, well ... seeing my name in newsprint isn’t a very big deal.

But it sure was back in the late ’70s when it first appeared in the Post Register in my hometown of Idaho Falls. At the time, I was a third-grader at Linden Park Elementary School, and also a serious student of the ukulele.

My school principal just happened to be proficient in the instrument, and he decided to start up a class. At the time, I viewed the ukulele as the gateway instrument to a career as a six-string, electric guitar-slinger, so I eagerly signed up and

my parents purchased a Morris ukulele that I still have.

Along the way, myself (lower left), and three other uke students (Berwyn Rooks, Pat McDermott and Ricky Cross) were featured in a staged photo for the local

newspaper in conjunction with a Christmas performance at the mall.

Unfortunately, my ukulele career lasted just about a year, and it never led to me learning how to play the guitar. However, because of that experience, I’ve always had a great affinity for the ukulele — especially on trips to Hawaii.

That’s why I feel a little bit of kinship with Jeffrey Olsen and David Manoa, a pair of local uke artists who are putting on the first Utah Ukulele Festival today and Saturday at Willow Park (see brief on page 4).

While it’s certainly an unusual event for Cache Valley, it definitely sounds like home to me.

— Jeff Hunter

CVCA sets upcoming season

Taj Mahal to perform in October “Live it Up” at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Join thousands of ticket holders who enjoy live theater entertainment — close to home — at the beautiful Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Tickets for the Cache Valley Center for the Arts 2013-2014 performing arts season go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 5.

Enjoy wide-ranging programs of theater, dance, music and productions for the entire family. CVCA continues its commitment as Northern Utah’s center for the performing arts, presenting the best national and international arts.

There are three ways to purchase tickets: call, click or come by. Stop at the CVCA Ticket Office in person at 43 S. Main St., call 752-0026 or visit cachearts.org. The CVCA Ticket Office is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

CVCA has been presenting some of the most world-renowned touring acts for the past 20 years.

“This coming season brings the best in contemporary ballet, awe-inspiring program director for the Cache Valley Center for the World Blues, Broadway show tunes, holiday favor- Arts. “Our season kicks off with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s ites, two huge national Broadway tours, mind-bog- beautifully fresh new dramatic work ‘Square None’ gling illusions and a long list of educational opportu- by Norbert De La Cruz III, nities with many of our art- and then moves into some ists,” says Amanda Castillo, stellar, must-see productions

“I just enjoyed watching a movie whose budget didn’t appear to be equal to the gross domestic product of some smaller countries.”

– Cache movie critic Aaron Peck on “2 Guns” (Page 7)

PET OF THE WEEK Available for adoption

Above, Taj Mahal, left, and Vusi Mahlasela will perform at the Ellen Eccles Theatre in Oct. 15-16. “The Addams Family” is coming March 29.

events include: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Sept. 11 (tickets $24 to $35); World Blues (featuring Taj Mahal and Vusi Mahlasela), Oct. 15-16 (tickets $30 to $44); Neil Berg’s “100 Years of Broadway,” Nov. 1 (tickets $30 to $44); Bar J Wranglers, Dec. 21 ($16 to like world blues that feature $22); Jazz Reach presents soulful American blues Metta Quintet, Feb. 10 (tickmusic legend Taj Mahal ets $16 to $22); “West Side and the inspirational South Story,” March 5 (tickets $30 African blues sounds of Vusi to $44); “The Addams FamMahlasela, two shows not ily,” March 29 (tickets for to be missed for completely $30 to $44); and Spencer’s different reasons.”

“Theatre of Illusion,” April This season’s CVCA 18 (tickets $21 to $32).

Pet: Purple From: Cache Humane Society Why she’s so lovable: Purple has the biggest, cutest, brownest puppy’s eyes I have ever seen.

You can’t help but melt when you meet her. Purple is already trained and just waiting on a new home.

She is a little bit older, and out of the puppy stage as well. Like with most hounds, she uses her nose for everything, and I mean EVERYTHING! So if you are not familiar with hounds, that may take a little getting use to. Purple is very gentle and easy-going.

She would make anyone a great family pet. Come meet Purple, and see if you are a good fit.

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ALL MIXED UP

Quotable

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all mixed up Weyand set to perform at tabernacle Concerts at Noon Series continues

The Concerts at Noon Series at the Logan Tabernacle continues this week.

All concerts begin at noon.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

For a more information, visit logantabernacle.blogspot. com, facebook.com/logantab ernacle or www.cachecommu nityconnections.com.

Friday, Aug. 2 Austin Weyand: A virtuoso acoustic guitarist and entertainer, Weyand will be performing music of some of the most influential acoustic guitarists of our time, telling stories and having some Guitarist Austin Weyand will perform at noon today at the Logan LDS Tabernacle. laughs. Weyand also performs original compositions and arrangements. He has run the ist for the U.S. premiere of in arrangements and compocompetition. He received a gamut of performing situa“Zorro the Musical.” Weyand sitions. Weyand received a master’s degree in guitar from tions: playing guitar concertos has written works in differbaccalaureate degree in guitar Northern Illinois University, with symphony orchestras, ent genres but also personal performance from Utah State where he studied intensively jazz jam sessions in Chicago, pieces for his family. In 2012 University, where he studied with eclectic classical, jazz bluegrass and Celtic music on he was the finger-style guiwith Michael Christiansen. and world music recording a tour through Europe, a rock tar champion in Utah. With There he received many acco- artist Fareed Haque. Weyband throughout the interhis pianistic approach, he lades, including Outstanding and is a frequent guest artist mountain west, and Spanish displays melody, harmony, Guitarist Award and two-time with high school orchestras bass lines, even percussion flamenco as a stage guitarwinner of the USU concerto performing the Vivaldi guitar

concerto in D major, and he has recorded two solo albums.

For more information, visit www.austinweyand.com.

Monday, Aug. 5 Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre: Singers and instrumentalists will perform their favorite music and selections from this summer’s UFOMT season.

Tuesday, Aug. 6 The Major Family Ranch Hands Band: The Major Family Ranch Hands Band plays original and traditional Western music, and its original material comes from everyday exposure to a rural, agricultural lifestyle in Avon, where the members of the family raise show calves, horses and a lot of hay. Several of the band’s songs have been made into videos, and the band’s current members are: Dale (dad) on guitar and vocals; Erin on fiddle and vocals; and Jake on upright bass and vocals. Erin recently won the State 4H vocal contest. The Majors said, “With a busy farm life, it will be good to come to town and share our music with folks in Logan.”

Wednesday, Aug. 7 Margie & Irv: This vocal/ See WEYAND on Page 12

Magician Grey returning to Logan “Wonder of the West” Byron Grey returns to Logan with his “StrangeCarnival” at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 6, at the Thatcher Young Mansion.

Spanning a career more than 15 years, Grey has entertained audiences from Las Vegas to New York City to critical acclaim.

“Byron’s incredible performance at the Thatcher-Mansion last summer sold out quickly and received a very strong audience response, so we are delighted that he has accepted our invitation to premiere his new show at the mansion this year,” says Richard Hatch of the Hatch

Academy of Magic and Music.

Grey’s newest show entitled “StrangeCarnival,” pays homage to the sideshow and carnival days of old, along with a twist of his original creations.

Come participate in odd games of chance, witness feats of daring and be amazed by a curi-

ous blend of magic and sideshow. The performance is an hour long.

Tickets are $15 and are available online at www.hatchacademy.com or may be reserved by calling (435) 932-0017.

There are only 56 seats available, so advance purchase and reservations are strongly recommended.

Byron Grey will perform on Tuesday, Aug. 6.

Logan Fine Art show

Old Barn delivers classic musical “Oklahoma!” will take over the stage at the Old Barn Community Theatre at 7:30 p.m. every Monday, Friday and Saturday July 26 to Aug. 17.

Matinee performances will also be held at 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 3 and 10.

Tickets are $8 for adults and $7 for children/seniors. A family ticket is also available for the first three performances at $25 for six family members. For tickets, call (435) 4582276 or visit www.oldbarn.org.

This classic musical is the story of Laurey and the two rivals for her affections: Curly, a cowboy, and Jud, the hired farmhand. The play takes place in 1906 in an Indian territory of the American West during the time when Oklahoma was established as a state. It tackles class issues between the farmers and the cowmen in the still-developing, rugged landscape of a state in its infancy as characters struggle to find hope, love and the fulfillment

Logan Fine Art Gallery will host the Utah Watercolor Society Small Works Show and a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, in conjunction with the CVCA Gallery Walk. Watercolor artists from across the state will be exhibiting examples of their work in miniature form. Paintings cannot exceed 12 inches in any direction, including the frame. This unique art form has roots dating back to the book paintings and illuminated manuscripts of the 7th century. The small scale of the paintings encourages the viewer to get up close and personal and allows us to see our world from a different perspective.

Utah Ukulele Festival

The Utah Ukulele Festival will be held Aug. 2-3 at Willow Park. Come bring your uke to learn and play along, and enjoy a free family-friendly music festival celebrating the unique contributions of the ukulele from the Polynesian Islands with special guest Cubworld. The event will include vendors, concessions, entertainment and workshops. Visit utahukefest.com for more information. spite Curly, Laurey accepts an invitation to the local dance from the evil Jud Fry. Meanwhile, Will Parker has returned early from his trip to Kansas City. Unfortunately, his girlfriend, Ado Annie, just can’t seem to say no to other men.

Directed by Heather Gleason, “Oklahoma!” stars Aubree Keate (Laurey), Curly (Richard Cox), Ado Annie (Katherine Newman), Nicholas Hall The Old Barn Community Theatre in Collinston will present (Will Parker), Teresa “Oklahoma” from July 26 to Aug. 17.

Jones (Aunt Eller), Ali Hakim (Joe Wall), Gertie of “the American Dream.” have feelings for each (Megan Campbell Claw “Oklahoma!” is also other but have difficulty son), Andrew Carines a romantic tale of love. expressing it because of (Marc Jensen) and Matt Curly and Laurey both their stubbornness. Just to Jeppesen (Jud).

Clarkston Pageant tickets available

Marking the 30th year since its inception, the Clarkston Pageant “Martin Harris: The Man Who Knew” will be presented Aug. 2-3, 6-10 and 13-17.

Free tickets are now available for this production which recounts some of the early events surrounding the founding of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the life of the prominent, Palmyra, N.Y., citizen: Martin Harris, one of the three

witnesses to the origin of “The Book of Mormon.”

The bi-annual pageant is presented in the outdoor amphitheater adjacent to the Clarkston Cemetery, where Martin Harris is buried. The event traditionally draws thousands to the picturesque farm community on the west side of Cache County.

Admission is free, but reservations are required and may be obtained online at www.clarkstonpageant.org.

Local artists at Utah State Local artists are exhibiting their work in “Art-

ists of Cache Valley,” which opened July 22 in the Tippetts Exhibit Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center at Utah State University.

“This exhibition allows the faculty, staff and students of USU to see work by some of the many strong visual artists living and working in Cache Valley,” said Laura Gelfand, head of the Department of Art and Design. “This also creates an opportunity for these artists to connect with Utah State and the department in a new way.”

The exhibit features the work of local artists, including Joe Alleman, Michael Bingham, Colleen Howe Bleinberg, Heather Campbell, Jerry Fuhriman, Kristi Grussendorf, Mike Malm, Jim Morgan and Debra Teare.

“There’s going to be some neat work exhibited, knowing the range of talent and who some of the other artists are,” said Alleman, who graduated from USU in 2000 with a bachelor of fine arts degree.

Each artist has submitted three to five works for display, ranging from oil and watercolor paintings to mixed media, three-dimensional wall hangings and sculptures. Gelfand is the juror for the show and will choose an artwork to receive an award to be presented by Craig Jessop, dean of the CCA, at a reception at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9.

The “Artists of Cache Valley” exhibit can be seen through Aug. 23 in the Tippetts Exhibit Hall, open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Both the exhibit and the reception are free and open to the public. More information on the exhibit is online at arts.usu.edu.

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Pay a visit to ‘Oklahoma!’ COMING UP

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‘Smurfs 2’ is a largely unwarranted sequel LOS ANGELES (AP) — Time flies when you’re not wondering about the welfare of the Smurfs, those diminutive, animated blue-skinned forest-dwellers. Turns out they’ve been just fine since their 2011 big-screen outing, but there’s trouble brewing in their new adventure-comedy that will require their curious blend of wide-eyed optimism and goofy enthusiasm to peacefully resolve.

A sequel largely unwarranted other than for box office and promotional purposes, the unimaginatively titled “The Smurfs 2” should have little trouble scaling stratospheric heights similar to its predecessor with undiscriminating young audiences and their chaperones, weary from nearunrelenting summertime care-

her from her enchanted-forest home to obtain the formula for the magical Smurf essence that Papa Smurf (Jonathan Winters) used to originally bestow her with blue-skinned bliss. Once he has the secret, Gargamel plans to power up a host of Naughties, Smurf-sized creatures he’s created, to help him take over the world.

So he dispatches his Naughty daughter Vexy (Christina Ricci) to drag Smurfette through a magic portal and into the real world where he can more effectively manipulate her inherent identity issues. Papa Smurf and his mismatched extraction team consisting of Grouchy (George Lopez), Clumsy (Anton Yelchin) and Vanity (John Oliver) will have to portal to the live-action world to

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“Smurfs 2” hit theaters around the country on Wednesday.

giving.

The occasion of Smurfette’s (Katy Perry) birthday presents the opportunity for her to recall her conflicted origins —

rather than a “true-blue” Smurf, she was actually created by the hapless, wannabe evil sorcerer Gargamel (Hank Azaria), who now intends to kidnap

reunite in Paris with the sympathetic young family of Patrick (Neil Patrick Harris) and Grace (Jayma Mays) Winslow, their live-action counterparts from the original movie, if they’re to have any chance of rescuing Smurfette.

Returning the movie to the European locale of the Belgian Smurfs comic-strip originator Pierre Culliford adds some visual interest, with Paris as the backdrop for the Smurfs’ rescue mission, but beyond the classic cityscapes, there’s little innovative in this formulaic follow-up.

The Smurfs director Raja Gosnell (“Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” ‘’Scooby Doo”) has built his career with cute-critter pics and other family See SMURFS on Page 10

‘The Wolverine’ claws his way to the top of last week’s box office LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Wolverine” slashed monsters and minions to debut atop the weekend box office.

The Fox film featuring Hugh Jackman’s sixth turn as the clawwielding superhero opened with $55 million in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Last weekend’s top movie, Warner Bros.’ low-budget horror “The Conjuring,” slipped to second place, adding another $22.1 million to its take.

“Despicable Me 2” was in third with $16 million. The Universal animated sequel, with its cast of cute, yellow minions, has made more than $600 million worldwide since it came out four weeks ago.

“The Wolverine,”

the clawed one,” he said. which is set in Japan and “It played equally well features an international cast, earned another $86.1 from Maine to Maui.”

Another Fox film, the million overseas. The film’s opening-week take animated snail-racing tale “Turbo,” was in fourth surpassed the $120 milplace with $13.3 million. lion it cost to make, said Adam Sandler’s “Grown Chris Aronson, Fox’s Ups 2” followed with head of domestic distribution.

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The buddy cop movie has been around for a long time. Hollywood has tried all sorts of ways to spice it up by adding a gimmick here (“Men in Black” had aliens) and there (this summer’s “The Heat” went all-female on us), but the core has always stayed the same. It’s an odd couple formula. Pair a wise-cracking, fasttalking loud mouth with a stoic, smooth operator and you’ve got yourself a movie. That’s about the gist of “2 Guns,” which works because it follows the basic formula of the genre, but manages to step outside of some perceived boundaries because of the talent involved.

After seeing Mark Wahlberg in the deplorably despicable “Pain & Gain” earlier this summer, I didn’t know if I wanted to see him in another movie again.

That movie left such a bad aftertaste that I found it hard to continue liking one of Hollywood’s more likable dudes. “2 Guns” puts Wahlberg back exactly where he needs to be. A likable character, cracking jokes with razor-sharp wit and smiling while he does it.

Denzel Washington, on the other hand, has been playing this same character for years. All he needs to do is walk on set with his patented swagger. Cut and print!

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criminal accomplices, only they’re not. They both think the other is a criminal while they’re

both playing undercover government agents. Don’t worry, this isn’t any type of spoiler since the trail-

ers and TV spots for “2 Guns” make this plot device abundantly clear.

So, the two of them have been thrust together after they decide to rob a bank that they think is where a drug dealer is stashing some of his funds. Only they end up finding a lot more money than they expected.

Of course, everything boils down to money. It

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so often does in these types of movies. The theft sets off a chain reaction that causes drug cartels, government agencies and the military to crash head on into each other trying to recover the stolen dough.

This is one of those movies where every branch of government operates like a clandestine assassin shop. If there are any rules or laws, they don’t care. Bill Paxton arrives as a sweaty, frightening villain who seems to hold more sway than all the other sweaty, frightening villains in this movie. Paxton is another great addition to the cast.

Sure his part is completely ridiculous bordering on

the bizarre, but so is the movie.

“2 Guns” works because of its actors.

Wahlberg and Washington sell the premise with their quickly traded verbal barbs.

The plot itself is as cookie-cutter as they come, however, with Wahlberg and Washington constantly bickering it’s easy to forget about that.

Maybe it’s because the summer of 2013 has been such a mundane, overly monotonous time for movies (a whole lot of sameness going around), or maybe it’s because I just enjoyed watching a movie whose budget didn’t appear to be equal to the gross domestic product of some smaller countries. Whatever it was, “2 Guns” ends up being an enjoyable time at the movies. Does it rewrite the buddy cop movie genre? No. It’s not even close to measuring up to the likes of “Lethal Weapon.”

Yet, with Wahlberg and Washington at the helm it’s hard not to have just a little bit of fun along the way.

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riginally scheduled to be held at the Dansante Recital Hall, the Utah Festival Academy event slated for Tuesday morning proved so popular that it was moved to the Ellen Eccles Theatre to accommodate all those who wished to listen in.

And just moments after taking the stage with his longtime friend, local theater legend Michael Ballam justified the presence of everyone in attendance by declaring: “May I introduce probably the most celebrated person who has ever been on this stage …”

Thus, Cache Valley was formally introduced to Sheldon Harnick, the Tony Award- and Pulitizer Prize-winning lyricist best known for writing the songs for the Broadway production of “Fiddler on the Roof.”

A longtime friend of Ballam, founder and general director of the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre, Harnick flew out from New York City for several local events, including Tuesday’s “Conversations with Sheldon Harnick,” which featured he and Ballam simply sitting on the Ellen Eccles Theatre stage with a couple of microphones.

Ballam opened the discussion by recalling

Story by Jeff Hunter

how much he was moved when he was first found out about the Holocaust in fifth grade, and how, in 1964, he was touched in another way when he first heard the original cast recording of “The Fiddler on the Roof.”

“I was in my parents’ basement with the lights turned out — I liked to imagine what I was missing on Broadway — and there was a program called ‘The Great White Way,’” Ballam said. “… That’s when I heard ‘Fiddler’ for the first time, and all of a sudden, the Holocaust and persecution and prejudice came cascading down on me as a personal experience.

“I felt like I was actually there at the moment, and I suspect the whole world has felt that way about ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’”

Harnick said that in the early 1960s, he and his longtime collaborator, composer Jerry Bock, originally hoped to pen a musical based on a book called “Wandering Star,” but playwright Joseph Stein felt that story was too long and contained too many characters. The trio continued to look for a similar story, and one of them came across the book “Tevye’s Daughters” by Sholem Aleichem, which tells the story of a poor milkman in 1905 Tsarist Russia who is the

father of five daughters.

“We loved it, but we were horrified to find that the book was out of print and we could only find one copy of it,” Harnick said. “Joe was very amused that he was eventually able to find several copies of ‘Tevye’s Daughters’ at O’Malley’s Book Store.”

While Ballam suggested that Harnick, Bock and Stein were “courageous” for taking on such a story in the ’60s, Harnick said “it never occurred to us that we were doing anything brave.”

“The stories that we read were so moving, they were so human and they were filled with human comedy, that even though it was an odd subject about Eastern European Jews, if we did our job right, we will have created something of beauty and the show will run for a year or two.”

As it turned out, “Fiddler on the Roof” ran at the Imperial Theatre from 1964 to ’67, then moved to the Majestic Theatre (1967-70) and the Broadway Theatre (1970-72) for a then-record run of 3,242 Broadway performances. Several of the songs in “Fiddler” are some of the most recognized in American theater, including “Tradition,” “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” “If I Were a

k talks ‘Fiddler’ with Michael Ballam Rich Man” and “Sunrise, Sunset.”

Harnick said that “Tradition” grew out of director Jerome Robbin’s desire to describe exactly what the musical was about. After numerous meetings, the show was nearly ready to begin rehearsals when someone finally declared: “Hey, do you know what this story is about? It’s about the changing of traditions. It’s about the changing of a whole way of life, and how these ideas have started to hit this little village in the Ukraine and traditions began to change.”

“When that was said, Robbins got very excited and said, ‘That’s what gives these stories their power!”

During the writing process, Harnick said Bock would send him tapes of melodies he had come up with at his studio, and that “Sunrise, Sunset” started out with just a few notes. Eventually, Harnick and Bock polished the song enough to perform it for Bock’s wife, who they often turned to as a pre-show critic.

“I had learned through the years not to look at someone’s eyes when I auditioned a song because, God forbid, I might see in their eyes that they weren’t liking what they were hearing,” Harnick recalled. “So, I sang looking

slightly over Patty’s head, and when I finished, “We absolutely want to do all of Sheldon’s works here,” Ballam proclaimed.

I looked her and was surprised to find that she Ballam said he first met Harnick in the early was crying. I thought, That’s interesting. “… I later played it for my sister in Maryland, ’90s while on a staircase at the Lyric Opera in Kansas City, and “I was absolutely breathless and again, when I finished, she was crying.

And I thought, This song seems pretty special.” when they said, ‘This is Sheldon Harnick.’ I don’t know if I even said anything of any worth The 1964 Broadway production of “Fiddler at all. on the Roof” ended up winning Tony Awards “But little did I know that a few years later I for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, and although he had many successes before and would be able to collaborate with him in one of his operas, ‘The Coyote Tales.’” after, the 89-year-old Harnick will always be Ballam also counts himself extremely forbest known for his work on “Fiddler.” tunate to have Harnick mentor him as he took During Tuesday’s event, Ballam said he on the role of Tevye for the first time in his hopes to someday perform “Fiorello!”, a illustrious career. Performances of “Fiddler on Broadway show about former New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (which Ballam joked the Roof” continue during the summer season of the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre he initially believed to be a musical about an airport) in Cache Valley. Another Bock-Harnick through Aug. 10.

“I’m absolutely certain that no musical in collaboration, “Fiorello!” won the Pulitzer the history of the this country has influenced Prize for Drama in 1959. people for the good to the extent that ‘Fiddler And Wednesday afternoon, Ballam and other on the Roof’ has,” Ballam declared while smilUFOMT actors gathered together at the Ellen ing at Harnick.

Eccles Theatre to do a no-costume, no-set

“It has changed the course of history. It has reading of Harnick’s “Rex,” a 1976 flop about caused us to look a period of history, and a very Henry VIII that Harnick collaborated on with important and chosen people in a different way.”

Richard Rodgers.

Photos by Eli Lucero

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How the railroads helped change American culture “How Railroads Changed American Culture” is the next topic at Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology and its next “Saturdays at the Museum Series.”

Daylong activities are planned for Saturday, Aug. 3, with an illustrated lecture at 1 p.m. that explores how railroads changed American culture in the 19th century. Docent-led tours of the museum’s “Chinese Railroad Camps” exhibit take place throughout the day, and museum patrons can design their own trains.

“One hundred and forty-four years ago, the first American transcontinental railroad was finished, with two lines connecting in northern Utah,” said Prairie Fox, a museum assistant. “That event not only affected our nation’s culture, but Utah’s as well.”

In addition to the “Saturdays at the Museum” activity series with its 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. hours, community members and USU students alike can visit the museum during its standard operating hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

The Museum of Anthropology can be found on the USU campus in the south turret of Old Main, Room 252. Admission is free.

Top Continued from Page 6 $11.5 million.

Woody Allen’s latest, “Blue Jasmine,” enjoyed a stellar opening of its own, though on a much smaller scale. Starring Cate Blanchett, the film opened in just six theaters but still collected $612,767.

“It’s one of the biggest opening pertheater averages ever for a non-animated film,” said Paul Dergarabedian of box-office tracker Hollywood. com.

Ticket sales this weekend were up almost 30 percent over the same weekend last summer, he said.

“It was a good weekend to be a moviegoer

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Smurfs Continued from Page 6 fare, and his middlebrow track record remains unblemished with the Smurfs’ big-screen return.

With a primarily impressionable young target audience, the returning screenwriting team of J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Jay Scherick and David Ronn, along with Karey Kirkpatrick (“Charlotte’s Web,” ‘’Chicken Run”), has no problem frequently repeating lines, gags and life lessons to nearnumbing effect. Beyond a few chuckle-worthy oneliners and some amusing visual comedy, there’s not much to engage adults, although the wee

ones should be distracted enough.

In his final film role, Jonathan Winters reprises the beneficent Papa Smurf with the requisite twinkle in his voice, but takes a backseat to Perry’s bewildered, wounded and ultimately outraged Smurfette. Harris and Mays, as the parents of a young boy appropriately named Blue (Jacob Tremblay), acquit themselves good-naturedly enough, although it’s Brendan Gleeson as Patrick’s wellintentioned but misunderstood stepfather, Victor Doyle, who really shines in an all-out turn that gleefully showcases his considerable comic gifts.

Azaria is equally antic as the incompetent wizard beset by the uneven, if unrelenting, team of

because the choices just got a lot more interesting,” Dergarabedian said, noting a mix that includes animated, independent and big-budget action offerings.

“Fruitvale Station,” the Sundance win-

ner already generating Oscar buzz, expanded to theaters across the country and edged its way into the top 10, contributing to a summer box office that is up more than 10 percent over last year.

Smurf rescuers featuring Lopez, Yelchin and Oliver.

With the exception of Gargamel’s awkwardly rendered CGI cat cohort Azrael, the mix of animation and live-action appears fairly seamless in a 3D rendition that helps keep the movie from slip-

ping into the overly saccharine variation favored by the fully animated 1980s TV series.

——— “The Smurfs 2,” a Sony/ Columbia release, is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for “some rude humor and action.” Running time: 105 minutes.

Books Author C.J. Box returns with ‘The Highway’

By Bruce DeSilva Associated Press

When Danielle and Gracie vanish on their trip through the mountains, Justin calls his dad, Cody Sixteen-year-old Hoyt, whom we first Gracie Sullivan is bookmet as a swashbuckling, smart and resourceful, rule-breaking lawman in but her 18-year-old sisBox’s 2011 thriller, “Back ter, Danielle, is impetuof Beyond.” But when ous, self-involved and Justin reaches him, Cody boy-crazy. As “The is on a drunk after being Highway” opens, fired from the Lewis and they’re driving crossClark County Sheriff’s country from their Department for planting divorced mother’s home evidence. in Colorado to celebrate Thanksgiving with Alarmed by Justin’s their dad — until plans call, Cody quickly sobers and sexual predator who change. up, and with the help of Over Gracie’s strenu- calls himself the Lizard his ex-partner, a feisty but ous objections, Danielle King, trails them through inexperienced investigator detours toward Helena, Montana in his Peterbilt named Cassie Dewell, he Mont., to woo her boy- semi. His “fun,” as he sets out to track down the friend, Justin Hoyt, who calls it, has been discovgirls. ered by a couple of creeps doesn’t want her to The result is a violent, come. Ronald Pergram, who want to get in on the tension-packed, wella long-haul trucker action. written thriller spiced

with Box’s vivid portrayal of the Western landscape that he loves. Along the way, Box also drops in surprising insights about the itinerant lives of longhaul truckers.

Box’s previous thrillers, most of them featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, have all featured strong, tough-talking male protagonists, but the heroes of this one are the underestimated Cassie, who proves to be both tough and resourceful, and the courageous Gracie, who keeps her head when her flighty sister falls apart.

“The Highway” is the second new thriller this year from the prolific Box, who seems to get better with every book.

new york times best-sellers HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The English Girl” by Daniel Silva 2. “Inferno” by Dan Brown 3. “The Cuckoo’s Calling” by Robert Galbraith 4. “First Sight” by Danielle Steel 5. “And the Mountains Echoed” by Khaled Hosseini

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. “Lean In” by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell 2. “This Town” by Mark Leibovich 3. “Happy, Happy, Happy” by Phil Robertson 4. “Zealot” by Reza Aslan 5. “Fantasy Life” by Matthew Berry

PAPERBACK TRADE FICTION 1. “Joyland” by Stephen King 2. “Beautiful Ruins” by Jess Walter 3. “Fifty Shades of Grey” by E.L. James 4. “World War Z” by Max Brooks 5. “Entwined with You” by Sylvia Day

First novel by Robert Galbraith is ‘fun read’ Rowling exposed as author of ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’

By Deepti Hajela Associated Press

of my attention in search of clues that would have made me suspicious that the book’s author Full disclosure: I wasn’t, in fact, an exnever would have military police officer and guessed. was actually one of the I’ve read every book world’s most famous stoJ.K. Rowling has pubrytellers. lished, some of them Because this is a good several times over. OK, all of them several times story, one that is entertaining enough to merit over. And still, I doubt I would have picked up a read even if Robert on anything that would Galbraith, Rowling’s pseudonym, had been a have made me think that SHE was the author real person who really wrote it. behind “The Cuckoo’s “The Cuckoo’s CallCalling.”

I almost wish I hadn’t ing” introduces readers to Cormoran Strike, a known, so I wouldn’t have read it with some London private detective

with his own complicated backstory — he’s the son of a rock star and a groupie, has a prosthetic leg to replace the one he lost in Afghanistan during his military ser-

vice, and he just ended a difficult romantic relationship. He’s also quite clever.

Along with his started-out-temporarybut-who-didn’t-knowthat-was-going-to-last secretary Robin Ellacott, he looks into the death of a supermodel, Lula.

Everyone assumes it was suicide, but Strike is asked to investigate it by someone who tells him it had to have been otherwise. His investigation takes Strike into the worlds of high fashion and big money as he makes his way to the truth.

Rowling’s (er, Galbraith’s? Whoever.) literary gift is on display in

this work. She crafts an entertaining story with characters who hold the reader’s interest, and comes up with an ending that I’ll admit I was surprised by.

It gets a little too clever in some places, with the final denouement tying together some earlier elements in a way that’s almost a little too pat, and some of the leaps Strike makes seem a little too out-ofnowhere.

And it wouldn’t be a J.K. Rowling book if it didn’t have lots and LOTS of description, not all of which seems necessary.

But overall, it’s a fun read, with a main charac-

ter you can care about and one you’ll want to see again in other adventures. It reads like Rowling had fun writing it. There’s a certain lightness to it that was missing from her other grown-up fiction endeavor, “The Casual Vacancy.”

Perhaps that came from the freedom of writing and publishing under a pseudonym without all the pressure of her own backstory.

It will be interesting to see if she can maintain that sense of fun now that everyone knows it’s her and that particular mystery has been solved.

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Get ready to get for ‘Mood’ Festival

coming up at Beaver Mountain

Celebrate America show set to hit the stage Sept. 3-7 Once each year the ballroom on the campus of Utah State University is transformed into a 1940s era supper club as the Celebrate America Show Corporation presents the “premier big band event in the Intermountain West” — “In the Miller Mood.”

Every year the show is all new and takes the audience on a musical journey back in time to experience the classic and timeless sounds of bands like Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman, with a toe-tapping, heartwarming evening with dinner, show and dancing. Throughout the journey, the lush harmonies of the Stardust Singers, the excitement of the Stardust Dancers and the music of the Larry Smith Orchestra provide a night packed with show-stopping music of the era including: “In the Mood,” “Orange Colored Sky,” “Moonlight Serenade,” “String of Pearls,” “Sing Sing Sing,” “Tuxedo Junction,” “Stardust” and many more. It’s a powerful production that guests have called “the best show on the planet!”

“In The Miller Mood” plays night-

Weyand Continued from Page 4 piano duo will perform favorite song classics that you’ve heard and loved all your life. Margie Johnson will sing these wonderful songs, while Irv Nelson will provide the accompaniment at the grand piano.

Johnson performed in a soft rock band for several years, and toured with the BYU Young Ambassadors in college as a featured soloist. For more than two decades she was featured as the female vocalist for several dance bands performing in the Washington, D.C. area. As a devoted fan of musical theater, Margie played lead roles in “Hello Dolly,” “The Order is Love,” “The Fantasticks” and “42nd Street.” In the studio, she has enjoyed recording commercial jingles and singing back-

“In the Miller Mood” comes to Utah State University Sept. 3-7.

ly from Sept 3-7, in the Evan Stevenson Ballroom on the Utah State University campus. Tickets are available with or without dinner.

All shows (except Sept. 3) feature entertainment after the show with dancing. Group and student rates

are available.

Tickets are available at www.cel ebrateamericashow.com or at the Ellen Eccles Theatre box office at 752-0026.

This popular show sells out every year, so get your tickets now.

The Beaver Mountain Music Festival will be held Friday, Aug. 16, and Saturday, Aug. 17, at Beaver Mountain Ski Area.

Tickets are $18 in advance or $20 at the gate. Tickets are available at KSM Music, Earthly Awakenings and online at skithebeav. com.

Friday’s events will run from 7 to 10 p.m.

Hosted by Joe Morales, the evening will feature a rare acoustic performance by Heather Davis & the F-Tones.

Rain or shine, the gates will open at 9 a.m.

Saturday. Performers include: Carson Natter (10 a.m.); The Fool’s Progress (11 a.m.); Josh Johnson (noon); Reckless Uprising (1 p.m.); Dry Lake Band (2 p.m.); The Barking Owls (3 p.m.); Stone Seed (4:15 p.m.); Portneuf Gap (5:30 p.m.); Puddle Mountain Ramblers (6:45 p.m.); Wafer (8 p.m.); and Heather Davis & the F-Tones (9:15 p.m.).

Twelve-year-old troubadour Sammy Brue will perform between acts, beginning at 4 p.m.

Camping reservations are also available at skithebeav.com. Contact Joe Morales at (435) 232-5078 or blueman7163@gmail.com for more information.

ground vocals for several popular and emy of Magic and Music will feacountry artists’ albums, including the ture deceptionist Richard Hatch, his Osmonds. Her most memorable musical wife, violinist Rosemary Kimura experience to date was arranging and Hatch, and their son, pianist Jonathan recording all female character songs for Hatch, in a family ensemble of “highan original musical, “Anasazi.” lights” from their popular “Matinee Enchantee” programs at the Thatcher Nelson plays many other keyboard Young Mansion. The performance instruments in addition to the piano, including pipe organs and various elec- will include music by Bartok, Kreisler and Saint-Saens and magic by Punx, tronic keyboards. He also plays acousVernon and Robert-Houdin. Also featic guitar and bass. Nelson’s other tured will be Richard Hatch’s original talents include composing, arranging, choral conducting and singing. In addi- presentation for the traditional Japanese feat known as “Nankin Tamation to performing with Johnson, Irv sudare,” accompanied by Rosemary’s plays with The Fender Benders classic performance of Michiyo Miyagi’s rock band and Relic acoustic band. He “Haru no Umi (The Sea of Spring).” is also a guest artist and arranger for Richard’s original story, “Taro-san the other musical groups, including the Fisherman and the Weeping Willow Utah State University choirs. Nelson Tree,” which is illustrated with the teaches piano and guitar lessons that emphasize ear training and chord theo- “tamasudare” bamboo mat, was published as an illustrated children’s book ry, as well as vocal lessons. in a bilingual (English and Japanese) Thursday, Aug. 8 edition.

Hatch family: The Hatch Acad-

Richard holds two graduate degrees in physics from Yale University, but he finds it easier, apparently, to violate the laws of nature than to discover them. Richard and Rosemary moved to Logan in October 2010 and opened the Hatch Academy of Magic and Music, an educational institution, in the historic 1878 Thatcher-Young Mansion.

Rosemary, a graduate of the Eastman and Yale Schools of Music, teaches violin at the Hatch Academy and is also performing in the UFOMT orchestra this season in Verdi’s “Otello” and Wagner’s “Flying Dutchman.”

Jonathan has studied piano with Paul Krystofiak at St. Thomas University in Houston and with Sophia Gilmson at the University of Texas. He is currently focusing his creative interest on visual arts and was recently given the 2013 Little Bloomsbury Promising Artist Award.

“I Am a Zen Mormon Boy”

“No One”

By Charles Ashurst

By William Humphrey

I might be envied by a king.

Perhaps he’d find relief in zen signing.

We thought it was cheap without looking ahead; we let it rule our hearts and our heads.

I am a zen Mormon boy.

Why fool with fossil carbon energy when we’ve got this other technology?

I am a zen Mormon boy.

Quite zen in its simplicity is our fuel cell especially as coupled to photovoltaics as well.

The foundation of our temple was in peril.

It was then zen Mormons had to set an example of how to behave within our one and only temple and keep it clean for all God’s people who dwell upon its fragile surface and cherish its capacity to sustain us.

I am a zen Mormon boy.

For I am a zen Mormon boy.

A virtuous cycle of oxygen and hydrogen is appropriately clean within our Mormon temple of zen.

Oh yeah, a zen Mormon boy.

I might be envied by a king.

Humanity got captured by something else, clinging to the past, clinging to self.

Perhaps what he needs is some zen singing.

I have no one, A mother sighed.

Then hung her head, And cried and cried.

They don’t come by, Then I pine.

They’re having fun, All the time.

I’m here alone, All the time.

My children think, I’m just fine.

Then her time, Came to die.

She never again, Will need to cry.

“The Magpies are Screaming”

By Teresa Lewis In the leafy treetops, the Magpies are screaming.

Dive bombing my poor cat, They think that they’re “all that”.

Go away you Magpies, And leave us in peace!

In my pretty bedroom, the window is open.

Now it is 5 a.m., Squawking will now begin.

Fly away you Magpies, Let the Songbirds now sing!

American Festival Chorus to perform Missa solemnis The critically acclaimed American Festival Chorus, under the direction of Dr. Craig Jessop, and the celebrated Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre Orchestra and Soloists will join forces once again to perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Missa solemnis at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 7, in the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Missa solemnis is considered one of the greatest choral works of Western Civilization and will feature a cast of hundreds, a large orchestra and worldclass soloists.

“This is the Mount Everest of choral and symphonic music,” said Michael Ballam, Utah Festival’s general director. “Only the titan Beethoven could have created such a majestic masterpiece.”

Carla Thelen Hanson will be featured as the soprano soloist. The New York Times noted, “Ms. Hanson

made a strong debut as Tosca, by erica Productions. Additionally, he turns fiery and vulnerable, her voice has performed with the Baton Rouge agreeably dark in its middle range Symphony Orchestra, Greater Trenton and sufficiently full on top” and The Choral Society, the New Jersey Choral New Yorker exclaimed, “Her darkSociety and others. grained, strongly felt Vissi d’arte Bass soloist Richard Zuch is a gradsailed right up to the uppermost baluate of the Curtis Institute of Music cony.” and has been a featured soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the BuffaSarah-Nicole Ruddy, a San Franlo Philharmonic, the Concerto Soloists cisco Conservatory of Music alumna, of Philadelphia, the Delaware Symwill be the alto soloist. She has phony, the Tulsa Symphony and the performed at the Kennedy Center Hilton Head Orchestra. In addition, he and other notable venues across the country, and was noted as being “sim- was a soloist with the Curtis Orchestra at the Verbier Music Festival in Switply wonderful” by The Los Angeles zerland under the direction of Maestro Times.

The supple voice of renowned Kurt Masur.

“Once again, I’m honored to conduct tenor soloist John Pickler will fill the the American Festival Chorus coupled hall with his astonishing vocal range. with the famous Utah Festival Opera Pickler made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2008 performing the Mozart Requi- and Musical Theatre Orchestra for this historic concert,” Jessop said. em conducted by John Rutter and “First performed in 1824, Missa Schubert’s Mass in G with MidAm-

solemnis is a complex and powerful piece that is not often performed. The beautiful technical talents of Carla, Sarah-Nicole, John and Richard will be amplified by the full orchestra and I am humbled to be able to provide this unique opportunity to our community.”

Celebrating its fifth year, the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra has become one of the premier professional musical organizations in the region. Under the artistic direction of conductor Dr. Craig Jessop and associate director Dr. Cory Evans, AFCO provides a culture of musical excellence that edifies, entertains and educates performers and audiences.

Tickets are $10 to $40 and can be purchased at the Utah Festival Box Office in the Dansante Building at 59 S. 100 West, by calling 750-0300 or online at www.utahfestival.org.

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85. Dutch farm 87. Jacuzzi is often here 88. Rushlike plant 89. Earlier 90. Containing silica 91. Second sight 93. Not present for the vote 97. Last of 26 98. Intelligence projects, for short 101. Young seal 102. Solo, in film 104. Counterpoint 109. Times Square features 110. “Seinfeld” uncle 111. Gulf V.I.P.(var.)

115. Capt.’s guess 116. Grove 118. Third in line in a family 119. Ill-treatment 120. “Pirates of the Caribbean” cry 122. 2013 film 125. ____- final 126. Siberian city 127. “You said it, brother!”

128. Menu feature 129. Land of the leprechauns 130. Old World deer 131. TV network 132. Real estate, securities, cash Down 1. Urgent communications device 2. Mexican root 3. Salmon 4. Cleaned up 5. Football positions 6. Rural sight 7. Newspaper department 8. Rude person 9. Besides 10. Safari sighting 11. Deep valley 12. Something out of place 13. Harebrained

14. Customize 15. Word processing term 16. Islamic leader 19. Closemouthed 20. Alpha ___ Delta 23. Long (for) 24. Eagle nest 29. Word in a wedding announcement 32. Average 33. After 35. 100 lbs.

37. Presage 40. Interrogate 41. Sandpiper 42. Curve types 44. Wagner work 45. Aspect 46. Wych or white 47. Women’s ___ 49. 2013 film 50. Begin 52. Snake’s venom 55. Pakistani city 56. 2001 biographical film 57. Finale 59. Godsend 61. Hocked 62. Worries 63. Make out 67. Photographic items, for short 69. Worship 70. Saws with the grain 71. Concert array 73. Missouri River tributary 74. Allow to be known 77. “Roses ___ red ...”

82. Much used technology in “Avatar” 83. Dusk, to Donne 85. Bollywood superstar actor, last name 86. Heavy-duty cleanser 89. Nile reptiles 90. “Later” 92. Beer belly 94. Not together 95. Enlightened one 96. Not our 99. In favor of 100. ____ial, relating to

garment selection 103. Wooden shoes 104. End 105. Questionnaire choice 106. One of the Judds 107. Chump 108. “___ Calloways” (Disney film) 110. Tropical vine 112. Diving bird 113. Cay 114. Counsels, old word 117. “Raiders of the Lost ___” 118. The 15th, depending 119. Barley beards 121. Dark and feminine (Chinese) 123. Down Under avian 124. Mauna ___ (Hawaiian volcano)

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Friday “Madagascar 3” will be shown at Smithfield’s Movies in the Park series Friday, Aug. 2, at Mack Park, 375 E. Canyon Road. Seating begins at 8:30 p.m. with the film beginning at 9 p.m. Admission is free. Visit www.smithfieldrecreation.com for more information.

A reunion of the 12th Ward will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, at the Willow Park West Rotary Pavilion. Bring memories and photos, and please spread the word because we don’t have every address. RSVP to Karma Smith Albiston (752-2903) or Linda Beveridge Fonnesbeck (559-0368).

An LDS 31+ Singles Beach Bash will begin at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, at the Willow Park church, 340 W. 700 South. Come dance the night away with songs that bring to mind summer, party, surfing and fun. Dress for the beach; church standards, of course. No swimwear. Bring a friend; first-timers are free. We will gather at 8 p.m. for dance lessons, followed by the dance from 9 p.m. to midnight. Refreshments served. Visit cachesingles. org for more information.

The 29th annual Bear Lake Raspberry Days will be held Aug. 1-3, in Garden City. The craft fair and most of the entertainment will be located at 50 South and 100 West in Garden City’s parking lot next to the LDS church. The Bear Lake Valley Craft Fair (local crafters) will be located at 69 N. Paradise Pkwy.

A 5K fun mud run called the Messy Rush will be held at 8 a.m.

Friday, and the Raspberry Days Rodeo will be held at 7:30 p.m.

Aug. 2 and 3, at the Laketown arena. Visit www.gardencityut.us for a full schedule.

SATURDAY The Beaver Mountain Solar Cook-Off competition will be held at the Beaver Mountain Campground (upper lot) Saturday, Aug. 3. This is open to all

types of solar ovens. No assists will be permitted, i.e. no fuel other than the sun. The ovens will be limited only by your imagination. You can create your own, use one that you’ve purchased or even buy one while you’re there. You will be judged on two categories: the effectiveness of your home-made solar oven (commercially manufactured ovens not eligible) and the food you cook. Judging is at 5:30 p.m., and prizes include one free weekend tent site (group site excluded) or one free weekend full hookup RV site.

OPTIONS for Independence will host its Autism Support Group from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Logan Aquatic Center, 451 S. 500 West. This group is for people with autism, family members and friends. For more information contact Jennie at 753-5353 ext. 104.

The Preston High School Band will be conducting a car wash fundraiser from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Preston Car Wash, 401 S. 1st East. All cars and light trucks will be washed and dried by teams of band students. The cost for each wash is $5 per vehicle.

Extra donations are appreciated.

Come on out and support our band. The proceeds will be used in purchasing new uniforms and equipment for the band.

The Utah Festival Academy will present “Music: Heart & Soul” from 4 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Dansante Recital Hall.

Cost is $10. Dr. James Bankhead, head of the music department at the Caine College of the Arts and former director of the U.S. Air Force Band, will explore the many ways music affects our lives. For more information call 750-0300 or visit www.utahfestival.org.

Nationally known jam-maker Liz Butcher of Butcher’s Bunches will help you harvest and preserve peaches as jam and salsa at a class sponsored by the Stokes Nature Center. Held from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug.

3, at the Butcher’s Bunches Kitchen (register for address), recipes and techniques wil be shared, peach jam and peach salsa will be made. Participants will be expected to bring some fruit and will go home with jars of the end results. Cost is $40; $35 for members of SNC, Slow Food or Master Gardeners. Call 7553239 or visit www.logannature. org for more information.

Ché Zuro will perform from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. A recent Ogden Valley transplant, Ché Zuro mixes Beatle-ina pop with the acoustic grit of Led Zeppelin; mixing rock with folk, pop with country and shaking up a sound all of her own.

AARP is offering a driversafety class from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Cache County Sheriff’s Office complex.

The class is four hours long and meets the requirements of discounts in vehicle insurance for those 55 years and older. Call Susie Jackson at 753-2866 for reservations. Make your reservations at classes fill rapidly.

The 15th annual Garland Hit the Street 5 and 10K, 2-mile walk and 1-mile kids’ run will be held at 7 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 3.

Register at www.garlandlibrary. org or www.garlandutah.org.

Cost is $25 for 5 and 10K and 2-mile walk, and $15 for the kids’ run. Price includes a shirt. All proceeds go to help the Garland Library. Race location: Garland Armory, 72 N. Main St. There will be awards given and a chance to win prizes and also a giveaway for a guaranteed entry at the St. George Marathon.

SUNDAY Mason Reed will perform from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. An Americana/roots singersongwriter, Reed just finished an East Coast tour in support of The Wallflowers. He also recently finished tracking his new record in Nashville that will be released soon, featuring John Oates of

Hall and Oates fame.

MONDAY The Utah Festival Academy will present “Percussion from the Pit!” from 10 to 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 5, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre pit. Cost is $10. Nathan Buonviri will help participants explore percussion from the orchestra pit of the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Compare the instruments, listen to excerpts and try it yourself in a hands-on learning experience. For more information call 750-0300 or visit www.utah festival.org.

The Hyrum Library will host Cool Tunes for Kids at 7 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 5, at 50 W. Main St. Come listen to Eric Herman and his Cool Tunes for Kids. We will also be drawing the grandprize winners from the summer reading program, “Dig into Reading!” Visit www.hyrumlibrary.com for more information.

It time to get ready for the busy canning season and the USU Extension Office in Cache County will test your dial gauge for your pressure canner for free in August, September, and October on Mondays from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Just bring your lid to our office at 179 N. Main St., Ste. 111.

Gauges tested Tuesday through Friday will be $3 per gauge.

Weighted gauge canners do not need to be tested. Phone 7526263 for more information.

TUESDAY

OPTIONS for Independence will host its Low Vision Support Group from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 6, at the Logan Senior Center, 240 N. 100 East.

For more information, contact Royella at 753-5353 ext. 105.

There Is No Mountain will perform with Sarah Olsen and Ali Hansen at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cost is $5.

Icy Goodness is the title of the free class held at Macey’s Little Theater in Providence at 7

p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6. The heat of August really has a way of getting on everyone’s nerves, but there is an easy treat fix for that — ice cream. Whether you like vanilla, chocolate, Butterfinger or even banana, ice cream really hits the spot. Teresa and Tiffany Osbourne will be here to reach great recipes that involve ice cream in a bag. Reserve a seat at the service desk. Visit littletheatrerecipes.blogspot.com for more information.

WEDNESDAY The Utah Festival Academy will present “Backstage Magic” from 9 to 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre stage. Cost is $10. Share in the backstage secrets of the productions, presented by UFOMT technical director Steven Workman in the actual theater surrounded by the sets, props and lights. For more information call 750-0300 or visit www.utahfesti val.org.

Tantalizing Thai is the title of the free class held at Macey’s Little Theater in Providence at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 7. If you enjoy Indian food, you will adore Thai food. Forrest Young will be sharing some spicy Thai recipes. Reserve a seat at the service desk. Visit littletheatrerecipes.blogspot.com for more information.

THURSDAY The Utah Festival Academy will present “Presto ChangeO(ver)” Thursday, Aug. 8, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Cost is $10.

Held immediately following the matinee performance by Steven Workman, participants will watch the fascinating and well-choreographed scene change process between a matinee and an evening show and ask questions as it happens. For more information call 750-0300 or visit www.utah festival.org.

A Meet the Mayoral Candidates evening will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8, at the Hyrum Senior Center. The public is invited.

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