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The Herald Journal

Aug. 21-27, 2009

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What’s inside this week (Page 4) Dennis is running from his past

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The hottest movie star to come out of Utah State University might just be a balding, be-spectacled, self-proclaimed “geek” in his 40s who is about as likely to bare his pecs for People magazine as Wilford Brimley. On-screen, of course, he is a burly, dark-haired dynamo who goes by the name “Rhino.” The eyes, though, are eerily similar. Read all about Mark Walton, a storyboard artist for Walt Disney Animation Studios, on Page 8. Photo courtesy Mark Walton.

From the editor

AST YEAR WAS THE first time I’d ever heard of the Porcupine Music Festival, so my husband and I decided to drive out to Paradise and check it out. Let me tell you, it was awesome! Set in a big field near the reservoir, we listened to music for nearly eight hours, met lots of old friends and made many new ones, and ate some delicious food from Eddie of barbecue fame. We didn’t personally camp out, but there were dozens of tents set up with moms and dads and kids and dogs running around having a good time. I thought I’d tell you all about it since it’s time again. This year it will be held at the same place this Saturday, Aug. 22, and live music runs from 3 to 11 p.m.

Slow Wave

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Tickets are available at Earthly Awakenings, 21 Federal Ave., and are $20. Just head out to Paradise and follow the signs. Tickets will also be available at the gate and camping is encouraged. School starts up next week, so this is our last chance to celebrate summer. What better way to do that than with music and camping? Also, the whole thing is kid-friendly, so bring the entire family! Also, this week marked the opening of Jimmy John’s gourmet sandwiches at 1482 N. Main in Logan. I’ve never eaten there, but a friend of mine swears their sandwiches are even better than Gandolfo’s, which is my all-time favorite sandwich shop. So I guess I’ll check it out and be sure to let you know! Have a great weekend, everyone! — Jamie Baer Nielson Cache Magazine editor

The American West Heritage Center is going Celtic

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Cute

Check out this week’s Bulletin Board

pet photo of the week

Pets: Rowdy, Bree and Bailey From: Cory and Will Vorel Why they’re so lovable: “We adopted Rowdy, self-appointed King of the Basset Hounds (the big guy on the right), last year. Right away we fell in love with his easygoing nature and his toothless grin. We decided to help out other homeless dogs by becoming a foster family. It has been so rewarding to watch Bree come out of her shell (the black-and-white gal) and Bailey is just a cute, quirky little sweetheart. Each one is unique, but they are all very loving. What more could we ask for? If your home is missing a special someone, the Utah Friends of Basset Hounds have many dogs in need of fostering and forever homes. Check out their Web site: www.utahbassethoundrescue.com.”

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.

Honor memories with gravestone preservation

HE BEAR RIVER Heritage Area will host a workshop where you can show how much you love the memory of an ancestor by learning how to preserve their cemetery gravestone from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24, at the Logan City Cemetery, 950 N. 1200 East. Cost of the workshop is $30 and includes a box lunch. Limit 30 participants. To register or for more information, contact Lisa at 713-1426 or 757-5420. Gravestone conservator and monumental mason Jonathan Appell will set up his hands-on workshop and teach participants how to preserve their ancestor’s historic gravestone for future generations to appreciate. Hailing from New England where he helps teach and train volunteers, Appell uses local burying grounds to demonstrate and perform treatments for all of the most common gravestone and monument preservation dilemmas, including cleaning, resetting

Some things you’ll learn ... • Resetting of a leaning/sunken tablet-stone • Repair of broken gravestones • Reconstruction of fallen or badly leaning cemetery monuments • Historical use and when to employ blind pinning • Use of historic pointing mortars and composite patching material • Compatible mortars with the historic substrate • The process and need for consolidating weak and decayed stone • Issues/problems associated with sealing stone • The philosophy of cleaning and safe cleaning techniques

tilted stones and rejoining fractured tablet stones, which are common throughout many parts of America. This summer, Appell has expanded his training to several states including California, Oregon, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Southern Utah. In his Cache Valley visit, several gravestones in the Logan Cemetery will be restored.

Participants can then share their skills with others to help preserve historic gravestones in nearby cemeteries. Participants are encouraged to bring photographs of historic masonry, sculptures or gravestones they have concerns or questions about. To learn more about gravestone preservation, visit Appell’s Web site at www. gravestonepreservation.info.

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All mixed up

Award-winning songwriter Tom Kimmel in town this weekend HE BRIDGER FOLK T Music Society will present an evening with award-win-

ning songwriter Tom Kimmel at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, at Crumb Brothers Bakery, 291 S. 300 West, Logan. Tickets are $10 and available by calling 7573468. Seating is very limited, so advance purchase is recommended. Tom Kimmel is one of those unique singer-songwriters whose heartfelt artistry with words and music is both genre-crossing and timeless. Since 1980, when his songs were recorded by Roger McGuinn & Chris Hillman (of Byrds fame) and Levon Helm (of

The Band), dozens of his compositions have been covered by a host of major artists including Linda Ronstadt, Johnny Cash, Joe Cocker, Shawn Colvin, Waylon Jennings, the Stray Cats, Randy Travis and the Spinners. Kimmel’s unique ability to write songs that connect stems from his lifelong career as a touring performer. Once an eclectic rock ’n’ roller, Kimmel found his voice as a singer-songwriter while opening Nanci Griffith’s 1991-92 world tour. A New Folk winner at the Kerrville Folk Festival in ’93, he began performing as a solo act, stressing a lean, acoustic-

centered approach to his music and bringing a poignant and humorous spirit to his poetry and storytelling. After releasing two critically praised major-label albums (in ’87 and ’90), Kimmel made his first independent album in 1994. “Bones,” a collection of live recordings, was followed by Short Stories, which featured guest performances by Emmylou Harris, The Fairfield Four, Gillian Welch, Jerry Douglas and other friends. “Shallow Water,” released in 2002, is a collection of spirit-infused songs and hymns, and “Light of Day” features vibrant, spare voice-

and-guitar recordings written and produced by Kimmel in his home studio. A volume of poetry, “The Sweetest & The Meanest,” was published in 2005, and “Never Saw Blue,” an anthology of TK songs featured in film and television, arrived in the fall of 2008. Featured in motion pictures such as “Runaway Bride,” “Serendipity” and “Twins,” and in television shows as varied as “Captain Kangaroo,” “Miami Vice” and “Touched By an Angel,” recordings of Kimmel’s compositions have sold millions of copies around the world, achieving gold and platinum sales in many countries.

For more information, visit www.tomkimmel.com or www. bridgerfolk.org.

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All mixed up Auditions open to community for USU production UDITIONS FOR A USU’s theater arts department’s production

of “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street” will start at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28, in the Morgan Theatre of the Chase Fine Arts Center on campus. Everyone is invited to audition. For more information, call 797-3046. A sign-up sheet will be posted on the theater arts department call board new FAC 148. Signups are for four-minute slots. If additional times are needed, auditions will continue Saturday. Those auditioning should prepare

15 to 32 bars of music from “Sweeney Todd” or another appropriate choice and be prepared to read from the script. Portions of the script will be made available for copying from the theater department office, FAC 234, the week of auditions. If needed, callbacks will be held the afternoon of Saturday, Aug. 29. “Sweeney Todd” will be directed by theater arts faculty member Kevin Doyle, with musical direction by Lynn Jemison-Keisker. The production runs Oct. 22-24 and 29-31 on the USU campus.

alley Dance Ensemble’s fall community dance class session runs Aug. 24 through Dec. 11. Creative movement/modern dance classes are offered for ages 3 to 16 and modern and African-based dance classes for adults. Drop-ins are welcome. All classes are held at the Bullen Center, 43 S. Main, Logan. Register at the Alliance for the Varied Arts or in class. For more information, visit www. variedarts.org, call 753-2970 or email valleydancers@yahoo.com.

USU welcomes performance artist Jose Torres-Tama as part of Tanner Project HE CAINE T School of the Arts at Utah State University has

“Cone of Uncertainty” and performance artist Jose Torres-Tama

planned a year-long series under the title “Crossing Boundaries.” The series will open with performance artist Jose Torres-Tama at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 31, in the Morgan Theatre of the Chase Fine Arts Center at USU. The performance, “Cone of Uncertainty,” is free and open to the public. Torres-Tama uses fire and costuming to explore themes of self and both social and political identities. He has been featured on NPR’s Latino USA and has traveled extensively performing and

giving academic lectures and workshops. Based in New Orleans, Torres-Tama uses his experience with Hurricane Katrina to create a greater knowledge of the world at large. In addition to the performance, a selection of Torres-Tama’s work will be on exhibit Aug. 31 through Sept. 26 in the newly remodeled gallery, Studio 102, in Fine Arts Visual Room 102 at USU. The exhibition, “Contemporary Voices in Visual Narrative,” features additional artists and celebrates the beginning of the year-long Tanner Project. “‘Contemporary Voices

in Visual Narrative,’ curated by assistant professor Eileen Doktorski, brings together seven artists who are innovative in the realm of narrative art,” said exhibition coordinator Scott Foster. “Their diverse works convey messages that are both timely and personal. Collectively, these works share themes of captivity and isolation. ...” The 2009-10 Tanner Project, “Crossing Boundaries,” is a year-long series of art exhibits, theater performances and national and international artists and scholars in presentations at USU. “Contemporary Voices in

Visual Narrative” is hosted by the Caine School of the Arts and is supported by the Tanner Foundation, the Utah Arts Council and the Utah Humanities Council. Artists with work in the exhibition include Donna Anderson Kam, drawing, San Francisco; John Feodorov, sculptural installation and painting, Seattle; Joan Fitzsimmons, photography/ collage, Hamden, Conn.; Jacek Malinowski, video, Warsaw, Poland; Wendy Red Star, photography, Portland, Ore.; Shawn Richards, painting, Raleigh, N.C.; and Jose Torres-Tama, performance, New Orleans, La.

Board member. HE AMERICAN The festival will be the site of West Heritage Center Utah’s weight-over-bar throwing and the Utah Scottish championships — a sport where Association will host the inaucompetitors attempt to toss a 56gural Cache Celtic Festival & pound weight over a bar using Highland Games from 9 a.m. to only one hand. 8 p.m. SaturLike every day, Aug. 29. Weight-over-bar event sport in the Tickets are $7 Highland for adults and Games, weight$3 for children. over-bar is Kids younger believed to than 4 get in have its roots in free. For more ancient warfare, information, esaid Smithfield mail bobscots@ resident and sisna.com. competitor Guests will Ken Graves. experience a Warriors may full range of have used the Celtic culture competitions to and traditions train for throwthrough activiing grappling ties including hooks over traditional enemies’ walls music, Scottish and fortificaHighland danctions, he said. ing, Irish step The bestdancing, Highknown sport at land athletics the competiand ethnic tion will be the foods from the caber toss, in area of Scotwhich athletes land, Ireland toss a large and Wales. wooden log “Celebrating end-over-end, Celtic culture Graves said. That may have fits well with the deep Scottish originated from warriors tossand Welsh roots of the Northern ing logs to act as bridges over Utah region and is especially streams or crevasses, he said. appropriate this year with the Entrants will also compete in sesquicentennials of many area the sheaf toss, in which a 20communities,” said Bob Gallipound bundle of straw wrapped more, Utah Scottish Association

in burlap is thrown vertically with a pitchfork. That event likely originated with raiders tossing burning missiles over enemy walls, Graves said. There are also events in which participants throw stones and other weights for distance. Graves said the sports allow him to blend his love of competition and athletics with his love of history. The best part is getting locked in competition with a friend and earning bragging rights by beating him, he said.

“I come out, I throw and it’s a lot of fun,” he said. His son, 18-year-old Mike Graves, also participates in the events. “It’s just a rush,” he said. The festival will feature at least three pipe bands, drummers, harpists, a group singing Irish music, as well as a variety of piping and drumming competitions. There will also be about 20 vendors selling everything from traditional foods such as haggis to broadswords, kilts and

henna tattoos. Demonstrations of Scottish Highland dancing will feature dancers who have successfully competed at regional, national and international events, and include Kelsey Crane, Utah’s own four-time U.S. National Champion. Crane will attend USU and plans to hold Highland dance classes this fall. Presenters will also give historical presentations, teach visitors their Gaelic names and a variety of other events.

Join Urinetown’s pee-for-free rebellion RINETOWN” “U will play at the Heritage Theatre (2505 S. Highway

89, Perry) at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 28 through Sept. 19 every Monday, Friday and Saturday. Matinees will show at 2 p.m. Sept. 5 and 19. Tickets are $9 for adults and $8 for children and seniors. For reservations, call 435-723-8392. For more information, visit www.heritagetheatreutah.com. One of the most uproariously funny musicals in recent years,

“Urinetown” is a tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold. This earnest fable of love is set in a town plagued by drought. It’s a simple enough plot, complete with villain, hero and romance: A malevolent corporation controls the town’s public amenities and the president’s daughter falls in love with the leader of a pee-for-free rebellion. Drawing from “West Side Story” and “Les Miserables,” among

many others, the show spoofs the great American musical and is the winner of three Tony Awards. This production of “Urinetown” is directed by Melanie Day. The cast includes Bryce Day as Bobby Strong; Paul Naylor as Officer Lockstock; Mary Ellen Lykins as Penelope Pennywise; Roger Brunker as Caldwell B. Cladwell; Heather Brown as Hope Cladwell; and Tim Mair as Old Man Strong/ Hot Blades Harry.

The people of Urinetown find they “really have to go” when there’s nowhere to go. Front row, from left: Mandee Shaffer, Erika Cardon; back row, from left: Devin Beard, Bryce Day, Heather Brown, Celeste Cragun.

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American West Heritage Center going Celtic

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Film New this week “X Games 3D: The Movie” Rated PG (N/A) A review for “X Games 3D: The Movie” was not available from The Associated Press. In lieu, please accept this synopsis from www.espn. com: “‘X Games 3D: The Movie’ is a full-length feature film that captures the drama and spectacle that play out every year at the X Games events. Featuring Shaun White, Travis Pastrana, Danny Way, Ricky Carmichael and Bob Burnquist, the film tells the behind-the-scenes stories of the athletes and the sacrifices they make in pursuit of glory and the progression of their sports on the industry’s biggest stage. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Steve Lawrence, the film uses groundbreaking digital 3D techniques to immerse sports fans in the world of action sports. Whether racing downhill on White’s snowboard, flying through the air in Pastrana’s Rally car or preparing to launch down the big air ramp with Way, fans will be at the center of the action and get unprecedented access to the X Games and the iconic action sports personalities chronicled in the film.” “X Games 3D: The Movie” will be in theaters for one week only! PG for extreme sports action and accidents. “Post Grad” Rated PG-13 ★ This comedy about a driven, hardworking college student who can’t find a job after she graduates actually might have been relevant. It might have been a satirical and insightful look into how our soured economy has dashed the dreams of a generation. Instead, it’s a flat and tonally jumbled amalgamation of “Adventureland,” “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Some Kind of Wonderful.” In other words, it has no idea what it wants to be, and as a result it gets nothing right. Alexis Bledel maintains a steady level of wide-eyed pluckiness as Ryden Malby (a name that looks like an anagram), who just got out of

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school and dreams of working at a prestigious Los Angeles publishing house. When she doesn’t get the job she applied for, she ends up back home in the San Fernando Valley with the kind of eccentric family you only find in the movies. Michael Keaton, as her dad, sells novelty belt buckles; Carol Burnett, as grandma, is obsessed with her own death; and Jane Lynch as her mother plays the straight woman for once, which isn’t a whole lot of fun. Meanwhile, Ryden rebuffs the romantic advances of her best friend, the spineless and worshipful Adam (Zach Gilford), and instead enjoys a fling with her sexy Brazilian neighbor (Rodrigo Santoro), even though — duh — the guy she’s supposed to be with has been right in front of her all along. Animation veteran Vicky Jenson (“Shrek,” “Shark Tale”), directing her first live-action feature from a script by firsttimer Kelly Fremon, awkwardly juggles all these subplots. She also squanders the comic presence of J.K. Simmons, Fred Armisen, Craig Robinson and Demetri Martin in minuscule supporting roles. PG-13 for sexual situations and brief strong language. 89 min. — All reviews by The Associated Press

“Shorts” Rated PG ★1⁄2 Robert Rodriguez mashes up “Shorts,” fast-forwarding, rewinding, pausing and following tangential story lines. But the editing high jinks don’t obscure that this family adventure film is essentially about a group of kids who end up with a “wishing rock,” a rainbow-colored stone that grants the holder any wish. And as tends to happen with such things (be they oil lamps or monkey paws), trouble ensues. Rodriguez populates a Texas suburb with colorfully exaggerated characters, both kids and adults. All get their hands on the wishing rock, but it’s the kids who know how to wish. The parents (highlighted by James Spader as Mr. Black, a flip corporate

tyrant) are filled with worry and tethered to technology. Between stylish, often gruesome films, Rodriguez has made popular kids movies, most notably the “Spy Kids” trilogy. The director (who also, as usual, serves as writer, producer, co-editor, cinematographer and composer) draws heavily from his five children; the idea of “Shorts” was dreamed up by his son, Rebel. A good spirit pervades “Shorts,” but it becomes too cartoonish, too scattered to register much. Somewhere around the time a giant booger runs riot through the town, one wishes for a bit more adult supervision. With William H. Macy, Leslie Mann and Jon Cryer. PG for mild action and some rude humor. 89 min.

F ONLY QUENTIN Tarantino the director werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so completely in love with Quentin Tarantino the writer, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Inglourious Basterdsâ&#x20AC;? might have been a great movie rather than just a good movie with moments of greatness. Everything thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thrilling and maddening about his films coexists and co-mingles here: the visual dexterity and the interminable dialogue, the homage to cinema and the self-glorifying drive to redefine it, the compelling bursts of energy and the numbingly draggy sections. And then there is the violence, of course: violence as a source of humor, as sport, violence merely because it looks cool on camera, and because the 46-year-old Tarantino still has the sensibilities of a 12-year-old boy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Inglourious Basterdsâ&#x20AC;? also reflects the discipline, or lack thereof, of an adolescent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never been told â&#x20AC;&#x153;no.â&#x20AC;? Certain scenes of his wildly revisionist World War II saga have a wonderfully palpable tension, but then he undermines them by allowing them to go on too long. You expect talkiness in a Tarantino film, but rather than whisking you away in waves of poetry, as he did with the Oscar-winning â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pulp Fictionâ&#x20AC;? screenplay he co-wrote, too often here his talk lacks snap. As for the plot ... well, it might be in there somewhere among the many meandering threads. In one of them, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Inglourious Basterdsâ&#x20AC;? follows a band of Jewish American soldiers, led by twangy Tennessean Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), who

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he hottest movie star to come out of Utah State University might just be a balding, be-spectacled, selfproclaimed “geek” in his 40s who is about as likely to bare his pecs for People magazine as Wilford Brimley. On-screen, of course, he is a burly, darkhaired dynamo who goes by the name “Rhino.” The eyes, though, are eerily similar. This is not the Mark Walton I remember from the dorms at Utah State University. Well, it is — Mark was always performing in the commons area, a rap song usually, crouching down with an air microphone in one hand, scratching an imaginary record with the other; picture LL Cool J, only the physical opposite. But still, of all the motley crew on the 5th floor of Mountain View Tower in the fall of 1990, he was about the last guy we would have guessed would play in a movie alongside John Travolta and Miley Cyrus. It happened like this:

decided he had a better chance of becoming an artist and, following an LDS mission in Mexico, he enrolled at USU. “I went to USU because they would send fliers showcasing their students’ work from their illustration department to our high school commercial art classroom, and I was really impressed,” Walton says. “I

“He was really a creative kid. He sort of had his own direction, and he had some great ideas all the way along. Sometimes he would drift off into his own world, but he was a hard-working kid.”

swarmed by autograph seekers at the movie’s premiere and was featured by CNN, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. All of these accolades for the oldest of Gary and Mary Lee Walton’s seven children, a boy who, according to his brother, was “pretty awkward and gangly, pretty tall for his age and got teased a lot” growing up in Salt Lake City’s Avenues. Paul Walton was right behind 41year-old Mark in birth order, and remembers his brother being pestered mercilessly for the personality quirks that would later make him famous. In fact, before Rhino came along, the movie character Mark most resembled was Napoleon Dynamite. (To this day, Mark’s resumé lists “made-up

had his own direction, and he had some great ideas all the way along. Sometimes he would drift off into his own world, but he was a hard-working kid.” Edwards remembers letting Walton work on an animation project because it was “something he wanted and needed,” and that he favored subjects that “dealt with ideas,” such as “draw me 10 animals that Noah didn’t get on the ark.” (Walton lists an assignment to sketch in crayon for “Chicken Little,” drawing “rough and fast,” as one of his favorite ways to work. “I’d rather focus on creating new ideas than spend too much time working on one drawing,” he says.) He and his brother Paul created a comic strip for the school newspaper, and Walton would scrawl illustrations on Edwards’ blackboard that were “so good that I’d just leave them there all year,” the professor says. “He drew well, he painted well, and he understood the principles of design and art. “Those skills helped a lot, but he also had one of those minds that had great

“I found it all rather exciting. To have a night like that — I felt really lucky, I felt like somebody else for that night.”

From left: Mark Walton as a child; Walton in his Halloween costume; and a self-portrait drawn by Walton during his days at USU.

Walton, a storyboard artist for Walt Disney Animation Studios who has credits on movies from “Tarzan” to “The Emperor’s New Groove,” was asked to fill in as the voice of Rhino in the movie “Bolt” until the studio could find an established voice actor to take the role. Before long, though, it became clear to the directors that Walton was the irrepressible Rhino. The more they heard, the more his part expanded to include more singing and dancing to go with his show-stealing lines (“Who’d have thought that someone would pay me to do that stuff?” he says now of his dormitory rapping). Ask Left: Mark Walton works in his office at Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, Calif., last year. Right: Mark Walton (left) and his entourage, anybody who the star including John Travolta (second from left), pose on the red carpet at the premier of “Bolt” last November at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. of that movie was and they will pass over Bolt (Travolta), Penny (Cyrus), Mittens (Susie ideas. I’m proud of him for what he’s done dance moves” among his skills.) didn’t know anything about what ‘illustraEssman) and the evil Dr. Calico (Malcolm since he got out of here.” “He even wore moon boots when it tion’ was, but judging from the fliers, it McDowell) and tell you it was Rhino. What Walton has done is procure fullwasn’t snowing and had a brown corduroy looked like the kind of art I wanted to do.” After seeing the movie, my 11- and 9time employment with Disney in Burbank, suit,” Paul recalls. It helped that USU offered him a tuition year-old sons ran around the house yelling, Calif., and draw for “Tarzan,” “The EmperMark was the type to sit down next to waiver while the other schools he consid“Let it begin!” and “It’s a good day to die!,” the kid eating lunch alone, and he still or’s New Groove,” “Home on the Range” ered, Brigham Young University and the lines that typify Rhino’s seize-the-moment and “Chicken Little,” among other movies. “has friends from every phase of his life,” University of Utah, did not. attitude. The frenetic hamster is just as “One of the best experiences I had was Paul says. Mark thrived as a high school That’s when I met Mark. He was friendpopular in the blogosphere: “The hamster working on ‘Home on the Range,’ even actor, playing Bottom in “A Midsummer ly to everyone, kept a messy room, drove alone is enough to make this movie worth though not a lot of people saw it,” he says. Night’s Dream” and Chief Sitting Bull in a green, 20-year-old, beater pickup, exhib“Annie Get Your Gun.” Finally, in Mark’s seeing,” wrote one reviewer. Said another, “I got to write dialog for several scenes, and ited absolutely no inhibitions about public senior year at East High, “people started “Haha, Rhino completely steals the show!” it was my first opportunity to do a voice.” performances, and had a habit of realizing to see past that (awkwardness) and see And so on, to the point where Walton was After all that behind-the-scenes illusmid-conversation that he was supposed to what a great guy he was,” Paul notes, be in class. He would grab his backpack tration, he voiced minor characters for and Mark experienced a trium“Home on the Range” and “Chicken Litand rush off, and I had some doubt as to phant, Napoleon moment when whether he would graduate simply because tle.” Eventually he landed the Rhino role, the studentbody cheered one of and that led to a huge Napoleon moment: A he seemed to run late so often. (As it turns his performances. As much as walk down the red carpet. It happened last out, Mark left for a Disney internship in he enjoyed acting, Mark says, “I November, during the film’s premiere at 1995 without staging an art show, which got the strong impression that, in was his final requirement to get a degree. the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. All order to be a successful profesHis mother later persuaded USU administhe stars were there, but even at that early sional actor, it would demand trators to give him the degree anyway.) stage, fans were screaming and begging for all of your energy, passion, intel“He was really a creative kid,” recalls autographs when the voice of Rhino ligence and time — and I wasn’t Glen Edwards, a former professor of on p.14 sure I had what it would take.” He Walton’s who retired in 2000. “He sort of See

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IGH SCHOOL reunions are a universal fear right up there with public speaking, the dark spaces under beds and health care socialism. We’re all worried about looking fatter, balder and less successful than everyone else. There is also the fear that you were so completely unmemorable that nobody will even notice you are fatter, balder and less successful than your former self. Multiply those fears by 10 for sports reunions and another 10 for distance running sports reunions. The acceptable standard for a distance runner’s body type is pretty high compared to the average American semi-mobile bi-ped. Normal weight is obese; trim is fat; and fashion-model thin is just a few pounds overweight. Hair and success are less relevant. Though I’m no couch spud, it’s been about 32 years and 30 pounds since I was a distance runner who won the Heart of America Marathon in Columbia, Mo. It’s no Boston or New York City Marathon but it is one of the longest-running running events in the country. The 50th anniversary of the race will be held in a couple weeks. Imagine my surprise that I still hold the record for this race. This is likely because it bills itself as the hottest, hilliest marathon in the country. Only a crazier, fitter, younger version of me would have thought that was fun. Anyway, they want me to come back for a former winners’ reunion of sorts. This is an honor, to be sure, but again, distance running is weirdly different from most sporting events. Nobody expects you to still be playing football past age 50. A bunch of 50-year-old football players are supposed to look fat and successful. As for distance running, you can still keep doing it with some amount of fervor well into the last days of your lifetime warranty. In fact, many people find it quite addictive and keep running until their joints — or the patience of their spouses

Slightly Off Center By Dennis Hinkamp

— give out. Even local races have dozens of over-50-year-olds out there plodding around the streets of Cache Valley. The upside is that it does give you a chance to be carded for your age again. It’s hard to believe younger people would try to pretend to be older just to win a little trophy, but it happens. So off I go into the void of a heroic past juxtaposed against the sober reality we all face at reunions of any kind. I am reminded of a probably apocryphal story about Frank Shorter, the last American to win the Olympic Marathon. Many years later someone came up to him in an airport and asked, “Hey, aren’t you Frank Shorter?” Shorter answered, “No, but I used to be.” Dennis Hinkamp says he would not believe he was the same Dennis Hinkamp if not for the pictorial evidence. He is among a number of freelance writers whose columns appear in The Herald Journal as part of an effort to expose readers to a variety of community voices. He is not an employee of the newspaper. Feedback at dhinkamp@msn.com.

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Running from your past

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Books

‘Methland’ highlights failing rural economy By The Associated Press

ICK REDING, the author of a wellreceived book about methamphetamine’s grip on a small town, believes the drug is “only a symptom of a larger economic and ultimately political problem.” “That problem is essentially that people can’t make money anymore to do the jobs that have kept places in the middle of the country going for a century,” he says during a telephone interview from his St. Louis home. Meth “just sort of moves into the vacuum” as people struggle to earn a living now that farm and factory jobs have evaporated with the consolidation of the agriculture industry, he says. In “Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town,” Reding uses Oelwein, Iowa (population: 6,100) — but he stresses that the same story is unfolding in rural communities throughout the nation. The book has earned strong reviews and is drawing national attention to the issues behind meth’s status as the heartland’s drug of choice. “Meth doesn’t cause the problems faced by Oelwein ...

economy does, and meth is just the lens through which to see that,” Reding says. The idea for the book came after visits back to his home state of Missouri and other Midwestern states in the late 1990s. At first, he was able to compartmentalize meth “into somebody else’s problem, somebody else’s part of America.” But, he finally had to acknowledge, meth was everywhere in rural America. “Small towns are not the places of social and cultural and economic healthiness and wellbeing that I was raised to think that they are,” Reding says. “To misrepresent it as only meth is the problem, or to misrepresent it even more horribly and say there is no problem, that’s kind of hopeless then,” he says. “When things are not well in rural America, where 20 million people still live, then it’s an indication that things are not well all over.” Reding initially had a tough time generating interest for the book, and it took him three attempts to finally get a publisher to buy it. Now, publisher Bloomsbury says 40,000 copies of “Methland” are in print. It debuted at No. 22 on The New York Times

nonfiction best-sellers list on July 26 and was No. 30 on the latest list. But while Reding’s book has received national attention, some residents of Oelwein are criticizing it. They say it sensationalizes stories, such as the one about a man who Reding says essentially melted his face and cooked his esophagus in an explosion after he poured meth-making chemicals down a basement drain and then lit a cigarette. Others say the book doesn’t do enough to show how the community has confronted its economic problems by bringing in new businesses and revamping

the downtown area. “He is right on as far as the problem of meth, but that’s the only thing I’ll give him credit for,” says 60-year-old Kathy Adams, a lifelong Oelwein resident. “I just feel like it didn’t do justice to Oelwein.” Sally Falb, director of economic development at the Oelwein Chamber and Area Development group, says: “Something like this comes along and they feel it puts a damper on our hard work.” Reding says he understands their comments, but after reporting on the town for nearly four years, he has no qualms maintaining that Oelwein’s economy and culture now are tied more closely to meth than to its longtime anchors of farming and small business. While many other towns share the same problems, Reding says he had to focus on one community, and he chose Oelwein. “There has to be a place to start, so it’s not to say that Oelwein is the only place or the worst place, but it’s just a place where the stuff that I wanted to talk about is all relevant and apparent,” Reding says. And some people in Oelwein aver that Reding has it right.

Among them: Dr. Clay Hallberg, a local physician and central figure in the book. He says some people don’t want to talk about the area’s meth problem “any more than you would want to talk about ... there being incest in the family.” “I am not surprised by the collective denial that some of the people in the community have expressed,” Hallberg says. “If you did not work in the emergency room, if you did not work in the police department, if you were not with (human services), many things would seem normal and you would not be aware of the problem.” Ultimately, Hallberg says, it’s more important to deal with meth’s victims and the town’s problems than debate the book’s merits. Since the book’s publication, Reding has returned to Oelwein and faced skepticism and some hostility. But that won’t change his feeling for the town and its people. “You can’t write 270-some odd pages of an intimate portrait of a place unless you like it, unless you have respect for the people there, unless you think they are dignified, which the people there are,” he said.

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BSESSIVE relationships are often the meat and potatoes of autobiography. But for Frank Bruni, meat and potatoes ARE the obsession. Along with a never-ending parade of other goodies, from French haute cuisine in all its flavorsome complexity to more basic foodstuff, such as the elongated, chocolate-coated wafers of a KitKat bar, described in reverential, almost spiritual terms. “My life-defining relationship ... wasn’t with a parent, a sibling, a teacher, a mate. It was with my stomach,” he proclaims in “Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater.” And it’s this contentious relationship that Bruni, for five years the chief restaurant critic for The New York Times, chronicles with startling, intimate

directness. It’s a thoughtful tale, unsparing in Bruni’s analysis of himself, but hugely entertaining in his almost “Rocky”-like determination to make things right after countless slip-ups. These struggles are depicted alongside a loving portrait of an Italian-American family (the most affecting part of the book), a family that in many ways served as an enabler for this favorite, full-figured son to devour everything in sight. There are wonderful snapshots of his mother and his paternal grandmother, both excellent cooks and ardent champions of the philosophy “more is better,” particularly in the kitchen. But then the entire Bruni clan is defined by meals served and consumed. Bruni’s ravenous appetite, of course, had consequences: a constant battle with weight that grew more fierce as he

grew older and his seemingly futile attempts to reach what he describes as “the wondrous Xanadu of the willfully emaciated.” Purging. Pills. Spurts of intense exercising, particularly after the openly gay Bruni started dating. Nothing seemed to work for very long. The only thing that remained constant was his appetite — as he went from college to a career in journalism and

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CHILDREN’S BOOKS 1. “Goldilicious” by Victoria Kann 2. “Tea Parties” by Jane O’Connor 3. “Gallop!” by Rufus Butler Seder 4. “Explorer Extraordinaire!” by Jane O’Connor 5. “Marley Goes to School” by John Grogan

aren’t up to snuff. Yet “Born Round” is more than just amusing, gossipy anecdotes for serious foodies, although the tidbits Bruni supplies should satisfy them, particularly descriptions of his extensive planning to dine unrecognized. The book is as much a psychological journey as it is a gastronomical adventure. You root for Bruni’s triumph over size 42 pants, a goal tempered by the realization that the battle against creeping weight gain is never really over. (He now wears size 34 jeans.) Still, it’s his elaborately detailed descriptions of food, such as his grandmother’s strascinat (her signature pasta dish) and his mother’s calorie-laden chicken divan, that make you want to pull up a chair in their kitchens. Second helpings, please. We’ll go to the gym tomorrow.

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eventually a job at the Times. It was an appetite that was put to an extreme test when Bruni was given the high-stress assignment of covering George W. Bush’s presidential campaign. His weight and waist ballooned, as did his unhappiness. Finally after his Washington stint, Bruni began a serious, consistent exercise program tempered by portion moderation. “Less is more” became his new mantra. Bruni, 44, is a nimble, observant writer. What makes his restaurant reviews so entertaining — often a lot more enjoyable than many of the establishments he critiques — is a combination of his love of eating coupled with a sharp journalistic eye. Bruni’s enthusiasm for eating borders on adoration, and he knows how to turn readers into true believers when it comes to praising a restaurant. Or warn them when things

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Frank Bruni dissects his food obsession

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Continued from p.9 emerged from a white, stretch Hummer limousine. “It’s the kind of thing you hope will be cool, and it was even better than I hoped,” says Walton, describing the limo’s laser system, stereo and full bar “that we never drank.” Walton had invited 14 family members and friends, who all got to watch as he emerged from the Hummer to be met by flashbulbs and people shouting “Mark Walton!” and proffering photos of Rhino for his signature. After posing with his girlfriend, Morgane — a woman

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from Nice, France, whom he met through a friend’s blog — he got to watch the movie with his entourage. He was also summoned to meet Malcolm McDowell, who had something to say to Walton: “You bahstahd,” the veteran British actor chided him, “you really showed us real actors up, you kicked our butts.” And the after-party was attended by none other than Mr. T. “I found it all rather exciting,” Walton says. “To have a night like that — I felt really lucky, I felt like somebody else for that night.” So far those great reviews have not turned into job offers, but Walton intends to seek other voice work, which he refers to as “a lot of pay for a few minutes’ work.” Even if that doesn’t pan out, he says, “it feels like I had a wonderful oppor-

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tunity that most people don’t have even once.” Walton, who still makes it back to Utah for summer vacations and holidays, was actually in Logan this spring. One of his professors, David Sidwell, invited him up to sketch piglets and talk about “drawing in the ‘Disney’ style” at the Baby Animals Days event at the American West Heritage Center. “It was a lot of fun, and it made me realize how much I miss Cache Valley,” he says. “I had so many great memories at USU. I’m nostalgic about the place anyway, but Logan and Sardine canyon are so beautiful, especially in the spring — it made me wish I’d come to visit more often.” He has been working on “Gnomeo and Juliet” — a “satirical

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take on ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ as performed by living, dancing garden gnomes” — at a small studio in Toronto until recently, when he returned home to Burbank to work on ... he has no idea what. “I know there are several projects in the works right now, but nobody’s given me any hint yet of which one I might roll onto,” he says. “Maybe they’ll just pay me to surf the Internet all day — who knows?” So the guy I worried might never graduate is well-ensconced at the world’s largest entertainment conglomerate. And I’m realizing that it really makes sense. I mean, in a creative business, who do you want — the punctual kid or the mad genius? I have a feeling the folks at Disney made the right choice.

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Ongoing events The Art Center at 25 W. 100 North in Logan is now teaching monthly art classes. Cost is $90 for four three-hour sessions. Classes are taught evenings, Saturdays and upon-demand daytimes. Also, model study classrooms are available for no charge and artist studios are available for rent. For more information, call 752-3500. Booth applications are now being accepted for the 2009 Novemberfest Arts and Crafts Fair, scheduled to run Nov. 27 and 28 at the Logan Rec Center. For more information, call 512-9745 or 752-8142.

Friday Bruce Moulton will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave., Logan. For more information, call 753-4777. Stokes Nature Center will host Parent Tot Nature Hour from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday. Kids ages 2 and 3 are invited to explore animals, plants and nature through music, crafts and games. All toddlers must have a parent pal present. Cost is $3 ($2.50 for SNC members). To register, call 755-3239. Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will lead a fishing activity at 5 p.m. Friday at Second Dam. Cost is $3. For more information, call 713-0288. All are invited to participate in a Peace Vigil every Friday between 5 and 6 p.m. on the east side of Main Street between Center Street and 100 North in Logan. For more information, call 755-5137. Why Sound will present the David Dilworth Gallery (art on display/live music) at 8 p.m. Friday. Admission is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whysound.

ies of his new book, “The Manufactured Identity,” from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Hastings, 50 E. 400 North, Logan. A fundraising yard sale for the Bouse Fund will be held from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday in the Cook Martin Poulson PC parking lot, 632 N. Main, Logan. The Bouse Fund was set up to help Mark and Barbara Bouse of Mendon get a refurbished mobility van to provide needed transportation with a wheelchair lift and other medical equipment. For more information, call 213-6324. Utah State University Connections program’s Common Literature Experience will culminate with a convocation lecture by author Elva Treviño Hart at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center on campus. Admission is free and everyone is invited. For more information, call 797-1194. Stokes Nature Center will host “What Bird Is That? Basic Bird ID” at 9 a.m. Saturday at Second Dam. All ages are invited to learn the basics of identifying birds in Utah from expert Dr. Frank Howe. Wear comfortable shoes and bring binoculars. Cost is $3 ($2.50 for members). For more information or to register, call 755-3239 or e-mail nature@logannature.org. This week’s “Saturdays at the Museum” series at USU’s Museum of Anthropology will feature “Famous Anthropologists Through Time” from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Activities will include movies based on the popular dramatization of archaeologists and their finds. For more information, call 797-7545. The Cache Pilates Studio will hold fall registration from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East, Studio #4. Classes are available for all levels. Cost is $150 for a 15-week semester. Classes begin Monday. For more information, contact Tora at 787-8442.

Saturday

Author Sid Perkes will be signing copies of his book, “Silent Passing,” from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at Borders, 1050 N. Main.

The Western singing duo Tumbleweeds was unable to perform last week because of sickness, but they will perform this Saturday from 6 p.m. to closing at LD’s Cafe in Richmond. Everyone is invited.

Charlotte Skinner will perform on the accordion at 3 p.m. Saturday at Pioneer Valley Lodge, 2351 N. 400 East, North Logan. Everyone is invited.

The CAche Practical Shooters (CAPS) will hold its monthly pistol match at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Cache Valley Public Shooting Range. A required, New Shooter Orientation Class will begin at 7:45 a.m. and join the match at 9. Cost is $12 for members, $17 for non-members or free for first-time shooters. For more information, call 787-8131. Katie Jo will perform at noon Saturday at Caffe Ibis. A “Making Money and Improving Talents” workshop will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday at BATC. Cost is $79. Participants will learn how to gain confidence, become more charismatic, promote themselves, make money with talents, life skills, job skills and goal achievement techniques. To sign up or for more information, visit www.MoneyWithTalents.com. Dr. Heath Sommer will be signing cop-

Jorge Román will perform with StreetDef and lostbrothers (hip hop/rap) at 8 p.m. Saturday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave., Logan. Cover charge is $5. The Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday at Merlin Olsen Park, 200 E. 100 South, Logan. For more information, visit www.gardeners market.org.

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. The Faith and Fellowship Center will start another season of Sunday services at 4 p.m. at 1315 E. 700 North in Logan. Topics will include the power of thought, intuitive

knowing, mandalas, the medicine wheel, loving self, Collage Magic, animal blessing day and honoring the traditional holy days of various religions. For more information, contact the Rev. Hannah Thomsen at 757-7097. Cache Valley native Lyndon Lamborn, who endured a high-profile exit from Mormonism, will be at Borders Books from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday to promote his new book, “Standing for Something More.”

Monday Campus Rec at Utah State University will sponsor a traditional karate (KyuShinRyu) class for adults and children starting Monday at the HPER Building. Adults will meet Mondays and Wednesdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m.; children (advanced) will meet from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Classes are taught by Gary and LaDonna Connors. Kumite/Randori (sparring) is optional. Classes are open to students and non-students. Must register in class. For more information, call 752-2954 or 753-1311. A Natural Parenting Retreat will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the University Inn, Room 507, USU campus. Dr. Kirkilionis will discuss her research on safe babywearing. Participation is free to Cache Valley residents. Children are welcome. For a complete schedule and other information, visit www.babywearingschool.com. Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will lead a hiking activity at 5 p.m. Monday on the Riverside Trail. For more information, visit www.cgadventures.org or call 713-0288. Mendon concerts-in-the-park start at 7 p.m. every Monday in August at Pioneer Park, 200 W. 100 North. The Ryan Conger Band will perform Aug. 24; and the Cache Community Band will perform Aug. 31. A Wellsville Founders Day Softball Tournament will start Monday and run through Sept. 7. There will be men’s and co-ed divisions (women’s softballs will be switched out). Cost is $150 with a four-game guarantee. For more information, contact Jon Tenhoeve at 757-9972.

Tuesday The Alliance for the Varied Arts will host its annual Members Show on Friday, Aug. 28. Up to three entries per artist member will be accepted for this juried art exhibit from 1 to 6 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. There is no specific theme. To participate, the artist must be a member of the AVA in good standing. To become a member, visit www.avaarts.org or drop by the gallery at 35 W. 100 South in Logan. For more information, call 753-2970. The Cache Regional Theatre Company will hold auditions for “Thoroughly Modern Millie” by appointment only on Tuesday. The production will run Nov. 5-9 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. For more information, visit crtcmillie.blogspot.com. The Youth Conservatory at Utah State University will hold an open house information and registration night for fall semester from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Kent Concert Hall lobby of the Chase Fine Arts Center at

USU. Classes and lessons begin Aug. 31. Students at all levels are welcome. For more information, call 797-3018. Karin Hardman of La Leche League of Logan will talk about the lactation amenorrhea birth control method from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East, Logan. Cost is $2 per person. For more information, call 563-8484.

Wednesday Rob Bishop will host a Town Hall Meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Hyrum City Building, 83 W. Main. For more information, call 753-2930 or 753-8844. Mary Tocco and Dr. Phillip MeMio will host a video presentation of “Are Vaccines Really Safe?” from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. For the location and to reserve a seat, contact Nancy Brokaw at 563-9641. A Kiwanis Club family picnic and auction will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Adams Park in Logan. Members are asked to bring a salad or dessert to share. Cost for guests is $10 per adult and $5 per child; club members eat free. The Cache Interagency Council will meet at noon Wednesday at Hamilton’s, 2427 N. Main, Logan. For more information, contact Kendall at 753-9008. Paradise hosts a farm and garden market from 6 to 8:30 p.m. every Wednesday in the town park. Music, educational classes and artists will join produce vendors and several local business people. The Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market’s produce market is open from 4 to 7 p.m. every Wednesday at the Historic Cache County Courthouse (south side). For more information, visit www.gardenersmarket.org. Bridgerland Cruise Nights will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the south Arby’s. For more information, call 563-6488.

Thursday The Cache School District will conduct a screening for children ages 3 to 5 who may be eligible for programs for preschoolers with developmental delays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday at Bear River Head Start, 852 S. 100 West, Logan. For more information, call 753-2100 ext. 1902 or 753-0951 ext. 102. Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will host an open house Thursday at 335 N. 100 East, Logan. Come learn about the organization that has been providing outdoor recreation for people with disabilities since 1993. Melonie Turley will help participants create a family pandemic plan from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Booklets will be available for $5. There will also be refreshments and giveaways. Seating is limited; call 753-3301. The Knotty Knitters meet from 6:15 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday at the Senior Citizen Center in Logan. Everyone is invited. For more information, call 752-3923.

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