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Lee Mashburn plays the bagpipes during the inaugural Cache Celtic Festival & Highland Games last weekend at the American West Heritage Center. From ginger beer and haggis to caber tossing and Scottish country dancing, this festival had it all and, with the amount of Celtic heritage around here, along with the turnout the festival drew, it’s likely to be a big annual event.

Read all about the festivities on Page 8. Photo by Eli Lucero/Herald Journal

From the editor

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THINK THIS YEAR MIGHT BE the first that I am actually, genuinely excited for college football.

Usually, watching college sports on TV bores me to tears. My husband claims “crazy things” happen in college sports that you don’t get to experience in the NBA or NFL, but I don’t see it. I’ll take my Utah Jazz and Miami Dolphins over any college team any day.

But for some reason, this year is different. I was flipping through my cable guide and saw that the University of Oregon was playing Boise State and I thought, “Oooh, the Ducks and the Broncos!

That sounds fun!” Which was immediately followed by, “What the heck? Did I just get excited about college football?”

My husband, of course, is proud. It was he who turned me into a Jazz fanatic, and it’s because of his lifetime support of the Dolphins that I chose to declare them “my team” (seeing

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as how I didn’t think twice about football before I met him). He just loves sports so he’ll support me any time I say, “Hey! Let’s watch the game!”

He rarely asks what game; he just says “OK!” and flips to it.

I think he was even a little shocked when he asked if we could get the NFL Network last season. “Well sure,” I said. “There’s a game on tonight; let’s hurry and call!”

My mom is also happy Ben is in my life, if for no other reason than the fact that she can now “talk sports” with me. She might be the biggest fan I’ve ever known — she’s one of those people who listens to the radio while she watches the game on TV or in person, then listens to and watches every post-game broadcast. She reads, watches, breathes and eats sports.

By the time you read this we’ll all know the outcome of Thursday night’s Aggie game.

And until then, I’ll say it again and again — GO AGGIES! Have a great weekend, everyone!

— Jamie Baer Nielson Cache Magazine editor

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Pet: Buddy From: The Wiberg Family Why he’s so lovable: “His eyes say it all.

It’s a good thing he has those loving, big, brown eyes to help him when he gets into trouble.

Buddy loves to be right next to us, no matter where we are. You can walk outside and come back five minutes later and he greets you like he hasn’t seen you in a week. He loves his family. If you are having a bad day just take a look at Buddy and that will change your day.”

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.

he second annual Cache Valley historic home show tour will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, in Logan.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at Macey’s Food & Drug, Lee’s Marketplace, the USU Haight Alumni Center and the Cache Valley Visitors Bureau.

Visitors are encouraged to carpool when viewing the homes. For more

information, call 755-1890.

This year’s tour features two homes on Logan’s historic Center Street and four additional homes in Logan and North Logan. A bonus property is the Ludwig Einer Larsen Cabin in North Logan, a 16-by18-foot cabin full of early Cache Valley artifacts. Some of the architectural styles include Stick, a Victorian sub-style; Arts and Crafts; Victorian; and Gothic Revival.

John R. Blanchard Home (203 W. Center, Logan) Fun facts:

This oldest state-built residence in Utah was built as a model farm house, but for nearly a century was the home to 12 presidents of USU. After completion of the house in 1890, the Board traded it for the five-room suite on the second floor of Old Main, which had been the president’s living quarters.

James W. Quayle Home (123 N. 200 West, Logan) Fun facts:

This 2½-story house was constructed about 1898 for James W. Quayle, who was the manager of his father’s Main Street store, James Quayle and Co., which carried dry goods, guns and ammunition. The house is a good example of Victorian Eclecticism.

Fun facts:

This home was built as a private residence in 1890. In 1903 it became the first hospital in Cache Valley and in 1916 was sold to the Presbyterian Church to be used for the New Jersey Academy. It later became a boarding house before being converted back into a single-family home in 1977.

Nicholas Welch/Alice Crookston Home (1491 E. 2300 North, North Logan) Fun facts:

This “old home,” which has passed down through five generations of Crookstons, was built on land homesteaded by Robert Burns Crookston in the 1870s. Materials used to build the house were floated down the Logan River and the foundations and fireplaces were made of rock from Green Canyon.

Bonus home: Larsen Cabin (1688 E. 2500 North, North Logan) Fun facts:

This 16-by-18-foot cabin was built

by Ludwig Einer Larsen in 1879 about a mile east of Newton and has been painstakingly moved to its present location. The Larsen family consisted of seven boys and one girl with all 10 members of the family living in the small log home. It is now filled with original artifacts from the early days of Cache Valley.

Julia Budge Nibley Home (301 W. Center, Logan) Fun facts:

This house was built in 1915 by Charles W. Nibley for his third wife, Julia Budge. It is architecturally significant because it represents change from Victorian and Classic styles to the Arts and Crafts, Prairie and Craftsman styles preferred in Utah after the turn of the century.

Alvin D. Crockett Home (82 Crockett Ave., Logan) Fun facts:

The Crockett house is significant both for its architecture, which reflects the Gothic Revival period, and as the home of two generations of the Crockett family. At the time of its construction in 1887, the house was one of the most elaborate homes in the Island neighborhood.

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oin the Alliance for the Varied Arts for its fall session of art classes, now available for children and adults in drama, dance, ceramics and the creative arts. To register, call 753-2970 or visit www. avaarts.org.

• Taught by Terena Lund • More info: This dance group specializes in Irish dance and offers classes with certified Irish dance instructors. For more information, visit www.andaire.org.

• Cost: $40 per month • When: Wednesdays starting at 4:30 p.m.

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T.J., played by Andy Johnson, has his head measured by Maria and Fredrick, played by Amy Repko and Riley Olsen, during a Unicorn Theatre production in 2007.

• Taught by Beth Calengor • More info: The AVA’s ceramics program offers weekly classes for children, teens and adults. Classes include hand building and wheel throwing. Artwork created can be glazed and fired at the end of the class.

• Cost: $80 for youth, $135 for

adults, plus $15 for clay • When: Monday through Thursday, various class times

• Taught by Kathy Bateman • More info: This drama group for ages 5 to 18 has been offering classes and performing for many years.

Weekly teen and children’s creative drama classes are held along with some Pillow Theatre Saturday performances.

• Cost: $40 • When: Tuesday through Thursday, various class times

• Taught by Suzann KienastBrown • More info: The Valley Dance Ensemble is a unique resource in the community for modern and creative dance classes. VDE offers weekly children’s and adult dance classes, along with yearly performances.

• Cost: $7 per class; multiple class punch cards are available • When: Tuesday through Thursday, various class times

Only 2 more chances to catch Celebrate America’s ‘Yankee Doodle Dazzle!’ show HE CELEBRATE T America show will close out its 2009 show, “Yankee Doodle

Dazzle!,” on Sept. 4 and 5 in the Evan Stevenson Ballroom, Taggart Student Center, at Utah State University. Dinner is served at 7 p.m., the show starts at 8 p.m. and dancing begins at 9:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online at www.celebrate americashow.com or by calling the Caine School of the Arts Box Office at 797-8022. However, dinner tick-

ets are no longer available.

This elegant evening of entertainment combines dinner, dancing and a Broadway-style show. A live 17-piece orchestra accompanies the show, and it’s all to celebrate the spirit of America.

The 2009 show is billed as the “premier big-band entertainment package in the Intermountain West” and features nearly a dozen velvet-voiced singers with the distinguished Larry Smith Orchestra and

the acclaimed Rockettes-style dancers. This year’s show will present the “best of the best” from the past decade of shows including audience favorites “In the Mood,” “Tuxedo Junction,” “Pennsylvania 6-5000,” “Elmer’s Tune,” “Razzle Dazzle,” “Embracable You” and many other tunes from Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and other big-band greats.

As always, there will be a tribute to veterans, current military, firefighters and law enforcement.

Celebrate America dancers Christina Petroff, Cassie Finch, Britany Nydegger and Ashley Fowles.

A testimony to 50 years of eloquence ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ kicks off CVCA season

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HE CACHE Valley Center for the Arts will present the Montana Repertory Theatre production of the Pulitzer prize-winning play “To Kill a Mockingbird” at 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 24 and 25 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Tickets range from $21 to $32 and can be purchased online at www.EllenEcclesTheatre. org, in person at the Cache Valley Center for the Arts Ticket Office (43 S. Main) or by calling 752-0026. “‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is a poignant piece of American literature that is as

powerful and relevant today as it was 50 years ago,” said Wally Bloss, executive director for the Cache Valley Center for the Arts. “Montana Repertory Theatre is an extraordinary company and their productions are of the utmost quality.”

Winner of the Pulitzer prize for fiction, Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is unquestionably an American classic. This stage adaptation continues to compel and delight audiences worldwide with its warmth, wit and wisdom.

The story of “To Kill a Mockingbird” is simple, yet it speaks deeply and eloquently of human nature and human values. The story is set in a sleepy Southern town of the 1930s, as Atticus Finch, an attorney and the widowed father

of two young children, stands against his fellow townspeople by defending a young black man falsely accused of raping a white woman.

Through every step and with every word, Atticus instills in his children the traditional moral values of honesty, courage, integrity, respect for others and, above all, responsibility for one’s actions. Without fanfare or bravado, Atticus Finch achieves the status of a true American hero, telling his son that courage is “when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”

For more information about “To Kill a Mockingbird,” visit www.mon tanarep.org.

Experience the music of the therapist at USU benefit concert T HE CAINE SCHOOL OF the Arts’ Department of Music at Utah State University will present a Music Therapy Benefit Concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, at 7 p.m. at USU’s Manon Caine Russell-Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall. Everyone is invited.

The concert, organized by Jesi Jerman, a music therapy student and president of the USU Music Therapy Student Association, is being provided to raise funds to purchase new instruments and equipment for USU’s music therapy program. Scholarships are another objective.

Concert tickets are $10 for the public and $5 for USU students with valid ID. Tickets are available at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office or at the door.

The discipline of music therapy was founded more than 50 years ago, and this concert brings to Cache Valley the talents of those in the profession. The benefit concert promotes music therapy locally, in addition to building the program

at USU, Jerman said. It also gives students a prime opportunity to develop their skills as music therapists.

Educated in guitar, vocal, piano, percussion, string, jazz and improvisation, music therapists are able to use the best method for the specific needs of specific individuals.

Nino Reyos, hoop dancers to perform at Allinger Theatre ATIVE AMERICAN N flutist Nino Reyos will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, at

the Allinger Community Theatre in Montpelier. Tickets are $13. A dinner-and-show package is available for $29; dinner will be served at 6.

Reyos will also present school assemblies on Thursday, Sept. 10, at Bear Lake Middle School, Bear Lake High School and Clover Creek High School. He will perform dance, flute and stories along with his hoop dancers. He will also be teaching a flute class on Saturday.

You can sign up for the flute class Friday night at the concert. Tickets are available at Peg Leg’s Trading Post inside the National Oregon/California Trail Center in Montpelier, or by going to www.oregontrailcenter. org. For more information, contact Becky Smith at 208-847-3800.

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Film New this week “Extract” Rated R ★★ Ten years ago, Mike Judge satirized the absurdities of the workplace experience from the perspective of putupon employees with “Office Space.” It didn’t do much when it came out but, as we all know by now, it became a cult favorite on cable and home video, to the point where it changed the way you looked at the common stapler.

Now, Judge is back to the daily grind with “Extract,” but this time the writer-director tells his wacky working tales from the boss’ point of view: that of Jason Bateman’s Joel Reynold, owner of a flavor extract factory. It’s doubtful that this comedy will grab its audience in the same way, though. Judge’s characters are so one-note and their misadventures so ridiculous that it’s hard to get attached to them or care about how they turn out. Pretty much everyone in “Extract” is stupid, unlikable, self-destructive or all of the above — and so there are no real surprises.

Joel is on the verge of selling his company to General Mills.

At the same time, his nonexistent sex life with his frosty wife (a thoroughly underused Kristen Wiig) has him pondering an adulterous fling with a sexy new employee (Mila Kunis), who happens to be a scheming sociopath. So his suave bartender friend (an amusing Ben Affleck) encourages him to hire a gigolo to sleep with her and justify his own affair. R for language, sexual references and some drug use. 91 min.

“All About Steve” Rated PG-13 ★ It’s bad enough that Sandra Bullock has found a way to star in not one but two flat

New this week! romantic comedies this summer, between “The Proposal” in June and now this. But what’s truly baffling — disheartening, really — is the fact that this latest one was written by a woman. Kim Barker came up with the script in which Bullock’s character, a crossword puzzle writer named Mary Horowitz, is singularly annoying from the word go.

It’s almost misogynistic, the lack of humanity Barker’s script gives this woman. Mary is a goofy, clingy, hyperactive chatterbox who bores people everywhere she goes with her arcane bits of trivia and long-winded anecdotes. She lives at home with her parents (Beth Grant and Howard Hesseman, who don’t get much to do) and needs to be fixed up on a blind date to have even a remote chance at intimate contact with a man. When she finally meets handsome

cable-news cameraman Steve (Bradley Cooper, all blue eyes and blinding teeth), she immediately throws herself at him. Then she misinterprets a comment he makes in the frenzy of scurrying away from her as an invitation to join him on the road covering breaking news, and ends up stalking him across the country. There is nothing about Mary that’s even vaguely appealing, but the feature debut from director Phil Traill makes it obvious we’re meant to find her weirdness endearing. Thomas Haden Church provides a couple of laughs as Steve’s selfserious reporter, while Kerri Kenney-Silver, Luenell from “Borat” and Charlyne Yi go to waste in throwaway supporting roles. PG-13 for sexual content including innuendoes.

87 min.

— All reviews by The Associated Press

“Gamer” Rated R (N/A) A review for “Gamer” was not available from The Associated Press. In lieu, please accept this synopsis from www.RottenTomatoes.com: “‘Gamer’ is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online games: people play people — for keeps.

Mind-control technology is widespread, and at the heart of the controversial games is its creator, reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall). His latest brainchild, the first-person shooter game ‘Slayers,’ allows millions to act out their most savage fantasies online in front of a global audience, using real prisoners as avatars with whom they fight to the death. Kable (Gerard Butler), the superstar and cult hero of the game, is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned and forced to fight against his will, the modern-day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game to free his family, regain his identity and save mankind from Castle’s ruthless technology.” R for frenetic sequences of strong brutal violence throughout, sexual content, nudity and language. 95 min.

F YOU’RE 5 YEARS old, or under the influence of some sort of hallucinogenic drug, “Ponyo” is probably awesome. Clearly, these are the ideal scenarios in which to watch the latest animated fantasy from Japanese writer-director Hayao Miyazaki.

For everyone else, though, “Ponyo” will seem beautiful but surprisingly boring: a children’s film that’s at once overly simplistic and needlessly nonsensical. The hand-drawn images can be wondrous and inventive as they are in all of Miyazaki’s films, but this story of a goldfish who longs to be a little girl lacks the sophisticated depth and engaging weirdness of his most acclaimed and best-known work, such as the Oscar-winning “Spirited Away” and the Oscar-nominated “Howl’s Moving Castle.”

It feels safe — and that extends to the casting in this English-language version.

Rather than playing in Japanese with subtitles, “Ponyo” is coming to a multiplex near you with a team of all-stars voicing the characters. (Pixar Animation guru John Lasseter is among the co-directors and “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” writer Melissa Mathison wrote the translated screenplay.)

It might have been easier to immerse ourselves in Miyazaki’s story, inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” if it featured unknown actors rather than Tina Fey, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson and Cate Blanch-

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ett. Exceedingly capable as they are, they also remind you of their stardom with every word. With Betty White, Lily Tomlin and Cloris Leachman serving as a sort of Greek chorus at a senior center, it’s hard not to think about the meatier, smarter, more daring material we’ve had the pleasure of watching these women work with before.

Meanwhile, Ponyo is voiced with girlish enthusiasm by Noah Cyrus, Miley’s younger sister, with the Jonas Brothers’ younger sibling Frankie (otherwise known as the “Bonus Jonas”) playing Sosuke, the boy she befriends on land.

Being an inquisitive and playful little fish, Ponyo

sneaks away from the underwater lair of her wild-haired wizard father, Fujimoto (voiced by Neeson, though the character looks distractingly like Phil Spector), who fights the damage humans do to the ocean. Once she reaches the shore of a remote Japanese village, she meets Sosuke, a lonely and serious boy who lives in a cottage atop a hill with his mother (Fey) and father (Damon), a sea captain who’s rarely around.

★★ “Ponyo” Rated G Instantly smitten by Sosuke, Ponyo transforms herself into a person using the magic inside her and a drop of blood she licks from a cut on Sosuke’s thumb. (This is one of the many leaps in logic in Miyazaki’s fantastical world you’re either going to go with or you’re not. “Ponyo” handles it rather matter-of-factly.) In no time she’s enjoying all the mundane joys of human life: a warm towel, a mug of tea and the food that becomes her obsession: ham.

But the ecstasy she experiences inspires her thousands of goldfish sisters to swim around with such frenzied energy, they cause a tsunami. Miyazaki depicts this torrent first as a golden burst of light, like the eruption of an underwater volcano. But then the storm

churns and turns darker, more dangerous. Dark blue waves with eyes form over and over, leaping across each other with fierce momentum and eventually submerging the town. It’s easily the highlight of the film.

From there, the pieces feel a bit scattered. Mom feels compelled to leave her son and the fish-girl home alone while she battles rain, winds and flooded roads to get back to the senior center where she works: “You’re only 5 but you’re very smart,” she tells Sosuke. Could she be the most neglectful mother ever?

Later, Sosuke must rise to a totally arbitrary challenge posed by Fujimoto and Ponyo’s mother, an ethereal ocean goddess voiced by Blanchett.

The fate of the planet, which is suddenly out of balance, is all that’s at stake. Sure thing — no biggie for a little kid.

“Ponyo,” a Walt Disney Pictures release, is rated G. Running time: 100 minutes. Two stars out of four.

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’Twas a beautiful day for a festival. But then again, is there ever a bad day for Scottish music, dancing, Highland games and haggis?

Last Saturday marked the first-ever Cache Celtic Festival & Highland Games, “Celebrating the Scottish, Irish and Welsh contributions to the American West,” held at the American West Heritage Center.

Though festivals like it are held in Payson and at Thanksgiving Point, this was the first of its kind in the valley. And with the amount of Celtic heritage around here, as well as the turnout the festival drew, it’s likely to be a big annual event.

“We’re delighted to have this up here in Cache Valley,” festival coordinator Dianne Siegfried said. “We’re pleased. ... We believe we have enough (support) to say it’s worth doing this again.

“We just wanted to make sure there was enough interest in the valley and the community to support this, because this takes a lot of work.”

With a culture as rich as that of the Scots and the Celts in general, it’s no surprise a festival of this kind would have enough things to do and see that one might miss something.

To begin with, perhaps the biggest attraction of the day was the Highland Games, featuring caber tossing; a weight-over-bar competition in which a 42- or 56-pound weight is thrown over a bar; sheaf tossing, where competitors use a pitchfork to heave a 16-pound sheaf over a bar; an open-stone competition, much like a shot put in track and field; a breamer stone throw (like a shot put, but the competitor can’t spin around); hammer throwing; and a weightfor-distance competition.

Saturday’s festival was also the site of the state weight-over-bar championship. Masters division champion Brian Dixon of Riverton, a veteran of the sport, felt the Heritage Center was a great place to have the games.

“I’ve been doing this about six years now. ... This is a great venue,” Dixon said. “... It’s a great turnout. From what I understand ... there’s over 40 competitors. That’s huge for a first year.”

Dixon beat out John Springer of Ogden to win their division, which is basically the men’s

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“They’re hoping to start a dance competition next year. This is just kind of a performance this year.”

A Celtic festival wouldn’t be much without some bagpipes, and pipers were not in short supply as the festival featured solo and quartet piping and drumming competitions.

Megan McDonald of Salt Lake City, a piper in the Wasatch and District Pipe Band, explained that while the bagpipes can be a tough instrument to learn, it’s really pretty simple when you break it down.

“When you start learning, you don’t start with a full bagpipe; that’s kind of intimidating,” McDonald said. “You start out with a practice chanter. It kinda looks like a recorder, and you learn how to do all the finger movements.”

McDonald further explained how the bag is used in the bagpipes.

“There is a blowpipe that goes in the piper’s mouth. ... You blow air through your blow pipe and the bag just kind of acts as a reservoir of air,” McDonald said. “So you’re keeping pressure on that bag, and that’s pushing air through the three drones, which create the humming sound in the background. It also goes down and pushes air through your chanter. That’s where your fingers are, and they move around and make the different melody notes.

“It’s kind of a lot going on, but it’s not too complicated. You just want to blow and keep a nice steady pressure.”

Scottish roots run deep through Cache Valley. The native Shoshone named the Logan River after mountain man Ephraim Logan, the man after whom the Mormon pioneers later named the area as well.

Though this year’s festival is predominantly Scottish, Siegfried hopes to have a greater Irish and Welsh representation next year.

“There’s a strong Scottish influence here, and actually a strong Celtic (influence),” Siegfried said. “There are a lot of Welsh in the area, although this year we’re predominantly Scottish. That’s because the (Utah) Scottish Association took on the responsibility of hosting this.

“It’s open. We want to encourage our Welsh and Irish cousins to come and participate ... in the future.”

Photos, clockwise from left inset: 1) Many clans had their crests on display at the festival. 2) Kurt Carpenter throws the caber during the Highland Games.

3) The Payson High School bagpipe band performs. 4) Brooke Sanders looks for a Mackenzie-clan kilt.

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WAS DRIVING through the Midwest’s flattest flat states this summer and noticed how the smokestacks and water towers serve as industrial cairns along the highway. Similar to those piles of rocks that mark trails, they lead you from town to town across the prostrate plains, east to west from Davenport to Cedar Rapids and on to Ames, Iowa, and beyond.

The city of Ames has a coalfired power plant right at the end of Center Street. You can see it out the window of the trendiest coffee shop. A few blocks away, Iowa State University, which is now famous for alternative fuels research, has a similar plant about the same size as their basketball arena. Since all that coal has to be delivered to the plants somehow, any drive across town requires building in enough slack time to wait for train crossings or rerouting your trip to one of the few streets that

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The hidden power of the West go under or over the tracks. In Iowa, the coal comes in, the corn and ethanol go out.

Water towers are the Midwest’s artificial mountains.

Without them there wouldn’t be enough water pressure to take a shower. The towers act as landmarks and 200-foot-high billboards let you know which city lies ahead. You can see the name of the next town way before the interstate signs tell you it’s there.

If you look overhead in most cities such as Ames, you will see a warren of telephone, cable and electrical wires. As a kid growing up in the Midwest we used to call the wires the “squirrel highway.” The circusact squirrels used them as tightrope wires to facilitate neighborhood trash can and bird feeder raids. Who needs trees when the humans have built you a big-top circus of fun?

All the power is in plain sight in the Midwest. Even natural gas is visible in many older

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cities. Before the high-pressure pipelines were developed, most urban areas had huge above-ground storage tanks that looked like football stadiums.

They operated like a bellows

that went up and down as the supply of natural gas fluctuated.

Contrast this to the West.

When my westward drive brought me to Wyoming I started noticing an absence of industrial cairns. There were power lines and a few windmills, but the only sign of coal power were some distant smoke stacks that look like they could belong to some giant, land-locked cruise ship. These ships are docked in what most people, even the ones who live there, refer to as the middle of nowhere. I saw lots of coal on trains leaving Wyoming, presumably for Iowa.

Likewise there are no water towers marking upcoming towns on the horizon. Many communities in the West actually have too much water pressure and homeowners have to install reducers to keep the underground water rushing down from the mountains from bursting their pipes. Natural gas also comes mysteriously

from somewhere underground and makes its way to Western homes with only the occasional appearance of huge, aboveground pipes crossing the desert.

Thought some may call the Midwest’s conspicuous resource consumption “blight,” it at least seems more honest and upfront. Westerners love the uncluttered feel of remote power stations, cheap natural gas and buried cables, but it gives the illusion there aren’t any resources being used. Other than paying the bills, it’s pretty easy to forget we are actually using any natural resources.

Dennis Hinkamp would like to encourage everyone to hug a coal miner today. 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.

Moses L. & Aria L. MOSES • Birthday: June 1997 • Age: 12 • Heritage: African American

ARIA • Birthday: January 2000 • Age: 9 • Heritage: African American

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This outgoing boy easily makes friends with his charming personality. A few of Moses’ favorite activities include swimming, playing sports, riding his bike and just being outdoors. An active and animated guy, Moses especially enjoys going to the park. He is very loving toward his sister and is quite protective of her. This seventh-grader works hard at school and has a great desire to learn. He would do well with parents who support him academically. Moses is attending counseling, which will need to continue after placement.

Moses and Aria are very bonded and are looking for a forever family that would be determined to keep them together and would assist them in making contact with their younger brother.

Meet energetic and talented Aria!

Singing, dancing and performing are just a few of the skills she has. She is currently taking dance classes and singing lessons and is not shy about displaying her accomplishments in front of others. Animals are another interest and she would love to have a dog at home. Aria also enjoys spending time with her brother, Moses. Currently in third grade, Aria would benefit from academically supportive parents. She is attending counseling, which will need to continue after placement.

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‘Water, Stone’ a thoughtful, literary book

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FTER A MONTH of vacation from Regional Reads and some much needed R&R, I return refreshed and ready to go, but it has put me even further behind as the slush pile grows even higher.

I’m seeing more and more first-time authors and the number and quality of first-time books is remarkable. First timers: It’s even more important in this market to make sure your writing is polished before you send it to a publisher; don’t give up even after several rejections.

If you are lucky enough to get feedback, pay attention and do what the publisher suggests.

In order to give space to new authors, at the end of this and future columns you will find a short synopsis of two books by authors who have been reviewed in this column many times — tried and true authors who already have a following and whose fans will be happy to know they have a new book out.

Josi Kilpack and H.B. (Heather) Moore have been profiled in this column and are both favorites of mine, so I can confidently recommend their books without hesitation from past experience.

“Water, Stone, Heart”

by Will North (Shaye Areheart Books, 2009, $24) It’s interesting why we choose to spend our precious leisure time with a particular author.

It might be the cover — and this is a good one — it might be because somebody recommended the book, or perhaps it’s for the reasons I first noticed this author: His bio intrigued me. “He divides his time between Seattle, Wash. (regional writer), and Great Britain.” That seemed like an interesting combination to me, and it turns out it was. In addition, this is his second published book, but he has “been a ghost writer of more than a half-dozen nonfiction books” and this is the second novel under his own name. I hope you enjoy “Water, Stone, Heart” as much as I did.

In many ways this is a thoughtful, literary book. The charac-

Regional Reads

By Charlene Hirschi

terization is subtle and sparsely drawn but solid and thoughtful as the stone hedges Andrew Stratton has come to learn how to build. The people who populate the pages of this book are as recognizable as the folks next door, even though they are playing out their particular slice of life in Boscastle, England, a small, picturesque village where Andrew has come to escape from the pain and memory of a recent divorce, the infidelity of his wife and the unhappy suggestion that the fault was his because he is stoic, uninteresting and predictable. He finds solace and healing in the “landscape of dizzying cliffs, jagged coastline, lush valleys, and hills lined with stone hedges.” A welcome, irresistible and soothing change from his life as a university professor in Philadelphia.

Picking up on his ex-wife’s accusations, Andrew wonders if she is right about his dull life, and perhaps he’s even a fraud. He teaches and writes about architecture theory, but has never built or designed a real building. Seeking to find the real Andrew, he has come to Boscastle to take a hands-on class in stone hedge building.

He finds the grueling work of setting stones gratifying and he soon learns he has a talent for “feeling” the stone and its proper placement. In this blue-collar activity, he finds a satisfaction and pride of accomplishment he never felt in the classroom.

Several people soon become important in his life, two of them being women: love interest Nicola Rhys-Jones, witch or bewitching, he’s not sure; and 9-year-old Lee, who is much too wise and

independent for her years.

Nicola (aka Nicki) has come to Boscastle for much the same reason as Andrew: to escape a bad marriage and rediscover herself in this quiet village and her painting. Complicated and not sure she is willing to trust her heart to a man who will only be around for a short time, she flirts outrageously with Andrew and at the same time keeps him at arm’s length, which makes her even more appealing to him.

Their first encounter foreshadows what is to come between the two of them: Nicki comes upon Andrew on “a narrow grassy ledge above the sea, which he shared with a loudly bleating, black-faced sheep.” With some chagrin he tells Nicki, who has just happened by and wonders what he’s doing, “‘I was just walking along and saw this sheep stranded down here. ... I thought I’d try to help it back up to the top. But whenever I get near it, it looks as if it’s going to jump.’ ... the two-hundred or so feet straight down to the Atlantic breakers crashing far below.”

Nicki soon leaves him to his futile undertaking after telling him: “‘That’s Darwin’s sheep, that is ... what you have there is the dimmest sheep in the flock, the one that has to die to protect the gene pool and assure the survival of the species.’ ... Andrew Stratton — professor from Phila-

delphia — did not know a great deal about sheep. He hadn’t a clue, now that he was down here, how he would get the sheep back up. Come to think of it, he wasn’t at all sure how he’d get himself back up, either.” Andrew soon finds himself attracted — even more, something he hadn’t felt in months: desire. He finds Nicki’s flirty banter vaguely dangerous, but magnetic in a way he can’t seem to resist.

Lilly Trelissick (aka Lee) adopts Andrew (Drew) and quickly becomes purveyor of local lore and history, tour guide and matchmaker after he rents a 17th-century stone cottage from her parents. She charges a small fee for her tours — an ice cream bar — and plays a pivotal role in bringing Nicki and Drew together. Her feisty presence throughout the novel provides color and comic relief. Though smitten with Drew, she is disdainful of “tourists” in general, who disrupt the pastoral rhythm of life. “‘I can’t wait for them to leave! ...

And anyway, just look at them,’ she sputtered as another tour bus stopped to disgorge a stream of travelers who then waddled off downhill like so many overnourished ducks. ‘Bet you none of them makes it to the top of Penally; they’re all too fat!’ ‘I dunno, Lee; keep eating those ice creams and you could end up the same way,’ Andrew said calmly.

The girl lifted an eyebrow. ‘You want the tour or not, Drew?’”

Set in a real village on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, each chapter begins with a quote from official reports from rescue and weather agencies.

Pay close attention to the first one — it is the clue to the act

of nature that will be the culminating adventure and defining moment for the characters, including a daring rescue of Lee and the near destruction of their beloved Boscastle.

“Alma” by H.B. Moore (Covenant Communications Inc., September 2009) Early reviews of “Alma,” the second book in Moore’s Mormon Prophets series that will released some time this month, are stellar and indicate that Moore has once again produced a must-read book. Always wellresearched and well-written, Moore, who claims to not be a Mormon scholar, seems to belie her own words as she once again captures the spirit of a major Book of Mormon prophet while remaining true to the history and intent of the original account.

“English Truffle: A Culinary Mystery” by Josi S. Kilpack (Deseret Book, 2009, $17.95) Hot off the press, Kilpack brings us another rollicking good read featuring neophyte sleuth — hmm, perhaps busybody — Sadie Hoffmiller. This adventure finds Sadie and daughter Breanna in England. Armed with her recipes and an inquisitiveness that can only lead her into trouble, she sets out to solve the murder of a body she discovers in the sitting room of her daughter’s boyfriend’s family home.

Written solely for entertainment, be prepared to enjoy both the tale and the recipes that always accompany this series.

Authors, readers and editors are invited to visit www.charlene hirschi.com.

‘Gate at the Stairs’ is Moore in top form

By The Associated Press

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HE AUTHOR OF acclaimed short-story collections “Birds of America” and “Like Life,” Lorrie Moore has a well-deserved reputation as a master of that form, with powers of observation and a sense of whimsy that lend themselves to observing life in miniature.

But Moore also writes novels, and with “A Gate at the Stairs” — her first in 15 years — she may have penned her masterpiece. A sharp, sad yearin-the-life saga of a Midwestern college student, this is the kind of book that sneaks up on you: Moore charms with her humor and knack for the small but telling detail, slowly builds a sense of investment in her frustratingly passive protagonist, then unleashes an unexpected emotional wallop at the end.

Moore isn’t the kind of author you read to be put through the paces of an exciting plot. Some

readers might grow weary, for instance, at Moore’s numerous, lengthy tangents into exhaustive description of Midwestern plant life. Her staging of major developments can seem a bit clumsy, and a few pop-culture references feel off.

But if anything, this digressive, sometimes fractured approach lends even more authenticity to the world view of Moore’s protagonist, Tassie Keltjin. A 20-year-old student at a thinly veiled version of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (where Moore has taught for 25 years), Tassie often seems only loosely in touch with the world around her, simultaneously self-obsessed and detached from her real self in a way that will seem familiar to anyone who knows college students.

The novel follows Tassie for a year starting shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A smart but naive farm girl from a tiny Midwestern town, Tassie is just starting to get glimpses of a life

beyond her provincial background, a world of “Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir.” She acknowledges that she’d never eaten Chinese food before college and to never having seen a man dressed in a tie and blue jeans until the day a professor showed up for class in such garb.

Much of the book revolves around Tassie’s new job working as a nanny for the adopted biracial daughter of a wealthy, slightly mysterious middleaged couple. Tassie is both fas-

cinated and a little frightened

by Sarah Brink and Edward Thornwood, but she quickly bonds with their child.

“A Gate at the Stairs” also follows Tassie through her first serious relationship, and on a few visits home to her odd but loving parents and aimless teenage brother. Moore maintains her light touch throughout, weaving in weighty topics like racism, 9/11 and familial and personal dysfunction without turning the book into a slog.

Indeed, more than anything, Moore is a deeply funny writer.

She pokes some fun at the rural Midwest, whether it’s exposing verbal tics like the distinction in meaning between “sounds good” and “good to go,” or describing the menu at a supper club in Tassie’s hometown: “On Sundays there was not only marshmallow and maraschino cherry salad and something called ‘Grandma Jell-O,’ but ‘prime rib with au jus,’ a precise knowledge of French — or English or

even food coloring — not being the restaurant’s strong point.”

That kind of satire could verge on snobbery, but Moore lampoons with equal precision the liberal pieties and prejudices of Sarah, Edward and their friends, trapped in their college-town cocoon. “I could hear Edward’s voice. Proximity to science and scientists and academics had caused him to speak in a kind of mimicry of professors. He would use the phrase if you will. A lot.”

But the satire, the puns and the jokes that fill the pages belie the serious and sometimes dark corners explored by Moore. We know a lot about Tassie by the end of this book, not all of it so good. What Moore crafts is so like life that to condemn Tassie for the ways in which she fails and falls short as a person would demand that we examine such behavior in ourselves.

Thank goodness this book is funny, otherwise, it would be nearly unbearable.

‘Magicians’ is the story of a postmodern wizard

By The Associated Press

O MAYBE YOU’VE S heard a story or two about a young wizard who harnesses

his power at a school of magic.

But, oh, Harry Potter fans, you haven’t heard THIS one.

“The Magicians,” Lev Grossman’s brooding new novel, is rather unapologetically derivative of a number of familiar fantasy yarns. “Harry Potter,” “The Chronicles of Narnia” and “The Lord of the Rings” series are all paid various levels of homage.

Yet, Grossman’s performed a nifty trick. While he borrows heavily from fantasy’s canon, he has crafted a work that is strikingly original in plot and construction.

Gritty, literate coming-of-age

novels are common enough in literature. So, too, are magic and fantasy books with things like talking bears, centaurs and Renaissance spells. Grossman’s feat is capably combining the two into a story you will certainly not read in the Hogwarts alumni newsletter. (Nor one that will be particularly easy to put down.)

Subbing for Harry in the role of protagonist and mage-intraining is Quentin Coldwater. A high school senior from Brooklyn, Quentin is older and quite a bit darker and more melancholy than J.K. Rowling’s blockbuster creation.

The plot takes off as an odd series of events derail Quentin’s interview with Princeton. Soon he is wandering

through a portal to Brakebills College, an incredibly selective institution of higher learning for wizard aspirants.

Quentin first thinks he’s hallucinating, then that he’s stumbled into Fillory, a fictional land of magic. It’s actually just a magically fortified compound on the

Hudson in upstate New York.

After a truly epic entrance exam, Quentin is admitted. And here’s where the fun starts, right?

Well, sort of.

Quentin is a sort of postmodern wizard, and Grossman revels in exploring something like magical ennui. Despite growing up a dorky devotee of fantasy novels — particularly a series of children’s books about Fillory that sound an awful lot like C.S. Lewis’ Narnia — Quentin immediately evokes some Caufield-esque confusion and skepticism. This blooms throughout the novel, even as many of his boyhood fantasies — sexual and magical — become reality.

Grossman tells Quentin’s story, which takes him from Brakebills back to New York for

a dip into a post-college hedonistic purposelessness and on into uncharted magical realms, in a sharp, brisk voice. It is peppered with well-drawn detail that is often casually hilarious.

There are clipped asides about everything from the post-game feelings in a wizard’s hands after they cast a spell to the attire of cacodemons.

“The Magicians” is not, though, a feel-good story in any conventional sense. And, while it is fascinating to read about wizard teens who, you know, have real feelings and emotions and experiment with things — drinking, drugs, sex — that real teens would, it is also quite sad. Turns out, even for precocious boy wizards, there are not always happy endings.

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SU’S YEAR-LONG Tanner project, “Crossing Boundaries,” continues with a lecture

by Brenda J. Allen from 4 to 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 8, in the Eccles Conference Center 216 (approximately 550 N. 900 East in Logan). Allen will also be available for a faculty workshop from 9 to 11 a.m. Sept. 9 in USU’s Merrill-Cazier Library 101. Both events are free and open to the public.

Allen is an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and a professor in the department of communication at the University of Colorado, Denver. Her research and teaching areas are organizational communication, diversity, group communication and computer-mediated communication.

Among her numerous publications is

a groundbreaking book, “Difference Matters: Communicating Social Identity” (2004, Waveland Press).

She is co-editor of the International in Intercultural Communication Annual and is a member Allen of several editorial boards. She also serves as master mentor of the Tenure Track Faculty Mentoring Program at UCD. She presents keynote speeches and conducts workshops for various groups on a range of speaking topics, including diversity, teamwork, self empowerment and presentational speaking.

Allen has received numerous awards and accolades, including the Francine Merit Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Lives of Women in Communication from the National Communication Association (2004). In January 2006 she received the first Annual Award for Outstanding Achievement for Commitment to Diversity at UCD. She was recently named a master teacher (2007-08) by the Western States Communication Association.

The Tanner Project is a year-long series of art exhibits, theater performances and national and international artists and scholars presenting at USU. An associated art exhibit, “Contemporary Voices in Visual Narrative,” is hosted by the Caine School of the Arts.

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Answers from last week

Ongoing events The Logan TaVaci School of Performing Arts for ages 4 to 13 is now holding registration for fall classes, scheduled to begin Sept.

8 and 9 at the Whittier Community Center.

For more information, contact Jill Pack at 7539059 or Jeri at 753-9394.

Music for the Small and Tall 2009 Fall Session for ages 6 months to 6 years is currently holding registration. Classes start Sept.

15 and are held at The Book Table. Classes include a family class at 10:15 a.m., a babies and tots class at 11 a.m. and a preschool class at 11:45 a.m. For more information, contact Ewa Wilczynski at 755-0853.

Friday A drive-in movie will play at 7:30 p.m.

Friday in the dining room at Pioneer Valley Lodge, 2351 N. 400 East, North Logan. There will be popcorn and treats; everyone is invited.

Parent Tot Nature Hour will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday at Stokes Nature Center.

Toddlers ages 2 and 3 are invited to explore animals, plants and nature through music, crafts and games. Cost is $3 ($2.50 for SNC members). To register, call 755-3239.

Danny and Dallin Hunt will perform from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. For more information, call 753-4777.

The September Women in Business luncheon and meeting will be held at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday at the USU Space Dynamics Lab Calibration Building, 489 E. 1650 North, Logan. The topic this month is “Emergency Preparedness: Be Ready Utah.” Cost is $12.

All Women in Business members and other interested professional women are invited.

RSVP by noon Friday to Tammy Selley at tammy.selley@imail.org or 716-5471.

Felina’s Arrow will perform with KiraMesa and We Fight the Giant Squid (acoustic) at 8 p.m. Friday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave., Logan. Cover charge is $5.

Saturday Tim Holwig will perform at 3 p.m.

Saturday at Pioneer Valley Lodge. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

This week’s “Saturdays at the Museum” series at USU’s Museum of Anthropology will feature “Music: More than Meets the Ear,” based on the museum’s traveling exhibit that highlights music from world cultures. A lecture spotlighting associated musical instruments will be ongoing throughout the day. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 797-7545.

Bridgerland Literacy’s Bookcrossing stops at the Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market every Saturday morning. Pick up a traveling book to read then release it for others to find.

For more information, call 753-1270.

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.

Enjoy live music while shopping for fresh

produce and plants, handmade crafts, eggs, bread, cheese and locally raised meats from more than 75 vendors. For more information, visit www.gardenersmarket.org.

Centrevol will perform with 1 Lump Sum, The Blu Storks and Per Hero from the Shadows (rock/alternative) at 8 p.m.

Saturday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $5.

A workshop titled “Sacred Space, Urban Grace” will be held Saturday, Sunday and Monday in the Eccles Conference Center at USU and will introduce participants to ritual shamanism through the teachings of shaman Oscar Miro-Quesada. Everyone is invited. Cost for three days is $199 for adults, $77 for students with ID and free for children ages 8-16.

To register, call 797-0423 or 1-800-538-2663.

Sunday Peruvian shaman, master ceremonialist and teacher don Oscar Miro Quesada will host an event as part of USU’s “Sacred Space, Urban Grade” conference from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Merlin Olsen Central Park, 300 E. Center, Logan. Participation is free and everyone is invited.

Houston Guy will perform at noon Sunday at Caffe Ibis.

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

Monday Wellsville city’s Labor Day Fun Run (5K, 10K and Kids K) will start at 7 a.m.

Monday on the east side of the Wellsville LDS Tabernacle. Registration and number pick-up will begin at 6 a.m. Pre-register by Sept. 3 at the Wellsville City Office for $8; day-of registration is $10; and Kids K registration is $3.

Prizes will be awarded. For more information, contact Juanita at 245-7831.

Tuesday A Quarterly Arts Summit will be held at noon Tuesday at the Bullen Center, 43 S. Main. Those who plan arts events are invited to meet to coordinate their calendars, share best practices and discuss issues of common concern. For more information, contact Tricia at 753-6518 ext. 11.

The Independence Caucus will host a Logan City Candidate Town Hall Forum featuring Mike Morrill, Tony Wegener and Steve Stokes at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Bridger Elementary School, 1261 N. 400 West.

Citizens can submit questions for the candidates at cacheicaucus@gmail.com. For more information, visit cacheicaucus.blogspot.com.

Loo Steadman will perform with The Earthworm, The Angels and True Blue (acoustic) at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Why Sound.

Cover charge is $5.

Logan Regional Hospital’s Diabetes Support Group will talk about low-sodium cooking and getting more herbs into your meals at a free cooking and community

class from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Seating is limited; to reserve a spot, call 753-3301.

the town park. Music, educational classes and artists will join produce vendors and several local business people.

A Wellsville fall softball league starts this week. Men’s games will be Tuesday nights and coed games will be Thursday nights. This will be an eight-game season with a single-elimination tournament. For more information, contact Amanda at 770-5157 or Bobby at 770-7860.

The Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market’s produce market is open from 4 to 7 p.m. every Wednesday at the Historic Cache County Courthouse, 199 N. Main, Logan.

Wednesday AWANAS will begin at 6:15 p.m.

Wednesday at the Maranatha Baptist Church on the corner of 400 South and Main in Logan. AWANAS is a non-denominational Bible club for kids from pre-school through sixth grade. For more information, contact Rob Gunn at 753-0280.

Ye Olde Tyme Quilters will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday at OPTIONS for Independence, 1095 N. Main, Logan.

Adaptations are made for people with low vision; however, people of all abilities are invited. For more information or to schedule transportation, contact Aimee at 753-5353.

Financial Planning for Women will present “Don’t Give Your Money to Bernie: Outsmarting Investment Fraud” from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday in USU Taggart Student Center Room 335. The same program will be repeated from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Family Life Center, 493 N. 700 East. Admission is free and registration is not required. For more information, call 797-1569, e-mail jean.lown@ usu.edu or visit www.usu.edu/fpw.

Mountain Crest High School Thespians will present the old-fashioned melodrama “Fool’s Gold” at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the MCHS auditorium. Admission is $4.

The Department of Workforce Services will team its Annual Job Fair with Bridgerland Applied Technology College’s Tech Expo from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at BATC, 1301 N. 600 West, Logan. Hands-on activities, demonstrations and student projects will be going on in every department. There will also be mini workshops, food and prizes. For more information, call 753-6780 or 792-0300.

USU’s Museum of Anthropology will host its biannual Boy Scout Archaeology Badge Workshop this Saturday and next. Scouts can choose one of two sessions: from 9 a.m. to noon or from 1 to 4 p.m. Scouts must attend both Saturdays to meet all requirements. Entire troops and individual Scouts are invited. Register beginning Aug. 24 by calling 797-7545; because of limited space, RSVP is required by Wednesday. Cost is $5 per Scout. For more information, call 797-7545.

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will lead a hiking event at 4 p.m. Wednesday along the Riverside Nature Trail. For more information, visit www.cgadventures.org.

Candi from USU Extension will share recipes using corn at a free cooking and community class from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater.

Seating is limited; call 753-3301.

Paradise hosts a farm and garden market from 6 to 8:30 p.m. every Wednesday in

Bridgerland Cruise Nights will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, at the south Wendy’s. For more information, call 563-6488.

Thursday Pioneer Valley Lodge will serve a homemade German feast at 12:30 p.m. Thursday.

The Cache Far South Company will host its picnic luncheon at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Hyrum Civic Center. There will be a recognition of outgoing company board members at 2 p.m.

The American West Heritage Center will host Scout & Youth Days from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday. This month’s theme is “Under a Harvest Moon.” Reservations are required.

For more information, visit www.awhc.org.

The Old Barn Community Theatre in Collinston will hold auditions for “Little Women: The Musical” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday. All parts are open.

Come prepared to sing 16 measures of a Broadway song. An accompanist will be provided. For more information, contact Ronda Bickmore at bic5@frontiernet.net.

Ministry of Love will perform with Broken End Stereo, the Deception and Starting in the Dark (rock/pop/electro) at 8 p.m. Thursday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $6.

“Citizens of Wellsville” will host a meetthe-candidates night at 7 p.m. Thursday at Willow Valley Middle School, 525 N. 200 West. Residents of Wellsville can get better acquainted with the three mayoral candidates and eight council candidates. For more information, call 245-4052 or 245-3322.

The Cache County Sheriff’s Office and the Cache County Community Emergency Response Team Council will offer an eightweek course for people interested in learning how to take care of themselves, their families and their communities in an emergency starting Thursday from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Cache County Sheriff’s Office, 1225 W. Valley View Highway, Logan. There is no cost for the course; manual and supplies are about $30 (depending on vest size). For registration or more information, contact Sandy at 563-5143.

Upcoming events A carnival and auction fundraiser for Taylie Abbott will be held from 5 to 8 p.m.

Sept. 11 at Richmond City Park, 100 S. Highway 91. There will be a carnival, auction and food. There will also be a community garage sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 12.

Beaver Mountain will host its first-ever music festival from 3 to 10 p.m. Sept. 12.

Five bands will be performing. There will also be food/beverage/treat vendors, children’s face painting and henna tattoos.

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