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‘An incredibly passionate artist’ USU showcases the artwork of professor emeritus Adrian Van Suchtelen

The Herald Journal

SEPTEMBER 6-12, 2013

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September 6-12, 2013

COVER 8 Retired USU professor subject of new art exhibit

ARTS 3 Bengt Washburn brings

his comedy back to Logan

4 Annual Historic Home

Tour hits the road Saturday

5 Ellen Eccles Theatre

plays host to the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Sept. 11

BOOKS 11 Biography takes close look at conservationist

11 ‘The Maid’s Version’ is a superbly textured novel

MOVIES 6 Despite some big bombs, Hollywood still had a very strong, lucrative summer 7 Aaron Peck gives new ‘Riddick’ film two stars

COLUMN 10 Dennis Hinkamp takes

us to That Thing in Nevada

CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week

“Autumn Aspen” is one of the pieces of artwork currently on display at an exhibit by former Utah State University professor Adrian Van Suchtelen. On the cover: “Bowl of cherries, Indonesian Theatre Mask” by Van Suchtelen. (Eli Lucero/Herald Journal)

FROM THE EDITOR Cue the music. It’s time to get on a little boat and take a quick trip through the Cache Valley version of It’s a Small World.

In the process of writing a story on Bengt Washburn (see Page 3) this week, I gave the stand-up comedian a call at his home outside of Washington, D.C. A graduate of Utah State University, Washburn was telling me about his days as an Aggie when he was working on his BFA in the arts department.

The Mapleton native soon started listing some of his most-beloved USU instructors, which led me to wonder if he had ever worked with Adrian Van Suchtelen — the subject of this week’s Cache cover story by Lance Frazier (see Page 8).

Before I could ask, however, Washburn declared that Van Suchtelen had, indeed, been one of his favorite teachers while at USU from 1986 to ’90.

“He’s a great artist; I’m really looking forward to seeing his exhibit while I’m in Logan,” said Washburn, who will perform two shows on Sept. 13 at the Dansante Building.

But while Washburn still has numerous art ties to people in Cache Valley, he also

has at least one connection to someone from his current profession. Longtime Cache Magazine humor columnist Dennis Hinkamp (see Page 10), a one-time standup comedian himself, performed on the same bill with Washburn back in the early 1990s.

“I actually know Dennis from way back in my college days,” Washburn explained.

“He saw me doing stand-up in a contest at USU, and he was one of the judges.”

Washburn didn’t say what kind of marks Hinkamp gave him on his comedy, but then he didn’t share what kind of grades Van Suchtelen gave him either.

— Jeff Hunter

Bengt’s about to return

USU alumnus brings comedy show to Logan

By Jeff Hunter Cache Magazine editor

Shortly after reaching Bengt Washburn at his home in Springfield, Va., the impromptu phone interview takes an abrupt detour when the veteran standup comedian suddenly bellows, “It’s paint! Just wipe it off!”

Before Washburn’s able to finish apologizing for the interruption, the 48-year-old Utah State University graduate adds, “Just get a towel … noooooooo! Not the new socks!”

The unfortunate incident involving his 2-year-old daughter Britta and some purple paint serves to illustrate the declaration Washburn made a few moments earlier: “I have to kind of juggle stay-at-home dad and comedy.”

Washburn’s wife, Kelly Cahalan, is an officer in the U.S. Air Force who is currently serving in the Philippines, leaving him as the primary caregiver for Britta and his 8-year-old son, Ian (Washburn also has a 20-year-old daughter from his first marriage who’s attending the University of Utah).

“It’s kind of hard for me to get out and do my work,” Washburn admits.

“But we do have an au pair, and my mother-in-law will come out every few months so I can go do some shows.”

The first two performances of Washburn’s upcoming Western swing will be Friday, Sept. 13, at the Dansante Building. He says it’s the first time in about five years that he has taken the stage in Logan, where he attended school from 1986 to ’89 while completing a BFA at Utah State.

“I wanted to be close to home, but not that close to home,” Washburn says of his decision to go to USU. “And Utah State had a good art depart-

“Anarchy really isn’t much fun for anyone other than the anarchists. Following your bliss costs your friends a lot of money, and every free spirit needs parents with a livable basement.”

– A self-evident truth from Dennis Hinkamp (Page 10)

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Bengt Washburn will perform Saturday, Sept. 13, at the Dansante Building.

ment. I started out in illustration, but soon decided to focus on a degree in fine arts.”

The youngest son of seven children, Washburn grew up in Mapleton and served a Spanish-speaking LDS mission to Seattle before coming to Cache Valley. After completing his bachelor’s degree at USU, he went on to earn an MFA at Indiana University.

Washburn, who taught at USU for a year in 1993-94, says he still loves art, but that he started gravitating towards comedy while he was in college.

“I did a lot of comedy contests at USU,” he says. “The first time I got on stage, I really enjoyed it. It all started out as a hobby, but after a See RETURN on Page 12

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ALL MIXED UP

Quotable

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all mixed up Home tour slated for Saturday The sixth annual Cache Valley Historic Home Tour will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 7. This year’s tour will spotlight several of the homes built by the valley’s earliest settlers in Logan and Providence. The event is presented by the Cache Valley Historical Society and Cache Valley Visitors Bureau.

“People are always curious about the interiors of these architectural showpieces,” says Julie Hollist, director of the Cache Valley VisiThe Victorian-style Linda and Bill Loftus Home in Logan was built in 1899. tors Bureau. “In many cases the owners have was also reputed to be stagecoach robber and Some of the homes on spent years restoring a brothel in the early horse thief who was this year’s tour have a these homes and it’s a 1900s. Another home hanged on the gallows rare opportunity to step unique history. One was was built as an elementhe home of an infamous in Logan, and the house inside.”

tary school in the late 1800s, while another one of the homes on the tour was built by a polygamist for his two wives.

“Most of the homes this year were built in the 1800s so we will not only see the skills and resourcefulness of these early builders, but we will also enjoy the innovation, ingenuity and hard work of the current residents who have made the home convenient for our time while maintaining many of their unique historic features,” says Bernice McCowin, committee chair.

Tickets are $10 and are available at Macey’s, both Lee’s Marketplace locations and the Cache Valley Visitors Bureau at 199 N. Main St.

‘Miller Mood’ wraps up this weekend Once each year the balland the music of the Larry room on the campus of Smith Orchestra provide a Utah State University is night a powerful production transformed into a 1940s era that guests have called “the supper club as the Celebrate best show on the planet!”

America Show Corporation “In The Miller Mood” plays presents the “premier big nightly from Tuesday, Sept. band event in the Intermoun3, to Saturday, Sept. 7, in the tain West” — “In the Miller Evan Stevenson Ballroom Mood.” on the Utah State University Every year the show is all campus. A variety of ticket new and takes the audience options are available, includon a musical journey back in ing with or without dinner. time to experience the classic All shows (except Sept. 3) and timeless sounds of bands feature entertainment after the like Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman, show with dancing. Group and student rates are availwith a toe-tapping, heartwarming evening with dinner, able.

Tickets are available show and dancing. at www.celebrateamericashow.

Throughout the journey, com or at the Ellen Eccles the lush harmonies of the Theatre box office at 752Stardust Singers, the excitement of the Stardust Dancers 0026.

Celebrate America will present the final two shows of this year’s “In the Miller Mood” today and Saturday at Utah State University.

Autumn classes on tap at CVCA The Cache Valley Center for the Arts kicks off the fall season with classes of all kinds in the Bullen Center and Thatcher-Young Mansion. Information and registration details for can be found online at cachearts.org or at the CVCA Ticket Office.

Classes at the CVCA include music composition and songwriting; Broadcast Arts & Media (BAM) starting Aug. 29; ceramics classes for all ages and skill levels starting Sept. 9; and a full-length fall production class of “Cardenio: Shakespeare’s ‘Lost Play’” re-imagined with Logan Youth Shakespeare starting Sept.

26. This international premiere of “Cardenio” will be performed this coming winter. Watch for details about this production opportunity and other visual art class offerings coming in January 2014.

BAM, ceramics and Logan Youth Shakespeare classes are all held in the Bullen Center at 43 S. Main St. Registration is available at the CVCA Ticket Office on the main floor just off Main Street, online at www.cachearts.org or by calling 752-0026.

See CVCA on Page 10

The Guerrilla Girls, an anonythe Guerrilla Girls perform in mous group of women who seek 1987 and the issues they raise are to educate audiences on inequalunfortunately still relevant,” said ity in art, pop culture, film and Laura Gelfand, head of USU’s politics, is featured at Utah State Department of Art and Design.

University, presenting a “gig” “Their visit to Utah coincides with Tuesday, Sept. 10, in the Perforseveral area museum exhibitions mance Hall. That day, two of the of art by women artists and it is a original Guerrilla Girls will pres- great opportunity for audiences to ent their gig of humor, facts and see and hear these important pervisuals. formers.”

The presentation begins at 5 The Guerrilla Girls group was p.m. and is free and open to the founded in New York City in the public. mid-1980s in response to an exhi “I had the opportunity to see bition at the Museum of Modern

Art. The show featured 169 artists, only 13 of whom were women.

The group features anonymous female artists and feminists who wear gorilla masks to conceal their identities and they take the names of deceased women artists as pseudonyms.

“I hope that their gig will inform and inspire our students, faculty and community members to think about how and why artists become successful,” said Gelfand.

For more information, call 7978022 or visit arts.usu.edu.

Ballet hits the stage

The Cache Valley Center for the Arts presents the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.

11, in the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

ASFB will perform a trio of contemporary works that exemplify their commitment to commissioning groundbreaking work by both world-renowned and emerging choreographers. The Logan program will include Norbert De La Cruz III’s commissioned work “Square None,” Jormo Elo’s “Over Glow” and Jirí Kylián’s “Return to a Strange Land.”

There are three ways to purchase tickets: call, click or come by. Stop at the CVCA Ticket Office in person at 43 S. Main St., call 752-0026 or visit cachearts.org.

The ticket office is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

With its fusion of classical good sense and Western ingenuity, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet blends the best of both worlds to create a dance company that is truly unique. Aspen Santa Fe Ballet is not your average ballet company. At

Special ‘Garden’ preview set for Sept. 13

Jay Richards’ Music Theatre West will preview the musical adaptation of “The Secret Garden” by Marsha Norman (lyrics) and Lucy Simon (music) at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, at the Logan LDS Tabernacle.

“The Secret Garden” is the story of an enduring connection to the past, extraordinary determination and the power a forsaken garPhoto courtesy of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet den has to heal. It will The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet will perform at 7:30 p.m. feature some of Cache Valley’s vocal talent, Wednesday, Sept. 11, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. including the rich voican ASFB performance countries have embraced es of Kent Braddy and newcomer Craig Winder you won’t see many tutus Aspen Santa Fe Ballet as or toe shoes, or other typi- “one of the hottest tickets singing “Lily’s Eyes.”

Local youngsters cal ballet clichés. What in ballet.”

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Rick Drumm at Why Sound

Renowned drummer Rick Drumm will be performing with guitarist and Utah State University professor Corey Christiansen and Utah bassist Denson Angulo at 7:30 and 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Tickets are $15 and will be available at the door.

Drumm is president of New York-based D’Addario & Company, manufacturer of D’Addario guitar, bass and violin strings, Evans Drumheads, Pro-Mark Drumsticks, Rico Reeds, Puresound percussion products and Planet Waves accessories and has spent his life as an active player.

Cache Children’s Choir

Registration for Cache Children’s Choir is open now through Friday, Sept. 27. The program provides quality music education for the youth of Cache Valley in three choirs and two early childhood classes.

The CCC is in its 27th year. This season, the choir will host the Cache Valley Choirfest at Utah State University featuring Bob Chilcott, formerly with the King’s Singers. His new work, “Music to Hear,” will premiere at the festival concert.

The CCC’s advanced Cantate choir will also do a St. George tour and perform at the Utah Music Educators Association conference in February.

Visit the CCC website for registration forms, details on the choirs, class schedules and fees. For more information or to register for an ensemble, contact Gaylene Merrill at 752-6260.

New Peach Days show “The Perils of a Western Rose” brings the fun of

traditional melodrama to Brigham City’s Peach Days celebration on Saturday, Sept. 7, at the Brigham City Fine Arts Center, 58 S. 100 West. Performances are set for 2, 4 and 6 p.m. in the main floor air-conditioned theater. This family-friendly event encourages audience boos, hisses and cheers as a host of characters helps reveal the true villain(s) in this melodrama written and directed by local author Geri Garfield. Tickets are $5 per person at the door, or $20 per family. Reservations can be made at (435) 723-0470. Tickets and information are available at www.bcfineartscenter.org.

Towne Singers seek voices

Attention tenors, basses, sopranos and altos of Cache Valley. The Towne Singers want you. Logan’s longestrunning, mixed-voice choir is beginning its 49th season and would like to add new members to make a good choir even better. The choir rehearses from 7:30 to 9 p.m. each Wednesday at the Dansante Building at 59 S. 100 West. The first rehearsal will be held Wednesday, Sept. 11. The choir presents two concerts every year and also sings for special events and several assistedliving centers through Cache Valley. Anyone interested in joining should contact conductor Gary Poore at 7134726 (after Sept. 10) or check out a rehearsal.

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Feminism and fake fur at USU COMING UP

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Despite some bombs, Hollywood still scores NEW YORK (AP) — In the end, Hollywood made it through a precarious minefield of summer box-office bombs with a heftier wallet. The summer concluded with a record $4.7 billion in boxoffice revenue despite much maligned flops like “The Lone Ranger,” “After Earth” and “White House Down.”

The summer movie season closed out on Labor Day weekend as the boy band concert film “One Direction: This Is Us” took in an estimated $18 million from Friday to Monday for Sony Pictures, according to studio estimates Monday. That wasn’t enough to unseat the Weinstein Co. historical drama “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” which stayed on top for the third week with $20 million.

It was a positive note on which to end a tumultuous but profitable summer for Hollywood. More than ever before, the industry packed the summer months with big-budget blockbusters that ranged from the hugely successful “Iron Man 3” to the disastrous “The Lone Ranger.” Though the movie business has always been one of hits and misses, this summer brought particular attention to some big whiffs.

Yet the box office saw a 10.2 percent increase in revenue over last summer (not accounting for inflation), with attendance rising 6.6 percent. A portion of the revenue bump could

be attributed to rising ered to run from the first ticket prices which, on weekend in May to Labor average, went up 27 cents Day) that often seemed from last year. like a weekly punch But the plethora of line but ended up doing major releases — a more robust business overall? than 50 percent increase The lessons were hard to from last year in films deduce. costing $75 million or The biggest hit of the more to make — meant summer was Disney’s moviegoers had a parade “Iron Man 3,” which made of highly-marketed, big$408.6 million domestibudget options through cally and $1.2 billion the early, most soughtworldwide. Disney gave after weeks of the sumsome of that back, though, mer. That meant faster with Gore Verbinski’s blockbuster turnover “The Lone Ranger,” which that may have been bettook in just $88.4 million ter for the industry as a in North America despite whole, but often came at costing more than $215 the expense of individual million to make. (Studios films. split box-office revenue in “It was one of the most half with theater owners.)

Despite successes interesting summers I’ve like Warner Bros.’ “Man ever seen,” said Paul of Steel,” Universal’s Dergarabedian, analyst for box-office tracker Hol- “Despicable Me 2” and Paramount’s “World War lywood.com. “It was this mix of great news and bad Z,” ‘’The Lone Ranger” became the masked face news at the same time.”

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Let me preface this by saying that if you haven’t seen the other “Riddick” movies then this one won’t make a lick of sense. You’ll probably find yourself wondering why it even exists in the first place. That’s because the most recent installment in the would-be franchise plays out like a disjointed prologue.

Almost like a short story stuck at the beginning of something bigger just to set the scene.

Riddick (Vin Diesel) has been stranded on another planet full of savage beasts that he must growl at and kill. The first 30 minutes of the movie are actually quite slow, yet they’re the most enjoyable parts. Instead of diving headfirst into the skull-bashing that the Riddick movies are known for, this one trots along as our night-seeing antihero finds himself smack-dab in the middle of a CGI nature preserve from hell.

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A Man for All Seasons Adrian Van Suchtelen used to tell his students, “Try to pursue some sort of meaning in your work. Don’t make pink flamingos.”

Groutage found Van Suchtelen at the Otis Art Institue of Los Angeles County, where the young artist had earned a scholarship after immigrating to the United States in 1957. That Van Suchtelen It was his way of urging them to seek out their would go into a career in the arts was determined passion instead of wasting time creating what he early, and although he suggests that “I might have considered “decorations.” But one time his students been a beach bum if I hadn’t gotten into art,” if he did make pink flamingos, dozens of them, out of had, one can rest assured that he would have been a Styrofoam, and stuck the brightly colored birds all passionate beach bum. over his lawn one Easter morning, their way of say“I had an affinity for Rembrandt because I lived in ing, OK, we heard you! his hometown, Leiden (Holland), as a 10-year-old,” “I guess I said it one too many times,” says Van Van Suchtelen says. Once he fell in love with art, Suchtelen with a chuckle. “I’ll never forget it. It “that was it — I was totally committed.” was the most wonderful anecdote I can think of.”

So committed was he that as an adult, “I’ve never The work of Van Suchtelen, who in 2003 retired stopped working for more than three days.” He from a 37-year career teaching art at Utah State would take a sketch book on vacations to Europe, University, will be featured in a show this month and by the third day he would find himself drawing at USU. Some of the 58 pieces he will show were again. done while he was teaching, but many are new, cre“I’ve enjoyed retirement because I’ve been able ated in the decade since he retired. It’s a collection to work on my art so much more,” he says. “I work of drawings, paintings, prints and watercolors — every day, pretty much.”

“My favorite things, basically” — that he is dedicatWhen he’s not in the basement studio he built ing to the memory of the late Harrison Groutage, in his home on 1800 North (the house was on the the USU department head who hired Van Suchtelen. edge of town when he moved in four decades ago)

Van Suchtelen is playing tennis with his wife Francis, walking with their dog, Bruno, or working out at the gym. These activities often provide fodder for his work, particularly for pieces based on his favorite theme: seasons. Their home, surrounded by majestic trees, sits across from the USU research farm, which produces a new crop each year to signify spring. And Van Suchtelen’s walks along local trails keep him in touch with the ebb and flow of the calendar.

“I would never want to go back to California,” he says, although it was there that he got to work with Peter Fonda on a movie and drag race against Steve McQueen in a parking lot. “They don’t have seasons, and seasons to me are part of what I enjoy about living here. Basicially, seasons are a way of expressing the passage of time. I honestly can’t think of a favorite. All four of them are my favorites.”

Van Suchtelen also works in vanitas, a genre of still-life painting that flourished in the early 17th century in his native Netherlands — and was particularly meaningful in Leiden (think fruit on a table See MAN on Page 13

STORY BY LANCE FRAZIER PHOTOGRAPHS BY ELI LUCERO

Adrian Van Suchtelen’s artwork on display at USU “Adrian Van Suchtelen: Life Drawings and Prints” can be seen at the Tippetts Exhibit Hall, located in the USU Chase Fine Arts Center, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, through Sept.

28. An opening reception will be at 6 p.m. tonight and is free and open to the public. Mr. Van Suchtelen will also talk about his work and answer questions at a gallery talk at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, at Tippetts Exhibit Hall. For more information visit the Caine College of the Arts Box Office in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 7978022 or visit arts.usu.edu.

Below, Adrian Van Suchtelen stands next to his press at his home. Examples of Van Suchtelen’s work include “Cubist Violin” (right), “Snowbird Tiger Moth” (below) and “Room with a View” (below left).

I find myself avoiding talking about what I did on vacation because the place I go carries with it more baggage than it takes to go there for a week. So, I go with a set of euphemisms such as That Thing in The Desert, That Burning Thing or The Festival 90 Miles North of Reno.

Its copyrighted name is Burning Man. Its uncopyrighted description is usually “that hippie, bacchanalian/drug/ alternative/rave/fest.”

So, I have to go into 15 minutes of PR speak to talk people down from the ledge of titillation about something they never have attended. Or, I just give an evil grin and say “you have no idea.” It depends on my mood.

The truth is Burning Man is middle-aged and most of the rumors are akin to an old athlete’s embellished stories about how good they were. From all accounts, even Amster-

Slightly Off Center DENNIS HINKAMP

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The fire still burns inside Dennis Hinkamp

dam isn’t Amsterdam anymore. There is no perfect, free place where you can be and do whatever you want except maybe in the depths of your imagination or the backstreets of Las Vegas. And that is probably where Burning Man is for most people; an imaginary place where everyone is free and having more fun than you.

These truths are selfevident: Anarchy really isn’t much fun for anyone other than the anarchists.

Following your bliss costs your friends a lot of money, and every free spirit needs parents with a

Photo courtesy of Dennis Hinkamp

Dennis Hinkamp and some of the gang from That Thing in the Desert.

livable basement. There is no pure freedom.

So, why do I and 65,000 other people keep going? I’ve been participating for 15 consecutive years, which I guess makes me about as OCD about it as any other thing in my life. If it were just a hippie drug fest, it would

have died a long time ago because there are plenty of opportunities to enjoy a hippie drug fest in a lot more inexpensive, comfortable conditions. If you just want to see skin, your time would be better spent at any of the numerous spring break locations or simply watching women’s

Jazz performance set for Sunday The Jackson and Maggie Evans Jazz Group will present one show only in Cache Valley at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8, at the Four Seasons Event Center, 140 E. 2200 North in North Logan.

Admission to the show is $10.

Doors open at 3:30 p.m.

Guitarist Jackson Evans and vocalist/bassist Maggie Evans are based in Savannah, Ga., and they perform regularly in jazz venues throughout the Southeast. They currently divide their year between Savannah and Hangzhou, China, where they perform seven nights a week at the JZ Club, one of China’s most prestigious jazz

venues.

The Evans will be joined for this show by two musician friends they met in China. Bassist Linus Enoksson, originally from Soderkoting, Sweden, has performed and taught throughout Sweden and China. His

band Drive By is the resident band at Hangzhou’s Eudora Station. Pianist Joel Lindberg is Linus’ bandmate in Drive By. Also performing at this show will be local saxophonist and clarinetist Eric Nelson, who also happens to be Maggie’s father.

unteers build a complete city with a fire station, hospitals, police force, Internet, limited electrical grid, sanitation and a commissary. For a brief time, it is the fourthlargest city in Nevada.

It’s hot, dusty and in the middle of nowhere.

But it is a nowhere that becomes somewhere as a reunion, and home for about 65,000 people. It’s sort of like a homecoming where you tear down the campus afterwards and then rebuild it in time for next year. Burning Man highlights the fact that all things are temporary. It’s that moment when the electricity flickers and you know you should have saved your document five seconds ago. I have had some of my worst and best moments there; in other words, it is like real life.

That’s what Burning Man is; don’t take my word for it, Google it.

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beach volleyball.

I have become a Burning Man carnie of sorts. I get there early, help set up the circus, watch the people come in and then leave. A month ago there was nothing there, and a month from now there Dennis Hinkamp sugwill be nothing there. In gests you “like” burningbetween, thousands of vol- man.com.

CVCA Continued from Page 4 The ticket office is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Additional fall offerings include modern dance technique and African dance workshops with the Valley Dance Ensemble; Cadenza choir classes with the Cache Children’s Choir; creative drama classes and pillow theater opportunities with Unicorn Theatre; and a writing workout class with Jennifer Pemberton. The CVCA is also home to yoga with Dennise, who provides mixed-level yoga every Monday and Wednes-

day. Classes for Valley Dance Ensemble and yoga are already in full swing, though drop-ins are always welcome.

The CVCA’s ThatcherYoung Mansion is full of music and performance opportunities, and a wide variety of music instruction with a variety of teachers. At the center you will find guitar instruction with two local favorites, Todd Milovich and Kris Krompel; violin with Rosemary Hatch of The Hatch Academy; Ewa Wilcznski with Music for the Small & Tall; Christine Burningham with The Melodic Healing Heart; Amy Choate with Let’s Play Music; and Irv Nelson with Musicademy.

Books New biography examines conservationist

By Douglass K. Daniel Associated Press

Irony alert: The man often credited with saving the buffalo from extinction began his crusade by killing 20 of the furry beasts. It had taken five weeks to find even a handful of buffalo in Montana in the fall of 1886, their numbers down from the millions to the hundreds after decades of unregulated hunting for economic gain.

William T. Hornaday wasn’t seeking meat or fur or even trophies — well, not exactly. He was the chief taxidermist for the U.S. National Museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, and needed specimens.

The hunt led Hornaday to write a book decrying the buffalo’s fate and to help create preserves. His efforts, and those of oth-

ers, kept the buffalo roaming into the new century.

Hornaday came to believe that the extinction of the buffalo was not inevitable. “On the contrary,” writes biographer Gregory J. Dehler, “Hornaday maintained that something better could and should have been done to accommodate the advance of civilization with the buffalo’s right to existence.” As Dehler notes, Hornaday applied that view to the fur seal and other endangered species as he campaigned on their behalf.

“The Most Defiant Devil” is Dehler’s noteworthy chronicle of the life and career of this key figure in the conservation movement. He reveals a fascinating American, a man of vision and conviction whose stubbornness and hubris won him allies and enemies among lawmakers, potential patrons and

scientists and museums promised him a living and an opportunity for travel around the country and abroad.

The great adventure of Hornaday’s life, a collecting trek to Asia undertaken when he was just 21, kept him from his fiancee and his home in Syracuse, N.Y., for 2½ years. He hunted elephants, monkeys, orangutans and scores of other animals, protected or not, for museums and scientific study. fellow conservationists.

Often beset by fever and He once described himself short on funds, he suras an unrepentant sinner vived the ordeal and wrote in regard to his past as a a popular book about his killer of animals and “the travels. most defiant devil that Opponents of his cruever came to town.” sades would later accuse Hornaday (1854-1937) him of hypocrisy. Hornawas born in Indiana and day rationalized past huntgrew up on an Iowa farm. ing expeditions as proper His interest in wildlife led because of the educational him to study zoology and value of the specimens then taxidermy at the state they produced. Hostile to college in Ames, Iowa. market hunting and the use of modern firearms by Preparing specimens for

new york times best-sellers HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Cuckoo’s Calling” by Robert Galbraith 2. “Inferno” by Dan Brown 3. “Mistress” by James Patterson and David Ellis 4. “And the Mountains Echoed” by Khaled Hosseini 5. “The Third Kingdom” by Terry Goodkind

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. “The Liberty Amendments” by Mark R. Levin 2. “Zealot” by Reza Aslan 3. “Lean In” by Sheryl Sandberg with N. Scovell 4. “Happy, Happy, Happy” by Phil Robertson 5. “Exposed” by Jane Velez-Mitchell

hunters, he railed against their destructive impact on wildlife. He also pointed out the positive impact of animals, including birds that devoured insects to the benefit of agriculture.

Hornaday’s advocacy for animal conservation found an anchor in New York at what would become the Bronx Zoo,

which he helped found in 1896 and then served as director for 30 years. He was also adept at collecting wealthy and powerful friends, enjoying the support of the wealthy industrialist Andrew Carnegie and a future president, Theodore Roosevelt.

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‘The Maid’s Version’ is a superbly textured novel Slim book carries a lot of punch

that space than most writers can in three times the pages.

The new novel was inspired by a real event, an explosion that destroyed a dance hall in

By Bruce DeSilva West Plains, Mo., in the Associated Press 1920s, killing dozens of young people. Growing up It’s been several years in the Ozarks, Woodrell since the publication heard the back-porch stoof Daniel Woodrell’s ries — whispers that the slim, harrowing and tragedy was no accident much-celebrated “Winand that someone a memter’s Bone.” Now “The just 164 pages. But don’t ber of his family once Maid’s Version” has let that fool you. Woodrell worked for might have finally hit the bookstores, can pack more story, truth somehow been to blame.

The author chose to and it’s even slimmer — and human emotion in

tell his highly fictionalized version of a story through the memories of Alma DeGeer Dunahew as she gradually reveals facts, rumors and suspicions to her grandson.

Alma — bitter, vengeful and somewhat dotty — thinks the rich banker she once worked for as a maid deliberately caused the explosion that killed, among others, her promiscuous sister. But other characters, including mobsters from St. Louis, local gypsies and a preacher who saw the

dance hall as a den of iniquity, provide a host of plausible suspects.

The book’s first line introduces Alma from the grandson’s point of view in Woodrell’s typically stark fashion: “She frightened me every dawn the summer I stayed with her.”

On one level, the story is a who-dunnit, but it is much more than that.

“The Maid’s Version” is a superbly textured novel about a community coping with tragedy and poisoned by suspicions and

festering anger. It is a novel about memory and about growing old. And it is also an exploration of the nature of storytelling itself.

Woodrell tells his story partly through the colloquial voices of its Ozark characters and partly through narration that manages to be both hard-boiled and richly poetic. Readers will be reminded once again why critics so often compare him to William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy.

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Time to see ‘The Wizard’ at www.heritagetheatreutah.com.

“We’re Off to See the Wizard.”

There’s no place like the Heritage Theatre in Perry to be Come along for the adventure “The Wizard of Oz” is well transported to the wondrous as Dorothy (Katelynn Perkins) known for its wonderful music, discoveries of the Emerald City and her little dog Toto are transbut until now it has not been ported over the rainbow into the widely known as a dance and the characters of Oz. “The Wizard of Oz” will be magical land of Oz. Along the show. The production is about to performed on Mondays, Friway they encounter the Cowturn some heads with an amazing days and Saturdays from Aug. ardly Lion (Ryan Erwin), the cast of dancers. You will encoun23 through Sept. 14, at the Tin Man (Kasey Cox) and the ter both wickedness and wonder Heritage Theatre at 2505 S. U.S. Scarecrow (Kyle Parkinson) on in “The Wizard of Oz” — a quest Hwy. 89 in Perry. Showtime the Yellow Brick Road as they to find heart, courage, brains and is 7:30 p.m. with matinees at search for the great and powerful most importantly, home.

The cast also includes Dan2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, and Wizard.

Based on the 1930 MGM movie iel Kaminsky as the Wizard, Saturday, Sept. 7. Tickets are and directed by JuDean ParkinStephen Jenks as Uncle Henry, $10 for adults, $9 for seniors son, the magic of this musical is Karie Kaminsky as Aunt Em, and children.

For reservations, call (435) 723- sure to cast its spell on the entire Karlie Nichols-Clark as the 8392 daily from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. family with such classic songs as Good Witch Glinda and Betty except Tuesdays and Sundays, or “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead,” Brogan-Archibald as the Wickvisit the Heritage Theatre website “If I Only Had a Brain” and ed Witch of The West.

“The Wizard of Oz” will run at the Heritage Theatre in Perry through Sept. 14.

Cache band to perform Sept. 11 Set Have you ever heard a tubaflute-saxaphone trio? Then you’ll want to hear the young Wood ‘n Brass Trio perform “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” and other musical treats as part of the Cache Community Band concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, at the Logan LDS Tabernacle.

This is the Cache Community

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Band’s 37th year of continuous performances in concerts and parades around Cache Valley. This year’s concert will acknowledge Sept. 11 and Patriot Day by performing American music by American composers.

Band compositions of times past plus those of the present will be enjoyed by all who attend, from

“Carousel” to “National Emblem” to “Serenade for a Picket Fence” featuring Louise Hoth and Janice Siggard on xylophones.

Join us for an hour of wellperformed band music in the CCB’s third Logan LDS Tabernacle concert of the year. The band is directed by Dan Stowell and Keith Brimhall.

“Live at Gotham” and “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” in 2009, and last April he performed on “Conan” on TBS. Continued from Page 3 “The person who books ‘Conan’ saw me perform on a ‘Star Search’ audiwhile, I decided comedy was more practical than fine art. That’s insane, of tion about 10 years ago, so there’s a lot of luck involved and just being in the course. Comedy isn’t more practical right place at the right time,” Washat all.” burn says. “But it was really fun, and But when he was unable to secure a it was amazing to meet Conan. He’s permanent teaching position after finreally tall.” ishing his master’s, Washburn decided Since meeting Cahalan at Hill Air to make comedy more than a hobby, Force Base and getting married in “And now I’ve been on the road for 15 2000, Washburn’s comedy career has years.” had to adjust to being on the move.

“Of course, I kind of slowed down Over the past dozen years the famwhen the kids were born,” he adds, ily has lived in Las Vegas; Mountain “but I’ve done it for a total of 18 years Home, Idaho; Monterey, Calif.; Stuttcounting the time I took off for grad gart, Germany; and now the Washingschool.” ton, D.C. area.

Washburn won the San Francisco But since Washburn’s routine often International Comedy Competiton talks about growing up in Utah as a in 2001, and he has performed in 40 states and on four continents. He made member of the LDS Church, he says he always enjoys performing in his appearances on Comedy Central’s

Continued from Page 5 also sing “The Girl I Mean to Be.” Soprano Siera Peery (as Lily Craven) will sing “How Could I Ever Know” and Celeste Baillio (as Martha) will render “If I Had a Fine White Horse” in an entertaining Yorkshire

native state.

“I can talk about being Mormon more in Utah,” Washburn says. “People understand what I’m talking about without having to do a lot of background and explanation. … But even out on the East Coast, I can talk about missionaries knocking on doors and people will get all that.”

Washburn adds, “I haven’t been an active member of the Mormon church for about 20 years, but at the same time, I don’t hate it at all.”

He admits that some people, however, feel that he sometimes crosses the line when talking about religion and receives the occasional email from “upset” Mormons.

“I think most Mormons have a very good sense of humor about themselves; it’s just a subjective sort of thing,” Washburn says. “My family is all active, though, and they come out to a lot of my shows.”

Washburn says he’s mining his own

accent. John Rash (as Dickon) sings “Winter’s on the Wing.”

Music Theatre West will present its exquisite production of “The Secret Garden” with full orchestra, period costuming, and beautiful scenery Sept. 19-24 at the USU Morgan Theatre. Tickets are available at www. musictheatrewest.org or by calling 797-8022.

family life for comedy more and more as his children get older, and that he’s always writing and turns over about three-fourths of his show with new material every three years or so.

“Mostly, I just want to be honest,” Washburn declares. “I look at comedy as a place to be honest. That’s my goal is to be honest with myself and the audience, then I can talk about true things, which are always the most funny.

“Of course, I don’t want to be too open,” he clarifies with a laugh. “Just a little. It’s kind of a fine line.”

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Bengt Washburn will perform live at 8 and 10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, at the Dansante Building, 59 S. 100 West. The early show will be rated PG, but both shows are for mature audiences. Local comedians Mike Grover and Spencer Roper will also be performing. Tickets are $10 at the door, or $9 when purchased online at www.getbengt.com.

Continued from Page 8 next to a glass of wine, with a post card on the wall; or a violin with sheet music and a tea cup and perhaps a human skull.)

As with the seasons, vanitas works carry a message for Van Suchtelen: “That physical life is transient and we’re all going to die is knowledge we all carry with us.”

Van Suchtelen’s personality came across in the classroom, according to fellow professor Chris Terry, now the associate dean of the Caine College of Arts, as “pretty intense.”

“He was an incredibly passionate artist and instructor,” Terry says, “and he had outrageously loyal followers among the studentbody and the staff.”

“I don’t think I was (intense), but my students apparently thought so,” says Van Suchtelen with a smile, noting that he only recently wrote his last letter of recommendation for a student. “In some ways I never left.”

“Rhythm of Leaves” by Van Suchtelen.

In the classroom he focused on creativity, urging his students to try new also accomplished printmakers, and Van ideas.

Suchtelen likes to participate with them “I abhor those ‘Don’t do that’ rules,” in print exchanges, where each person he says. “My rule was to try this, try makes a print for the others. that. ‘Don’t’ is negative, it doesn’t get Proteges of Van Suchtelen have you anywhere. (Keep trying things) become art teachers at schools in Utah, until you stumble across something that Arizona, Minnesota, Canada and Taiworks for you.” wan. He recalls some of “my biggest At USU Van Suchtelen was tasked with successes” as the senior projects done teaching drawing, even though printmak- by students who reached deep inside

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ing was “really my love.” He is careful to differentiate between what many people consider a “print” — a photographic reproduction of an original painting — and printmaking, which refers to the process of creating prints with an element of originality. Many of his students are

themselves.

“I’ve gotten fabulous projects that way because I encourage them to think about something they’re excited about,” he says.

Continued from Page 11 Ten years ago he left teaching behind, and “When I retired, I left,” he says. “I Dehler doesn’t shy away from almost started a new life as an artist.” noting Hornaday’s racism — he He began making smaller pieces, priviewed many nonwhites as marily because they went faster. He went lazy, untrustworthy and corrupt. back to printmaking, although he also Demanding unwavering patriopaints, creates sculptures, and even writes tism during World War I and the the occasional poem, all in a style he “Red Scare” that followed, Hordescribes as “careful — I don’t drip paint naday could be near hysterical in or anything like that.” his attacks on Germans and Rus“I’ve been very eclectic over the years,” sians. While he could be genial he says. “I don’t consider myself that and charming, he had a penchant much different from my dog, but my level for carrying on personal and proof self-awareness is higher. That confessional vendettas against those sciousness is what we try to express. It’s who disagreed with him or otheran overriding, powerful fascination, to wise crossed him. wonder what state we’re in. Art has someWithout question, animals thing to do with expressing who we are.” needed tenacious defenders at His work appears in Utah government the turn of the century. Hornaday buildings and LDS Church facilities, and was single-minded in pursuit of has won awards and been shown in exhibits from Ogden to New York City. And that protections for wildlife easily accounts for only a fraction of what he has overwhelmed in an industrial age.

His influence proved to be deep created.

— environmentalist Aldo Leop“Over the years you end up producing so old was among those inspired by many things, and so much of it is gone,” Hornaday’s writings — as well he says. as long-lasting. The top conserWhat remains, he believes, are family, vation award of the Boy Scouts faith, friends and, hopefully, good health. of America is named in his honor.

His advice to young and old, artist and Dehler’s biography performs non-artist, is the same: “Live well, do the the kind of work Hornaday once right thing and try to do the right thing cherished — the dissecting and every day, because your memories will rebuilding of a unique specimen hold you up when you get older.” for people to ponder and cherish.

Don’t waste time making pink flamingos.

“The Conjuring” and “The encourage studios to look at some of those other months. In Purge.” Several less expensive comedies also succeeded, like January and February of this year, we had very little product. Seth Rogan’s apocalyptic Continued from Page 6 romp “This Is the End,” Jason We had very few big budget movies. Maybe one of the take- Sudeikis’ road trip farce of Hollywood’s summer. It aways of the summer is: We’ve “We’re the Millers” and the was the most spectacular flop summer’s top comedy, “The got a whole bunch of movies, among many others, includlet’s spread a few of them out a Heat,” with Melissa McCarthy ing “Turbo,” ‘’After Earth,” bit more and take advantage of and Sandra Bullock. ‘’White House Down,” ‘’The the whole calendar.”

Some, like Sharlto Copley, Wolverine” and “The Hangwho co-stars in the science-ficStudios, though, consider over Part III.” tion thriller “Elysium” ($178 the first few months of sumJohn Fithian, president of million worldwide on a $115 mer to be, as Dergarabedian the National Association of million budget) hoped some of says, “primetime” — when Theater Owners, applauded the summer’s high-cost miskids are out of school and the record summer revenue as fires would push the studios to movies have the widest audia sign of industry strength but devote more resources to other suggested studios are jamming ence possible. types of films. Even Steven “I don’t think anything’s too many blockbuster releases Spielberg, generally considgoing to change,” says Derinto too narrow of a summerered the father of the modern garabedian. Rather, he says, time window. This summer blockbuster, made headlines “The lesson is: Try to keep the followed an especially poor when he said Hollywood first quarter for the box office. costs down.” would “implode” if it continThat worked for several “A few of those films sufued to focus only on bigger low or medium budget horror fered because of the congesand bigger blockbusters. films this summer, including tion,” said Fithian. “I would

“The opportunity to do something original and on a very big scale seems to be getting rarer and rarer these days,” said Copley. “Maybe if you have a few more bad times, you’ll see the studios investing in smaller projects.”

But the top six films of the summer were all sequels or part of existing franchises, including “Monsters University” and “Fast and Furious 6.”

The high cost of marketing a film (which can rival or surpass production costs for summer tentpole releases) also makes it likely studios will continue to increasingly depend on summer popcorn fare.

North American box-office performance is only part of the story, anyway. The robotmonster clash “Pacific Rim,” made for $190 million, was considered one of the sum-

mer’s failures after opening with $37.2 million domestically. But it’s made more than $404 million worldwide.

Ultimately, the movie business remains an unpredictable animal, where supposedly sure things like Will Smith and Johnny Depp don’t always come through, and microbudget horror like “The Purge” or an unremarkable caper like “Now You See Me” can bring in tens of millions.

“There’s something to be said for the stars all being aligned,” said Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony Pictures, which released “One Direction: This Is It,” as well as several of the summer’s biggest disappointments like “White House Down” and “After Earth.” ‘’Sometimes you don’t hit it at the right moment.”

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By Myles Mellor and Sally York Across 1. Make gingerbread men 5. Nervous feeling 10. Detractor 14. “___ up or ship out” 19. Immediately 20. “Comedy of Errors,” e.g.

21. Road shoulder 22. Clan emblem 23. Colorful additions to the garden 27. Syrian city with 2011 antigovernment protests 28. Special ability 29. Scrappy little thing?

30. Sealants 32. Romeo’s rival 33. Filled Asian appetizers 37. Love 39. “Can’t Help Lovin’ ___ Man” 40. Put to rights 41. Egyptian cobra, e.g.

42. Greek sancta 45. They cause loss of grace 48. Fairway situation 49. Lead ore 51. Real bargain 52. Musical note 53. Pass superficially (over) 55. Shelley’s “___ to Naples” 56. Find and correct defects 58. Whiskey ___ 60. Weak 61. Up for something 63. Big palooka 64. Not take the heat well 65. Dali’s tongue 66. Yellow to orange flower 70. Lamenting 73. Speedy shark 74. It runs in veins 75. Small amount 79. Hitching posts?

80. Livens (up)

81. Bad mark 83. Edwardian, e.g.

84. Half a literary leaf 85. Porker 86. Expert with I.R.S. returns 87. Say “Oh, all right” 89. Citation abbreviation 90. Cosmopolitan alternative 94. Car service person 95. One and only 96. They’re squirreled away in fall 97. “Take ___” 98. Respected member 100. Burial receptacle 102. Road Runner cartoon backgrounds 104. Vine-covered passageway 108. It’s unresolved 109. Manatee’s order 111. Irks 112. Desert blooms 117. Judge’s decision, sometimes 118. Was in attendance 119. More washed out 120. Red gin 121. Birds 122. “__ the Falling Snow”: Enya song 123. Winter phenomenon 124. Evolutionary time periods Down 1. Rum-flavored cakes 2. Like some dodderers 3. Hyundai’s home 4. It transmits neural impulses 5. Be able to buy 6. Sleep at one’s desk, say 7. Seles foe 8. Bit of fabric 9. Brewer’s container 10. Competence 11. Eagles’ homes 12. It contains three pips 13. Global currency org.

14. Far from calm 15. Self-help title starter

16. Tucked away 17. By authority of 18. Magnesium has two 24. Quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed 25. Of brain matter 26. Washer fillers 31. Stuff sold in rolls 33. Periodic function 34. Deli item 35. The way things are now 36. When repeated, cry at a celebratory party 38. Snub 40. Piece of cake 42. Excitedly wired 43. Jean Arp’s genre 44. Primordial matter of the universe 46. Autumn mo.

47. Roman shields 50. Wind god 53. Zipper alternative 54. Equatorial land 57. Take off 58. Kitchen fixtures 59. Scramble 60. Become manifest 62. Great success 64. Cover in paper 65. Needing liniment 67. Big hairstyle 68. ___-3 fatty acids 69. Hair gel 70. Start to like 71. Leading Hebrew characters 72. Minor irritations 76. Have a hunch 77. Ocean-fish feeder 78. Transformer unit 80. Defeats on the mat 81. Healthful getaway 82. Looks up to 85. Be moved by 86. Actions to get things neat and tidy 88. Generous giving 90. Closer to perfect 91. Bullied 92. Initial indication 93. Continental peak

96. River nymphs 99. Banish 101. Malibu maneuver 102. Hurricanes’ university 103. Rope material 105. Curved molding 106. Dud of a car 107. Long-eared beasts of burden 109. Pull a con 110. Fit for the task 112. What you did on lawn seat 113. Jaw-dropping feeling 114. Air-gulping fish 115. Andean stew vegetable 116. Loser at Appomattox

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Friday Play with Me music classes for this fall are starting Friday, Sept. 6, and run through Dec. 6. Registration has begun. Play With Me Music is an early childhood music program created to enhance your child’s development. Play with Me Music provides parents with a musically structured program which encourages their child to be creative, listen to teachers and parents, take turns, to respect others ideas, work as a group, be active, have fun while learning and love arts and music. Classes are taught once a week on Fridays at the Smithfield Recreation Center; parents attend classes with their children. Tuition is $90 for a 12-week session. Register at the Smithfield Recreation Cener or online at www.activity. com. For more information, visit overlymusical.com or email Heather Overly at heather@ overlymusical.com.

USU’s Science Unwrapped tackles the science of air pollution with “Cracking the Code: Deciphering Cache Valley’s PM2.5 Mystery” at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, in the Eccles Science Learning Center Auditorium on the USU campus. Featured speaker is Randy Martin of USU’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Admission is free and all ages are welcome. Refreshments and learning activities follow the lecture. For more information, call 797-3517 or visit www.usu.edu/ science/unwrapped.

Sky View student Kendall Geertsen will perform from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza. There is no cover charge; everyone is welcome.

The second annual Nibley Scarecrow Festival will be held from Sept. 6-9, at the Morgan Farm, 2800 S. 800 West in Nibley. The theme this year is “Proud to be an American.”

Celebrate America presents “In The Miller Mood” nightly from

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

Shows feature entertainment after the show with dancing. Group and student rates are available.

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

SATURDAY Kelli Ann Alvey is hosting a trap shooting fun shoot for her Preston High School senior project at the Cache Valley Public Shooting Range at 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept 7. There will be Annies, backers, bluebirds, kids’ shoots and women’s shoots. There will be $20 punch cards good for five shoots, as well as cards that will include T-shirts or lunch, or both.

Kelli Ann Alvey, the daughter of Kellen and Adrienne Alvey of Preston, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma at the age of six weeks and six years later was declared cured. All proceeds are going to the Children’s Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation whose mission is to help find a cure for neuroblastoma through research funding, education, awareness and advocacy.

The Herald Journal, Hyrum State Park and Camp Chef invite everyone to compete in a Dutch oven cook-off Saturday, Sept. 7. Entries will be accepted in three categories — main dish, side dish and dessert. Participants may enter more than one category. Cooking must be done on site using Dutch ovens.

Prizes will be awarded. Entry is free. The cook-off is at Hyrum State Park. Set-up begins at 9 a.m. at the park’s beach area.

Judging starts at noon. Register

by Aug. 31 and receive a gift.

Call 792-7228 or email akirk@ hjnews.com. Don’t want to compete? Just come enjoy great food, music and activities on the beach.

Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology unveils a new program “Family First Saturdays” with a new activity offered the first Saturday

of the month. Organizers are excited with the Family First Saturdays program and invite everyone to explore a new country and culture. Museum visitors can eat authentic food, listen to music and learn traditional dances. Fun arts and crafts projects, designed for ages 3-13, take place throughout the day, but anyone young at heart can join the activities. Hours for Family First Saturdays programs are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, at the USU Museum of Anthropology in Old Main. Call 797-7545 or visit anthromuseum.usu.edu for more information.

Jazz guitar duo Bradley Robinson and Gavin Nichols will perform from 6 to 8 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 7, at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza. Robinson and Nichols are both guitar performance majors at USU and have been playing together as a duo since 2009.

New Life Fellowship is hosting Bike To School Give Away from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, at 2045 N. 800 East in North Logan. We would like to give away used bikes to anyone who needs one to go to school.

Perhaps you need a bike that needs “fixing-up”; bring it to us and we will repair your bike as well. This is a free event for the community. If you have any questions please call 753-5312.

Frosty Sorensen will perform from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. This is good old-fashioned acoustic guitar picking and singing many familiar songs from many genres.

“Backyard Harvest: Harvest Honey from Bees” is the title of a Stokes Nature Center class from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Sept. 7. The event will take place at a private residence in Logan; register for address. Cost is $5 per person; $3 for members of SNC, Slow Food and Master Gardeners. Cache Valley beekeeper Jamie Strange will demonstrate and discuss beekeeping with a focus on fall: how and

when to harvest that liquid gold.

Get an up-close look at a hive and its bees and learn about this unique trade. For more information or to register, call 755-3239 or email nature@logannature.org.

SUNDAY Community children are invited for free lemonade and face painting from 10:45 a.m. to noon Sunday, Sept. 8, at Merlin Olsen Park. Prince of Peace Lutheran Church is providing this fun activity as part of a national day of service in conjunction with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Look for the Prince of Peace table near the basketball courts on the southeast side of the park. All are welcome.

RacecaR RacecaR will perform from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. RacecaR RacecaR is an alternative band that relies on passionate lyrics and catchy riffs.

MONDAY Auditions for Four Seasons Theatre Company’s holiday tradition “A Christmas Carol: The Musical” will be from 4 to 9 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 9, at North Park Elementary School. Performers of all ages are invited to audition.

Go to fourseasonstheatre.org for more information and to sign up for an audition time.

TUESDAY The Cache Valley Chapter of the Utah Watercolor Society will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, at the Logan Library.

The theme is “So You Want to be a Watercolorist.” Christi Heal will give a presentation and refreshments will be served.

“Legumes and Bananas” is the title of the cooking class at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 10, at Macey’s Little Theatre in Providence. Do you ever wish you didn’t have to feel so guilty about eating dessert? Join the Food Sense Girls in this class to learn how to use legumes and bananas to tastefully replace fats in your cookies

and cakes. You must reseve a seat at the service desk and please arrive on time. Classes are for ages 10 and up. Check us out on Facebook or visit little theatrerecipes.blogspot.com for more information.

WEDNESDAY A free community line dance class will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, in the Jim Bridger room at the Logan Library. Please bring a water bottle and wear comfortable clothing and shoes as this is a great aerobic workout. For more information, call Bev at 755-3206.

“Perfect Pasteles” is the title of the cooking class at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, at Macey’s Little Theatre in Providence. Many are unaware of these traditional El Salvadorian wonderments, but Rosa Jackson will be teaching a recipe that her father-in-law just loves to devour.

The pasteles are a savory main dish this is similar in style to tamales that will surely become a staple of your dinner table. You must reseve a seat at the service desk and please arrive on time.

Classes are for ages 10 and up.

Check us out on Facebook or visit littletheatrerecipes.blogspot. com for more information.

THURSDAY Corey Christiansen will perform with Rick Drumm at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cost is $15.

Looking for some new ideas to use all of that zucchini in your garden? Tired of bottling all those tomatoes? Join the USU Extension in Cache County team at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, in the multipurpose room of the Cache County Administration Building, 179 N. Main St. for a cooking class titled “New Ideas for Cooking from Your Garden.” The cost is $3 per person ($2 if you pay 24 hours before class) and includes recipe tasting and handouts. Call 752-6263 to reserve your spot.

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