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SEPTEMBER 7-13, 2012

contents

September 7-13, 2012

BOOKS 3 Tyler Whitesides returns with the second ‘Janitors’

12 Ivan Doig spins

another Montana ‘Tale’

theATER 5 Vocalists to deliver

Gilbert and Sullivan’s best

ART 6 The September Gallery Walk set for tonight

MOVIES 7 Aaron Peck enjoys most of ‘The Words’

Jennifer Meyers/Herald Journal

MISC. 6 ‘Crossroads Project’ mixes

art and science together

11 Cache Valley Historic

Home slated for Saturday

COLUMN 10 Lael Gilbert dives into the slow food revolution

CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week

Mariah Campbell and Joshua Smith catch their breath after battling The Trench during the Man vs. Mud run Saturday.

FROM THE EDITOR It seems somewhat ironic that I now sit at the helm of Cache Magazine.

After all, for the better part of eight years as the editor of Cache VALLEY Magazine, I spent a great deal of time constantly trying to explain the difference between Cache Magazine (“It’s the tabloid-sized publication printed on newsprint that comes out every Friday in The Herald Journal”), and Cache VALLEY Magazine (“It’s the regular magazine printed on glossy paper that’s distributed in the newpaper 10 times a year”).

With both names being so similar, there was understandable confusion. And now that Cache VALLEY Magazine, which had ceased publication back in February, is now being brought back on a limited, twice-a-year basis, and I’m the editor of both — well, it’s only going to get worse.

But in the meantime, I’m excited for the opportunity to dive into the arts and entertainment opportunities of Cache Valley.

There’s always far more going on around here than certainly people from outside of the valley realize, not to mention most of the people on the inside.

Having lived here for more than 20 years, it amazes me how many more cultural, athletic and religious activities there

are now than two decades ago. There’s far more fun out there to experience than ever, and I pledge to do my best to keep up with as much of it as possible.

But before I move on with that somewhat overwhelming task, I would like to thank previous editor Manette Newbold.

Manette started out at the newspaper by building ads and writing stories for Cache VALLEY Magazine, and, so, again, it’s quite ironic that I am now replacing her as the editor of Cache Magazine.

She did a wonderful job with this publication during her tenure, and I hope I can keep things rolling in a like manner.

— Jeff Hunter

‘Janitors’ ready to clean up again Local author releases second book in series

By Jeff Hunter Cache Magazine editor

In conjunction with the release of “Janitors: Secrets of New Forest Academy” on Tuesday, Tyler Whitesides spent the first part of this week traveling to book signings at Barnes & Noble locations in Kentucky, Missouri and Nebraska.

One would think that providing autographs for hundreds of children each day would become quite tedious, but the 26-year-old author says it has yet to get old.

“There’s just something really fun about talking to a 10-year-old kid; I guess it’s where I’m mentally,” Whitesides says with a chuckle. “I just connect really well with that age group, and it’s so fun when they’re excited about reading my book.

“Even if you were having a bad day, it would be impossible to leave after a book signing without a smile on your face because every kid that comes through the line either has a big smile on their face or is petrified.

Usually both.”

A native of Cache Valley, Whitesides’ first book “Janitors” was released late last summer by Shadow Mountain Publishing in Salt Lake City. He sold the manuscript with the idea that it would be the first book in a five-part fantasy series, and “Janitors: Secrets of New Forest Academy” is the second book to feature the adventures of young Spencer and Daisy Jeff Hunter/Herald Journal and some magical school custodians.

A graduate of Logan High School and Utah State University, 26-year“Some things happen in the second book which cause their school and town to be unsafe for them, so old author Tyler Whitesides scored big last year with “Janitors.” they get whisked away to this secret private school where they’re supposed to stay until things are safe WHAT: “Janitors: Secrets of New Forest Academy” book party again,” Whitesides explained. “But when they get to WHEN: Today at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.) the new school, they realize that things aren’t really WHERE: Thomas Edison Charter School South, 1275 W. 2350 peachy there, either, and there’s a lot of new dangers. South, Nibley See READY on Page 13

WEB SITE: www.tylerwhitesides.com

“It’s a good kind of pressure to have because I’m so excited about the work. It’s a dream job for me.

I’ve wanted to write books ever since I was a little kid.”

– “Janitors” series author Tyler Whitesides

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ALL MIXED UP

Quotable

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all mixed up Caine to present ‘Gilbert and Sullivan’ Vocalists set to perform selections from operettas at USU on Sept. 15 The Caine College of the Arts will be presenting an “Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan” on Sept. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Utah State University Performance Hall.

The vocal selections will feature comic selections of madness, merriment, and mayhem from eight of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas. Voice adjunct faculty members Susan Haderlie, Liesel Fedkenheuer and Dana Slabaugh will be the feature soloists. Student and community performers joining them are Eric Anderson, Nicole Martineau, Otto Puhlmann, Tomsen Reed and Ashley Tolman, with Merrilee Broadbent at the piano.

The narrator for the evening’s performance will be Margaret Purser, also adjunct voice faculty.

Susan Haderlie Haderlie has performed with opera and stage companies throughout the U.S., including Utah Opera, Cimmaron Opera, Idaho Falls Opera, Marjorie Lyons Playhouse-LA, Idaho Little Theatre, Promised Valley Playhouse and Heritage Theatre.

Some of her roles include Orfeo in “Orfeo Ed Euridice,” the Mother in “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” The witch in “Hansel and Gretel,” Octavian in “Der Rosenkavlier,” Frugola in “Il Tabarro,” the Third Lady in “The Magic Flute,” Mercedes in “Carmen,” Ruth in “Pirates of Penzance,” and Lalume in “Kismet.”

Haderlie twice won the first-place vocalist title for the

Liesel Fedkenheur

Susan Haderlie

state of Idaho in the American Mothers, Inc. Voice Competition.

She is an honor graduate of Centenary College in Louisiana and upon graduating listed as Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities. She was Artistic Director for Idaho Little Theatre for

eight years before moving to Cache Valley.

Liesel Fedkenheur Fedkenheuer received her vocal performance degree from the University of Toronto and completed her post graduate work at the University of Toronto’s

Dana Slabaugh

Opera School. She continued with her opera studies as one of only six singers to be accepted into the Ensemble program at the Canadian Opera Co. While attending the Music Academy of the West, Fedkenheuer was the winner of the Marilyn Horne Competition,

which led to recitals in New York and at Lincoln Center, as well as becoming a recitalist on the Marilyn Horn Foundation roster.

Some of her roles include Gerhilde in “Die Walkure,” Donna Elvira in “Don Giovanni,” Valencienne in “Die Lustige Witwe,” and Componist in “Ariadne auf Naxos.”

Dana Slabaugh Slabaugh received her Master of Music from the University of Utah. She is a past participant of the Utah Opera in the Schools and Utah Opera Young Artist Program.

She has also performed at Promised Valley Playhouse and Sandy Theatre venues, and she given recitals at Utah State University, Temple Square, and the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City. Slabaugh has sung the roles of Mary, Queen of Scots in “Maria Stuarda,” Micaela in “Carmen,” Lauretta in “Gianni Schicci,” and Golden Trill in “Impresario.”

Merrilee Broadbent Broadbent began playing the piano at age 3, accompanying at age 6, and gave her first solo recital at age 9. Since then she has played for musicals, oratorios, operas, all-state and all-Northwest choirs, and many small ensembles and soloists.

She has accompanied for Utah State Theatre and Opera productions and is currently an accompanist for the Cache Children’s elite choir here in Cache Valley.

Art and science collide in the name of sustainability throughout September and October as Utah State University and the Caine College of the Arts present a series of events, discussions and performances as part of The Crossroads Project, a multidisciplinary exploration of the Earth’s resources.

“Information alone has not taken us far enough, nor will it; emotion, as well as intellect, is needed,” said USU physicist Robert Davies. “It is science and art together — the synergy of these two great human enterprises — that can compel a more powerful response by creating both intellectual and emotional clarity.”

Originated by Davies and USU’s Fry Street Quartet, The Crossroads Project explores the complexity of sustainability through the complementary perspectives of art and science. The concept merges intellect with emotion in an effort to inspire a meaningful response through a synergism of informed understanding and visceral experience, said Davies.

On Sept. 12, The Crossroads Project hosts the first of five discussions related to the Earth’s resources and sustainability. Jeff Ostermiller from the Utah Division of Environmental Quality will discuss what he describes as the seemingly unending supply of water. This discussion will be held in the Tippetts Exhibit Hall in the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU’s Logan campus at 7:30 p.m.

Beginning Sept. 10, three solo art exhibits will open as part of the project. “Rebecca Allan: Ground/Water” will reveal four paintings commissioned for The Crossroads Project; sculptor Lyman Whitaker’s insulation of “The Elements” will be on display around grounds near USU’s Performance Hall; and environmental photographer Garth Lenz will exhibit “The True Cost of Oil.” Lenz’s traveling exhibit, located in the Tippetts with Allan’s works, compares and contrasts images of the industrial and natural landscapes of Canada’s tar sands and the boreal forest that surrounds it.

On Sept. 26, Lenz will hold a discussion regarding his exhibit at 7:30 p.m. in the Tippetts Exhibit Hall.

And on Sept. 19, USU professor of sociology Douglas Jackson-Smith will discuss the global agri-industry and the juncture humanity faces with

Photo courtesy USU Caine College of the Arts

Utah State University physicist Robert Davies, left, and the Fry Street Quartet — Rebecca McFaul, Robert Waters, Ann Francis Bayless and Bradley Ottesen — combine efforts in The Crossroads Project, a performance that intertwines music, art and science.

regard to the world’s food system in phases of discussion. The phases — Sands and the Last Great Forest is a the Tippetts.

Connections, Crossroads and Destinatravelling exhibit of the Alberta Tar At the core of the project, on Sept. tions — represent where society is, the Sands - or Oil Sands - and the boreal 27, is a multidisciplinary perforchoices at hand and where the choices forest ecosystem which surrounds mance featuring live music from the made today may take society. them. Ground/Water and The True Fry Street Quartet. The performance Upcoming events for The CrossCost of Oil exhibits are located in the marks the premiere of “Rising Tide” roads Project are as listed: Tippetts Exhibit Hall & Balcony in by composer Laura Kaminsky. Images SEPT. 10-OCT. 10 the Chase Fine Arts Center on Utah from the Lenz, Allan and Whitaker Rebecca Allan: Ground/ Water State University campus from 10 a.m.exhibits, with scientific insight from New York-based painter Rebecca 5 p.m., Monday-Friday. Exhibits are Davies will combine with the concert Allan’s exhibition “Ground/Water” open and free to the public. pieces performed by the Fry Street reflects the artist’s longstanding interSEPT. 12 Quartet. This display of collaborative est in watershed and coastal environConnections…On Water works, with an artistic and scientific ments.

Jeff Ostermiller, water specialist voice, responds to one of society’s Lyman Whitaker: The Elements with the Utah Division of Environchallenges — global sustainability and By placing the sculptures in setmental Quality, discusses issues of climate change tings dependent on natural elements pollution, supply and ownership with “Our intent is to offer our audience for movement, opportunities are proregards to water supplies. a profound meditation on the choices vided for participants to think about SEPT. 19 we are making as a society today, the their surroundings. These sculptures Connections…On Food USU sociology professor Douglas paths these choices are creating and are organic and natural in interactive Jackson-Smith looks at the current state the dramatically different landscapes to settings. The Elements exhibit will be of the world’s food systems, the issues which they lead,” said Rebecca McFaul, installed around the Performance Hall they raise and the paths to reinvention violinist for the Fry Street Quartet, the Promenade on Utah State University — focusing the well-being of farmers, resident quartet for the Caine College campus. The exhibit is open and free human health and environment. of the Arts at Utah State University. to the public.

The event series spans the month For more information please visit Garth Lenz: The True Cost of Oil of September and October with three thecrossroadsproject.org.

The True Cost of Oil: Canada’s Tar

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“Majesty” by Kathy Noble

Untitled by David Hull

Local artists to display their work at Gallery Walk Join the Cache Valley Center for the Arts Downtown on Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. for the free Gallery Walk. The Logan Art District invites you to see a variety of art displayed in more than 17 businesses and temporary galleries, all

within walking distance and set within the heart of Downtown Logan’s historic district. This event provides art lovers an opportunity to socialize and tour a full spectrum of galleries, local businesses, and nonprofit art spaces. Start at any location

and pick up a map; just look for galleries marked with the official CVCA yellow banner.

For exhibition details, visit cachearts.org or email events@ cachearts.org.

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You can’t help but wonder what’s happening, and if Rory’s story really is a complete fiction written by Hammond, or if there’s something more real about it.

The ending leaves something to be desired, though. It feels half done and a little too vague. I understand not wanting to spell everything out for the audihard to ignore the perfor- ence, but “The Words” sort of leaves everymances. Especially the performance from Jeremy thing hanging there.

You’re not really sure Irons, an actor that can command any scene he’s what to think when the in no matter who’s acting end rolls around. That’s the point, I know, but opposite of him. a little more catharsis The drama of Rory’s inner demons have a way would’ve been nice.

The Reel Place Aaron Peck

“The Words” is easily described as “Inception” — the Barnes & Noble edition. It’s a story, within a story, within a story.

I saw the movie earlier this year in January at the Sundance Film Festival. It’s finally finding its way into mainstream theaters, and it is worth going to see.

The story begins with famous author Clay Hammond (Dennis Quaid) peddling his new best seller to a well-to-do group of fans. Hammond reads excerpts from his book to the crowd. He’s clearly bugged by something, but he doesn’t let that stop him from hawking his newest book.

As he begins reading from his book, we dive deeper into the story. His book is about a young writer named Rory (Bradley Cooper), who is struggling with his craft. This is one of those movies that places a vaulted mantle upon writers as a whole.

They’re either brilliant failures or brilliant successes. It’s made perfectly clear that Rory has wallowed in the failure category for far too long. He’s a talented writer but his persistent writer’s block isn’t helping matters.

Rory is desperate to prove to his wife (Zoe Saldana) that he can make it in this world as a writer, but he’s growing more and more discouraged as he fails to crank out anything of substance. One day, while shopping with his wife, he buys a small antique briefcase. Soon after that Rory discovers a dilapidated manuscript of a novel inside. Then he reads it and is profoundly moved by it. He can’t find who it belongs to or even if they’re still alive.

Rory then commits the

Photo courtesy of CBS Films

Veteran actors Bradley Cooper, left, and Jeremy Irons star in “The Words.”

★★★

meeting the man (Jeremy Irons), we’re soon thrust into another tale (this is the deepest level the storytelling goes). The mysDirector // Brian Klugman , Lee Sternthal terious man regales Rory Starring // Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid, Jerof his past life and where emy Irons, Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde his inspiration from the Rated // PG-13 for brief strong language and novel came. smoking If you don’t get lost as biggest sin as a writer — Rory knows what he did. the movie moves in and he plagiarizes. Passing Then he meets the man he out of its stacked story structure, then you may off the novel as his own, stole the work from. very well enjoy “The Rory is soon thrust into You need not worry Words.” Yes, it’s cheesy untold literary success because all of what I’ve and fame. The new book said has been spelled out in places, just like any Bradley Cooper movie goes global and sells mil- in the numerous trailis. However, with all lions upon millions of ers and advertisements this talent on screen, it’s copies, but deep down for “The Words.” After

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Above, Jessica Res laughs while wading through The Trench during the Man vs. Mud run at the American West Heritage Center last Saturday.

Upper right, the author does as he’s threatened and stays low during the final Man vs. Mud obstacle, The Mud Crawl.

ust about the time I was starting to pour shampoo into my hand, it hit me: Why am I taking a shower?

In less than two hours, I’m slated to be up to my chest in thick, gooey mud.

But until that moment, it never even dawned on me not to get cleaned up as soon as I woke up on the first morning of September.

And creature of habit that I apparently am, even while walking down the dirt road from the parking lot at the American West Heritage, I found myself carefully avoiding the large mud puddles created by the recent thunderstorms, despite the fact that everything I was wearing I had carefully selected for the sole purpose of getting extremely dirty.

I figured a sleeveless shirt would help cut down on additional weight as I got more wet and more muddy, while the shorts I was wearing boasted not only a drawstring, but an internal belt, as well, giving me hope that I should be able to avoid an potentially embarrassing situation.

My shoes were also ideal.

Normally saved these days for mowing the lawn, the Nikes came complete with both shoelaces and a Velcro strap, making it seemingly impossible for them to slip off — even in the stickiest of mud bogs.

An hour or so later, I was standing on the edge of a bluff with my freshly shampooed hair — now covered by an old ballcap — and my clean, dry feet, ready to get dirtier than I

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NG DOWN AND DIRTY WITH THE MASSES AT THE MAN VS. MUD RUN had been since I was a kid. he brainchild of David Knight and Mike Schaefer, the inaugural Man vs. Mud run last year drew more than 2,000 people to the American West Heritage Center who were willing to pay for the privilege of taking on obstacles that most people of the 21st century would avoid at all costs.

While the first run was highly successful and even more people signed up for the 2012 version, Knight and Schaefer tinkered with the course just a little bit,

“Our numbers were slightly higher from last year, but it felt like we actually had less people on site because I think we were able to manage the flow better.”

This time around, the Starting Line Slip-n-Slide off of the bluff overlooking the Wellsville Mountains, had two distinct lanes, and rather than go down on their backsides or stomachs — which resulted in some rough rides last year — participants were provided with inner tubes.

“The tubes were very popular,” Knight noted.

“People had a blast with that

and the result was that things went “smoother” last Saturday.

“Things went great; everyone said it was much improved,” Knight declared. “We didn’t have as many bottlenecks on most of the obstacles, so we felt really good about it.

at the starting line. Plus, we smoothed the hill last spring, so that made for a good combination.”

Knight and Schaefer also retrenched notoriously nasty Trench, added a cargo-net bridge near the end of the route, and created three lanes on the

T

Story by Jeff Hunter PHOTOS BY JENNIFER MEYERS

final Slip-n-Slide into the a story for Cache Valley Mud Pit. They also put Magazine — it made my in the Cargo Net Climb back hurt just watching — I was thrilled to find that before realizing it wasn’t the slide was as smooth as nearly wide enough to eascan be, and even without ily accommodate all the the tube, it probably would people who had to climb have been a pleasant ride. up and over, so they’re After that, I was briefly planning to make it larger attacked by “Sasquatch” in 2013.

— who for some reason was “We had more people go through the course this year dressed up as Chewbacca — and enjoyed getting with less injuries, which clean in the Foam Wash is always a good thing,” Knight said. “We had a few and rappelling back down in the day. the slippery hillside with minor sprains and a couple However, I also knew, the aid of a rope. of scratches, but other than since Cache Valley had just The ninth obstacle, that things went well withexperienced one of the coolknown ominously as out a hitch.” est, stormiest nights and The Trench, was the one mornings since probably part of the course that I n order to work on early June, that The Trench both dreaded and looked a separate story for would probably also be a forward to. While taking The Herald Journal, little bit cool. And inasmuch photos there last year in I started out Man vs. as I’m just 5-foot-6, I knew the afternoon, the smell Mud by crashing a wedone thing: I did not want surrounding the wickding. Or at least a wedding to slip and go down in The edly thick goo got a little party.

Trench. unpleasant as the day wore Before getting married in on, so I was grateful that I Providence at 5 p.m., Man See MUD on Page 13 would be taking it on early vs. Mud veterans Kathi Peterson and Jon Bischoff decided to run the course, despite being sporting a wedding dress and a classic black-and-white tuxedo, respectively. They were also joined by numerous bridesmaids and groomsmen.

Traveling alone, I quietly slipped in behind the Muddy Matrimony group, grabbed an inner tube placed it on top of the Visqueen-and-watercovered hill. My inneradult told me to carefully sit down on the tube, but I quickly overrode that thought and hit the hill while on my belly.

Having witnessed people get battered on the slope Above, Katie Coombs, Britney Cutler and Stacie Coombs jump off hay bales as Team Fooey. Top, Cade Rasmussen sports a face full of mud. last year while working on

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If you were invited to a workshop on home fermentation and pickling, you might expect to be preached at for two hours by a lot pickle-eating hippies. I know that’s what I expected. The prospect didn’t scare me too badly, as I was raised half-hippie, and my college education taught be to speak fairly fluent Hiplish.

But I was surprised a few weeks ago, when I attended a workshop presented by the Cache Valley Chapter of Slow Food on fermentation and pickling, that I wasn’t completely surrounded by preachy hippies. Some in the group tended toward the hippie persuasion, granted, but not everyone. What they did have in common was niceness and food. It felt more like a casual party than a hippie preach-fest.

Take Dawn Holzer, for example. When I arrived at her home she was exhibiting a beautiful peach pie, bubbling and steaming in a solar oven in her backyard, to a mixed group of foodies. She adjusted the temperature a bit, looking confident and relaxed in her flowered shirt and a comfortable shorts.

We were invited inside and handed a refreshing cup of virgin cherry lavender shrub, a bubbly mix of fruit juice, vinegar, sugar and carbonated water. We sat on chairs scattered around a family room.

Crocks and bottles stuffed with vegetables and bubbling brine were tucked in corners and lining shelves. The

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whole place had a bit of a mad-scientist feel.

When I say pickles, don’t automatically think of cucumbers. Two hours at Holzer’s house has opened my eyes to the possibilities that pickling offers. We were treated to a smorgasbord of pickled fruits and vegetables. It was a flavor gala.

I did start with the basics. Dill sours are cucumbers left to ferment in a salty brine. Friendly Lactobacilli bacteria turn the natural sugars in the vegetables to vinegar, preserving the nutritional value and lending a complex and lip-puckering flavor. The brine prevents bad bacterias from causing spoilage. Added garlic, peppercorns and little firework bursts of homegrown dill seed combined to notch up the flavor.

Home-fermented pickles are more subtle than the grocery store variety.

These dill sours were salty, sour and crunchy, but didn’t have the overwhelming acidity or sticky sweetness you get in the store variety. They also had an earthy mature flavor I attributed to the fermentation process.

I returned to the sample table. This time I went more exotic. I tried Holzer’s super-sweet pickled cherries. They were, in a

word, amazing. It was the most intense cherriness I have ever experienced.

Imagine stuffing into your mouth a garden shovel piled with ripe, fragrant cherries, slightly tart and begging to be eaten.

Times that by four and a half, and you’ve got the flavor of the super-sweet pickled cherries. The vinegar and the sour fruit combined to create a very, very cherry experience. It was hard to stop eating them, but I thought I’d better save some for the people waiting with plates behind me.

I moved on to the pickled turnips. They had an intriguing earthy acidic flavor that would complement nicely a peppery, meaty pastrami sandwich.

The fermented okra pick-

les had a nutty, woody taste, a crisp texture, and none of the characteristic slime I’ve come to associate with okra. So I had seconds. The zucchini pickles with basil and onions had a warm, buttery flavor and smell that wafted intensely into my sinuses.

Next I hit the kimchi and sauerkraut. Holzer demonstrated how to make several varieties. A pleasant eggy-sulfuric smell came from a medium-sized crock used for popcorn in another lifetime. It was now full of kimchi. In one giant Mason jar, a skiff of red, Southern Utah sediment lay below the brine, the picturesque remains of the natural salt she used. The kimchi was made from

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chopped Napa cabbage, ginger, garlic and hot Thai peppers.

Then I returned to the sample table and fell in love. It was the tantalizing, seductive, peppery hot-and-sour taste of the North Indian lime pickle. These are meant to be eaten as a condiment, a spoonful is all you need to accompany a meal. Take limes and chop them, Holzer explained. Add lime juice, lots of salt, a little bit of sugar, a hefty amount of cayenne powder, turmeric, cumin, cinnamon, and lots of other exotic-smelling spices. Let the jar ferment in the sun until the rinds begin to get soft, chewable, tangy, and intense with the spices.

Rinse off the extra spice before eating unless you want to blow your taste-buds to Jaipur. Eat in tiny amounts because it carries a powerful, hot, mouth-watering flavor that you will never never forget.

So, I discovered that when you attend this kind of event, the food is more intense than the people, just the way I like it.

I didn’t need preaching to con-

vince me that pickling can add a lot of spice and variety to my pantry shelf.

Holzer is Chair of the Cache Valley Chapter of Slow Food.

The Slow Food movement is promoted as being an alternative to fast food and agribusiness. Slow food enthusiasts are both practical and philosophical, striving to preserve traditional and regional cuisine, heirloom seeds, gardening skills, local food culture and trying to make access to fresh, nutritious food a fair prospect across the country and for the rest of the world.

This movement is gaining momentum. We are lucky to have an active chapter here in Cache Valley. The group plans one event per month in a series of intriguing food experiences; sausage making, local foraging, at-home cheeses and chicken harvesting, to name the next few. This month is a great time to join the chapter as they are having a membership drive on Sept. 22. Email Holzer for more information at dawnholzer80@ gmail.com.

Annual Historic Home Tour slated for Saturday The fifth annual Cache Valley Historic Home Tour will spotlight homes in historic downtown Logan from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sept. 8.

“People really enjoy seeing the ingenuity and tremendous amount of work some of our residents have shown in restoring or updating these wonderful old homes which were built so well by our early residents,” said Bernice McCowin, event co-chair.

Seven homes of different sizes and architectural styles will be featured. The event is organized and sponsored by the Cache Valley Visitors Bureau and the Cache Historical Society.

“I love the history and heritage of our valley, and this is a beautiful time of year for residents and visitors to explore it,” said Julie Hollist, director of the Cache Valley Visitors Bureau. “These homes are showpieces of beauty and pioneer ingenu-

ity.”

McCowin added, “This year’s attendees will see a variety of homes from the simple to the elegant.”

Homes can be visited in any order.

Proceeds go toward history scholarships at Utah State University and to help pay for bus transportation for elementary students to visit the American West Heritage Center. “We want to engender a love of our history and heritage in local school children and USU students,” McCowin said.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the Cache Valley Visitors Bureau, 199 N. Main St., in Logan; Lee’s Marketplace in Logan and Smithfield and Maceys Food & Drug in Providence. Cash or check only. On the day of the tour, tickets will be available at each home. For more information, call the Visitors Bureau at 435-7551890.

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Books Doig spins quite a ‘Tale’

By Rob Merrill Associated Press

Looking for a good story? A well-written and engrossing tale that leaves you feeling satisfied? Give Ivan Doig’s latest novel a chance.

Set in Doig’s beloved Montana mostly in the summer of 1960, “The Bartender’s Tale” is as plain as the title. It’s a slice of one family’s life as remembered by the narrator when he was 12 years old.

With typical preteen flourish, narrator Rusty opens the story: “My father was the best bartender who ever lived.”

You’re hooked from that opening sentence, as Rusty is picked up at his aunt’s house in Phoenix by his “pops,” Tom Harry, and driven to Gros Ventre, Mont.

“Good-bye, saguaros (a type of cactus), hello sagebrush,” narrates Rusty.

Father and son fend for themselves for years, with Tom twirling towels and polishing his oak bar and Rusty holed up in a backroom filled with treasures pawned by patrons who couldn’t pay their tab.

He discovers a slotted vent that lets in the sights and sounds from the bar and sits beside it for hours, eavesdropping on the adult conversations and stories pouring out of thirsty customers.

The story is too good and rich to spoil here.

There’s a girl, of course, and it’s through her

and Rusty’s eyes that the remarkable events of the summer of 1960 unfold.

There’s a mystery woman for Tom, too, who shows up with a daughter he

never knew he had. And then there’s a fresh-out-ofcollege boy named Delano, on the road for the Library of Congress to create an oral history of the West.

Doig is a master at weaving all the characters together and never losing the audience. It’s not a page turner you feel driven to finish in a few sittings, but it’s the perfect book for your bedside table. Pick it up, lose yourself in the past and remember what it was like to be 12 years old, when your world and all the people who entered into it felt as fresh as the Montana mountain air.

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Continued from Page 9 Especially since, I have the added handicap of wearing contacts, and having a face full of mud for the next four kilometers or so might leave me at a disadvantage.

I didn’t fall — unlike a woman in front of me and a man behind me — and I had no problem with the smell.

Or at least I didn’t until a teenage girl near me mentioned that she was about ready to throw up.

After that, I had to fight off the urge to gag for the final 10 yards or so.

After that, The Channel was a seemingly shallow body of water that actually ended up being nearly neck deep for a while, while my knees weren’t thrilled with having to crawl through a long culvert during Tunnel Vision.

Crossing the floating “bridge” at Leap of Faith also proved impossible, so I soon found myself simply swimming across the small lake.

again.

Of course, by that time, Peterson’s dress — which set her back $15 at the Deseret Industries — was far from white. But while looking over at the next group of pristine rookies coming off the hill on inner tubes, I definitely started to wish that I could start Man vs. Mud again.

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Jake Corkin kisses Amber Lebaron while participating in the Man vs. Mud run at the American West Heritage Center Saturday. The couple recently became engaged.

Climbing over the cargo net shortly afterwards proved problematic for many people, some of whom seemed to freeze up when they found themselves straddling both sides at the top. But once the way was clear, I got up and over with relative ease.

Over the rest of the course there were numerous hay bales to scramble up and over, water obstacles to navigate and the

Ready Continued from Page 3 “Some of the characters are the same from the first book, but, of course, there’s a new villain and some new characters in the second book.”

A graduate of Logan High School and Utah State University, Whitesides was a music major, playing percussion in the Aggie Marching Band and other ensembles.

In search of a part-time job while he was going to school, Whitesides was grateful to secure a custodial position at Mt. Logan Middle School, where he had also attended as a student.

The job allowed him the

new, 17-foot-tall Boggy Bayou Bridge, which gave you a commanding view of the scene as you crawled across another cargo net.

After that came the grand finale: the Slip-nSlide down the bluff and into a small pond brown water called The Mud Pit, quickly followed by the Mud Crawl.

While I managed to keep the muck out of

my contacts during the slide, unfortunately my right ear wasn’t as lucky.

But that didn’t stop me from diving right into the sticky gunk on the other side and doing the army crawl through the day’s final obstacle, designed solely to get participants as muddy as possible just in time to have their photographs taken at the end of the run.

Afterwards, there were

flexibility to work his own dents’ eyes a lot of times, hours between the end of they’re kind of like unsung school on one day and the heroes, and I wanted to write start of school the next, just a book that would paint those what he needed in order to school custodians in a herowork around his various music like light.” commitments.

Although he had very “If it was a night I had little formal experience with a concert, I wouldn’t get writing, Whitesides says he there until after midnight, “experimented” quite a bit with and then I would get out in putting together stories when the early hours the mornhe was younger, and that he ing,” Whitesides says. “So, already has some ideas for being by myself inside of a another series once “Janitors” big, dark school, I just let my comes to an end.

In the meantime, Whiimagination kind of run wild.

That’s when I started realizing tesides’ next few years are already mapped out. He’s all of the different things that custodians do at schools. They already submitted a draft of the third book to his edidon’t just clean. They are in tor, and he will be busy charge of the entire maintewith promoting the second nance of the school, and so book through the rest of the much more. fall. After that, he’ll turn his “I realized that in the stu-

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focus back to writing the fourth book before starting the whole process over again next year when the third book is released about the time school starts.

Whitesides, who currently lives in Nibley with his wife, Connie, a third-grade teacher at Thomas Edison Charter School South, will host a free entertainment event at Thomas Edison today beginning at 7 p.m. He and some friends will perform a drum concert on garbage cans, while characters from his books are scheduled to make an appearance.

Whitesides will also be autographing copies of his books and meeting with young “Janitors” fans — something he truly enjoys.

“There are times when I will sign a book and a parent will pull me aside and say, ‘I’ve tried and tried to get my kid to read, and he’s never been interested in reading. But when you came to the school and talked to him about your book, something kind of ignited in him and he’s read your book and just absolutely loved it,’” Whitesides declares.

“I get a lot of that, which makes me feel great — like what I’m doing is making a difference. It’s more than just writing about janitors and magic-powered cleaning supplies. I feel like I’m really reaching some people and turning on a love of reading for that young age group, which I think is critical.”

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complimentary sunglasses, water and granola bars. But Peterson did even better than that, finding — and even picking up — a small snake immediately after completing the Mud Crawl.

For some reason, the lyrics from a 30-year-old Billy Idol song suddenly popped into my head: It’s a nice day for a white wedding.

It’s a nice day to start

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5. Scrawny 9. Hands over 14. Metaphor, e.g.

19. Stretches 20. African flower 21. Appropriate 22. “___ So Vain” 23. Gravures 25. Coco de ___, Brazilian palm 26. Turbine part 27. Removed a shirt fastener?

30. Person born under a Zodiac sign 31. Paul McCartney, for one 32. Like some surgery 33. Dudgeon 36. Colo. neighbor 37. Lady bighorns 41. Familia members 44. Anglican cleric 46. Made a scene in the fruit section?

51. Pro follower 53. United Nations agency acronym 54. Sought damages 55. Demands 56. Plato’s plaza 58. ___ house 62. Previously 63. Orange-flavored liqueur 66. Ruined city in Turkey 67. Shocking Blue song title 69. Board leader?

70. Slogan for wadingbird fan?

74. Touch of frost 77. Flax fabric 78. Buzzing about 79. Shoe types 81. Prefix with physical 84. Judges 88. Bombs 89. Stupefy 91. Word repeated after

“Que” 92. Dirt 95. In order to prevent 96. Comparable to a misused police weapon?

101. Abounding in locks 102. Hot-dogs 103. “Naked Maja” painter 104. Low ___ 107. Venom carrier 108. Kennedy and Turner 111. Unit of length for yarn 113. Pelvic bones 115. Learning by lecture is superior?

122. Fine fiddle 124. Who might be to blame 125. What your clock reads 126. Rechargeable battery 127. Foot ailments 128. Pasty-faced 129. Ancient greetings 130. Anoint 131. ___ pea 132. Math groups 133. Cost of living?

Down 1. Made in ___ 2. Brush aside 3. Punitive 4. Japanese port 5. Unadorned 6. This and that 7. Twelve ___ 8. Those in favor 9. Old Celtic kingdom 10. Son of Isaac 11. Water carrier 12. Sister of Calliope 13. Hound’s trail 14. Feathered felt hat 15. “Up on the ___” 16. Garment maker, in Leeds 17. Country club figure

18. Suffix with pamphlet 24. Pool contents?

28. ___ plan review 29. Buster?

34. Crucifixes 35. Pioneer in Surrealism 38. Chinese dynasty 39. And so on 40. Wild guess 42. “Spirit” rock band 43. Branch line 45. Algonquian people 47. Plane-jumping G.I. 48. Every 60 minutes 49. “___ Her to Heaven” (1945 Tierney film) 50. Garden tools 51. Torture device 52. Symptom of malaria 57. Medicinal berry 59. Warbler Yoko 60. Pueblo rite sites 61. Organic compound 64. The “I” in “The King and I” 65. Texas oil city 68. Military group 71. Dickey 72. Nigerian state 73. Earth’s crust 74. Filled by appointment 75. Contents of some cartridges 76. “Hey you!”

77. Lollygags 80. Gloomy atmosphere 81. Gozo Island is part of it 82. Independent chieftains 83. Happen 85. One taking a bow?

86. Collapsed 87. E.P.A. concern 90. Lower ___ 93. Tabloid topic 94. Your of yore 97. Parting words

98. Most unctuous 99. Hand-me-down 100. Stand for something 105. City in northwestern Germany 106. Minimum 109. Monetary units in Saigon 110. ___ Dogg 112. Rand McNally product 114. Perfume 116. Bibliography abbr.

117. ___ sister 118. Fighting 119. Snag site 120. Genuine 121. Ululates 122. “___ Ng” (They Might Be Giants song) 123. Chinese dialect

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Friday The Cache Valley Center for the Arts will host a gallery walk on Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. at numerous locations in downtown Logan. Visit www.centerforthearts.us/gallerywalk.html for a full list of participating locations.

“Kung Fu Panda 2” will be screened at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, at Mack Park in Smithfield as part of Sundays in the Park. Free.

Dog lovers of Cache Valley are invited to attend an Animal Fair and PoochPalooza presented by the Cache Humane Society and Zoomdog Agility and Sports Club. This free event will be held at the Cache County Fairgrounds from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8. The Animal Fair and PoochPalooza is geared toward building up the Cache canine community and encourages people to spend more time with family, including the dog, and get together with other local dog owners. The day’s activities will include agility trials, presentations, booths, canine contests and fun games for kids. Everybody is invited — especially the family dog.

Nibley City is hosting its first Scarecrow Festival at the Morgan Farm on Sept. 7 and 8. The Morgan Farm and Community Garden are located at 2800 S. 800 West in Nibley. There will be more than 30 scarecrows dressed up as favorite children’s book characters. There will also be awards for the best scarecrows. The public is invited to vote for their favorite scarecrows.

For more information, visit the Nibley City website at http://www. nibleycity.com/scarecrow.html, email nibleysistercity@gmail. com or call Bryan Hansen at 435245-2168.

A book signing and entertainment program will take place at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, at Thomas Edison Charter School South in Nibley for Tyler Whitesides’ new

book, “Janitors: Secrets of New Forest Academy.” Doors open at 6:30 p.m. There will be live music and characters from the book will be there to interact with fans. Books will also be available for purchase.

tion, will hold a garage sale on Saturday in Hyrum. All proceeds go to honoring our military and to promote patriotism. Lots of good stuff will be available at 433 E. 300 South in Hyrum from 8 a.m. to noon.

SATURDAY

The Utah Fibromyalgia Association will hold its monthly education/support group meeting at Saturday at 11 a.m. in Room 5 at Logan Regional Hospital.

The event is free and open to anyone with fibromyalgia and/or chronic pain. This month’s topic is Yoga for FM, taught by instructor Anne Gardner. Anne will lead us through gentle stretching and yoga poses that are effective in helping to reduce stress and chronic pain. Wear comfortable clothing and bring a yoga mat or towel and water bottle.

The LOTOJA Classic road race is the longest one-day USCF-sanctioned bicycle race in the country. A thousand cyclists from all over the U.S. converge on the region to take on the 206mile route between Logan and Teton Village outside of Jackson, Wyo. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this year’s LOTOJA gets underway near Sunrise Cyclery on 100 East in downtown Logan, with riders leaving from 5:45 to 7:40 a.m.

The Porcupine Music Festival will be held Saturday, Sept.

8, near Porcupine Dam east of Avon. Entertainment begins at 11 a.m. and run until late. Admission is $15 and includes camping.

Children under 12 are free. Artists scheduled to perform include Shaky Trade, The Folka Dots, Sarah B Band, Wade Evans & The Harmonic Conspiracy, Jen Hajj, Hilarilly, Davina Tribal Collective, Dawi Drummers, Cambriah Heaton andTim Pearce.

The Cache Valley Folk Dancers and Bridger Folk Music Society are hosting this year’s first, “first Saturday” contra dance on Sept. 8. The dance will be held at the Whittier Community Center (90 N. 400 East in Logan) and begins at 7:30 p.m. Kay Forsyth will be the caller. The band is Four Potatoes trois. A $6 donation is suggested at the door; $3 for children under 12.

Beginners and families are welcome and all dances are taught.

For more information about contra dancing call 753-2480 or 7535987, or visit www.bridgerfolk. org/contra.html.

The Daughters of the American Revolution Bear River Chapter, a non-profit organiza-

The Crossroads Project, an exhibit featuring the works of Rebecca Allan and Garth Lenz, will take place from Sept. 8 to Oct. 7 in the Tippets Exhibit Hall at USU’s Chase Fine Arts Center.

The exhibit focuses on nature and humanity. Admission is free.

Jorgensen, Information and referral coordinator for University of Utah Neuroscience Center, will present. The public is invited.

For more information, call Bill Lindauer 752-9666.

Booklore Club will meet Monday, Sept. 10, at 1:30 p.m. at the home of Lois Dewey.

TUESDAY Looking for something fun to do after school? Then come to the Jim Bridger Room at the Logan Library for Teen Tuesdays at 4 p.m. Before the Wii, before the PS3, even before the ATARI, there were board games.

Stop by the library on the second Tuesday of each month to play some of our favorites. Contact Rachel Anderson, teen services librarian for more information (716-9134).

WEDNESDAY

Discover the fun and friendship in Girl Scouts. Girls in grades K-12 and their parents are invited to attend a parent information meeting on Sept.

8, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Bridger Room at the Logan Library (255 N. Main Street). For additional information, call June at (801) 716-5112.

The Smithfield Senior Center will have a flu shot clinic on Sept. 12, from 8 to 10 a.m., and a foot clinic from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The annual Dutch oven dinner catered by Dan Gyllenskog will be at 1 p.m. at a cost of $5 per person. Reservations can be made by calling Diane at 563-6847 by Sept. 10.

The center is located at 375 Canyon Road in Smithfield, next to Mack Park.

SUNDAY

THURSDAY

JACOUSTiC will perform at Caffe Ibis (52 Federal Ave.) from noon to 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept.

9. This Ogden artist writes songs about lucid dreaming, aliens and her personal experiences. Her charm will keep you there long after your drink is gone.

The fourth annual Parenting Matters seminar is being offered to Cache Valley parents at no cost. The seminar will be held on six Thursday evenings (Sept. 13, 20, 27; Oct. 4, 18 25) from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the LDS Church located at 464 N. 300 East in Providence. The seminar is designed to help parents strengthen family relationships using concepts and methods consistent with gospel principles. The seminar is open to parents of all faiths. Dr. Bruce

MONDAY The Cache Valley Parkinson’s Support Group will meet at 10 a.m. Sept. 10 at the Coppermill Restaurant. Rebecca

Johns will be the instructor. He has more than 30 years clinical experience. Enrollment is limited to 100. To enroll, send an email to doctorjohns@live.com.

The Farmer’s Market in Hyrum takes place from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday at 675 N. Main.

Having trouble paying your mortgage? Free HUD-certified, confidential help is available.

Neighborhood Nonprofit Housing in Logan offers weekly Housing Solution Workshops where group instruction is provided on the following topics: alternatives to foreclosure, negotiating with lenders, avoiding scams, budgeting, and planning for the future. Call Benjamin at (435) 753-1112 to RSVP and reserve your spot.

This week’s workshop will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday at 195 W. Golf Course Road in Logan. Participants must RSVP. The AARP Senior Defensive Drivers class will be held from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 13, at the Cache County Senior Center. Cost is $12 for AARP members or $14 for non-members. The Certificate of Completion will reduce auto insurance rates. Call Susie at (435) 753-2866.

Light by Light Living presents the Science of Light Therapy on Thursday, Sept. 13, with a free seminar from 6:30-8 p.m. and a question-and-answer session from 8-9 p.m. at the Crystal Inn (853 S. Main St. in Logan).

Come learn from international speak and light energy authority, Wes Burwell, how light is being used world-wide to safely and effectively help with conditions such as: neuropathy, tendonitis, arthritis, depression, athletic recovery and performance, pain, circulatory health, eczema and skin disorders, Alzheimer’s, fibromyalgia and more. Seating and session availability is limited RSVP at sjoffs@lightbylight.com or Shirley at (303) 818-9263.

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