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Redefining

POP ART

Artist Vanessa Neilsen uses alu minu m cans to create headbands, bookmarks and more

The Herald Journal

Sept. 24-30, 2010

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What’s inside this week Acclaimed Utah activist, memoirist to read at USU

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Vanessa Neilsen shows off a new soda can accessory piece at her home in North Logan on Wednesday. Since the beginning of the year, Neilsen has been using aluminum cans to create a variety of items — headbands, hair clips, even bookmarks. Her business, HoneyBunny Accessories, sells the products at Utah farmers’ markets and boutiques. Read more about Neilsen and her creations on Page 8. Photo by Braden Wolfe/Herald Journal

From the editor

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O I GUESS THIS MUST BE the column that I break the news: I’m leaving The Herald Journal.

I know, I know ... wipe your tears so we can move on and talk rationally about this.

I’m sad to be going, but it looks like that’s the path life has led me down, and I know I will eventually move on to bigger and better things.

I have had many amazing moments at The Herald Journal since starting here seven years ago last month. I’ve worked with incredible people — co-workers and customers — made a lot of new friends and met hundreds of new people. I may have had my freak-out moments (sorry, Paul), but I would have to say these last seven years were some of the best of my life.

I’m being serious when I say I’ve laughed, I’ve cried, I’ve thrown things, I’ve cursed, I’ve broken various office supplies and I’ve slammed doors. However, every day I would

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get up knowing I was still lucky enough (thanks, Charlie) to be able to go into work that day where I would lovingly put together my magazine, answer phone calls, visit with people like you, and have an overall good time doing what I do.

Besides a certain someone we’ll just call “Louise of Smithfield,” I think most of you enjoyed working with me, too. Hopefully my successor can be just as awesome and take just as good care of you as I have.

I jest, of course, but really — I’m going to miss all of you (except “Louise”) more than you know. I’d like to put together a sort-of scrapbook for my last magazine next week, and I’m hoping you can all help me out.

Will you please send your favorite memories/moments/etc. of Cache Magazine to jbaer@hjnews.com? If I get enough responses that don’t contain too many swear words, I will incorporate it into my final “From the Editor” column Friday, Oct. 1.

Thanks everyone, and have a great weekend!

— Jamie Baer Nielson Cache Magazine editor

Germany study abroad students present ‘Sketches from the Ruhr’

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Movie critic: ‘Wall Street’ for Oliver Stone fans only

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pet photo of the week

This dog is available for adoption!

Pet: Champ From: Four Paws Rescue Why he’s so lovable: “Champ has been a favorite among the Four Paws volunteers ever since he arrived. Champ is a lovable, happy guy who is looking for an active family or owner to go running, hiking, camping and lead an active lifestyle.

Champ is happy to report that his new job as interviewer and temperament-testing dog at the Cache Valley Pet Motel is so much fun. He gets to help with the temperament evaluations of potential hotel guests. Champ is very affectionate and loves to be around other dogs. He chases cats, so he should not go to a home with cats. He has not done any digging or outside fence climbing, though he has figured out how to hop on top of the 4-foot-tall indoor fence partitions at the Pet Hotel.” To meet Champ, call 752-3534 (leave message) or e-mail scfourpaws@hotmail.com.

Slow Wave is created from real people’s dreams as drawn by Jesse Reklaw. Ask Jesse to draw your dream! Visit www.slowwave.com to find out how.

USU theater opens 2010-11 season with ‘Cripple of Inishmaan’

TAH STATE U University’s department of theater arts in the Caine College

Photos by Matt Logan

Even bikers need teddy bear hugs sometimes

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HE 16th ANNUAL Teddy Bear Run will take place Saturday, Sept. 25. The Teddy Bear Run, a motorcycle ride that benefits the Cache County Children’s Justice Center, is organized by Northern Utah Abate, CMA, Cache Christian Crusaders and Friends of the CJC Board.

The price of registration is $10 per person and a new teddy bear. Preregistration is happening at Renegade Sports in Logan and Vescos in Brigham City. Ride pins go to the first 600 who register. The ride begins at Renegade Sports in Logan, continues over Sardine Canyon, stops at Vescos in Brigham City to pick up more riders, then travels through Deweyville and Honeyville and back into Cache Valley via the Valley View

of the Arts will present its first play of the 2010-11 academic year, “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, at the Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 W. Center St., Logan.

Tickets are $13 for reserved seating, $11 for USU faculty and staff, $9 for all non-USU students and free for USU students with current ID; and can be purchased at the Caine College of the Arts Box Office in the Chase Fine Arts Center, Room 139-B, at the Caine College of the Arts Dean’s Office Box Office, online at www.arts.usu.edu or by calling 797-8022. The show will also run Oct. 2 and Oct. 6-9.

Set in a remote town in Ireland in 1934, “The Cripple of Inishmaan” is a dark comedic tale by Martin McDonagh about the seemingly impossible hope of a young cripple, Billy.

The story becomes a merciless portrayal of a town so comically cramped and mean-spirited that hope is almost lost.

When news arrives on the

Timothy Roghaar as Cripple Billy.

remote island of a Hollywood director coming to a neighboring island, Cripple Billy becomes determined to audition, and as news of his audacity flows through the rumorstarved community, things start to heat up for the young cripple.

This play has been rated “M” for Mature by the Caine College of the Arts.

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All mixed up

War documentary coming to Logan Arthouse & Cinema

HE AWARD-WINNING T documentary “Restrepo” will play Friday, Sept. 24, through

Highway, ending up at the Cache County Fairgrounds.

Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. at Renegade Sports in Logan, with riders departing at 11 a.m. sharp. At Vescos in Brigham City, registration begins at 10:30 a.m., with rid-

ers departing at 12:30 p.m. sharp. When the ride ends at the fairgrounds, there will be food, opportunity drawings, a DJ and a grand prize drawing for a fully enclosed trailer.

For more information, contact Melissa Glenn at 764-2932.

Thursday, Sept. 30, at the Logan Arthouse and Cinema, 795 N. Main St. For more information, visit www.loganarthouse.com.

Deep in eastern Afghanistan lies the rugged Korengal Valley — an epicenter of the current conflict and one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. To make their thrilling documentary — winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival — awardwinning journalists Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger (“The

Perfect Storm,” the upcoming “War”) embedded with the soldiers of 2nd Platoon, Battle Company, as they fought to build and maintain a remote 15-man outpost in the Korengal, named “Restrepo” after a platoon medic killed in action.

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All mixed up

By Sally Rydalch — Left: “Laundry Day”; Right: “Werden, View from the Eiscafe”

Art students present ‘Sketches from Ruhr’

A “Steele Water Fountain” by Sally Rydalch

N EXHIBIT featuring work completed in Germany by art professor Christopher Terry and Utah State University study abroad art students is on display through Sept. 30 at Gallery 102 of the Chase Fine Arts Center on campus. A closing reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 29. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

Acclaimed Utah activist, memoirist to read at USU T HE AUTHOR OF the redrock memoir “Trespass,” Amy Irvine will read at noon Thursday, Sept.

30, at USU’s Haight Alumni Center. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

Irvine is a sixth-generation Utahn and longtime wilderness advocate, who for seven years worked for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.

Her work has appeared in Orion, Climbing, High Desert Journal and in numerous western, nature and environmental anthologies. Irvine’s first book, “Making a Difference,” was one of three books featured in the Washington Post for Earth Day 2002, and at that time was sent from representatives of the outdoor

recreation industry to every member of Congress as well as the Executive Branch.

Her second book, “Trespass: Living at the Edge of

the Promised Land,” received the Orion Book Award and Colorado Book Award, while The Los Angeles Times wrote that it “might very well be Desert Solitaire’s literary heir.” In a starred review, Booklist characterized “Trespass” as “a penetrating critique of Mormon sovereignty” and called Irvine “bold and original in her thinking, candid and lyrical in expression.”

Irvine will read from and speak about “Trespass,” as well as from more recent work, including an essay about animals and adversity, “Spectral Light.”

For more information, call 797-2734 or e-mail chris. cokinos@usu.edu.

After spending five weeks in Germany, 17 USU art students are excited to display their work.

“Working in a familiar studio without distractions may produce polished art, but the experience of living and working in a foreign country adds depth to a student’s work,” Terry said.

Terry has led the Germany study abroad program for several years.

“As the Caine College of the

Arts at USU positions itself in a world that is increasingly global in its outlook, international programs will only grow in importance in our curriculum,” he said. “The student experience this exhibition documents is vital to that curriculum and I look forward to a day when an international experience is integral to every student’s education here at Utah State University.”

Learn about the Internet’s good, bad and ugly sides OMPUTER SCIENTIST C Chad Mano will explore “Have We Created a Monster? The

Internet’s ‘Good, Bad and Ugly’” at part of USU’s “Science Unwrapped” series at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24, in the Eccles Science Learning Center auditorium on campus. Featured speaker is USU computer scientist Chad Mano. Admission is free and everyone is invited. Refreshments and activities will follow the presentation. For more information, visit www.usu.edu/science/unwrapped or call 797-3517.

Think about the introduction of the automobile, the television and the cell phone — each brought us innovation and convenience, but each also brought distinct disadvantages.

The Internet is no different; while the World Wide Web allows us to com-

municate and access information at the touch of a keyboard, it can also make us vulnerable to criminals.

Following Mano’s presentation, students from USU’s department of computer science and members of Logan High School’s Computer Club will conduct a number of hands-on activities including learning Mano about encryption, taking a computer apart and computer science games. The Utah Education Network will offer tips for kids to stay safe online and the Cache County Sheriff’s Office will offer Web safety advice for parents. Free refreshments will be served.

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quintet” and was born in 1770, WORLD-CLASS wind quintet will launch the same year as Beethoven.

They eventually studied togeththe Chamber Music Society of Logan’s 30th anniver- er and became close friends. sary season at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5 at Reicha’s wind ensemble music created a sensation throughout the USU Performance Hall.

Europe. Contemplative or playThe Dorian Wind Quintet, ful, the melodies feature the founded in 1961 at Tanglewind instruments in a splendidly wood and currently serving as crafted and balanced structure. ensemble-in-residence at Hunter Before intermission the stunCollege in New York City, ning “Six Bagatelles” by Gyorpromises an evening of extraorgy Ligeti will be played. Born dinary music. Time Magazine in Romania has described in 1923, this the group as avant-garde “one of chamber composer promusic’s most vides tremensparkling and dous variety eloquent ensem★ Who: Dorian Wind Quartet in his combles,” and The ★ When: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5 position. His Times of Lon★ Where: Manon Caine Rusearly music don calls them sell-Kathryn Caine Wanlass followed the “breathtaking.”

Performance Hall at USU style of Bartok The quintet ★ Season tickets: Regular, and Kodaly. is recognized $96; student, $40 Perhaps his for its uniquely ★ Single concert tickets: most famous polished and Regular, $24; student, $10 is “Atmopassionate ★ Single tickets can be purspheres,” used performances. chased at the door prior to in the movie Audiences conthe concert, by visiting arts.

“2001: A sistently take usu.edu/htm/box-office or by calling 797-8022.

Space Odyswith them mem★ More information: www. sey.” More ories of compelcmslogan.org recently, some ling, energetic of his music and dramatic music making. Each member is a was used in “Shutter Island,” bringing an unsettling and gothvirtuoso in his or her own right, ic feel to the film. Using atonal as well as a dedicated chamber player. They exhibit a passion for structure brought him much the repertoire and the joy of its criticism, but his eclectic influperformance. ences brought a flavor of popuTo begin the concert, the lar culture to the 20th century group will perform the “Wind music landscape. His harmonic Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 88, and rhythmic style is complex No. 2,” by Antonin Reicha. This and delicate, captivating and Bohemian-born composer is mystical, clever and sometimes known as “the father of the wind almost humorous.

“Sparkling” “Eloquent”

After interthe present. mission we For three will enjoy the decades the music of J.S. Chamber The Dorian Quintet will offer a Master Class from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Bach, arranged Monday, Oct. 4, at the USU Performance Hall. This is free and Music Society

by Mordeof Logan’s open to the public. Middle school, high school and college students chai Rechtseries of are encouraged to attend. This community outreach is an opportuman. Born in concerts has nity for young students to expand their cultural horizons, hone their musical skills and build their appreciation for classical music, workGermany in consistently ing directly with some of the finest music artists in the industry.

1926, Rechtprovided man moved world-class to Israel in musicians and all over the world.

1934. At the age of 12 he began extraordinary musical perforThe last selections are “Anniplaying the bassoon. He is a versary Variations on a Theme of mances. The 30th anniversary renowned bassoonist, conducseason continues the tradition, Antonin Reich, from the Wind tor, arranger, teacher and eduwith concerts scheduled Nov. Quintet in E-Flat, Op. 88, No. cator. Rechtman spent much 16, Jan. 25, Feb. 15 and March 2.” Does that composer and title sound familiar? Remember the time writing transcriptions and 31 at the Manon Caine Russellfirst selection of the evening? arrangements for wind quintets Kathyrn Caine Wanlass PerDorian will play five variations and larger wind ensembles. formance Hall on the campus of Reich’s music, rearranged by His talent as an arranger has of USU. The venue is one of five contemporary composers been highly acclaimed, and his the world’s finest performance (born 1915 to 1957) who have arrangements are played by halls, with every concert promajor ensembles and orchestras taken Reich’s musical ideas into viding spectacular sound.

Quartet to conduct master class

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Chamber society kicks off 30th season

‘Lush guitar work’ and ‘sweet vocals’

C will perform at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 2, at Crumb

HRISTOPHER WILLIAMS

Brothers Bakery, 291 S. 300 West, Logan. Tickets are $13 and available by calling 7573468, or take your chances at the door the night of the show. Seating is very limited, so advance purchase is recommended.

With seven years of nonstop national touring and playing more than 120 shows a year, this New York-born, Bucknell University religious studies graduate and former Seattle preschool teacher, has built a faithful following of listeners around the country and independently sold more than 21,000 records, primarily off the stage.

Williams writes songs that are honest and confessional, yet never overbearing, and performs with an appealing mix of intense passion and humor. He is a songwriter and an entertainer, engaging audiences with what the Boston Phoenix calls “lush guitar work, sweet soaring vocals,” and sometimes the added percussive vulnerability

of a single djembe hand drum.

In moving to Nashville, Williams gives up a respectable Boston career, including his penchant for repeatedly selling out three-show nights at Cambridge’s famed Club Passim and garnering three Boston Music Award nominations. For more information, visit www.christopherw.com.

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Film New this week “You Again” Rated PG ★1⁄2 Really, the women of “You Again” should just get over it. They should move on from the resentments, jealousies and grudges they’ve held onto since high school and embrace the people they’ve become today — even if what they’ve developed into are stock characters in a lame, PG-rated comedy. Instead, they try and tear each other apart in the most crass, slapsticky manner possible. Sure, it’s only a movie, and so any sense of indignation in watching it is probably misplaced. But “You Again” unfortunately perpetuates all the worst cliches about women being insecure, petty, spiteful, competitive and cruel, and it does it in the name of comedy — which is a problem, because it’s pretty much never funny. What’s truly disheartening: It was written by a woman, Moe Jelline, with her first produced screenplay. Kristen Bell stars as a former nerd whose older brother is marrying the mean girl (Odette Yustman) who tormented her in high school. Coincidentally, Bell’s mom (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Yustman’s aunt (Sigourney Weaver) are former high school best friends who had an ugly falling out over 30 years ago. Director Andy Fickman (“She’s the Man”) telegraphs his jokes and sight gags from a mile away; later, his characters have well-timed epiphanies and changes of heart. PG for brief mild language and rude behavior. 105 min.

“Legend of the Guardians” in 3D Rated PG (48%) A review for “Legend of the Guardians” was not available from The Associated Press. In lieu, please accept this synopsis from www.RottenTomatoes.com: “Acclaimed filmmaker Zack Snyder makes his animation debut with the fantasy family adventure ‘Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole,’ based on the beloved ‘Guardians of Ga’Hoole’ books by Kathryn Lasky. The film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father’s epic stories of the Guardians of Ga’ Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones. While Soren dreams of someday joining his heroes, his older brother, Kludd, scoffs at the notion, and yearns to hunt, fly and steal his father’s favor from his younger sibling. But Kludd’s

jealousy has terrible consequences — causing both owlets to fall from their treetop home and right into the talons of the Pure Ones. Now it is up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave young owls. Together they soar across the sea and through the mist to find the Great Tree, home of the legendary Guardians — Soren’s only hope of defeating the Pure Ones and saving the owl kingdoms.” 90 min.

Still playing “The Town” Rated R ★★★ This may not have quite the emotional heft of “Gone Baby Gone,” Ben Affleck’s startlingly assured 2007 directing debut.

What it has instead, though, is a greater technical complexity, a larger scope, and the promise of a director who’s well on his way to establishing a distinctive vision and voice. Affleck also has a way with his actors — unsurprising, having been one himself for so long and not always getting the credit he deserves — and he’s once again attracted some tremendous talent: Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm and Chris Cooper, who leaves his mark in just one powerful scene. Even Blake Lively is surprisingly good, playing against type as a damaged single mom. But besides directing and co-writing the script with Peter Craig and Aaron Stockard, Affleck himself is at the center of the action in front of the camera, starring as Doug MacRay, the leader of a Boston bank-heist crew, and giving the best leading performance of his career. During the group’s latest crime, Doug’s volatile best friend (Renner) takes a hostage of the bank manager (Hall), but when they realize later that she lives just a few blocks away in insular Charlestown, they check up on her to determine whether she might have seen anything. Doug treats her with unexpected kindness, then ends up befriending her, then falls for her — and she falls for him, too, not knowing she’s getting involved with the thief who just turned her world upside-down. R for strong violence, pervasive language, some sexuality and drug use. 128 min.

“Easy A” Rated PG-13 ★★★ High school teenager Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone) breezes through phrases like “terminal illogi-

cal inexactitude,” makes elaborate Google Earth metaphors and does it all without arrogance or even an upturned eyebrow. She is, in short, way out of any teenage boy’s league. Olive accidentally develops a reputation as an “easy” girl after — to satiate her badgering best friend Rhiannon (Aly Michalka) — she lies about losing her virginity.

The rumor, spread by the school’s resident religious zealot Marianne (Amanda Bynes), moves at the speed of Twitter. Like a young actor, Olive embraces the role, even pinning a red “A’’ to her provocative outfits in an ode to Hester Prynne. For all its Hawthorne quoting, “Easy A” is clearly the stepchild of John Hughes.

Will Gluck’s stylish direction of Bert V. Royal’s nimble, word-stuffed script results in a whip-smart film. It’s a terrifically deadpan, lively performance from Stone, but the adults nearly steal the film. With Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Thomas Haden Church and Lisa Kudrow. PG-13 for mature thematic elements involving teen sexuality, language and some drug material. 93 min.

“Nanny McPhee Returns” Rated PG ★★1⁄2 The Nanny McPhee movies may be principally for kids, but make no mistake about it: They are, quite literally, a parent’s dream. Overwhelmed single parents with unruly kids are rescued by a magical nanny (Emma Thompson) who seemingly appears out of nowhere. And at no cost! For some older moviegoers escorting little ones, this premise might be impossibly alluring. And they said fans of “Avatar” were depressed when they left the theater. This sequel to 2005’s “Nanny McPhee” (both penned by Thompson, adapting Christianna Brand’s Nurse Matilda books) largely keeps the original’s formula. McPhee, a witch-looking fairy godmother of tough love, comes to the aid of a parent trying to manage a litter of kids alone (Maggie Gyllenhaal, filling Colin Firth’s shoes). McPhee obviously owes much to P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins, but there’s still a warm, British naturalism to the film and an old-fashioned cheerfulness uncommon to most of today’s kids movies. With Rhys Ifans as a brother-in-law scoundrel, and Maggie Smith as a ditzy shopkeeper. PG for rude humor, some language and mild thematic elements. 109 min.

— All reviews by The Associated Press

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F THERE WAS EVER a movie I never thought would have a sequel it was Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street.”

The first one came out in 1987 and 23 years later we’re getting a sequel. I guess the economic status of the country — and the world — lent itself too perfectly to another story about greedy Wall Street ninja Gordon Gekko (played by Michael Douglas).

Nobody out there plays mean so well. Douglas is rarely a “good guy” in his movies; rather, he plays flawed characters that have obsessions they can’t control and egos they can’t maintain.

Gekko is the quintessential egomaniac. Even though he’s been sent to prison he still feels like once he’s out he can take the world by storm. For those of you who haven’t seen the original “Wall Street” (which I recommend you see before checking out this movie), Gekko deals with insider trading. All he cares about is making money at the detriment of friends and family. He’ll step on anyone in his way to make a few bucks.

That’s just the kind of guy he is.

“Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” continues Gekko’s story. He’s just getting out of prison; a prison guard is giving him back his personal effects.

He pulls out one of those giant gray cell phones that were the first cell phones on the market.

We realize just how much time has passed, but Gekko isn’t behind the curve at all. He gets out and promptly writes a book and does speaking tours. The time is 2008, right before the economic collapse that led us to the dire straights we find ourselves in today.

Gekko’s grown daughter, Winnie (played by the everenchanting Carey Mulligan, one of the premier young actresses

The Reel Place

By Aaron Peck

out there), is estranged from her father, mostly because he spent all her childhood trying to accumulate wealth instead of trying to be her father.

Winnie is going to marry Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf), an upand-coming Wall Street youngster who specializes in alternative energy investments. (How one goes about getting a career like that is anyone’s guess, but I guess that’s the point.) Stone paints Wall Street as a bunch of people who think they own the world, but really, what do they even do? They speculate and move money from one stock to another. That’s it.

Stone takes us on a fictional journey that intersects with the sub-prime mortgage fiasco, major banks failing and bailouts. When the financial house Jake works for is allowed to fail (think Lehman Brothers), he finds himself wondering what’s going to happen to him and his soon-to-be wife. Behind Winnie’s back, Jake gets in

★★★ 1/2

“Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” Rated PG-13

touch with Gordon and secretly tries to bring their family back together while using Gordon to help him get revenge on the guy he believes sunk his bank in the first place.

That guy is Bretton James (Josh Brolin), the perfect bad guy for bad financial times. He schemes, connives and bribes to

get his way. He sits in his mansion worrying about percentage points while regular Joes everywhere work to make ends meet.

He’s easy to hate.

Stone’s direction has become weird, but it’s still as preachy as ever. If you’re not a fan of Oliver Stone, then “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” isn’t the movie for you. But if you are a fan, you’ll be surprised at how smoothly Stone weaves a tale of love and betrayal juxtaposed with one of the biggest financial calamities our country has ever seen.

Film critic Aaron Peck has a bachelor’s degree in English from USU. He also writes for BlogCritics.org and HighDefDigest.com, and is starting up a new movie website called TheReelPlace.com. He lives in Logan. He is among a number of freelance writers whose columns appear in The Herald Journal as part of an effort to expose readers to a variety of community voices. He is not an employee of the newspaper.

Feedback at aaronpeck46@ gmail.com.

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‘Wall Street’ for Oliver Stone fans only

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Redefining Artist Vanessa Neilsen uses alu minu m cans to create headbands, bookmarks and more

anessa Neilsen is redefining pop art.

Instead of canvas, she prefers aluminum cans.

Since the beginning of the year, she’s been using them to create a variety of items — headbands, hair clips, even bookmarks.

“I don’t really have a good explanation as to how I came up with it, to be honest,” Neilsen said. “My mom always calls me a packrat and a hoarder because I’ll just take these things that a lot of people think of as garbage, and then I’ll make something out of them. One day, I

just kind of woke up and was lik ‘I think I’m gonna make hair th out of pop cans,’ and my husban thought I was crazy.”

So did everyone else, she reca “They just thought I was a litt bit off my rocker,” she said. “Th didn’t think it would work.”

But Neilsen has managed to p them all wrong. Her business, H eyBunny Accessories, now sells the products at farmers’ markets Logan and Ogden, and her merc dise is also sold in local boutiqu such as Violet Hill and in downt Logan at Persian Peacock.

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It all starts with basic pop cans, which she acquires in different ways. Her dad brings some home from work, for instance, and Neilsen can sometimes be seen driving around on a scooter looking for cans to toss into a basket on the back.

“I am not above stopping on the side of the road and picking things up,” she said.

Some in the community will also give her their cans.

“She has a big tub at the farmers’ markets, and people will start dumping them in there,” said her husband, Marc. “I’m telling you, the back seat

of my car has soda stains all over.”

Neilsen doesn’t drink much pop herself, but she will occasionally purchase a drink with a “really awesome can.”

The coolest ones are often the energy or tea drinks, she said.

The process of making her products is time consuming.

After she washes out a can, Neilsen will trace flower patterns onto it and cut them out with a special tool (she swears the edges are safe). Then she layers the different patterns and binds them with scrapbooking brads before attaching them

to items like headbands and hair clips.

Neilsen is currently pursuing a patent, as well as machinery to make the process more efficient.

She believes her idea is original, noting she Googled it before proceeding with the business.

“If I’m gonna do something and put it out there, I wanted it to be unique,” she said. “I didn’t want it to be a reproduction of something somebody else has done.”

Marc Neilsen admitted he was

skeptical of his wife’s idea at first, but not anymore.

“Even in the toughest of times, in the recession, somebody like Vanessa, who is just a creative person that out of the blue gets a beam of light to start something crazy like this, can be able to better our economic condition by just doing something like this,” he said. “I’m proud as punch of her.”

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Rhythms

Unbroken Circle Tour comes to town

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HE CACHE VALLEY

Center for the Arts will present Grammy awardwinning bluegrass and gospel legends in The Unbroken Circle Tour featuring The Blind Boys of Alabama with Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 28 and 29 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Tickets for this performance can be purchased at www.EllenEcclesTheatre.org or at the Cache Valley Center for the Arts Ticket Office in the Bullen Center, 43 S. Main St., Logan. For details about the artists, visit www.blindboys.com or www.drralphstaly.com. Tickets are $21, $26, $28 and $32.

The CVCA offers a variety of discounts including specials for groups of 15 or more, children (ages 5-18) and USU students.

The Blind Boys of Alabama are among the most important and influential blues and gospel groups of all time. Their many honors include five Grammy awards, a 2009 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, The National Heritage Award Fellowship and induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. The Blind Boys are sought for their general wisdom, specific input and intangibly special presence.

Ralph Stanley has been deemed “the most important figure in bluegrass music today” (Chicago Sun Times). He’s an inductee of The Grand Ole Opry,

This photo: The Blind Boys of Alabama (by Shannon Brinkman) Inset photo: Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys (by Glen Rose)

recipient of the Living Legend Award from The Library of Congress, The National Medal of The Arts and National Heritage Fellowship Award, and two Grammy awards (2001 and 2002) as well as a third (2001) for his contribution to the multiplatinum album and dynamic film appearance in “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”

Both Ralph Stanley and The Blind Boys of Alabama have been entertaining for decades.

Since 1939 they have released or reissued nearly 30 albums, five of which have garnered Grammy awards.

The group consists of Eric (Ricky) McKinnie, Jimmy Carter, Bishop Billy Bowers, Tracy Pierce, Joey Williams and Ben Moore.

Ralph Stanley was born Feb. 25, 1927, in Dickenson County, Va., and now lives in Coeburn, Va. His stark emotional urgency is rooted in a darker time, when

pain was the common coin of life and the world offered sinful humanity no hope of refuge.

Preserved in the cultural amber of remote Appalachia, this terse, forlorn sound is the bedrock of Stanley’s inimitable style. But don’t mistake an ancient voice for ancient ways — Stanley tours and performs with the vigor and elan of a rock star.

Now 83 years old, he has been performing professionally since he and his older brother, Carter,

formed a band in their native southwestern Virginia in 1946.

Between that date and 1966, when Carter died, the Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys became one of the most celebrated bluegrass groups in the world, rivaling in popularity such titans as Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs. After Carter’s death, Stanley shifted the band’s musical emphasis from hard-driving bluegrass to an older, sadder, less-adorned mountain style. As a bandleader, he nourished such young and promising talents as Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley, Larry Sparks and Charlie Sizemore, all of whom eventually graduated to distinguished solo careers.

A cappella group Eclipse coming to Dayton, Idaho

HE WEST SIDE T Performing Arts Committee will present the band

Eclipse at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25, at the Dahle Performing Arts Center, 626 N. West Side Highway, Dayton, Idaho. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students and $30 per family, and available at Stokes Marketplace in Preston, the Preston High School office,

West Side High School office and West Side School District office.

Eclipse is a vocal group of six creating explosive sound, driving rhythms and lush harmonies using only one instrument: the human mouth.

The six members of Eclipse originally met while performing in a public relations/ambassador-oriented group that was part of the

department of programs and entertainment at Utah State University. They began by arranging their own vocal covers of popular songs and performing them on campus and in the Logan area After a busy year touring in the U.S., Eclipse is working on new Christmas arrangements and just returned from a tour in Hong Kong in March 2010.

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HE CAINE COLLEGE OF the Arts at Utah State University will host the world-renowned Utah Symphony Orchestra under the direction of newly appointed Music Director Maestro Thierry Fischer in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

30, in the Kent Concert Hall, Chase Fine Arts Center. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $8 for students with ID, and can be purchased at the CCA Box Office or online at www.arts.usu. edu. Tickets will also be available at the door the night of the performance.

Maestro Fischer was named the seventh music director in the 70-year history of the Utah Symphony in September 2009. He is also the principal conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and chief conductor of the Nagoya Philharmonic.

According to Craig Jessop, dean of USU’s Caine College of the Arts, the Kent Concert Hall performance is one of Maestro Fischer’s first times to conduct outside the Salt Lake area.

Jessop served as a search committee member for the Utah Symphony Orchestra’s music director, and said he was thrilled at Fischer’s appointment.

“In fact, all members of the search committee were enthusiastically unani-

mous in his selection and appointment to this prestigious position,” Jessop said.

Fischer succeeds Maestro Keith Lockhart, music director of the Utah Symphony for the past 10 years.

The Sept. 30 program in Logan will include works by Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Shubert and Bernstein. Ralph Matson, concert master for the Utah Symphony, will be a featured soloist.

The Utah Symphony, which performs at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City, and Utah Opera, which Matson performs at the Capitol Theatre, reaches 450,000 citizens in Utah and the Intermountain region with educational outreach programs serving more than 200,000 students annually. The two organizations perform year-round, with performances in their home venues and at the Deer Valley Music Festival, Ogden, Sundance and in communities throughout the Intermountain West. The organization employs 83 full-time musicians and 60 staff. More information is available at www.utah symphonyopera.org.

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All mixed up

With fall comes Fall Harvest Days

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HE AMERICAN West Heritage Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and celebrating our area’s heritage, announces the beginning of Fall Harvest Days. Until Oct. 30, the AWHC will host autumn activities for all ages and at familyfriendly prices. The AWHC will be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The center is at 4025 S. Highway 89-91 in Wellsville.

Up-to-date information can be found at www.awhc.org or by calling 245-6050.

Visitors can now try their luck at navigating through this year’s seven-acre corn maze, featuring a design of Old Ephraim, the legendary grizzly bear who measured almost 10 feet tall when he met his end in the 1920s. If the corn maze is not enough, guests can attempt to solve the all-new outdoor blackout maze and the kids’ straw bale maze. The AWHC crew is working hard to build not one, but two hay fort pirate ships, ready for epic battles on the high seas.

The popular hay jump will also be fluffed and ready for lightweight daredevils. This year’s jump includes a new super slide. If you’re in need of a break to warm your toes and

Photo by David Sidwell

AWHC volunteers press sorghum on the pioneer site. fingers, indoor restrooms are nearby. Concessions, wagon rides and some indoor activities are scheduled for selected nights. Starting Oct. 1, train and pony rides will be available at no extra charge.

The famous Haunted Hollow returns to the AWHC from 7 to 10:30 p.m. Oct. 8, 9, 15, 16, 22,

23 and 29. The spooks in the Hollow are kid-friendly from 7 to 7:30 p.m. This year’s theme is “Twisted Tales and Legends of the Old West.” Come take a harrowing walk through the history of the American West, brought to you by the creators of the 2009 “Grimm’s Trail of Terror.” Keep a watchful eye

for the claim jumpers and the outlaws! It’s recommended that Haunted Hollow visitors be at least 8 years old.

Admission to the corn maze and other mazes and activities is $6 for adults; $5 for ages 311, students with ID, military members and their immediate family and seniors. A combo

pass to the corn maze, Fall Harvest activities and the Haunted Hollow are available for $10 for adults and $9 for all others. A 10 percent discount is available for groups of 15 or more. Organized youth groups can attend for $3 per person on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Mondays are family days, with adult admission $5 and all others $4. As always, AWHC Gold Members get in free.

Don’t miss the Fall Harvest Festival on from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 15 and 16. Visit the corn maze, take a train or pony ride and help bring in the harvest on the farm. Living history interpreters will show you the way to celebrate the change in seasons the old-fashioned way.

Pay the regular corn maze price and enjoy the festival, too. Gold Members get in free.

Saturday, Oct. 23, will be the second annual Barnyard Boo, where trick-or-treaters ages 12 and younger can hunt for candy on the 1917 farm from 5 to 7 p.m. Cost is $2. On Friday, Oct. 29, the inaugural Costume Tea Party will take place. Starting at 4 p.m., guests of all ages dressed in their Halloween best can come to this tea party with a twist. Reservations are required. Cost is $3.50 per person; Gold Members get in for $2.50 per person.

Exhibit, panel discussion highlight Banned Books Week VERYONE AT USU, E as well as the community at large, can participate in the

American Library Association’s annual Banned Books Week, Sept. 25 through Oct. 2.

Highlights of the week include a Banned Books Week exhibition, “Lighting a Match: Destruction and Enlightenment Through Ages of Intolerance,” assembled by the library. The exhibit highlights the role librarians play as gatekeepers, defending free access to knowledge

and protecting First Amendment rights. The task is not always an easy one — censorship takes many different forms.

Also planned is a panel discussion featuring academic, public and children’s librarians, as well as representatives from the press and ACLU of Utah.

Panelists will discuss First Amendment rights, censorship, the Patriot Act and banned or challenged books and why free, open access to information is critical to a democracy.

The opening reception for “Lighting a Match” and the panel discussion will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, in Merrill-Cazier Library Room 101.

Admission is free and everyone is invited.

“Lighting a Match” examines key social, political, religious, artistic and moral factors that fuel censorship arguments.

“Lighting a Match” offers new ways of thinking about censorship, tolerance and information control, said Kathy

Schockmel, exhibit organizer.

It provokes dialogue about the place of censorship in a country founded on the Bill of Rights.

Additional activities include a continuous free showing of the film “Fahrenheit 451” from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, at Merrill-Cazier Library, Room 154. The 1966 film, directed by Francois Truffaut, is based on Ray Bradbury’s classic novel and presents a frightening vision of a future without literature.

The movie is open to the public.

Murder case leads to fringe religious group

By The Associated Press

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OHN SANDFORD’S fourth Virgil Flowers novel opens with three deaths: one clear-cut case of premeditated murder and two suspected murders done up to look like suicides.

Only one of them is an actual mystery, and even that gets solved fairly early on. It’s an intriguing start, and it works, because it turns out that all three are somehow related to a year-old unsolved murder case of a teenager who had, by the look of it, been sexually abused by more than one person in the time leading up to her death.

During his investigation, Flowers meets a number of people who belong to a church called the World of Spirit. On the surface, they resemble the Amish, save for their attachment to modern conveniences and their tenuous-at-best connection to anything actually written in the Bible. A better comparison might be to the Branch Davidians; something more than one character in “Bad Blood” also notes.

What’s more, Flowers can’t shake the feeling that the World of Spirit is some sort of front for a wide-scale childabuse ring.

Sandford leads readers a step or two ahead of Flowers, which casts a dark, uncomfortable shadow over everything, and yet there are enough moments of levity — Flowers is a fun character, smart and honest with a healthy supply of cynicism and snark, and he has great chemistry with the local sheriff — to keep “Bad Blood” from falling into abys-

* This week’s New York Times Best-seller List * HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Freedom” by Jonathan Franzen 2. “The Girl ... the Hornet’s Nest” by Stieg Larsson 3. “No Mercy” by Sherrilyn Kenyon 4. “Getting to Happy” by Terry McMillan 5. “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. “The Grand Design” by Stephen Hawking 2. “Crimes Against Liberty” by David Limbaugh 3. “A Journey” by Tony Blair 4. “Sh*t My Dad Says” by Justin Halpern 5. “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson PAPERBACK (MASS-MARKET) FICTION 1. “The Power” by Rhonda Byrne 2. “True Prep” by Lisa Birnbach 3. “Women Food and God” by Geneen Roth 4. “This Is Why You’re Fat ...” by Jackie Warner 5. “Gunn’s Golden Rules” by Tim Gunn

Keep your reading list updated at www.nytimes.com/pages/books/

CHILDREN’S BOOKS 1. “My Mommy Hung the Moon” by Jamie Lee Curtis 2. “It’s a Book” by Lane Smith 3. “The Odious Ogre” by Norton Juster 4. “Heads” by Matthew Van Fleet 5. “Lego Star Wars” by Simon Beecroft

mal despair.

There are a few things that might extend past the limits of plausibility for some, especially as the World of Spirit cult mixes and matches from a comprehensive menu of sexually depraved acts — though perhaps in this case it’s the soullessness that makes it entirely believable. More questionable are the occasional intuitive leaps that Flowers makes, and the risky scheme he concocts to ensnare the cult patriarch, which involves far too many variables. Other characters do call Flowers out on his elaborate chess game moves, but then the scheme works anyway.

These are, however, minor quibbles in what is a thoroughly engaging, suspenseful, satisfying story set amid a stark southern Minnesota late fall-early winter landscape; lovingly described scenery that still offers little relief from the inherently evil crimes committed, the gutting climactic showdown and the Biblical justice enacted in the end.

‘Laugh, Cry, Eat Some Pie’ is part self-help, part cookbook

By The Associated Press

EANNA DAVIS D mixes personal anecdotes, positive psychology and

pie recipes in her latest book, “Laugh, Cry, Eat Some Pie: A Down-to-Earth Recipe for Living Mindfully.”

It is part self-help and part cookbook. But like many recipes, the result is a matter of taste.

Davis is a speaker, entertainer and workshop leader. She is the author of other self-help books such as “The Law of Attraction in Action” and “Living With Intention.”

But her latest effort may be too sweet for some readers.

Life — like pie — is about combining ingredients that aren’t always pleasant on their own to create something to be

savored, Davis argues.

“There is no ‘perfect recipe’ for designing your ideal life, only your preferred recipe for ‘living it,’” she writes.

In each chapter, Davis weaves a mix of personal anecdotes and self-help tips with a heavy

emphasis on positive psychology. She suggests using the benefits of laughter, friendship and mindfulness to get through life’s rough patches.

Each subject has a themed recipe such as “Chocolate Meltdown Pie” and a heavy helping of food puns including a “slice of insight” and “bite by bite” tips for overcoming some of life’s basic mental obstacles.

While Davis is familiar with life’s challenges, such as illness, parenthood and death, she relies more heavily on lighthearted stories about speeding tickets, flipflops and suburban challenges.

The stories are charming and the humor is pleasant, but may be too cloying in these tough times for many readers.

——— Online: http://deannadavis.net/

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Books

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Answers from last week

Calendar Friday Saddle Serenade (Chris Mortensen and Mary Jo Hansen) will play live music from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Cracker Barrel in Paradise. Everyone is invited.

“Scarlet Pimpernel” opens Friday at the Terrace Plaza Playhouse in Ogden and will play at 7:30 p.m. every Friday, Saturday and Monday through Nov. 13.

Tickets are $10 and $12 for adults and $7 and $9 for children. For more information, visit www.terraceplayhouse.com.

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Stokes Nature Center will hold a kickoff event for Saturday’s Second Dam Design Charette from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday at the Logan Golf & Country Club, 710 N. 1500 East, Logan. An all-day intensive design session will be held

Saturday in the Cache County Administration Building’s Multipurpose Room, 179 N. Main St. For more information, contact Annalisa Paul at 755-3239.

Easy-listening combo J&L Jazz will perform live music from 6 to 8 p.m.

Friday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza. Everyone is invited.

A peace vigil dedicated to the celebration of an International Culture of Peace will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday in honor of the International Day of Peace at 50 N. Main St., Logan.

Everyone is invited to contribute. Logan Councilman Herm Olsen will read the city’s Peace Proclamation during the vigil.

For more information, call 755-5137.

USU’s Science Unwrapped asks “Have We Created a Monster? The Internet’s ‘Good, Bad and Ugly’” at 7 p.m.

Friday in the Eccles Science Learning Center auditorium on campus. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

The Nibley Elementary School PTA will host an Old-Fashioned Carnival fundraiser from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Friday at the school, 2545 S. 660 West, Nibley. There will be pizza, concessions, games, prizes, a silent auction and more. Everyone is invited.

The Bear River Valley Mid-Singles Retreat will be held Friday and Saturday at Cub River Guest Ranch. There will be food, entertainment and fun. Check-in starts at 5 p.m. For information, call 801564-9674 or 435-279-4740.

An Improv Comedy Night featuring Out of the Blue Entertainment will be held from 8 to 10 p.m. Friday in the

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Scott Bradley will discuss “Preserving Our -Constitution” at 3:30 p.m. Friday at Pioneer Valley Lodge, 2351 N. 400 East, North Logan.

Admission is free and everyone is invited.

OPTIONS for Independence will lead a Fall Leaves Trip at 11 a.m. Friday. To sign up, schedule transportation for $5 or for more information, contact Mandie at 753-5353 ext. 108.

Saturday KSM Music will host a free concert featuring Doctor Mongo and Harry Harpoon at 7 p.m. Saturday at 50 W. 400 North in Logan.

Both the artists have competed as semi-finalists in the Memphis Blues challenge.

Disney’s “Monsters, Inc.” will play at 8 p.m. Saturday in Elk Ridge Park’s soccer field, 2500 N. 1060 East, North Logan. Bring blankets, lawn chairs and a flashlight. Admission is free. For more information, call 752-6564.

Hispanic members of the LDS Church will host a day of Culture and Brotherhood from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday on the grounds of the LDS tabernacle. This celebration will conclude with a fireside with Elder Rodolfo Franco of the Seventy at 3 p.m. at the tabernacle. In conjunction, the photographic work “Reflections of Christ” will be on display from noon to 9 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the old roller rink. Admission to all events is free and everyone is invited.

The family of Chaz Hansen will hold a car wash fundraising event from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday at Lee’s Marketplace, 850 S. Main, Smithfield. Chaz, 14, has non-Hodgkin lymphoma and will be spending months at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City.

Donations can also be sent to PO BOX 7, Hyde Park, UT, or at any Zions Bank.

The Western singing duo Tumbleweeds will perform from 6 p.m. to closing Saturday at LD’s Cafe in Richmond. Everyone is invited.

Singer-songwriter Katie Jo will perform live at 6 p.m. and Coleen Darley will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza. Everyone is invited.

A Hotter Than Haiti Benefit Concert featuring the music of Till We Have Faces will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at 280 S. Center St. in Hyrum. All proceeds will benefit Ruuska Village, which provides shelter, food and education to orphaned children and endangered women in Haiti. Cost is $5 per person, $3 with student ID, or $20 per family. For more information, visit www.hotterthan haiti.blogspot.com.

USU’s Museum of Anthropology invites guests at its next “Saturdays at the Museum” activity to learn about the Polynesian islands.

Throughout the day the museum will have displays highlighting various Polynesian islands.

Members of the Polynesian Student Union will be talking to visitors from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For more information, call 797-7545 or visit anthromuseum.usu.edu.

Community Food Bank. For a registration form, visit sociology.usu.edu/gradfundraiser.aspx.

Auditions for “Scrooge — A Christmas Carol” will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at Terrace Plaza Playhouse in Ogden.

The roles of Scrooge, Christmas Past and Christmas Present have been cast; all other roles are open. Come prepared with 16 bars dance/Broadway-style music. CD player will be available. For more information, visit www. terraceplayhouse.com.

The Cache Hikers will participate in the Audubon’s annual trip to watch the fall raptor migration from the top of the Wellsville Mountains on Saturday, Sept. 25. This is a moderately strenuous hike. Bring water, lunch and appropriate clothing. Meet at 9 a.m. in the parking lot on Federal Avenue (across from Caffe Ibis). For more information, contact Reinhard at 753-3154.

A “Keep on Truckin’” Big Truck Rally will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at Adams School, 600 N. 400 East, Logan. Check out trucks up close and play games. Food will be available for purchase. Admission is $2.

The Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday at Merlin Olsen Park. Come enjoy locally grown produce, handmade crafts, artisan foods, live music and more. For more information, visit www.gardenersmarket.org or call 755-3950.

The Bear River Valley Museum will host a fundraising barn dance featuring The Westernaires at 7 p.m. Saturday at Holmgren Historical Farm and Gardens, 460 N. 300 East, Tremonton. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

There will be a silent auction, and winners of the Bell and Quilt Raffle will be announcement. Light refreshments will be served.

Sunday

A peace ceremony, potluck dinner and screening of the film “A Force More Powerful” will be held Saturday at the Cache Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 596 E. 900 North, Logan. Ceremony starts at 5:30 p.m.; move starts at 7. For more information, e-mail into@loganpeace.org or call 755-5137.

Patricia Stevenson, author of the mystery novel “The Dilapidated Man”; Carolyn Campbell, stringer for People magazine and author of 800 magazine articles; and N. Kay Stevenson, book cover and graphic designer, will address “Anyone Can Write and Sell a Novel” at 10 a.m. Saturday at The Book Table.

Everyone is invited. For more information, call 801-943-6571 or e-mail carolync@sisna.com.

Linda Wentz will play the piano at 3 p.m.

Saturday at Pioneer Valley Lodge. Everyone is invited. For more information, call 792-0353.

Sunday services have started at the Faith and Fellowship Center, 1315 E. 700 North, Logan, at 4 p.m. Everyone is invited for spiritual enlightenment, support and sharing. This Sunday the topic explores spiritual worship, what that means and the many ways of doing it.

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

Monday Join OPTIONS for Independence for Movie Night at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Cinefour. Cost of the movie is $3. This activity is part of the Community Integration Program, which encourages people with disabilities to take part in the variety of recreational and leisure activities available within the community. To sign up, schedule transportation or for more information, contact Mandie at 753-5353 ext. 108.

Tuesday

A Hotter Than Haiti Fun Run will start at 9 a.m. Saturday at Wellsville Square on Main Street. There will be a 5K run and one-mile walk. Registration starts at 8 a.m. Cost is $12 for adults and $8 for children 10 and younger.

Cost includes water bottle and raffle ticket. All proceeds will go to help rebuild an orphanage and provide food, clothes and education to children in Haiti. For more information or to RSVP, e-mail hotterthanhaiti@gmail.com.

Candi and the Food $ense girls will share some breakfast information and recipes from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. There is no charge. Seating is limited; call 753-3301.

The Cache County Red Cross will host a Pet First Aid Class from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday in the office classroom at 130 S. Main St., Ste. 120, Logan. Cost is $35. For more information, call 752-1125.

Wednesday

The inaugural Run from Poverty 5k Fun Run will be held at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at Mack Park in Smithfield. Proceeds will go to The Sparrow Alliance, a local organization fighting homelessness in Utah. Cost is $15 before Sept. 15 and $20 after. Registration fee includes a free T-shirt. Participants are encouraged to bring non-perishable foods with them the day of the race for donation to the Cache

Marc M. Cogman (acoustic/rock) will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whysound.

Scott Bradley will lead a “To Preserve the Nation” Constitution class at 7 p.m. Wednesday at The Book Table. There is no charge. For more information, call 753-2930 or 753-8844.

Trina Thomas will share some of her family’s favorite comfort foods from 7 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Seating is limited; call 753-3301.

A Procurement Workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the Cache Busi-

ness Resource Center, 1410 N. 1000 West, Logan, at the Bridgerland Applied Technology College West Campus, Room 1901. There is no fee. Representatives from State of Utah PTAC will be presenting. RSVP to Cindy at 213-8713 or croberts@cachebrc.com.

Thursday Acclaimed Utah memoirist and activist Amy Irvine will read at noon Thursday at USU’s Haight Alumni Center. Irvine is the author of the redrock memoir “Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land.” Admission is free and everyone is invited. For more information, call 797-2734 or e-mail chris.cokinos@usu.edu.

The Knotty Knitters meet from 6:15 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday at the Senior Citizen Center in Logan. Everyone is invited to work on their crochet, knitting, needlework, cross-stitch projects and more. For more information, contact Cathy at 752-3923.

Next weekend Stokes Nature Center invites adults to a two-day fall photography course, led by local photographer Jim Parrish, from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 1 and 8 a.m. to noon Oct. 2. Course will include outdoor photography basics in an evening classroom setting, followed by a morning shoot on the River Trail and winding up with a group critique session. Film and digital shooters are welcome. Registration required; call 755-3239 or visit www.logannature.org.

The Cache Valley Folk Dancers and Bridger Folk Music Society will host their monthly “first Saturday” contra dance at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 2 at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East, Logan. Live music will be provided by local contra music band The Crickets, with talented calling by Salt Lake caller Mike Cottle.

A $5 donation is suggested at the door. Beginners and families are welcome; all dances are taught. For more information, call 753-2480.

The Cache Valley Mushers Corp. and Arctic Breed Rescue will host a pull clinic to help you teach your dog to pull in a harness from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, at the American West Heritage Center. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. For waiver form, visit http://k9challenge. squarespace.com. For more information, e-mail petsitteramy@aol.com or call 563-0645.

The education center at Logan Regional Hospital will host its last Capable Kids class of the year Saturday in Classroom 1. This class helps prepare children ages 7-13 for self-care when they are home alone. Topics include what to do in an emergency situation; simple first aid techniques; stranger danger; and Internet safety. Cost is $13; call 716-5310 to register.

The Cache Hikers will hike to Ephraim’s Grave via the Ephraim Cutoff on Saturday, Oct. 2. This is a moderately long loop hike starting up Right Hand Fork, going over to Ephraim’s Grave and returning down Steel Hollow, about 12 miles with a 2,500-foot elevation gain. Meet at 8 a.m. in the southwest corner of the Smith’s Marketplace parking lot at 700 N. Main. For more information, contact Jim at 760-5049.

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TSC auditorium at USU. Cost is $5 ($3 with any student ID). Everyone is invited. There will be a drawing for prizes. Proceeds will benefit Cache Foster Care Resource Center.

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HJ Dining Guide full color