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What’s inside this week Aaron reviews ‘Christmas Carol,’ ‘Fourth Kind’

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A portion of the mural that is being painted by Logan artist Doc Christensen. Alzheimer’s disease may distort cognition, but thanks to some creative volunteers, Sunshine Terrace residents suffering from dementia can still take a stroll down Memory Lane. A series of thought-stimulating projects, including Christensen’s 35-foot mural, are designed to help those frustrated by memory loss find comfort in their past. Read more about the mural and the nursing facility’s other projects on Page 8. Cover design by Eli Lucero/Herald Journal

From the editor

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HIS WEEK I THOUGHT I would use this space to shamelessly promote (again!) a charity project I’m doing called “Cuddles from the Heart” — and I need your help!

I am collecting blankets for kids at Primary Children’s Medical Center and for kids and adult patients at Logan Regional Hospital. I decided to start this project in Utah after hearing about Stefenie Jacks, a mom in Iowa whose son Logan was born with congenital heart defects.

“Cuddles from the Heart is a project I started in 2008 to provide comforting items to children staying at the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital,” Stefenie wrote on her Care Page, www.carepages.com/carepages/loganbear. “Having spent a lot of time there myself with my son ... I know first hand what it means to these kids to feel like they are home and not in a hospital. I have been on the receiving end of many gen-

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erous donations during our stays that included blankets, toys and books. I have to be honest and let you know just how good it makes you feel to have such caring people take a moment of their own time to think of you. It can allow those having a very dark day see some rays of sunshine through the clouds.”

That year, Stefenie donated an amazing 350 blankets to kids stuck in the hospital. My goal is to beat that!

Here is some of the basic information: • Blankets can be handmade or store-bought.

• Donations must be turned in by Dec. 1.

• You can drop them off at the Herald Journal offices, either directly to me or there is a box in the front lobby.

• If you would like to make a donation or would like to be a part of this project, you can contact me at jbaer@hjnews.com or 792-7229.

• If you would like an official flyer to pass out or to keep for yourself, contact me.

Thank you in advance, and have a great weekend, everyone!

— Jamie Baer Nielson Cache Magazine editor

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Bulletin Board...........p.11 Regional Reads.........p.12

Grammy nominee Rosalie Sorrels is coming to town

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by You’ feature!

pet photo of the week

This dog is available for adoption!

Pet: Beauty From: Cache Humane Society Why she’s so lovable: “Beauty is my name and I’m a perfect family doggie. I love to play with tennis balls, tug toys, even sticks. I’m 10 months old and very playful and loving. I need to learn not to jump up, but I’m so excited to greet people, I forget. Pet me and love me, I can’t get enough! I’m a quick learner. Just watch me run and play; I’m sorta goofy. I have a spotted tongue which makes me very unique!”

Beauty is a labrador retriever mix; to meet her or other animals who need loving homes, visit the Cache Humane Society shelter at 2370 W. 200 North in Logan. Beauty’s ID number is 20096951. For more information, call 792-3920.

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.

Cache Theatre kicks off holiday season with ‘Modern Millie’

AWHC looking for sock artists HE HOLIDAYS T are approaching and to help celebrate,

the American West Heritage Center is getting ready for its fourth annual March of the Stocks Christmas Stocking Exhibit, an auction and exhibit featuring stockings creatively crafted by artists, many of whom are nationally renowned.

Once the stockings are completed, painted or decorated, they are auctioned off in a silent bidding process. Benefits from the event will

be used to assist the Heritage center with its “Artists & Exhibits” program and to help maintain its historic quilt collection.

The exhibit is open to participation by any interested artist, who can create their own stockings from scratch, or they can request a blank canvas stocking with which to do their magic by contacting David Sidwell at dsidwell@

awhc.org or 764-2006.

Stockings have been made from welded steel, intricately carved walnut wood, bamboo, denim, leather and stained glass, in addition to the more traditional quilted stockings and other materials.

This will be a juried event, with a $100 prize for the winner. There is no entrance fee, but deadline for finished stockings is Nov. 30.

SNC to auction nationally renowned artist’s work TOKES NATURE S Center’s annual fundraiser on Nov. 7 will feature an original illus-

tration from an award-winning book, “The Illuminated Desert,” by two Utah daughters: celebrated writer Terry Tempest Williams and artist Chloe Hedden.

The book’s annotated index lists and describes the ancient people, flora and fauna so beautifully illuminated in the main part of the book.

Hedden was born and raised in Utah.

Although she now Hedden lives in San Francisco, she maintains strong roots in her native red desert lands. She recently donated an original painting from “The Illuminated Desert” to support Stokes Nature Center programs. The painting, which sells for more than $3,000 in a gallery,

will be in a live auction paired with a copy of the book signed by Terry Tempest Williams.

For more information, contact Annalisa at 755-3239. Tickets for the fundraiser are available at Fuhriman’s Framing & Fine Art (75 S. Main), the College of Natural Resources dean’s office at USU or by calling 755-3239.

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HE CACHE Regional Theatre Company will kick off its 2009 holiday season with the Tony-Award winning musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie” at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5, 6, 7 and 9 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main, Logan. A matinee will show at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 7. Tickets, $17, $14 and $12 can be purchased at www.Ellen EcclesTheatre.org or by calling 752-0026.

Small-town girl Millie Dillmount has big-time ambitions when she arrives in New York City, not the least of which is to find, and of course marry, the perfect boss. Along the way she dodges obstacles from the disapproval of socialites to the distractions of true love to the schemes of her evil landlady — who is selling her tenants into slavery. Set in the 1920s and based on the 1967 film, “Thoroughly Modern Millie” took Broadway by storm in 2002, winning six Tony Awards (including Best Musical).

Fans of the film should not expect a slavishly faithful representation of the movie. The musical celebrates its theatricality with a few new plot twists, brand new songs by Jeanine Tesori and Dick Scanlan, and some uniquely stage-friendly conventions such as stenographers who demonstrate their typing skills by — of course — tap dancing.

Pulling on talent as far

Megan Bagley as Millie Dilmount south as Salt Lake City and up into Idaho, the 45-member cast is small by Cache Regional Theatre Company’s standards, which is a bit of a relief for assistant director and costumer Kody Rash, who is charged with the responsibility of creating more than 100 costumes for the show.

The Cache Regional Theatre Company has offered annual productions in Cache Valley for many years, back to the late

1980s if you count from the days of its predecessor organizations, the Eugene Tueller Community Theatre and the Capitol Arts Alliance Theatre Society.

Entirely volunteer run, this community theater organization relies heavily on the support of a host of specialists and amateurs ranging from sewers, builders, administrators and technicians to actors, directors, designers and choreographers.

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Rhythms

Claremont Trio up next for CMSL season

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Award and the only piano trio HERE WILL BE ever to win the Young Concert something for lovers of Artists International Auditions. all genres of classical The Claremont Trio will be music at the Claremont Trio collaborating with Jonathan concert with guest clarinetCohler for their Logan perforist Jonathan Cohler. The Nov. mance. Cohler is recognized 17 concert will be the second around the world as “an absoconcert in the Chamber Music lute master of the clarinet” Society of Logan’s’ 2009-10

by Clarinet concert Magazine. series.

Listener The preMagazine Thanksgivdescribes ing concert him as “poswill offer a sessing such fine feast of ★ Who: The Claremont Trio & Jonathan Cohler musical woodwind, ★ When: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17 integrity and string and ★ Where: Manon Caine Russell- taste that piano reperKathryn Caine Wanlass everything toire.

Performance Hall at USU he touches The Cla★ Tickets: $24 single, seems like remont Trio $10 student with ID; available the last consists of at the concert door, CSA Box word.” In twin sisters Office, Chase Fine Arts Center addition to Emily and or at csaboxoffice.usu.edu his work Julia Bruskin ★ More information: Visit www. as a soloon violin cmslogan.org or call 752-5867 ist, Cohler and cello is an active and Donna chamber musician, chamber Kwong on piano. The trio music coach, adjudicator, formed 10 years ago at the Julconductor and pedagogue. He liard School of Music in New collaborates with such notable York City. In their decade of artists as the Emerson Quartet, music-making they have perthe Lark Quartet, the Moscow formed in all the major music Conservatory Trio and the halls around the world, have Amadeus Trio. been featured on Japanese and The Claremont Trio and American television and on Cohler will be performing classical music stations worldLudwig Beethoven’s “Clariwide. In 1992 they were the first winners of the Kalichstein- net Trio in B-flat Major Op. 11.” The group recorded their Laredo-Robinson International

“Just plain fun to watch”

performance on a May 2009 CD from Ongaku Records.

BBC Magazine gave the CD a top rating of five stars and awarded the piece its Choice Distinction Award. Beethoven scored the clarinet trio for clarinet, piano and cello in 1797.

Woodwind instruments were often included in Beethoven’s early chamber music because of their popularity and novelty

at the time.

The second musical selection will be Felix Mendelssohn’s “Piano Trio in D minor Op. 49.” WritCohler ten in 1839 for piano, violin and cello, it is one of Mendelssohn’s most popular chamber works. The piano part

is widely considered one of the most difficult chamber music parts ever written for the piano, both technically difficult and also challenging to synchronize with string instruments.

The last musical selection will be “Quartet for the End of Time” by Oliver Messiaen, who began writing the piece in 1940. The piece was first performed in 1941.

Grammy nominee Rosalie Sorrels coming to town OIN BRIDGER FOLK J Music Society as it celebrates its 30th anniversary

year with folksinger icon and 2009 Grammy Award nominee Rosalie Sorrels at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 19, at Utah State University’s Ellen Eccles Conference Center. Opening for Sorrels will be the Utah Phillips tribute band, Bums on the Plush.

Tickets are $15 in advance and for students or $18 at the

door. They are now available at KSM Music (50 W. 400 North), Sunrise Cyclery (138 N. 100 East) and at the Spectrum Ticket Office on campus. For more information, contact Lisa at 7575420 or queenrags@gmail.com.

Sorrels’ singing voice has been described by one critic as one of the most wonderful voices in American music, an instrument as mellow and finely aged as an antique viola. Gamble

Rodgers referred to her as the hillbilly version of Edith Piaf.

She has recorded 25 albums and collaborated on many others.

Sorrels was born in Idaho 75 years ago and lives there now in a log cabin her father built 30 miles outside of Boise. She has traveled this country, usually driving herself, for 50 years.

In February 2009, Sorrels was nominated for a Grammy for her tribute album to legendary

folksinger/storyteller Utah Phillips, who died in 2008. Bums on the Plush, with Duncan Phillips (Utah’s son), GiGi Love and Mark Ross, will open for Sorrels with a few of Utah’s stories and songs. The band is named for a poem Utah used to recite.

For more information about Sorrels, visit www.rosaliesor rels.com. A Web site devoted to Utah Phillips can be found at www.utahphillips.org.

Anthropology museum to host noted UofU scholar, anthropologist HE UTAH STATE T University Museum of Anthropology “Satur-

days at the Museum” series will host noted scholar Dennis O’Rourke, professor of anthropology at the University of Utah.

He will speak at O’Rourke 11:30 a.m.

Friday, Nov. 6, in the Engineering Building at USU, Room 101; and at 1 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Museum of Anthropology, Old Main, Room 252.

During both lecture sessions, O’Rourke will discuss his work with ancient and modern DNA in Alaska, focusing on how the use of ancient and modern

genetic data can identify signatures in population migration, colonization and expansion in the North American High Arctic.

“Professor O’Rourke is doing amazing things in his field and we’re so excited that he is coming to share his research with us,” said USU student and program planner Deborah Neville. “This is a great opportunity for us to hear a little more about the innovative work being done in anthropology.”

USU students and members of the public are invited to attend these lectures and visit the museum any time during its 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday hours.

For information on USU’s Museum of Anthropology, visit www.usu. edu/anthro/museum or call 797-7545.

Dr. Rulon Christiansen set to play organ concert R. RULON D Christiansen will play an organ concert at 7 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 6, at the Logan LDS Tabernacle, 50 N. Main.

Christiansen will perform classical organ works from Bach, Vierne and others as well as his own recently premiered composition, “Lyric Symphony.” A workshop for organists of varying ability will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Piano Gallery, 1940 N. Main, North Logan.

Christiansen was born and raised in Utah and first studied piano with his parents, both professional musicians. He attended Brigham Young University where he earned bach-

elor’s and master’s degrees in organ; he later earned the doctor of musical arts degree and performer’s certificate in organ at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. His newest composition, “Lyric Symphony,” was recently premiered

by Dr. James Christiansen Welch on the Temple Square Concert Series in the Mormon Tabernacle.

Christiansen is married and has two daughters and two grandchildren.

Indie quartet ready to rock!

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IANO-HEAVY indie rock quartet We Shot the Moon will present a CD release show to promote their new album, “A Silver Lining,” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, at the Lundstrom Center at Utah State University, 1295 E. 1000 North, Logan. Tickets are $8 and available at www. myspace.com/weshotthemoon.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

While it’s common practice in rock bios to liken an act to something familiar, it’s hard to do that with San Diego’s We Shot the Moon. Led by former Waking Ashland frontman Jonathan Jones, We Shot the Moon is a piano-heavy indie rock four-piece. On Sept. 29 the band released its sophomore LP, “A Silver Lining,” a follow-up to 2008’s “Fear and Love” on the Minneapolis-based label Afternoon Records.

According to Jones, the band specializes in “quirky rock” that’s layered, thick and replete with ambient noise, and it’s for

that reason “we fall through the cracks, which I think, ultimately, is a good thing. We don’t fit in to the super-indie hipster crowd.

We’re not gimmicky — we’re real, we hit wrong notes live and that’s OK.” Born not long after the death of Jones’ previous band, Waking Ashland, which dissolved amid internal strife and struggle, We Shot the Moon ended what was four months of musical limbo for Jones.

Last year, We Shot the Moon played more than 300 live dates, and Jones says they’ll play 365 this year if they must because “A Silver Lining” is an album they’re just itching to rip through on stage.

“A Silver Lining” contains 11 tracks, including the radioready opener “Miracle,” “In Good Time” and “Amy,” a song inspired by a woman Jones met last year on tour.

Most songs carry a positive message. “The Brightside,” for instance, imparts the message

that “you shouldn’t give up on your life and that you need to keep a positive perspective, because sooner or later, things will work themselves out.” The song features orchestral sounds, compliments of producer Mike Green (Paramore, The Matches), who Jones says “pushed our sound to a new level.”

The album’s first single, “Red Night,” is something of a departure for the band, as it’s admittedly the edgiest song on the record. “The guitars get right down to business,” Jones says.

“It’s very overdriven, and that’s new for us. It’s a complete rock song, with more guitar riffs. In the past, the riff stuff was done more on piano, so it’s us branching out and going in a slightly different direction. I think it may hint at the future sound of this band … depending on what the response is.”

The band includes Jones on vocals and piano; Trevor Faris on drums; Adam Lovell on bass; and Jason De La Torre on guitar.

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Film New this week “The Box” Rated PG-13 ★ Cameron Diaz and James Marsden have a moral dilemma: Press a button on a mysterious container and they’ll get $1 million, but someone they don’t know will die. What button, on whose box, did writer-director Richard Kelly push to get the money to make this awful, preposterous thriller? Diaz and Marsden play a couple offered the box, button and deal described above by a grotesquely disfigured stranger (Frank Langella). Adapting this mess from a Richard Matheson story that was the basis of a 1980s “Twilight Zone” episode, Kelly roams ponderously beyond that tale’s snappy ending, into an installment of “The X-Files” in its post-Mulder death throes,

when the show turned to rot.

Kelly piles on government conspiracies, abductions, mobs of automatons controlled by forces beyond human comprehension.

The hammy dialogue and hammier performances eventually start to provoke laughs as the movie shambles toward its overdue demise. PG-13 for thematic elements, some violence and disturbing images. 115 min.

“The Men Who Stare at Goats” Rated R ★★1⁄2 A fun tone is undermined by disjointed storytelling in George Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov’s romp based on Jon Ronson’s amusing nonfiction book about the U.S. military’s research into psychic warfare and espionage.

First-time director Heslov crafts a hit-and-miss fictional narra-

tive ornamented with some of the brighter anecdotes Ronson uncovered about efforts to create warrior monks who try to walk through walls or glare animals to death. Clooney plays a prodigy of this New Age militarism, with Jeff Bridges as his Dude-like mentor, Kevin Spacey as a psychic rival and Ewan McGregor as a reporter uncovering the story amid the war in Iraq. The movie opens with the promise of a Catch22 or Strangelove-style satire, but while it maintains much of the book’s drolly incredulous spirit, the dots of absurdity just don’t connect that well. With “Star Wars” vet McGregor on hand, the repeated Jedi knight references are jarring. R for language, some drug content and brief nudity. 93 min.

Still playing “Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant” Rated PG-13 ★1⁄2 It’s getting downright batty trying to keep all these vampires straight. The latest entry to the overcrowded trend is “Cirque du Freak,” adapted from a 12book series, and with quixotic dreams of a movie franchise of its own. The film characterizes itself from other vampire fare in its outlandishness. Here, vampires are no longer enough; we now get a freak show complete with a bearded Salma Hayek, a super-tall Ken Watanabe and a vampire John C. Reilly. Two high school kids (Chris Massoglia, Josh Hutcherson) stumble upon the group. With remarkably little thought, they cast their

lot as vampires, each taking different sides in the war between vampires (who merely sedate their prey) and vampaneze (who kill). Reilly (a fine actor out of place here) takes being a vampire seriously, but his best bits are his amusing scoffing at conventional vampire traits. He pronounces, “Vampires don’t need cell phones!” Director Paul Weitz should have known that’s what this should have been: an out-an-out comedy. Instead, “Cirque du Freak” might be the single most overstuffed film of the year. PG-13 for sequences of intense supernatural violence and action, disturbing images, thematic elements and some language. 108 min.

— All reviews by The Associated Press

“A Christmas Carol”

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by Robert Zemeckis (“The Polar Express”), Disney’s “A Christmas Carol” is the ugliest interpretation of the classic story ever to be put into film. Zemeckis, in love with the same motion-capture technology he used on “Polar Express,” employs each and every technical tactic here. (Motion capture works by impersonating actual facial and body movements of live actors then rendering them into a CGI-animated world.) This type of filmmaking creates lifeless characters with dead, soulless eyes, which in turn forms a soulless and ugly Christmas film.

We all know the story of Ebeneezer Scrooge and his miserly ways and how three ghosts visit him during Christmas Eve to show him what he was like, what he is like and what will happen to him if he doesn’t change. There have been countless reincarnations of the story in the form of film, with each one adding a little bit of its own flair to the original story.

This newest adaptation, however, sticks rigidly to the old English dialogue from the book. This is commendable in a way, but it creates a film without a single phrase a child would understand. (Speaking of children, they shouldn’t be anywhere near this film. It’s filled with so many scary, disturbing images that I watched children in front of me cower in their mother’s arms during a frightening part where Jacob Marley seems to be doing an impersonation of the Crypt Keeper from “Tales from the Crypt.”)

Jim Carrey is the voice of Scrooge and you can tell right away that it’s him. Scrooge’s face is almost too real; it’s disgusting to look at and I guess that’s the point, but on some level everyone in this film is loathsome to the eye. There are points where you think maybe Carrey is trying to infuse a little humor into this otherwise dour movie experience, but because of the crass animation and the

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“A Christmas Carol” “The Fourth Kind” Rated PG

overall creepy feeling, it’s hard to know when to laugh.

Zemeckis also sees fit to bypass most of the story’s spirit and go straight for the jugular with action scene after action scene. Scrooge soars through the air on numerous occasions, flailing his arms about while he swoops over cottages and buildings. This all serves as a good workout for the 3D, but that’s just the problem — it seems like everything in the film was made with the 3D in mind.

Instead of adding an interesting depth to the film, the 3D aspect reeks of gimmick. Objects are made to purposefully fly at the audience, showing us all how cool we should think 3D is.

In every sense of the word, this movie is a failure. It fails to capture the Christmas spirit of the original tale and it fails to create a world of characters we care about. If you watch a version of “A Christmas Carol” and you don’t care in the slightest for Tiny Tim, then you know there’s something wrong. This is a sad attempt to recreate a classic using modern technology that is useless in telling a story. If the characters appear lifeless, then by default the story is too. When you take a much-beloved story and add

in generic action sequences to show off your new technology, then you have failed to understand what makes this story so special.

The spirit of Christmas we feel when we read “A Christmas Carol” is the true meaning of the story. Zemeckis has taken that story and used it as a backdrop to showcase his beloved stop-motion animation that not only doesn’t add anything to the movie itself, but manages to suck the life out of one of the warmest and most thoughtful Christmas stories ever written.

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HE FOURTH Kind” begins with the age-old mantra that everything we are about to see is “based on a true story.”

Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard it all before. Somehow this “true story” thing is supposed to make the cinematic experience more intimate and more believable. Truth is stranger than fiction, right?

The star of the film, Mila Jovovich, appears on screen at the beginning, introducing herself. She says she’s going to play the role of a doctor named Abbey, who is treating patients for sleep disorders in the remote city of Nome, Alaska. We are informed that what we are about to see is a dramatization, but actual archived footage of the original psychiatric sessions will be shown. The real Dr. Abbey is interspersed throughout the film as she’s interviewed by the film’s director, Olatunde Osunsanmi. Abbey is gaunt looking — her eyes are sunk deep into her head and dark circles have formed around them.

She looks like a ghost.

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Take a trip down

Memory Lane

Doc Christensen talks about a mural he is painting at Sunshine Terrace.

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lzheimer’s disease tion, but at one Lo residents suffering still take a walk do The new nickname for dementia ward — before Wing 1 — is in keeping w behind a largely volunteer a less institutionalized and lating environment for tho “People can die of a lo Steve Tracy, interim CEO Terrace Foundation, “but to die of boredom.”

To that end, Tracy has o of volunteer projects, inclu train that will encircle the will compliment Sunshine tion and sewing station — residents find peace in dec But the main attraction Lane will be a 35-foot-lo artist Doc Christensen.

Started in September, 65 stars from Hollywood tensen said.

There’ll be Jack Benny son, Mickey Rooney and So far, Christensen has c Temple, Elizabeth Taylo to name a few.

Each visage beckons from a time long past — though often much closer to Alzheimer’s patients than the present.

Because the most recent memories go first, a pati dementia can still find m or songs from his or her said.

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Doc Christensen paints his mural at Sunshine Terrace.

LDS artist is known mostly for his religious pieces. He’s only recently developed a fondness for murals, he said, adding, “the last mural I did was the first mural I did, and it was in high school.”

Though new to mural design, Christensen has done his homework. In at least one instance, the Hollywood mural will be tailored to a specific patient: one resident, Christensen said, has an old photo of himself with Roy Rogers, who is included in the design.

“I imagine something like that would be stimulating to someone like him,” Christensen said.

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To begin, Christensen outlines his subjects on a canvas prepared for oil paints that’s been stretched over a special drywall base.

He paints the darkest areas first — typically eyes, eyebrows and lashes — and works toward the lightest.

“And then it’s just a matter of putting the colors in the right place,” he said.

Color is crucial, Tracy explained, because people suffering from Alzheimer’s often lose the ability to see white. (This phenomenon is observable in residents who use a corner, and not a toilet, to relieve themselves, Tracy said; colored toilet seats alleviate the problem.)

Christensen rarely leaves true white space

in his paintings, though he noted that’s more a stylistic choice than an attempt to appeal to the senses of Sunshine Terrace residents.

“I try to put every color in the rainbow in every spot,” he said. A collective value may at first appear white, but upon closer inspection, even the lightest backgrounds are infused with chromatic tones.

“It just causes it to kind of vibrate,” he says. “That’s just one of the ways I paint.

Just at a glance, it looks white, but that color keeps your eye interested.”

While mural painting doesn’t necessarily present any new technical challenges, Christensen said the sheer enormity of the Sunshine Terrace project is daunting. He’ll likely finish

by January or February, whereas typical portraits may take only a week or two.

On the other hand, a mural can help tell a story through multiple images “rather than trying to stop a moment in time.”

“It’s kind of more like a montage, like a movie poster-type thing,” he said.

Though there’s little rhyme or reason to the mural’s layout, Christensen said he’s tried to evenly distribute color, black and white, and sepia tones throughout, and an intertwining reel of film serves to tie the whole work together.

Tracy said he thinks the mural, as well as Memory Lane in general, will be unique to Utah nursing facilities.

“We’re really working off of sight, sound, smell,” Tracy said. “Any of the senses will stimulate the mind, and depending on how far advanced individuals are in Alzheimer’s, it’s going to be the little things that we’re achieving.”

A blueprint of the mural, as well as other works by Christensen, can be viewed on his Web site, www.docbox.org.

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Georgia jazz band stopping by Why Sound

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Maggie and Jackson Evans

AZZ BAND Silver Lining (Jackson and Maggie Evans) will perform with Eric Nelson (on clarinet and saxophone) at 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 23, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www. myspace.com/whysound.

On stage and in the classroom, Jackson Evans has become one of the most requested guitarists of the low country.

A Logan native, Jackson’s performance resumé includes a variety of experiences including rock, funk and cover bands, pit orchestras and solo guitar. Since relocating to Savannah, Ga., in 2004 he has co-lead Silver Lining, one of the most in-demand jazz trios in the region. He has also worked as a staff accompanist for the Savannah Music Festival’s American Traditions Competition, performed as a featured artist at the Savannah Jazz Festival, organized several southeast tours and been invited to perform in numerous concert series. Jackson has shared the stage with notable performers Ben Tucker, Mike Christiansen, Marcus Printup and many others. In addition, Jackson is a published songwriter and lyricist.

As a teacher, Jackson has spent almost a decade maintaining a full private studio.

Eric Nelson He has developed and implemented curriculum for group guitar instruction in community programs. Since 2004 Jackson has been on staff at Portman’s Southeast Music Academy where he instructs private lessons, group courses and camps.

Born in Texas and raised in Logan, Maggie Evans is a creative powerhouse. She was formally trained as a classical pianist, studied French horn in high school and discovered bass as a teenager in her brother’s punk band. She later added voice studies to the list while pursuing a master’s degree in painting at Savannah College of Art and Design where she is now a professor in foundations. Her obsession with Brazil and its music has been a key factor in shaping the sound of Silver Lining

— her voice is constantly compared to that of Astrud Gilberto. As a bassist she has worked with countless groups in many styles but Maggie specializes in the music of Latin America: salsa, Latin jazz, bossa nova, etc.

In addition to her work as a musician and teacher, Maggie has a career as a gallery artist.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in illustration from USU and a master’s degree in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. To learn more about Maggie, visit www. maggieevansart.com.

Clarinetist Eric Nelson has been a member of the local Lightwood Duo since its inception in 1992. He has also been active as a freelance musician in the Salt Lake area, and has performed as an extra with the Utah Symphony, Ballet West Orchestra and Contemporary Music Consortium, and in New York with the Riverside Trio and Wagner/Nelson Chamber Jazz. He is also saxophonist and keyboardist with the jazz/rock band Mirage. He has taught in the public schools in Utah and Texas for 23 years.

Nelson holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from USU and an MM in applied woodwinds from the University of North Texas.

Learn more about Nelson at www.lightwoodduo.com.

‘Tellabration!’ brings storytellers together LL OVER THE A world, storytelling enthusiasts (and folks who just like

to listen to stories) gather for a storytelling experience on the same night. It’s called Tellabration! and, in our corner of the world, this family-friendly event will take place from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at the American West Heri-

tage Center in Wellsville.

There will be performances and workshops for all ages all day long, culminating in the final evening storytelling concert from 7 to 10 p.m. Lunch and dinner will be also be available. This year’s special guest will be American Indian teller Dovie Thomason, whose heritages are steeped in Apache and

Lakota nations. For more information and a complete schedule of events, visit www.awhc.org.

If you think you’re good at telling tall tales about yourself, you can enter the first-ever “Liar’s Contest” and try to win the $100 prize. Among the workshops presented during the day will be Thomason’s “The Landscape of Stories: Finding

Your Personal Voice in Storytelling.” Thomason will assist participants in finding their own authentic ways and methods of telling stories.

For more information about the event, to enter the “Liar’s Contest” or to reserve a spot (recommended but not required) for one of the workshops or for dinner, call 245-6050.

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And since you are my brother And the gospel lights our way The feelings come from deep within To keep us close I pray.

If you ever feel downhearted Feel you don’t amount to much Remember it is YOU I look to For you have that special touch!

GET YOUR STUFF PUBLISHED! Send it to jbaer@hjnews.com or mail it to Cache Magazine, 75 W. 300 North, Logan, UT 84321. We’ll be waiting!

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Take a ‘lively’ trip with the Higham family “360 Degrees Longitude: One Family’s Journey Around the World” by John Higham (Alyson Books, 2009, $17.95)

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S I SIT DOWN TO read John Higham’s book, I’m reminded once again of why I love writing this column. This is a book I’d never pick up on my own since I’m not much into travelogues; but, I’m a pushover for authors with Cache Valley connections and Higham is a USU alum. So, serendipity strikes again!

I loved this book and I think my readers will too. Here’s why: Although Higham is an engineer (I know, boring!), he proves to be the exception to the rule. He confesses at one point that an English teacher told him, “The only reason I’m giving you as high as a D-minus is so that I will never have you in class again,” but the fact is, this guy can write. He’s funny, candid, throws in just enough giggles to keep me reading and the adventures he, his wife September and two children, ages 8 (Jordan) and 11 (Katrina), encounter are interesting and educational. The writing and the circumstances are fresh and lively, and as an added bonus, the book is linked up with Google Earth, where the reader can go for color photos and more information than he could pack into a 300-plus page book.

So Higham finishes his graduate degree, moves to San Francisco to become a rocket scientist — really! — and meets September. Being the inquisitive people they are, they immediately start planning a trip around the world, which will happen as planned after their two children (yet unborn) are old enough to take the trip and learn first hand about world cultures, history, geography and bicycling by tandem across several continents in 52 weeks. Total cost: $121,275.89, owing mainly to their mode of eating (often ham sandwiches), sleeping in a tent when possible and biking until Katrina breaks her leg rock climbing in Switzerland.

Regional Reads

Meet the author!

By Charlene Hirschi

Among their adventures is “walking between two continental plates,” which gave John the same queasy feeling as standing under a bridge after the Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco, but “if you’re going to tempt fate, you may as well do it in a way that will get you a flashy epitaph on your tombstone.”

After failing to convince any other family member to pose for the picture, “I (John) stretched out my arms and placed my right hand on Europe and my left on North America and pushed with all my might. I’m confident that somewhere, someone felt the Earth move. It was me.”

Another “must-see” Iceland attraction is the Blue Lagoon: “Adjacent to a massive geothermal power plant used to generate electricity ... the (runoff) is collected in an enormous pool.

Naturally occurring minerals give the water a milky color and texture, and algae give it an unnatural bluish tint. Stated in another way, the famous Blue Lagoon is a basin full of industrial wastewater. Yet people flock to the Blue Lagoon from around the world to soak in the warm water, experience its legendary healing powers, and to scrape the muck up off the bottom and smear it on their faces.

Fortunately, the muck is just a mix of minerals and biological sludge that probably won’t kill

John Higham will give a presentation and answer some frequently asked questions using Powerpoint and Google Earth at 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, at The Book Table. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

them. I do have a suspicion, however, that if you put it under a microscope, it wouldn’t look terribly different from what you would find on your average barn floor.”

In the beginning, they found that being together 24/7 was a bit wearing on the nerves.

“Jordan wasn’t much for pedaling. I had hopes of conditioning him because Katrina, at 8, had been a great asset as a stoker.”

He finally decided that perhaps the problem lie more with him than Jordan, rationalizing that although he requested “pedal power” in what he felt was his nicest voice, “under the strain of huffing up a hill, my words could easily be interpreted as a bark to an 8-year-old. He is beginning to withdraw.”

Finding time to be alone as husband and wife also presented some problems, as the entire family was sleeping in the same tent. At some point he came to realize that his physical conditioning wasn’t a problem, but “my mental condition” could certainly be a drawback. “Starting out meant getting adjusted to our new surroundings, our new routine, and to being together all the time. Things weren’t always as we had imagined — sunshine, smiling faces, and deeply introspective family discussions.”

A few fascinating historical facts: Outside Prague is “‘The Church of Bones,’ final resting place of 40,000 souls whose

bones have been arranged into works of art.” At Auschwitz, “some of the grisly reminders” of what occurred are the things Nazis kept in storage and historians preserved ”over two tons” of bailed hair from those who entered the gas chambers with shaved heads, “a shoe room ... a handbag room ... an eyeglass room. These items were taken from the prisoner after their arrival. Decades later they are on display behind glass, an echoing reminder that their owners never saw them again.”

The Highams hoped to give their children this Auschwitz experience to make a lasting impression of what had transpired, but were disappointed when the “heat and crowds dampened the effect” and the children came away seemingly untouched, while “nearby two teenage girls were in total hysterics, sobbing uncontrollably as they imagined the horrors of the site. Our emotional meltdown was to come six months later at the Killing Fields near Phnom Penh, Cambodia.” Perhaps a reminder that emotions cannot be orchestrated nor predicted in children.

Finally, excerpts from the journals of all four family members are used to illustrate what each member was feeling and experiencing at various sites along the way. On July 8, Jordan wrote: “Today we rode our bikes for a long time ... looking for a

campsite. (We finally found one) with miniature golf. I hit Mom in the face with a golf club accidentally. Dad says her black eye looks ‘smashing.’”

The same day, John wrote: “We knew there would be hard days when we started. Maybe we underestimated just how hard.

But we have been able to clear each and every hurdle thrown at us. Katrina and Jordan have started to see the adventure in every little thing. Jordan has changed the most in the last six weeks.

For example, when we were in England, if I asked him to pedal up a hill, I couldn’t tell that he was helping at all. He is now a very good stoker. He is starting to thrive in this environment.”

What is amazing to me are the number of miles they covered in a very short time — in six weeks they had pedaled through Iceland, England, France and Switzerland. In the back of the book are some interesting “facts” of the trip: countries “entered”: 35; “visited”: 28; places slept: 150; average length of stay at each place: 2½ days; longest stay in one place: 28 days; miles traveled: 67,000; “times we wished we were home: zero.”

Earlier I mentioned Google Earth as a fascinating supplement to the book. It is a little tricky getting started, but in an hour I had figured out how to use it well enough to navigate between layers and browse pictures. This is the first time anyone has used this technology to enhance the reading experience. It gives an entirely new dimension that could never be accomplished with a book alone, being entirely too expensive to produce. Throughout the book there are Google Earth logos directing the reader to more “anecdotes, photos, video and stories.” I didn’t want to interrupt my reading at every juncture, so I waited until I finished the book before venturing online. It was a lot of fun and worked out better for me!

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

‘SuperFreakonomics’ as fun as predecessor

By The Associated Press

The topics are often random and mashed together in a series of tangentially related vignettes.

But the writing is deft and seamless enough to keep “SuperFreakonomics” entertaining.

For most readers, the book will be a series of interesting facts that will provide plenty of water-cooler fodder but not much else. The deeper message is for politicians and other decision-makers.

Plenty of decisions get made based on emotion or common sense, the authors say, but that’s not always helpful when the numbers tell a different story.

For example, chemotherapy is brutal, expensive and only marginally effective. Yet Levitt and Dubner say doctors keep prescribing it because they have an incentive to offer their patients every option, and lawmakers continue to fund its research because they have an incentive to look tough on cancer.

The situation won’t change

until and unless the incentives change, they say. It’s not a groundbreaking point, but it’s made in clear and simple terms.

For the most part, the authors come across as folks who would make for great conversation at a cocktail party. But that changes in a later chapter when they discuss the environment.

They interview a group of scientists who propose radical solutions to extreme weather — floating pontoons to drive warm ocean water down to inhibit the formation of hurricanes, and a giant “garden hose to the sky” to pump sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to replicate the global-cooling effect of volcanic eruptions.

Here the authors seem to abandon the relative impartiality of their previous chapters.

They give the scientists free rein to describe and defend their theories, even though the proposals are radical enough to deserve stronger scrutiny.

Had Levitt and Dubner been a bit more skeptical, the chapter might have served as a foundation to inform readers of the possibilities and given them a chance to reach their own conclusions.

Instead readers might feel like they’re being preached to.

Certainly the authors have the right to insert their own viewpoints. But the effect is a little disappointing when the previous chapters were written with a

and utterly. As the movie progresses and the psychiatric hypnotic sessions begin to get more

and more intense, the archived footage becomes more and more unsettling. When Jovovich goes to the home of one of her clients to help him, she puts him in a hypnotic trance. As he recounts what has happened to him the tape becomes fuzzy, but we think we can see him levitating above his bed and speaking in a foreign language (Sumerian, to be exact).

The dramatizations with Jovovich are of little consequence; the real power of the film lies within the supposed actual footage of the events.

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N THEIR 2005 BOOK “Freakonomics,” economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner used dozens of interesting anecdotes to prove a simple point: “People respond to incentives.”

The authors apparently are no exception. After the book sold more than 4 million copies, the pair doubtless realized how lucrative a follow-up book would be.

So they followed the same model for “SuperFreakonomics.” It works just as well the second time around.

Their strategy is simple — crunch numbers about mundane topics to reveal interesting, unexpected conclusions. That’s how we get answers to questions we never thought to ask.

It turns out, for example, that prostitutes tend to make more money when they have pimps. Muslim women who observe the one-month fast of Ramadan early in their pregnancy are more likely to have children with certain cognitive disabilities. Some people who are rushed to emergency rooms might have been better off if they just stayed home.

The real point is to make the science of economics a little more fun — if you learn how to ask the right questions, numbers can give intriguing answers.

Reel Continued from p.7 screen, we are shown a splitscreen view with the real tapes playing on the other side. All of the patients mention seeing a white owl outside their room just before someone tries to enter the room, dragging them out screaming.

The supposed actual footage is chilling and frightening to watch.

It’s engrossing — completely

AP photo

University of Chicago economics professor Steven Levitt poses with his first book, “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything,” in April 2005.

more academic perspective.

The authors don’t seem to mind criticism. In the introduction they say they’ll be disappointed if the book doesn’t start some quarrels.

But most of the book will draw interest, not antagonism.

“SuperFreakonomics” isn’t necessarily super or freaky, but it does make economic analysis a little less dismal.

Are people from another planet really abducting these people?

The footage provided is powerful. I’m not here to argue one way or another about the validity of the “true” story, but I will say this film impacted me. It’s suspenseful, frightening and just a tad too real.

I can’t say I enjoyed the film because the feeling it left me with is sheer creepiness. Whether the entire story is a hoax or not, the fact remains that those alleged tapes and recordings of what happened are spooky

beyond belief. This was one of the most terrifying films I’ve seen in a long time.

Film critic Aaron Peck has a bachelor’s degree in English from USU. He also writes for BlogCritics.org, HighDefDigest. com, and is starting up a new movie Web site called TheReel Place.com. 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. Feedback at aaronpeck46@gmail.com.

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She wants very much to be adopted and is looking forward to having a forever family. This teen loves to learn! She benefits from an IEP (individualized education program). Kemauri is attending counseling, which will need to continue after placement.

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Ticket Office, 43 S. Main; by calling 797-8022; or online at www.americanfestivalchorus.org.

All are invited to participate in a Peace Vigil every Friday between 5 and 6 p.m. on the east side of Main Street between Center Street and 100 North in Logan. For more information, e-mail info@loganpeace.org.

The Cache Valley Folk Dancers and the Bridger Folk Music Society will host their “first Saturday” contra dance at 7:30 p.m. at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East, Logan. All dances are taught; beginners and families are welcome. Live music will be provided by Leaping Lulu with dance calling

by Kay Forsyth. A $5 donation is suggested.

The Bear River District Utah Public Employees’ Association fall social/dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Cache County Fairgrounds Pavilion Building, 450 S. 500 West. Guest speaker will be Dr. F. Ross Peterson. Public employees and spouse or partner are invited. Please RSVP to 213-3428.

The Utah State University Wind Orchestra will perform its fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center at USU. Admission is $8 for adults and free for music students. For more information, call 797-3004. Tickets are available at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office in Fine Arts 138-B; by calling 797-8022; or online at http://boxoffice.usu.edu. They will also be available at the door.

The Show will perform with Dear Bobbie and District of Evolution (rock/alternative) at 8 p.m. Friday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whysound.

Logan School Food Service will host a pan sale from 3 to 6 p.m. Friday in the Mount Logan Middle School south cafeteria, 875 N. 200 East. Everyone is invited. There will be new commercial-quality cookware. Cash or check only.

Casino Nights will be held at the Logan Golf and Country Club from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Friday and from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday.

Party includes casino games, a live band, full cocktail bar and more than $10,000 in door prizes. Tickets will be available at the door.

For more information, call 770-8891.

The LDS Church’s 31 and Over Singles group will host a dance Friday at 340 W. 700 South in Logan. Dance instruction begins at 8 p.m.; dance will be held from 9 p.m. to midnight. Cost is $3. Refreshments will be provided, including oven-baked sandwiches.

A Holiday Treasures Boutique featuring juried work by 23 local artists will be open from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church in Logan, 200 W. Center. There will be fiber art, jewelry, pottery, holiday bread, photography, soap and much more.

Katie Jo will perform live music at 6 p.m. and Danny Hunt will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza, 99 E. 1200 South. For more information, visit pier49logan.com.

Saturday The American Festival Chorus will open its 2009-10 season with “An Evening of John Rutter Choral Music” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in USU’s Kent Concert Hall. Tickets are $12, $16 and $18 and available at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office in the Chase Fine Arts Center 138-B; at the Eccles Theatre

Meet Me in Alaska will perform with Larusso and Double or Nothing (alternative/rock) at 8 p.m. Saturday at Why Sound.

Cover charge is $5.

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

The 234th Birthday Ball of the United States Marine Corps will be held Saturday at the Marriott in downtown Salt Lake City. An elegant memento commemorating this event will be given to each attendee. For reservations or more information, contact Ray at 801430-USMC or bachiller1@aol.com.

Jan Summerhays and Jacob Davidson will perform live music from 6 to 8 p.m.

Saturday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza.

A new session of Learn-to-Skate classes will start Tuesday at the Eccles Ice Center, 2825 N. 200 East, North Logan. Classes are for all ages and abilities and are held every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. For information about specific times and prices, call 787-2288 or visit www.ecclesice.com.

Robinson Building in Preston, 186 W. Second North. Dinner will be served from 5:30 to 8 p.m.; a raffle and auction will start at 7 p.m.

For more information or to donate, call 7871979 or 208-406-6681. For auction donation, drop off items at the Solar Connection, 123 E. 1400 North, Logan (next to Little Caesars).

Elaine, a professional caterer in the Macey’s deli, will share her unique pie recipes and demonstrate how to create pie toppers at a free cooking and community class from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Seating is limited; call 753-3301 to reserve your spot.

Warren Miller’s latest ski movie, “Dynasty,” will show at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday at USU’s Kent Concert Hall. Tickets are $18 at the door or $15 in advance and available at Al’s Sporting Goods (752-5151) and the CSA Ticket Office (797-8022).

Everyone attending the show will receive a free lift ticket to The Canyons, plus a free subscription to Skiing magazine. For more information, visit warrenmiller.com.

Wednesday The American Festival Chorus will perform its second annual Veterans Day Tribute at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Kent Concert Hall at Utah State University. Seating is general admission and free tickets are available at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office in the Chase Fine Arts Center 138-B and at the Cache Valley Visitors Bureau, 199 N. Main.

Tickets are required. For more information, call 797-8022. Active military and veterans are encouraged to wear their uniforms.

Sunday

The John Birch Society will host a discussion on current events and legislation at 7 p.m. Wednesday at The Book Table (upstairs). Participation is free and everyone is invited. For more information, call 753-2930.

The Post-Mormon Community is a nonsectarian organization of individuals and families who have left Mormonism. The 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 or call 770-4263.

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

Adaptations are made for people with low vision; however, people of all abilities are invited to attend. For more information or to schedule transportation, contact Aimee at 753-5353 ext. 105.

Choir rehearsals are beginning for the annual Christmas Benefit Concert to be held Dec. 13 (to gather supplies for the food bank) and for Handel’s Messiah, which will be performed Dec. 12. The choirs rehearse at 6 p.m. for the Benefit Concert and 7 p.m. for “Messiah” every Sunday at the Dansante building, 59 S. 100 West. For more information, contact John Ribera at 754-7184.

Me and The Captain will perform with March Against Fear, Nine Cities Back and Xavier (metal) at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $6.

Monday USU scientist and river expert Jack Schmidt will lend his voice to the KUED production “Green River: Divided Waters,” set to air at 9 p.m. Monday and again at 6 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 15, on KUED Public Television, Channel 7.

Nibley city is now taking applications for next year’s Youth Council. Applications can be picked up at the Nibley City Offices and are due by Monday. Students in grades 10, 11 and 12 are encouraged to apply. For more information, e-mail lowellpug@yahoo.com.

Tuesday Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will lead a trip to Crystal Hot Springs at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Cost is $5. Volunteers are always needed. For more information, visit www.cgadventures.org or call 713-0288.

Relda Sandgran will demonstrate how to make easy minestrone soup at a free cooking and community class from 7 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Come hungry! Seating is limited; call 753-3301 to reserve your spot.

The Fibromyalgia Education Group will present “What Is Fibromyalgia? Basics and Q&A” from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Logan Regional Hospital Education Center Room 5, 500 E. 1400 North. For more information, visit www.nufibroconn.org.

Financial Planning for Women will present “IRAs: Should You Switch from Traditional to Roth in 2010?” from noon to 1 p.m.

Wednesday in USU Taggart Student Center Room 335. The same program will be repeated from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Family Life Center, 493 N. 700 East, Logan. Admission is free and registration is not required. For more information, visit www.usu.edu/fpw.

Thursday A benefit for the Sears family of Preston, whose home was destroyed by an electrical fire, will be held Thursday at the

Mikey Graves will perform with Water & Walls and Ben Oman (acoustic) at 8 p.m.

Thursday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $5.

Shauna Flammer will demonstrate how to use apples in a variety of desserts at a free cooking and community class from 7 to 8 p.m.

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

A Single Mothers Seminar will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Bridgerland Applied Technology College, 1301 N. 600 West, Logan. Registration will be open from 6:30 to 7 p.m. Explore opportunities for education, employment and scholarship/financial aid options and more. There will be a keynote speaker, area resource agencies, door prizes and refreshments. For more information, call 752-7911 or 750-3224.

Spanish classes are taught from 6 to 7 p.m. every Thursday at the Spanish Learning Center, 172 N. 300 West, Logan. For more information, call 787-4508.

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 projects. For more information, contact Cathy at 752-3923.

Upcoming events A Holiday Gift Show featuring juried work by local artists will be open from 5 to 8 p.m.

Nov. 13 and from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 14 at Leona Hawks, 35 N. 400 West, Hyrum. There will be fiber art, jewelry, pottery, holiday bread, photography, soap and more.

Bluegrass band The Red Desert Ramblers will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at Crumb Brothers Bakery, 291 S. 300 West, Logan. Tickets are $10 and available by calling 757-3468.

The annual “Smile on Your Brother” benefit show will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/ whysound.

Angie’s Restaurant will host its annual Thanksgiving Day dinner from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thanksgiving Day. This year the Child & Family Support Center has been selected as the charitable recipient. Donations can also be made to the Support Center at Angie’s throughout the month of November.

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