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Printmaker Adrian Van Suchtelen uses his press to produce a chine-collé print at his home studio in North Logan on Tuesday. Get a glimpse of this retired USU professor’s artwork and his print-making methods on Page 8. Photo by Braden Wolfe/Herald Journal

From the editor

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AM A BIG FAN OF BUYING local, and this weekend offers more opportunities than I can remember seeing over any previous two-day span. A quick look: • The Spirit Goat will be hosting a Holiday Open House from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Browse Around Antique Shop, 180 W. 1200 South, Logan. Shoppers will find a variety of goat’s milk soaps and other body products; polymer clay wearable and decorative art by Sharon Ohlhorst; fabric aprons, quilts and framed art by Shirley Joffs; and unique antiques from more than 30 antique dealers.

• The Cache Valley Alternative Gift Market will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church, 178 W. Center, Logan. Guests can enjoy shopping, children’s activities, learning about the projects and purchasing alternative gifts of food, medicine, livestock or education to be sent to areas with great needs around the world and here at home. Lunch will be available.

• USU First Lady Joyce Albrecht will host

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a Holiday Open House from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday at the USU president’s home, 1417 E. 1300 North, Logan. There will be pottery, soaps, quilted goods, jewelry, stocking stuffers, hostess gifts, handbags and much more. Light refreshments will be served. All proceeds will go to the Women’s Center scholarship fund.

• The Lewiston Arts Council will present its 14th annual Lewiston Craft & Gift Boutique from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the Lewiston Community Ballroom. There will be door prizes, entertainment, an assortment of vendors and lunch and desserts offered by Grandma’s Corner Bakery. All proceeds will go to the Lewiston City Playground Fund.

Also, don’t forget next weekend’s big event: • The 26th annual Novemberfest Arts and Crafts Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Nov. 27 and 28 at the Logan Rec Center, 195 W. 100 South. Christmas and home decor will be on display and for sale, as will food and candy. Entertainment will be provided by local dancing and singing groups. Admission is $1; children 5 and younger get in free.

Happy shopping, and have a great weekend, everyone!

— Jamie Baer Nielson Cache Magazine editor

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This dog is available for adoption!

Pet: Maya From: Cache Humane Society Why she’s so lovable: “Maya is a 7month-old beagle. She’s doing great with house training with consistency by owners. Crate trained and is used to being left in there when left alone. Still mouths when playing but is otherwise good with kids. Saying ‘no teeth’ will get her to stop chewing on people. Loves to point and hunches down when she sees a quiet animal that’s smaller than her. Very curious and likes to explore but never gets lost. Likes to find hidden treats with her nose. Jumps up a bit. Loves to have ears rubbed.” Maya’s ID number is 2009-7387. To meet her, visit the shelter at 2370 W. 200 North in Logan.

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.

Dance to benefit historic Elite Hall

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HE HISTORIC ELITE Hall in Hyrum first opened in 1917. During its glory days in the first part of the 20th century, the hall was packed with dancers every Saturday night; now the building, with one of two remaining spring-loaded dance floors in Utah, is on the National Registry of Historic Places. This means it will never be torn down, but maintenance costs threaten regular use of the Elite Hall as its original purpose: a dance hall.

To help Hyrum city keep Elite Hall open, students from Utah State University’s Big Band Swing Club are hosting the third annual Elite Hall Benefit Dance on Saturday, Nov. 21, at Elite Hall, 83 W. Main, Hyrum. Music will be provided by the Larry Smith Jazz Combo.

Dance lessons will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. and the dance will follow

from 8 to 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are $8 per person and $15 per couple, or $10 per person and $18 per couple at the door. Advance tickets can be purchased at www. danceunitedlogan.com/elitehall.

In addition to live music, the evening will also feature performances by USU Big Band Swing Teams, Swing Set and Swingcopation. There will also be a Lindy Hop Competition and a Solo Charleston Competition with prizes. Entry for these competitions is $5 per couple and $2.50 per person for the Solo Charleston. Proceeds from these competitions will also go to the preservation and maintenance of Elite Hall. Dance includes refreshments.

For more information, visit www.danceunitedlogan.com, email swing.usu@gmail.com or call 435-227-5879.

Red Desert Ramblers ready to rock Crumb Brothers members hail from Salt Lake, After going electric with the HE BRIDGER FOLK country band Desert Skies, Summit and Cache counties.

T Music Society will presHewson has returned to his first Prestigious regional/national ent a concert with the bluegrass/newgrass/old-time and traditional band The Red Desert Ramblers at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 21, at Crumb Brothers Bakery, 291 S. 300 West, Logan. Tickets are $10 and available by calling 7924996. Seating is very limited, so advance purchase is recommended. For more information, visit www.bridgerfolk.org.

The Red Desert Ramblers play bluegrass, classic country and swing music. Combining 165 years of experience, they blend harmonies with smoking instrumental breaks. They have been honored by the International Bluegrass Music Association for being the first Utah band (and Sharon is the first hammered dulcimer player) to ever be hired for an IBMA performance.

They are a regional band with national recognition and

performances include: International Bluegrass Music Association FanFest in Nashville; Darington, Wash., Bluegrass Festival; Pickin’ in the Pines (Arizona); Memorial Day Bluegrass Festival (Colorado); Southern Nevada Bluegrass Music Association Festival; Bannock County Bluegrass Festival (Idaho); Intermountain Acoustic Music Association Local Concert Series; Red Rocks Bluegrass Festival (St. George); Windwalker Ranch Bluegrass Festival (Spring City); Holladay Arts Festival; Mountain Town Stages; KRCL radio; and the Heber Cowboy Poetry Gathering.

Group members are: • Steve Hewson (lead vocals, guitar, mandolin) — Best known as the host of the Rockport Dam Jam, Hewson hails from Huntington Beach, Calif.

love of acoustic music with the Red Desert Ramblers. He also plays with Detour Utah.

• Richard Schmeling — Schmeling adds solid guitar backup, harmonies and flatpick breaks to the band. He’s also accomplished on both piano and mandolin. He plays with other working local bands including Ridin’ the Faultline and Winterwood.

• Rick Martinez (five-string banjo) — Martinez’s style is 30 years steeped in traditional and progressive bluegrass music.

His style ranges from harddriving Scruggs influences to melodic tones of Tony Triska.

Martinez first came to fame with the Rick Martinez band.

• Sharon Mitchell (hammered dulcimer, harmony vocals) — Mitchell has played music since she was 8, playing

the hammered dulcimer since 1989. In addition to The Red Desert Ramblers she currently plays with the Public Domain String Band and The American Irish Duo. Past bluegrass bands include Around the Bend, Lonesome Ridge and Last Night’s Fun. She also produces the Intermountain Acoustic Music Association Local Concert Series.

• Dave Bates (upright bass) has been playing bass for just a little less than a million years, and has been a mainstay in the SLC/ Summit County music communities. When he is not working for nonprofits in Summit County, he farms in Wanship. His attention is focused on mentoring teenagers and youth, so they become proficient musicians.

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All mixed up

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All mixed up

Pickleville to premier new holiday musical

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ICKLEVILLE Playhouse will present its brand new musical, “Once Upon a Christmas: A North Pole Musical,” at 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 27 through Dec. 23 at USU’s Eccles Conference Center. A matinee will show at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 23. An optional holiday buffet meal catered by The Copper Mill will be available before each performance. Show-only tickets are $15.95 for adults and $9.95 for children 11 and younger; dinner/show tickets are $30.95 and $17.95.

Discounted pricing is available for company/office groups and groups of 25 people or more. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 755-0968 or visit www.picklevilleplay house.com.

“Once Upon a Christ-

mas” tells the story of Taylor Rose, a busy university student coping with a recent family tragedy. Elves Buster and Benny are sent by Santa on a special mission to retrieve Taylor’s Christmas wish list and lighten her spirits. Through a hilarious series of events, including a special trip to Santa’s workshop, Taylor and her newfound friends come to realize that Christmas is much more than just candy canes and colored lights.

With book and music by T.J. Davis, this brand new romantic musical comedy deviates slightly from other Pickleville Christmas musicals in both form and function. Although the show still features plenty of the company’s signature brand of comedy, it takes a more traditional musical theater approach in its presentation.

Less of a musical revue with more plot-centered musical numbers and a big dose of holiday romance translate into a festive production that’s both entertaining and meaningful.

Each year Pickleville Christmas plays host to numerous company and family parties. New this year, Santa and the elves will be available before and after each performance to take gift requests and interact with children of all ages. Audience members are encouraged to bring their wish lists.

“Once Upon a Christmas” is directed by Andrea Davis with choreography

by Sharli King. The cast includes Brittney Worley, Derek Davis, Bryan Stephenson, Whitney Davis, Olivia Ballam, Sharli King and T.J. Davis.

Tabernacle gears up for Christmas series

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HE 2009 TABERNACLE CONCERT SERIES will kick off Friday, Nov. 27, with a performance by Jo Hayes and Mico Everitt. All concerts are free to the public and begin at 7 p.m. Be sure to check Cache Magazine every week for profiles on upcoming performers. (The schedule below is always subject to change!) And as always, don’t forget to visit the gingerbread house displays in downtown Logan!

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Jo Hayes & Mico Everitt Candlelight Carolers Jay Richards’ Music Theatre West USU Music Department Celebrates Christmas Cinnamon Creek Folk Singers Jeremy Threlfall, Kermit Herd & The Treble Makers Cache Children’s Choir Willow Valley Singers & Sassafras Imperial Glee Club Westminster Bell Choir Cache Chamber Orchestra Handel’s Christmas Messiah Annual Community Food Pantry Benefit Concert

Photo by Bodie Brower

Olivia Ballam as Zoey the Elf

LHS students figure out how to succeed without even trying OGAN HIGH SCHOOL WILL L present “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” at 7:30 p.m. Nov.

20, 21, 23 and 24 in the LHS auditorium.

Reserved tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for students and children and available at www.lhs.loganschools.org; general admission tickets will be sold at the door for $7 and $5.

“How to Succeed in Business,” which opened on Broadway in 1961 and ran for four years, won seven Tony awards and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for drama. In 1967 a film based on the musical was released and in 1995 a revival appeared on Broadway.

The story centers around an ambitious window washer named J. Pierrepont Finch who, with the help of an instructional guide, is determined to success in business — without really trying. Encountering a corporate bigwig, a romantically inclined secretary, a wily competitor and a sexy excigarette girl with ambitions of her own,

the intrepid Finch dodges, parries and plans until victory is his. “How to Succeed” is a comic masterpiece of satire and song — a loving and laughing tribute to the ambitious window washer in all of us.

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“Extreme Home Makeover House” by Hansel & Gretel is seen on display at Stork’s Landing in December 2006.

Gingerbread houses now being accepted for downtown display

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HE LOGAN Downtown Alliance will be accepting gingerbread house entries from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, at the Bullen Center. The public is invited to view entries from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21; the top 12 houses will be selected at noon by a group of judges for the “Critics Award.”

Each of the final 12 contestants will be awarded a ribbon and a $50 cash prize, and will be put on display in local downtown merchant windows from Nov. 27 through Dec. 31.

During the Christmas season, the public is invited to come downtown and vote for the “People’s Choice” awards. The top three contestants will win one of three grand prizes.

This year’s judges include Dennis Hassan, associate

“Valley Theater” by Hillary Robinson and Rosalyn Warner is seen on display at Coppin’s Hallmark in 2006.

professor of scene design at Utah State University; Amelia Carbine from Frosted Fantasy Cakes; Grace Harvell of The Graceful Baker; Anne Parish, a local culinary expert; and others.

ache Community Connections will present the seventh annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service, “Singing Our Thanks!,” at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, at the Logan LDS Tabernacle. This year’s special guests are the Imperial Glee Club and the Kingsmen Barbershop Quartet. For more information, contact Paul Heins at 752-0871 or pastorpaul@mac.com.

This annual service offers a sampling of different faith traditions and various ways of giving thanks. There will be no keynote speakers. This year’s participating religions include St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, St. John’s Episcopal Church, the Unitarian Universalists, Prince of Peace Lutherans, First Presbyterians and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Photo by Alan Murray

Holly Faire coming to AWHC T HE ALLIANCE for the Varied Arts, the American West Heritage Center and Summerfest will present Holly Faire, “a Victorian marketplace,” from noon to 9 p.m.

Dec. 18 and 19 in the Livery Stable at the Heritage Center. The faire will mark the final two-day celebration of the week-long Frontier Christmas event, held Dec. 11 through 19 at the Heritage Center.

Fine artists and craftsmen will make their way to the oldfashioned marketplace with their merriest gifts in hand. This event emphasizes fine art, folk art and fine craft created by local arti-

sans. Activities going on simultaneously will include Victorian tea parties, the Amazing Icy Path Labyrinth, a live nativity, workshops, wagon, sleigh and dog sled rides, music, train rides and a visit by Father Christmas.

A delectable display of holiday candies and tempting desserts will fill the festive house next door to the Livery Stable.

For more information, visit www.americanwestcenter.org or www. avaarts.org, or call 7532970. If you would like to sell your art at the Holly Faire, contact the Alliance for the Varied Arts by Nov. 21.

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Film New this week

involving brief violence, drug and sexual references. 128 min.

“The Blind Side” Rated PG-13 ★★1⁄2 This redemption-minded sports flick serves its inspiration straight-up with no twist. Writerdirector John Lee Hancock wisely lets the true story of Michael Oher — the African-American teen who found a home and, eventually, football stardom, after being adopted by a wealthy Memphis family — speak for itself. That direct focus delivers a feel-good crowd-pleaser, but it also drains the film of the kind of subtle nuances that might have separated it from other Hollywood Hallmark-like efforts, including Hancock’s own “The Rookie.”

The movie dutifully chronicles the transformation of Oher (newcomer Quinton Aaron) from blank slate to a fully formed young man, emphasizing the involvement of Leigh Ann Tuohy (Sandra Bullock). Bullock brings her trademark spunkiness to the mother hen role, delivering an iron-willed woman who looks past appearances to do the right thing. PG-13 for one scene

“Planet 51” Rated PG ★1⁄2 This sci-fi family tale offers passable computer imagery but is an aborted liftoff when it comes to the lame story of a human astronaut among little green aliens who, for some uninspired reason, are living the serene “Ozzie and Harriet” life of 1950s America.

Video-game veteran Jorge Blanco shifts to the big screen with an adventure as bland as the sitcommy decade that fostered it.

Likewise, voice stars Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel and Justin Long seem to take their cue from the Ward Cleaver school of parental droning. Even vocal gymnast John Cleese sounds neutered as a partly mad alien scientist, while only Gary Oldman adds some bark as an alien general. Johnson provides vocals for the astronaut hero, who is befriended by a few young aliens while the rest of their planet wants to hunt him down as a monster. Though set on another world, the jokes are as derivative

as they come, the filmmakers endlessly mining human pop culture in a vain search for laughs.

PG for mild sci-fi action and some suggestive humor. 91 min.

Still playing “2012” Rated PG-13 ★1⁄2 The end is not near enough for this latest nihilistic disaster flick, directed by end-of-the-world specialist Roland Emmerich (“The Day After Tomorrow,” “Independence Day”). The 2½-hour film hues close to genre standards: the redeemed deadbeat dad (John Cusack), the coming together of different peoples, the toppling of monuments. The cause of destruction this time is neutrinos from the sun that have heated the earth’s core and destabilized the planet’s crust.

Cusack and others skip narrowly ahead of the shifting tectonics; California falls into the ocean and

much of the world follows suit.

The most grounded thing here is the acting. Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor (as a government scientist), Oliver Platt (as the president’s chief-of-staff) and Woody Harrelson (perfectly cast as a conspiracy theory-addled nut) almost convince you that something decent is at work in “2012.” But it’s just another doomsday film, with new digital effects and stock scenes patched together from “Jaws,” “The Poseidon Adventure” and “Armageddon.” PG-13 for intense disaster sequences and some language. 158 min.

“A Christmas Carol” Rated PG ★★ The time, not just the season, is ripe for a new version of “A Christmas Carol.” When Charles Dickens wrote his classic story, it was a cautionary tale to greedy capitalists of the 19th century (Scrooge recalls his deceased partner, Jacob

Marley, as “a good man of business.”). Dickens’ story is about as sturdy a one as we’ve got — it would be nearly impossible to mar what might be the finest ghost story this side of “Hamlet.”

Unfortunately, our 2009 version is defined only by its technology. Animated in 3-D, Disney’s “A Christmas Carol,” directed by Robert Zemeckis, suffocates from its design. Despite (or because of) Zemeckis’ approach to using performance-capture animation, the film comes off oddly inanimate. Jim Carrey, playing not just Scrooge but the three ghosts who visit him, clearly has the zest and range for the parts. But he — like the rest of the cast, including Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Cary Elwes — struggles to break through the film’s excessive wizardry. PG for scary sequences and images. 95 min.

— All reviews by The Associated Press

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EW MOON” is the newest installment of the “Twilight Saga.” Teenage girls and their mothers have been reserving tickets for weeks to witness the next chapter in Edward and Bella’s life — too bad, because it’s so dreadfully boring they may be asleep by the end of the film.

It would seem the “Twilight” movies are what is called “critic proof”: It doesn’t matter what the critics say about the film, millions of people will still go see it.

Fans of the “Twilight” vampire tales may find themselves more bored than enthralled, though, because the film drags on and on. Each and every scene is more drawn out to try and increase the dramatic feel.

Bella (Kristen Stewart) is as brooding and sullen as ever.

When Edward informs her that his family will be leaving for her own safety, Bella falls into a deep depression. We know the depression she experiences is quite deep because, according to one of the many overly dramatic montages in the movie, she doesn’t move from her chair for months.

A new element has been entered into the storyline, which was slightly alluded to in the first film: The local Native American tribe may indeed be werewolves. Some of them are, anyway. This much is known from the movie’s trailers: Jacob is a local Native American boy that fancies Bella but finds himself torn between being a werewolf and loving someone who loves a vampire.

Jacob and his other werewolf buddies spend most of their time walking around the forest with

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The Reel Place

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” Rated PG-13

By Aaron Peck

ing I was at. The beginning had the expected cheers as the movie started, but as it slogged along with the pace of semicoagulated blood, the feeling in the room being sucked out was almost palatable. Die-hard fans seemed bored, and that’s just what this movie is: boring.

the pouring rain glistening on their constantly shirtless bodies.

Everything in this film is overwrought and overdone. The soundtrack is full of ominous violin music and dramatic, emolike rock songs. Almost every word of dialogue is spoken in a hushed, whispered voice in order to up the dramatic quotient. Each scene is drawn out to its longest possible time limit as the characters pause for dramatic effect and whimper more than they speak. Everything is so serious, so macabre and depressing, you’d think no

one in the movie ever has anything worth living for.

Bella and Edward’s relationship is never believable here, and is borderline ridiculous.

Nothing they do makes logical sense. When Edward leaves he tells Bella to not do anything dangerous; when she does try and do something dangerous, she sees visions of him telling her not to do what she’s doing.

This, in turn, makes her do more dangerous things. It just doesn’t make any sense — if Edward wanted her to be safe, why would he appear to her in

visions Bella created by doing something dangerous? You don’t get it either? Well, that makes two of us.

The bottom line is that “Twilight” has a huge fan base, and a lot of them were at the screen-

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 TheReelPlace.com. He currently 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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‘A dialogue with nature’ Local printmaker uses beauty of Cache Valley as inspiration

“I’ve had a dialogue with nature as long as I ca that dialogue is a mixture of awe, wonder and u and dead, draw his eye. As he talks about Spri in pitch. “The river just comes right up out of th

Growing up in Holland, Van will be featured in a show at Suchtelen and his friends colNorth Logan’s Prince Gallery. lected old newspapers to earn a The show opens tonight with a few cents of spending money. reception from 6 to 9 p.m. and While the other boys used their will be on display through Dec. hard-earned coins to buy an ice The 50 prints are taken from cream cone, he bought admission Van Suchtelen’s series, “100 to a local art museum.

Impressions from Cache Valley,” He didn’t know why, but he a project he began after retiring was drawn again and again to from USU in 2003. Each of the the art, and he felt a sense of 100 images holds personal signif pride every time he passed the cance to the artist. sign declaring that his hometown “They’re recollections,” he of Leiden was the birthplace of says. “I only go to those locaRembrandt. tions where I had some good That love for art never waned, times with students, with friend and it has driven with family.” his life’s work Every detail o Van Suchtelen’s nature ever since. can still -------------excite and invig work on display With his pasorate him.

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Selections from “100 sion for art and perhaps more Impressions of Cache his passion for inclined to depi Valley” by Adrian Van nature, it’s only a milkweed or a Suchtelen will be on disnatural that the flower springing two would meet. play through Dec. 5 at the spontaneously Prince Gallery, 2600 N. And considerfrom the roadMain St., Ste. 106, North ing he has spent side than he is t Logan. An opening recepmost of his life show a sweepin tion will be held from 6 to 9 landscape. His in Cache Valley, p.m. Friday, Nov. 20. it makes sense artwork is full that the region’s of leaves, trees, natural features would be his fre- river bends, flowers, birds and quent subjects. dozens of other bits and pieces o Fifty of Van Suchtelen’s works nature. Spring Hollow — where

an remember,” says North Logan artist Adrian Van Suchtelen. And the tone of unfettered giddiness. He picks up and marvels at fallen leaves. Birds, both living ng Hollow in Logan Canyon, his 68-year-old eyes brighten and his voice raises he ground! Out of nowhere!” says the retired Utah State University art professor.

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The prints in the show are made through intaglio, a type of printmaking in which the artist creates indentations in a plate, which are then filled with ink. The plate is then pressed onto paper, which receives the ink. During his career, Van Suchtelen has perfected and adapted his own new methods of printmaking, which he has used on some of the works

that will be on display.

He has divided the prints of the show into groups: animals, trees, leaves, landscapes, flowers and poems. He hopes the subdivisions will give the show continuity and structure to help audiences understand and relate to it.

“I’m still a teacher, I guess,” he said.

He taught his first class at USU as a 25-year-old. Barely older than most of his students,

he was a little intimidated, but he soon found he was as at home teaching as he was making art.

“I fell in love with teaching after the first hour,” he said.

Over the 36-year teaching career that followed he taught nearly every medium in the art department. In addition to teaching, he created his own artwork, which he showed and sold around Utah and the United States. He has been commissioned to create multiple art pieces, including ones for the LDS Church and to display at government buildings in Salt Lake City.

When he retired in 2003, he began the ambitious project of making 100 prints. The project was inspired by 19th century Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige, who created a series of 100 prints of his home city of Edo (now Tokyo).

Despite his international beginnings and widespread success, Van Suchtelen is a Cache Valley artist, and his 100 Impressions of Cache Valley are all impressions of home.

Story by Devin Felix Photos by Braden Wolfe

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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-led 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

Heritage Center seeking stocking artists atively crafted by artists, its historic quilt collection. made from welded steel, intriHE HOLIDAYS many of whom are nationally The exhibit is open to parcately carved walnut wood, T are approaching and to renowned. ticipation by any interested bamboo, denim, leather and 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 that have been painted, welded, carved, sewn, quilted, sculpted and otherwise cre-

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

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.

Past stockings have been

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.

— 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.

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Books

Reads to keep your holiday spirit alive Regional Reads

By Charlene Hirschi

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S THANKSGIVING quickly approaches, it’s time to write my favorite column of the year. Starting in late October and early November, I receive several Christmas books for review — each unique in its own way, but with a common theme: the true meaning of Christmas!

Whether a book honoring the spiritual beginnings of the holiday with the babe in the manger, a change-of-heart story or the good deeds of a child or neighbor who reaches out to another, they always fill me with goodwill and remind me of the goodness of the human heart for at least one month out of the year. When I was raising my seven boys, I always took time to read with them during the holidays, and I know many of you do the same.

These six books are perfect for family read-togethers followed by family discussions of the true meaning of Christmas.

As “Black Friday” approaches, keep your local bookstore and these titles in mind.

“Under Christmas Stars”

by Fred C. Rowley (Covenant, $4.95) This small book will warm your heart. Consisting of only two short stories, it would be hard for me to say which is my favorite — they both carry a powerful message.

“Fence Mending” is the story of two former friends who have had a falling out and not spoken to each other in years — a fall-

ing out over four tires and 90 bales of hay. An anonymous act of kindness makes one of them realize how trivial their quarrel is and he decides to try to mend their relationship after recalling a quote from St. Mark: “Forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.” Be prepared for a surprise ending.

“Feliz Navidad,” based on a true story, tells of the reunion of an adopted daughter and her birth mother on Christmas Eve. Keep the tissue box close at hand — this one will activate your tear ducts.

“All Is Bright: A Collection of True Christmas Stories” (Covenant, $4.95) You will find some of your favorite authors in this little anthology of essays, most of whom have appeared in this column at one time or another.

All of them LDS authors — Anita Stanfield, Annette Lyon, Gregg Luke, H.B. Moore, Julie Wright, Kristen McKendry, Lynn C. Jaynes and Matthew Buckley — these personal Christmas stories will provide thoughtful reading for all Christians. All good reads and enough depth that teaching moments are sure to arise, especially with tweens and teenagers.

The stories include: A mother in Canada with a sick child

and away from family searches for a specific toy that miraculously appears on Christmas Day in the most unlikely of circumstances; another mother tries to explain Santa Claus to a 4-year-old — without lying to her; three unlikely teenagers bring Christmas to a single mother and her family in a most unexpected way; Christmas in Jerusalem for a 16-year-old girl brings insights she didn’t expect to find; a Wyoming family loses their barn and farm animals in a fire and receives an unexpected Christmas gift; Dad receives a bucket of coal for Christmas; Charles Dickens and the movie “Scrooge” start a long-standing family tradition for one young mother; and a 50-year old mother discovers what it means to “follow your star.”

“Christmas on Miracle Lane and Other Holiday Favorites”

by Kaye Jacobs Volk (Covenant, $7.95) Volk is a new writer to me, but this little collection of four Christmas stories makes me want to read more. In her bio it says, “Writing and seeing one Christmas story published for seven years in a row ... seemed to keep Christmas alive

throughout the year, from one to the next.” I loved all of the stories but the one that really captured my attention is the title story.

“Christmas on Miracle Lane” will remind you a bit of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” yet the story is fresh and compelling. It’s the tale of a frustrated and stressedout mother whose personal relationships with her widowed mother, her teenage daughter and her longtime husband are all frayed , in her mind, beyond repair. She leaves home one evening just before Christmas and ends up in a part of town she has never seen before, even though she has lived there all her life. What magic takes place on Miracle Lane that night will be part of your Christmas reading for many years to come. I have a feeling many mothers will see themselves in Eve as she discovers that the emptiness in her heart comes from her own shortcomings.

I have to admit that the final story, “The Christmas Cradle,” is a close second — but you’ll have to read the book to find out why.

“An Angel on Main Street”

by Kathi Oram Peterson (Covenant, $8.95) This little gem of a book is well written and immediately captured my attention. Micah Connors, his mother and younger sister, Annie, have just moved from Boise, Idaho, to a smaller Idaho town in hopes of

a new start. After some brushes with the law in Boise, Micah has promised his mother that he will stay out of trouble. But as bad luck would have it, Micah innocently falls into an incident that ends with the town sheriff escorting him home.

The mother is struggling financially, Annie is dangerously ill and the sheriff, much to Micah’s chagrin, finds his mother attractive. Annie becomes convinced that the manger that suddenly appears on Main Street is being built by “the angels” and confides in her non-believing brother that she “‘prayed that Jesus would come and make me better. The stable means He’s coming, Micah.

You wait and see. ... Mama said prayer makes miracles possible.’” Fearing his sister will die unless “Jesus comes” in the form of a doll, he sets out to get the doll for her, which leads to even more encounters with the sheriff.

As a family you’ll want to read this story in chapters, but don’t be surprised if you find yourself reading ahead to discover what happens.

“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” by Lloyd and Karmel Newell (Shadow Mountain, $21.95) This beautifully illustrated book (Dan Burr) tells the mostly unknown story of how Henry Wadsworth Longfellow came to write the poem “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” and how it eventually

By The Associated Press

Y NOW WITH Stephen King, it’s easy to think this is all kind of ridiculous. An invisible dome descending upon a small town in Maine? People trapped inside, trying to figure out what on Earth is going on and — as always in a Stephen King story — dying in droves?

Good Lord. Is the King of Really Heavy Books — the author who is a one-man argument for the hernia-preventing benefits of e-books — running out of viable plot devices?

This is, after all, the guy who wrote entire volumes about cell phones turning fellow citizens into ravenous zombies, about possessed and murderous 1958 Plymouths and about evil, immortal clowns who live in the sewers and prey upon children.

Really, now. How much gimmickry can one writer expect us to stomach?

Those statements are all completely fair and true. Trouble is, when it comes to “Under the Dome,” they’re also all entirely inaccurate.

Because “Under the Dome” is one of those works of fiction that manages to be both pulp and high art, that successfully — and very improbably — captures the national zeitgeist at this particularly strange and breathless period in American history.

The town of Chester’s Mill, Maine — just up the road from the equally fictional Castle Rock, home to so many of King’s unsettling yarns — is minding its own business one

dazzling October day when an unseen force field descends upon it, slicing in two pretty much anything that was crossing the edge of town at that moment.

What happens in ensuing days is even more unsettling. Except for Internet service and spotty cell-phone signals, the town is isolated and imprisoned in plain sight. And inside the dome, society slowly, inexorably, almost methodically begins to fall apart.

King is usually classified as a horror writer, but he is more of a chameleon than that. He’s capable of shifting from genre to genre at will, particularly in his short stories. “Under the Dome,” however, is such a hodgepodge of genres that it ends up transcending genre entirely, and in the best of ways. The most accurate way of characterizing it in a single line may be “Our Town” meets “Silent Spring” meets “Lord of the Flies.”

For it begins becoming evident, in the usual serpentine King way, that the environment and the way we treat it have

everything to do with why the dome is there and what it might mean. Coupled, of course, with some seriously non-rational things that are going on.

The chief protagonist, Dale Barbara, is a just-retired Army man who fought in Iraq and did some things he isn’t entirely proud of. He has repaired to Chester’s Mill as a fry cook, trying to lay low. But in the days before “Dome Day,” he runs afoul of some of the local cretins and becomes persona non grata through no fault of his own. In fact, he is trying to leave town when the dome falls and narrowly escapes becoming one of its first victims.

Barbara becomes one of the focal points in the us-vs.-them panic that overtakes Chester’s Mill like a slow-motion tidal wave, pushed along by the other focal point — “Big Jim” Rennie, the town boss, who is about as prosaically malevolent a character that King has ever devised and who has a no-good son to match.

What pushes “Under the Dome” forward is not so much its whodunit or whatdunit plot, though that is tighter and more well-structured than usual for a King novel, even at more than 1,000 pages. It’s how the characters treat each other and react to each other as they are forced together in their Biospherefrom-hell scenario.

And why not? Chester’s Mill in late 2009 is a microcosm of America at the same time, with all the angst and post-9/11 fear and suspicion of fellow citizens that pervades the entire repub-

became the hymn most Christians are familiar with. It is sure to become a family keepsake; included is a DVD titled “Longfellow’s Christmas.” This stunning book includes snippets of Civil War-era history and a heart-wrenching story about Longfellow’s frame of mind that compelled him to sit down on a Christmas day to pen the words we are all so familiar with more than 200 years later.

“Penny’s Christmas Jar Miracle” by Jason F. Wright (Shadow Mountain, $17.95) This book is a sequel to Wright’s New York best-selling book, “The Christmas Jar,” of a few years back. The illustrations (Ben Sowards) in this children’s book are magnificent and sure to mesmerize both young and old.

Penny and her family have been doing Christmas jars for

three years and this year it is her turn to decide what they will do with the money they have saved one coin at a time. Penny’s idea is to throw a never-to-be-forgotten party for the entire neighborhood, rather than giving all the money to a single person or family. When her good friend, Grandpa Charlie, becomes ill right before Christmas, she comes up with another idea that even tops the first one.

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Author Stephen King makes a face at 3½-year-old Jason Brock, unseen, who had King sign his new book, “Under the Dome,” at the Walmart in Dundalk, Md. King chose this store because it reportedly sells more of his books per capita than anywhere else in the country.

lic. Add to that the notion of an entire society being watched and watching itself through a translucent bubble — a realityTV metaphor if there ever was one — and you have novel as cultural document.

The end, and the resolution, are less important than the path taken to get there. As usual with King, it’s all seen through a funhouse mirror. And though the requisite supernatural elements

are there, the really troubling thing — as with so much in society today — is that the funhouse distortions of popular fiction are, to everyday America, more recognizable than ever.

The main reflection isn’t that of Frankenstein or Dracula or the Incredible Hulk. Instead, it looks a lot more like us. That’s how King, at his best, has always been. What’s really scary is that the world has caught up.

For those who aren’t familiar with the first book, add it to your list of Christmas reading.

The “Christmas Jar” movement also has a Web site, www.christmasjars.com, where people are encouraged to share their own “Christmas Jar” miracles.

best this year — hope you’ll join me. Happy Thanksgiving!

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One last note: in one of Volk’s stories, she speaks of having a “Christmas heart” all year-round. I’m going to try my

Book critic Charlene Hirschi holds her master’s in English from Utah State University. She 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.

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

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* This week’s New York Times Bestseller List * HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Ford County” by John Grisham 2. “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown 3. “Kindred in Death” by J. D. Robb 4. “The Gathering Storm” by Robert Jordan 5. “The Lacuna” by Barbara Kingsolver PAPERBACK (TRADE) FICTION 1. “Push” by Sapphire 2. “Bed of Roses” by Nora Roberts 3. “Say You’re One of Them” by Uwem Akpan 4. “The Shack” by William P. Young 5. “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson PAPERBACK (MASS-MARKET) FICTION 1. “Born of Fire” by Sherrilyn Kenyon 2. “The Associate” by John Grisham 3. “Cross Country” by James Patterson 4. “Your Heart Belongs to Me” by Dean Koontz 5. “Angels at Christmas” by Debbie Macomber

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

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Friday Bryce and Austin Wood will perform at 6 p.m. and J&L Jazz (John Wyllie and Linden Olson) will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza, 99 E. 1200 South, Logan. For more information, visit pier49logan.com.

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 Special Needs Mutual Activities Program will host a Gold and Green Ball, “Some Enchanted Evening,” from 7:30 to 11 p.m. Friday at 250 W. 1200 North in Logan. Music will be provided by D.J. Land.

Best dress or formal wear. Everyone is invited.

Singer/songwriter/cellist Emily Hope Price will perform will special guest Libbie Linton at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Brigham City Fine Arts Center (58 S. 100 West) as part of its Music in the City concert series.

Admission is $8 at the door; tickets are also available by calling 435-723-0740. Admission price includes $1 off dessert at Beehive Pizza after the show. For more information, visit www.bcfineartscenter.org.

USU’s second annual Physics Demonstration Show will be held at 7 p.m.

Friday in the Emert Auditorium, Room 130, of the Eccles Science Learning Center.

This year’s theme is “Waves and Sound.”

Admission is free. For more information, visit www.usu.edu/science/unwrapped.

Stokes Nature Center invites kids ages 2 and 3 to Parent Tot Nature Hour from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday. Explore animals, plants and nature through music, crafts and games. All toddlers must have a parent pal present. Cost is $3 ($2.50 for SNC members). To register, call 755-3239.

Mountain Crest High School’s Theatre Department will present “Bye Bye Birdie” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the school auditorium. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for students and seniors.

Curves of Cache Valley will be collecting frozen turkeys for the Food Pantry on Friday. Anyone wanting to donate can drop off a turkey between 8 a.m. and noon and 3 and 6 p.m. at any Cache Valley Curves location.

The “Give a Gobble” promotion also offers a special discount to anyone who brings in a turkey and signs up for membership. For more information, call 755-9293.

The Spirit Goat will host a Holiday Open House from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Browse Around Antique Shop, 180 W. 1200 South, Logan. Shop from a variety of goat’s milk soaps and other body products; polymer clay wearable and decorative art by Sharon Ohlhorst; fabric aprons, quilts and framed art

by Shirley Joffs; and unique antiques from more than 30 antique dealers.

This year’s Utah Mother of the Year, Dixie Clifford, will speak at 1:45 p.m. Friday

at Pioneer Valley Lodge, 2351 N. 400 East, North Logan. Dixie grew up in Paradise and graduated from South Cache High School.

Everyone is invited.

Steven Halliday will perform with Chris Bjornn and Jasharu (acoustic/jazz) at 8 p.m. Friday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover charge is $6. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whysound.

Saturday All over the world, storytelling enthusiasts 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 at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville. For a complete schedule, visit www.awhc.org.

Becky Kimball will perform at 6 p.m. and Paul Harbarth will perform at 7 p.m.

Saturday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza.

The Cache Valley Alternative Gift Market will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church, 178 W. Center, Logan. Enjoy shopping, children’s activities, learning about the projects and purchasing your alternative gifts of food, medicine, livestock or education to be sent to areas with great needs around the world and here at home. Lunch will be available. For more information, contact Lauri Muller at 881-3721 or Jenny Norton at 757-9660.

All proceeds will go to the Women’s Center scholarship fund. For more information, contact Michelle Bogdan at 797-1728.

The Lewiston Arts Council will present its 14th annual Lewiston Craft & Gift Boutique from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the Lewiston Community Ballroom. There will be door prizes, entertainment, an assortment of vendors and lunch and desserts offered

by Grandma’s Corner Bakery. Admission is free. All proceeds will go to the Lewiston City Playground Fund.

The Top of Utah Snowmobile Association will host its annual fall social and dinner at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Bridgerland Applied Technology College, 1301 N. 600 West (south end). Cost is $15 for adults, $7 for ages 7 to 17 and free for kids younger than 6. There will be lots of Dutch-oven food, live entertainment, door prizes and raffle/auction items. For more information, contact Kerry at 232-9052 or Kelly at 770-5007.

Please bring one canned food item per person for the local food bank and receive one free raffle ticket.

Dan Birsch and his piano students will perform at 3 p.m. Saturday at Pioneer Valley Lodge. Everyone is invited.

The annual “Smile on Your Brother” benefit show will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Why Sound.

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

Leon Parsons will host a fireside for the LDS Cache Singles 31 and Over group at 7 p.m. Sunday at 340 W. 700 South, Logan. For more information, visit www.cachesingles.org.

The Book Table with host a music workshop with Gerald Simon at 10 a.m.

Saturday. Admission is free and Simon’s books will be available for 20 percent off.

The Cache Chamber Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Kent Concert Hall at Utah State University. Admission is free and no tickets are required.

The Utah State University Aggie Marching Band will present its end-of-the-season concert, “Sounds of the Stadium,” at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday in the Kent Concert Hall at USU. The show will include musical highlights of the Marching Band’s 2009 season as well as traditional school songs and fan favorites.

Admission is $8 for the public or free for USU and school music students are admitted at no cost. For more information, visit www.usu. edu/music/ensembles/band or call 797-3004.

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.

The Museum of Anthropology’s “Saturdays at the Museum” series at Utah State University will host a day to celebrate food and culture around the globe. From 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., museum guests can taste an array of dishes and learn about their cultural significance. Recipes will also be available for guests to take home. For more information, call 797-7545.

USU First Lady Joyce Albrecht and The Advisory Board of USU’s Women’s Center will host a Holiday Open House from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the USU president’s home, 1417 E. 1300 North, Logan. There will be pottery, soaps, quilted goods, jewelry, stocking stuffers, hostess gifts, handbags and much more. Light refreshments will be served.

Monday Take your family ice skating every Monday at the Eccles Ice Center, 2825 N. 200 East, North Logan, and, for a limited time, receive an Olive Garden coupon for a free kids meal with every paid child’s skate admission. For more details, times and a complete schedule, visit www.ecclesice.com.

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will host a volunteer orientation at 6 p.m.

Monday at 335 N. 100 East, Logan. For more information, call 713-0288.

Macey’s will host a behind-the-scenes tour for kids ages 4 to 13 at 4:15 p.m.

Monday. Kids will learn more about the store’s departments and see what’s behind those “Employees Only” doors. Each child will receive a goody bag. Only 25 spots are available; call 753-3301.

Tuesday Health for Life will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Senior Center cafeteria, 240 N. 100 East, Logan. Licensed massage therapist and master herbalist Sharon Miller will discuss total body health. Everyone is invited.

OPTIONS for Independence will host a Low Vision Support Group at 2 p.m.

Tuesday at the Brigham City Senior Center.

For more information, call 753-5353 ext. 105.

Wednesday Scott Bradley will lead a “To Preserve the Nation” Constitution class at 7 p.m.

Wednesday at The Book Table. Participation is free and everyone is invited. For more information, call 753-2930 or 753-8844.

CNS Health Care will present a health talk at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at Pioneer Valley Lodge. Everyone is invited.

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.

Thursday 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 of this dinner. Those wishing to make a donation are encouraged to do so. Donations can be made to the Child & Family Support Center at Angie’s throughout the month of November.

Upcoming events Cache Valley Civic Ballet will present “The Nutcracker” at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 27, 28 and 30, with a Saturday matinee at 1:30 p.m., at the Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main, Logan.

Tickets are available at www.centerforthearts. us or by calling 752-0026. A Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Nov. 28 at the Bullen Center.

Music for the Small and Tall will present “Holiday Music for Kids and Families” from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 12, at The Book Table. Kids and parents can participate in many musical activities such as musical stories, games, songs, cookie decorating and more. For more information, contact Ewa Wilczynski at 755-0853 or music4st@ comcast.net, or visit sites.google.com/site/ music4st.

Bridgerland Literacy’s fifth annual Scrabble Tournament and Fundraiser will be held Friday, Jan. 29, at USU’s Taggart Student Center. Teams can register now at www. bridgerlandliteracy.org or call 716-9141 for more information. Evening will include a Scrabble tournament, silent auction, crossword challenge, giant Scrabble boards for spectators and more.

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