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Bullen Center hostsgraphic design exhibit

There are a thousand things that make each person unique, and I love discovering those details. I’m

talking about the quirky things that make a person special and rare.

For instance, my mother loves cot-ton candy so much she once drove an hour and a half to get some. My dad eats a giant bowl of cereal every night while watching the news.

I had a roommate once whose specialty was making spaghetti at midnight. Another loved Harry Potter so much she’d read the series at least five times and constantly had the books on CD in her car.

One of my friends is known for always having candy on him — so often that someone once told him he was like a piña-ta. He also has a whole drawer of candy in his room.

One of my coworkers is obsessed with matching. It’s to the point where he must

have 200 baseball hats in all different colors and shades. Another coworker and friend loves animals and trees more than anyone I know. Have a question about Alpines? Ask her. Want to know where to find a cute picture of a kitty online? She’ll know.

Tonight USU graphic design students are showcasing pieces of who they are with an exhibit at the Bullen Center. The theme of the night is “I AM,” and the designs are as different as the people who made them. Some are colorful, others are subtle, and there a bunch of them are abstract and thought-provoking.

If I were to design a portrait of me, it would include a sunflower somewhere, or maybe running shoes. There would pos-sibly be a map in the background because I’m always dying to travel. Or, maybe it could depict my irrational fear of ghosts or my love for pizza.

To see more of the creative designs by the students, flip to the middle of the maga-zine, and better yet, come to the exhibit.

— Manette NewboldCache Magazine editor

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Cache From the editor [email protected]

This design by USU student Becky Francom will be dis-played at a graphic design exhibit tonight at the Bullen

Center in Logan. Seniors in the graphic design program were assigned to cre-ate a portrait of themselves for the exhibit.

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Cute pet photo of the week

This cat is available for adoption!Pet: MagnumFrom: Four Paws RescueWhy he’s so lovable: Magnum is not just a P.I., he’s also a super loving, laid-back, affectionate cat. He has beauti-ful blue eyes and a wonderful disposition. He lost his home because his elderly own-ers could no longer care for him. Mag-num is looking for an indoor-only, loving, forever home.

The adoption fee for most Four Paws cats is $75, which includes spay/neuter and shots. Adopt Magnum with a friend for $125.

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‘Fast Five’ uses familiar formula of zooms and booms

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Start gathering animals

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Cache Symphony Orchestra performs Sunday

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Cache Community Food Pantry is hosting a garage sale in the warehouse behind the pantry on Saturday, April 30, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Come rain or shine for a wide variety of items. All proceeds will benefit the food pantry. Please help make this a suc-cess. Contact Mary at 753-1130 for more information.

On Saturday, April 30, the Logan University 7th stake will be host a community garage sale at Lee’s Marketplace in Logan (600 E. 1400 North). All

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Valley Dance Ensemble, Cache Valley’s own modern dance company, presents their spring con-cert, “Ricochet,” on Saturday, April 30, at 7 p.m. at the Ellen Eccles Theatre, downtown Logan. “Rico-chet” will feature Valley Dance Ensemble’s performing company and highlight the community dance

school. Original choreography by guest choreographers, Kristine Butler Ward and Celeste Nelson, and Valley Dance Ensemble company members will be performed. Explore a range of movement possibilities inspired by gravity, relationships, expectations, movement vocabularies and giraffes who can’t dance. Tickets are $12 for adults, $6 for students and children and $25 for families. They can be purchased at the Eccles Theatre box office, 752-0026 or online at www.cachearts.org.

Local modern dance company takes stage Saturday evening

Garage sale shopping this weekend?

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Did you know that more than

30,000 cats and dogs are euthanized in the state every year even though organizations like Four Paws Rescue of Utah have made great strides to reduce this number by rescuing them and adopting them out?

Four Paws Rescue is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization that is dedicated to helping homeless dogs and cats. The shelter has facilities for housing and care of dogs. They provide food, shelter and medi-cal care to homeless dogs and work to find permanent, loving homes for them. In an effort to help control the pet population, each pet is spayed or neu-tered prior to adoption.

In an effort to help with the costs of animal care, Mountain View Veterinary Health Cen-ter is hosting a walk-a-thon and Pet Health Fair

for Four Paws Rescue on Saturday, April 30, from 1 to 4 p.m. at their Providence location, 516 W. Golf Course Road. Your leashed and well-behaved pets are welcome.

The walk-a-thon reg-istration fee of $10 per person and is open to pets and their owners, or people who want to support Four Paws Res-cue. You do not have to have a pet to participate.

Informational booths from Science Diet, Home Again, Novartis, Boehringer Ingelheim, behavioral/training, grooming, first aid, wellness, alternative medicines (with acu-puncture and chiroprac-tic), equine health and a Super Star Pet demon-stration show.

There will be games, prizes, pet health care information and more.

For more information call 752-8251 or visit http://www.mtnviewvet.com.

Four Paws Rescue holds walk-a-thon

Cache Community Food Pantry is hosting a garage sale in the warehouse behind the pantry on Saturday, April 30, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Come rain or shine for a wide variety of items. All proceeds will benefit the food pantry. Please help make this a suc-cess. Contact Mary at 753-1130 for more information.

On Saturday, April 30, the Logan University 7th stake will be host a community garage sale at Lee’s Marketplace in Logan (600 E. 1400 North). All

money raised will go toward The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints humanitarian fund to support the victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami. Anyone may donate quality items to be sold at the garage sale. Donations can be dropped off at the LDS church at 1490 N. 400 East the week of the event. If you have large items, please call Russell Ivie at 435-881-0926 and he can come pick the items up for you. We will also accept items the morning of the event.

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The Jazz Kicks Band, sponsored by the USU

Music Department and led by Larry Smith, is giving a Spring Con-cert May 3 in the new Performance Hall on the USU campus. The concert begins at 7:30. Admission is $8. All students are admitted free.

The music of Count Basie will be performed in this concert. The popular Count Basie Band was one of the few big bands that kept touring long after most big band leaders had given up. The Basie band still continues to tour, though without the Count, who died in 1984.

Bill (Count) Basie was born in Red Bank, N.J. As a child, he studied piano with his mother. His first profes-sional jobs were accom-panying vaudeville acts. It was while traveling with a vaudeville act that Basie was stranded in Kansas City, Mo., around 1928. Soon he was playing with the top bands in Kansas

City. He was pianist for the Benny Moten band when Moten died after a tonsilectomy in 1935. Basie, with some of the stars of the Moten band, started his own seven-piece group and became very popular in KC. They played head arrangements in a loose rhythmic style that has become known as Kan-

sas City Swing.New York talent

scout, music critic, enthusiast and promoter John Hammond heard the band on the radio and went to KC to see if they were as good as they sounded. After he heard the band play, he convinced Basie to enlarge the band and go to New York City. The

Basie band went to New York by way of Chi-cago with many stops along the way, playing a lot of jobs to help get the new larger band into condition to play NYC. The Basie band eventually succeeded in NYC. Their recordings and performances have taught jazz musicians how to swing the music.

Pianist Liz Wool-ley is featured on “The Kid from Red Bank,” and tenor saxophonist Mike Reeder is soloist on “Wind Machine.” Andrew Watkins plays the trombone solo on

“In a Mellow Tone.” “Soft as Velvet” features the lush alto sax of Greg Wheeler. Drum-mer Jason Nicholson

solos on “Swingin’ the Blues.” Bassist and vocalist Jim Schaub will sing “Sent for You Yesterday (and here you come today)” and

“Every Day I Have the Blues.” “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” and “Trav’lin’ Light” will be sung by Monica Fronk.

The Jazz Kicks Band includes Greg Wheeler, Nathan Mensink, Larry Smith, Mike Reeder and Tyler Whittaker, saxophones; Hal Briggs, J. Paul Ward, Grayson Osborne, and Jared Nicholson, trumpets; Andrew Watkins, Jay Nygaard, Spencer Jen-sen and Todd Fallis, trombones; Liz Wooley, piano; Michael Frew, guitar; Jim Schaub, bass; Jason Nicholson, drums; and Monica Fronk, vocalist. Many of the band members played in the Crest-mark Orchestra that played for the popular Glenn Miller Show at USU. Now the band plays for the Celebrate America Show in early September at the TSC Ballroom.

Count Basie music celebrated next week

The Cache Symphony Orchestra will be perform-

ing their annual spring concert on Sunday, May 1, at the Kent Con-cert Hall at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free.

The orchestra will begin their performance with the Overture to Verdi’s opera La Forza del Des-tino, or “The Force of Destiny,” an intense and emotional piece that reflects the love, mystery and revenge found in the opera. This will be followed by Beethoven’s Symphony 7, one of his lesser-known but more beautiful works.

The orchestra will then feature two soloists. Caitlyn Clark will

perform the second movement from the Dvorak Cello Concerto. Caitlyn, 17, has worked with famed violinist, Jenny Oaks Baker, as well as members of the Utah Symphony, Jupiter Quartet, and Cypress Quartet. She teaches cello lessons and is considering a degree in music education.

Melanie Hicken will perform the first movement of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto. Melanie has been playing the violin since 3rd grade and also specializes in piano and vocal performance, par-ticipates in Logan High’s audition choir, and has participated in two school musicals.

The finale will be a piece writ-ten by the famous Johann Sebas-tian Bach, who is most known for his organ music. This Prelude and Fugue was arranged for orchestra by J.J. Abert and will finish off the concert in a traditional baroque style.

The Cache Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Robert Frost, is an 85+ member, all-volunteer group. Anyone interested in participating in or donating to the orchestra can send an email to [email protected]. More information can be found at www.CacheChamberOrchestra.Wordpress.com.

Community orchestra performing Sunday

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011MEET SARAH WHy SOunD’S

uPCOMing SHOWS

PiER 49’SuPCOMing SHOWS

Why Sound is located at 30 Federal Avenue in Logan. The following shows are $5.

Pier 49 Pizza is located north of Maceys on 1200 South in Logan.

Folk singer/songwriter

Photo by Jennifer Meyers

• “I released my first album last May and it was quite an adventure. I’d always dreamed of

recording a CD, so when I got the opportunity to re-cord in Salt Lake City with Russ Dixon I was ecstatic.”

• For her album, “Just Another Day,” Olsen’s dad would drive her to Salt Lake City every few weeks where she would record in the studio for six to eight hours a day.

• Someday Olsen would like to record a CD with kid songs.

• “My goal in music is to honor God. He has placed so many beautiful things in my life and in this world.”

• Last fall Olsen started playing with musicians Sam Wright on the mandolin and harmonica, and Jay Nygaard, who plays percussion.

• “I play guitar and sing my heart out, but really the boys do all the work. Jay plays a variety of drums, djembe, cajon, conga, shakers. Sam plays

his mandolin and harmonica and we’re working on using his banjo and bass skills soon.”

• She admires The Police, Led-Zeppelin, Crosby Stills and Nash, Neil Young and Journey, but says the music that really impacts her sound and lyrics “isn’t quite as rockin’.”

• “Anyone who knows me well can tell you that I love Sting. His music is amazing and if you pay attention to his lyrics you’ll notice they have a lot more meaning than is seen on the surface. He tells a story through them, like a window into his life, and I hope I can somehow catch a similar curiosity in the way I write.”

As a child Sarah Olsen would head out to her backyard and swing and sing for hours for all the neighborhood to hear. She grew up taking piano

lessons, and was raised on her dad’s favorite classic rock bands. In seventh grade Olsen picked up a guitar and never stopping playing. The 20-year-old from Young Ward now writes her own songs and performs locally a few times a month. A music therapy student at USU, Olsen says writ-ing, studying and playing music will be a part of her for a long, long time.

Saturday, April 30: Welcome to the Woods with Michael Dee and Tex will perform folk/country music at 8 p.m.

Friday, May 6: Third Strike with Nescience and Stankbot will perform rock/alternative music at 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 7: Poor Ophelia with Buffalo, Utah, and Jake Ballentine will perform acoustic music at 8 p.m.

Friday, May 13: Racecar Racecar with Paul Christiansen and Sarah Olsen will perform acoustic music at 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 14: Cache Valley Art Mixer (a fundraiser for Japan) will be held with Dut Dut, Dj Moon Tzu, Loo Jean and Swamp Donkey perform-ing acoustic, hip-hop and metal music at 8 p.m.

Tuesday, May 17: Skyler Smith with Amy Nguy-en will perform acoustic music at 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 21: Street Def presents Logan Hip-Hop Series #8 at 8 p.m. Artists to be announced.

Monday, May 23: Loo Steadman will perform acoustic music at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, May 25: Pernicious Wishes will per-form hip-hop/experimental music at 8 p.m.

Friday, May 27: Utah will perform rock music at 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 28: Tracing Yesterday will per-form rock music at 8 p.m.

solos on “Swingin’ the Blues.” Bassist and vocalist Jim Schaub will sing “Sent for You Yesterday (and here you come today)” and

“Every Day I Have the Blues.” “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” and “Trav’lin’ Light” will be sung by Monica Fronk.

The Jazz Kicks Band includes Greg Wheeler, Nathan Mensink, Larry Smith, Mike Reeder and Tyler Whittaker, saxophones; Hal Briggs, J. Paul Ward, Grayson Osborne, and Jared Nicholson, trumpets; Andrew Watkins, Jay Nygaard, Spencer Jen-sen and Todd Fallis, trombones; Liz Wooley, piano; Michael Frew, guitar; Jim Schaub, bass; Jason Nicholson, drums; and Monica Fronk, vocalist. Many of the band members played in the Crest-mark Orchestra that played for the popular Glenn Miller Show at USU. Now the band plays for the Celebrate America Show in early September at the TSC Ballroom.

Friday, April 29: Tyson Oswald and Austin Mul-lins will perform from 6 to 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 30: Acoustic classic rock group “Relic” will perform from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 4: Local easy listening group “City Heat,” featuring Bill Gabriel on guitar will per-form at 6:30 p.m.

“Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil”Rated PG★ Red Riding Hood needs a better agent. Months after being refashioned in a were-wolf tale, she’s back in this computer-animated sequel to the mostly forgotten 2005 original. The fractured fairy tale has returned with 3-D graphics, more polished animation and less wit. There was some madcap charm to the earlier “Hoodwinked!” which reinterpreted the story of Red Riding Hood as a “Rashomon”-style detective story. This sequel, directed by Mike Disa, takes the same characters and instead of refashioning a fairy tale, casts them in an action film plot. Red (Hayden Panettiere assuming Anne Hathaway’s role), Wolf (Patrick Warburton), Twitchy (an overcaffein-ated squirrel voiced by Cory Edwards) and Granny (Glenn Close) are now special agents in the Happily Ever After Agency. Led by the dapper, long-legged frog Nicky Flippers (David Ogden Stiers), they pursue the kid-napped Hansel (Bill Hader) and Gretel (Amy Poehler) when they’re taken by a witch (Joan Cusack). The frame is more “Mission: Impos-sible” than Brothers Grimm. The result is a more professional-look-ing film with less com-edy. If only the talented voice cast had written it, too. 85 minutes.

“Prom” Rated PG★★

1⁄2 It’s not just prom, it’s Disney’s “Prom.” And so no one smokes, no one sneaks in peach schnapps in a flask and no one gets lucky in the back of a limo. This

is all about that magical night when everyone gets together, regardless of the social hierarchy that had been firmly in place the past four years, and dreams come true. Wholesome, earnest dreams for wholesome, earnest kids — except for the resident bad boy, that is. But naturally, he’ll turn out to have a heart of gold. Yes, director Joe Nussbaum’s film, from a script by Katie Wech, is chock-full of high-school movie cliches — some-times knowingly and amusingly so. There’s a tall, misfit character named Lloyd (Nicholas Braun) who resembles

“Say Anything ...”-era John Cusack — a tall, misfit character named Lloyd. Of course, the straight-arrow good girl (Aimee Teegarden) will get stuck working with the motorcycle-riding rebel (Thomas McDonell), and they will see through their respective prejudices to

not only get along but fall for each other. Still, the sweetness and guileless-ness of “Prom” is actually strangely charming, and for its target audience

— girls who are several years away from having to pick out that perfect dress — this will be a safe, enjoyable and vali-dating little diversion. 103 minutes.

“Scream 4”Rated R★★

1⁄2 Ghostface’s 11-year layoff hasn’t made the

“Scream” franchise feel any fresher. But with a decent beginning, a mushy midsection and a killer ending, the lat-est installment at least doesn’t feel any staler. Honestly, it’s not an unwelcome thing to watch the return of Neve Camp-bell as the slasher victim who wouldn’t die, Court-ney Cox as the tabloid hack in bloodlust for a

story and David Arquette as the bumbling Barney Fife of fright-flick cops. Director Wes Craven has added an attractive young harvest of fresh meat on the victim and psycho front, led by Emma Rob-erts, Hayden Panettiere and Rory Culkin, along with amusing cameos from Anna Paquin, Kris-ten Bell and others.

“Scream 4” opens with the franchise’s usual pro-logue, this one modestly clever, heavier on laughs than suspense. But it gets the action rolling and the blood flowing for the main event: Campbell’s celebrity victim Sidney Prescott returns to her hometown on a book tour for her memoir about sur-viving her encounters with the various Ghostface slashers. Her arrival coin-cides with the anniversary of the original slayings, when the town’s teenage Sidney idolaters already are in a frenzy for the annual “Stabathon” party

built around the Holly-wood franchise inspired by her experiences. Of course, bodies pile up as a new Ghostface goes on a rampage. 111 minutes.

“Water for Elephants”Rated PG-13★★ There are times you should just keep on ignoring the elephant in the room, and this is one. Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson’s adap-tation of Sara Gruen’s bestselling novel about romance and intrigue in a Depression-era circus plods along at a pachy-derm’s pace. Wither-spoon and Pattinson are a three-ring snooze-fest together, bringing little passion to a love story supposedly so fiery, it blows the roof off the big top. Pattinson’s a desti-tute ex-veterinary student who falls in with circus folks, where he and the

show’s star (Witherspoon) fall in love while making friends with an elephant. The movie’s star attrac-tion is Christoph Waltz, who won an Academy Award as a gleefully psy-chotic Nazi in “Inglouri-ous Basterds” and here delivers another wicked performance as Wither-spoon’s hubby, the cruel, jealous circus ringleader. Waltz commands every moment that he’s on screen, highlighting how dull fellow Oscar-winner Witherspoon and “Twi-light” heartthrob Pattinson are. Director Francis Lawrence (“Constantine,” ‘’I Am Legend”) throttles down from action flicks and sputters through this treacly love triangle (or love quadrangle, if you throw in the elephant). 121 minutes.

— All reviews by The Associated Press

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new this week

Still playing

The “Fast and the Furious” fran-chise has lasted

this long because it’s all based on a simple prem-ise. People enjoy watch-ing fast cars zoom around on screen. Oh, and they occasionally blow up. As we all know frequent explosions really set the tone for the summer movie season.

“Fast Five” teams up all of the old characters. Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) returns as an exiled FBI agent who has just helped free Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) from prison. They head down to Rio to lay low. How-ever, they didn’t really count on the FBI sending in Agent Hobbs (Dwayne

“The Rock” Johnson) to hunt them down.

The movie makes the mistake of thinking that we care more about these characters than the inge-nious car chases they’ve thought up for this movie. Much of the time is spent dissecting their uninter-esting past. Brian opines about how his dad was never there, and what kind of dad he’ll end up being. Mia (Jordana Brewster) is pregnant, which is just another silly subplot that goes nowhere. I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but in a “Fast and the Furi-ous” movie, I want less forced characterization and more cars going boom!

Dominic and Brian soon find out that where they are in Rio is run by a Brazilian Scarface wan-nabe. Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida, who always seems to be stuck play-ing the Latin bad guy in movies) is his name, and oppressing the poor is his game. He has cash hous-

es all over Rio where he stashes his illegally obtained money in order to keep it off the books so to speak. After a botched car robbery on a train, which is pretty spectacu-lar in its own right, Domi-nic and Brian find a com-puter chip containing the whereabouts of every one of Reyes’ cash houses. In one fell swoop the movie transforms into a hip-hop version of “Ocean’s 11.” They don’t have the swagger and charisma as Clooney and the gang, but this rag-tag bunch of street racers has all of a sudden adapted. They are suddenly computer geniuses with unlimited cash flow. They mock up training courses like in

“The Italian Job,” in order to make sure everything goes according to plan.

Director Justin Lin and his editors follow the tired editing cliché in modern day action mov-ies where no shot should last longer than a second. Hand-to-hand combat scenes, especially a brutal beating between Dominic

and Hobbs, are almost impossible to tell who is who. The camera swings around violently and the editing is lightning quick. This gives off the sem-blance that something really crazy is happening.

At 130 minutes long, the middle of “Fast Five” drags, and it soon becomes apparent that much of what they prac-ticed in their warehouse was completely useless anyway. Enough about the plot. The plot only serves one purpose, and that purpose is to move us from one action set-piece to another, culmi-

nating in a car chase that revels in the destruction of public property. That’s what we came to “Fast Five” to see.

“Fast Five” entertains on a summer movie sea-son level. It may, at times, try too hard to get us to care about its wooden

characters, but at least it tries. All we really want to see is fast cars and get an idea what its multi-million dollar budget paid for. In that aspect “Fast Five” succeeds. It’s a horsepower, testosterone-fueled thrill ride. With summer action movies right around the corner, I don’t think we’d have it any other way.

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i am.story by chuck nunn

USU graphic design portraits to be displayed at exhibit

Graduating graphic design students in Utah State University’s Caine College of the Arts Art Department have put on a year-end exhibition for years. But this time around, there are a few new wrinkles to

the show, and this year’s graduating class is hoping to make it a night to remember.

The students have partnered with the Logan Down-town Alliance, bringing their show to the Bullen Cen-ter. And a heavy-hitting list of sponsors such as Gia’s, The Beehive Grill, Great Harvest Bread Company, Iron Gate Grill, Crumb Brothers, Cafe Ibis and Cache Valley Center for the Arts will be on hand to provide food and other types of support geared toward mak-ing the exhibition a real community event for all of Cache Valley, not just USU students and their fami-

lies, to enjoy.Here’s how it came about. At the beginning of the

semester, Associate Professor Alan Hashimoto had his students split up into groups to determine proposi-tions for the show and what identity the exhibit would have.

One of those groups came up with the idea of tak-ing this year’s show off USU campus and into the thick of things, and they thought the Bullen Center would be a great place to make that happen. Jeremy Wilkins, one of the 38 students who will be featured in the show, was part of that group.

“We just liked the idea of having an arts-based show in an art community, down in the arts district down there,” Wilkins said. “We felt it was a good fit; it’s a big open area. And I think that’s where the idea

stemmed to approach Gary Saxton of the Alliance and see if they wanted to get involved with it.”

The students determined the identity of the show to be “I AM,” with the idea being that their show should be as much about themselves as about their art.

“Kind of with the identity of the show as a whole, we wanted to represent that the graphic design department up here, we’re all different,” Wilkins said. “We’re all individuals.”

The center, at 43 S. Main in Logan and adjacent to the Ellen Eccles Theatre, enjoys a recognizable pres-ence in a location central to Cache Valley, and there is also plenty of free parking nearby. The show will take place tonight from 6 to 9 p.m.

Meet six of the 38 students who will be part of tonight’s exhibition:

Mckall Rowley Played tennis for Southern Utah University

About Mckall’s design: “I was going for more kind of like a memorable kind of shot, and I wanted something unique and something where people, if they knew me, they knew it was me. But then other people are like ‘Who is this?’ So when they come to the show and they see, they’re like ‘Oh, now that’s what you look like!’ So it’s kind of a cool thing I just wanted to do that made it a lot different.”

Kory Fenton Graduating magna cum laude

About Kory’s design: “Basically, I’m a pretty literal person, so when we were talking about the faces, I fig-ured I’d just do my face. And more than anything, I have a style of design that I enjoy doing, so that’s what I went with. I love textures, I love intricate designs, I like subtle things that you have to get up close and notice.”

Mandy Booth Changed majors from music to graphic design

About Mandy’s design: “Originally I had Jeremy take a picture of myself with a piece of duct tape across my mouth. But when I took the picture into Illustrator to give it that live-trace look ... , it didn’t work very well. And honestly my design is kind of an accident. I got frustrated, and I just started scribbling around, and I realized that the scribbling worked bet-ter than the duct tape, so I went with it.”

Jeremy WilkinsBesides his family, design and music are his life

About Jeremy’s design: “I wanted to represent myself as an individual and what makes me who I am. So the type that is conveyed on the poster, differ-ent attributes or different things that make me who I am: designer, husband, father, printmaker, photogra-pher, all these different things.”

Becky FrancomGraduating in design after five years at USU

About Becky’s design: “I didn’t necessarily want a whole picture of my face, because I’m kind of a shy person, and I’d rather people not know who that is. So I cropped it on my eye, because that’s the most recog-nizable part of my face. And I put it behind a crop line also, kind of hiding, shy, because I feel like that’s my personality, and that’s what I wanted to show.”

Matt MasonMarried with two kids

About Matt’s design: “It’s a picture of myself, but the picture’s not actually there. It’s all type to create the highlights and the lowlights and stuff like that. I used words that meant something to me, like family and design, things I use in my life, things that are close to me. I just wanted to represent myself through the words. It’s very recognizable, you can tell it’s me. It’s not very abstract, but at the same time I just used words that are important to me.”

i am.story by chuck nunn

USU graphic design portraits to be displayed at exhibit

Graduating graphic design students in Utah State University’s Caine College of the Arts Art Department have put on a year-end exhibition for years. But this time around, there are a few new wrinkles to

the show, and this year’s graduating class is hoping to make it a night to remember.

The students have partnered with the Logan Down-town Alliance, bringing their show to the Bullen Cen-ter. And a heavy-hitting list of sponsors such as Gia’s, The Beehive Grill, Great Harvest Bread Company, Iron Gate Grill, Crumb Brothers, Cafe Ibis and Cache Valley Center for the Arts will be on hand to provide food and other types of support geared toward mak-ing the exhibition a real community event for all of Cache Valley, not just USU students and their fami-

lies, to enjoy.Here’s how it came about. At the beginning of the

semester, Associate Professor Alan Hashimoto had his students split up into groups to determine proposi-tions for the show and what identity the exhibit would have.

One of those groups came up with the idea of tak-ing this year’s show off USU campus and into the thick of things, and they thought the Bullen Center would be a great place to make that happen. Jeremy Wilkins, one of the 38 students who will be featured in the show, was part of that group.

“We just liked the idea of having an arts-based show in an art community, down in the arts district down there,” Wilkins said. “We felt it was a good fit; it’s a big open area. And I think that’s where the idea

stemmed to approach Gary Saxton of the Alliance and see if they wanted to get involved with it.”

The students determined the identity of the show to be “I AM,” with the idea being that their show should be as much about themselves as about their art.

“Kind of with the identity of the show as a whole, we wanted to represent that the graphic design department up here, we’re all different,” Wilkins said. “We’re all individuals.”

The center, at 43 S. Main in Logan and adjacent to the Ellen Eccles Theatre, enjoys a recognizable pres-ence in a location central to Cache Valley, and there is also plenty of free parking nearby. The show will take place tonight from 6 to 9 p.m.

Meet six of the 38 students who will be part of tonight’s exhibition:

Mckall Rowley Played tennis for Southern Utah University

About Mckall’s design: “I was going for more kind of like a memorable kind of shot, and I wanted something unique and something where people, if they knew me, they knew it was me. But then other people are like ‘Who is this?’ So when they come to the show and they see, they’re like ‘Oh, now that’s what you look like!’ So it’s kind of a cool thing I just wanted to do that made it a lot different.”

Kory Fenton Graduating magna cum laude

About Kory’s design: “Basically, I’m a pretty literal person, so when we were talking about the faces, I fig-ured I’d just do my face. And more than anything, I have a style of design that I enjoy doing, so that’s what I went with. I love textures, I love intricate designs, I like subtle things that you have to get up close and notice.”

Mandy Booth Changed majors from music to graphic design

About Mandy’s design: “Originally I had Jeremy take a picture of myself with a piece of duct tape across my mouth. But when I took the picture into Illustrator to give it that live-trace look ... , it didn’t work very well. And honestly my design is kind of an accident. I got frustrated, and I just started scribbling around, and I realized that the scribbling worked bet-ter than the duct tape, so I went with it.”

Jeremy WilkinsBesides his family, design and music are his life

About Jeremy’s design: “I wanted to represent myself as an individual and what makes me who I am. So the type that is conveyed on the poster, differ-ent attributes or different things that make me who I am: designer, husband, father, printmaker, photogra-pher, all these different things.”

Becky FrancomGraduating in design after five years at USU

About Becky’s design: “I didn’t necessarily want a whole picture of my face, because I’m kind of a shy person, and I’d rather people not know who that is. So I cropped it on my eye, because that’s the most recog-nizable part of my face. And I put it behind a crop line also, kind of hiding, shy, because I feel like that’s my personality, and that’s what I wanted to show.”

Matt MasonMarried with two kids

About Matt’s design: “It’s a picture of myself, but the picture’s not actually there. It’s all type to create the highlights and the lowlights and stuff like that. I used words that meant something to me, like family and design, things I use in my life, things that are close to me. I just wanted to represent myself through the words. It’s very recognizable, you can tell it’s me. It’s not very abstract, but at the same time I just used words that are important to me.”

This alleged spring has got me thinking about boats of biblical

proportions. Could the world flood happen again and, if so, how would we handle it? Would we utilize current cruise ships and a military flotilla? Certainly the hippos and otters would be more comfortable in the cruise ship swimming pools and giraffes could stretch their legs on the decks of air craft carriers. Subma-rines might be nice places for bats and hibernating beasts.

One of the many things that weren’t clear in the first edi-tion of the flood was how birds and aquatic animals handled the circumstances. While humans and terrestrial animals took the news pretty hard, I imagine the whales, salmon and sharks being quite happy with the turn of events. What-ever god our finned friends pray to, they must have felt like someone was listening. Would they swim alongside the ark or just go about their

business and taunt us from their newly enlarged habitat? Would the birds and insects fly around all day and just roost on the boats at night? We have to work these things out.

Maybe we could make a giant floating island out of the billions of plastic bottles we have been throwing away.

Will the flood come like fill-ing a swimming pool or like a Tsunami? All the satellites will still be whirling around out there in space so will we still have internet and satellite TV? Speaking of space, why limit the ark exodus to Earth, why not just blast off and start look-ing for other planets? There are countless movies about other aliens trying to lay claim to Earth, why couldn’t we cruise the universe looking for a new place to plant our flags and corn?

There are so many choices to ponder on a rainy day.

I know the biblical version made sure that all the animals temporarily got along on the single ark but with all the extra space we would have today, we could just let the food chain continue letting animals eat whom they usually eat so long as we keep the populations in check. We probably wouldn’t have to let as many people drown with all these cruise ships. Of course the other

question is could we humans all get along? Just think how cranky your family gets on a long road trip in a minivan. It would be like that times 100. Thirty or 40 years of “are we there yet?”

It’s an interesting intellectu-al exercise but I doubt I will be offered a seat when the flood comes down. At my age I wouldn’t be considered a good candidate for repopulating a post-flood world, but maybe I could get on as a member of the crew. I think I would make a really good, cranky old door man.

“Okay stop all that squawk-ing; everyone needs to be patient, we’ve got a long line here,” I would announce on a bullhorn.

“Unicorns? Seriously, get out of here; you’ll put somebody’s eye out.” Next…

“Nematodes, I know you are there somewhere come on board.”

“Monkeys, sorry we don’t want any swingers; this is

couples cruise. Hah! I love that joke, just kidding; come on board”

“Okay rabbits; separate rooms until we land.”

“Bed bugs? No way. We’re learning from our mistakes this time.”

“Big foot? Oh sure you show up now. Where have you been hiding? Mind if I take a couple pictures?”

“Table for two, table for two, that’s all I hear all day long,” I’d say.

I probably wouldn’t really be very good at the job. Chances are I’ll be left to sleep with the fishes in the flood sequel.

Dennis Hinkamp is probably

taking this wet weather a little too seriously. 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 news-paper. Feedback at [email protected].

Slightly Off CenterBy Dennis Hinkamp

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I’m about ready to build a boat this spring

utah Festival Opera and Musi-cal Theatre is proud to

sponsor the first annual Utah High School Musical Theater Awards in 2011, a musical theater scholarship program that rewards excellence at the high school level. Approxi-mately 400 students from 10 high schools across the state will be performing their top musical numbers on the stage of the Kent Concert Hall April 30 at 7 p.m. Winners will be announced that evening by the event emcee Michael Ballam.

Beginning in 2010, represen-tatives from UFOMT traveled across the state to judge high school productions. Nominated schools and artists will show-case numbers from a variety of Broadway shows during this energetic evening. Artists from Logan and Sky View high schools have been nominated to

participate.The winner of Best Actor and

Best Actress categories will be sent to New York City to participate in the National High School Musical Theater Awards where they will take part in

rehearsals and master classes; receive one-on-one coaching from theater professionals; be seen by casting agents and meet and converse with Broadway actors. These events culminate in a live awards show hosted by

Broadway veterans and televi-sion personalities, featuring the presentation of the Jimmy™ Award for Best Performance by an Actress and Best Perfor-mance by an Actor.

Tickets are $18.50 for adults,

$14.50 for students and $6.50 for participants. Group dis-counts are available. Call the USU box office at 435-797-8022 or visit www.arts.usu.edu to purchase. The Jimmy™ Award for Best Performance by an Actress and Best Perfor-mance by an Actor is awarded annually to two grand prize winners selected from a group of student performers represent-ing participating professional theaters. Winners are selected by a panel of industry experts. Prizes and scholarships will vary by year and have not yet been announced for 2011. Scholarships will include the opportunity for merit and need-based assistance to attend NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, New Studio on Broadway: Acting and Music Theatre con-tingent upon acceptance into the New Studio and New York University.

Awards show highlights high school theater

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Are there really two Alices in the adapted story of “Alice In Wonder-land” entitled “Follow That Rabbit?” Everyone is invited to come and find

out! Thomas Edison Charter School South Campus will be presenting this musi-cal Thursday, May 5, at 6:30 p.m. at the school, 1275 W. 2350 South, Nibley. Admission is free.

Queen and King of Hearts, Red Queen, White Queen, White Rabbit and many other crazy and zany characters will engage the audience with confusion and song in this adapted fairy tale story written by Tim Kelly. Music is by Pam Hughes and the show is under the direction of Katie McKay, Thomas Edison South’s general music and choir teacher.

Thomas Edison Charter School presents adaption of classic tale

Culture

By The Associated Press

nEW yORK — When most suc-

cessful actors thank their moms for helping their careers, few are as literal as Ben Stiller.

Back as a 20-year-old wannabe actor just start-ing out in New York in the mid-1980s, Stiller was auditioning with various degrees of failure when he heard about a new pro-duction of the play “The House of Blue Leaves.”

Try as he might, Stiller couldn’t arrange an audi-tion. “The casting director had seen me in something and didn’t think I was right,” he recalls. “So I asked my mom — the only time I asked my mom to help me.”

Stiller’s mother, Ann Meara, was the right per-son to call. She had been in the first ever production of “The House of Blue Leaves” off-Broadway in 1971. She knew the play-wright, John Guare, and called him up.

“That’s the last thing you want to do in the world as an actor. You know the deck is stacked against you and that it’s a favor,” Stiller says. “But I really, really wanted the opportunity on it.”

The phone call worked: Stiller auditioned for the first time while the other actors were in final call-backs and yet managed to win the small but rich part of Ronnie Shaughnessy, a troubled young man to say the least.

He stayed with the show when it made the jump to Broadway and

used it as a launching pad for a career in film and TV that has veered from the adult “Greenberg” to the kiddie “Night at the Museum.”

How grateful is he to his mom?

“I owe my parents everything,” Stiller says, smiling.

Flash-forward a quarter century: Stiller is back on Broadway in the very same play. This time, he’s playing the father of his old character, alongside Jennifer Jason Leigh and Edie Falco.

The role puts Stiller in a love-triangle of sorts, torn between staying with his mentally-ill wife, played by Falco, or fleeing to Los Angeles with his mistress, played by Leigh. The role also required Stiller to learn to play piano and sing.

Director David Cromer has been deeply impressed by Stiller’s attitude. “He’s just a workhorse,” says Cromer.

“When we were on a

break, he was playing the piano. When I came in the room in the morning, he was sitting with the script. When I left at night, he was running lines with somebody.”

Stiller acknowledges that he was intimidated at first to tackle the part, having fond memories of John Mahoney playing the part opposite Swoosie Kurtz and Stockard Chan-ning. But he thinks he and Falco and Leigh have cre-ated a new legacy.

Stiller says that though he’s now a star, he still identifies with his char-acter’s longing for fame and recognition. On three different occasions, Artie Shaughnessy cries out that he’s “too old to be a young talent.”

“As an actor, I can relate to all of it. I think any actor can, no matter what level of success you have. It’s show business, you know? There’s always been a premium on youth in show business going way back,” he says.

Ben Stiller returns tofamiliar Broadway play

Samantha Perez, Samantha Larkin, Madison Bidinger, Kaylee Hunsaker, Sadie Topham and Natalie Howe will be performing in “Follow That Rabbit” at Thomas Edison Chart School next week.

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By The Associated Press

if you like your love sto-ries sweeping and wrapped in

history, "The Sandal-wood Tree" by Elle Newmark has it all.

The narrative switches between India in two generations, the mid-19th century and post-World War II. The 1947 narrator is Evie, an American whose marriage is on the rocks after her husband returned a changed man from the war. When he wins a Fulbright scholarship to document the end of British colonial rule in India, the family (they have a 5-year-old son, Billy) joins him for an exotic adventure that Evie hopes will be a new beginning

Memoir highlights long-term health care challenges

‘The Sandalwood Tree’an intriguing mystery

The Cache Magazine Bulletin Board

“Evelyn’s Christmas Song”

By Evelyn Casperson, age 4

If you go north and north,

that’s the same place.

And if you go west and west,

that’s the same place.

And whenever you’re there, you’re there,

and that’s the same place.

Yes indeed, yes indeed.

And everywhere should be there.

If you’re always west, then you’re always west.

You’re always there to always there.

“Monkey Junkie”By Kai Casperson, age 3

Monkey junkie,Little bit of hunkie.If you catch a Big BearAnd hold it, It will kill you.You sleepWhen it’s nighttime.If you throw your pants At the BearIt will die.Then mommy say“No throwing your pants outside!”

“Touch the Sun”By Emily Daines, age 12 I see in the spring the blossoming flowersI smell the fresh cut grassI feel the blowing windI taste the fresh food from the gardenI hear the birds chirping loudlyI touch the sun as it touches me back

“The Loving Girl”

By Hannah Jane Christison, age 7

Rain like sweet honey falling

from her soul with loving care,

and with her nightingale beside her,

she has love for every creature there.

“The Toppled Playing Cards”

By Sophia Thimmes, age 12

The grieving eyes

were so jinxed by remorse

That their lullabies

became soundless.

And the once glints of happy

Now became flecks of crackle.

Witnessing such sorrow,

The playing cards toppled

Downwards in despair.

They stumbled

until they stacked themselves skyward

in colorful commotion.

But the voice of their jest

was but a wistful whisper

to the ears of the eyes.

And seeing so,

the cards slipped glumly

so that their grief aligned with that of the eyes’.

Their combined anguish

Was hesitantly hushed

By the blue bird

that chirped its calming melody overhead.

Their celebratory smiles

Were delicious upon their once long faces.

“I Feel Like I’m Dancing on a Giant Cloud”

By Delilah Rose Thimmes, age 4

Sparkles are wonderful.I love them.My Mom keeps telling me, “Yes! Yes! Yes!”My cousin loves them, too.I love them, I love them, I love them.

Sparkles are beautiful.

How I love them.

I feel like I’m dancing on a cloud, and my mom keeps telling me, “No, no, no.”

After I do all that,I just smell flowers every day,And then my Mom tells me, “Yes! Yes! Yes!”

“The Wind”

By Eva Thimmes, age 7

The sun is up,

And the grass is down.

The wind blows the grass slowly.

“Wish, wish,” the wind says.

“Wish,” the wind keeps saying.

“Clink,” go the bells.

Clink, wish, clink, wish, clink, wish.

The wind blows harder.

The bells clink louder.

Clink, clink, clink!

Louder and louder and louder:

Clink, clink, clink!

Faster and faster the wind blows.

Wish, wish, wish!

“My Grandpa”By Shardon Morrill, age 11

My grandpa shot a deer.My grandpa shot it once.My grandpa won a rifle.He did it with his touch.And now it’s on our wallYeah, it’s kind of creepy.Especially when it turns its headAnd says, “Hey there, buddy!”

“Dogs”By Sam Morrill, age 7 Dogs dryDogs dieDogs do want to eat pieDogs die from chocolate pie.

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PAPERBACK TRADE FICTION1. “Water for Elephants,” by Sara Gruen2. “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett3. “The 9th Judgment,” by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro4. “Cutting For Stone,” by Abraham Verghese5. “The Art Of Racing In the Rain,” by Garth Stein

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “Chasing Fire,” by Nora Roberts2. “The Land of the Painted Caves,” by Jean M. Auel3. “The Fifth Witness,” by Michael Connelly4. “I’ll Walk Alone,” by Mary Higgins Clark5. “44 Charles Street,” by Danielle Steel

PAPERBACK NONFICTION1. “Heaven Is For Real,” by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent2. “The Immortal ... Henrietta Lacks,” by Rebecca Skloot3. “Born to Run,” by Christopher McDougall4. “Inside of a Dog,” by Alexandra Horowitz5. “The Other Wes Moore,” by Wes Moore

HARDCOVER NONFICTION1. “Bossypants,” by Tina Fey2. “Unbroken,” by Laura Hillenbrand3. “I’m Over All That,” by Shirley MacLaine4. “63 Documents ... You To Read,” by Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell5. “All That Is Bitter and Sweet,” by Ashley Judd with Maryanne Vollers

Keep your reading list updatedat www.nytimes.com/pages/books/

* This week’s New York Times Best-seller List *

Books

By The Associated Press

if you like your love sto-ries sweeping and wrapped in

history, "The Sandal-wood Tree" by Elle Newmark has it all.

The narrative switches between India in two generations, the mid-19th century and post-World War II. The 1947 narrator is Evie, an American whose marriage is on the rocks after her husband returned a changed man from the war. When he wins a Fulbright scholarship to document the end of British colonial rule in India, the family (they have a 5-year-old son, Billy) joins him for an exotic adventure that Evie hopes will be a new beginning

for them all.It's not long after they move

into their bungalow that Evie discovers a stash of letters

behind a kitchen wall. In epistolary style, we're then introduced to Felic-ity Chadwick and Adela Winfield, young British women who fail to find husbands in England and are shipped off to India by their families in the hope they'll have better luck there. They make

their home from 1856 to 1858 in the bungalow Evie resides. Perhaps the mystery of what happened to Felicity and Adela will somehow help Evie find her own peace.

By The Associated Press

Decades after screen star Bette Davis famously

declared that "growing old is not for sissies," Estelle Gross expanded on the woes of the ailing aged with her lament that people live too long and die too slowly.

On the day after the Sept. 11 attacks, after helping cover that story for The New York Times, an exhausted Jane Gross was finally able to drop by the nursing home a few miles north of ground zero where her mother had just moved to what would be her final residence. In a furious maternal vent, she greeted her daughter by saying, "I wish those planes had hit this build-ing."

Gross was a feisty octo-genarian with a grab bag of chronic conditions that for nearly three years forced her

to rely on others to carry out the simplest of daily activi-ties. On the other hand, her cognitive abilities remained sharp until the end, a contrast to many others in her nursing home who endured the ravag-es of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia.

Gross' ordeal, and that of her daughter as principal care-giver, is one that is becoming more widespread as baby boomers are compelled to reverse the roles of their child-hood and take on the chal-lenging task of becoming their parents' parents.

In her book, "A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents —and Ourselves," Gross, who went on to launch a blog called The New Old Age, recounts her own expe-riences in shepherding her mother through the intricacies and indignities of long-term care.

The narrative begins in 2000 with Estelle Gross' move from Florida to New York, a "reverse migration" that is becoming more common for parents who need chronic care. It ends in 2003, when she dies at 88 in a nursing home after a decline that left

her paralyzed, incontinent, unable to speak and unable to eat on her own.

An incisive reporter with a fine eye for detail, Gross laces her account of her mother's decline and its impact on her own life with suggestions and warnings for other caregivers who find themselves in simi-lar situations: Avoid the chaos of hospital emergency rooms, assume that costs associated with long-term care are not reimbursable by Medicare, find a family doctor, internist or — best of all — a geriatri-cian to manage the inevitable cascade of medical problems.

Gross recounts a succession of middle-of-the-night phone calls, emergency summonses from the workplace, financial costs that swiftly escalate and the need to play social engineer to ensure that nurs-ing home staff aren't slacking off when the need arises to

change diapers or prevent bed sores.

"Once a parent has passed eighty-five, easy and afford-able passings are few and far between. Believing you're going to get one is magical thinking," she writes.

The book is written from the perspective of the caregiver — more often a daughter than a son — whose relationship with the parent can be fraught with decades of resentment and other family baggage. In the author's case, however, the ordeal brought her closer to her mother.

The path isn't smooth, but rather an all-consuming and emotional roller coaster ride that Gross describes as "living in a soup of fear, guilt, heart-break, resentment, loneliness, and exhaustion from bearing the weight of so much respon-sibility."

Memoir highlights long-term health care challenges

‘The Sandalwood Tree’an intriguing mystery

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Science Unwrapped presents “Eco-nomics of Climate Change 101” Friday, April 29, at 7 p.m. in the Eccles Science Learning Center Auditorium on the USU campus. Featured speaker for the free presentation is Arthur Caplan of USU’s Department of Applied Econom-ics. All ages are invited. Refreshments and learning activities follow the lecture, including a screening of the USU-produced short documentary “Wind Uprising.” For more information, call 797-3517 or visit www.usu.edu/science/unwrapped.

Stokes Nature Center’s Wine Party Fundraiser, will be held Friday, April 29, at 6:30 p.m. at The Italian Place. The party is in honor of Chris Sands and Barbara Farris for their many years on the SNC Board and their continuing volunteer efforts. There will be wine, appetizers, music, a raffle, and other opportunities to contribute to SNC’s school and community nature education programs. Tickets are $40 and can be purchased by calling 435-755-3239 or online at www.logannature.org.

Logan High School will continue

Robert Fulghum’s “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” on April 29, 30 and May 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Logan High School auditorium. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for stu-dents and children and are available at the door.

Common Ground Outdoor Adven-tures will host a hiking activity Friday, April 29 from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 28. Cost is $3. We will be hiking on the northern end of the Wellsville Mountains. Make sure to wear good hiking shoes, jacket, gloves and bring water. Also, a camera and binoculars would work

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sp.22. Acceding to others’

wishes for the sake of peace

25. Soup and salad, e.g.26. Not yet final, at law27. Oz protagonist Doro-

thy28. “Who ___?”29. Popular insulator31. Small salmon34. Wilt37. “The Black Cat”

writer38. Juice fruit40. Man Ray’s genre41. Mouths44. It might hold the solu-

tion45. Belted sword sup-

ports47. Go downhill fast?48. Bounced51. Put on52. Eggplant and lamb

casserole54. Maintaining the

peace, in a way59. Maximum60. Construction site

sight61. Time on end62. Popeye’s affirmative63. Think tank output66. Stimulating leaf67. Colorado resort69. Won an overwhelm-

ing victory73. Half a dance?75. Trash

76. Roast host78. Océano feeder79. Easiest route86. Planetariums87. Robert Burns’s

“Whistle ___ the Lave O’t”88. Bedsheet count89. Swell place?90. Shlepped93. Freshwater fish95. Package97. Jiffs98. Say before thinking99. Blubber102. Made a fast stop?103. Corset part104. Crumbs105. Spiny-leafed plant106. It was introduced

in 1912109. Kind of party111. Arm-twisting114. Accepted difficulties120. Be plentiful121. Iota preceder122. Sustenance123. Boar’s abode124. Sin city125. Some fingerprints

Down1. Debauchee2. Pique3. Its capital is St.-

Étienne4. ___ of Court5. Orchestra alternative6. Dutch humanist7. Wheat ___ (round-

worm parasitic)8. Membranous sacs9. Getup10. Cable or zoom pre-

ceder11. New beginning?12. .0000001 joule13. It could be pro

14. Girasol, e.g.15. Except if16. Unduly17. Dusk, to Donne18. Rug type23. “___ Upon a Mat-

tress” (Mary Rodgers musi-cal)

24. Latin “I”25. Edible mushroom30. Press coverage32. Roulette bet33. Tone qualities35. Very, in music36. “Wall St.” character38. Responded in court39. Pie cuts, essentially40. Put in stitches?41. Shields42. Subjects to chemical

analysis43. Capital of ancient

China44. Raiding grp.45. Plant material used

as fuel46. It comes with a

charge48. Island near Java49. “Metamorphoses”

author50. Portend51. Mimosa family shrub53. Potpourri55. “30 Rock” network56. Earth science expert57. Hot58. Gadabout64. Must or pan follower65. Brief movies68. “Fantasy Island” prop70. Coastal raptor71. Printing font72. Pigeon-___74. Intensely interested77. Ethyl acetate, e.g.79. Prepare to be shot

80. Combat zone81. Place to build82. Rustic locale83. Low digits84. “Take ___!”85. Chair part91. Sleep-disturbing

legume?92. Cut down93. Club alternative94. Large fungi genus96. Ancient God of the

winds98. Highlands hillside99. Patron100. Places to sleep101. Appetite103. Boar’s mate104. Old Celtic alphabet105. Grayish107. Split108. Christian Science

founder110. Dog in “Beetle

Bailey”112. The U of “Law &

Order: SVU”113. Ne plus ultra114. 50 Cent piece115. Sapporo sash116. Taffrail ___117. Start of a wonderful

life?118. Notwithstanding

that, briefly119. Goombah

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Robert Fulghum’s “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” on April 29, 30 and May 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Logan High School auditorium. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for stu-dents and children and are available at the door.

Common Ground Outdoor Adven-tures will host a hiking activity Friday, April 29 from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 28. Cost is $3. We will be hiking on the northern end of the Wellsville Mountains. Make sure to wear good hiking shoes, jacket, gloves and bring water. Also, a camera and binoculars would work

great! Volunteers needed.

There will be a fundraiser breakfast for ConKerr cancer organization as part of an eagle scout project for Stuart Hopkins, Saturday, April 30, from 8 to 11 a.m. in the Lee’s Marketplace parking lot. The address is 555 E. 1400 North in Logan, and the cost will be $4 for a full bacon or sausage and pancake breakfast. ConKerr cancer helps provide brightly colored pillowcases for children who are in the hospital with cancer or other prolonged illness. More information may be found on www.conKerrcancer.org

Logan’s LDS 4th Ward is cel-ebrating its sesquicentennial. There will be an open house Sat-urday, April 30, from 3 to 5 p.m. The public is welcome to visit the chapel (on the corner of 100 East and 300 North in Logan) and learn about the ward’s pioneer heritage and place in Mormon history.

Stokes Nature Center invites all ages to their free spring open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 30. There will be nature-themed crafts and activities. The open house signals the begin-ning of fair weather hours - from now until late fall, Stokes Nature Center will be open Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 435-755-3239 or visit www.logannature.org.

Join Stokes Nature Center and Jim Hubbell of the Master Gardeners for a free fruit tree pruning workshop at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 30, at SNC’s property in Nibley (2600 S. 100 West). Participants will learn the basics of pruning and practice on a dozen fruit trees (apple, peach, plum and pear). The fruit from these trees will be donated to the Food Pantry. Participants should bring pruning sheers and/or lop-pers, gloves and sunscreen. For more information, call 435-755-3239 or visit www.logannature.org.

On Saturday, April 30, the Logan High School Grizz Kids Club will be having a 5K fun

run/1-mile walk. Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the race starts at 9 a.m. Cost is $3, and the race will begin in front of Logan High School. After the race there will be a raffle. All pro-ceeds will go to the Logan High School Grizz Kids Club and the special education department. For more information contact Andrea Godfrey at 755-0362.

Valley Dance Ensemble, Cache Valley’s own modern dance company, presents their spring concert, “Ricochet,” Saturday, April 30, at 7 p.m. at the Ellen Eccles Theatre, down-town Logan. Tickets are $12 for adults, $6 for students and children, and $25 for families. They are available at the Eccles Theatre box office, 752-0026 or online at www.cachearts.org.

The Fifth Annual Race Against Child Abuse will be held Saturday, April 30. This family fun run features a 10K, 5K and 1-mile course for racers of all abilities. Please join us in beauti-ful Wellsville City to support the Child & Family Support Center. Preregistration deadline is April 22. Additional information can be found at www.cachecfsc.org or at 752-8880.

Caitland Photography will be hosting a photography char-ity event Saturday, April 30, at Stork Landing. Call 792-4453 to schedule a session and addi-tional details. All proceeds will benefit the Child & Family Sup-port Center.

On Saturday, April 30, the Kiwanis Club of Logan with the Key Clubs and Circle K club, will be at various stores in the area to receive donations of baby items for the Cache Communi-ty Food Pantry. We ask people to purchase a baby item and then donate it to the Food Pantry baby cupboard. Food stamps do not cover diapers, wipes, formula, or other needed baby supplies. This is an opportunity to selectively aid the smallest ones with the greatest needs. All 11 stores are cooperating and also make dona-tions.

Hills of Home will be singing a variety of favorites for the public

and residents of Pioneer Valley Lodge on Saturday, April 30, at 3 p.m. Pioneer Valley Lodge is located at 2351 N. 400 East in North Logan. All are welcome to join us for this wonderful enter-tainment. For more information please call 792-0353.

Welcome to the Woods w/Michael Dee, Tex will perform folk and country music on Sat-urday, April 30, at 8 p.m. at Why Sound. Cost is $5.

The Cache Valley Retired School Employees Association will meet Monday, May 2, at the Copper Mill Restaurant, at l p.m. Shirley Aslett will be entertain-ing us with her wonderful piano selections and comments. All retired school employees in the valley are invited to attend. Res-ervations are necessary. If you plan on attending, please call Diane Esplin at 563-6412.

The Cache Carvers wood-carving club will meet Tuesday, May 3, at 7 p.m. in the Senior Citizen Center located at 236 N. 100 East in Logan. Open carving. The public is invited. Call 435-563-6032 for additional informa-tion.

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will host a hiking activity Tuesday, May 3 from 4 to 7 p.m. Cost is $3. Meet at Common Ground, 335 N. 100 East, Logan. We’ll be hiking the lower Crimson Trail. The views are outstanding no foliage. Be sure to bring jacket, gloves, good hiking shoes and water.

Kristi Davenport will share more of her wonderful and tasty homemade spring pies with us at a free cooking and community class at Maceys on Tuesday, May 3 from 7 to 8 p.m. Seating is limited, so reserve a seat today at the service desk or call 753-3301.

Kristi Davenport (a.k.a ”The Pie Lady”) will share more of her wonderful and tasty homemade

spring pies with us at a free cooking and community class in Maceys little theater on Tues-day, May 3 from 7 to 8 p.m.

THE UFO Opera Guild will meet Tuesday May 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Dansante Building to discuss the results of the South Pacific fundraiser held, and to plan the next fundraiser. New members are welcome to join us now for exciting summer events and programs. Phone Kurt Smith 752-4526 for more information.

Pintech Computers will be offering free computer classes each Tuesday night at 6 p.m. On May 3, the subject is manag-ing your software. Classes are held at 270 N. 400 West, Suite C, Hyrum. Call Don Pinkerton at 435-245-8324 for more informa-tion.

Volunteer orientation for Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will be held Wednesday, May 4, from 6 to 10 p.m. New volunteers wanting to join Common Ground should attend. We will be going over do’s and don’ts, watching a couple short movies, and checking out the adaptive gear. For more information contact Carey Hen-drix at [email protected] or 435- 713-0288, or visit www.cgadventures.org.

Stokes Nature Center will host Nature Night: Campfire Stories from 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 4. Daniel Bishop, the story-teller, will present stories for chil-dren starting at 6 p.m. and stories for an older audience will follow at 7:30 p.m. Crafts and activities will be ongoing in the nature cen-ter starting at 4 p.m. Marshmal-lows provided. This program is free. For more information, call 435-755-3239 or visit www.logan-nature.org.

On May 4 at 2 p.m. we invite you to Cache Valley Assisted Living (233 N. Main Street, Providence) to learn about plan-ning effectively for a safe and secure financial future, protect-ing and leaving assets to your beneficiaries intact and untaxed,

the future of Medicare and Med-icaid, and reducing taxes on your current income/social secu-rity and increasing spendable income. All this information will be provided by Allegis Financial Partners. Please RSVP by May 3 to Michael Watts at 435-787-1888. Desserts will be served and friends and families are wel-come. If you have any questions please call Josie at Cache Valley Assisted Living, 435-792-4770.

The Special Olympics Utah “Flame of Hope” will pass through Logan on its way to Southern Utah University in Cedar City for the Special Olym-pics Utah Summer Games start-ing June 2. Cache Valley Law Enforcement and the Special Olympics Utah Aggie Athletes will be running the torch down Main Street in Logan starting at the North Walmart and ending at the South Walmart on May 4 at 10 a.m.

Scott Bradley will teach a free Constitution class, “To Preserve The Nation,” on Wednesday, May 4 at 7 p.m. at the Book Table (upstairs). For more information call 753-2930 or 753-8844.

Come join us for a choir per-formance Thursday, May 5 at 6:15 p.m. at Cache Valley Assist-ed Living, 233 N. Main St., Provi-dence. If you have any questions please call Josie at Cache Valley Assisted Living, 435-792-4770.

Derek and Taylor McMurdie, owners of “Temptation Cupcake,” will celebrate their store’s one-year anniversary this month and they are bringing the party to Maceys Little Theater. They can’t give away their cupcake secrets but they will share other yummy treat samples with us Thursday, May 5 from 7 to 8 p.m.

Canoe with Common Ground Outdoor Adventures on Thursday, May 5, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Cost is $3. We will be heading out to Newton Res-ervoir. Wear weather appropriate clothing. If you have a fishing license bring along your fishing pole.

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