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The herald Journal June 22-28, 2012

Let it flyValley artists use dairy machinery to create

sculpture for Flying Objects display

For the last two days, the Salt Lake Art Design Board has been installing a series of sculptures

depicting flying objects near Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, near Abravanel Hall and at the Hotel Monaco as a temporary public art project in Salt Lake City. “Queen Priscil-la’s Gambit,” a flying aircraft sculpture cre-ated by Cache Valley artists Jerry Fuhriman and Arthur Tay-lor, is in the mix.

Their sculpture was constructed with old dairy machinery and will be their second sculpture to be displayed as part

of the Flying Objects display. They had to enter the “Gambit” in a contest and 12 sculptures constructed of steel, bronze, copper, found objects, indus-trial tools or fiberglass were selected.

When I heard about the contest, I found a few websites where photos of previous Flying Objects winners are posted. I love the creativity. When I think of flying, I automatically turn to airplanes and birds, but artists always seem to think outside the box. A few years ago, another Cache Valley art-ist, Michael Bingham, sculpted a cow flying with a rocket on its back for the contest. That’s a pretty cool idea if you ask me.

There was also a flying fish sculp-ture and paper airplanes made of mylar

and metal. One woman constructed a big orange and yellow umbrella, and another artist made a sculpture of hands playing with yo-yos. One of my favorite sculptures displayed as part of the project was an 18-foot dandelion stalk with a single “parachute” still clinging on. It reminded me of all those dandelions I blew on to make wishes as a child.

I love that artists can create objects beyond the ordinary and remind us of simple and extraordinary things. I also like the idea of taking used objects — like dairy machinery — to create some-thing new.

Read all about Fuhriman and Tay-lor’s sculpture on page 8.

— Manette Newbold

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5 See what’s coming up at the Logan Tabernacle

3 ‘Big River’ portraysclassic Mark Twain tale

10 Charlie Schill reviews Old Lyric’s ‘Steel Magnolias’

12 ‘Private Lives’ continues at Caine Lyric Theatre

4 Summerfest contestwinners announced

6 ‘Brave’ isn’t Pixar’s best

7 ‘Vampire Hunter’ gets three stars

15 See what’s happening this week

13 See reviews and best-sellers

12 Dennis Hinkamp returns

14 Try this week’s puzzle

Jerry Fuhriman works on a sculpture entitled “Queen Priscilla’s Gambit” made of old dairy machinery. The sculpture, completed by Cache Valley artists Fuhriman and Arthur Taylor, was chosen to be on display in Salt Lake City as part of the Art Council’s Flying Objects 3.0 contest. (Cody Gochnour/Herald Journal)

June 22-28, 2012

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Mark Twain’s classic novel “Huckleberry Finn” is brought to life in “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” part of the Old Lyric Repertory Company’s 2012 season.

“This is one of my favor-ite musicals of all time,” said Dennis Hassan, artis-tic director of the OLRC and professor in the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University. “The music ranges from hilari-ous blue-grass numbers to intensely moving spirituals, all combined with musical theater tunes.”

Set to the distinctly American music of country singer-songwriter Roger Miller, “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is a toe-tappin’ knee-slappin’ adventure, said Denise Albiston, director of marketing and public relations for the CCA.

“Big River” opens June 28 and continues June 29-30 and then selected dates through Aug. 8. Curtain is 7:30 p.m. with select matinee performanc-es at 2 p.m., including a matinee June 30. The full schedule is online at http://arts.usu.edu/lyric/htm/schedule.

“This show is an epic journey that will change you,” said Stefan Espinosa, who plays Huckleberry Finn. “No one will leave the theater the same per-son they were when they entered.”

Huck, an uneducated, backwoods boy, innocent in many ways, tells this story, said Espinosa. This show asks the audience to personally assess each individual moral compass

and define right and wrong.Espinosa returns to the

OLRC for his second sea-son, appearing last year as Seymour Krelborn in

“Little Shop of Horrors,” as well as in “Amadeus” and

“See How They Run.”Long time OLRC audi-

ences will remember Lego Lewis who returns to the company this year and is first seen as Jim in “Big River.”

A USU graduate, Lewis has extensive credits, including a national tour of “The King and I” where he logged more than 500 performances. With the OLRC, he also appears in “Lend Me a Tenor” this season.

The 2012 OLRC sea-son also includes “Steel Magnolias,” “Private Lives,” “Lend Me a Tenor,”

“Greater Tuna,” and “Char-lotte’s Web.” Each show runs on selected dates June through August and is per-formed in the Caine Lyric Theatre, located at 28 W. Center St.

Tickets for OLRC pro-

ductions can be purchased by visiting the Caine Col-lege of the Arts Box Office at Utah State University in Room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, by calling 435-797-8022 or online at the Caine College of the Arts website, arts.usu.edu. Tickets are also available at the Caine Lyric Theatre,

from noon to 4 p.m., Mon-day through Friday, and an hour prior to curtain on show nights. Individual ticket prices range from $18-$25 for adults, $15-$21 for seniors and USU faculty and staff and $12-$18 for USU students and youth.

For more information on the OLRC’s 2012 season, visit arts.usu.edu/lyric.

Take to the river with Huck and Jim

Lego Lewis (as Jim) and Stefan Espinosa (as Huck) headline the Old Lryic Repertory Company production of “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The musical opens at the Caine Lyric Theatre on Thursday, June 28.

WHAT: “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”WHEN: June 28, 29 and 30, and select dates through Aug. 8 WHERE: Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 W. Center St., Logan TICKETS: For tickets, visit the Caine College of the Arts Box Office, call 435-797-8022 or go online at arts.usu.edu. Tickets are also available at the Caine Lyric Theatre.

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ALL MIXED UPThe winners of the

Summerfest contests have been announced. The Plein Air paintings and photographs were created in the Cache Valley area between 8 a.m. Monday, June 11, and noon Wednesday, June 13.

Local and regional artists turned in their framed artwork and sculptural creations Wednesday, June 13, to be reviewed and judged for the Summerfest 2012 Contests. The judges for the contests included Lisa Sewell, executive director for the Utah Arts Festi-val; Sheryl Gillilan, executive director and curator for Art Access in Salt Lake City; and Holly Conger, local artist and USU Arts Bridge Program Coor-dinator in Logan.

“We were all really impressed with the size of the show and the quality of the pieces,” said Gillilan. “Cache Valley is such a beau-tiful area so it’s no surprise that so many artists were inspired to participate.”

This was the first year that Summerfest offered a contest for Found & Recycled Art. This contest was made possible in part by funding from the Utah Division of Arts & Museums through the Random Acts of Art grant. Last year, Sum-merfest had guest artist Rich Brooks create a traveling piece of art out of found and recy-cled materials.

“This creative process was so exciting that Summerfest wanted to find a way to inspire more participation as well as multiple medi-ums,” said Marianne Sidwell, executive director for Summer-fest.

All 97 entries were on display throughout the Summerfest Arts Festival as part of the silent auction.

In addition to the Plein Air contests, the public was invited to fill out forms for “Best of Show.” This award was chosen from four artists who received the most votes. From there, the Summerfest Board of Trustees selected

Jeff Wallis who has par-ticipated in Summerfest for multiple years and

is a regular in the plein air competitions.

This project was sup-

ported in part by the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, with fund-ing from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts and generous sup-port provided by the

Cache County RAPZ fund. Artist hospitality and reception was pro-vided by support from Utah State University Dining Services and USU Inn and Confer-ence Center.

Summerfest winners chosen from 97 entriesPleIn aIr PaInT-ouT WInnerS

First Place: Brienne M. Brown, “He Painted as Far as He Could Reach”Second Place: Joseph Alleman, “Trenton Mill”Third Place: Sean Wallis, “Standing Strong”Honorable Mention: Jeannie Millecam, “Caffe Ibis”Honorable Mention: Lynda Burrus, “My Cache Valley Farm”Honorable Mention: Suzanne Welling, “I Saw Wellsville Morning”Honorable Mention: Matt Larson, “Any Street Logan”

PleIn aIr PhoTograPhy WInnerSFirst Place: Levi Sim, “Girl With a Hoop Earring”Second Place: Levi Sim, “Summer Camp”Third Place: Amy Jensen, “Day Dream”Honorable Mention: Peter Warda, “Cryciformalis”Honorable Mention: Tyson Godfrey, “Golden Sunset”Honorable Mention: Andrea Lynn, “Painted Dragonfly”Honorable Mention: Alyssa Henke, “Building Dreams”Honorable Mention: Mandy Bagley, “Workman of the Skies”Honorable Mention: Brooke Snow, “The Fort”Honorable Mention: Sherrie Troseth, “Stay Away!”

Found and reCyCled arT WInnerSFirst Place: Bradley Van Anderson, “Skiing for America”Second Place: Peggy Wolford Rasmussen, “What Wood it Be?”Third Place: DeAnna Hulme, “Pooped Tired Exhausted”Honorable Mention: Doug Adams, “Patent Date”Honorable Mention: Nikki Root, “Vintage Classics”

Above: “He Painted as Far as He Could Reach,” by Brienne M. Brown. Right:

“Trenton Mill” by Joseph Alleman.

Monday, June 25Utah Festival Opera and

Musical TheatreSingers and instrumentalists will

perform their favorite music in addition to previewing the upcoming UFOMT season.

Wednesday, June 27Willow Valley Singer and

String BandWillow Valley Singers specializes

in a cappella hymns, gospel songs and sentimental songs from the 1800s to modern times. “Singing this inspi-rational music, and particularly the music of the Civil War period, is a unique bonding experience,” says Bonnie Slade, founder and direc-tor of the group that is made up of friends and neighbors in the Nibley

and Hyrum area. Members are Bonnie and Larry Slade, Vaughn and Linda Griggs, Susan Huff, Sheri Schiess, Jenna Oakey, Todd Slade, Jeff Jeppsen, Shelley Waite, Leigh Hopkins and Wes Smedley. The Willow Valley String Band will join the Singers with a selec-tion of delightful Swedish folk dances to celebrate Midsummer, a popular holiday in Sweden.

Thursday, June 28Karla Axtell

Karla Axtell, pianist and organist, will perform a collection of organ pieces featuring brilliant keyboard works of Charles-Marie Widor, J.S. Bach, Johan Pach-elbel, Robert Cundick and James Kasen. She has accompanied the Cache Children’s Choir, the Multi-Cultural Messiah Choir, vocal soloists, and is currently a rehearsal accompanist for the American Festival Chorus directed by Craig Jessop.

Friday, June 29

Megan Line and Randall Bagley

Megan Line, from American Fork,

started playing the piano at the age of six where she continued to take lessons for 12 years. She started vocal training at the age of 14 and began writing music when she was 16 years old. She moved to Logan in the summer of 2011 where she attended Utah State University and studied music education.

Randall Bagley has been performing stand up comedy for almost 20 years and this is his fourth year in a row perform-ing at the Tabernacle Summer Series. He is a past winner of the Utah State University Comedy Competition and has opened for the Smothers Brothers.

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Tuesday, June 26Mountain Crest High School Young Artists

Steve Albrechtsen is a 2012 graduate of Moun-tain Crest High School where he was a Valedic-torian and Music Sterling Scholar. Steve has been playing the saxophone for seven years and has enjoyed playing in the USU All-Northern HS Jazz Band. He received superior ratings this year at Region and State Solo and Ensemble for his alto sax solo and saxo-phone quartet. He is the son of Doug and Connie Albrechtsen of Provi-dence.

Jacob Matthew Bar-rett plays the tuba. He knew he wanted to play after watching a friend’s brother play the instru-ment. “When I finally

tried it out in seventh grade, I was a natural. I’ve been playing for four years now and I still love it,” Jacob says.

Jessica Burt has taken lessons from Laurie Hart for two years. She is a recent graduate of Moun-tain Crest High School. This summer Jessica is working with the Utah Festival Opera Company.

“Singing is what I love to do and I hope I can continue working on it throughout my life,” she said.

Erin Colledge, 16, is the daughter of Brent and Annette Colledge of Providence and will be a junior at Mountain Crest High School. She has been studying the

cello for six years and is currently studying with Kelly McConkie Stewart of Salt Lake City. Erin is planning to major in cello performance and pedagogy in college and will be performing with the Lyceum Music Festi-val at Zermatt Resort this summer.

Emily Feuz grew up with a love of music and has worked to develop her singing tal-ent. Soon to be a senior at Mountain Crest High School, she participates in the Magic and Aca-pella choirs. She is also a member of the drama club. She has previously worked with the Utah Festival Opera and Musi-cal Theatre Company in

“Carmen” and “George M!” She has studied voice under Laurie Hart for two years.

Emma Mark, vocally performing since the age of 4, grew up in a musi-cal family, learning to read music and harmo-nize with her two older siblings. Singing, how-ever, isn’t her only inter-est; theatre has caught her attention. Through the four years of her high school education she has performed in sev-eral shows, musicals and plays. Emma will attend Weber State University in the fall to begin studies in psychology.

Jefferson Merkley, 18, just graduated from Mountain Crest High

School. He is working as the nature director at a Boy Scout Camp for the summer and then plans to go on an LDS mission in the fall. Jef-ferson is the son of Erik and Karen Merkley and resides in Providence. He has been taking piano for 10 years and is a student of Annette Colledge.

Marquessa Merkley, 16, will be a junior at Mountain Crest High School. Marquessa has been taking piano lessons for 10 years and is a stu-dent of Annette Colledge. She is the daughter of Erik and Karen Merkley and resides in Providence. She teaches Handicraft Merit Badge Classes at Camp Hunt during the

summer. Charlotte Petersen,

16, started with the vio-lin when she was about 5 years old and then switched to the cello at age 8 because her older sister played the cello. Charlotte also likes to run. She participates in track and cross country. She likes to play Ulti-mate Frisbee at meets and after practice.

Jake Whitney, 18, son of George and Julie Whitney of College Ward, is a 2012 graduate of Mountain Crest High School. He has studied piano for 12 years and voice for two years. He enjoys music of all kinds, but especially likes to sing.

Pixar has had an illustrious run of stellar movies. Their one-and-only stinker coming with last year’s dismal

“Cars 2.” “Brave” some-what restores Pixar to its lofty stature, but many people will recognize it as being a second-tier Pixar film. While it’s beautifully animated and has a decent story attached to lively char-acters, it feels like it’s missing that connective emotional tissue which runs through most of their movies.

Most Pixar movies speak to all ages; there’s usually something in there that everyone from the tiniest tot to the most hardened par-ent can enjoy. “Brave” has less in the way of grown-up humor and more in the “kids will laugh at naked bums” type of humor. That’s not to say that “Brave” is a bad movie, but it simply has a hard time stacking up to the likes of “Toy Story” or

“Wall-e.”It’s easier to think of

“Brave” as a fairy tale that a mother might tell to her daughter

before bedtime: A les-son learned once upon a time about a young prin-cess, Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald), who wants desperately to escape her perceived shackles of royal life. She doesn’t think that her husband should be chosen for her, she believes that she should be able to follow her own path. Merida is a tomboy who enjoys riding her horse and per-fecting her archery skills.

“Princesses don’t need weapons!” her mother, Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson) exclaims. Elinor is dead set on making her daughter the perfect princess without listening to anything she has to say. Like so many mother/daughter relationships in so many

movies before, Elinor and Merida find them-selves at an impasse.

Kudos goes to the people who made the trailer to “Brave” because I didn’t see the second act coming at all. What happens is surpris-ing, so I won’t spoil it here. What I will say is that “Brave” is very much worth seeing even if it isn’t one of the best movies Pixar has come up with. What they’ve done is taken a simple fairy tale and made a simple movie out of it. Sure, the begin-ning of the film goes for the obvious laughs. Sure, it doesn’t feel as emotionally layered as previous Pixar movies. Sure, the middle of the film feels oddly rushed like they’re hurrying

toward an ending before they’ve really estab-lished the crux of the story. Even with all that, it still turns into a movie that is well worth taking your children to.

This is the first time Pixar has helmed a film where the central protagonist is a hero-ine. Merida is a strong female character. Her flowing red hair is gor-geous and just as fun to watch as Sully’s hair was the first time you saw “Monsters Inc.” The movie is astound-ingly animated. The

animation transports you to the highlands of Scotland with its lush, green landscapes.

Even though I didn’t feel as connected to the characters and their plight as I have in pre-ceding Pixar films, I must say that the emo-tional impact of the last five minutes snuck up on me without me real-izing what was happen-ing. The weight of the story finally sinks in at that moment; don’t be surprised if you shed a

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By any logical mea-sure “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” is a bad movie. The key here is that it knows it’s a bad movie. After the screen-ing, one of my critic col-leagues turned to me and exclaimed, “Gleefully bad.” The movie isn’t try-ing to reinvent the wheel; it simply wants to rewrite history in the most illogi-cally entertaining way possible.

Expectations need to be tempered before see-ing it. If you go in expect-ing anything other than a hilarious, self-aware action film with Honest Abe swinging a sliver-tipped axe at the heads of vampires, then you’ll end up disappointed. I mean really, why would you go into a movie with a title like “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” direct-ed by the same guy who directed “Wanted,” with any expectations at all?

The movie is based on the tongue-in-cheek novel by Seth Grahame-Smith who also penned the screenplay. Smith weaves a ludicrous, but entertaining tale about how Abraham Lincoln (Benjamin Walker), the 16th president of the United States, was more than just a politician. When Lincoln was just a boy he witnessed his mother’s murder as a man sneaked into their home in the dead of night and bit her. Seeking revenge, Lincoln grew up with the sole purpose of finding and killing his mother’s murderer, a man named Jack Barts (Mar-ton Csokas).

Barts isn’t what he seems to be. He’s a vampire. After a botched attempt at killing the man he hates more than any-thing, Lincoln meets up with a mysterious friend

named Henry Sturgess (Dominic Cooper). The movie wastes no time getting to the reason why we’re here: ACTION! And there’s plenty of it.

Sturgess has been hunting vampires his entire life and is about to pass the knowledge onto Lincoln. A few training montages later, and Lin-coln has become a full-fledged, axe-wielding vampire slayer while also studying to be a lawyer and eventually finding a home in politics.

Lincoln soon gains the ire of the head vampire of

the South, Adam (Rufus Sewell). See where this is going? In the South, vampires thrive by drink-ing the blood of slaves. Lincoln, as he becomes more entrenched in politics, wants to free all slaves. The Civil War commences.

It’s actually quite a bit of fun watching how the movie casually rips out pages of our history books and replaces them with pages from a blood-spattered graphic novel. That’s what the movie feels like. A graphic novel come to life (much

like “Wanted”).The movie is fully

aware that its entire plot is absurd and it revels in it. Lincoln is always one step away from turning to the camera and winking at us. The movie’s tongue is placed firmly in its own cheek as we watch one of the most famous

men in U.S. history fight his way through hordes of computer-generated vampires “300”-style. Slow motion action scenes, complete with

“Matrix”-style whoosh sounds take center stage. It’s dumb, but extremely fun if you’re in the right mindset.

It’s all style and no substance, but if you went in expecting any kind of substance, again I refer you to its self-refer-ential title. This is “Abra-ham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” and that’s exact-ly what you get. No more, no less. It’s a hoot watch-ing Lincoln decapitate oncoming vampires all the while wondering how they’re going to fit this all into some sort of faux-historical context. The movie never takes itself too seriously. It knows that its entire premise is completely preposterous and it doesn’t care one bit. “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” is one of the best bad movies I’ve ever seen.

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Benjamin Walker is shown as Abraham Lincoln in a scene from "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."

Flying objects of all kinds have descended on Salt Lake City this month, but they’re not from outer space. In fact, one of them comes from Cache Valley.

“Queen Priscilla’s Gambit,” an outdoor sculpture by valley residents Jerry Fuhri-man and Arthur Taylor, was assembled largely from old dairy machinery to resem-ble a royal interstellar conveyance as part of the Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Flying Objects 3.0 contest.

It’s the second sculpture by Fuhriman, a noted artist, architect and professor emeri-tus at Utah State University, and Taylor, a successful metal fabricator and owner of Black Dog Manufacturing in Hyde Park, to be selected by the Arts Council for the contest — their submission titled “Missy’s Rocket” was a winner of Flying Objects 2.0 and was recently purchased by the Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency.

Both “Missy’s Rocket” and “Queen Pris-cilla’s Gambit” are constructed of scrap metal, largely from old dairy machinery.

“I really keep an eye out for these milk-ers, because they’re getting hard to come by,” Fuhriman said of the equipment. “I’ve actually bought them on eBay; I’ve had them shipped from Wisconsin, so I like it when I can find them.”

The transition from painting to outdoor sculpture may seem like a stretch for some, but for Fuhriman, it was a natural out-growth of the artistic process.

“I’m basically a painter,” Fuhriman said. “Most people know me as a water-color and an oil painter. And then I went to a salvage yard and just happened to look at it, and I just loved the feel of it. I loved the way it looked.”

Fuhriman took the first step between working with paint and working with metal in the late ’70s. After taking a class in

silversmithing, he decided to run his own little shop in Jackson. Wyo., during the summer when he wasn’t teaching.

“I had silver jewelry, turquoise jewelry. It really was pretty much this kind of thing,” Fuhriman said. “I still do jewelry — it’s very similar, because you’re still concerned about form, still concerned about space, you know, how one part of the design ties in to the other part of the design.”

After beginning his association with Tay-lor, Fuhriman’s admiration for metal found its expression.

“I always wanted to weld, so Arthur said, ‘Hey, I’ll show you how to weld.’ And that was kind of it,” Fuhriman said. “I got a welder, and then I went back to the salvage yard and just kept going back and forth to the salvage yard, and that was kind of it.”

The two men have known each other for years, but their collaboration in the arts began in 2006, when Fuhriman was com-missioned to do a painting of Taylor and his late dog, Jet — “the greatest dog in the history of the world,” Taylor is quick to add. When asked about compensation, Fuhriman finally decided that he’d like Taylor to teach him how to weld.

“So we set him up in a corner of the shop, we determined what he wanted to do, and he went out and purchased a welder, really top of the line,” Taylor said. “And I wish he would’ve done everything I told him to do, but he’s an artist, and artists are, well, a little different. But anyway, he picked it up, and then he started putting things together.

“That’s how we started, and he kept building stuff, so there’s Jerry’s corner of the shop, and it’s got all his parts and everything. And if he needs help, we walk back there and pick something up.”

The combination of a talented artist and

an experienced craftsman has resulted in work that is not only visually pleasing, but structurally sound.

“Jerry is able to design in his mind this sort of scramble of things, and then it’s sort of up to me to make sure it balances and that structurally it will work,” Taylor said. “They’re both important aspects, because an artist typically doesn’t have the preci-sion mindset that a construction guy would have. You have to have both, or the thing’s going to fall on somebody’s head.

“It’s been a fine collaboration, and Jerry’s the chief. He breaks the glass, and I just sort of sweep up after him, and that’s how I like to describe it.”

To illustrate the point, Fuhriman related their experience with “Missy’s Rocket” compared to other sculptures during Flying Objects 2.0.

“In the Flying 2 competition, we had ‘Missy’s Rocket’ down at Symphony Hall,” Fuhriman said. “And we put it up, and there were maybe 10 other art pieces in the competition. And the first night they lost three of them — they came crashing to the ground. We don’t want that to happen.”

“In outdoor sculpture, structure becomes critical, and safety becomes critical,” Tay-lor added. “So those things that are design aspects need to be balanced with structural and safety aspects, and I think that’s where our collaboration kind of comes together. A lot of artists don’t have that other side to call upon. They don’t have, I guess, the capabilities that we have, so it works out.”

If you find yourself in Salt Lake City anytime in the next two years, be sure to see “Queen Priscilla’s Gambit” for your-self. It has been placed on the median on 300 North between Rose Wagner Gardens and Squatters bar. “Missy’s Rocket” is on permanent display at the Trax station downtown.

By Chuck Nunn

Locally made sculpture on display in Salt Lake City

Let it fly

Photo courtesy Jerry Fuhriman

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The Old Lyric Reper-tory Company opened its 46th season Thurs-day, June 14, with a crowd-pleasing produc-tion of the tragic south-ern comedy of manners

“Steel Magnolias.”The selection of this

play by Robert Harling was a bold choice for the Old Lyric troupe.

“Steel Magnolias” is best-known as the beautifully-executed and much-beloved 1989 film directed by Herbert Ross. But Hollywood successfully expanded the scope of Harling’s story by fleshing out male characters only mentioned in the play, plus adding more action, new dialogue and out-door scenes. Returning to its original single-set, all-female, six-character staging, this version of “Steel Magnolias” seems both static and claustrophobic to audi-ences who have had more than two decades to become familiar with the film.

But director Terence Goodman has assem-bled a cast of gifted actresses who not only breathe life into Har-ling’s script, but also embody the seemingly improbable resiliency hinted in the play’s title.

Regional stage vet-eran Arika Schockmel plays Truvy Jones, the proprietor of the Loui-siana beauty parlor in which the action of

“Steel Magnolias” takes place. Schockmel skill-fully plays Truvy as a caring friend to her customers who hides behind a tart tongue and a breezy manner.

OLRC alumna Tamari Dunbar is back as M’Lynn Eatenton, providing a wonderfully nuanced characteriza-

tion as a professional therapist and socially prominent woman-about-town who can handle anything except her daughter Shelby.

Amanda Mahoney is equally perfect as Shel-by Eatenton, a head-strong young woman pursuing marriage and motherhood even at the risk of her own health.

Mitzi Mecham and Jackie Fullmer share the spotlight as the play’s comedy relief. Mecham warmly por-trays Clairee Belcher, a wealthy widow who is a much-needed voice of reason at Truvy’s Beau-ty Parlor, while Fullmer delivers an absolutely over-the-top perfor-mance as the obstreper-ous dog-loving Ouiser Boudreaux.

Young MarKaye Hassan rounds out the cast as Annelle Dupuy-Desoto, a newcomer to the beauty parlor. Given only a bare minimum of dialogue, Hassan still

convincingly portrays a gradual transition from a stereotypical lost soul into a self-assured expectant mother.

“Steel Magnolias” is very much an ensemble

show and Goodman’s six heroines selflessly share the stage during the first three-quarters of the play. The final scene belongs to Dun-bar alone, however, as

M’Lynn finally melts down into hysterics in the wake of Shelby’s death. But even then, her fellow cast mem-bers generously support Dunbar by subtly mir-

roring her emotions as they listen to M’Lynn’s lengthy soliloquy of grief.

Set sometime in the mid-1980s, the atmosphere of “Steel Magnolias” can only be described as delight-fully dated. But Good-man has wisely resisted any impulse to modern-ize the play, choosing instead to revel in nos-talgia. The set design by Spencer Potter is appro-priately quaint and the costuming by Bethany Deal is a hoot. Sydnee Fullmer also deserves kudos for creative hair styling that changes throughout the play to perfectly match the performers’ evolving characterizations.

Repertory perfor-mances of “Steel Mag-nolias” will continue at the Caine Lyric Theater at 28 W. Center St. in Logan through Aug. 18.

Charlie Schill is a former city editor of The Herald Journal. He has directed and performed with theater groups in the United States, South Korea and Germany. Schill also served as the-ater critic for The Temple Daily Telegram in Temple, Texas and Pacific Stars & Stripes and Japan Times, both daily newspapers in Tokyo, Japan.

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Seemingly frail southern belles transform to be as tough as steel in the Old Lyric Repertory Company’s season opener “Steel Magnolias” by Robert Harling. Pictured at the top from left to right are Tamari Dunbar, Jackie Fullmer and Arika Schockmel. Pictured above are Amanda Mahoney, Arika Schocklmel and Mitzi Mecham. “Steel Magnolias” will be showing at Logan’s Caine Lyric Theater through Aug. 18.

An expert will discuss a sobering subject at the next activity pre-sented by Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology. The museum hosts Gerald Brown, director of the Utah Refugee Services Office, Saturday, June 23, as part of its “Sat-urdays at the Museum” series.

Brown’s presentation provides insights into the process of resettling in the United States as a refugee, escaping areas where genocide is taking place. He will discuss the roadblocks encountered in incorpo-rating people into a new culture and the help refugees often need to overcome their trau-matic experiences.

The presentation begins at 1 p.m. at the museum.

Brown has more than 30 years experience working with refugees and people displaced as a result of genocide and is an expert in this field. Museum staff warn that the topic of this presen-tation is adult oriented but, as always, children are welcome in the museum and alternative activities such as mask making and storybooks will be available.

“Whenever people hear the word ‘refu-gee,’ they mostly think of the refugees of the Rwandan genocide, but there have been other countries with this unfortunate situation, and we want people to be knowledgeable about modern genocides,” said Annie Gamez, a Saturdays program worker. “We also want to educate the public about the difficult pro-cess of becoming a refu-gee. We want to answer questions such as: what do organizations do to help refugees, what are the roadblocks they encounter and what are the solutions they find?”

In addition to the Saturday activity series, community members and USU students alike can visit the museum during its standard oper-ating hours, 8 a.m .to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

Funding for the Satur-day events is provided by a grant from the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services. More informa-tion about the IMLS is available at www.imls.gov.

The USU Museum of Anthropology is on

the USU campus in the south turret of the his-toric Old Main building, Room 252. Admission is free. For Saturday activities, free parking is available in the adja-

cent lot, south of the building.

For more information about museum events, call museum staff at 435-797-7545 or visit the museum website,

anthromuseum.usu.edu.The Museum of

Anthropology is part of the anthropology pro-gram at USU in the Col-lege of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Mail complete entry form and donation to The Cache Humane Society 2370 W. 200 N. Logan, UT 84321. Any donations and late sponsors accepted at event also.

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Dr. Bonnie Pitblado will speak at 7 p.m. June 27 at the historic Cache County Courthouse as the Cache Valley Visi-tors Bureau’s summer speaker series enters its third week.

Pitblado will discuss the recovery of a trea-sured Fremont artifact known as the Pilling figurine in her talk enti-tled “I Once was Lost,

but Now I’m Found: Reunit-ing the Decades-Missing Pilling Figurine With His Mates.”

This 5-inch piece of prehistoric art was found in a southern

Utah cave in 1950 but disappeared in the early 1960s during the exhibit’s state tour. Series director Mike Bullock said, “The tale of how this figurine has been identified is almost like an Agatha Christie mystery.” A variety of forensics experts have investigated the artifact.

This is somewhat of a farewell presentation

for Pitblado, who has been a faculty member at USU and the direc-tor of the university’s Anthropology Museum since 2002. She has recently accepted the prestigious endowed chair in anthropology at the University of Okla-homa. However, Pit-blado will continue her archaeological research in southeastern Idaho

and northern Utah.The speaker series

continues July 11 when Sally Sears and Randy Wirth, owners of Caffe Ibis Coffee Roasting Company, talk about their unique industry. On July 18, Cathy Fer-rand Bullock, director of the Westminster Bell Choir, will discuss the magic of English hand-bells with demonstra-

tions and solo ringing. The series will wrap up Aug. 1 with decep-tionist Richard Hatch presenting “Wizards in the Valley: Pioneers of Prestidigitation.”

All presentations are free and held at 199 N. Main St. Seating is lim-ited so arrive early. For more information, call 755-1890.

Archaeologist to speak as part of summer series

Genocide the focus of Saturday’s discussion

Pitblado

The American West Heritage Center is excited to welcome international historical romance author Marcia Lynn McClure for an exclusive VIP dinner/meet-and-greet Fri-day, June 29, from 5 to 10 p.m. in the Livery Stable. There will be a catered dinner, prizes and giveaways, as well as a reenactment of one of her most classic books of all time. Books will be available for pur-chase, and McClure will sign up to two books for each guest. To make res-ervations and for more information, visit www.distractionsink.com.

The next evening, June 30, a free book-signing will be open to the public from 6 to 10 p.m. Only two books will be signed per guest.

“Marcia Merchandise” and a collection of her works will be available for purchase.

Originally from New Mexico, McClure is the author of dozens of books and e-books, including “Dusty Britch-es,” “The Highwayman of Tanglewood” and

“Shackles of Honor.”

Center tohost booksigning

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I would like to con-gratulate China for continuing manned and womened space explo-ration; it inspired sever-al previous generations of Americans. Sadly, we have now decided to become spectators and passengers. We launched the space race because we felt like we had to compete with a cold war era Russia. China appears to be doing it simply because they want to show off how cool and smart they are; what’s wrong with them?

What’s the response from the United States? We have just dropped the space shuttle pro-gram and all other plans for human space

exploration. Seriously, I would trade my own Social Security to pay for human space explo-ration even though I may never live long enough to benefit from either.

The Space Race ele-vated us as a nation. For the first time, kids were growing up wanting to be something other than professional athletes, musicians or movie stars. Being an astro-naut offered the prom-ise of being famous, smart and at least mod-erately wealthy doing something dangerous. It gave us Tang and Space Food Sticks. Kids stopped pretending to be cowboys and Indi-ans in their playtime

and dreamed of space mutants and ray guns.

The end of manned space exploration fits our new national demeanor. America’s new bumper sticker should be “We like to watch.” The more we watch the bigger the gap becomes between us and the people we watch — and the bigger that gap gets, the more we want to watch. The amount of money we spend on all forms of entertainment makes the national debt look like the change under the sofa cushions.

Watching can and should be illegal. You can actually get arrested for something called voyeurism. I

know this to be a fact because I had a neigh-bor who went to the county slammer for mistaking the windows of the adjacent apart-ment complex for pay for view cable TV. I’m not trying to condone or encourage his behavior,

but it is hard to see how that is a crime since voyeurism has become a national pastime. We live vicariously through people who are doing things we think we can’t do.

At a time when peo-ple are getting fat faster than feed lot cattle, our highest paid icons are athletes, entertainers and models. We spend more money and time on professional sports and super models than at any time in history, but we can’t afford to send humans to the moon or any place else outside our atmosphere.

We are starting to feel that we can’t do any-thing but watch because we can’t shoot like

Labron James, move like Jagger or run like Usain Bolt. And now we can no longer float weightless like the Chi-nese. I’m rooting for China, maybe not in the Olympics, but in space exploration.

Luba Hinkamp thanks

all the readers who fol-lowed her columns, she may return after complet-ing her memoir. Dennis Hinkamp 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 commu-nity voices. He is not an employee of the news-paper. Feedback can be sent to [email protected].

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The Tony Award-winning play “Private Lives” comes to Utah State University’s Caine Lyric Theatre in downtown Logan as part of the 2012 Old Lyric Rep-ertory Company season.

The show tells the story of Elyot and Amanda, a divorced couple who find themselves honeymooning in neighboring rooms at the same hotel with their new spouses. Their highly charged relationship will keep you guessing throughout the whole show, said Hassan.

“Private Lives” opens June 21 and continues June 22-23, with additional dates through Aug. 18. Curtain for evening performanc-es is 7:30 and selected matinee dates have a 2 p.m. curtain. The season’s full schedule can be seen at arts.usu.edu/lyric/htm/schedule.

“This is one of the best Noël Coward shows,” said Tamari Dunbar who plays Amanda Prynne in the OLRC produc-tion. “It’s a true masterpiece. The show is reminiscent of a 1920s and ’30s love story. It’s romantic, witty and embodies language

comparable to Shakespeare. ‘Private Lives’ is the perfect date night.”

Elyot Chase is played by Nicholas Dunn, seen last season as Mozart in the OLRC’s “Ama-

deus.” Kenneth Risch, USU Theatre Arts Department head, makes his OLRC directing debut with “Private Lives.”

Tickets for the “Private Lives” production can be purchased by

visiting the Caine College of the Arts Box Office at Utah State University in Room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, by calling 435-797-8022 or going to arts.usu.edu. Tickets are also available at the Caine Lyric Theatre, from noon to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday and an hour prior to curtain on show nights. Individual ticket prices range from $18-$25 for adults, $15-$21 for seniors and USU faculty and staff and $12-$18 for USU students and youth.

For more information on the OLRC’s 2012 season, visit the OLRC website, arts.usu.edu/lyric.

‘Private Lives’ still showing at Logan theater

Nicholas Dunn as Elyot and Tamari Dunbar as Amanda are shown in a scene from Old Lyric Repertory Company’s “Private Lives.”

WhaT: “Private Lives”When: June 22, 23 and select dates through Aug. 8 Where: Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 W. Center St., Logan TICKeTS: For tickets, visit the Caine College of the Arts Box Office, call 435-797-8022 or go online, arts.usu.edu.

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tear or two.I’d like to issue a warn-

ing though. I would resist seeing this one in 3D, simply because most of the movie is set against dark backdrops. Once you put on those glasses it gets even darker (like trying to navigate low-lit hall-ways with sunglasses on). Many of the crucial action scenes toward the end are quite unintelligible, even if the projector is as bright as it should be.

Also, I’d be amiss if I didn’t mention the splen-did short “La Luna” which plays before the feature. I enjoyed “Brave,” and thought it was decent, but one has to wonder what type of movie “Brave” could’ve been had the same boundless imagina-tion and energy that was applied to “La Luna” been injected into Merida’s tale.

By Michael HillAssociated Press

Superman started as a reject.Writer Jerry Siegel and artist

Joe Shuster were two naive kids from Cleveland who repeatedly failed to get anyone to take a chance on their strongman hero before a publisher with a past in “girlie” magazines needed something to fill the first issue of Action Comics in 1938.

The duo sold the rights to their creation for $130.

Superman would go on to star in comics, serials, TV shows and movies. He became the prototype for hundreds of superheroes, earned countless millions and became a transcen-dent American pop culture icon on par with Mickey Mouse.

And as for Siegel and Shus-ter? Their story is a lot more melancholy.

Larry Tye’s book, “Super-man: The High-Flying History

of America’s Most Enduring Hero,” is a cultural biography of Superman that tracks the famous character over the decades and gives voice to the many creators who shaped Superman on the page and screen, starting with Siegel and Shuster. Superman doesn’t “grow up” like a real person, but Tye does a thorough job showing Superman’s evolution from the rambunctious building leaper of the ’30s to the Christ-like figure in the 2006 movie “Superman Returns.”

Tye deftly explores the natu-ral tensions among the writers and artists who have breathed life into Superman and the evolving demands of the mar-ketplace. When creators hit it right, like in the first “Super-man” movie from 1978, the character really does soar. It doesn’t always work, though. It’s best to forget some of the superpets introduced to spice

up the comics long ago, espe-cially Streaky the Supercat. And a more assertive Clark Kent with stylish round glasses was panned by fans in the late ’80s.

The book makes clear that the hero’s greatest superpower might be as a salesman. Super-man has been enlisted to sell

soda, video games, T-shirts, “krypto-ray guns,” briefs, lunchboxes and much, much more. When Superman — that model of righteous living — is tossed into the side of a Marl-boro truck in “Superman II,” the product placement is no coin-cidence. While Tye writes that “Superman’s handlers would not let him shill just any prod-uct,” readers might ask: Like what? Super Suppositories? Tye has done an exceedingly good reporting job that included deep dives through court filings and dozens of interviews. He found a lot of stuff, though too much of it appears on the page. There are too many reviews quoted and too many paragraphs that should have been pared down.

Superman has had doz-ens of midwives — writers, illustrators, editors, directors, TV producers — who shaped the character. But the book is haunted throughout by the two nerdy kids who dreamed him up. Lightning never struck for Siegel and Shuster again. The pair ended up fighting a long legal fight for compensation.

Siegel in particular became embittered about the loss of control over and the lack of compensation for his one great contribution. But he was still driven to tears after seeing the character he made fly across the big screen in the big-budget 1978 movie. He reportedly told the comic’s publisher, “It was exactly how I had imagined it.”

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BOOks

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

COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION1. “Fifty Shades of Grey,” by E. L. James2. “Fifty Shades Darker,” by E. L. James3. “Fifty Shades Freed,” by E. L. James4. “Gone Girl,” by Gillian Flynn5. “Kiss the Dead,” by Laurell K. Hamilton

COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION1. “The Amateur,” by Edward Klein2. “Wild,” by Cheryl Strayed3. “The Great Destroyer,” by David Limbaugh4. “Unbroken,” by Laura Hillenbrand5. “Killing Lincoln,” by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “Kiss the Dead,” by Laurell K. Hamilton2. “Gone Girl,” by Gillian Flynn3. “Calico Joe,” by John Grisham4. “The Storm,” by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown5. “Spring Fever,” by Mary Kay Andrews

HARDCOVER NONFICTION1. “The Amateur,” by Edward Klein2. “The Great Destroyer,” by David Limbaugh3. “Wild,” by Cheryl Strayed4. “Unbroken,” by Laura Hillenbrand5. “It Worked for Me,” by Colin Powell with Tony Koltz

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By Kim CurtisFor The Associated Press

Mark Haddon is best known for 2003’s best-selling “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time,” told from the point of view of an autistic teenager. Unfortunately, his new novel has little of the sweetness and humor of that gem. Instead, Haddon revisits well-trodden material and fails to provide any new insight in “The Red House,” which tells the story of an estranged brother and sister who take their families on vaca-tion together shortly after the death of their mother.

Not surprisingly, Angela and Richard, who had spent “no more than an afternoon in each other’s company over the last 15 years,” and their families are thrown together for a week at a house in the English coun-

tryside — an obvious setup for drama. Big drama. In fact, so many crises get revealed and aired out in this 264-page novel that it starts to feel a bit like a Jerry Springer episode.

The book’s other major short-

coming is its characters. With only eight people to keep track of — two couples and four chil-dren, three of whom are teenag-ers — it shouldn’t be a problem. But none, especially the adults, is particularly clearly drawn, leaving them muddled and dif-ficult to tell apart.

On the upside, Haddon’s prose is lovely.

“Time speeds up. A day becomes an hour, becomes a minute, becomes a second. Planes vanish first, cars are smeared into strings of colored smoke then fade to nothing.”

Or this: “The witching hour. Deep in the watches of the night, when the old and the weak and the sick let go and the membrane between this world and the other stretches almost to nothing.” And the writing is just about enough to keep readers engaged.

Cultural biography gives voice to Superman’s creators

Haddon’s ‘The Red House’ disappoints

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Across1. Battle of Britain grp.4. Shakespeare title

word7. Tropical snake10. Descendant of

Jacob13. Solecism18. Pertaining to elec-

tronics20. ___-American21. Huntsville native23. Fish catcher24. Cipher25. Plane curves26. Song composed and

recorded on the same day: April 14,1969 (with “The”)

29. “Recondita armonia” by Tosca, e.g.

30. ___ tempore31. Divine power, in

Gnosticism32. Jockey Turcotte33. Take in34. Chase away36. Krypton, for one37. Moldovan moolah38. Indian physicist who

worked with Einstein42. Song whose title

was inspired by the pet phrase of Little Richard’s favorite DJ

46. Purse items49. ___ gestae50. Jennet51. Provide (with)52. Essential oil53. Clancy subj.54. Holy terror55. QB, at times56. Horace’s “The Ship

of State,” e.g.57. Citizen60. Elbow-wrist connec-

tion61. Song about a couple

who fell asleep at a drive-in theater

67. Let the cat out of the bag

68. Pins partner

69. Landed72. Chiffoniers75. Chicken order77. Neighbor of Bulg.78. Lord’s attendant80. Sit in on81. Young sheep82. Thimbleful83. Expand85. Song that inspired a

1986 movie starring Kath-leen Turner

89. Perfect plot?90. Mins. and mins.91. Part of O.H.M.S.92. Cry over spilled milk93. Radios96. Hart Trophy winner,

1970-7297. Like98. Field call99. Islam denomination100. Irving Berlin’s first

song106. Parts of flowering

plants108. Priest’s robe109. Plunge into, as a

swimming pool110. Farm equipment111. ___ chi (martial art)112. Disperse113. Medicated114. Recommendations115. Early Jackson 5

single116. Western omelet

ingredient117. Pitches

Down1. Hodgepodge2. It’s for the birds3. Bonus4. Writer Quindlen5. Popped one’s clogs6. Devilfishes, e.g.7. Guitar kin8. Medley9. Medicinal plants10. Asian monarchy11. Exuberance12. Matron

13. Libreville’s land14. Run ___15. Pastry dough16. Govt. watchdog17. U.S.N.A. grad19. ___ podrida22. Louisiana sights27. Pre-kiss prince?28. Curious to a fault34. Whiskey ___35. Furrow maker36. Diamondlike37. Talk like Daffy38. Wee tree39. Cutlass or Delta 8840. Turn on a pivot41. Appraiser42. Cookie grp.43. Cantilevered window44. Mayan language45. Wherewithal46. Way of the East47. Common contraction48. Brood53. Edible mushroom54. Breaks55. Personality ___57. Sloughs58. Prayer ___59. Had a beef?60. Wear and tear62. Transfer a right63. Hello ___64. Antiparkinsonian

agent65. Blight victim66. “Zounds!”70. Latish lunchtime71. Mark of perfection72. ___ Verde73. Colored74. Margin75. Historic Virginia

family76. Baby carrier?78. Stocking stuffers79. Hornswoggled81. Like many a castle82. Biblical wounds83. Earth-toned84. Torn comic?86. ___-wrapped87. Its quarter says

“Birthplace of Aviation Pio-neers”

88. Sheepskin leather93. Parchment or paper94. Took in water95. Detective fiction

writer Dorothy96. Companion of Arte-

mis97. Getup98. Three-dimensional99. Leave in, to an editor100. 1951 N.L. Rookie

of the Year101. Tiptop102. Airport in Portugal103. Concrete section104. Village People song105. Mosque V.I.P.106. Third degree?107. Pathet ___

The Cotton Ponies will perform rock/punk/alternative music with Atomica and Tragedy Never Fails at 8 p.m. Friday, June 22, at Why Sound. Cost is $5.

A Dutch oven cooking demonstration will be at 5 p.m. Friday, June 22, at the North Logan Library, 475 E. 2500 North. Free. Come sample food and get great recipes.

Guitarist/singer Kris Krom-pel will perform from 6 to 8 p.m. at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza, located at 99 E.1200 South. Kris is one of the most versatile and talent-ed guitarists in the valley. There is no cover charge; everyone is welcome.

The Bridgerland Amateur Radio Club will be participating in Amateur Radio Field Day up Logan Canyon, half a mile off Highway 89 on Swan Flat Road, behind the State Road Sheds on June 22 and 23. They invite the public to come and see ham radio’s capabilities and learn how to get their own FCC radio license before the next disaster strikes.

A selection of hand-pulled prints by Sally Bigelow Rydalch will be on display at an art reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Fri-day, June 22, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Avenue in Logan. Jazz music will be performed by Spencer Devilbiss and Todd Milovich. Free.

Summer Aggie Ice Cream tours will be June 23 every hour starting at noon until 4 p.m. Cost is $3 and includes a single scoop.

Self-guided tour of gardens featuring native/water-wise plants, unique landscaping and gardening ideas will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June

23, at Jens Johansen Park, 850 E. 100 North. Participants will learn ways to conserve water and other resources while add-ing beauty and interest to their landscapes. This year gardens in the Central Logan area will be featured. Tour maps, plants for sale and tips on growing herbs will be available at the park. Cost is $5. Tickets may be purchased at the Cache County Extension Office, 179 N. Main St., Suite 111 in Logan, Monday through Friday. Cash or checks only. On Saturday morn-ings, purchase tickets from the Master Gardeners Booth at the Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market at Merlin Olsen Park, 75 S. 200 East, or on the day of the event at Jens Johansen Park.

Macey’s will have a classic car show from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 23. There will be a bounce house for kids, snow cones, cotton candy, games, a $2 sidewalk barbecue and a live DJ.

The Sky View High School band will hold a garage sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 23, outside on the lawn at Sky View High School. Furni-ture, clothing, outdoor products, books, games, crafts, home-made items and more will be for sale. The fund from this sale will help the band students pay fees, instrument rental expenses and marching band fees.

Deicidal Carnage will per-form metal music with Dethblo at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 23, at Why Sound. Cost is $5.

Come get acquainted with Paso Fine horses at an open house at 1 p.m. June 23 at Cala De Vison, Paso Fine Horse Farm, 6843 E. Hwy 36 (Mink Creek) in Preston. For more information, call Richard and Vickie Free at 208-852-2993 or Jeff and Camille Knudson at 208-852-7159.

Father and son musicians Dee and Zach Putnam will perform from 6 to 8 p.m. at

Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza. Dee will take the first set, at 6 p.m., followed by Zach (who goes by the stage name “Smartfoot Jones”) at 7 p.m. Come and enjoy the val-ley’s best pizza and some great music!

Cache Singles Fireside with Paralympian Jeff Griffin will be at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 24, at the Willow Park Church, 340 W. 700 South, Logan. Jeff was a five-star athlete in high school and played football for Ricks College before a tragic accident left him paralyzed. His resilient spirit and willingness to accept and magnify the Lord’s will has blessed his family and thousands of others as he has traveled the world sharing his example and testimony. Brother Griffin teaches seminary, and he and his wife, Emily, are EFY coordinators.

Sunday in the Park con-tinues June 24. Larry Boothe will talk about “Our Intelligence Cummunity” at 1 p.m. Meet on the lawn adjacent to the Old Main Building on the USU cam-pus. Bring your own chairs. In the event of rain we meet in the Family Life Building, Room 206. Questions? Call Norman Palmer, 435-787-1406.

Jazz guitar duo Kelin and Clovis will perform at noon Sunday, June 24, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Avenue, Logan. They play jazz standards, funk, rock, and blues. Come out for their debut at Caffe Ibis! Free.

The Utah Patriot Camp for children grades one through six will be from 9:30 a.m. to noon June 25 to 29 at the Whittier Community Center. Cost is $35.

Students in grades seven through 12 can sign up to visit various industries on a two-day field trip to get first-hand experience in how science and

math applications are used in real jobs. For more information, email Marvin Lowe at [email protected].

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures is hosting a cycling and ice cream activity at 4 p.m. Tuesday, June 26. Cost is $5. To sign up for this activity, request transportation or to learn about other activities, call 435-713-0288, visit www.cgadventures.org or stop by 335 N. 100 East in Logan.

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will hold volunteer orientation at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 26. To sign up for this activity or request transportation, call 435-713-0288, visit www.cgadventures.org or stop by 335 N. 100 East in Logan.

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will host a canoe-ing activity from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 27. Cost is $3. To sign up for this activity or request transportation, call 435-713-0288, visit www.cgadven-tures.org or stop by 335 N. 100 East in Logan.

Join Legacy House Assisted Living for a free seminar about long-term care insurance and financial planning for your long-term care from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Legacy House of Logan, 330 E. 1400 North in Logan.

The North Logan Library will hold kitchen chemistry from 10:15 to 11 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. to noon Wednesday, June 27, at 475 E. 2500 North. Space is limited to 25 fourth- through sixth-grade children per session. Parents are welcome to assist, but are not required to be there.

The North Logan Library will host four sessions of The But-terfly Project beginning at 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 27. This project is for children entering kindergarten through third grade.

Children ages 5 to 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Reg-istration is required. Call 755-7169. Following sessions will be 1 to 3 p.m. July 25, 1 to 3 p.m. Aug. 9 and at 11 a.m. Aug. 25.

Come play chess for free at Merlin Olsen Central Park under the covered pavilion. Chess sets and pieces available to borrow. We will play chess from 1 until 4 Wednesday afternoons. You are welcome to come earlier or later, but that is when a USCFA player is scheduled to instruct, play, and promote chess. All ages are welcome, but good sportsman-ship is essential. Email [email protected] for more information.

A Living Well with Chronic Conditions class will be at OPTIONS for Independence, 1095 N. Main in Logan, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. June 28. For more information or to sign up for the workshop, contact Anna at 435-753-5353 or Deanna at 435-723-2171.

The Cache County Alzheim-er’s Coalition will present “The ABC’s of Caregiving” at 3 p.m. Thursday, June 28, at the Cache County Administration Building Room 109, 179 N. Main St., Logan.

The AARP Senior Defensive Drivers class will be from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 28, at Cache County Senior Center. Cost is $12 for AARP members, or $14 for non-members. The Certificate of Completion will reduce auto insurance rates. Call Susie at 435-753-2866 for reservations.

The Housing Solutions work-shop provides free Foreclosure Intervention Education every Thursday until July 26 at Neigh-borhood Nonprofit Housing Cor-poration, 195 W. Golf Course Road, Suite 1 in Logan. RSVP required. For more information, email [email protected] or call 435-753-1112.

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