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In wIth the newMartin Harris Pageant gets a makeover

Standing in front of a director and choreographer while singing “On My Own” from Les Miserables

was one of the scariest moments of my life. I was auditioning for a part in the Old Barn production “Oklahoma,” and at the age of 22, it was the first time I’d ever auditioned for any-thing. I decided to try out for the play with a couple of friends and was hoping for a background ensemble part since I didn’t have any experience in musical theater.

However, as much as I’d like it to be, singing is not one of my strong suits. So, trying to prove I was even worthy to be in a play required a lot of hope. I stood there in front of those women and a few others who were trying out for the show, and I’m sure my quiet voice was shaking.

I dance worse than I sing, so that portion of the audition was a mess, and I think I stumbled over a few lines when reading part of script out loud. I’m definitely not a

triple threat. In fact, I’m not a threat at all.When all was said and done, I didn’t get

a part. And that’s OK. I guess I can say I tried.

I bring all of this up because for the last few weeks we’ve had several stories on local shows and I’m glad there are people in the community that actually can act, dance and sing, so people like me can sit and enjoy it. A few weekends ago I saw Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre’s “Oliver!” which was delightful. I’ve also been wanting to see “Into the Woods” at Old Barn (page 3). Selections from “Little Shop of Horrors” were performed while I was at Summerfest and I liked what I heard, so I may need to venture to the Old Lyric Theatre within the next week or so.

Tonight the Martin Harris Pageant opens in Clarkston (page 8) and a whole crew of people have set up a brand new stage. So, if you’re feeling in the mood for a play the next couple of weeks, you’ll have plenty of options. And for your benefit, I’m not in any of them.

— Manette NewboldCache Magazine editor

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Soren Wadsworth moves a stage while assembling the Martin Harris Pageant set Wednesday afternoon in

Clarkston. (Eli Lucero/Herald Journal)

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This cat is available for adoption!

Pet: FlintFrom: Four Paws RescueWhy he’s so lovable: Flint is a sweet, loving, playful young cat. He and his siblings were res-cued from the pound, and now Flint is looking for a forever, indoor-only home. He is a little shy at first, but affectionate and friendly once he feels secure. If you would like to meet Flint or learn more about him, please call Sheri at 435-787-1751.

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‘Cowboys & Aliens’gets two stars

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Metropolitan Opera singers coming to Logan

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An evening of excit-ing jazz is on tap as three

veteran jazz musicians take the stage next week at the Logan Arthouse and Cin-ema. The Lightwood Duo, com-prised of clarinetist/saxophon-ist Eric Nelson and guitar-ist Mike Christian-sen, will be joined by New York City based pianist Tom Nelson for an evening of jazz classics and original compositions at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2. The Logan Arthouse and Cinema is located at 795 N. Main St. in Logan. Admission to the con-cert is $10 per person or $25 per family.

The Lightwood Duo is well known in the area for their performances in various concert venues as well as at numerous local events. They have appeared in concert halls throughout the country, including California, Nevada, New York, Idaho, Arizona and Hawaii. They have released six CDs, most of which are now available at iTunes. Mike is director of guitar studies at Utah State University, and Eric teaches music at Spring Creek Middle School. They average more than 100 performances annually as the Lightwood Duo and with the rock/jazz band Phase2. More informa-tion about the duo, including scheduled performances, can be found at www.lightwood-duo.com.

Tom Nelson is a freelance pianist in New York City. He is house pianist at the Uni-versity Club on Fifth Avenue and works in jazz and cabaret. A composer and Broadway arranger as well, his String Quartet No. 2 was premiered by the Avalon String Quartet at the Music Mountain Fes-tival in Connecticut. He has

performed with Eddie Daniels, Bobby McFerrin, Phil Woods, and Joe Lovano, among others. He was a member of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop (led by Manny Albam, Bob Brookmeyer, and Jim McNee-ley) for nine years. Tom is originally from Logan, but has lived in New York City for the past 28 years.

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1All mixed up

Local photography expert Alan Murray will

finish out the Cache Valley Visitors Bureau’s Summer Speaker Series Aug. 3 at 7 p.m. in the his-toric Cache County Court-house.

Murray is the for-mer chief photographer at The Herald Journal. He has worked as an editor, photographer and reporter for a variety of pub-lications in Northern Utah, southeast Idaho and Penn-

sylvania. Murray was Utah Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 2003 and was awarded the Utah Newspaper Photographer of the Year’s Best of Show award in 2005.

Join him to learn basic techniques that can work with any camera to enhance your photography and take bet-ter photos on your vacations. Principles of lighting, compo-sition and other tested ideas will be covered as well as how to share your experiences through your work.

The presentation is free. The courthouse is located at 199 N. Main St. Seating is limited so arrive early. For more information, call 755-1890 or log on to www.visit-loganutah.com.

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Lightwood Duo will perform Aug. 2 at Logan Arthouse.

Tom Nelson

Lightwood DuoLocal jazz group will entertain at Logan Arthouse

Last chances to seeOld Barn summer shows!

Running July 30; Aug. 5.Shows begin at 7:30 p.m.There will be a matinee July

30 at 2:30 p.m.

Running: July 29; Aug. 1, 6Shows begin at 7:30 p.m.There will be a matinee July

23 at 2:30 p.m.

‘Guys and Dolls’ ‘Into the Woods’

Utah State University’s Caine College of the Arts

and Legacy Music Alliance presents Mozart’s “Grand Mass in C Minor” featuring vocal soloists from the Metro-politan Opera July 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the USU Performance Hall.

“This is music at its fin-est, comparable to any of the exceptional concerts one may find in New York City, London or any of the great music capitals of the world,” said Craig Jessop, dean of the Caine College of the Arts at USU.

The concert features pro-fessional-level singers from across the nation performing one of Mozart’s many choral masterworks, “The Grand Mass in C Minor.” The per-formers include Metropolitan Opera soloists Kiera Duffy and Stanford Olsen, USU’s Cindy Dewey and Snow Col-lege’s Steven Meredith. The Minnesota Orchestra’s prin-cipal bassoonist, John Miller, will also be featured in a per-formance of Mozart’s “Con-certo in B-flat for Bassoon and Orchestra (K. 191).”

“This performance is the first of what will be an annual series of choral masterpieces presented by the Caine Col-lege of the Arts and the USU

Summer Music Institute,” said Michael Huff, director of spe-cial programs for the Caine College of the Arts.

The concert is one of the culminating events of this year’s USU Summer Music Institute. The annual USU Summer Music Institute offers several enriching musical activities presented by the Caine College of the Arts.

“Under the guidance of Craig Jessop and other leaders from the Caine College of the Arts, the institute is planting seeds

that will yield a rich musical harvest,” said Huff.

American soprano Kiera Duffy is recognized for both her brilliant high soprano and insightful musicianship in repertoire that encompasses Handel, Praetorius, Bach, Mozart and Verdi, to the modern sounds of Alban Berg, Elliott Carter and John Zorn.

Stanford Olsen, who made his Metropolitan Opera debut on an hour’s notice as Arturo in “I Puritani” has fulfilled his initial promise as one of

the world’s outstanding art-ists. Olsen has performed at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and has been featured in Handel’s “Messiah” throughout North America and Europe.

A gifted vocal performer with a tone described as

“seamless and superb” by the “Arizona Republic,” Steven Meredith is one of the most sought-after concert per-formers in the United States. Recent seasons have found Meredith performing “Mes-

siah” with the Utah Symphony and Mozart’s “Requiem” with the Great Falls Symphony.

Cindy Dewey came to USU from West Virginia University where she was the coordinator of all vocal programs, gradu-ate and undergraduate. Dewey is a frequent recitalist and has been a finalist in a number of national and international competitions. Her students have sung at the Metropoli-tan Opera, the San Francisco Opera and elsewhere.

John Miller assumed his present position as Principal Bassoon of the Minnesota Orchestra in 1971, when he also joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota. Since then, he has continued his solo career, performing many times with the Minneso-ta Orchestra as well as numer-ous other orchestras.

This Mozart concert is part of Cache Valley’s “Summer of Mozart” with the Old Lyric Repertory Company’s pro-duction of “Amadeus” and the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre’s presentation of Mozart’s “Requiem” and

“Don Giovanni” this summer. The USU Summer Music Institute seeks to enhance the standard of music-making in Cache Valley, at USU and throughout Utah.

Concert Tickets are $10 for general seating and can be pur-chased at the Caine College of the Arts Box Office in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, online (arts.usu.edu) or by calling 435-797-8022.

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‘Summer of Mozart’ premieres at USUMetropolitan Opera soloists to perform

American soprano Kiera Duffy will be performing at USU July 30 as part of a Mozart concert, “Grand Mass in C Minor.” Duffy is recognized for both her high soprano and musicianship in repertoire that encompasses Handel, Praetorius, Bach, Mozart and Verdi to the modern sounds of Alban Berg, Elliott Carter and John Zorn.

SUMMER CAMPS: There are still a few openings for the last session of summer art camp. This camp will be held for four days, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,

from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. August 1, 2, 4, 5 with the theme of “Minute Imaginations – Fair-ies, Gremlins, and More.” Registration is $50 per ses-sion. The camps are open to

youth 5 to 14 years. Register by calling 435-723-0740.

NEXT OPEN MIC: is set for Saturday, Aug. 13, at 7 p.m. and will be preceded by a concert by Paul Pekkanen

at 6 p.m. Pekkanen played in a band in the ’80s and will be playing and singing favorite songs from the ’70s and ’80s including songs by Jethro Tull, the Byrds, and Crosby,

Stills, Nash and Young. For more information on

these events visit the center at 58 S. 100 West, or the website, www.bcfineartscenter.org.

What’s going on at Brigham City’s Fine Arts Center

Mike Massey, holder of numerous billiard trick shot world records, will be appearing

at the grand opening celebration of Cache Val-ley’s newest entertainment destination, “Legends Billiard Club,” on Saturday, July 30. The club is located on Highway 89/91 in Nibley just oppo-site Petersen’s Country Store. Owner Allan Cor-nia, himself an accomplished tournament billiard player, arranged for Massey’s appearance when he learned that Massey would be in Utah briefly before leaving for tourna-ments in Las Vegas and Spain.

“Mike is a legend in the world of bil-liards and we’re Legends Billiard Club, so bring-ing him in for our grand opening was a no-brainer,” said Cornia. “I’m a per-forming member of the Magic Castle in Hollywood, but what Mike does on the pool table seems even to me like real magic.”

Massey will be demonstrating his skills, edu-cating and entertaining those in attendance from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Saturday. A country band will be available later for those wishing to break in the club’s unique sprung dance floor or just enjoy the music. There will be a $5 cover charge to defray to cost of this event.

Mike Massey, also known as the “Tennessee Tarzan”, is widely considered to be the world’s best trick shot artist and was inducted into the prestigious Billiard Congress of America’s Hall of Fame in 2005. He is the five-time ESPN Trick Shot Magic Champion and has performed trick shot exhibitions in more than 40 countries.

Massey has won professional tournaments worldwide in a variety of formats including trick shots, 8-ball, 9-ball, and straight pool. He shares his skills and knowledge with others as an instructor and author. Mike had the honor of being chosen to perform an exhibition for the dinner show when Willie Mosconi and Jimmy Caras played their last challenge match, hosted by the Birkbeck twins and has played or taught pool with many movie stars and sports celebri-ties, such as Johnny Cash, Sugar Ray Leonard, Billy Bob Thornton, Dean Cain, Stephen Bald-win, Scott Baio, Jennifer Tilly, James Tolkan, Paul Sorvino, Jason Gedrick, Danny Aiello, David Arquette, and many others.

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1MEET STEPHANIECharacter dancer

Photo by Eli Lucero

the best roles are the evil roles. At least that’s what Stephanie White says. The 41-year-old from Logan has been dancing since she was 11 and has played the parts

of Malificent (actually titled the Carabosse) in “Sleeping Beauty,” Katschei the Immortal in “Firebird,” the Mouse King in “The Nutcracker,” the Wicked Stepmother in “Cin-derella” and many more.

“I love to create a character,” she says. “It’s been all heart with me and putting all of my energy into giving the best

performance I can give.”White has worked as a choreographer with sever-

al local theater and ballet companies, and the Cache Children’s Choir, the Sky View Encore group and the American West Heritage Center. What’s her favorite part of being involved in dance? Well, the applause, of course.“I hate to admit it, but ... I love to watch

an audience during a performance and see their reaction,” she says. “I love to see what they get from it and learn from them what

didn’t work as well.”

Billiards legend coming to Nibley

• Growing up White and her dad would listen to opera and musicals and she would dance in the liv-

ing room. Her mom eventually enrolled her in ballet lessons at Cache Valley School of Ballet.

•White has choreographed dance for Cache Valley Civic Ballet, Music Theatre West, USU Theatre, Old Lyric, Utah Festival Opera, Caine College of the Arts, Unicorn

Theatre, and Cache Regional Theatre.

• White has lived in New Zealand, Ireland, and England, and traveled extensively in Europe and the U.S.

• “Everywhere we went, my mother took us to the muse-ums, my dad took us to the cheese factories, and we would also catch the ballet, opera, theater, or symphony.”

• White has been teaching ballet at Cache Valley School of Ballet for more than 20 years and musical theater move-ment and a boys class for Utah Festival Conservatory of the Performing Arts.

• For White, it’s impossible to pick one style of dance as her favorite. She says she loves tap, flamenco, classical ballet as well as modern and international dance.

• “I just love to be on the stage. And you can tell when a performer is really feeling it versus going through the mo-tions. That’s what makes the performance, not the technique or execution, but whether or not the artist can convey to the audience.”

• Music is what gives White the inspiration to dance.

• “Some choreographers can read the score and figure out what they want. Some choreographers don’t even have music. But, I love finding just the right movement to match the intricate

workings of the composer/lyricist.”

“Captain America: The First Avenger”Rated PG-13★★

1⁄2 The last Marvel Comics setup for next summer’s all-star blockbuster “The Avengers” finds Chris Evans starring as the World War II fighting hero. Evans brings an earnest dignity and intelli-gence to the role of Steve Rogers, a scrawny kid from Brooklyn with dreams of military glory. But sci-entist Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci) sees something special in him and enlists him for a daring experiment. Through some high-tech injections, Steve is trans-formed into a supersoldier known as Captain America. But he isn’t the only one who’s juicing: Hugo Weaving plays the former Nazi leader Johann Schmidt, aka Red Skull, who’s formed his own splin-ter group and built some intimi-dating weapons. Director Joe Johnston’s film feels weighty and substantial, even in 3-D, and it has a beautiful, sepia-toned, art-deco look about it. The abundant supporting cast includes Tommy Lee Jones and Dominic Cooper. But “Captain America” is far more engaging when it’s about a scrappy underdog overcoming the odds than it is about generic shootouts and exploding tanks. And it only scratches the surface in trying to examine the perils of premature fame. 126 minutes.

“Friends with Benefits”Rated R★★

1⁄2 Director and co-writer Will Gluck (“Easy A”) has crafted a hyper, R-rated, postmodern rom-com that laments the genre’s saccharine falsehoods while ulti-mately falling prey to the clichés it strives to upend. The dialogue is snappy and the plot makes efforts for emotional realism, but the story is a familiar one: roman-tically exhausted friends (Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis) try to forge a sexual relationship with-out emotion. They have terrific comedic timing and look great in bed together, but don’t have enough friction for real chemis-try. Woody Harrelson, Patricia Clarkson and Richard Jenkins lead a strong supporting cast, but Gluck’s film is too smooth for the realism and mockery it seeks. Its best parody comes in a film with-in the film, a mock rom-com with Jason Segel and Rashida Jones.

Easily superior to and far smarter than the earlier released “No Strings Attached.” 104 minutes.

“Horrible Bosses”Rated R★★★This raunchy buddy come-dy wallows in silliness — gleefully, and without an ounce of remorse or self-consciousness — and even though you’re a grown-up and you know you should know better, you will be happy to wal-low right along as well. It’s a film that’s wildly, brazenly stupid — but also, you know, fun. Because like “Bad Teacher,” “Horrible Bosses” knows exactly what it is and doesn’t aspire to be anything more, and that lack of pretention is refreshing. It isn’t trying to say anything profound about society

or the economy or the fragile psyche of the post-modern man. It’s about three guys who hate their jobs and want to kill their bosses. And really, who among us hasn’t pondered such a plan? Naturally, no member of this trio is nearly as clever or sophisti-cated as he thinks he is. Together, they bumble and bungle every step of the way and occasionally, by accident, they get something right. But the dynamic between Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day as they bounce off each other is cheerfully loony, and the energy of their banter (which often feels improvised) has enough of an infectious qual-ity to make you want to forgive the film’s general messiness. Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell and

Jennifer Aniston, as the titular bosses, are clearly enjoying the freedom of playing such showy, inappropriate characters. 98 minutes.

“Larry Crowne” Rated PG-13★

1⁄2 You can have two of the most likable, bankable stars on the planet together, but strong writing is crucial to making them shine. Even the combined, blind-ing brilliance of Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts cannot salvage the corny, contrived script — which Hanks, who also directed the film, co-wrote. His longtime friend Nia Vardalos (“My Big Fat Greek Wedding”) was his collaborator, and the shticky nature of her style is just overpowering. Main char-

acters behave in unbelievable ways and say just the right poi-gnant things at just the right times, while supporting players are relegated to one-note roles that are straight out of a sitcom. But the main problem is that Hanks is as bland as the film’s title. Larry Crowne undergoes a major life change when he finds himself downsized out of his job at a behemoth superstore; middle-aged and divorced, he decides it’s finally time to go to college. But there’s not much momentum, and it’s hard to get a handle on who he is beyond his generi-cally pleasant demeanor, so his transformation lacks the punch it should have had by comparison. Roberts co-stars as the professor who becomes Larry’s unlikely love interest, while Gugu Mbatha-Raw plays the impossibly gor-geous fellow student who gives him a makeover. 98 minutes.

“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”Rated PG-13★

1⁄2 Director Michael Bay serves up another loud, long, bruising and wearisome onslaught of giant, shape-shifting robots. Bay tries to inject more flesh-and-blood consequence this time, but the human element arises largely from archival footage involving the 1960s moon race, along with images that may dis-turb younger kids as screaming, scrambling humans are vapor-ized by the ‘bots like insects in a bug zapper. In 3-D, too, so you get to wear those clunky glasses for the franchise’s longest movie yet. Puny humans Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro and Tyrese Gibson again are caught up in the war between benevolent Autobots and evil Decepticons, joined by new cast members Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich and Patrick Dempsey. Leonard Nimoy provides the voice of an Auto-bot elder, his age-old, gravelly vocals proving the most human element in the movie. The visu-als are dazzling, but Bay lets the battles grind on so long that the motion and noise turns numbing. 154 minutes.

— Reviews by The Associated Press

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“Crazy Stupid Love”Rated PG-13★★ For a movie that intends to be rooted in a recognizable and insightful reality, this features an awful lot of moments that clang in a con-trived, feel-good manner. You see, it’s simulta-neously trying to charm us, and sometimes, it achieves that goal. At the same time, it also has its share of moments that hit just the per-fect, poignant note, with some laughs that arise from a place of honesty. Carell stars as Cal, a nebbishy 40-something whose high-school sweetheart, Emily (Julianne Moore), announces that she’s slept with someone else and wants a

divorce. Drowning his sorrows nightly at a local bar, Cal finds an unlikely mentor in Jacob (Ryan Gosling), an expensively-dressed womanizer who gives him a makeover. It seems unlikely Jacob would even give this guy the time of day in real life, but Gosling is charismatic and surprisingly funny in the role. He also has a great, flirty chemistry with Emma Stone as the one woman who sees through his game. When you assemble a cast that includes Carell, Moore, Gosling and Stone, you’re on the right track. “Crazy Stupid Love” aims to be a roman-tic comedy of substance and intelligence and sometimes, it achieves that goal, too. What’s frustrating here, however, is the unevenness of it all. 118 minutes.

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By David GermainThe Associated Press

The genre mash-up of “Cowboys &

Aliens” is more a mush-up, an action yarn aiming to be both science fiction and Old West adventure but doing neither all that well.

The filmmakers — and there are a lot of them, among them director Jon Favreau, 11 producers or executive producers including Steven Spiel-berg, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, plus half a dozen credited writers

— start with a title that lays out a simple but cool premise: invaders from the skies shooting it out with guys on horseback.

For all the talent involved, they wound up keeping the story too simple, almost simple-minded, leaving a terrific cast led by Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford stuck in a sketchy, sometimes poky tale where you get cowboys occasionally fighting aliens and not much more.

Based on a graphic novel from Scott Mitch-ell Rosenberg, also a producer on the movie,

“Cowboys & Aliens” has Craig doing the stony-faced lone rider thing to such stoic extremes it borders on blandness. Ford is similarly con-stricted in a stereotyped role as the tyrannical overlord of a Western town, though his unfail-ing charisma does imbue some spirit into his under-developed char-acter.

Really, the only clever thing about “Cowboys & Aliens” is the basic idea itself. The Western trap-pings are mostly dull, the aliens and sci-fi elements are unimaginative, and

cramming them together is not enough to make them interesting.

As the story opens in 1875, Craig’s amnesiac Jake Lonergan wanders into the dusty New Mexico town of Absolu-tion with no clue to his identity and bearing a strange metal bracelet on his wrist. Within minutes, he begins running afoul of the town’s leaders, crossing the cowardly son (Paul Dano) of local cattle baron Woodrow Dolarhyde (Ford), then tussling with the sheriff (Keith Carradine) and his deputies.

Just as it looks as though we’re in for a showdown among a band of greedy thugs and decent townfolk in need of a hero, space craft swoop in and start snatching people right off the streets. Six-shooters are like firing blanks at the speedy ships, but Jake’s wristband comes to life, and he gradually learns how to use it as a weapon to fight back against what the villag-ers initially assume are demons.

Dolarhyde leads Jake and a posse in pursuit of the creatures, accompa-nied by the mysterious gun-toting Ella (Olivia Wilde), who knows more about these beings than she lets on.

Director Favreau slipped from fresh and flamboyant on “Iron Man” to lame and list-less on its sequel, and there’s more of the latter on “Cowboys & Aliens.” The posse creeps along through close encoun-ters with outlaws and Apaches and has more abduction run-ins with the aliens.

Yet other than seeing the two blended together,

there’s nothing here that hasn’t been done far bet-ter in many Westerns and science-fiction flicks. The aliens are anony-mous monsters, and the human folk are mostly cardboard types like those you’ll find in any old Western.

The action plays out against grand, gorgeous landscapes captured by cinematographer Mat-thew Libatique, while the visual effects are standard stuff, save for one very impressive explosion.

As a jittery saloon owner, Sam Rockwell gets to toss out a few funny lines, and Adam Beach manages a few moments of pathos as Dolarhyde’s main hand. As the sheriff’s young grandson, Noah Ringer is there to broaden the movie’s kid appeal but doesn’t really add to the story.

Though Ford is push-

ing 70, it’s odd seeing him relegated to second billing in an action movie. His role is big, and it does give him a chance

to play a bit nastier than usual.

But Craig’s role is the sort Ford might have done if “Cowboys &

Aliens” came 20 years earlier. Craig’s probably the better actor of the two, but Ford’s a true movie star, and it’s easy to imagine a livelier film if Jake had more of that Indiana Jones rogue’s charm and less of the tightly wound menace Craig has made a part of his take on James Bond.

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Now in its 28th year running, the popular Martin Harris Pageant in Clarkston has gotten a makeover.

The LDS church-sponsored pag-eant, which draws an average of

25,000 audience members and 1,000 volun-teers to the town of Clarkston every other year, has an entirely new set, Pageant Presi-dent Don Jeppesen said.

“This set here is a totally new design, new concept, everything about it is different than the old set,” Jeppesen said. “And it will make the production different.”

The new set features the outlines of three rustic buildings from the early 1800s, erected against a stunning natural panorama of Cache Valley to the southeast. Steps and ramps connect the two separate stage levels, where this year’s 85 cast members will act and dance out the scenes of the early history of the LDS church.

It was designed by accomplished produc-tion designer Doug Ellis, and built by Scenic Solutions, a private company in Lindon, Utah. It took four to five months to build, Jeppesen said, and arrived in Clarkston a week and a half before the start of the pag-eant.

Jeppesen said the previous set consisted of a “straight backdrop with pictures of

the stores of Palmyra (N.Y.), and Joseph Smith’s home, and the Martin Harris house.” And although the new set will change the staging of the pageant completely, he said

“the script is almost identical,” to previous years’ pageants.

About two years ago, the pageant was rewritten and shortened from two hours and five minutes long to an hour and 15 minutes long, Jeppesen said, by essentially removing the narrator.

“The story is now told totally by Martin Harris, Joseph Smith, and it’s not told by the third person,” Jeppesen said. “It’s amazing that that took out 45 minutes.”

The pageant is performed at the cemetery where early church leader Martin Harris, who helped LDS Prophet Joseph Smith with the translation of the Book of Mormon, is buried. On the southeast side of the hill, a windy, contemplative spot overlooking the rest of Cache Valley, Denzel Clark, then mayor of Clarkston, and Valdo Benson, regional representative for the LDS church, built a stone amphitheater to turn Benson’s

“vision” into a reality— the portrayal of Mar-tin Harris’ life and testimony through song and dance.

Since then, Jeppesen said the pageant has helped those who attend in “the understand-

ing of who Martin Harris really was, and what he did for the early church and helping the prophet Joseph Smith,” he said. “For me personally, it’s been an extra conviction of the truthfulness of everything that hap-pened.”

Jeppesen said for the first years of the pag-eant, the whole town of Clarkston essentially closed down for three weeks, as the town’s residents made and washed costumes, put up the scenery, made food for hungry travel-ers and took tickets on each of the 12 nights the pageant is performed.

Now, Jeppesen said the workload is spread out among 10 different stakes throughout Cache Valley to alleviate the stress on Clarkston alone, although the town is still very involved in the production. Four years ago, the LDS pageant committee made the decision to hold the pageant every other year in order to further reduce Clarkston’s risk of being overwhelmed by the previously annual event.

Even with the move to every other year, the pageant still draws families, youth groups and individuals from Utah County, Twin Falls, Rexburg, and even a couple from Scandinavia one year, Jeppesen said.

See PAGEANT on page 11

Story by Kate Rouse DuHadway • Photo by Eli Lucero

ON stageMartin Harris Pageant gets new set

Quick facts: •To expand the seating of the original amphitheater, aluminum bleachers are

brought in every year from BYU, bringing the total seating capacity to 3,000.

• With the new set, the speakers behind the stage were raised. In order to keep the tall poles from tipping and to withstand the constant wind, each of the three poles is supported by 10 cubic yards of buried concrete.

• A tall stone and a “Utah Historic Site” plaque mark Martin Harris’ grave, in addition to a large flat stone that may have been an old stone step from the Clarkston church building. The step is purportedly to keep the city of Smithfield, and later Logan, from digging up the early church leader and reburying him in their own graveyards.

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Friday, JuLy 29

FREE CONCERTS FOR EVERYONEAT LOgAN HigH AudiTORiuM

noon MusIc Saturday, JuLy 30 tueSday, aug. 2

Sarah Jacobs Huff

Inishfre Celtic Dancers

Inishfre Irish Dance Company, based in Cache Valley, performs frequently at venues along the Wasatch Front and in Idaho and Wyoming. Founded by director and choreographer Julie Zufelt, the company is best known for its stage production Celtic Night which takes place every March in the Ellen Eccles Theater. Over time, the show has become a much-anticipated com-munity event and St. Patrick’s Day celebration. The company dancers bring a wide variety of dance experience to the stage and range in age from 16 to 50.

The Inishfre Irish Dancers will perform with guest artist tenor Kent Braddy.

Sarah Jacobs Huff graduated from USU with a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance. On stage she has performed lead roles in musicals and operas, and has been the featured performer in concerts and recitals. Most recently Sarah was seen on the Ellen Eccles stage as Marguerite in

“The Scarlet Pimpernel.” Along with performing, Sarah is also a recording artist and voice teacher. She is the incredibly lucky wife of Daniel Huff, and together they take on the world of parenthood to their three energetic little girls. At this year’s noon concert, Sarah will be performing some classic jazz tunes, as well as some lesser-known musical theatre numbers. She is very fortunate to be accompanied by the amazingly talented pianist, Kevin Olson.

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Brianna Lynn Craw is a native of Logan. She gradu-ated with her bach-elor’s degree in vocal perfor-mance from Utah State Univer-sity. Brianna received her Masters in Music from the University of Michigan. Brianna was chosen to represent the University of Michi-gan in a recital at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. She was rated in the top six singers in the Nation for 2010. She is currently on the adjunct voice faculty at USU.

Vickie Elder Craw has been happily sing-ing in Cache Val-ley for more than 40 years. She attend-ed BYU, USU and was a member of the Sounds of Zion LDS Institute show choir. She won first place in both the Cache County and Beaver County tal-ent competitions and performed at the State Fair. Vickie sang for several years with the Northern Utah Choral Society, and currently sings with American Festival Chorus under the direction of Craig Jessop.

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Lightwood Duo

Vicki and Brianna Craw Debbie Ditton and students

The Lightwood Duo, guitarist Mike Christiansen and clarinetist Eric Nelson, has been performing locally and nationally since 1991. They are well-known to local audiences, and are both Cache Valley music educators. Their noon concert will consist of a varied mix of jazz, rock, Latin, Broadway and originals.

Debbie Ditton is excited to present some of her fabulous voice students on this grand stage! Deb-bie has taught in Cache Valley for 17 years and has worked with performers of all ages. She is currently rehearsing a talented cast of children and adults for Music Theatre West’s “Annie,” which will be presented at the Ellen Eccles Theatre, Sept. 15-21 and will present a sneak peek of some of the show’s favorites at this Noon Music event.

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The ninth annual Noon Music at the Tabernacle series is in full swing. All concerts are free to the public and begin at noon. Be sure to check Cache Magazine every week for profiles on upcoming performers. (The schedule is always subject to change!) For more information, visit www.cachecommunityconnections.com.

Noon Music at the Tabernacle is back!

J eremy’s unique voice has touched the lives of all who

truly listen. His love for singing started at the age of 5 and has developed into a life of per-forming, composing, recording, filming and arranging. Jeremy has written and performed songs for many different causes and shows including abuse awareness and prevention, science through music, gospel songs, love songs,

Christmas songs and more. His most recent is an inspirational, fully orchestrated piece written in both Italian and English called “I Am Free.” With a variety of audiences ranging from country to broadway, opera to children and inspirational, Jeremy’s array of musical genres parallels an endless canvas of inspiring paint-ings that many different viewers can connect with.

Jeremy Threlfall (June 4)

U sing four octaves of English hand-bells and three octaves of chimes, the

Westminster Bell Choirs will fill the tab-ernacle with the sounds of familiar sacred and secular pieces. The performance — the choirs’ last concert of the season — will feature an ensemble that has been entertaining Cache Valley audiences

since 1998, plus a new ensemble orga-nized last year. Both are interfaith groups sponsored by Logan’s First Presbyterian Church. In this concert they’ll coax a wide variety of sounds from the bells as they ring such favorites as “America,” “Rock-a My Soul,” the melodic “Celtic Farewell” and even a Joplin rag.

Westminster Bell Choir (June 5)

H ailed as “a triumph of ensemble playing” (New

York Times), Fry Street Quar-tet has perfected a “blend of technical precision and scorch-ing spontaneity” (Strad). Since securing the Millennium Grand Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in 2000, Fry Street Quartet has reached audiences from Carnegie Hall to Sarajevo and Jerusalem, exploring the medium of the string quartet and its life-affirming potential with “profound understand-ing …depth of expression and stunning technical astuteness” (Deseret Morning News). Fry Street Quartet has held the position of faculty quartet-in-residence at the Caine School of the Arts at Utah State Uni-versity since 2002.

Fry Street Quartet (June 8)

Megan — Cache Valley native Megan Bagley has been playing the piano and sing-ing since the age of 6. As a youth she sang with the Cache Children’s Choir, performing in venues such as the LDS Conference Center and the Cathedral of the Madeline in Salt Lake City. Megan’s love for dance per-formance found expression at Tueller School of Dance, where she studied and danced for 10 years. Megan is a graduate of Sky View where she was actively involved in cheerleading and performing. She was a member of Sky View’s show choir “Encore” and participated in the high school musicals. She has also been involved in community pro-ductions with Cache Regional Theatre Com-pany. She is performing this summer in her second season with the Pickleville Playhouse in Bear Lake. Megan is attending USU where she is studying elementary education.

Leah — Known for driving around in cir-cles, singing her songs, telling her stories and knowing the world’s worst jokes, Leah Adkins has lived in Cache Valley since 1970. She attended schools in Logan and Cache County and graduated from Sky View before completing her Bachelor of Arts at USU. She moved to Evanston, Wyo., for about 10 years where she was active in the community, working as a journalist and supporting several causes with her vol-unteer work. Adkins is the mother of five and became a grandmother last summer, an experience scheduled to be repeated in July. She is active in the Bridgerland Chapter of the Utah Story-tellers Guild as vice president, will perform with the American West Heritage Center’s Wild West Shakespeare production “A Whole Lotta Fussin’ Over Nothin’” and will present a vocal recital this fall.

Megan Bagley & Leah Adkins (June 9)

Brianna — Brianna Lynn Craw is a native of Logan and graduated from USU with a Bachelor of Arts degree in vocal perfor-mance. While attending USU she performed several leading roles with the USU Opera The-atre and was also a concerto competition winner. Brianna received her master’s degree in music from the Univer-sity of Michigan. While in Michigan she performed roles with the University of Michigan Opera Theatre and was the soloist for several oratorio works with the University of Michigan choirs and symphony. In 2007, Brianna was chosen to represent the University of Michi-gan in a recital at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Recently she performed solos for the African Sanctus in the Mountain West Songfest and the soprano solos for Beethoven’s “9th Symphony” with the American Festival Chorus and symphony. This spring Brianna won first place in both the

district and regional finals of the 2010 NAT-SAA Competition.

Vickie — Vickie Elder Craw has been singing in Cache Valley for more than 40 years. She graduated from Logan High School and many remember her in the role of Anna in “The King and I.” She attended BYU and USU and was a member of the Sounds of Zion LDS Institute show choir. She won first place in both the Cache County and Beaver County talent competitions and performed at the State Fair. She was a soloist in Handel’s Messiah at the Logan LDS Tabernacle, sang for several years with the Northern Utah Choral Society and now sings with American Festival Chorus under the direction of Craig Jessop. Vickie has taught voice lessons for many years and has enjoyed teaching music to her own children. Vickie is married to Scott Craw; they have seven chil-dren and nine grandchildren.

Brianna & Vickie Craw (June 10)

Founded in 1976, the Cache Humane

Society will hold its annu-al public meeting at Wil-low Park's Rotary Pavil-ion on Friday, July 29, at 5 p.m. This is a free event, open to the public, at which the achievements of the past year and the plans and goals for the coming year will be pre-sented. The 35th birthday celebration will begin at 6 p.m., immediately follow-ing the annual meeting. This event is also open to the public, but will be a ticketed event to help defray the cost of the food and entertainment. Hamilton's Restaurant will be doing the catering and deceptionist Richard Hatch of the Hatch Acad-emy of Magic and Music

will perform both interac-tive, close-up magic and a give a brief formal per-formance during the party. Tickets to the party are

$15 for adults and $7 for children under 12.

The Cache Humane Society is devoted to serving the citizens and

companion animals of Cache Valley. With a shelter at 2370 W. 200 N., Logan, UT 84321, the Society provides programs and services with the goal of eliminat-ing pain, fear, suffering, and homelessness for companion animals. The Cache Humane Society is governed by a volunteer board of trustees and is a qualified non-profit 501(C)(3) organization. All donations are tax deductible. To purchase tickets to the party, make a donation, or adopt a pet, contact the Cache Humane Society at (435) 792-3920. For more infor-mation, you can also visit their website at http://www.cachehumane.org/CHS/Main.html.

Humane Society to celebrate 35 years PageantContinued from page 8

“As far as people coming (to the pageant), I’ve had people from pretty well every state in the union,” Jeppesen said. “The Martin Harris extended family comes every year, and they’ll bring as high as 200, 300 people.”

The pageant is free to attend, but those who would like to go still need to obtain tickets by calling the conference center in Salt Lake at 1-801-570-0080 or 1-866-537-8457 Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pre-pageant activities, where pageant-goers can learn some of the games and dances of the early 1800s, start at 7:30 p.m., while the pageant itself begins at 8:15 each evening. The pageant opens tonight and runs through Aug. 12, and Jeppesen said all 3,000 tick-ets have already been given out for tonight’s and next Friday’s performances. There are still tickets available for the Saturday and weekday performances.

For those who travel long distances to attend, and for any hungry pageant-goer, the town of Clarkston offers a warm meal for $6.50 a plate at the Clarkston stake center from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Those interested in coming are asked to make reservations at least 48 hours in advance by calling the town of Clarkston at 435-563-9090.

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“Because nice matters”

by Teresa Lewis

You look really good, your days have been fine,

But tell me, smart one, have you been kind?

The family with nothing, did you even see?

Or was your focus set on me, me, me?

That older woman, so full of dismay,

The kid without friends, did you brighten their day?

The neighbor next door, who was stressed out and frazzled,

Did you give her a smile, or was it your friends that you dazzled?

It’s really a small thing, to treat people kind

Everyone has some sorrow in their mind.

Reach out and smile, notice a need.

Set an example and do a good deed.

“One Wish — For Kori”by George T. Sorters

If I had one wish,And one wish only,Would I wish for friendsSo I’d never be lonely?Would I wish my lifeNever had to end?But, who would I share it withIf I had no friends?Would I wish for money,More than I’d ever need?Or would I let that go,Knowing money could cause greed?Would I wish for fame,To be known the world wide?No, that’s much too demanding,There would be no place to hide.Would I wish for power,To control all of the earth?Or to start my life all over,To begin, again, from birth?No, I would have to passOn all of these above.

And use my one and only wish To always have your love.

“Hope”

by Prabhu Mohapatra

When the sun rises

And darkness is gone,

Our heart warms up

And hope is born.

When disaster strikes

Out of the blue,

Hope leads the way

And life goes on ...

Believe in yourself

And work hard.

Hope for better

And live happily

Ever after

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By Mary FosterThe Associated Press

After reading “Weeds,” Richard Mabey’s loving

tribute to the common weed, you may still pull out the herbi-cide but feel a little respect for the plants you’re zapping.

Mabey, one of Britain’s most respected nature writers, loses no time launching into praise for the plants that seemingly flourish everywhere, even managing to sneak into the tidiest of gardens unless the owner practices constant vigi-lance.

He discovered his fascination with weeds in his 20s, when he was working in an outer sec-tion of London that presented “wildness in the city.”

In this stretch of urban wasteland, slowly building into an industrial stronghold, Mabey discovered weeds galore, including immigrants from three continents.

In sharing his amazement with the plants that “become weeds when they obstruct our plans, or our tidy maps of the world,” he writes that they can be “botanical thugs” that destroy everything they cover, but can also be great restorers.

After World War II, bomb sites in England became so covered with plants that many

people claimed the Germans had dropped those seeds as well as bombs. The plant Rose-bay Willowherb was called “bombweed” by residents because of its rapid coloniza-tion of bomb craters.

A weed invasion took place in London, with bracken car-peting the nave of St. James and thorn apples growing in the cellars of Cheapside.

One observer counted 126 species in what Mabey calls a weed storm.

The history of these plants, which includes once popular varieties imported for use in gardens and later falling out of favor to those used as medi-cines and food, includes many

myths and beliefs.Mabey can spin both fright-

ening yarns about some spe-cies and laugh-out-loud stories about his adventures — and those of others — in the won-

derful world of weeds.But his admiration for the

ability of weeds to survive natural disasters, human destruction, climate change and almost every eradication effort

ever launched against them is the main reason to read this fascinating book — that and the lessons that these unloved plants may have for humans as they face an uncertain future.

Books

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “A Dance with Dragons,” by George R. R. Martin2. “Now You See Her,” by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge3. “Then Came You,” by Jennifer Weiner4. “Smokin’ Seventeen,” by Janet Evanovich5. “Quinn,” by Iris Johansen

HARDCOVER NONFICTION1. “A Stolen Life,” by Jaycee Dugard2. “Unbroken,” by Laura Hillenbrand3. “In the Garden of Beasts,” by Erik Larson4. “Bossypants,” by Tina Fey5. “Of Thee I Zing,” by Laura Ingraham with Raymond

Arroyo

PAPERBACK TRADE FICTION1. “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett2. “Room,” by Emma Donoghue3. “Water for Elephants,” by Sara Gruen4. “One Day,” by David Nicholls5. “Cutting for Stone,” by Abraham Verghese

PAPERBACK NONFICTION1. “Heaven is for Real,” by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent2. “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” by Rebecca Skloot3. “Outliers,” by Malcolm Gladwell4. “The Glass Castle,” by Jeannette Walls5. “The Original Argument,” by Glenn Beck with Joshua Charles

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

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

Review: Author gives weeds a loving tribute

By Douglass K. DanielThe Associated Press

Those with a soft spot for adventure-

some romantics will find it difficult not to be beguiled by young Everett Ruess after reading David Rob-erts’ noteworthy book.

A thorough biographer and determined detective, Roberts also explores the reasons that people remain

intrigued by the ill-fated artist who disappeared nearly eight decades ago — a mystery that Roberts convincingly unravels in the final section of “Find-ing Everett Ruess.”

Ruess was just 20 when he vanished in 1934 while on one of his wanderings in the red rock country of Utah. He had undertaken a handful of such journeys since he was 16, accompa-

nied only by pack animals. He sent a steady stream of letters to his parents and brother in Los Angeles as well as to friends. He wrote of his love of nature, his desire for solitude and his struggle to develop deep friendships while feeling apart from others.

“God, how the trail lures me,” he wrote to his brother, Waldo, in 1932. “I’ll never stop wandering.

And when the time comes to die, I’ll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.”

Over the years the mys-tery gained Ruess a cult following and imbued his writings and artwork with a certain aura. It’s similar to the taken-too-young quality that keeps actor James Dean a figure of fascination and turns another wanderer, Chris

McCandless of “Into the Wild” notoriety, into a subject of interest.

“Finding Everett Ruess” contends that the young vagabond may have been a John Muir in the making. Indeed, Ruess’ writings matured with time and experience, and he showed potential to join Muir and other adventurers who became advocates of pre-serving wild places.

Author provides a realistic view of adventurer

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On July 29 at 8:30 p.m., come join Common Ground Outdoor Adventures for a movie night. We will be watch-ing “How To Train Your Dragon” in our back lot. Please bring family, friends or a date! We’ll have popcorn and other goodies to eat and we guar-antee a good time. Hope to see you there.

Jodi James will perform acoustic music with The Linen Closet, Fast Company and Tina Ferguson on Fri-

day, July 29, at 8 p.m. at Why Sound. Cost is $5.

Sky View High School Class of 1981 30-year reunion will be held Saturday, July 30, at 3 p.m. Alumni will be gathering at Sky View High School’s South West Corner for group photos. Pizza and outdoor games will follow at the Smithfield Central Park. For more information contact Layne Nielson at 435-512-5862 or [email protected].

Come learn how we make Aggie Ice Cream at a public ice cream tour at the Nutrition and Food Sciences build-ing on USU campus Saturday, July 30, at 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Cost is $3 per person.

Hershey Kisses will perform a variety of music including patriotic, Broadway and music from Irving Berlin on Saturday, July 30, at 3 p.m. at the Pioneer Valley Lodge, 2351 N. 400 East in North Logan. Please come and join us for this free event that is open to the public. For more

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Calendarinformation please call 792-0353.

A backstage tour in the Ellen Eccles Theatre will be held Saturday, July 30, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Cost is $5. Learn the history of the Ellen Eccles Theatre and the Dan-sante building, home of the Utah Festival Opera and Musi-cal Theatre.

New Life Fellowship is having a yard sale to raise money for our new church building Satur-day, July 30. The yard sale will be held at 2045 N. 800 East in North Logan starting at 8 a.m. There will be tons of items for sale at great deals.

Sundays at the Park contin-ues July 31. Ann Egeland will enthrall the group with stories of her experiences in “Mystical India.” This should be a most fascinating afternoon. We meet on the lawn adjacent to the Old Main building on USU campus. Bring your own chairs. In the event of rain we will meet in the Family Life Building, Room 206. Due to the closure of Champ Drive from 400 North, use 800 East, through the campus on Champ Drive and around Old Main to the parking lot. For questions call Myles Daitzman at 787-4142.

Members of the Utah Festival Opera Company are hosting a benefit concert for Four Paws Rescue, a non-profit animal rescue organization. Join us Sunday, July 31, from 7 to 9 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church (85 E. 100 North) for a lovely evening. Donations are suggested at the door. All pro-ceeds will benefit the cats and dogs of Cache Valley.

The Post-Mormon Com-munity is a non-sectarian organization of individuals and families who have left Mormon-ism. The Cache Valley chapter meets for dinner and socializing at a local restaurant, every Sunday evening at 6:30 p.m. We welcome new-comers. For more information call Jeff at

770-4263, or go to our website at, www.postmormon.org/logan.

The Hyrum senior center is open Monday through Fri-day from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. All seniors are welcome. We have a variety of programs and class-es and you are welcome to stop in and get a monthly newslet-ter. Please call 245-3570 to reserve a place for lunch or for information. We always have quilts to tie or quilt, pool games available and yummy lunches. The schedule for next week is as follows: Monday, Fit Over 60 at 10 a.m.; Tuesday, chair yoga at 10:30 a.m. and game day at 12:30 p.m.; Wednesday, our program will be Mike Hatch playing the piano; Thursday, chair yoga at 10:30 a.m.; Friday, Bingo at 12:30 p.m.

Sarah Houghton will be host-ing a trombone ensemble week Aug. 1-5 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. each day, with a concert Friday night. Registration is only $40 and private lessons during the week are half price. Email [email protected] for more information.

Attention Hillcrest students: Join us for summer library fun from Aug. 1 to 18 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. There will be stories, activities and movie Wednes-days. For more information, see the Hillcrest home page, www.hillcrest.logan.k12.ut.us.

A Low Vision Support Group and Macular Degen-eration Support Group will be held Aug. 2, from 10 a.m. to noon at OPTIONS for Indepen-dence, 1095 N. Main, Logan. For more information call Roy-ella at 435-753-5353 ext 105.

Stokes Nature Center invites ages 4-7 to Knee-High Natu-ralist Camp. There are two sessions, each with a different theme: Aug. 2, 1 to 4 p.m., and Aug. 4, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Par-ticipants can sign up for one or both. Campers will explore the wonders of nature through

outdoor exploration, nature-themed art, stories and games. Cost is $30 per session ($25 for SNC members). Registration required. For more information, call 435-755-3239 or visit www.logannature.org.

Could you start a fire using only a rock, some steel, and a bit of grass? Come learn from the mountain men how to sur-vive like a fur trapper during Daily Historic Adventures at the American West Heritage Center. The center is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost is $6 for adults and $4 for kids ages 3-11, students, seniors and military. Visit www.awhc.org or call 435-245-6050 for more information.

The Lightwood Duo, gui-tarist Mike Christiansen and clarinetist/saxophonist Eric Nel-son, will be joined by New York pianist Tom Nelson for a jazz concert Tuesday, Aug. 2 at the Logan Arthouse and Cinema. The show will begin at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10; tickets will be available at the door the eve-ning of the concert. The Logan Arthouse and Cinema is located at 795 N. Main Street in Logan.

The AARP senior defensive drivers class will be held from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2, at Cache County Senior Center. Cost is $12 for AARP members, or $14 for non-mem-bers. The certificate of comple-tion will reduce auto insurance rates. Call Wally at 752-0260 for reservations.

Ken Parker from The Ameri-can Legion, Salt Lake City, will be at the Department of Work-force Services Employment Center in Logan on Wednesday, Aug. 3, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. He will be assisting individual veterans in understanding and applying for VA benefits including compensation, pen-sion, hospitalization, education and various other benefits. This is a free service to all veter-ans. Please bring the following documents so that we may better serve you: DD form 214,

marriage/divorce papers, birth/adoption/death certificates and children’s social security num-bers. Department of Workforce Services is located at 180 N. 100 West.

Mallory Abbot, USU music major, will be playing Aug. 3 at The Paradise Market. She plays both fiddle tunes and classical music. We may also have some others showing off their string skills!

Utah State’s football coach-ing staff will host a free football clinic for women to learn football skills, techniques and the ins-and-outs of the game at Merlin Olsen Field at Rom-ney Stadium on Wednesday, Aug. 3. The clinic is sponsored by America First Credit Union. Participants will also have the opportunity to meet and visit with the Aggie football coach-ing staff, along with selected players. Check-in and registra-tion begins at 6:30 p.m. with the clinic starting at 7 p.m. The clinic is open to all women ages 14 and older. All participants will receive a clinic T-shirt as well as a gift bag. For pre-registra-tion or for more information con-tact USU Athletics Marketing Office at 435-797-1360 or email [email protected] or register the night of the event at 6:30 p.m. on the south end of the field.

The presentation “Backstage Magic” will be held Aug. 3 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main Street in Logan. Secrets of technical moments, from fire to props to lighting and sound tricks will be revealed. If you would like to see things go up in flame, get lost in a dense fog, feel like a train might run you over and see what it looks like in the spotlight, this workshop is for you. Cost is $10.

Stokes Nature Center invites all ages to Nature Night: Nature Art, a free program held from 4-7 p.m. on Aug. 3. Partici-pants will discover some new arts and crafts ideas that reflect and utilize our natural world. Activities are ongoing, all are welcome to drop in. For more

information, call 435-755-3239 or visit www.logannature.org.

On Wednesday, Aug. 3, OPTIONS for Independence will visit Willow Park Zoo and picnic in the park at noon. There is a $2 donation for trans-portation and food. Please call Mandi at OPTIONS at 435-753-5353 for reservations and to schedule a ride.

A free Constitution class, “To Preserve the Nation,” will be taught be Scott Bradley on Wednesday, Aug. 3, at 7 p.m. at the Book Table (upstairs). For more information call 753-2930 or 753-8844.

A “Zumbathon” fundraiser for Shriners Hospital for Chil-dren will be held Wednesday, Aug. 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Logan Rec Center (195 S. 100 West in Logan). Registration starts at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $5. Caeser salads and hot rolls will be donated by Texas Road-house. Raffle prizes have been donated by local businesses. All proceeds will be donated to Shriners Hospital for Children.

A family fun triathlon will be held Saturday, Aug. 6, at 8:30 a.m. at the Sports Academy and Racquet Club, 1655 N. 200 East in North Logan. Cost is $15 per individual, $25 per two-person team and $35 per three-person team. The race is especially for youth and fami-lies interested in participating in an introductory level triathlon. Registration is due by Friday, July 29. Call 753-7500 for more information.

Come learn dances to songs from the movie “Lemonade Mouth” next week at the Sports Academy and Racquet Club, 1655 N. 200 East in North Logan. Classes will be held Aug. 2-4 from 11 a.m. to noon. The last day of every session there will be a performance for parents at 11:30 a.m. Cost is $10 per child for members, $25 per child for non-members. Sign-ups are due Friday, July 29.

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