The Herald Journal Sept. 25 - Oct. 1, 2009

The members of the Mendon Photo Guild are devoted to their craft.

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Cute pet photo of the week

Pets: Piper and CalaisPiper and Calais belonged to Mary Doty, who

was killed in a car crash Aug. 12. Doty was an animal-lover and had four cats and a dog, and they’ve all be adopted except Piper and Calais.

They’re brother and sister from the same litter. Though they’re 14 years old, they’re both still ac-tive and lively. Their friends hope to find someone to adopt them together, but they’ll be happy as long as both cats go to good homes. About Piper: He’s a neutered male, with amazing green eyes. He loves to play on his kitty tower and play with string, but most of all he likes to curl up in a lap and purr.About Calais: She’s a spayed female who also loves to cuddle up in laps and play with string. She is lithe and petite, though she has a healthy appetite. If you’re interested in adopting Piper and Cal-ais, call Carol Rosenthal at 753-7257.

What’s inside this weekCV’s own

belly-dance troupe

wants to wow you

(Page 4) Feel the excitement of Calo Flamenco

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Matt Damon takes off the action hero suit and puts on

the pounds for “The Informant!”

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Cache Magazine

The Herald Journal’s

Arts & EntertainmentCalendar

Cache Sheep graze under rays of sunshine in Nibley in a photo taken by a member of the Mendon Photo Guild. The group, which is made up of more than just Mendon residents, meets

monthly to critique each other’s photos, take field trips and talk photography, all in hopes of taking better pictures.

On the cover:

When acting as Cache Maga-zine editor a few months ago I wrote in this column about

a terrible play I was in as a teenager.That was my worst experience in the

theater. This week, I’m reminded of my best theater experience.

At age 13 I was cast as Jem Finch in BYU’s production of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” It was my first encounter with Harper Lee’s classic story about racism, tolerance and family, and it had a big impact on me.

Those familiar with the book, play or movie will know that the relation-ship between Jem and his younger sister Scout plays an important role in the story. During rehearsals and the run of the show, I became friends with the girl who played Scout, and that friendship helped us portray the brother/sister rela-tionship on stage.

Tonight, I’ll be attending the Mon-

tana Repertory Theatre’s production of “To Kill a Mockingbird” at the Ellen Eccles Theater. With me will be my real younger sister, now a USU freshman.

I see a few similarities in the rela-tionship between the fictional Jem and Scout and the relationship I have with my sister. Like Jem, I’m protective of my little sister, though she’s proven over and over that she’s confident and capable of taking care of herself. Like Jem, I’m probably more irrational than I think I am, and my little sister is at least as wise as I am.

Like Jem, I dote on my younger sister and would do anything for her.

She was only four years old when I was in the play, and I loved her as much as anything in the world. Now she’s grown up, and my love for her has only grown.

So to you, Katie: Welcome to Logan. I couldn’t be happier that you’re here.

And to you boys at USU: Stay away from my little sister.

— Devin FelixCache Magazine Assistant Editor

From the editor dfelix@hjnews.com

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Mary Doty’s Orphaned cats need a new home

Piper

Calais

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YOU & YOURN WILL PERFORM WITH The News Boys and Deadbeat (alternative/folk) at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave., Logan. Cover charge is $6.

Love, then music, then marriage … the story continues. Since 2001, Heather and Nic Dillon (the force behind You & Yourn) have recorded together and toured throughout the United States and Canada, performing with the band Winter in Alaska and under their former name, Casados. Their newest self-engineered/recorded project, “It Would Make Things Worse,” is a culmination of a sonic evolu-tion that has brought them out of the pedestrian indie-folk-singer-songwriter genre and into their current coat: lyrically driven, atmospheric chamber-folk. Here you will

find a gentler, more deliberate dynamic that alludes not only to the more gleeful aspects of life and love, but also the darker.

“It Would Make Things Worse” is slated for national release on Parasol Records in September 2009. For more information, visit www.youandyourn.com.

For more information on WhySound, visit www.myspace.com/whysound.

Rhythms

WITH FALL quickly approach-ing, it’s time for the

Chamber Music Society of Lo-gan to kick off its 29th perfor-mance season. The season will present a potpourri of world-class performances by The Shanghai Quartet, the Brentano Quartet, The Parker Quartet, The Claremount Piano Trio with guest clarinetist Jonathan Cohler and Logan’s own Fry Street Quartet with guest cellist Zuill Bailey.

The Shanghai Quartet will be the first group on the concert stage. The quartet was formed in 1983 at the Shanghai Conser-vatory, its members among the first generation to be allowed to study Western classical music after the cultural revolution. The group has been based in the United States for more than 13 years and currently serves as the quartet-in-residence at Mont-clair State University.

The group’s current member-ship includes brothers Weigang and Honggang Li on violin and

viola, violinist Yi-Wen Jiang and American cellist Nicholas Tza-varas. The group regularly tours the great concert halls in North

and South America, Europe and the Far East. Their wide range of media projects have included the soundtrack and a cameo ap-pearance in Woody Allen’s 2005 film “Melinda and Melinda,” as

well as frequent appearances on National Public Radio’s “Great Performances” program.

Shanghai’s first musical se-lection for their Logan perfor-mance will be Spain’s Joaquin Turina’s “Oracian del Torero,” translated as the “Bullfighter’s Prayer.” The musical piece reflects on the thoughts of a matador before entering the bull ring. It is 8½ minutes long and was written in 1921 by the ultra-nationalistic Turina.

The second selection of the evening will be three pieces from the 24-piece “Chinasong” series. The music, written by second violinist Yi-Wen Jiang, is a collection of string quartet arrangements of Chinese folk and contemporary songs, many of which evoke Jiang’s child-hood memories of the cultural revolution. The string instru-ment arrangement is filled with beguiling melodies and echoes of Chinese instruments.

The third musical selec-tion of the evening is Krzystof Penderecki’s “String Quartet

No. 3.” The Shanghai Quartet premiered the piece in 2008 in celebration of the composer’s 75th birthday. Penderecki is a Grammy Award-winning Polish composer and conductor who occupies an important posi-tion in the music of his native Poland. The quartet is an auto-biographical work containing motifs of his Polish childhood, including a Hudsul folk melody.

Following intermission will be Franz Schubert’s masterpiece “String Quartet in D minor,” popularly known as “The Death of the Maiden.” Schubert origi-nally composed the music for the poem “Death and the Maid-en” by Matthias Claudius in 1817. In 1826 Schubert rewrote the music for a string quartet after receiving news of his own terminal syphilis diagnosis.

Shanghai Quartet to lead concert series

Shanghai Quartet

★ Who: Shanghai Quartet★ When: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m.★ Where: Manon Caine Rus-sell-Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall★ Season tickets: Regular, $96; student, $40★ Single concert tickets: Regu-lar, $24; student, $10★ Single tickets can be pur-chased at the door prior to the concert, by visiting csaboxof-fice.usu.edu or by calling 797-1500.

MySpace-renowned band The Kris Special will perform Oct. 1 at the Whittier Center, along with

local singer/songwriter Katie Jo. The show starts at 8 p.m. and there will be a $6 cover

charge.The Kris Special is a two-piece band from Southern

California. Strongly influenced by ‘90s rock bands such as Weezer and Nirvana, they continue to cling to their old country and punk rock roots.

Their unique fusion has earned them rave reviews. Their debut album “Alone Feels Like a Hotel Room” has drawn comparisons to artists as diverse as X and Mazzy Star.

Katie Jo began playing guitar at the age of 12 and songwriting at 14. Her love for performing and the arts took her to Dixie State College in 1999, where she was active in the theater and began performing solo acoustic shows.

She is currently working on her first album.

The Kris Special and Katie Jo You & Yourn bringing

‘chamber folk’ to WhySound

THE CACHE VALLEYCenter for the Arts will present Dein Perry’s Tap Dogs at 7:30

p.m. Oct. 8 and 9 at the Ellen Eccles The-atre. Tickets range from $26 to $38 and can be purchased at www.EllenEcclesThe-atre.org or by calling 752-0026.

Tap Dogs — a rough, tough, rocking theatrical entertainment performance — is ready to leave dents on stages all across North America. Winner of 11 International Awards, the group premiered at the Sydney Theatre Festival, moved on to London and New York and has been a howling success all across North America, Europe, Asia, South America and Australia.

Having performed in 330 cities world-wide with 12 million seats sold, Tap Dogs is taking the world by storm. Created by two-time Olivier Award-winning chore-ographer Dein Perry, with a construction site set by eclectic designer/director Nigel Triffitt and a driving score by composer Andrew Wilkie, Tap Dogs is part theater, part dance, part rock concert.

Perry has come a long way from the make-shift dance school in Newcastle, a steel town north of Sydney, Australia, where, as young boys, he and the future Dogs learned how to tap. At the age of 17, with no opportunities in sight for a danc-ing career, he earned his union papers and

worked as an industrial machinist for six years. He then moved to Sydney where he tried to break into show business. Small chorus parts in Broadway-style musicals led to Perry’s big break when he was cast in the long-running Sydney production of “42nd Street.” When it closed, he decided to create a contemporary show around the themes of his industrial experience with his Newcastle tap dancing mates.

Triffitt’s industrial stage sets incorporate moving parts, complicated steps, angle grinders and water. For more information, visit www.tapdogs.com.

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USU’s ‘Glass Menagerie’ now playing

IMAGINE BALLET THEATER, AN Ogden-based ballet company, will pres-ent an evening of traditional Spanish dance

with Calo Flamenco: Ballet de Martín Gaxiola on Saturday, Oct. 3. The performance will couple with Imagine Ballet’s fall gala fundraiser and include an evening of varied entertainment.

There will be appetizers, a silent auction, dinner, dessert and dancing following the show. The event begins at 6 p.m., and the Calo Flamenco perfor-mance will start at 8 p.m.

Tickets for the entire evening are $100 per person or $30 per person for the Flamenco per-formance only. Tickets are available through the Peery’s Egyptian Theater box office in Ogden, through SmithsTix venues or online at www.smithstix.com. For more information, visit www.imagineballet.org.

Calo Flamenco shows audiences the powerful and passionate dance form, as well as many other vibrant and charged aspects that go hand in hand

with the dancing. The music, singing and costumes that accompany the dancers on stage create a vivid scene of Spanish culture and life.

Artistic director Martín Gaxiola created Calo Flamenco in 2003, and the group has toured ex-tensively throughout the United States. With more than 15 dancers and musicians, it is one of the larg-est professional flamenco companies in the nation.

Gaxiola has been studying dance since 1992, including studying flamenco in Spain, the dance form’s land of origin.

He has also toured the continental U.S. as a featured artist with the National Theater of the Per-forming Arts. He was the principal male dancer in Dallas Opera’s production of “La Traviata” (2000), Arizona Opera’s production of Bizet’s “Carmen” (1994) and in Southwest Arts & Entertainment’s 1995 production of “Flamenco Fireworks!”

Imagine Ballet Theatre is in residence at Peery’s Egyptian Theater in Ogden. Artistic Director Raymond Van Mason created the company in 2004 to offer the dancers a chance to work with profes-sional artists.

Imagine Ballet Theatre has gained national and state recognition by receiving the 2005 Utah Best of State Award for Best Children’s Performing Group, as well as invitations in 2004 and 2006 to perform at the Dance Under the Stars Choreogra-phy Festival in Palm Desert, Calif.

IT’S TIME TO BE enchanted by Logan’s

own Shimmering Sands Belly Dancers and special guest star Sa’Diyya from Texas, as well as the finest dancers from Salt Lake City.

The show will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, at the TSC Auditorium on USU Campus, 850 E. 800 North, Logan. Tick-ets are $12 per person.

Come enjoy an evening of Middle Eastern dance featuring a diversity of troupes and soloists performing a variety of styles in-cluding cabaret, tribal, folkloric and fusion. Immerse yourself the alluring performances by Shazadi, Saffron, Shimmering Sands Dancers, Dragomi, Desert Orchid and up-and-coming star Sa’Diyya.

Tickets can be purchased in advance or at the door.

For more information go to www.shimmeringsands.com or email Traci at tkhanzalik@gmail.com.

Shazadi’s Soirée: A night of Middle Eastern dance

Dance

Calo Flamenco: a fiery Spanish experience

Tap Dogs to bring stomping energy to Ellen Eccles Theater

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THE CAINE SCHOOL OF THE Arts at Utah State University will present “The Glass Menagerie” at 7:30 p.m. Sept.

24-26 and Sept. 30 through Oct. 3 at the Caine Lyric Theatre in Logan, 28 W. Center St.

Tickets are $13 for the general public and are available at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office in FA 138-B or at boxoffice.usu.edu. USU students with valid ID get in free.

“The Glass Menagerie” by award-winning playwright Tennessee Williams is set in St. Louis in 1937 and describes the life of the Wingfield household. Presented as a memory, the play is a powerful tale that shows what happens when fragile dreams clash with reality, said the play’s director Colin Johnson, a USU theater arts depart-ment faculty member.

Jared Rounds leads as narrator Tom Wingfield, an aspiring poet who supports his family by work-ing at a shoe warehouse. He escapes his mun-dane life through literature, movies and alcohol. Anne Werner plays Laura Wingfield, who has withdrawn from life, preferring to listen to old records and enjoy her collection of glass figu-rines. Her mother Amanda Wingfield, played by Aubrey Campbell, decides marriage is the cure for Laura’s directionless life after her daughter drops out of business college. Nate Kluthe portrays Jim O’Connor, Tom’s friend and co-worker who is unknowingly tapped as Laura’s suitor. A dinner party to introduce the two young people ends in disaster.

“The theme of the work is the challenge that

faces us all in communicating with parents of very different generations, especially those who have lived through difficult times,” said Johnson. “Furthermore, this semi-autobiographical play illustrates the absolute need we all have for hope in our lives ... for the promise of love and secu-rity in an unforgiving world. Its central character, Amanda Wingfield, is one of the most enduring characters of the American theater.”

The Caine School of the Arts presents more than 175 events each academic year. More infor-mation on upcoming events is available at http://caineschool.usu.edu.

USU’s ‘Glass Menagerie’ now playing

‘Mockingbird’ final show

Stage

THE MONTANA REPER- tory Theatre production of the Pulitzer prize-win-

ning play “To Kill a Mockingbird” continues at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Tickets range from $21 to $32 and can be pur-chased online at www.EllenEccles-Theatre.org, in person at the Cache Valley Center for the Arts Ticket Office (43 S. Main) or by calling 752-0026.

“‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is a poignant piece of American literature that is as powerful and relevant today as it was 50 years ago,” said Cache Valley Center for the Arts execu-tive director Wally Bloss. “Montana Repertory Theatre is an extraordinary company and their productions are of the utmost quality.”

Winner of the Pulitzer prize for fiction, Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is unquestionably an American classic. This stage adaptation continues to compel and delight audiences worldwide with its warmth, wit and wisdom.

The story of “To Kill a Mocking-bird” is simple, yet it speaks deeply and eloquently of human nature and human values. The story is set in a sleepy Southern town of the 1930s, as Atticus Finch, an attorney and the widowed father of two young children, stands against his fellow townspeople by defending a young black man falsely accused of raping a white woman.

For more information about “To Kill a Mockingbird,” visit www.mon tanarep.org.

Help make a difference!

Cuddles from the Heart Bring in your homemade or

store-bought blankets for donation

to Logan Regional Hospital and

Primary Children’s Medical Center! Donations must be made by Dec. 1, 2009, and can be dropped off at The Herald Journal, 75 W. 300 North, Lo-gan. For more information, e-mail HeartCuddles @yahoo.com or call 792-7229.

“Jennifer’s Body”Rated R★★ The second screenplay from Diablo Cody following her debut smash “Juno” is so chock full of her quirky trademarks, it almost plays like a parody of something she’d write. The self-consciously clever dialogue, the gratuitous pop-culture references, the made-up phrases intended to convey a specific high school ethos — they’re all there. Even though fembot Megan Fox is an excellent fit to spit out these witty quips, it’s all so familiar, it makes you wonder whether Cody has any other weapons in her arse-nal. Part of the allure of the Show-time series Cody created, “The United States of Tara” — beyond the versatility of star Toni Collette — is the humor she finds in every-day suburbia, the reality and the absurdity. And that’s the best part of “Jennifer’s Body,” too. Never mind that it’s a mash-up of horror flick and teen comedy: When her characters talk about regular stuff like awkward adolescent sex and high-school dances, it’s funny in a relatable way. It’s when Cody tries too hard to dazzle us that she loses her footing; meanwhile, director Karyn Kusama struggles in her own way to find the right tone. The result: “Jennifer’s Body” is never scary and only sporadically amusing. Fox is a great choice, though, to play Jennifer, the queen bee in the small town of Devil’s Kettle. One night, after attending a concert by her favorite band that goes disastrously awry, Jennifer seems ... different. This is immedi-

ately obvious to her childhood best friend, the nerdy Needy (Amanda Seyfried). But soon the whole town knows something’s wrong when boys’ bodies start turning up evis-cerated. 100 min.

“9”Rated Pg-13★★★ Despite their roughhewn appearance, the resourceful rag dolls in “9” obviously were crafted with great love and care, both by the scientist who made them in the film and the mastermind behind them in real life, director Shane Acker. If only as much complex thought had gone into the script. The animation is so breathtaking in its originality, so weird and won-drous in its detail, you wish there were more meat to the screenplay from Pamela Pettler, who previous-ly wrote “Monster House.” “9” fol-lows a group of creatures who rep-resent the last vestige of humanity in a post-apocalyptic world. It’s set in the future after a war between mankind and machines but eerily resembles Europe after World War II, with its sepia tones blanketing the decimated surroundings in danger and fear. (Parents, don’t be fooled: It may look like a cute and clever cartoon, but “9” is genuinely frightening.) 9 (voiced by Elijah Wood) awakens to find no people are left, but there are a few others like him: tiny, fabric dolls stitched together coarsely but sturdily, with lenses for eyes. Each has a number on his or her back signify-ing who they are and the order in which they were created. 79 min.

— Reviews by Associated Press

“Paper Heart”Rated R(N/A) A review for “Paper Heart” was not available from the Associ-ated Press. In lieu, please accept this synopsis from www.rottento-matoes.com: Charlyne Yi does not believe in love. Or so she says. Well, at the very least, she doesn’t believe in fairy-tale love or the Hollywood mythology of love, and her own experiences have turned her into yet another modern-day skeptic. “Paper Heart” follows Charlyne as she embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one subject she doesn’t fully understand. As she and her good friend (and director) Nicholas search for answers and advice about love, Charlyne talks with friends and strangers, scientists, bikers, romance novelists, and children. They each offer diverse views on modern romance, as well as various answers to the age-old question: does true love really exist? Then, shortly after filming begins, Charlyne meets a boy after her own heart: Michael Cera. As their relationship develops on camera, her pursuit to discover the nature of love takes on a fresh new urgency. Charlyne risks los-ing the person she finds closest to her heart. Combining elements of documentary and traditional story-telling, reality and fantasy, Paper Heart brings a fresh perspective to the modern romance and redefines the classic love story.

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9 FilmStill playing New this week

THE EXCLAMA-tion point in the title is your first clue

that Steven Soderbergh’s intentions are more than a little askew with “The Infor-mant!”

Then you notice Matt Damon’s helmet of hair, his pouf of a mustache, his corny sportswear and the paunch where the “Bourne” trilogy star’s taut abs used to be. And once the strains of Marvin Hamlisch’s jaunty score begin — an ideal ac-companiment to the faded, ‘70s-style cinematography — you know you’re in some vividly retro, comic parallel universe.

“The Informant!” is about a serious, real-life subject a whistle-blower who spied for the FBI to expose corporate corrup-tion — only Soderbergh, directing a script by Scott Z. Burns, approaches it in the goofiest way, rather than as a serious drama like “The In-sider” or even his own “Erin Brockovich.”

It’s a kick, really, but it also keeps you guessing: Is Damon, as Mark Whitacre, just a regular guy who gets in over his head? Is he far more scheming and malevo-lent than his folksy Mid-western demeanor would suggest? Or is something else entirely going on here?

Damon doesn’t just dig into the role physically. He also keeps you on your toes with Whitacre’s happy-go-

lucky personality, a mis-placed confidence that buoys him regardless of the situa-tion, coupled with a surpris-ingly high comfort level for duplicity. It’s a welcome op-portunity to watch him show off his comedic abilities; come to think of it, Soder-bergh, with his “Ocean’s” movies, is one of the few directors who give him that chance.

One of the neatest tricks that throws us off course is

Whitacre’s running inte-rior monologue: a series of voiceovers in which he pro-vides stream-of-conscious-ness musings on everything from indoor pools to Brioni ties to the Japanese word for tuna. His thoughts may not be as innocuous as they

seem.Based on the book by

former New York Times writer Kurt Eichenwald, “The Informant!” follows Whitacre’s misadventures as he agrees to wear a wire to expose a price-fixing scheme at Archer Daniels Midland, the Illinois-based agribusi-ness conglomerate where he’s an executive. Actually, “agrees” doesn’t even begin to describe his reaction. He’s more like a giddy little boy playing Agent 007 — or 0014, as he describes him-self, because he thinks he’s twice as smart.

He’s totally convinced himself that he’s on a mis-sion, that he’s doing the right thing for the greater good. At the same time, he tries to maintain the facade of living an idyllic, upper-middle class life with his perfectly coifed wife, Ginger (Melanie Lynskey), who always serves a proper din-ner in the dining room for

Whitacre and their children.But as his ineptitude

evolves into unreliability and eventually desperation, he becomes more trouble than help to agents Brian Shepard (Scott Bakula) and Bob Herndon (Joel McHale). The deeper Whitacre gets, the more damage he does to the investigation — all of which Soderbergh plays for deadpan laughs, which makes it all the more absurd.

One question lingers, though: What does his wife know and when does she know it? Ginger is the weak link here, her docile, doting presence making us won-der whether she’s aware of her husband’s true nature, having been with him since childhood.

Some insight would have been helpful, could have fleshed things out. But the joke might just be on her, as it is on us.

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Aisle SeatThe Associated Press

★★★“The Informant!”

Rated R

Damon shows comedic skill in ‘Informant!’

hen Mel Torrie first heard about the Mendon Photo Guild, he decided to check it out.

To say the least, Torrie liked what he saw.“I just heard a rumor that they were meet-

ing and checked it out,” Torrie said. “It looked like a lot of fun, so I jumped in.”

Marv Hansen is the founder of the guild and explained the organization’s humble beginnings.

“About four years ago, a group of people got together as part of the Mendon Arts Council,” Hansen said. “I went to the first meeting and volunteered to do some stuff with photography.”

“The first thing we did was hold a photo exhibit in conjunction with the Mendon 24th of July Celebration. I put a little flier out and asked people if they wanted to show some prints, that I’d accept them and we would exhibit them.”

Only about 10 people submitted prints, but that was enough for Hansen to see if they wanted to form a guild.

“I asked people if they wanted to form a guild, rather than a club,” Hansen said. “A guild being the idea that we’d do some instruction on photography rather than meet and just show pictures. I had about six people that were interested, so we started.”

Fast forward to the present and the guild is still going strong.

“Right now we’re growing quite well,” Hansen said. “We have, probably in the last three months, five new members.”

Since it began, the guild has grown to about 25 to 30 members — a dozen or so are active.

The guild meets on the fourth Wednesday of every month. The meetings include a presentation on some aspect of photography and a review of the photos submitted by the members.

“We try to have someone give us instruc-tion on some aspect of photography — either within the group or without, and we’ve had both,” Hansen said. “Or, we have someone come from the valley that’s a noted photog-rapher and they show their pictures and give us some narrative and background on each print or photo. That’s been interesting.”

The photo review portion of the meeting is a highlight for Torrie.

“It’s always fun to hear what the pros have to say about our photos and either boo or agree,” he said.

Hansen agreed.“It gives us an opportunity to discuss what

we see in that photo and what the evaluator sees,” Hansen said. “Most of the time we

agree, and sometimes we don’t. It’s just the way it is.”

A little constructive criticism can only help, right?

“The idea is to learn what other people see in your photo that are in the business,” Hansen said. “A professional photographer that looks at what you’ve done and says, ‘Here’s what I might’ve done differently,’ or, ‘I really like it and wouldn’t do anything dif-ferent.’ You tend to learn from that.”

Torrie is grateful to the professionals who sacrifice their time to meet with the guild.

“We sure appreciate the pros in the valley that have helped us a lot,” he said. “Great feedback helps us improve.”

The guild also goes on field trips, includ-ing places like Tony Grove and Mendon Pioneer Park. They are planning to go to the bird refuge in Box Elder County on their next venture.

“The field trips are definitely a highlight,” Torrie said.

Just last year, the guild published its first calendar and is planning on doing another one for 2010.

The guild also has a print exhibit in conjunction with the Mendon 24th of July Celebration.

“It’s just a wonderful thing Marv has done,” Torrie said, referring to the guild. “He’s sacrificed a lot of time. Kudos to him.”

The door is always open to new members, and it’s pretty easy to join.

“They can show up (to the meetings) or they can contact me,” said Hansen, who is listed in the phone book. “Usually, it’s by word of mouth from somebody in the guild.”

“We get people that ask during the exhibit and some people have joined because of that. ... Whoever wants to come can come.”

And chances are, you won’t be disappoint-ed. Just ask Torrie.

hen Mel Torrie first heard about the Mendon Photo Guild, he decided to check it out.

To say the least, Torrie liked what he saw.“I just heard a rumor that they were meet-

ing and checked it out,” Torrie said. “It looked like a lot of fun, so I jumped in.”

Marv Hansen is the founder of the guild and explained the organization’s humble beginnings.

“About four years ago, a group of people got together as part of the Mendon Arts Council,” Hansen said. “I went to the first meeting and volunteered to do some stuff with photography.”

“The first thing we did was hold a photo exhibit in conjunction with the Mendon 24th of July Celebration. I put a little flier out and asked people if they wanted to show some prints, that I’d accept them and we would exhibit them.”

Only about 10 people submitted prints, but that was enough for Hansen to see if they wanted to form a guild.

“I asked people if they wanted to form a guild, rather than a club,” Hansen said. “A guild being the idea that we’d do some instruction on photography rather than meet and just show pictures. I had about six people that were interested, so we started.”

Fast forward to the present and the guild is still going strong.

“Right now we’re growing quite well,” Hansen said. “We have, probably in the last three months, five new members.”

Since it began, the guild has grown to about 25 to 30 members — a dozen or so are active.

The guild meets on the fourth Wednesday of every month. The meetings include a presentation on some aspect of photography and a review of the photos submitted by the members.

“We try to have someone give us instruc-tion on some aspect of photography — either within the group or without, and we’ve had both,” Hansen said. “Or, we have someone come from the valley that’s a noted photog-rapher and they show their pictures and give us some narrative and background on each print or photo. That’s been interesting.”

The photo review portion of the meeting is a highlight for Torrie.

“It’s always fun to hear what the pros have to say about our photos and either boo or agree,” he said.

Hansen agreed.“It gives us an opportunity to discuss what

we see in that photo and what the evaluator sees,” Hansen said. “Most of the time we

agree, and sometimes we don’t. It’s just the way it is.”

A little constructive criticism can only help, right?

“The idea is to learn what other people see in your photo that are in the business,” Hansen said. “A professional photographer that looks at what you’ve done and says, ‘Here’s what I might’ve done differently,’ or, ‘I really like it and wouldn’t do anything dif-ferent.’ You tend to learn from that.”

Torrie is grateful to the professionals who sacrifice their time to meet with the guild.

“We sure appreciate the pros in the valley that have helped us a lot,” he said. “Great feedback helps us improve.”

The guild also goes on field trips, includ-ing places like Tony Grove and Mendon Pioneer Park. They are planning to go to the bird refuge in Box Elder County on their next venture.

“The field trips are definitely a highlight,” Torrie said.

Just last year, the guild published its first calendar and is planning on doing another one for 2010.

The guild also has a print exhibit in conjunction with the Mendon 24th of July Celebration.

“It’s just a wonderful thing Marv has done,” Torrie said, referring to the guild. “He’s sacrificed a lot of time. Kudos to him.”

The door is always open to new members, and it’s pretty easy to join.

“They can show up (to the meetings) or they can contact me,” said Hansen, who is listed in the phone book. “Usually, it’s by word of mouth from somebody in the guild.”

“We get people that ask during the exhibit and some people have joined because of that. ... Whoever wants to come can come.”

And chances are, you won’t be disappoint-ed. Just ask Torrie.

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“Autumn”by Venice H. Smith

I watch the leaves come fluttering down,Making a soft covering on the ground.Some come fast with a wind’s first blast,Others come reluctantly slow, and would like to be among the last.Some think it is fun to go floating down through the air so slow,They seem to just be happy without any cares or woes.Then there are others that want to stay on the tree:And they don’t want to cut themselves free.They seem to know that life for them is near,As mother nature’s autumn will soon end for them here.

Autumn will soon be gone —And mother nature will bring winter storms.Oh, to be happy and so carefree,

Would you like to be a tree?

No cares or worries in the world,Just stand and grow in good rich soil.Come spring your branches begin to sprout:You will have new leaves, there is no doubt.

The leaves grow and become big and green.Makes for shade for every living thing.Oh what wonders the Lord does provide;And all we have to do is decide,That we want to be with him on the other side.So we must become more loving, gentle, and kind.

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and reponded everyman.To defend our rights and freedom,

as always in the plan.The flag was waving in the States,

so many miles away.They gave their all to save it,as the price they had to pay.These men all are heroes,

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“The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detec-tive, and a World of Literary Obsession” (Riverhead, 288 pages, $24.95), by Allison Hoover Bartlett.

Over a period of about 10 years, beginning in the late 1990s, book collector John Gilkey of Modesto, Calif., acquired an impressive array of rare first editions by authors including Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter and Vladimir Nabokov. Money was no object because Gilkey didn’t buy his books. He stole them.

As veteran journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett relates in her skillfully composed true-crime debut, “The Man Who Loved Books Too Much,” Gilkey used worthless checks and stolen credit card numbers to defraud dealers large and small out of more than $100,000 worth of coveted volumes. A master of self-justification as well as self-enrichment, Gilkey maintained that it was “unfair” for dealers to charge more than he could afford for the books he desired. Theft, he reasoned, was simply an equitable means of redistrib-uting the wealth.

During his crime spree, Gilkey attracted the atten-tion of Ken Sanders, owner of a Salt Lake City bookstore and security chairman for the Antiquarian Booksellers’ As-sociation of America. Track-ing Gilkey across the country, Sanders devised a cunning trap to snare the book thief, suc-cessfully putting him in prison — albeit only for a short time.

Bartlett’s eminently readable account of the cat-and-mouse game played by Sanders and Gilkey is notable not only for its fluid presentation but also

for the depth of the research upon which it draws. Bartlett conducted extensive interviews with the book thief and his pursuer, gaining the confidence of both men, who shared their stories with an oftentimes sur-prising candor.

The initial contacts between Bartlett and Gilkey, which occurred while the latter was incarcerated at the Deuel Vocational Institution, 65 miles north of San Francisco, introduce an unexpected note of levity into the narrative. Unfamiliar with the prison’s rules forbidding metal objects, the intrepid reporter has to dash out to her car to remove her underwire bra. Her sense of culture shock only grows once she gets a look at life “on the inside.”

With a keen eye for detail and a measured sense of pac-ing, Bartlett offers an insightful look at the psychology of the most eccentric of criminals in this swift, entertaining volume about what happens when a love of books takes a sinister turn.

— Associated Press

Bartlett tells the riveting story of a

criminal bibliophile THE WIFE OF South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who

separated from her husband in the wake of his affair with an Argentine woman, is writing a memoir.

Ballantine Books, an im-print of Random House Inc., said Tuesday it will publish Jenny Sanford’s “inspirational memoir” in May 2010.

The publisher says Sanford “will grapple with the univer-sal issue of maintaining integ-rity and a sense of self during life’s difficult times.”

The book is currently untitled, and financial terms were not disclosed. Jenny Sanford did not immediately return a telephone message left Tuesday.

“She will probably be work-ing with a collaborator on the entire book — more of a time issue than anything else because we want to get it out,” Schneider added. “It hasn’t been established who it would be.”

Sanford’s husband, once mentioned as a potential Re-publican presidential candi-

date in 2012, acknowledged in June he had a yearlong affair after disappearing from South Carolina for five days.

His staff told reporters he was walking on the Appala-chian Trail. Instead he had been in Argentina with his mistress.

Jenny Sanford, a George-town-educated former Wall Street vice president who helped direct her husband’s political campaigns, moved out of the Governor’s Man-sion in Columbia, S.C., in Au-gust, returning to the couple’s seaside home on Sullivans Island with their four sons.

She said she and her hus-band were working on their marriage.

She told the AP she found out about the affair when she came across a copy of a letter to the mistress in one of her husband’s files after being asked to find financial docu-ments.

“He was told in no uncer-tain terms not to see her,” she told the AP. “It’s one thing to forgive adultery; it’s another thing to condone it.”

Jenny Sanford was not at her husband’s side when he revealed the affair at a State-house news conference.

Shortly after the scandal broke, the governor’s own book deal was terminated.

Publisher Adrian Zackheim said Mark Sanford had an agreement for a book on fiscal conservatism titled “Within Our Means.”

It had been scheduled for publication next March by Sentinel, a dedicated conser-vative imprint within Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Zackheim called the agreement “a mu-tual decision.”

Wife of philandering SC governor plans memoir

‘09 Arrington Lecture to address polygamy

DAN BROWN’S new novel has passed

the 2 million mark and bested Bill Clinton’s “My Life” in the record books.

Doubleday announced Tuesday that hardcover, audio and e-book sales for “The Lost Symbol” topped 2 million cop-ies for its first week of release in the United States, Britain and Canada. The total is “well over” 2 million for English-language editions worldwide, according to Doubleday spokeswoman Suzanne Herz, who declined to offer a specific number.

Herz did say that around 5 percent, or 100,000 copies, of “The Lost Symbol” were sold as e-books.

Amazon.com reported last week that first-day sales for “The Lost Symbol” were higher on its Kindle e-reader than in hard cover. E-books, a fast-growing portion of an otherwise slow market, have been estimated at anywhere between 1 percent to 5 percent of total sales.

“The Lost Symbol” didn’t approach the more than 8 mil-lion copies that “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” sold

in the first 24 hours, but the weekly results were an all-time high in North America for Doubleday’s parent company, Random House Inc. Herz said that the previous record holder was Clinton’s memoir, published in 2004. “The Lost Symbol” came out Sept. 15 with an initial print run of 5 million books that was soon raised to 5.6 million.

The book is Brown’s first since “The Da Vinci Code,” an international phenomenon pub-lished in 2003. “The Da Vinci Code” has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.

Latest Brown novel flies off shelves in audio, hardcover and e-book

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EDUCATOR AND SCHOLAR Kathleen Flake will examine the 19th-century practice of plural marriage within

the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in this year’s Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture.

The lecture, “The Emotional and Priestly Logic of Plural Marriage,” will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, at the Logan LDS Tabernacle, 50 N. Main, Logan. Admission is free and all are invited.

Flake brings a strong background in scholarship and writing to the series. She is an associate profes-sor of American religious history in the Divinity School and Graduate Department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.

She is engaged in the operation of the North American section of the American Academy of Re-ligion, the largest organization of professionals who study religion in the world.

“No scholar since 1830 has written or spoken more thoughtfully than she on the nature and history of Mormonism,” said Philip Barlow, Arrington chair of Mormon History and Culture in the Religious Studies Program at USU. “Her probing mind is capable of leaving audiences spellbound and illumi-nated.”

Barlow said Flake’s first book, “The Politics of American Religious Identity” (2004), established Flake as a significant voice at the national level.

In her lecture, Flake looks at a time in the 19th century when, like so much else in the new na-

tion, traditional understandings of the relation-ship between the sexes were challenged by many Americans. Chief among the challengers were the Latter-day Saints who turned from monogamy to polygamy, and from Puritan simplicity to temple complexity in the marriage rite, she said.

Flake will use published accounts of LDS mar-riage ceremonies and personal journals to discuss the topic within the larger context of the evolution of marital norms and romantic love in the first half of the 19th century.

The event will be sponsored by Utah State University’s Special Collections and Archives in

the Merrill-Cazier Library, the Leon-ard J. Arrington Lecture and Archives Foundation and USU’s College of Hu-manities, Arts and Social Sciences. For USU students, the lecture is an “Aggie Passport” activity.

USU’s Special Collections and Ar-chives is home to the Arrington Collec-tion — the papers, diaries and personal library of Leonard Arrington, and when Arrington made the donation, he stipu-lated that an annual lecture relating to Mormon history be presented.

Flake earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Brigham Young Uni-versity, then earned a legal degree at the University of Utah School of Law. Later degrees include a master’s in Re-ligious Studies from Catholic Univer-

sity of America and a doctorate from the University of Chicago with a major emphasis in the history of Christianity.

“Come hear one of America’s finest students of religion and history,” Barlow said.

College students from throughout the region who attend the lecture can participate in the Arrington Lecture Writing competition. Entry forms and details are available at the lecture.

For information on the 2009 Arrington Lecture, contact USU’s Special Collections and Archives, 797-2663.

‘09 Arrington Lecture to address polygamyThe 2009 Leonard J. Arrington Mormon

History Lecture

• Who: Scholar Kathleen Flake• When: Thursday, Oct. 1, 7 p.m.• Where: Logan Tabernacle, 50 N. Main St.• Admission is free, everyone is invited.• College students are invited to participate in the Arrington Lecture Wriring Competition.

THE USU MUSEUM of Anthropology’s “Satur-

days at the Museum” event Sept. 26 will showcase cultural celebra-tions ranging from Thailand to USU Aggie-land. The event is offered in conjunction with Home-coming activities on the Utah State University campus.

Activities begin at 10:30 a.m. and run ongoing until 4 p.m.

The USU Museum of Anthropol-ogy is in the south turret of USU’s historic Old Main building, Room 252. Free parking is available in the adjacent lot south of the build-ing.

Special guest speaker and puppe-teer Susan Neidert, from Brigham City’s World of Puppetry Museum, will discuss and demonstrate pup-pets from around the world at 11 a.m. Children attending the USU

event can make a puppet to take home and enjoy.

There are many ways to cel-ebrate, including learning about other cultures, and that is the em-phasis of the USU Saturday event.

“I love celebrations,” said USU student and Saturday program planner Aimee Cooley. “This Saturday’s event is special because it is Homecoming week for Aggies and ‘Celebrate Your Museum Day’ for museums everywhere.”

“We not only learn about other cultures but about ourselves,” Cooley said. “We encourage every-one to come celebrate with us and be sure to bring your little Aggies to have their faces painted.”

USU students and members of the public are invited to the mu-seum any time during the 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday hours.

The Museum of Anthropology at USU is a hands-on learning program operated by the Anthro-pology Program in the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology.

Funding for the Sept. 26 event is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Federal Institute of Mu-seum and Library Services. More information about the IMLS and its grants is available online at www.imls.gov.

For more information on this event or the museum, call museum staff at 797-7545 or visit the mu-seum Web site: www.usu.edu/an-thro/museum/.

For more information about Brigham City’s World of Puppetry Museum visit the museum’s Web site www.bcfineartscenter.org/statewidemuseumday.

Museum to celebrate celebrations

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Across1. Photo ___4. Fibrous foods9. Makes like13. Washington locale, with “the”17. U.N. arm18. 1994 Peace Nobelist19. Hindi courtesy title21. Birthplace of seven U.S. presidents22. Butts in26. Sheathed27. Palace protectors28. Intangible qualities29. India’sfirstP.M.30. Peaks31. Barrier in a fairy tale33. Epiphanyfigures36. Chest pain39. Progeny43. Changing for the good48. Research facil.49. Wife of King Latinus, in Roman mythology50. Area code 801 area51. Tamarillo54. Intestinal pouch55. Brutal punishment58. Copier need59. Besmirch60. Amount of work61. High regard63. Telepathy, e.g.64. Calamity66. Public utilities71. Bar order73. Blood letters74. Arnold’s better half75. Stays focused

84. Acquiesce85. Errinfilmprocessing86. Old weapon87. Prevaricators88. Composes89. Fourth of July burners91. They, in Trieste92. Toot94. Bailiwick95. Little squirt96. Genesis victim99. Treated with radiation104. Desk item108. Certain fur110. Naughty one112. A silver dollar, perhaps116. A lot of lot117. Kind of personality118. Whirlpools119. Common soccer score120. Sailing vessel121. Estimator’s phrase122. Apprehensive123. Critical

Down1. Flax fabric2. Cut off3. “The Temptation of St. Anthony” painter4. Cheese on crackers5. “We the Living” author6. Back at sea7. A Judd8. Posture problem9. “Not on ___!”10. Hail Mary, e.g.11. Abate12. Not worth a ___

13. Like old recordings14. “Don’t forget about me”15. Repeated, singer who sang with Cult Jam16. Red ink amount18. Appropriate20. 1970 World’s Fair site23. Ring bearer, maybe24. Discovery grp.25. Dudgeon30. Skin problem31. Purify32. Altogether34. Pretentious35. “That ___,” 60s TV show37. Pilfers38. Bite like a beaver39. Old World duck40. A head41. Needle holder42. Extinguish43. Montana city44. Community character45. Corrupt46. Losing come-out roll in craps47. Exploits49. Campus life52. Asian tongue53. Done, to Donne56. Braids57. Skimmer, e.g.62. Bossy remark?63. Fend off64. Wild goat65. Winds67. Pigeonhole68. Black band of mourning69. Edmonton

hockey player70. Corporate department72. Shut73. Belgium village75. Bucks76. Auspices, var.77. “-zoic” things78. Title for some priests79. E-mail, e.g.80. Gaelic81. Yellow-floweredcactus82. Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Tale

of ___ Saltan”83. “Take one!”90. Muslim leaders92. Grand Canyon transport93. Miles per hour, e.g.95. Whistler, at times97. ___ nut98. Grind down100. Alicia of “Falcon Crest”101. Agile lizard102. Bone-chilling

103. In a laconic manner104. “Good grief!”105. Deep106. ___-American107. Brood108. Elevator pioneer109. National park acronym110. Brouhaha111. Unnamed ones113. Plastic ___ Band114. Calendar abbr.115. “To Autumn,” e.g.

“Facial Features” by Myles Mellor and Sally York

Answers from last week

HARDCOVER NONFICTION1. “Official Book Club Selection,” by Kathy Griffin2. “Culture of Corruption,” by Michelle Malkin3. “Outliers,” by Malcolm Gladwell4. “In the President’s Secret Service,” by Ronald Kessler5. “Liberty and Tyranny,” by Mark R. Levin

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “The Last Song,” by Nicholas Sparks2. “South of Broad,” by Pat Conroy3. “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett4. “Alex Cross’s ‘Trial’,” by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo5. “Spartan Gold,” by Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood

* This week’s New York Times Bestseller List *

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EA Gallery and Art Studio are now enrolling children for their fall semester art classes. The studio is located at 253 N. 100 West in Logan. Classes run Monday through Thursday at 3 p.m., 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Call Jonathan Ribera at 553-9169 for further information.

The Towne Singers are looking for sopranos, altos, tenors and basses. They especially need male voices. They practice on Wednesdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Dansante building, 59 S. 100 West, Logan. For more information, contact Shauna Hansen, 753-1034.

Registration is ongoing for Alliance for the Varied Arts ceramics classes. There are weekly classes for children, teens and adults. Call 753-2970 for info and to register.

Ongoing events

Spencer Jensen, Sadie Wilson, Spencer Wood, Irv Nelson and others will perform live music from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Pier 49 Pizza, 99 E 1200 South. For more information, visit www.pier49logan.com.

Everyone is invited to the dedication of a new solar photo voltaic system from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. the Cache Valley Unitarian Universalist building, 596 E. 900 North. There will be music and finger foods, and Logan Mayor Randy Watts will speak. For informa-tion contact Susie Flann at susieflann@hot-mail.com or 563-9000.

The Hyrum Senior Center will serve lunch at noon and play Bingo at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25. The center is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. Please call 245-3570 before 10 a.m. to reserve your spot for lunch. A $2 donation is suggested. The USU Wind Orchestra will present its annual Homecoming Concert at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center at USU. Admission is $8 for the general public and free for stu-dents. For more information, call 797-3004.

An opening reception for Buddy Smith’s “Moondog Ball Poster Collection will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave., Logan. There will be refreshments and live music. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

Melody will perform with Tyler Forsberg, Water & Walls and Chase Gillins (acoustic) at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave., Logan. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whysound.

Amber Rasmussen from Savory Selection will share some quick and easy salad ideas at a free cooking and community class from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Seating is limited; to reserve a spot, call 753-3301.

The USU College of Science will host “Fire, Ice and Explosions,” a free presentation at 7 p.m. in the Eccles Science Learning Center auditorium on campus. USU geophysicist Tony Lowry will speak, and attendees are

Friday

invited to bring their “mystery rocks” for identi-fication by USU geologists. Refreshments and hands-on activities follow the presentation. Visit www.usu.edu/science/unwrapped or call 797-3517.

Saturday Robert Linton and Becky Kimball will per-form live music at at 6pm at Pier 49 Pizza, at 99 E. 1200 South. For more information, visit pier49logan.com.

The 15th annual Teddy Bear Run will take place. Registration will happen from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. at Renegade Sports. The riders will leave at 11 a.m. and end at the Cache County Fairgrounds. There will be food, prizes and a bike wash, and all proceeds will benefit the Cache County Children’s Justice Center. Harvest Hoopla will take place at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville. In addition to a corn maze, train rides, black-out maze, kids’ pirate fort maze, hay jump, super slide and many other attractions, the Heritage Center will offer pony rides and living history activities for all ages.

The Western Singing Duo Tumbleweeds will perform at the Cracker Barrel Cafe in Paradise from 6 p.m. until closing. Everyone is invited. The U.S. Practical Shooting Association’s Utah State Championship Match will take place starting at 8 a.m. at the Cache Valley Public Shooting Range, 3 miles west of Logan on the Valley View Highway. The match will feature eight different courses of fire and require more than 200 rounds of ammo. Eye and ear protection are required, and specta-tors are welcome.

Share Parents of Cache Valley/Brigham City/Preston will host an annual balloon release as a memorial for family and friends of those who have suffered a loss through mis-carriage, stillbirth or infant death. Registration will be at 11 a.m. and the memorial will begin at 11:30 a.m. at Elk Ridge Park in North Logan. A light luncheon will follow.

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will lead a cycling activity at 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 26. This will be one of the longest rides of the year. For more information, call 713-0288 or visit www.cgadventures.org. The Bear River Watershed Council, Utah 4-Wheel Drive Association and the Logan Ranger District will celebrate National Public Lands Day on Saturday, Sept. 26, with two projects. Volunteers will place a boundary fence on property southwest of Wellsville to protect wildlife habitat from unauthorized OHV use. Volunteers should meet at 9 a.m. in Wellsville at the west end of 800 South. Volunteers will also assist the Forest Service in the construction of a new single-track trail in Providence Canyon. Volunteers should meet at 9 a.m. east of the mouth of Providence Canyon at the winter sports shed. For more information, call 755-3620. For maps to the locations, visit www.BRWCouncil.org.

A duathlon (run two miles, bike 12 miles, run two miles) will take place Saturday, Sept. 16. Cost is $20. This is a fundraiser for the

Mountain Crest Swim Team. For more infor-mation, call 245-7062 or e-mail yolanda.bates@ccsdut.org.

Auditions for “Scrooge: A Christmas Carol” will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 26, at Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden. Prepare 16 measures of an upbeat Broadway-style song. No accom-panist will be provided; bring your own on a CD (no a cappella auditions will be heard). All roles are open except Scrooge and the three spirits. For an audition form and more informa-tion, visit www.terraceplayhouse.com.

“Keep on Truckin’,” a big truck rally and fundraiser, will take place from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at Adams Elementary School, 600 North between 400 and 500 East, Logan. There will be cool big trucks, games and food. Cost is $2 per person or $10 per family. For more information, call 755-2320.

The Willow Valley Singers will perform at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at Pioneer Valley Lodge, 2351 N. 400 East, North Logan. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

The Hotter Than Haiti Fun Run (5K run or 1-mile walk) will take place Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Wellsville City Square. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. Cost includes a T-shirt and is $12 for adults and $8 for children 10 and younger. All proceeds will go toward providing food, water, clothes and an education to chil-dren in Haiti.

Careless on Canvas will perform with Jay Burns and By Now (acoustic) at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave., Logan. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whyso-und.

Weston, Idaho resident Charlie Bingham, the author of “I Feel Like Crap Syndrome: What Lies Behind Daytime Sleepiness, Sleep Apnea, Diabetes, CPAP Tricks, and Much More,” will conduct a book signing from 3 to 5 p.m. at Hastings in Logan.

The Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday at Merlin Olsen Park, 200 E. 100 South, Logan. Enjoy live music while shopping for fresh produce and plants, handmade crafts, eggs, bread, cheese and locally raised meats from more than 75 vendors. For more information, visit www.gardenersmarket.org.

The Sky View High drill team will conduct a kids drill camp. Registration starts at noon, and the clinic runs from 12:30 to 4 p.m. The kids will give a parents performance at 4 p.m. and will perform at halftime of the Sept. 30 Sky View football game. The cost is $20, which includes a pizza lunch, or $15 without lunch. E-mail jackie.johnson4@gmail.com.

Sunday Laura and Kelton: Deuling Pianos will perform from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave., Logan. For more information, call 753-4777.

You & Yourn will perform with The News

Boys and Deadbeat (alternative/folk) at 8 p.m.

Wednesday Clio Club will start its new year at 1 p.m. at the home Barbara Holdaway. Please call regrets to 753-5558.

The Kiwanis Club will host an Installation Banquet at 6:30 p.m. at the Iron Gate Grill, 517 W. 100 North in Providence (in the build-ing South of the Stadium 8 theater). The cost will be $18 per person.

A Brain Injury Support Group will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, at OPTIONS for Independence, 1095 N. Main, Logan. For more information or to schedule transporta-tion, contact Heather at 753-5353 ext. 100.

Why Sound will host USU Jazz Night with Jon Gudmundson at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30. Admission is $3. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whysound.

The Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market’s pro-duce market is open from 4 to 7 p.m. every Wednesday at the Historic Cache County Courthouse (south side), 199 N. Main, Logan. For more information, visit www.gardeners-market.org.

Bridgerland Cruise Nights will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, at the Cracker Barrel in Paradise. Bring your street rod, classic car or specialty vehicle, or just come check out the cars and trucks. Everyone is invited. For more information, contact Jerry at 563-6488.

Scott Bradley will lecture at a “To Preserve The Nation” constitution class at 7 p.m. upstairs at the BookTable. Admission is free. For information call 753-2930 or 753-8844.

Thursday Spanish classes are taught from 6 to 7 p.m. every Thursday at the Spanish Learning Center, 172 N. 300 West, Logan. All ages and levels are invited. For more information, call 787-4508 or e-mail spanish_4you@hotmail.com.

The Knotty Knitters meet from 6:15 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday at the Senior Citizen Center in Logan. Everyone is invited to work on their crochet, knitting, needlework, cross-stitch projects and more. For more informa-tion, contact Cathy at 752-3923

MySpace-renowned band The Kris Special will play at 8 p.m. at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East, Logan. Katie Jo will play an opening set. There will be a $6 cover.

Tuesday

Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave., Logan. Cover charge is $6. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whyso-und.

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will lead a cycling activity at 4 p.m. to Stewart Nature Park. The cost is $3. Volunteers are always welcome. Common Ground provides outdoor recreation for people with disabili-ties. Visit www.cgadventures.org or call us at 713-0288. Common Ground is located at 335 North 100 East, Logan.

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