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A Weekend of Storytelling
Clive Romney will kick off a weekend of storytelling with a performance at the Boulder Community Center on May 16 at 7pm. BOULDER - The Boulder Arts Council with support from the Utah Division of Arts and Museums will host a weekend of storytelling with Clive Romney on Friday May 16th and Saturday May 17th. Start the weekend with a performance by Clive on Friday at 7pm. Clive will share great stories mixed with his unique and fun music. On Saturday morning, you can learn how to tell your own sto-
ries and the stories of your ancestors with a storytelling workshop titled “Bringing the Dead to Life.” According to Clive, faithful, historical storytelling may be the most difficult, yet most rewarding type of telling. In this workshop, you will learn how to honor and bring the dead back to life utilizing music, costuming, artifacts, words, gestures, research, story crafting, performance tips. What you
learn in this process will enrich and change you. The workshop will be held from 9am to 4pm with a break for lunch. Clive recently presented this workshop at the nationally known Timpanogos Storytelling Conference. All events will be held at the Boulder Community Center and are free to the public. Clive Romney is a popular entertainer and teacher in our area. He is a composer, songwriter and storyteller with hundreds of published works. He is a recording producer and engineer with thousands of published recordings as well as a performer with thousands of performances in diverse genres. He is the owner of a recording studio with worldclass capabilities. He has taught songwriting and music business classes at BYU, U of U, and SLCC. He is also an entrepreneur and organizer who serves as Executive Director of Utah Pioneer Heritage Arts, and on the board of directors of the Utah Arts Council and the Folklore Society of Utah. Clive Romney the man cherishes the time he spends with his wife Bonnie, and his five children, their spouses, and 21 (soon 22) grandchildren. For more information about this event, visit our website at boulderartscouncil.com or call 335-7550. —Boulder Arts Council
Cindy Staszak Named Acting Manager of GSENM KANAB - Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has a new acting manager. Cindy Staszak, Associate Deputy State Director of Resources, BLM California State Office, began her 120-day detail here in southern Utah April 28 with an orientation trip to Little Death Hollow, located on the northeastern portion of the Monument. In her California position, Cindy is responsible for oversight and direction to the Resource programs within the state, with emphasis on the Realty & Lands, Withdrawals, Recreation, Wilderness, National Landscape Conservation System programs. Her prior assignment was as the Associate Deputy State Director of Resources and the Lands Branch Chief in the BLM Montana State Office. She has also worked in State, County and Federal govern-
David Lee, Former Utah Poet Laureate, to Read at Robber’s Roost Books TORREY - On Saturday, May 10, Robber’s Roost Books and the Entrada Institute are proud to present a special preseason reading by the legendary poet and educator David Lee, Utah’s first Poet Laureate. Lee will read from and sign copies of his new book, Last Call. The 7:00 p.m. reading, to be held at Robber’s Roost Books and Beverages, 185 W. Main in Torrey, is free and open to the public. Donations to the nonprofit Entrada Institute are welcome. Lee’s publisher, Wings Press, had this to say about his work: “Few poets of Western America fill the ‘organic intellectual’ role better than David Lee. His poetry is the real deal when it comes to recording hilariously insightful (and linguistically accurate) observations of rural culture—and America at large—while using a host of astute literary allusions and techniques. Imagine Robert Frost simultaneously channeling Will Rogers and Ezra Pound.” Kent Haruf, author of the acclaimed novels Plainsong, Eventide, and Benediction, described Last Call as a “transcendent book” that is characterized by “miracles, visions, visitations, hard lessons, riffs of talk, fabulous instances of word play and righteous scorn set alongside rips of great good humor, tall stories, sad stories, and moments of deep affection.” The first poet laureate of
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Former Utah Poet Laureate David Lee will give a special reading on May 10 at Robber's Roost Books in Torrey. Utah, Lee has received numerous awards, including the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts and the Entrada Institute’s Ward Roylance Award. He is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Porcine Legacy, Driving and Drinking, The Porcine Canticles, Wayburne Pig, News from Down to the Café: New Poems, and A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems. His 2004 collection So Quietly the Earth which portrays the Southwestern landscape, was among the 25 books chosen for the New York Public Li-
brary's annual "Books to Remember" list. In his long and storied career, Lee has been a boxer, pig farmer, seminary student, cotton mill worker, and the only white baseball player for a Negro League team. He received a PhD in literature, with a concentration in the poetry of John Milton, from the University of Utah. Lee taught for three decades at Southern Utah University. For more information on this event, call 435-425-3265 or visit www.entradainstitute. org. —Entrada Institute
New UCC Field Office Opens in Garfield County by Mariella Minton, Contributing Writer
Cindy Staszak, the newly-assigned GSENM acting monument manager talks with GSENM outdoor recreation planner Jabe Beal during an April 28 orientation field trip. ment positions in parks, rec- manager since November, rereation and natural resource turned to her normal duties as management throughout her the associate monument mancareer, in Montana, Idaho and ager. Illinois and has a degree in No permanent monument Wildland Management from manager has been selected but the University of Idaho. the hiring process is underway. Sarah Schlanger, who —Bureau of Land Management served as acting monument
Teasdale Park Committee Sponsors Cleanup Day TEASDALE - The Teasdale Community Park Board has exciting news. The Teasdale Park will host the Utah Symphony on Tuesday August 12, 2014 at 8:00PM. Our park will serve as the kickoff for The Mighty 5 Tour focusing on concerts near Utah’s National Parks including Capitol Reef, Arches/ Canyonlands, Bryce Canyon, and Zion. The summer concert will also be featured as part of Wayne County Fair week. This concert is a wonderful opportunity for friends and family to gather at the park. A “street festival” and dinner are also being planned.
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Thanks to the efforts of people like you, the Teasdale Community Park continues to be a wonderful place for families and friends to gather and enjoy the great outdoors. We appreciate your donations and support. The annual park and town cleanup day will be held Saturday May 10, 2014. Please join us for this important annual event. We’ll be picking up trash along the roadsides and weeding the park between 10AM and noon. At noon, everyone’s encouraged to participate in a Teasdale community “Potluck in the Park.” Utensils and lem-
REGIONAL Weather forecast for some but not all regions represented in our newspaper coverage area
Thurs. MAy 8 - wed. May 14 Partly sunny to cloudy all week with highs between 60 & 70. Lows in low to mid 30s to 40s. (Frost possibility greatest on Thursday morning May 8.) Still breezy this week, winds 8-12 mph. Slight chance of rain over the weekend.
onade will be provided. We’re currently seeking donations for both maintenance and expansion. We hope you’re already enjoying Phase One of our pathway around the perimeter of the park. We’re also planning a playground expansion to serve the growing number of young children in our community. If you have suggestions for future projects, improvements to the park, or would like to be involved with a particular project, please let us know. Thanks again for your help and support, —Teasdale Community Park Committee
Courtesy Utah Conservation Corps
Members of the Utah Conservation Corps work on many service projects throughout Utah such as fence building and removal of invasive plant species. Seasonal UCC crews will now have a home base linked with a new field office in Escalante. ESCALANTE - The Utah Conservation Corps is beginning a new chapter in its 13-year history with the opening of a new field office in Escalante. Adam Stoldal, Southern Utah Crew Coordinator, will be heading up the office, which will serve as the base for crews working on public lands throughout the southern part of the state over the next five years. Until now, all UCC crews were based in Logan, which meant eight to ten hours of driving for crews working in the southern Utah. Not only was this costly in terms of gas
and maintenance on vehicles, but it also took time away from the crews’ work week. “Escalante serves as a great jumping-off point for our projects in places like Capitol Reef and Zion,” said Stoldal. “We’ll save money on gas, project sponsors will get more work out of us, and the crews will be more rested and ready to work.” The Utah Conservation Corps is a non-profit that provides crews of four or eight people to public lands managers, such as National Parks, State Parks and the Bureau of Land Management, at a low
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cost. The UCC receives half its funding from the ‘fee for service’ paid by these agencies. Another twenty-five percent of the UCC’s funding comes from a federal AmeriCorps grant, and the final twenty-five percent comes from grants the organization applies for on its own behalf. Brian Black, head of the exotic plant program at Zion National Park, said he’s not sure how he’d manage without the extra help from the UCC, especially when it comes time
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