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Thursday, December 12, 2013 • Issue # 1026
Local Artist Celebrated as Among Utah’s Most Influential SALT LAKE CITY - Last Spring, Utah’s art magazine 15 Bytes, invited the public to nominate artists they feel have influenced and impacted the direction of art and culture in Utah. The project attracted 97 nominations from 70 individuals. Everyone who submitted a nomination was invited to vote for their top 15 choices. From these, the e-zine announced the “15 Most Influential Artists.” In February, these artists will be featured in an exhibition at the Rio Gallery in Salt Lake City and a book with in depth profiles will be published and released. It will
be the e-zine’s first print publication. Laura Durham is the Assistant Editor of 15 Bytes and headed this project. “I find myself defending the arts on a regular basis” she says, “I believe being an artist and working in the arts is a viable profession that can be quite profitable if our society can recognize the value arts have.” She started this awards program and hopes it will inspire more people to recognize how art has enhanced their quality of life. “Many awards programs honor leadership in the arts, excellence in art, who is
Teasdale-based artist Paul Davis. TEASDALE - Local artist Paul Davis is one of 15 artists selected by 15 Bytes as among Utah’s most influential. Davis says he first came to Utah in 1976 to paint the landscape. “Utah had it all...sky, mountains and red rock desert. Susan and Doug Snow introduced me to Wayne County right away.” Snow and Davis were colleagues at the University of Utah where Davis taught painting for twenty five years. Davis and his wife Silvia eventually moved to Teasdale in 1993. “The people of Wayne county have made us feel welcome right from the start,” he says. Davis continues to be inspired by the changing landscape around him. “This landscape is continually being eroded and reborn every day in a cycle of creation and destruction. A rock wall with its desert varnish, cracks and newly exposed surfaces look exactly like a giant gorgeous painting to me. I try to get some of that in my painting.” Davis is Professor Emeritus at the University of Utah and still teaches privately. —Insider
the most popular right now, etc.” She adds, “As arts administrators, I recognize we have the position and power to create a widespread impact, but I want to celebrate influence from the creative individuals who are practicing the art that we promote, support and enjoy.” The nominations included artists working in visual arts, music, dance, theatre, film and literature. The public was asked to write 150 words about their nomination. “I have to say, the most rewarding part of this project was reading the heartfelt words from our community describing how an artist has touched their lives and why they feel our world is a better place with them in it.” The 2013 honorees are: Paul Davis of Teasdale, Brian Kershisnik of Kanosh, and Trent Alvey, Sandy Brunvand, Anne Campbell Bliss, Ruby Chacon, Anne Cullimore Decker, John Erickson, Stephen Goldsmith, Bonnie Phillips, Brad Slaugh, Terry Tempest Williams, Sam Wilson, and Joan Woodbury – each of whom is from Salt Lake City. Shawn Rossiter, editor of 15 Bytes says, “If all goes well, we hope to do this program on a regular basis, continuing to focus our attention on the artists who make an impact on our community. We’re sure many of the influential artists who aren’t selected this year will appear in a future edition of the program.” The exhibition will be held at the Rio Gallery in Salt Lake City February 21 – March 21 and will feature the work of these 15 artists. The book was written by 15 Bytes writers and will be released on the night of the opening, Friday, February 21st from 6-9 PM in conjunction with the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll. —15 Bytes
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Sam Marshall (at left) and his dad, Steve Marshall, represent the third and fourth generations of Marshall family pharmacists serving Garfield County.
Panguitch Drug: The Next Generation
Marshall Family Great-Grandson Takes the Reins at Utah’s Oldest Family Pharmacy PANGUITCH - Sam Marshall says he didn’t always see it as a sure thing—that he’d come back to where he grew up and step into the family business of running Panguitch Drug. Nevertheless, as a young man, he did choose to take up the family profession. Following in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and greatgrandfather, he attended pharmacy school, choosing his grand-dad’s alma mater of Idaho State University to finish his pharmacy studies after completing his bachelor’s de-
gree at Southern Utah University. He eventually became a pharmacist, too. He was drawn back to Cedar City with his wife Lauri, where he and a good friend of his dad’s, Evan Vickers—whom Sam had worked with at Bulloch’s Drugs during his undergrad years at SUU—opened up Township Pharmacy just outside of Valley View Medical Center. Sam worked with and helped build that business for a dozen years. Meanwhile, Sam’s dad, Steve Marshall, has served as
John Holland
WAYNE & GARFIELD COUNTIES - Utah’s Hwy 12, straddling Wayne and Garfield counties and gateway to two national parks and countless other beautiful natural attractions, achieved “All American Road” status in 2002. New monument signs proclaiming this designation are now being placed at each end of the highway, near U.S. Highway 89 outside of Panguitch and S.R. 24 in Torrey. Here’s a photo taken last week at milepost 2 of the completed sign at the west end near Panguitch. Scenic Byway 12 Coordinator John Holland says the Torrey sign will get the same lettering treatment once this stormy cold weather passes. —Insider
GRAND STAIRCASE ESCALANTE N.M. - Share the gift of nature this holiday season by participating with your family and friends in the 114th Annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count. Nationally, birders have been participating in the event for one hundred and twelve years. More than 50,000 volunteers from all 50 states, Canadian, Central and South America, Bermuda, the West Indies, and Pacific Islands count and record every individual bird and bird species seen in a specified area found during one 24-hour period in a designated circle 15 miles in diameter or about 177 square miles. Locally, the CBC is holding its 21th annual event. Last year, individuals and local school children from every walk of life turned out for the event. Everyone had a great
time, identifying more than 3,000 birds representing over 70 bird species in and around Bryce Canyon, Kanab, Escalante, Utah; and Page and Pipe Springs, Arizona including many migrating birds such as Golden eagles, Ring-necked ducks, and wild turkeys. This year’s event promises to be even more successful. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Kanab Field Office and Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument (GSENM), the National Park Service (NPS) Pipe Spring National Monument, Bryce Canyon National Park, and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will be co-hosting Christmas Bird Counts (CBC) events in Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. Events will be held on: • December 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Pipe
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Spring National Monument Visitor Center, 406 W Pipe Spring RD, Pipe Spring, Arizona. Call (928) 643-7105 for more information. • December 17, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Bryce Canyon Visitor Center in Conference Room D, Bryce Canyon National Park. Binoculars, bird ID books, and snowshoes will be available to borrow. Call (435) 834-4753 for more information. • December 18, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Escalante Interagency Visitor Center, 755 W Main Street, Escalante, Utah. Call (435) 826-5499 for more information. • December 19, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Anasazi State Park Visitor Center, 460 Highway 12, Boulder, Utah. . Bird Count
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REGIONAL Weather forecast Thurs. dec. 12 - Wed. Dec. 18 WARMER, ONE HOPES. As of today, Tuesday morning, our forecasters would have us believe that by Thursday, highs will be climbing into the 30s, even the high 30s in some places, and stay there all week, and lows will be in the balmy teens and maybe 20s. Friday night’s supposed to be the coldest. Ceilings all week anywhere from partly sunny to partly cloudy to sunny to cloudy. Saturday’s outlook looks sunniest.
Panguitch Drug
Volunteer Birders Needed for Christmas Bird Count
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Garfield County’s pharmacist long enough to see babies who were born at the start of his career grow well into middleage. Steve took over the pharmacy from his own father, Monte, around 1970, and after many years of operating at the original Panguitch Drug location on Main Street, he had the idea to move and expand the store to their current site around the corner on Center Street, a process he says he painstakingly planned and designed over the course of 10
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