OCR Text |
Show The Ogden Valley news Page 18 Volume XV Issue I December 15, 2007 Basketball Camp Announced Weber County Recreation announces their holiday season Basketball Camp for boys and girls, 4th through 9th grades. Session I will consist of two great days of individual instruction, Thursday, December 27, and Friday, December 28 from 9:00 a.m. to noon. Coaching staff will consist of instructors with professional and college basketball coaching experience, plus former college and professional basketball players. The staff will provide excellent instruction in the fundamentals of individual and team play. The cost is $30 per individual. To enable the staff to make the necessary arrangements, all who enroll will be requested to pay the full amount when applying. For additional information, call the Weber County Recreation Office at 801399-8230 or visit us online at www1. co.weber.ut.us and click on “Recreation.” Snowkite Festival Scheduled at Powder Mountain Resort Best Kiteboarding and Utah Kite Addiction are teaming up to host the 2008 Powder Mountain SuperFly Open. This spectacular and unique snowkite festival is scheduled for February 8, 9, and 10, 2008. The event will take place at Powder Mountain Resort, known for the most skiable acreage in the U.S., rated best snow in the U.S. by Ski Magazine, and, of course, infamous for ridge top WIND! The SuperFly Open will have something for everyone. Enjoy ski in-ski out introductory kite clinics and watch some of the best snowkiter’s in the world showcase their talent. Launch snow features prepared with the help of Powder Mountain’s own snow grooming team. Slide rails and boxes generously provided by event sponsors. Compete in or watch any of the three competition categories, freestyle, kitercross, or big air. Multi-evening festivities will include a showing of Something Stronger, music, dancing, Best Model Search contest, dining, awards, and multimedia presentations from some of the greatest athletes in the sport. For more information, visit <www. superflyopen.com> Snowkiting at Powder Mountain. Photo taken by Claes Lundin of Norway. Merry Christmas Paul L. Judd The only name in Valley Real Estate you’ll ever need to know. 814-5667 Cell Price Reduced $150,000 2025 E. 5959 N. Liberty MLS #737008 $364,000 Beautiful Single Family rambler on spacious lot. Features huge family room and living room. Maintenance free exterior and metal roof. Three bedrooms, three baths. Two car attached garage. Very nice inside and out. Priced to sell. Call Paul L Judd at 801-814-5667 or visit this listing on line at pauljudd.net 6470 N. North Fork Road Liberty $950,000. Contractors own custom built home on 5+ acres overlooking Ogden Valley with lofty scenic vistas looking up into Ben Lomond Peak. Exceptional quality throughout. Master bedroom has fireplace, walk out covered deck double sinks & closets. This is one of finest built homes in the Valley. Priced reduced $150,000. This is a great buy! Call Paul L Judd 801-814-5667 SOLD Price Reduced $65,000 2876 E. Shaw Dr. Liberty MLS #695137 $225,000. Wow! Talk about the right setting at an affordable price. Small cabin nestled by the North Fork River. Secluded 1.70 acres with mostly wild life for neighbors. Very private setting. One of the few affordable properties left in the Valley. Call Paul Judd 801-8145667 or visit this property at pauljudd.net Lot 82 Elkhorn MLS #700784 $185,000. Priced $65,000 below adjacent lots! Owner says get it sold NOW! Stunning views of Valley and mountains. Located in prestigious Elkhorn Subdivision. Protective covenants in place. This is a great deal!!!! Call me today, Paul L Judd 801-814-5667 Brad Richter’s New CD, Navigating Lake Bonneville, an Inspired Spin on Chamber Music Prehistoric Lake Bonneville, which Champion, is perhaps best known for his covered most of Utah as recently as 10,000 virtuosic playing and imaginative solo guiyears ago, was to provide inspiration for tar compositions but he’s making a name composer/guitarist Brad Richter’s latest for himself in the world of more “serious” major work: Navigating Lake Bonneville. composition as well. After several well It certainly did. The music is rich with ref- received commissions for guitar with varierences to water and nature and ghosts of ous chamber music combinations (including the indigenous music that one can so eas- Fragments Transcending – a cello/guitar ily imagine echoing duo commissioned through the canyons by David Finckel, the lake once filled. director of chamber But it was his songmusic at Lincoln writing collaborator, Center) Richter poet Ken Brewer, was approached by who provided the Diane Stern, director most meaningful of the Weber State inspiration. Brewer, University Office who was Utah’s poet of Cultural Affairs, laureate at the time, to write a piece that was diagnosed with paid homage to Lake pancreatic cancer Bonneville. The end shortly after their colresult is a groundlaboration began. He breaking composidied just before the tion for voice, guitar, premiere of the staged cello, percussion, version of Navigating narrator, and choir Lake Bonneville in that, while classical the spring of 2006. in form, has as much At the end of his in common with life Brewer was celAmerican indigebrated in literary cirenous music, folk, cles and media around gospel, and rock. Brad Richter the country for his “His performance candid and powerful poems about coming and composition are remarkable,” writes to terms with mortality. His poems for the Stern about what attracted her to Richter’s Navigating Lake Bonneville project subtly, music. “Brad has a freshness and depth to referencing the temporary nature of human his work that speaks seriously to the source existence and our connection with nature, of his inspiration and generously to the while never losing sight of the project’s listener. He is accessible without dumbing original commission: to pay tribute to the down his art or diminishing the intelligence ancient lake. of his audience. It’s hard to categorize the “Brewer’s poems are the genus of every- body of work that Brad is creating because thing I composed for Navigating Lake he doesn’t limit himself to a preconceived Bonneville,” wrote Richter at the time of genre and has an interest and openness in the premiere. “There are three instrumen- the way he approaches life that carries over tal movements in the piece but the five into his composition.” songs that I wrote with Ken are the core The beautifully produced CD Navigating of the work. He was usually too sick and Lake Bonneville, featuring high definition his immune system was too compromised sound and art work by Mark Biddle, is for us to work in person. He would read available starting December 14 from the his poems to me over the phone. I used his Weber State University Bookstore at www. rhythm and inflection to write the melodies bookstore.weber.edu or by calling (801) that became the foundation for the compo626-6352. You can visit www.bradrichtersition. Earth Song, the final movement, is guitar.com to hear free tracks from the really a requiem to Ken. The poem speaks recording. Richter will be taking the piece about the connection we have to the earth, on tour with an ensemble that includes celand the comfort Ken took in the idea of list Viktor Uzur, singer Carly Pedersen, and becoming one with it as we leave our boddancer/narrator/percussionist Erik Stern ies.” Richter, a graduate of the Royal College starting May 3, 2008 at the Reed Whipple of Music and a National Finger-picking Cultural Center in Las Vegas. PLUSH PUPPIES & POSH PONIES Grooming and Training Pet Sitting Available for the Holidays! Call Lori Lewis at 801-664-6174 coreyscockers@msn.com 3685 E. 4350 N. Liberty UT |