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Show Friday, April 25, 2008 U I Diversions Page 7 Affordable Dental insurance Bluegrass group to perform RATE: $48/YEAR Western Wats Western Wats has increased wages, and we are still willing to work around your schedule. We still offer weekly pay, a fun work environment, and we'll give you time off for school events, tests, and holidays. Call Cody 753-1303 or apply online at surveynetwork.com/application. ORTHO/COSMETIC INCLUDED NO WAITING PERIOD Denlse_Abbott@us.aflac.com 435-757-7834 After covering lip fS SS.all winter ^; you need a tan! COLD CREEK, A BLUEGRASS G R O U P FROM American Fork. Utah, will perform Saturday evening at Caine Lyric Theater in Logan.Their first CD was released in 2006. Photo courtesy of Cold Creek By USU MEDIA RELATIONS Bridger Folk Music Society The Bridger Folk Music Society presents the awardwinning bluegrass band, Cold Creek, in concert, at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, at the Caine Lyric Theater on 28 VV. Center in downtown Logan. Cold Creek is an all-acoustic ensemble featuring Bill Sprunger on guitar and lead vocals, Blaine Nelson on banjo, Nate Olson on fiddle, Andrea Ivey Banner on bass and lead vocals, and Jake Workman on mandolin. The high-energy music of Cold Creek blends traditional and modern Bluegrass styles, resulting in truly joyful acoustic music. Their instrumental are precise and driving, while their ballads touch the heart with tales of love and longing. The music affects an amazing range of listeners, from children who enjoy the upbeat tempos and instruments to old-timers who are reminded of the good old days. Their progressive form of Biuegrass is also increasingly popular with young adults, who equate their style with that of Alison Krauss and Ricky Skaggs. Cold Creek hails from American Fork. Utah and is emerging as one of the top regional bluegrass bands in the Rocky Mountain West. These musicians are multi-instrumentalist champions. Since 2001, members of the band have collected four State Fiddle Champion titles, three State Mandolin Champion titles, two State Guitar Champion titles, and one State Banjo Champion title. The band's musical prowess has earned them bookings at popular festivals including the Durangp Meltdown, the Founders Title Bluegrass Festival at Snowbird, the Wolf Mountain Bluegrass Festival in Santa Cruz, Calif., and at the Moscow Days Festival in Russia. The band was also a western regional finalist in the 2006 Huck Finn Bluegrass Festival band competition. They released their first CD, "Faithfully" in 2006 and are currently working on their second collection. In addi- tion, Nate Olson has recently authored "Championship Contest Fiddling", an instructional book that will be released by Mel Bay Publications this summer. Cold Creek's music captures the all-American traditions and family-oriented entertainment from which Bluegrass was born. Their hot licks and tight harmonies will heat up the Caine Lyric Theater on Saturday evening, April 26. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $12 each at Sunrise Cyclery, Citrus and Sage, Sweet Peas Market, KSM Music, or the USU Spectrum & USU Taggart Student Center Ticket Offices. This concert is made possible in part through the sponsorship of Utah Public Radio, Cache Valley Learning Center, and Import Auto. Remaining seats can also be purchased at the door for $14/adult, or $9/youth (age 15 and under). Doors open at 7 p.m. This concert is made possible in part through the sponsorship of Utah Public Radio, Cache Valley Learning Center, and Import Auto. Students discover crockpots slowly cooked meals to fit their fast-paced lifestyles. Planning ahead never tasted so good. Since it was made popular in 1971 by Rival's trademarked Crock-Pot, the slow cooker has continued to help home chefs prepare stews and other foods with ease. And it's not just families labeling the appliance a miracle worker. With smaller models that hold 1 or 3 quarts, singles also have developed a love for the tool. On Facebook.com, Gayle Healy of Humboldt State University created a networking group called "The Intercollegiate Crock- Pot Club." There, students gab over their "favorite Crock-Pot color" and more. Using less wattage than a light bulb, the appliance cooks meals gradually by keeping the temperature around 200 degrees. (A typical slow cooker operates at 176 degrees on low and 194 degrees on high.) And within the last few years, various slow cookers, which range in price from $15 to $250, have gotten even fancier. Jarden Consumer Solutions (the parent company of Rival Crock-Pots), has introduced new versions of its slow cookers to help people on the says Amy Golino, culinary By MELANIEB. GLOVER analyst for Jarden Consumer McClatchy Newspapers Solutions. 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"It's more Claverie, 20, uses her slow convenient now than it ever cooker to make weekly comwas." munal meals - Spanish rice, Personal trainer Sharon mole, curries - for fellow resiFelts of El Dorado Hills, Calif., dents of the Domes, an alterbecame a faithful fan of slow native-living cooperative at UC cookers when she started Davis. She.simply throws vegemodifying Weight Watchers tarian ingredients into the pot recipes to use in a crockpot. before she heads off to class Felts, 33, says it helped her in the morning. And she's just lose 65 pounds. one of many who agree that "It kept me on track," she nothing is better than coming says. "Knowing that a healthy home to a delicious, warmand fulfilling breakfast or cooked meal made by, well, dinner will be done when you yourself- hours earlier. get up or head home makes Say hello to the new gena trip to the drive-through eration of crockpot fanatunnecessary and foolish." ' ics. They've ditched Susie Now Felts, a single mother Homemakers family-style "In the last two years there of two, plans her meals for the meat-and-potatoes for more have been meaningful changes week on Sundays and uses her creative recipes, tailoring their to the Crock-Pot Slow Cooker," slow cooker every other day. Her list of healthy ingredient must-haves includes frozen chicken breasts, frozen mixed vegetables, baby Yukon potatoes, stewed tomatoes, chicken broth and pork tenderloin. "Don't forget the Pam," she adds..The nonstick spray makes the cleaning process simpler. Billy Summers likes to use his slow cooker to make food for his friends at his midtown apartment but notes that the leftovers are even better for a busy single guy. "I ate my chili from the Super Bowl for an entire week," says I N S I D E HER D O R M H O M E A T UC Davis,Anita Francesca Summers, 27. 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