Show 8 Gunnison Valley News Salina Sun December Sanpete News 1 5 1 999 Expect great things from KBYU this Christmas season Two exciting young stars Welsh actor loan Grutfudd and Justine Waddell join seasoned actors Charlotte Ramplingand Bernard Hill mMobil Theatre's new adaptaMasterpiece tion ot'Charles Dickens' "G reat Expec- Terry Johnson stands in the middle of a New video opens in large selection of movies store tations" The story of an orphan boy who inherits a mysterious fortune stars Gruffudd Titanic) as Pip Waddell (Mobil Masterpiece Theatre "The Woman in White") as Estella Rampling Earew ellMx Lox eh) as Miss and Hill (Titanic) as Havisham airs Magw itch "Great Expectations" Channel 7 Sunday s Decemon K I ber 'l and 26 at 8 pnt Puliter Prize-inning write Russell Baker hosts Adapted by Tony Marehant from the Dickens novel the story resolves around Pipuyoung boy whogrowsup in the Kent marshes of southeastern uvc been on the shelves lor quite a ile t Action Video she say s a film new for the first six considered months At ter that it' s cal led a "recent hit" and the rental price w ill drop rentals on new There w ill be leleases and reeent hits Because the ideos checked store closes on Sunday out on Saturday aren't due until Monday Theow nersalsoplan tooffer special promotions on selected titles includvideo ing "Five for five for rentals for five days and $5 The Johnsons sav that many people have helped get their business going They wish to thank Lars and Diane Johnson AtoZGIass ElderMaynard Elder Clements Lynne Arthur and Kenny Johnson They alsoextend gratitude to family and friends for their time and supercilious London Since Miss Havisham encourages Pip’s love for Estella he assumes she is the source of his unexpected legacy and that she envisions a match between him and Estella whom she has trained to treat all men contemptuously Other Dickensian characters spring to life in this production of "Great Expectations": Molly Jaggers’ brutish housekeeper Wemmick Jagger's dual personality clerk Mrs Joe Pip's neurotic and abusive sister Joe her husblacksmith band the Biddy their unkempt angelic servant and Herbert Pocket Pip’s loyal and guileless friend Great Expectations first published in and issued in book 1861 was one of its author’s greatest critical and popular successes Long a staple of high school curricula serially form in the novel has been dramatized several times including a 9 7 movie another version in 1946 starring John Mills and Alec Guinness and directed by David Lean and the recent modernization w ith Gw y neth Paltrow and Ethan Ha w ke Although Mobil Masterpiece Theatre “Great Expectations” is set in the 800s producer David Snodin considone ers the story a contemporary "We've been diligent about getting it historically correct but w hat w e accentuate is the modernity of the characters There are people like this in the world today There are Miss Hav ishams s slightly clinically insane w ho are in deep need of therapy There are Estellas There are Magw itches There are Pips There are a lot of Pips -uncertain young men who don’t quite know w hat (heir liv es are about” Extension Notes Seed and garden catalogs provide valuable tips for the planting season Gunnison ()ver5000vidcotitlesaieuvailublo at Action Video located at 78 South Main St in the old KiVJ s building lhe store's grand opening takes place oil Saturday December 8 The store will be opened Monday through Sauirdav from noon to Op in Owners Terry and Colette Johnson say they hope to offer valley residents a bigger and better ideo selection For the past six months they have been at work on the idea and moved into the building in November In addition to movies Nintendo 64 games will be rented The store also features prev iousIv lew ed mov ies free memberships and Christmas gift certificates A new CR will be aw arded during a draw ing in January Colette says that she hates when "new releases" which are usually more expensive to rent include videos that England where one fateful night he encounters Magw itch a terrify ing escaped conv iet w horn he assists Estella is the haughty young beauty who s tantalizes Pip front into adulthood Estella's debeautiful once the ranged guardian and bizarre Miss Has isham has hated men since the day many years earlier when her fiance failed to show up for their wedding She lives as a recluse dressed in her frayed bridal gown among the decayed ruins of the wedding feast Pip learns from Jaggers a sizable inheritance from a benefactor the event who insists on anonymity trails form s Pi p from a poor orphan m by his sister and appi enticed to into a his blacksmith support Clyde Hurst tali State I'nixersttx Extension Agent In arecentcolumnldiscussed Christmas cifts including books and there are many more than I mentioned that w ould be w doomed by the gardener or outdoorsman There are also free or nearly free books that the gardener will be interested in You all recognize these as seed and garden catalogs Most of us are familiar with those such as Burpees Henry Fields Parks and Gurney ‘s There are more of the common "seed catalogs” as we often refer to them They are a good starting place for ideas about w hat to plant next summer Actually the planting need not wait by ( until next summer either Some of ou may want to start y our own transplants For some vegetables that can be put out in early spring the starting time is not far oil" In any case the old familiarcatalogs are full of the common and not so and landscape common vegetables plants There are other catalogs that are not so familiar that may serve as a source of ideas and harder to find plants and seeds High Country Gardens and High Altitude Gardens offer plants and seeds adapted to high and often dry climates Sounds like home doesn't it They clude interesting and descriptions ideas Many of you are familiar w ith such great catalogs as Wayside Gardens There may be other equally beautiful catalogs out there but this is certainly one of the line ones It is worth having just for the pictures togiveyou an idea look like whataparticularspeciescan All catalogs can serv e as a source of gaidenmg mloi malion Some are better than others and you always need to consider w here the company is located Some sources come from parts of the country where they have acidic soils and will talk about liming the soil Well you know that is not something you will benefit West w here a significant goes for the from in the Intermountain most soils already contain amount of lime The same value of adding wood ash to the garden to "sweeten” the soil ith that said there is still Any way some valuable information in some Nurseries is a prune Hilltop catalogs example This is a fruit catalog and besides the pages of offerings and their descriptions there are pages of cultuial information including charts on relative picking times charts of pollinators for fruits requiring cross pollination and discussions on root stocks Beyond most of our needs but inter esting to look at are garden too! catalogs to give you ideas of items you might w ant to pick up to make gardening easier and more fun There are also catalogs of garden furniture and sources of biological controls of garden pest to help you reduce the use of pesticides These are just some ideas of a few of the low cost or free kinds of garden literature that you may want to get Look in the ad pages of "shelter magazines” and specifically garden magazines for names and addresses of these and other catalogs that may interest you For more information call Clyde Hurst your Utah State University Exx 275 tension Agent at The buck Stops In Salina! 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