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Show 2A Lakeside Artist of the Month Review South, Wednesday, April 4, 1984 Local Artist Uses Bold Vitality Review Correspondent Sets Meeting NARFE BOUNTIFUL invited al retirees are cordially The Bounti- ful Chapter of the National Association of Retired Federal BOUNTIFUL My paintings are bold, because they have to capture the mood of Utah. And the Utah landscape is bold! ; to attend. All chapter members are also urged to attend and. participate in the selection of delegates to represent the chapter at the Utah State Federation of Chapters convention to be held in Provo on May 11 and 12. Additional convention details will be Employees will hold its regular monthly meeting on April 9 at 12:30 p.m. at the Golden Years Center. Past President Allen Flanders conduct the meeting and lead a discussion of current legislative developments. All feder will These are the words of Bountiful artist Roger Cushing, who has been chosen as the artist featured by the BountifulDavis Art Center Gift Gallery in an Open House on Sunday April 8, from 6 p.m. The Art Center Gift Gallery is located adjacent to the main gallery, just north of the Art Center itself. Cushing has always been a painter. He has been fascinated 4-- Women Voters Brunch BOUNTIFUL - Da- vis County will hold its annual meeting April 7 at 10:30 a.m. at the Bountiful Community During the May meetings, league member Lynette Wilson will present a state league study on the Public Service Commission. The meetings are May 3 at 7:30 p.m. and May 9 at 9:30 a.m. at the 'Bountiful Communi' ty Church. , ar awe-inspiri- ng Mickel, at the Davis County Mental Health Center, 470 E. Medical Drive, Bountiful. 10-we- ek There will be a registration fee of $40 per person or $50 per couple. However half of that amount may be returned in a rebate for perfect attendance. For more information about the course or to enroll, call Joanne or Lynne at 298-344- 6. There FRUIT HEIGHTS of the Davis County Machine Knitters on East Carrie Drive, Fruit Heights. All who are .interested are wel- ROGER CUSHING critiques some caricatures drawn by his students at Viewmont High School. Cushing has been chosen as the Artist Of the .Month for the Bountiful Art Center's Gift Gallery come to attend.. The topics of discussion are g and ribber tech- Tuesday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Joanne Sag, 1477 short-rowin- niques. Health Hazards Could Close Landfill CHERYL ARCHIBALD FARMINGTON waste to energy burn plant. Parker said that the BARD landfill would have to be tested for ground water waste pollutants because, like other landfill areas before more stringent EPA standards went into effect, BARD accepted hazardous wastes in the past. If waste pollutants should be found in the groundwater from, the facility, BARD would be placed on the National Priority List for cleanup due to health risk factors, the letter stated. In that case, BARD would bear the responsibility for bringing the landfill up to state standards and for preventing further ground water contamination. Parker recommended a ground monitoring system to detect pollutants. Besides moving the plant, Parker said BARD could have brought the landfill up to state standards by going with the Review Staff The BARD landfill should, if at all be closed and the possible, landfill operation moved to higher ground, said Dale Parker, executive secretary with the Utah Solid and Hazardous Wastes Committee in a letter to Davis County Commissioner Harry B. Gerlach. down-gradie- The letter listed recommendations requested by Ger-- . lach, who wanted to know what the state expects after the burn plant fell through. The ideal would be to close it down and build where the water table is not so high, Parker later said in a telephone interview. But he admitted that there was just nowhere in South Davis County to build another landfill that wouldnt be in someones backyard. , would have taken the polluteable refuse off their hands, he said. Sterile waste, such as concrete, would be the only thing going into BARD. But with polluteable refuse going into the area, he said BARD will have to be engineered so that refuse wont contact ground water. nt Now that the burn plant is no longer an alternative after being voted down by Bountiful, Centerville and Layton, the largest cities in Davis County, Parker advised BARD to follow the proposals made by Emcon, which BARD voted to accept over a year ago. He would add a couple of other suggestions, he said. The Emcon study pioposed a slurry wall be built around the 50 acre landfill to keep ground water from flowing into BARD. 1 . j The refuse should be covered on a daily basis, said Parker, to prevent fires and problems with rats. This is not being done right now, he said. The only other possibility would be for BARD to transport garbage to a landfill outside the county, which could be more expensive than hauling it to the proposed bum plant. Parker told the BARD board the study should begin as soon as possible, and told them, Youve got a good program (in the Emcon study). He advised them to follow it. Elmer Barlow, manager of the plant asked that the board give '.him the authority to buy the $200,000 of new equipment needed to' follow the proposals, saying unless he has the to implement the Emcon inaster plan that he would hot like to be manager anymore. equip-'1me- self-maste- ry self-discipli- ne ceed. de- d. Knitters Date Meeting will be a meeting ought to come from the home environment. Im an art teacher, so I can do visual things in the class room, which keeps the students occupied and entertained. But what if you teach algebra?" he adds quickly. The students are in need of motivation. But even so, they are inspired; they are successful, they experience success in my classes and that encourages them." Cushing is concerned, as an art teacher, where the trend in education to make a teacher do it all. We have to be parents, soccer coaches and art teachers. How do we have enough energy left to encourage the students and to give them the necessary ' and needed in producing truly great art? Yet the students in Cushings classroom seem dedicated to their teacher, their work, and the proposition that they can suc- partment as well. However, he does not neglect his personal endeavors in art outside academe. Recently, he won the Purchase Award in the Deseret News Art Contest and in 1983 he won second place in the Bountiful Art Center Show. Cushing is, first and foremost, a teacher. His love of this art is equalled by his admiration of his students. He states proudly, My students do things when they are 16, which would have never been done 20 years ago by a 16 year-olIndeed, at the high school show at the Bountiful Art Center last month showed, the Bountiful high school students produce, under the supervision of dedicated teachers .such as Cushing, works which are easily confused with those of much older, much more experienced artists of some' decades ago. Register for Seminar BOUNTIFUL Registration for Developing Capable Young course which People, a presents strategies for parents to effectively teach youth and strengthen families, has been extended until April 5, to accommodate the addition of new class members. The course will be conducted Thursday evenings from 6:30 - 9 p.m. beginning April 5 by David and Lynne their best in art classes but they often lack the stimulus which School in Bountiful. Cushing is not only an art instructor at that school, he is now the chairman of the art The students are doing cerns: criss-cross- ed ' Church, 150 N. fourth East. The meeting is a brunch and is open to the public. During the meeting, league members will elect a slate of officers that includes treasurer, vice president, second vice presidirec dent and one and two-ve- landscapes of the region around the Great Salt Lake since his youth. The result: Cushing's work are representative of the large, sweeping countryside, as his Mount ,. Timp shows. His renditions of the Antelope Island and of the Great Salt Lake itself breathe the1 atmosphere of the early 1900s when the Utah landscape was not cluttered by telephone wires and tors. The members will Jso vote on proposals for the local program of study for the next year. The- - League of Women voters of South Yet, Cushing voices some con- nique, which includes a combination of oils, imprimature and a glazing technique first used by Rembrandt. But he is versatile and also works in watercolors and other media. His favorite subjects are landscapes but Cushing has created abstracts, portraits and various other styles of work. He loves, however, the spiritual vitality, the glowing feeling" which is created by his combining Impressionism and Rembrandt technique, capturing the light of the Salt Lake Valley by freeways. Cushing intends to convey that early, as he thinks it has been in preromantic mood, still felt by the industrialized tinjes, before the settlers, but gone now from the ubiquitous smog clouded up the industrialized Salt Lake Valley. wide vistas. Cushing has not come to his Cushing uses his own techart unprepared. He studied at Weber State College, where he earned a Purchase Award in his senior year. Then, he continued his studies in art at BYU and Arizona State University, and received a masters in fine arts. From there, he started a career as art teacher, first in Clearfield and .later at Viewmont High by the ENNY MEYERS . Cushings plans to icmain at Viewmont High School while, at the same time doing illustra- tions, commercial art and teaching painting to whoever wishes to leam. In the meantime, the Bountiful Art Center Gift Gallery has recognized Cushings talents and his dedication to the arts and to his students. His contributions to the Bountiful art scene are celebrated by the open house show of his and the month-lon- g works at the Qift Gallery. Cushing will be present to discuss his works, which will range from $100 to $1,000 and he will answer any questions the public might have. The Gift Gallery volunteers and Cushing will assist the visitors, who are invited' to attend, to make the acquaintance of this dedicated artist and teacher and to partake of refreshments which '7eu.ooci) UJO-- G H, s Gsnd jAjUBt. uvl f 309 7iOuodl AjUnd AO QAAAJL 'Hnosry UAc juma 0ahAjU. C&if' jfam oyrxdrtMAM. UfrA dL LdheviewTiavel 298-19"''Jp"' Colonial SI W. 2600 91 S. 7 Sq. Bountiful nt I Deaf Fair Planned at Bountiful BOUNTIFUL Free exhib- its, health screening and hearing tests will be offered during a two-da- y health fair for the hard of hearing and deaf. To be held at 388 N. 400 E., Bountiful, the fair is designed to give useful information to the and deaf, their spouses, parents and siblings. For further details, contact Dr. On Robert Sanderson, ' display will be a number of devices that assist people in dealing with their environment and daily living problems including alarm teletypewriters, wake-u- p clocks that flash lights: doorbell lights; television sets with built-i- n captioning devices. The evening show has a limit of 300 seats. Tickets are available at the Utah Community Center for the Deaf in Bountiful, 388 N. 400 E., phone or at the Utah School for the Deaf, Ogden, from Jerry Taylor, and at the Extension Division, Salt Lake City, from Celia Donations are suggested at $4 for adults, $3 for senior citizens over age 62, and $3 for children under 14. hard-of-heari- 533-599- 7. 533-599- 7; A NEWS CALL YOUR LaCiesMe IHLevSew ILaEsesMe AREA CORRESPONDENT Hftevilecy BOUNTIFULNORTH SALT LAKE 292-949- 9 CHERYL ARCHIBALD WOODS CROSSWEST BOUNTIFUL BETTY FLEISHMAN.....298-702- 2 . 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