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Show 10 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, August 14, 2008 Community & Family Night showcases new art form Book Look "A Town Lie Paris" ! . Debbie Balzotti Before I wrote my review, re-view, I authenticated the impressions of this author with my only native French acquaintance, Elodie, and she assured me that there was truth amidst the humor. hu-mor. We had fun laughing at ourselves as we recognized recog-nized the influence of our own native foreign culture on our attitudes and actions. ac-tions. "A Town Like Paris" is not for everyone but I hope Alyssa enjoys it as part of her pre-Paris trip birthday package. I did ask Elodie for book suggestions to help understand French culture but her books are in French (oddly enough) which won't do me much good since my high school French has long since evaporated. Ah, Paris, Ah, L'Amour . . . the author Bryce Corbett, an ex-pat from Australia by way of England takes a job in the City of Lights. This begins his love affair af-fair with Paris and many, many nights of drinking Bordeaux in his neighborhood neighbor-hood cafes. He may have written some of this book while still intoxicated because be-cause sometimes you feel like you are listening to a very funny but very intoxicated intox-icated guy. Corbett samples everything every-thing this city has to offer, of-fer, appearing on a French game show, stalking celebs ce-lebs at Cannes, and of course utter failure in the wooing of French women. Each chapter is similar to a journal entry and begins by addressing an observation observa-tion about his new hometown home-town and its bewildering inhabitants. Chapter 17 is entitled: enti-tled: Desperately Seeking Seek-ing Plumbing. "Parisian plumbers, like the majority major-ity of people in France's so-called service industry, are a recalcitrant mob. The rendezvous was set for ten days hence. I was gobsmacked. How could anyone be expected to live in an apartment, in the ftm niininiiiiiMiiiiini.iliiir" srnmiinmi iiimmill middle of a Parisian winter, win-ter, with neither heat nor hot water? But neither the plumber nor my landlady could comprehend the urgency ur-gency of my situation. Apparently Ap-parently it was perfectly acceptable for a tenant to go for two weeks without heat or hot water. And no, of course there was no question of a reduction in rent. The hot-water heater had broken down because of misuse. It had nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that it hadn't been replaced re-placed or serviced since Napoleon got his comeuppance comeup-pance at Waterloo." This is an amusing travel journal by an author who hopefully has sobered up enough this year to grow up and get a real job in Paris. Par-is. You can't help but laugh at some of his adventures and shake your head over many of his idiotic mis takes as aii auswc ciecuiy out of his element but de- r'--Of 1 A A 11 terminea to enjoy it. Aiiez, Dozenj of youngsters enjoyed the art project that is always a part of Community & Family Night allez Champs hlysees Al- at the springville Museum of Art. The event is held the first Monday of each month and is free of yssa! charge. There will not be another family night until October because of Labor Day. wmmmmm 'nil' f C c-1 C-1 "tk FA Wo help you create your Invitations your way Distinctive, one-of-a-kind photo krvfts&ons designed to fit your style, your personality and your budget Contact omofour designers today to sehecfute your cmsutetion and to see hew easy and afforcfe&te your wedefing IrtSomcanbel y Call us today to learn more! CE2CSCCS3 V m T .H NOTICE OF PROPOSED TAX INCREASE SPRINGVILLE DRAINAGE DISTRICT The Springville Drainage District is proposing to increase in-crease its property tax revenue. If the proposed budget is approved, this would be an increase of 100.00 above the SPringville Drainage Diastrict property tax budgeted revenue for the prior year. The Springville Drainage District tax on a $230,000 residence would increase from $0.00 to $50.60, which is $50.60 per year. The Springville Drainage District tax on a $230,000 business would increase from $0.00 to $92.00, which is $92.00 per year. The Springville Drainage District property tax revenue from new growth and other sources will increast from $0 to $102,460. All concerned citizens are invited to a public hearing on the tax increase. PUBLIC HEARING DateTime: August 20, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. Location: Springville Senior Citizens Center 73 East 200 South, Springville, UT To obtain more information regarding the tax increase, citizens may contact the Springville Drainage District at 491-2985. Marlene Tays , The Springville Museum of Art's monthly Community Commu-nity and Family Night was a huge success as members of the community were amazed by the new art form of Nathan Bennett, dazzled by the talents of Mime Joe Flores, and the children learned new ways to create their own works of art with the SMA Education Edu-cation department. Utah artist, Nathan Bennett, Ben-nett, came prepared to not only show and talk about his work but also ready to demonstrate how he creates his beautiful paintings paint-ings on sheets of metal. He came equipped with spray bottles of different chemicals chemi-cals and let the children take turns spraying the chemicals onto the metal plate. He then heated the chem icals to produce different colors and patterns on the metal. The different chemicals chemi-cals such as zinc, iron, and copper colored the plate leaving even blues, reds, and purples. His own work however, is very precise featuring landscapes and animals. The evening's entertainment entertain-ment featured professional profession-al Mine Joe Flores. Face painted and stage ready, Flores silently played the role of a cowboy, a new father and performed a hilarious magic trick. His unique talent was the perfect per-fect follow up to the artists' art-ists' presentation. The children's art project proj-ect was then directed by the Springville Museum of Art's Education Department. Depart-ment. Educator Samantha Schmidt taught the children chil-dren how to experiment and create new kinds of art DWR proposes more turkey permits You might have a good chance at drawing a wild turkey hunting permit for this spring's hunts. The Division Divi-sion of Wildlife Resources is proposing 13,761 public hunting permits for Utah's 2009 hunts. That's an 81 percent per-cent increase over the 7,706 public permits that were available in 2008. All of the DWR's turkey hunting proposals are available avail-able at www.wildlife.utah. govpublicmeetings. Once you've read the proposals, you can share your thoughts and ideas at the Central Region Re-gion meeting on Aug. 19 at 6:30 p.m. at Springville Junior Ju-nior High School, 165 S. 700 East, Springville. After last spring's hunts, the DWR surveyed 2,330 of the 7,856 public and private hunters who hunted turkeys in Utah in 2008. "There were more turkey hunters in the field this past spring than there's ever been. But most of hunters we surveyed said they were satisfied with their experience," experi-ence," Olsen says. "Raising the number of permits will allow even more sportsmen to enjoy hunting turkeys this spring." Turkey hunters in Utah can take only male turkeys. That rule, and the fact that female turkeys are very productive, means putting additional hunters in the field shouldn't have a negative nega-tive effect on Utah's turkey populations. "Turkeys and other upland up-land game reproduce at a high rate," Olsen says. "It's not unusual for a single male turkey to breed as many as 10 females. And female turkeys tur-keys are very productive. They usually lay a clutch of between 10 to 12 eggs. "Because one male will breed several females, and because female turkeys are so productive, taking some extra males out of the population popu-lation shouldn't affect the overall number of turkeys inUah." For more information, call the nearest Division of Wildlife Resources off ice at (801)5384700. using water color, crayon and salt. The children used the crayon to repel the water wa-ter color on the paper leaving leav-ing behind beautiful designs. de-signs. They then sprinkled salt on the wet water color to absorb and leave interesting inter-esting new textures in the water color. This was a project that even many of the adults had fun experimenting with. The museum galleries were also open throughout the evening. In addition to the permanent collection of Utah and Soviet art, the 35th Annual Quilt Show is now on display featuring the beautiful work of our many Utah quilters. There will not be Community Com-munity & Family Night in September because of Labor Day. Please join again on Monday, Oct. 6, for Community & Family Night. - The museum is open Tuesday - Saturday 10-5, Wednesday 10-9, and Sunday Sun-day 3-6. It is closed Mondays Mon-days and holidays and is located at 126 E. 400 South in Springville. The museum is free of charge and open to the public. For more information informa-tion please call 489-2727 or visit www.smofa.org. . Mmwm .Sr.- n . 1 Don't be taken in by these types of hearing aid offers. 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