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Show T TT T 1. Thursday, November 13, 2008 SPRINGVILLE HERALD W T Ttr r 1 ftMc Mta to Christmas concert Sunday The Utah Baroque Ensemble En-semble will perform a Christmas concert on Sunday, Sun-day, Nov. 16, sponsored by the, City of Orem CARE Program and involving 12 students from three Orem High Schools: Mountain View, Timpanogos and Orem High. It will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the LDS Orem East Stake Center, 600 N. 800 East. The high school students have been rehearsing with the Utah Baroque Ensemble Ensem-ble through the months of October and November. This side-by-side concert is intended to benefit the 12 students by giving them expanded choral experiences, experi-ences, including one-on-one mentoring with experienced expe-rienced singers. It is hoped that the Utah Baroque Ensemble En-semble can repeat this experience ex-perience annually. The Utah Baroque Ensemble En-semble welcomes input and suggestions from high school choral teachers in order to make this the most meaningful experience experi-ence possible While the City of Orem Care Program is the main contributor for this concert, con-cert, other Utah businesses busi-nesses have generously donated to UBE this year: Stampin Up!, Wing Enterprises, Enter-prises, Bank of American Fork, Tai Pan Trading Company, George S. and Dolores Eccles Foundation, Founda-tion, Ken Garff Automotive Automo-tive Group, Utah Arts Council, National Endowment Endow-ment for the Arts, Bonneville Bonn-eville Asphalt and Repair, Festival of Trees: A tradition of helping children For many in Utah, the holiday season is wrapped in tradition. It begins the week following Thanksgiving. Thanks-giving. Lights twinkle from rooftops like old acquaintances acquain-tances and wreaths warm festive doors. Christmas trees kiss living room ceilings ceil-ings and the smell of holiday holi-day goodies hovers in the air. Gifts of love begin to be placed beneath each tree. Arid one more tradition launches the Holiday Season Sea-son in Utah: the Festival of Trees, Wednesday, Dec. 3, through Saturday, Dec. 6. The Festival of Trees represents a 38-year tradition tradi-tion of caring for children in need. Described as "a Gift of Love," the festival is a four-day fundraising event benefiting Primary Children's Medical Center. Cen-ter. Nearly 80,000 people visit the festival each day as they come to see the world's largest display of decorated Christmas trees, as well as centerpieces, wreaths, gingerbread creations, cre-ations, backyard playhouses playhous-es and enjoy entertainment for the entire family. The main attraction of the festival is the trees. There are more than 800 trees displayed, each with its own unique style: ornate, or-nate, trendy, whimsical, creative, humorous, and sentimental. Each tree is decorated and donated by individuals, families, businesses, busi-nesses, church groups and community organizations. This year, a special tree will celebrate the tradition of healing at Primary Children's Chil-dren's Medical Center. In Regular High Merit Academy Schools Teach Teaches How Quadratic Equations They're Used in the Real World - ! " 1 tt irsr . ' lie) U 'l J i r 1 vi . MERIT ACADEMY, .more of what a 49 1 -7600 meritacademy.org high school should be Now Accepting Enrollment for Next Year f , Utah Baroque Ensemble to perform a Christmas concert Sunday, directed by Martha Sargent of Springville. ! Zion's Bank, Brian Trap-nell Trap-nell Orthodontics and University Mall. The ensemble consists of 34 singers from several sev-eral communities in Utah county. The group has performed per-formed in various chapels in the area, the LDS Assembly As-sembly Hall, the Cathedral of the Madeleine, Zion's Lutheran Church and the First Presbyterian Church in Salt Lake City, at the Springville Museum of Art, and in the Provo Tabernacle Tab-ernacle and the DeJong Concert Hall, Museum of Art and Madsen Recital Hall at Brigham Young University. In the spring of 1996 the choir was honored to be invited to perform at the Western Division convention conven-tion of the American Cho 1985 Mara Robinette was born ten-and-a-half weeks early, weighing only 2 pounds, three ounces. Two decades ago, it was difficult diffi-cult for a child that premature prema-ture to live without serious complications. Mara spent many months at Primary Children's Medical Center where a new breathing machine was used to save her life. Mara survived and has miraculously experienced ex-perienced no complications from her treatment. At the time of her hospitalization, hospi-talization, Mara's parents were students and could not afford medical care. Although Mara's hospital hospi-tal bills came to well over $90,000 the hospital's charity char-ity care covered all but $5,000. Mara's aunt, Lu Jean Morgan, has been decorating trees for the Festival of Trees for the past 35 years and says that the auction of this year's tree will culminate her way of paying off the rest of the family's debt to Primary Pri-mary Children's. Today Mara is 23 years old, about to graduate from the University of Utah and engaged to be married. Lu Jean Morgan's history of participating in the Festival Festi-val of Trees represents just one story of the thousands who decorated trees each year to honor individuals and help continue the tradition tra-dition of care at Primary Children's Medical Center. This year in celebration of 38 years of ushering in the holiday the festival will feature a special attraction. attrac-tion. Folk artist Eric Dow- NT v ' 1 ral Directors Association in Pasadena, California. The choir also toured Eastern Germany in 2001, singing sing-ing in Berlin, Dresden and Meissen, and in Wales and England in 2005, performing perform-ing Evensong in Westminster Westmin-ster Abbey and a noon-day concert in St. Paul's Cathedral Cathe-dral in London. Most recently, in 2008, the choir was invited to sing in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican in Rome, Italy as well as many other prestigious pres-tigious cathedrals throughout through-out Italy and Switzerland. The choir has been praised by former Mormon Tabernacle Taber-nacle Choir director Craig Jessop and current director direc-tor Mack Wilberg. The choir is directed by Martha Sargent of Springville, Spring-ville, who holds a master's dle will donate an original painting of the Festival of Trees for auction. The painting includes activities and items experienced at the festival, including the Salt Lake Scots, who perform per-form at the closing of the festival each year. The artwork art-work also features the first two buildings of Primary Children's Medical Center. Dowdle created and donated donat-ed this painting out of his gratitude to Primary Children's Chil-dren's for the treatment his young son received at the hospital several years ago. The festival wouldn't be a tradition unless it was complete with the sights, smells and tastes of Christmas. Christ-mas. The festival tempts even the most stringent dieter di-eter to sample homemade fudge, divinity, scones and sweet roles. Holiday entertainment enter-tainment can be found on two stages. In addition, the Gift Boutique offers handmade hand-made gifts for the perfect present, including beautiful beauti-ful homemade quilts. The festival features fun for the entire family. At Santa Land children can meet Santa and have their pictures taken. Kids Korner offers creative activities for children, such as "Dial an Elf," face painting and the opportunity opportu-nity to experience what it feels like to be inside a giant gi-ant bubble. The Small Fry Shop carries items priced for a child's budget. Every penny raised by the Festival of Trees goes directly to help children at Primary Children's Nov. 16, in Orem. The ensemble is : degree in choral conducting conduct-ing from BYU. While in graduate school she directed di-rected the BYU Women's Chorus. She currently also directs di-rects the Christmas Chorus, Cho-rus, which performs every December, and is nrincinal oboist in the Utah Valley Symphony. Jerri Bearce has accompanied the choir since 1994. She received her Bachelor Bach-elor of Music degree in organ performance from BYU in 1981 and holds a First Prize in Organ Performance Per-formance from the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Music in Antwerp. The Christmas Concert will be on Sunday, Nov. 23, at the Grandview East Stake Center, 1081 W. 1060 North, Provo at 7:30 p.m. Medical Center. Last year alone, Primary Children's expended nearly $8.6 million mil-lion to ensure that every child received medical care regardless of race, religion or ability to pay. Don't break tradition! The festival runs Wednesday, Wednes-day, Dec. 3, through Saturday, Sat-urday, Dec. 6, at the South Towne Expo Center, 9575 S. State in Sandy, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tickets are: $4adults; $3seniors and children age 11 and under. Children younger than 2 years of age are free. Discount Dis-count tickets are available at Zions Bank locations for $3.50adults; $2.50chil-dren. $2.50chil-dren. Wednesday, Nov. 28 is "Family Day," where six immediate family members mem-bers may attend for $14. Utah Symphony annual Messiah Sing-in Nov. 29, 30 Utah Symphony Utah Opera Chorus Master Su-sanne Su-sanne Sheston will lead guest vocalists, the Utah Symphony Chorus and the Utah Symphony in the 31st annual performance of Handel's glorious masterpiece master-piece Messiah. Concerto-goers are invited in-vited to bring their own scores and follow along so they can lend their voices to the triumphant Hallelujah Hallelu-jah Chorus, j, The performances will be held the weekend following fol-lowing Thanksgiving on Saturday, Nov. 29, and Sunday, Nov. 30, at 7 p.m. Guest vocalists will include in-clude Donna Smith (soprano), (so-prano), Jessica Bowers (mezzo-soprano), Heath Huberg (tenor) and Christopher Chris-topher Clayton (baritone). Originally created for Jgyg NoteS When can children begin wearing contacts? Dr. Traer Caywood With all of the improvements improve-ments in contact lenses in recent years patients can wear contacts more comfortably com-fortably than at any time in the past. A common question in our office is regarding how old should someone be to start wearing wear-ing contacts. I recommend 12 years of age. There is a combination of patient motivation, patient pa-tient responsibility and the cornea being full grown enough to handle a contact lens that makes the age of 12 a good guideline for contact lens success. However, How-ever, we have had some success at ages younger than 12. One of those successes in- W$ life (SM) mm urn m Easter, Handel's Messiah has become a Christmas tradition and has been performed per-formed all over the world for more than 250 years. As one of the most famous choral works ever written, Messiah has the power to thrill and inspire audiences. audienc-es. Tickets for the evening's performances are $.14 and $7 for students and can be purchased by calling (801) 355-ARTS (355-2787), 1-888-451-2787, in person at the Abravanel Hall box office, or by visiting www. utahsymphony.org. Subscribers Sub-scribers and those desiring group or student discounts should also call (801) 533-NOTE 533-NOTE (533-6683). The preferred score is the G. Schirmer VocalPiano VocalPia-no edition, but almost any Messiah score will do. volved one of my sons while trying to wear glasses with a r ' s mask in base-ball. base-ball. At one Dr. Traer Caywood of his games I watched him flip off his catcher's mask and his glasses flew off as well. Contacts did better for him in this situation. Younger contact lens wearers need to be very careful with the contact lens wearing timejto avoid 'over-wear problems. ft n $1,000 minimum 7-month term ALL deposits are FDIC insured up to $250,000. 1 1 : s'i Ik," i n f a ".! f - |