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Show 02 Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Vernal Express 'A ri Newly installed seats in the Outlaw Trail amphitheater at the Western Park Convention Center New Seats for the Outlaw Trail Amphitheater at Western Park St. Paul's Episcopal Church is one of 7400 congregations that trace their beginnings back 400 years. Episcopalians mark milestone of 400 years and move forward ; Across the nation there are blue and white signs bearing the slogan "The Episcopal Church Welcomes You." In Vernal it is St. Paul's Episcopal Church, a small historic church on U.S. Highway 40. East of the church building is the historic parish hall, which once served as the local hospital, and now hosts a variety of community events. t St. Paul's is one of 7,400 congregations that trace their beginnings in North America to a small but hopeful group of English Christians who arrived May 14, 1607 at a place they called Jamestown - the first permanent English settlement in the New World. 5 Washington's monumental National Cathedral is the site of historic services and ceremonies. - The Episcopal Church is also Boston's Old North Church, founded in 1723 and made famous by serving as the beacon for Paul Revere's revolution-spurring revolution-spurring "midnight ride." And Philadelphia's Christ Church is the' home parish of 15 signers of the Declaration of Independence. Trinity Parishon Wall Street in New York, formed in 1698, andSt. Paul's Chapel just down the street, were frequented by George Washington and were also a spiritual healing center of Ground Zero since Sept. 11, 2001. At Epiphany Church in Los Angeles, Cesar Chavez rallied the United Farmworkers. The basement of Emmanuel Episcopal Churchin Cumberland, Maryland was a major stop on the Underground Railroad to freedom for enslaved African-Americans. African-Americans. "Whereveryou find us, you'll find the Book of Common Prayer," said the Reverend Nina Stasser, St. Paul's priest, "and a Christian faith that honors and engages the Bible, the tradition of the Church, and God-given human reason. Joined in prayer, you'll find people with many points of view Christians who are progressive, moderate, and conservative yet who value the diversity of their faith community." Vv The Episcopal Church reports that the church keeps J Registry V OPEN HOUSE V Ml Friday, June 1, 2007 6:00 to 8:00 PM Glines 1" Ward Pavilion 1270 West 1500 South V RECEPTION V Friday, June 1, 2007 7:00 to 9:00 PM lOjkopelliPark V RECEPTION V jffcfy tydw k Danny Saturday, June 2, 2007 7:00 to 9:00 PM KokopdliParkM V OPEN HOUSE V M!msfcCk(Mmn Saturday, June 2, 2007 6:30 to 8:30 PM Ashley Maeser Chapel 1500 West 2575 North V RECEPTION V Saturday, June 2, 2007 6:30 to 8:30 PM GlinesStjUceCen V RECEPTION V Saturday, June 2, 2007 3:00 PM CasaRios 2750 West Hwy 40 m V RECEPTION O Saturday, June 2, 2007 6:00 to 9:00 PM 113Uouth2000F West Main-Vmal'7S1-15S6Mon-Frt:S-75at:l-6Sun:10 Fret m Wrapping ADeUmy moving forward in mission in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, as well as congregations in Belgium, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guam, Haiti, Honduras, Italy, Micronesia, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Taiwan, Venezuela, and the Virgin Islands. According to the church leaders, "We're committed to a transformed world, as Jesus taught: a world of justice, peace, wholeness, and holy living." "The Episcopal Church in this country has grown a lot in 400 years," said Reverend Stasser, "since that 1607 worship service using the Book of Common Prayer was held in Jamestown. TheDioceseofUtah is celebrating 140 years of ministry this year. Our cornerstone on St. Paul's Church in Vernal reads "1901. Our church has grown, inside and out. Come see for yourself. Come and visit. Come and exploreCqme and grow.", , The year was 1991 and the Uintah Arts Council's Outlaw Trail Theater opened its show, Riders of the Wind, in a brand new location - the new outdoor amphitheater at Western Park in Vernal. After years of building sets and producing musicals in the dirt on the fields west of the present day middle school where they had to bring in portable baseball bleachers for the audience, the Outlaw Trail Theater had a new home to call their own. Vinyl covered benches in the lower seating and concrete bleachers in the upper, with a dirt and grass stage, things were looking up. In 1992, the first 40x40-foot concrete stage was poured and in 2002, after 10 years, more concrete was poured which expanded the stage and got the actors out of the mud. Finally, in its 16th summer season at Western Park, the Uintah Arts Council andWestern Park are proud to announce the completionofallnew comfortable stadium seating throughout the Outlaw Trail Amphitheater at Western Park. The new seats are comfortable and have lots more legroom. There are now nine designated wheelchair spaces and seven other handicap-accessible handicap-accessible chairs in the lower section. The days of needing to bring cushions or blankets to sit on are gone - everyone can now lean back, relax and enjoy the entertainment. The new seating is just being completed in time for the opening of the Outlaw Trail Theater's 21st summer season, presenting"TheSoundofMusic" Hum wm wr l'Vl by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The cast is working to prepare for opening night on Tuesday, June 19. The show will run Tuesday through Saturday nights until July 7 with no shows on Sundays, Mondays or July 4. The Uintah Arts Council thanks the Western Park Board and staff and Uintah County for the improvement to the amphitheater facility. It is not only an improvement for the Outlaw Trail Theater, but also for Alive After Five, the Country Showdown, the Uintah County Fair and anyone who is looking for an outdoor performing venue. To find out more about "The Sound of Music," log onto http:www.MyArtsCouncil.org or call 888-240-2080. tttm V mi KelliRichk e Weston Beds Reception Saturday 'June 2, 2007 6:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m. Free Gift Wrapping Free Delivery 'Buffi By Dr. Franx Alan Bruso Uintah County Library Director coits-rr Genealogical .. I ivwVUI www . , o.tiv f i "trc; iKf.j trt.'i '! at the Uintah County Library A few weeks ago I went to the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City. I was surprised that on a Friday and Saturday that there were very few people there. I asked the volunteer missionaries mis-sionaries what caused the drop in use. They told me that Ancestry, com who had been a partner with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was no longer providing free access to their library or any of the other family fam-ily history libraries across the country. Ancestry.com had a new vice president that felt that even though the LDS church and its volunteers provided a lot of the content that the company could no longer afford to let them have access to their databases without paying and that it was cutting into their home subscription base. I asked why they didn't negotiate nego-tiate with Ancestry.com to pay for church-wide use. They said it was a matter of principle and that they would be unveiling a revised Family Search site with more free collaborations with other genealogical entities. As a library director I could understand Ancestry.com's approach, having dealt with numerous database vendors over the course of 15years. Most companies com-panies want to maximize their profits and charge exorbitant rates to academic and public libraries based on a formula of fulltime equivalent students or library cardholders in public libraries. Even though they can be pricey being a small county, we pay their lowest cost. Luckily for Uintah County our library has been subscribing subscrib-ing to both Heritage Quest and Ancestry.com through Proquest (UMI). We spend about $1,000 a year for in-library access. As a result local residents will not be cut off from valuable genealogical genea-logical databases including the 1790 tol930 censuses found in both databases. Patrons merely need to come to the library and use one of our public machines in order to use Heritage Quest and Ancestry.com. Library patrons can't access it from home because the vendors are minimizing An-cestry.com An-cestry.com potential loss of home subscribers. Ancestry.com is perhaDS the largest resource with millions of IREAMniMIHE) lUCTMtass I aMHM h I GREAT FAMILY HOME IN WONDERFUL NEIGHBORHOOD WlfflBEApi .11 I irough out f?Crtflm & dining room. Gas heat & two or attached garage! (dUasmatmiOSt fotpurshowhf. Nice in town Rambler Qose to schools, shopping & parks. 4 Bedrooms, 2 baths, living room, dining room with hard wood floors. 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Where Service Is Our Specialty 5 HniIUtIoII i7h1iI "rnrrTh-T c m i e In 1 1 it lcco ii n t I REALTOR r I , l"-CIPJflLIITTOl iMjjn ikuitui lililtUlnl names. It includes information from the U.S. Census; birth, marriage and death indexes; immigration records; military records; directories; biographies; newspapers and periodicals; court records; and reference and finding aids. You can access it from the library homepage (http:www.uintah.lib.ut.us). Another genealogical resource re-source is Proquest's Heritage Quest (http:www.heritageque-stonhne.com). (http:www.heritageque-stonhne.com). It "is- designed specifically for patrons in public libraries who are either just beginning their family research or who after years of work are still uncovering their past." The service has more than 25,000 genealogy books with millions of family names including the entire U.S. Census, PERSI, Revolutionary War pension and bounty land warrant application files and the Freeman Bank records. re-cords. Library patrons can access the site by going to the library webpage and clicking on it under remote databases. They will need an active library card from one of the local libraries in order to access it from home or to use in the library. The LDS church has a free Family Search site (http:www. familysearch.com) where the public can get access the Social Security death Index and several other databases. They can also search millions of names extracted extract-ed by the LDS for temple work; which could include searchers' own relatives. A useful index on their site is vital records, which includes information from hundreds hun-dreds of countries. There are dozens of books, newspapers, and journals and diaries on Uintah County and Vernal in the regional history center at the Uintah County Library. The collections of local and regional history include a large collection of historic photographs pho-tographs from the Leo Thorne Collection and Vernal Express Collection. Staff including Elaine Carr, Ellen Kiever and Michelle Fuller currently maintains the center. Contact them at 798-009 1 ext. 18. Dr. Frank Alan Bruno is director direc-tor of libraries at Uintah County Public Library in Vernal and the Internetelectronic products subject editor of Multicultural Review and Books N Things editor for the Vernal Express and Uintah Basin Standard. E-mail E-mail Bruno atbrunoco.uintah. ut.us. |