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Show : v V B6 Tuesday, July 25, 2007 Vernal Express Advertisers limit marketing to minors Charley and Haywire perform at Thanksgiving Point Jenkins plays his own brand of county music BiIjBadSsai Uintah County Press Association Homegrown country music talent Charley Jenkins didn't always know he wanted to be an entertainer. The namesake of the Charley Jenkins and Hay Wire Band - a group that's picking and singing its way into music lovers' hearts across the West - remembers the time in his life when singing was just something he did to please his mother. After his first public debut ended in bitter disappointment when he was defeated in a UBIC talent show at the age of 5, he was pretty sure his career in music was over. "I didn't sing again until I was 12andlsanginchurch,"the now 28 year-old up-and-coming singersongwriter said. He has pretty much been singing ever since. Jenkins began entering and winning competitions across eastern Utah and became known "We're just gonna keep playin' until people don't want us to anymore." any-more." -country MUSIC singer Charley Jenkins as "the little kid with the great bigvoice."But Jenkins is the first to admit that making music was not always his first priority; he just happened to have a mother who was emphatic that he make it a part of his other activities. "The music just seemed to fit into whatever else I was doing. There was always the National Anthem that needed to he sung at awrestlingmatchorarodeo.that sort of thing," Jenkins said. His mother, the same woman who talked him into entering the talent show and singing at church, convinced him to sing with Utah State University's vocal performing group, Stage-Light, Stage-Light, while he was a student at Union High School. He says he reluctantly added that to his busy schedule, meshing it with his wrestling, rodeo, and football. BythetimeJenkinsleftRoos-evelt BythetimeJenkinsleftRoos-evelt to head for school at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, his mother had once again prevailed and convinced him to audition for the Ricks Show Time Company, a touring singing and dancing group. "There were 40 guys vying for seven spots and I made it," Jenkins recalled. - " ""''' lHiini 1" I All 06 AMI I If L Pill Cheerleaders Hi-Lites FlagTwirlers Drill Team Other Alumni Talents 11 "That year we toured the West and the British Isles; that's when I got the bug for entertaining." He never recovered. But after returning to Ricks from serving a two-year LDS mission, mis-sion, Jenkins couldn't afford to invest the time it took to be in the Show Time Company. Instead he had to find part-time work. Ironically it was not singing with Show Time that acted as a springboard for his professional career. Jenkins said he missed entertaining en-tertaining so much that he and a college buddy, Jordan Allen, tried out for a college-wide Friday Fri-day night entertainment event, Guitars Unplugged. "We wrote a song (called Your Song) and made it all the way to the finals where we played in front of basically the whole school," he said. Jenkins and Allen quickly became frequenters of Guitars Unplugged and decided to use the name recognition and plug in to their local fan base. They wrote their own songs and recorded an album while sophomores at Ricks. "We kicked in $4,000 each and recorded an album called Greatest Hours," Jenkins said, adding that the pair had to sell 824 copies of the CI to break , Teven. "Wehaditfigttredcmtdown to the penny." ' ""' They sold 1,000 copies the first year. After completing his associate's associ-ate's degree, Jenkins returned home to Roosevelt. He found work with a local construction company, but his heart was in Nashville, the capital city of country music. So at the age of 23, after scrimping and savingfor a year, Jenkins got in his truck and headed east to begin living his dream. "I just loaded up and went out by myself," he said. "It was scary but still very exciting." Jenkins said his father had a cousin who lived in Nashville who had agreed to allow the aspiring musician to live in his home. "That's the only person I knew out there. They provided mewithahomebase...nowwe're best friends." Since he didn't have a job lined up, Jenkins began visiting the local clubs, attending song "writer's rounds." "They sit in a circle and take turns singingasong they've written. writ-ten. I would just sit and watch and listen. It became more of school for me really," Jenkins recalled. re-called. "I sat in little rooms with (countymusic)legends like Keith Urban and Alan Jackson." Things were going great for Jenkins in Nashville. He was learning a lot and had picked up an ideal job for anyone hoping to break into the business; he worked for a publishing company as a "songplugger" matchingre-cording matchingre-cording artists who were looking for new material with songs that had never been recorded. He met some big name folks, learned the ropes of the business and sang Auyitv 13 Stephanie Atwood 789-3365 Keshia Chamberlain 789-0425 Karine Simper 789-1321 Robin McClellan 781-1851 Marsha Forsgren ' 789-7588 in a few clubs in the evenings. "Then Dad got sick," Jenkins said. "That was in 2004... so I came back home." That was when irony struck for a second time. Jenkins sought a career in Nashville but it wasn't until he left and returned home that he really showed the music world who he was professionally. profession-ally. Back in Utah, Charley watched his father lose a painful pain-ful battle with cancer. Burying his father opened the spillway to a deluge of poignant feelings that were ultimately captured and put to music in his original song "Hero at Home" - a tribute to his father - which is included on his second album, "Round Here." The album captured the essence of who Jenkins is, his roots as a Utah farm boy driving driv-ing tractor and hauling hay. His song "As Long as I'm With You" describes Charley's love for his wife, Brooke, whomhe credits for bringing him back from the deep sorrow of his father's death. "Round Here" has sold 5,000 copies. His third album will be released this August. Throughout the summer, local lo-cal fans can see Charley Jenkins and Hay Wire at Longhorn Days on Saturday night or on Aug. 3 at ,vUBICmRooseveltvThebandhas jfJerfornied at the Delta Center . and the E Center m Salt Lake City, the Dixie Center and the Snow Amphitheater. They have opened for big name tickets like LeAnn Rimes, Little Texas and Lonestar and have toured with Collin Raye, Sawyer Brown and Andy Griggs. "I've watched my career grow bigger and faster than I thought it would," Jenkins said. "We're just gonna keep playin' until people don't want us to anymore." Lighters allowed on planes again Federal aviation authorities have decided to stop enforcing a 2-year-old rule against taking cigarette lighters on airplanes, concluding that it was a waste of time to search for them. The ban was imposed at the insistence of Congress after a passenger, Richard Reed, tried to ignite a bomb in his shoe in 2001 on a flight from Paris to Miami. $8.9M in USDA grants available for broadband Deputy U.S. Agriculture Secretary Chuck Connor said late last month that the USDA will make $8.9 million in grants available to communities without with-out broadband service. The grants must be used to provide residential service and connect facilities such as police and fire stations, health care, libraries and schools. "The Community Connect Grant Program has proved to be effective in reaching those rural communities where broadband broad-band service is least likely to be deployed," Conner said. "Connecting "Con-necting residents and essential community facilities improves local services and the protection of the citizens of these communities." communi-ties." Grants are available to communities com-munities in the most rural, economically-challenged areas where loans are not feasible. In Myton and Altamont, for example, ex-ample, no company was willing to provide broadband delivery to serve only 778 people. However, local businesses, schools and residents successfully worked with UBTA-UBET Communica Eleven of the nation's biggest food and drink companies said last week that they will adopt new rules to limit advertising to children under the age of 12, a move that restricts ads for products such as McDonald's Happy Meals and the use of popular cartoon characters. The companies, including Campbell Soup Co., General Mills Inc. and PepsiCo Inc., announced their new rules ahead of a Federal Trade Commission hearing Wednesday that steps up pressure on the companies to help curb the growing child obesity problem through more responsible marketing. While food marketing changes alone will not solve the obesity problem, they will help parents make healthier choices for their children, FTC Chairman Deborah Piatt Majoras said in a statement. She noted that the 11 companies account for about two-thirds of television food ads directed to kids. The self-imposed rules include pledges by seven companies who will no longer use licensed characters, such as those made Hatch touts report on plug-in cars Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, pointed to the results last week of a study released by the Natural Natu-ral Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) which finds that the widespread use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in the United States would likely reduce greenhouse gases and improve air quality. Hatch is the author of the FREEDOM Act, a bill that provides pro-vides strong incentives for the U.S. manufacturer and consumer purchases of plug-in hybrid vehicles. ve-hicles. Provisions of the Hatch Lunch Break Wre There. SuiscTibttodiyill7tWll Lawmakers said that if Reid had used a lighter, instead of matches, he might have been able to ignite the bomb, but Kip Hawley, assistant secretary for the Transportation Security Administration, Ad-ministration, said Thursday that the ban had done little to improve aviation security because small batteries could be used to set off a bomb. tions to file a USDA Community Connect Grant and funding was approved. UBTA-UBET has established estab-lished two community centers, equipped with 10 computer workstations each with broadband broad-band Internet capabilities in Myton and Altamont. Both centers cen-ters are open to the public and computers are available free of charge. "Providing community residents resi-dents with access to the Internet and training on how to use it helps rural citizens understand the benefits of broadband service and is one more economic development devel-opment tool available through USDA Rural Development," said Agriculture Undersecretary for Rural Development Thomas C. Dorr. Applications for grants are due Aug. 20, by the close of business. busi-ness. There is a minimum grant level of $50,000 and a maximum grant level of $1 million for projects. proj-ects. The application guide for this grant program can be found at http:www.usda.govrustele-com. popular through movies or TV shows, to advertise online or in print media unless they're promoting their healthier products. Four other companies said they do not advertise at all to children under 12. Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy Director at the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, said the companies are taking a big step forward by pledging to stop marketing their worst junk food to kids on television, radio, print and on the Internet. Since the FTC first publicly raised the issue in 2005, many of the companies have started selling products with better nutrition in mind. The companies hope their self-regulation efforts - organized through the Council of Better Business Bureaus -will fend off any new and more restrictive federal regulation. Parents are happy to see new rules that restrict the use of cartoon characters such Shrek, Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob SquarePants. Some companies will use child-friendly child-friendly cartoons to promote healthier foods. McDonald's bill were included in the Energy Advancement and Investment Act of 2007, the tax package which the Senate Finance Committee Com-mittee approved in June. "This report by EPRI and the NRDC is the first serious assessment of the impact plug-in hybrids would have on our environment envi-ronment and energy security," the senator said. "The results increase my confidence that we should promote a shift away from liquid fuels and toward the greater use of electricity in our transportation sector. Electro is have been proven to be much Stay . it Happy Blnhdayl with love from die whole family. i 2 BBDDDODDDOa Come show off your little ones 1 at The Uintah County Fair Baby Show Saturday August 18, 2007 at Western Park 302 E 200 S Vernal Aoe Croups as fellam: 0-4 months 9:00 a.m 5-12 months 10:00 a.m 1 year aids 11:30 a.m 2 year elds 1:00 p.m 3 year olds 2:00 p.m J year All babies must wear a swimsuit. Pne-registration required, deadline for entries August 15th. One entry form per child. Bo NOT add extra children to one form! Entry fee $4.00 per child, money must be enclosed with entry form. For information call Jesica 247-2811 or Joey 247-2241 Please make checks payable to UINTAH COUNTY FAIR Send your entry fee and form(s) to: Jesica Peterson PO Box 234 Lapoint. Utah 84039 Nne '. Gender Parents r? Happy 16 , Birthday II luuKuia USA said it will advertise only two types of Happy Meals to children younger than .12: one with four Chicken McNuggets, apple dippers with caramel dip and low-fat white milk, or one with a hamburger, apple dippers and milk. They both meet the company-set requirement of less than 600 calories, and no more than 35 percent of calories from fat, 10 percent of calories from saturated fat or 35 percent total sugar by weight. General Mills, which since products and limited its use of licensed characters, will now only advertise products with no more than 12 grams of sugar when marketingto the under-12 age group. PepsiCo - owner of Frito-Lay and Quaker Foods and seller of Pepsi, Tropicana, Aquafina and Gatorade drinks - said it would only market two products to children: Baked Cheetos Cheese Flavored Snacks and Gatorade. PepsiCo could decide in the future to advertise other products from its Smart Spot line. benefits of cheaper, much cleaner, and more abundant than liquid fuels. And we can produce electricity here at home." According to EPRI and the NRDC, the purpose of the report is to understand the nationwide environmental impact of potentially po-tentially large fleets of plug-in hybrids, which will use electricity from the grid as the primary fuel source. Specifically, the study examined how greater use of plug-in hybrids would improve air quality in the 20 10-2050 time frame. Off the sidewalks. you know what I . . mean, Chalnle turning "Sweet 16" 1 Ul Y Lauren K. Murrav iUippy Sweet 16 To our beautiful Rayb youwamiiyjpyesiyou! olds 3:00 p.m tea Age Group VS. 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