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Show iv t : f , --. . , , - J. if , . r . ; ? ' um r.r t, I " ' . f ' I , ' $ V , ,rfU , i i r " I r Km V ' 'S 1 f Volume Ninety-three On September 17, the Springville Museum of Art opened three new exhibits in four main floor galleries. The South Gallery contains works by Utah artists, S. Paul Smith and his wife Ruth W. Smith; while the Step-down and Southeast Gallery displays a show curated from the museum's Lund-Wassmer Collection. Collec-tion. The juried show by the Utah Valley Artist Guild will hang in the lower Clyde Gallery. The works by the Smiths are quite different from each other. Paul is most notable for his transparent watercolor landscapes which vary between being quite "tonal" to being , - if V r -ft -r I - . , v 4' r 41 I 4 a 1 Honored guests at the Founder's Day festivities in- Bulis Karr, Thelma B. Carter, Leonia Cameron, Zora elude these citizens who are all over eighty years old. Mae Johnston, Otto Fry, Reynolds Harmer, Howard They are front row, from left: Clarice Van Patten, Ivy Thorpe, Howard Smith and Harold Whiting. Photo by Karr, Olive Brandon, Birdella R. Bearson, Inez Rell Francis. Chader, Jessie Dalton and May Groesbeck. Back: ( .ft-1 . ) 4 J " i f X Bill Duncan and Leon Lee, representing the Springville Chamber of Commerce, and Miss Springville Jill Strong, left, were on hand Thursday to present the first dollar to members of the management team at the new Hardee's Restaurant In Springville. Mr. Lee welcomed the business to Springville. Standing next to Miss Springville is '4w "colorful". His subjects are mostly taken from the Salt Lake area, with some from his travels throughout the world. Ruth Wolf Smith's art might be termed fantasy. Her best work was done after her illness in 1958 until her death in 1980. The "Woodstock West" Exhibition from the Lund-Wassmer Collection was curated by Museum Director Vern Swanson and Theodore Wassmer. It focuses upon those artists who lived in the New York town of Woodstock where the Wassmer's lived for nearly 50 years. The Lund-Wassmer Collection contains about 275 works given to Charlene Chipman and Shane Fawsom, representing the Utah Special Olympics, and next to them, their director, Dal Zemp. Hardee's donates a huge amount of money and support of the Special Olympics and has done for years. The management team on the right consists of Lynn Coates, Patrick Vehas, Allen Nielsen, Keith Media m, Darrel Wilkins and Sterling Schmidt. It s- ' ' A iff r l SPRINGVILLE, UTAH 84663 the museum in 1986 by Utah artist's Theodore H. Wassmer and his wife Judy Lund. After both artists had enjoyed successful careers in New York City for many years, they returned to their native Utah to live. They selected the Springville Museum of Art as the institution to receive the important collection which they had spent many years acquiring. This collection greatly strengthened and enhanced the museum's holdings of works on paper which had been the museum's weakest area. Several of the Lund-Wassmer Lund-Wassmer works are on continual display in the permanent galleries if ffiWStiSSI 11VI V 1 ' Ml.,,, ' . . ;! - September 21. 1988 containing the museum's collection of Utah art. A large yearly exhibit is curated from this collection and -many other works are used for museum educational programs. The exhibit by the Utah Valley Artist Guild contains juried works by members of this organization. This very active guild meets monthly at the museum and often features guest artist demonstrations on their program. Artists living in Utah County who wish to join the guild are invited to become members mem-bers and may contact the museum for information. Founder's Day A large number of people, including in-cluding children, were in attendance at the Springville Founder's Day Birthday Ball held here last week. Marking the 138th Anniversary of the first settlers to arrive at the present site of our city, the party was sponsored by the Springville Historical Society assisted by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers organization. Those over the age of eighty were honored as special guests and were introduced by J. Brent Haymond, master of ceremonies. He pointed out the many changes they had witnessed during their lifetime. Descendants from Mendenhall, Crandall and Johnson families who came with that first wagon train were also recognized. Those attending enjoyed a program of community singing led by Thorn W. Allan who also favored the audience with a vocal solo, a reading by Mary Ann Lawrence, old time fiddle music by Karl Allred, accompanied by DeLos (Ike) Pierce, and a skit on city spirit with Helen Beardall, Bruce Mendenhall and Reed Clements. The skit was written by Jessie J. Dalton. The evenings activities were concluded with a grade march and square dancing under the direction of Carl and Barbara Johnson, followed by social dancing to the music of the Rita Hadlock orchestra. or-chestra. pera West Opera West will open its 1988-89 season with a Rainbow of International In-ternational Songs by Debbie Mitchell, Mit-chell, soprano, with Debbie Griffiths at the piano in the Provo Tabernacle. Taber-nacle. Curtain time will be 8 p.m. for the one night only performance on September 23rd. Lois Johnson and the Utah Valley Choral Society will also be featured and mezzo-soprano Rebecca Dimick will sing a duet with Ms. Mitchell. Tickets for the concert are available in advance at Wakefield's World of Music, The Missionary Emporium, The Video Stop, or at the door. General admission is $4 and students or senior citizen tickets are $3. Further information is available by calling Artistic Director Gay Parvis at 377-4614. The concert will feature a variety of music from Strauss to Romberg 11 I I 8 .f rrA ) I' SHS Homecoming Royalty 1988 Molly Cox, attendant Andrea Frischknecht, queen Ellen Baird, attendant Photo by Charles Lowery Price 50c Electric rates reduced 3 to businesses in city Electric rates were reduced by three percent to businesses in a special meeting of the Springville City Council held last Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. at City Hall. The reduction becomes effective immediately. Councilman Matt Packard in moving for the rate reduction stated that this type of across the board rate reduction was the most fair of several plans the power board discussed. These plans were not explained at the meeting. Loren Phillips was voted mayor pro-tem for the meeting because of the absence of Councilmen Ben Olsen and Mayor Kenneth Creer. In other business, Brent Haymond Springville elects new New officers for the Springville Playhouse were elected at the playhouse board meeting last week for the two-year term, 1988-1990. Selected as president was Robinne Booth, veteran actress and board member of the group. Named as vice-president was John Gholdston with Kolene Knight as secretary and Steven Bartholomew, treasurer. Margaret Knight was selected as scrapbook-historian. Sandy Barker will handle the costumes. Election of board members for the next two-year term was held with the following members all retained: Verl Dallin, Max Knight, Koleen Knight, Woodrow Weight, Karl Young, Vivian Rowley, Doug Kinyon, Jay Knight and John Gholdston. Elected as one-year directors were Lynnae Allred, Steve Bartholomew, Bar-tholomew, Robinne Booth, Sandy Barker, Kathy Young, all previous members, and Margaret Knight, Jim Barker, Wilford Clyde, and Jennilee Kosmuch. Presently the Playhouse is foil concert and Rossini to Villa Lobos. Ms. Mitchell will perform literature from opera, light opera, and musicals displaying her remarkable versatility. Debbie Mitchell is a resident of Provo who has sung extensively in the Western states to critical ac-. ac-. claim. A sparkling performer with an engaging, sensitive voice, she has sung with Utah Opera, Utah Symphony, Sym-phony, Opera West, Nevada Opera Theatre, BYU Opera, Murray Symphony, Utah Valley Symphony and Salt Lake City Rep. Her Adele in "Die Flendermaus" was described by the Las Vegas Sun as "...absolutely "...ab-solutely phenomenal. . . magnificent voice and persona. ..simply so superb that you actually begin to look forward to another solo entrance en-trance from Mitchell." I 'a. ' - 4 ,.i,' '3' i. Number Thirty Eight was appointed to be Springville City's representative at negotiations between Utah Association of Municipal Power Systems and electric power companies in Colorado who would be involved in the construction of a power line between Craig, Colorado and the Deseret Power facility in Eastern Utah. Final decision was also held off on the purchase of a new computer of the city office. Councilman Clyde asked City Recorder Richard Manning to investigate the cost of a name brand computer as compared to the computer that the city is presently looking at. Playhouse officers rehearsing for the music production, "Once Upon a Mattress" which will be presented November 8-12 at the playhouse theatre. Karl Young is the director. 7 s1 y Robinne Booth Friday Debbie Mitchell f 4 |