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Show Page Four - The Springville Herald - May 7, 2003 v Grammy ratoner oiinoinig to play udMi EiigjEi school Edds by Jill MacAlIister Utah County venues are normally not a top stop during professional jazz tours. "Let's face it, jazz greats do not normally stop by Utah on their way to New York or on their way home from LA, and they never come to Utah Valley," said Caleb Chapman, executive director of the Crescent School of Music. But this notorious pattern is changing Saturday; a jazz Grammy winner is finally coming to Utah County. Legendary jazz trumpeter. Randy Brecker, and world famous Latin percussionist, Jesus Diaz, will be the guest artists at the 2003 Crescent Jazz Festival at Lone Peak High School in Highland. Both musicians will offer free music clinics during the day and then perform with local high school musicians in the festival concert. During the concert, high school musicians will be performing in the Crescent Super Band, an all-star band V 2003 Art Queen Amberly Bown, left, and royalty, Anna Day and Jessica Huffaker, right, unveiled this purchase painting from the Spring Salon. "The Dance," by artist Edith Roberson, is a popular fantasy piecf and will become part of the permanent collection at the museum. The painting was presented at the Art Association Annual . Meeting last week. --r,,,-. ,,;--.-. ,,,,...,..... United Way honors Dr. Joseph Miner Improving lives in the community is not just a profession, but a passion for Mapleton resident Dr. Joseph Miner. United Way of Utah County awarded him this year's outstanding service award for promoting health and independence. In addition to working as the director of the Utah County Health Department for the last 20 years, he serves on the Board of Trustees Trust-ees for Mountainlands Community Com-munity Health Center, a United Way Partner, whose purpose is to provide primary medical and dental care for low-income and medically under-served populations. - Miner helped Mountain-lands Mountain-lands get started eleven years ago, serving as the only doctor there for the first nine months. Mountainlands saw over 23,100 uninsured Utah County patients last year alone, an increase of IS percent from two years ago. Dr, Miner says his desire to be involved with improving improv-ing lives of all of us and especially those with unusually unusual-ly serious or great needs," says Miner, who has lived in the Springville area for the last 24 years. In addition to his board membership at Mountain-lands Mountain-lands he serves on several other boards including Head Start, Division of Work Force Services, Healthy Utah Valley, IHC Community Outreach and on the Brigham Young University Bio-safety Committee. He also provides ' ! Lb of young Utah musicians. The musicians come from high schools all over the state. "They really are the top players in their schools," said Chapman. "Most of them are the section leaders of their school bands, but the best part is their passion. They've got passion, and they've got guts. These guys are up for Saturday's challenge." The Super Band has a lot to live up to when they play with Brecker on Saturday night. Brecker has won three Grammy awards and has been . nominated over seven times. He is a modern Jazz legend and the kids in The Super Band know it. Stephen Tobian is a 17-year-old alto sax player in the Crescent Super Band. "It's a once in a life time opportunity," said Tobian. "He's a really big name in the jazz world and we're just kids from Utah. Some of us will never get another chance like this." 0 clinical services for mental health patients at the Slate Canyon Youth Center and for low-income families at the Health Clinics of Utah. President of United Way of Utah County, Bill Hulters-trom Hulters-trom says Dr. Miner is one of the most community minded mind-ed individuals and a great example of citizen involvement. involve-ment. Miner recognizes United Way as a vehicle for bringing bring-ing change in the community. "United Way's agency partners are extremely important im-portant to the health, safety and well-being of our communities. com-munities. They are very important partners for public health," says Miner who along with his wife, Gwen Albano Miner, has raised four children. "Utah County is a great place to live, where people like to help their neighbors and watch out for them. As we continue to experience all the tremendous growth in population it will be our challenge to keep that wonderful won-derful quality in our people," says Miner. Because of Medicare, less than one percent of Americans Ameri-cans 65 and over are without health insurance, compared with 15 percent of the general gener-al population. It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than even by good laws. Aristotle If 1 . i : ' I'm llii (Jin l f5fl . u'lhlV: tJ J Brecker's trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of artists and bands including James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, P-Funk, Frank Zappa and Blood, Sweat and Tears. His more recent study of Brazilian Brazil-ian and Latin music makes him an even better performer to share festival time with percussionist Jesus Diaz. Diaz is a Cuban immigrant immi-grant who has become an American jewel. When Diaz immigrated to America in the early 80's he brought his innate, knowledge of his homeland rhythms. He also brought a passion to share this music with the world. Like Brecker, Diaz has performed per-formed on hundreds' of CD recordings for artists in many genres. He has toured with Dizzy Gillespie, Carlos Santana, Ruben Blades, Bobby Womack and many more famous artists. The two artists will combine com-bine with The Super Band and the Crescent salsa band, Salsiology, on Saturday, May 10, at 7 p.m. "It really is an amazing service they are offering," Chapman said. "Very rarely do artists of this caliber agree to play with high school students, but because of the caliber of the program here and the dedication of the students, they have agreed to make the trip." Chapman said it is a great opportunity for the audience, too. Randy Brecker is already al-ready scheduled to make another Utah appearance. He will be back exactly one year from now to play at the Jazz at the Sheraton series in Salt Lake City. "That concert is bound to sell out," said Tim Fellow, music major at BYU. "Some people already have their $25 tickets. I guess people can wait and pay $25 next year or they can go this year for $10, $8 for students and seniors. Either way, I wouldn't would-n't miss Randy Brecker or Jesus Diaz." APT CTY D3YS Baby Contest 2003 Saturday, June 7h Art Cfty Elementary School 121 North 900 East Baby's Name: Parents Name: Address: Applicant must be a SftfingvilleMapleon resident Telephone: ' Baby's Birth Date: ex: M F Judging Times Baby's age on June 7th 18-20 10:30,.,, 14-17 months 11:00 a.m. UlH3 months ' 1,30 UfrlO months .........1:00 .m 5-7 months.... 130 p.m. 0-4 months... ............200 p.m. ,4 These young people are performing in the BYU Young Dance-Makers concert May 9 and 10 at Mountain View High School at Share your Spanish Several organizations in Utah County are looking for volunteers with foreign language lan-guage skills, specifically individuals who speak English Eng-lish and Spanish. The number of Spanish-speaking Spanish-speaking immigrants has grown drastically over the last decade. According to the 2000 Census, the Hispanic population in Utah County increased 204 between 1991 and 2000. "With the increase of diversity in our community, assisting community members mem-bers who speak other languages lan-guages . will increase self-sufficiency self-sufficiency and strengthen our community," comments Bill Hulterstrom, President of United Way of Utah County. "Those who volunteer in this capacity will, indeed, make a tremendous impact." Volunteers have the opportunity op-portunity to assist doctors with low-income individuals whose primary language is Spanish, teach English to speakers of other languages, tutor Spanish-speaking youth and children who are struggling strug-gling in school, help translate materials from English to Spanish-expanding services to a wider population of Utah County , residents-and give support to Spanish-speaking victims of rape. Some of the organizations interested in Spanish-speaking volunteers include the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program, Project Read, Read to Succeed in Payson, Mountainlands Moun-tainlands Community Health Center, Women, Infants and Children (WIC), the Center for Women and Children in Crisis and the Family Partnership Part-nership of Utah County. Because of the wide variety of opportunities available for bilingual volunteers, volun-teers, anyone who speaks Spanish can get involved. Students, school teachers, homemakers, youth, parents, retired senior citizens and concerned community members mem-bers can share their skills. Details are available at the United Way of Utah County Volunteer Center. There are three faithful friendsan old wife, an old dog and ready money. Franklin SOUTH COUNTY'S ONLY SECURE ALZHEIMER UNIT Come heme to Hearthstone Home Assisted Living 798-1500 Take a 3-D Tour of our facility at: www.hearthstone.manor.com 1 D.Mv30) c , ... - ' SpKngvdle CHy Baby Contest 50 South Main Sftfingyille, Ut 84663 7:30 p.m. The concert will include ZZ dancers from Springville and Mapleton. ZL Have you seen your neighbor's gardens and wondered won-dered what they are doing to get such beautiful yards and great yields-fruit trees that are loaded and healthy, and highly productive vegetable plots? USU Extension has tips from some Utah gardeners who have found out what has worked for them. Using simple techniques and readily available materials these Master Gardeners will teach you how to enrich soil, increase yields, conserve water and reduce weeding. Come hear what they have learned on Saturday, May 10, from 10 a.m.-12 at the County Building, 100 E. Center, Provo, Room L700. Questions? Call 801-370-8460. jjf- |