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Show 12 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, December 30, 2004 Community & family night at museum Continued from Page 1 ty will perf orm vocal and instrumental in-strumental numbers. Following Follow-ing the entertainment, ' a sculpture-making activity based on composition and experimentation ex-perimentation with realism and abstraction will be held for the children in the Youth Gallery. Draper's symbolic compositions compo-sitions in bronze and stone have been featured at many of the exhibitions at the museum. mu-seum. His work is very en gaging, drawing the viewer into the sculpture through the creative juxtaposition of figural realism m bronze, connected to abstracted blocks of stone. Draper was born and raised in Cardston, Alberta, Canada. In 1990 he graduated graduat-ed with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Brigham Young University-Hawaii. Following graduation, he returned re-turned to Canada where he met and married Cathenia Yawney in May of 1991. A Time Is unning Out! 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Olaroya, also a Springville resident, began his love affair af-fair with music at age five playing the piano. He playea' My Country Tis of Thee" with one finger for a kindergarten talent show and from there began to sit on the organ bench with his grandmother, Elsa Oldroyd, as she played the church organ. or-gan. At her side he learned to play by rote but also had a gift to be able to play by ear. He began playing the organ or-gan for church meetings at age nine and continues to do so. Organ is his true passion, but he is also amazing on the piano, as the audience will discover. He has a dream to one day be an LDS Tabernacle Taberna-cle organist. Oldroyd has an interesting story about his dream. During Dur-ing nis senior year he was the accompanist for the chamber and concert choirs at Springville High School. For the Christmas concert they were scheduled to play at the Assembly Hall in Salt Lake City, where he knew they had a great organ. After Af-ter much ado he was able to audition and granted permission permis-sion to play this organ any time he desired. He showed up to practice one day not knowing that this would be impossible be- i J. 4 - i. V 7 These children and their mom enjoyed learning about lines during the children's art activity at the December De-cember Community and Family Night at the Springville Museum of Art. Everyone is invited to come to the January event on Monday, Jan. 3, at the museum. cause he was not "approved." "ap-proved." After being turned away, he went to the Tabernacle Taber-nacle to listen to an organ recital. Dr. James Drake and his students from Utah State University just happened to be there. Drake looked at Alex with his pile of music and organ shoes, and assumed him to be an organist. He asked if Alex had ever played the Tabernacle Taberna-cle organ to which Oldroyd replied no. Before he could say another word Drake ushered ush-ered Oldroyd to the bench, and in utter disbelief, Alex sat down and began to play. He played from loud to extremely ex-tremely loud and ended up pulling all the stops. With a smile on his face he immediately immedi-ately knew what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. Oldroyd is the organist for his church, enjoys being an accompanist on piano and organ or-gan and also gives organ lessons. He plans to continue his organ studies after completing com-pleting a mission for his church. The highlight of the evening for the children will be the art project. The artistic artis-tic principle of composition will be the focus, and the kids will be led through a brief instruction period, and then experiment with realism real-ism and abstraction in sculp tural forms. Bring your family and enjoy en-joy MOnday evening at the Springville Art Museum at Community and Family Night. Learn how a sculptor gets his inspiration and composes com-poses Ms work, both in his head and with clay, bronze and stone. Enjoy a beautiful and engaging en-gaging musical performance, perfor-mance, and encourage children's chil-dren's creativity by participation partici-pation in the children's art project. The event is free. For more information call the museum at (801) 489-2727, or check their website at www.sma.nebo.edu. Mapleton looking for ways to lawn maintenance costs Todd Hollingshead STAFF WRITER One city employee could be trimmed next year as council members in Maple-ton Maple-ton look for a way to cut costs related to lawn maintenance mainte-nance in city parks. Both administrators and City Council members admit the current system, which divides park lawn-mowing assignments between a private pri-vate contractor and city employees, em-ployees, isn't working out in the best financial interest of the city. City Administrator Bob Bradshaw sent out a memorandum memo-randum to City Council members in Wednesday's meeting outlining two potential po-tential solutions to the problem: prob-lem: contracting all the yard care out or staying in-house and increasing parks and recreation employees' loads. Councilman Benjamin Card said the city could save between $100,000 and $200,000 over the next few years if it negotiated a deal with its private lawn care contractor to take full responsibility re-sponsibility for the grass in Mapleton parks. "In years past, prior to getting a contractor involved, in-volved, the experience with city workers has been less than satisfactory," Card said. "The city employees just don't have the time to make sure they're on it." Card proposed working out a two- to four-year deal with the contractor where the city would give all of its equipment to the company, pay $17,000 for the services, then receive $10,000 back for the equipment. He said the city could then lay off or reallocate the second sec-ond parks and recreation worker to cut costs. He said he figures the city could save $47,000 a year in employee wages if it lets one of them go. Though other council members agree the parks need improved maintenance, mainte-nance, some of them don't agree with Card's proposal. Gibson said he was concerned con-cerned with the $50,000 worth of maintenance equipment equip-ment that wasn't being fully utilized. He said the city should sell it if they go to a contractor, but also said having in-house employees makes them more accountable for the jobs. "In my experience, if they're mine, and they're not getting the job done, they're fired," Gibson said. "It seems to me we should be able to hold our own employees em-ployees to a higher standard." stan-dard." The decision won't get any easier for the City Council Coun-cil nextyear when two new Barks, Eagle Rock Park and arvest Park, are finished. That will bring the total number of city parks to six and increase the amount of acres to be mowed by at least 20. Councilmembers said it would take the two city workers seven-and-a-half extra hours to mow park grass at Ira Allen Park and Mapleton City Park, the two parks currently contracted out to a private lawn care agency. Bradshaw said it wasn't necessary for the City Council Coun-cil to have a decision before the new year, and council members advised Card to prepare the formal proposal for the Jan. 5 council meeting. meet-ing. Mayor Dean Allan said the council will have to mull over the options, but he favored fa-vored the idea of selling at least part of the equipment. "There certainly are some advantages to look at there," he said. r Mum fc too "inn fOf 610 II. Main L ; nf . f i Snrirtaville, UT 84663 i (ST 1 1 i 1 1 f r I ff 1 1 ' . i -i -j tyJ, i fit j,Jf ft . 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