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Show AN EDITION OF THE 2)mhtsiHCt0lf) UTH PR:rR-RT LOT, YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2005 50 CENTS VOL. 117 NO. 26 They Might Be Giants in concert July 8 in Springville '!'' Brooklyn's They Might Be Giants will perform in Springville on Friday, July 8, at 8:30 p.m. at the Spring Acres Arts Park. Neways International is bringing this popular group from New York to Springville as part of their Neways Summer Concert Series. Peter Brienholt performed per-formed as part of the summer sum-mer concerts during Art City Days, and Blues Traveler will be in concert on Friday, August 19. Tickets are available for both concerts for $20 and can be purchased at the Springville City offices, at The Daily Herald, 1555 N. 1 nirvA - fill Y ' ' .4rw,i tec v : rm 1 Mi Tahiti Here, a dance group from Tahiti that performs the traditional dances of its island, is planning to attend the 2005 Springville World Folkfest July 9-16. This will be the first time the Foikfest has had a group attend from Tahiti. Tahiti Here has won awards in Tahitian dance competitions and participated in Oahu's first Tahitian festival, Heiva I Oahu, in 2001. It also took part in the 20th anniversary festival of Folkmoot USA, a folk festival held in North Carolina, in 2003. With approximately 25 member musicians musi-cians and dancers, Tahiti Here performs each weekend in various hotels such as the Sofitel Maeva Beach hotel, the Beachcomber Intercontinental Tahiti Resort and Sheraton Tahiti. Immigrants from Iceland honored Sat. Chris Peterson STAFF WRITER The 16 original Icelandic immigrants to North America Ameri-ca might be surprised and honored to witness their legacy today. On Saturday, a memorial wall that bears the 410 names of those LDS immigrants that settled in Spanish Fork up to 1914 was dedicated. The dedication was made by Gordon B. Hinckley, president pres-ident of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Also in attendance was the President of the Republic of Iceland Olafur Ragnar Grimsson. Spanish Fork is the location of the first permanent Icelandic Ice-landic settlement in North America. Grimsson arrived in Utah on Thursday and has participated partici-pated in several activities, including in-cluding a Western Night, several sev-eral presentations and celebrations, cele-brations, an Icelandic Days Family Festival and Satur- Free movies Friday and Saturday at Arts Park Citizens are invited to the FREE movies this weekend, Friday and Saturday, July 1 and 2, at the Arts Park in Springville. The movies are presented on a giant, movie theater-sized theater-sized screen, complete with a large concert-quality sound system. They are free and are a great opportunity for families to come and enjoy a night under the stars watching a movie, eating and having a great time. The movies this weekend are "Shrek 2" on Friday, and "Back to the Future" on Saturday. The movies start at 9 p.m., but come early and enjoy a concert at 8 p.m. each night. On Friday, Cheri Call will be in concert, and on Saturday Satur-day Bleakhouse will perform before the movie. Bring your family, your lawn chairs, food and blankets blan-kets and enjoy a night of FREE entertainment. The Arts Park is located north of Springville High School at 620 S. 1350 East. The summer movies are sponsored spon-sored by Springville City and the Springvilh Arts Commission. Com-mission. Call 489-2726 for more information. The next movies will be on August 5 and 6. Freedom Blvd., Provo, or at www.neways.comconcert series The Spring Acres Arts Park is locted at 620 S. 1350 East (just northeast of Springville High School). For-more For-more information, call 489-2726. 489-2726. They Might Be Giants have cut a crazy and unmatched swath through popular culture cul-ture during their 20-year career, ca-reer, continuously producing vital and scarily intelligent pop music that's also catch and enjoyable art. They have been recognized recog-nized as art rock pioneers, college rock kings, MTV ground breakers, prolific v Hp3 "''if , . f ' , fife I I " 1 ' v 1 ' ' " - ! If . i , . It rained, the wind blew.and the sun came out and the dedication for the Icelandic Memorial Saturday in Spanish Fork went on. Shown here brf ore the event started are, from left Kristy Robertson, president of the Icelandic Association of Utah; David Ashby, Icelandic Memorial Project co-chairman; President of Iceland Olafur Ola-fur Ragnar Grimsson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Gordon B. Hinckley, and Gary R. Herbert Lt. Governor of Utah. President Hinckley gave the dedicatory prayer. Photo by Craig Conover day's memorial dedication. He also took part in a news conference in Provo on Friday Fri-day and a breakfast and musical icons, and, in recent years, a true legend. Besides creating music that has been an inspiration to two generations of discerning dis-cerning music listeners, TMBG have also collaborated collaborat-ed with NPR's "This American Ameri-can Life" and Dave Eggers' McSweeney's literary journal. jour-nal. They have created the music for numerous television televi-sion programs including "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart and "Malcolm in the Middle." Their song, "Doctor Evil," is featured in "Austin Powers: Pow-ers: The Spy Who Shagged Me." TMBG have sold more than three million records f ft ,4 5 ,a r; T f Si mini-lecture at Utah Valley State with university board of trustee members and others. oth-ers. Shortly before Saturday's dedication program, the wind blew hard and dark clouds opened up and poured rain heavy at times on the thousands gathered. But just as the ceremony began, the sun came out. "For us in Iceland, it is no surprise (the sun coming out)," President Grimsson said. "The Almighty every day is putting on a display of the elements for us, and sometimes to our regret." President Hinckley spoke of the sacrifices that the Icelandic Ice-landic immigrants made, and emphasized that they should be remembered. "It took them 10 long months to get here from Iceland," Ice-land," he said. "In this day of air-conditioned travel, we cannot imagine what they endured. en-dured. For those of you here today with the blood of Vikings in your veins, for your strengthness and goodness, good-ness, your faith and capacity, we honor you." Kristy Robertson, presi WWW.HARKTHEHERALD.COM and have made more than 30 television appearances on various network shows. They won a Grammy in 2002 for "Boss of Me," the theme to Fox TV's "Malcolm in the Middle." Their children's chil-dren's disc "No!" was a smash and exposed TMBG to an entirely new audience. "We are also excited to bring Blues Traveler to the Arts Park," said Rick Evans, senior vice president of communications com-munications and technology at Neways. "This show is perfect for the fun family atmosphere at-mosphere that has become a tradition for this series." This concert concludes the series and promises to be one of the finest shows of the year. Blues Traveler combines com-bines pop hooks with blues and rock influence to create an explosive live performance. perfor-mance. The band has a total of six gold or platinum releases re-leases and sales of over 10 million albums to date, including in-cluding their worldwide breakout "Four," which has become certified six times platinum in the U.S. The Neways Summer Concert Con-cert Series, now in its third year, has played host to such great acts as Howard Jones, Berlin, and The Drifters. Mo district's newhigli schools will soar the skies with mascots Nebo School District's two new high schools will soar the skies with their newly named mascots. Salem Hills High School, scheduled to open in the fall of 2008, will be the Sky- dent of the Icelandic Association Associa-tion of Utah, pointed out the friendships that have been born because of the immigrants' immi-grants' legacy. "There is now a bridge between be-tween two wonderful countries coun-tries and between generations." genera-tions." she said. Music for the dedication was provided by The Icelandic Ice-landic Festival Choir, the Utah Valley Children's Choir and soloist Stephen Breinholt. Other dignitaries in attendance atten-dance included Spanish Fork Mayor Dale Barney, Utah Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert and Utah Congressman Chris Cannon. In addition to the wall, the Icelandic Memorial located locat-ed at 785 E. Canyon Road in Spanish Fork includes a lighthouse monument that was erected in 1938 and an Icelandic rock that was brought from the shore of Vestmannayjar, Iceland. That is where many of the immigrants were baptized as members of the LDS Church. Tonight in Spanish Fork, there will be a Pioneer Devotional Devo-tional at 200 S. 1006 East from 7-9 p.m. CALL 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE r - . : 1 The band "They Might Be Giants" the Spring Acres Arts Park here in award winning group is know for Not Constantinople" and theme to hawks in navy blue, Columbia Colum-bia blue and gold. The Maple Mountain High School, scheduled to open in the fall of 2009, will be the Golden Eagles in maroon, gold and forest green. The mascot selection process started in January of 2005. The Nebo School District Dis-trict Board of Education felt that it was important to select se-lect mascots and colors early so that appropriate color schemes could be incorporated incorporat-ed into the design of the new buildings. Proposals for mascots and colors were invited from students, stu-dents, patrons, and alumni of Nebo School District. A proposal pro-posal form was made available avail-able on the Nebo School District Dis-trict web page and was widely wide-ly distributed through the local lo-cal papers and through the schools. February 21, 2005, was established as a submission submis-sion deadline. The district received 232 proposals for Salem Hills High School and 121 for Maple Mountain High School. A very broad variety of mascots and colors were included. Next, a list of all of those proposals was submitted to the Student Council, PTA and School Community Council in each of the' secondary sec-ondary schools where current cur-rent students might possibly attend one of the new high schools. Each of those More host families needed for Folkfest You are needed to open your homes and hearts and be a host family for the Springville World Folkfest July 9-16. Local residents are encouraged to set time aside now to be part of the 20th annual Springville World Folkfest. The Folkfest offers local families a unique opportunity to participate in a cultural exchange by hosting Folkfest dancers and musicians in their homes. All Folkfest performers per-formers stay with local host families during the Folkfest, which is the largest festival of folk dance and music in the United States. Folkfest organizers are asking for help from both families fami-lies who have hosted for many years and families who have never hosted before. The countries committed to come at this time to the 2005 Folkfest include Belgium, India, In-dia, Mongolia, Romania, Sri Lanka and Tahiti. "It's amazing how deep a friendship can grow between a host family and dancers they have never met before in just a few weeks," said See FOLKFEST HOUSING on Page 9 X.. will be performing Friday, July 8 at Springville at 8:30 p.m. The Grammy hits such as "Doctor Evil", "Istanbul Fox TV's "Malcom in the Middle." groups was asked to select their top three favorites from the lists and return that input to the district by April 1, 2005. The Board then formed a mascot committee consisting of three board members, the Superintendent and the Director Di-rector of Secondary Education Educa-tion to review all of the input and to prepare a final recommendation recom-mendation to be presented to the entire School Board at the June 22, 2005, meeting. Several variations on "Hawks" were among the most popular proposals submitted. sub-mitted. The board selected Skyhawks in order to be unique within Utah. It is a mascot that is used by a number num-ber of high schools across the country and by at least one college. "Eagles" was another popular pop-ular choice among the submissions sub-missions received. The Golden Gold-en Eagle is very representative representa-tive of the Maple Mountain area. Many high schools and colleges across the country use the Golden Eagle as a mascot but no other Utah high school uses it. The Nebo School Board of Education believes that these mascot and color selections will be popular among students stu-dents and patrons. The selections selec-tions will represent the respective re-spective schools in a very positive pos-itive manner and will allow the schools to create an identity identi-ty that students will enjoy. 6 Hl,61055 000501 s. |