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Show AN EDITION OF THE ' (77 YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY. JANUARY 26, 2006 50 CENTS VOL. 118 NO. 4 Mi seem acmres fifty two mew pieces The permanent collection at the Springville Museum of Art grew by 52 pieces during 2005. The new acquisitions included in-cluded pieces added to the Utah, Russian and American art collections according to Dr. Vern Swanson, museum director. direc-tor. The 2005 acquisitions are now on display at the museum for the public to see. The museum is open from 10 to 5 daily, , open from 10 to 9 Wednesday, open from 3 to 5 on Sunday, and closed Mondays. "The 52 works amount to an appraised value of $997,200," said Swanson. "The strength of this year's acquisitions were in sculpture with seven pieces." These include one of the masterpieces in the collection, an original bronze by J. Gutson Borgium, "Mares of Diomedies" (1904), donated by Diane and Samuel Stewart of Salt Lake City. According to Swanson, few people recognize Borglum's name, but all know his famous sculpture of the four presidential presi-dential faces at Mount Rushmore. This donated Borglum depicts eight rampaging horses with a nude rider struggling to hold tight to the lead horse's mane. Swanson believes it to be, "Among the ten best works of art in the museum's collection." The Stewart family are major collector's of fine art and major benefactors of the museum. They also gave a heretofore hereto-fore unknown and lost Cyrus E. Dallin sculpture, "Sleeping Woman with Poppies" ( 1903, bronze). The original plaster of this piece was found in a garage in a suburb of Boston. The museum and the Cyrus Dallin Museum Muse-um of Arlington, Massachussetts, bought it in half shares. The sculpture was shipped to Springville where it underwent restoration, mold-making and eventual casting at Kolob Bronze Foundery. The piece will be placed in the new sculpture garden planned on the south side of the museum. Other sculptural additions in 2005 include another Dallin bronze, a surmulage (bronze off a bronze) of "Allegory of Masschusetts," and a very important plaster by the rare artist, Gavin Jack, "Portrait Bust of Eliza R. Snow" (1918). Two lovely plasters done by sculptor Avard rairbanks or Jesus and Mary and "Christ with the Doctors" (1934) were reverse re-verse carved in the negative, the with lights shining from below to make it appear to be a positive image. Finally, Tony Pickerning's abstract sculpture (2004) classicaly reveals the beauties of stone and wood. The museum also acquired seven pieces by pioneer artist Dan Wegge-land, Wegge-land, eight modernist paintings by Carlos Car-los Andreson, and six paintings by RussianSoviet realist artists. Swanson said the museum now has a newly refurbished and expanded ex-panded vault for storing its permanent perma-nent collection. David Ericson, an art dealer from Salt Lake City, said, after seeing see-ing the recent acquisitions exhibit, "This is a deep and diverse selection of art. I think it was one of the mu- See MUSEUM OF ART ACQUISITIONS on page 3 ( -i Axy ! The "Mares of Diomedies," an important bronze sculpture by J. Gutson Borglum, was donated to the Springville Museum of Art by Diane and Sam Stewart in 2005. Borglum's most famous sculpture are the four presidential faces at Mount Rushmore. SHS Booster Club busy with projects Of the fifty-two new acquisitions at the Springville Museum of Art, this colorful piece by Utah artist Alvin L Gittins. "Vegetablescape," attention. All of the art pieces that came to the museum in 2005 are now on dislay. attracts Mapleton residents celebrate opening of community center Christi C. Babbitt STAFF WRITER A large crowd of Mapleton residents and civic leaders gathered Monday afternoon to celebrate the completion of what will become a gathering gath-ering place for the entire community. "Today, this building is a reality," Mayor Dean Allan said during the official opening open-ing of the new Mapleton Community Center. "This beautiful edifice will serve the city of Mapleton for many years to come." Located at 125 W. Community Commu-nity Center Way (400 North), the two-level building is set on four acres of ground and has 28,084 square feet of space. It will house civic facilities fa-cilities and services such as chambers for the Mapleton City Council and the city's community development, finance fi-nance and recreation depart- On Monday, Allan spoke before a crowd of people packed inside the community room and thanked the city leaders who envisioned a new community center and the people who helped bring the dream to life. "I think this community See NEW COMMUNITY CENTER on page 3 The Springville High School Booster Club has participated par-ticipated in a variety of projects pro-jects the past few months. The Booster Club officers appreciate ap-preciate all of those who support sup-port the Boosters in both money and time with all that they are doing. Cheri Erekson and Wilford and Natalie Clyde, with the help of Craig Conover and Marci C. Harris, have produced pro-duced the new Winter Sports Program, highlighting the boys and girls basketball team, the wrestling team and the swim team. Senior spotlights spot-lights are included, so fans of SHS sports can get to know the athletes a little better! These programs are free and available at the door of most athetic events, or can be obtained at various busi-neses busi-neses in town, or by contacting contact-ing Cheri Erekson or Natalie Clyde. There are also a few new signs in the main SHS gym. A big thanks to all of the sponsors of SHS athletics, the coaches and Cathi Jarvis, the tireless athletic director. . All Springville citizens are encouragedto'come and support sup-port the teams. The wrestling team, coached by Justin Judkins, has their final home match this Thursday, today, in the SHS main gym. Come out and support the wrestlers. There are also two home basketball games, both boys and girls on Tuesday and Friday Fri-day evening. A big thanks to Sunroc hardware store, the new source for Red Devil gear such as sweatshirts, T-shirts, license plate covers, trailer hitch covers, etc. Be sure to drop in at Sunroc and purchase pur-chase some Red Devil clothes and other stuff . ments. A library, justice f This building belongs to court and senior citizens cen- the citizens of Mapleton. We ter are also inside the facility. On one side of the main level is a large community room where events such as classes and weddings can be held. The city police department depart-ment will also be located in the building. Total cost of the building was $2.3 million or $84 per square foot. want you to use it and enioy it," Allan said. Utah Lt. Gov. Gary R. Herbert Her-bert was at Monday's ceremony cere-mony to show his support for the city's efforts. Herbert also attended the community center's groundbreaking ceremony cer-emony approximately nine months ago. ; f ' j I ' i The Mapleton Community Center officially opened Monday afternoon. The new building will be used for various events as well as the city center. to. in W'.J$ JEREMY HARMONStaff Photographer Mary Kay Huntsman reads "Of Mke and Magic" to a groq) of school children chil-dren at Sage Creek Elementary in Springville Wednesday, Jan. 18. The Governor's wife was at the school to promote reading to children. 6 61055 00050' SALES & SERVICE Pf50(lo ? ltosx&P fans XXXI WWW.HARKTHEHERALD.COM CAU 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE |