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Show 1 m m m n WW i Thursday, January , 2007 SPRINGVILLE HERALD BYU geography professor speaks to DUP Company Francien Jones The SpringvilleMaple-ton SpringvilleMaple-ton Company of Daughters Daugh-ters of Utah Pioneers held their monthly meeting on Thursday, Jan. 4. Company Compa-ny business was conducted and guest speaker, Chad Emmet, addressed the group. Emmet, like DUP members, claims kinship with early Utah pioneer.s and mentioned one that was a nine-year-old girl in the Willie Handcart Company. Com-pany. His mother is, and both grandmothers were, members of DUP. Emmet, a professor of geography at Brigham Young University and Springville resident, spoke on Pioneering in Indonesia. He served an LDS mission mis-sion in Indonesia several years ago and has visited the country various times since. He also serves with the Indonesian language translation team for LDS General Conferences. He is in the process of writing a history of the LDS Church in the Indonesian islands. Most of the population of Indonesia is on the island is-land of Java. The area is hot and humid year round. Nutmeg cinnamon, tea and coffee were sought after commodities by the early traders who brought religion reli-gion to these islands. Hinduism Hin-duism and Buddhism were the earlier religions there. Muslims brought Islam, Indonesian's predominant religion, in the 12th century. f J Chad Emmet Though it is the largest larg-est Islamic country in the world, it is one of the more religiously tolerant because of the influence of earlier religions. Christian Chris-tian religions were later brought by the Portuguese and Dutch traders. In 1970 the first Latter-day Latter-day Saint missionaries were sent to Indonesia. Visas Vi-sas were hard to come by and with some unrest in the country, foreign missionaries mis-sionaries were pulled out in 1981. The small group of Indonesian Indo-nesian missionaries continued con-tinued to struggle slowly forward over the next 20 years. Experienced leadership lead-ership was lacking and growth was slow. However, How-ever, in 2001, through a se ries of miraculous events, foreign missionaries were once again allowed into the country and the LDS church has become more established over the last five years. LDS aid sent after the devastating tsunami and earthquakes have also had a great influence for good there and more visas are being issued. There are now approximately six thousand members of the LDS Church in 18 branches. branch-es. Emmet said he hopes to see things continue to grow from there. Next month's DUP company com-pany meeting will be held on February 1 at 2 p.m. and will feature guest speaker Susan McCloud, speaking on the Icelandic settlers. LDS Film Festival SCERA A free premiere of a new film by the director of "Saints and Soldiers" will launch the sixth annual an-nual LDS Film Festival at the SCERA Center for the Arts in Orem January 17. Ryan Little's "The Outlaw Out-law Trail" will be shown in the newly remodeled 730-seat 730-seat XanGo Grand Theatre. The-atre. Festivities will include a meet and mingle at 6 p.m., opening night gala at 7 and the feature film at 8. Tickets Tick-ets are free, but required, and may be picked up at the SCERA Center main office. Actress Heather Beers ("Charly") will emcee the evening, which will also include musical guests and film clips. The dress is informal. in-formal. The opening night festivities festiv-ities will begin a four-day festival (Jan. 17-20) that will offer a varied mixture of premieres, short and f eaturejength films, workshops work-shops and presentations, displays, networking and the popular 24-hour filmmaking film-making competition. Detailed information and a schedule of events can be found at www.ldsfilmf esti-val.org. esti-val.org. All events are open to the public with admission prices at $4 or $6 depending depend-ing on the event. A festival pass is available for $45 and day passes for $28. Tickets may be purchased at the SCERA Center, by calling (801) 225-ARTS or onlineatwww.scera.org. The festival, which is the . creation of BYU film graduate grad-uate Christian Vuissa, is in its sixth year. Vuissa established estab-lished the festival as a way for filmmakers to meet and share ideas as well as provide an opportunity for their films to be shown to the public. He got the idea as a student when, he says, "I was amazed, with the talent tal-ent that I saw. I had come from Austria and wasn't familiar with the quantity and quality of artists in this area. I launched the festival in November 2001 and it has grown by leaps and bounds each year." Because of the festival title, Vuissa is often asked if all the films f ollow LDS themes. His quick answer is, "No. While some films may have an LDS message, they really encompass the entire range of film from quirky comedies to drama. It is up to the director to decide how his personal values will be translated to film." Some of the feature films that will be screened include "The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang," "Mr. Dungbeetle," "Familiar Spirits," "Returning With Honor," "American Grace," "The Dance " "Intellectual Property," "The Haunting of Marsten Manor," "The Return," "Liken The Scriptures," Scrip-tures," "Yard Sale," "The War Within The War," "Fire On Ice" and "Sisterz in Zion." One of the more popular events in the festival is the three-minute film competition. competi-tion. Teams of up to five people sign up to write, shoot and edit a film. They have 24 hours to complete a film that will be screened with all the other entries Jan. 18. Participants Par-ticipants may register between be-tween 10 a.m. and 12 Noon on Friday, Jan. 12, where they will be given a theme, a dialogue line and an object ob-ject that must be included in their film project. In 2005, fifty-four teams competed for prize money and top honors. The first place team will receive $500 with cash prizes also given to second and third place. 5 tri-ti r ir pr' "2v t t .Hit,-:, ' . Si - 1 I 1 Congratulations to the following students of Art City Elementary. They have been chosen as the I Care winners for the week of January 2-5, 2007. They have shown that they can really care about themselves, the school and the community. They are: Haley Watts, Chloe Wimmer, Justin Bowser, Nicholas Crookston, Hazel Mowrey, Serina Johnson, Allie Lewis, Emily Mason, Cole Simpson, Cheyanne Brown, Brady Gunn, Aimee Stinson, Brent Price, Kelsie Taylor, Anna Bunnell, Cole Tolley, Jennifer Robinson, Haylee Lott Damon Harris, Zachary Ewing, Brittany Spencer, Jordon Dansie, Lela Follette, Gabrielle Martinsen, Scott Smith and Sadie Larsen. 1 I" I ' 't f if V , j if ''C8 It's a bright new year for students at Hobble Creek Elementary School. These students are some of the brightest and the best that were named as Students of the Week on this first week of the new year. Pictured standing on the top row are Tanner Littleton, Malia Brady, Kaylee Merrill, Madison Reese, Alexa Hamilton and Stephanie Betts. Sitting on the middle row are Piney Peay, Alexis Monson, Megan Morrill, Nicklaus Strunk, Corbin White and Kayla Kunz. Kneeling on the bottom row are Amanda Easter, Samantha Spradlin, Hanslee Peay and Kylie Diamond. Crib Corner Mt. View Hospital Girl, born to Jamie and Derdk Wolfgramm of Springville Nov. 5, 2006. Boy, born to Acey Walters Wal-ters and Scott DeMita, of Springville Nov. 7, 2006. Boy, born to Kathleen and William Somers of Springville Spring-ville Nov. 17, 2006. Girl, born to Shauna Raught and Aundre Scott of Springville Dec. 10, 2006. Boy, born to Alica and Michael McDonald of Springville Dec. 11, 2006. Boy, born to Jill Barker Bark-er and Joseph Penwell of Springville Dec. 11, 2006. 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