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Show Thursday, November 15, 2007 SPRINGVILLE HERALD SGERA offers "Return to Christmas" Visit 2007 Festival of Trees Musical to offer traditional Christmas favorites With a show that promises promis-es to be a little bit of Radio City Music Hall, a smidge of old time television and a dose of the old Andy Williams entertainment specials, 25-year entertainment entertain-ment veterans Steve and Lisa James are bringing "Return to Christmas" to the SCERA Center for the Arts. The one-and-a-half hour show is set entirely to music mu-sic and will be filled with original and traditional music, professional singers sing-ers and dancers as well as comedic sketches. It opens Friday, Nov. 23, and will continue through Dec. 1. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday matinees are 2 p.m. Tickets are $14 for adults and $12 for children, chil-dren, students with ID and seniors 65 and older. All seats are reserved, and tickets are available at www.scera.org, by calling call-ing (801) 224-ARTS or at the SCERA Center, 745 S. Street, Orem. The evening will embrace em-brace many aspects of Christmas, beginning with a contemporary rendition of Steve James' original "Christmas All Around," looking at holidays past with a Dickens' era adaptation adap-tation of the same song and a finale that pays homage hom-age to the first Christmas in Bethlehem. Among the performers perform-ers will be Kim DelGrosso Holiday Dancers, including includ-ing the four DelGrosso sisters. sis-ters. Many of her dancers have performed on television's televi-sion's "Dancing With the Stars." Also featured will be Jason Celiya who was seen on TV's "You're the One That I Want." "I hope the audience will reflect on their own childhood child-hood memories as they take our musical journey through Christmas," adds James, who originated the concert in 2006 and who wrote or arranged most of the music. "I also hope my original compositions will strike a familiar chord and inspire a return to the true meaning mean-ing of Christmas." Production numbers will range from a rock and roll jingle called "One Horse Open Sleigh," and a big band version of "Up on the Housetop" to two Vienna waltz selections and an Italian aria James wrote for his wife's soprano voice. Surgeon joins hospital medical staff Jason Koo, MD, has joined the medical staff of Utah Valley Regional Medical Center and is part of the Utah Valley Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Sur-gery Clinic on the hospital campus. Dr. Koo is a graduate of Princeton University and received his doctorate doctor-ate from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Medi-cine. He completed his residency res-idency in general surgery at Yale University and in plastic surgery at the Uni versity of California-Davis, where he also received training in advanced surgical sur-gical techniques. Prior to joining Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Healthcare, Dr. Koo was in private prac- tice in Fort Worth, Texas. He has a special interest in aesthetic and reconstructive recon-structive breast surgery, as well as corrective procedures pro-cedures for post-bariatric surgery patients. Dr. Koo is accepting new patients and can be reached at 357-8799. It's your last chance to make some room for the Holidays! We have a great "Holiday Special" to make room for all your extri storage needs. Formerly "Bird Storage" 1 940 South State Springville Self Storage -All Sizes! RV's, Boats, Trailers, AV's Welcome 1, - Come see oyer 700 trees, centerpieces, wreaths and a gingerbread village, then stay for activities and entertainment en-tertainment at this year's Festival of Trees. Take the kids to see Santa and enjoy the Kids' Korner. Do some holiday shopping in the Gift Boutique and sample good ies in the Sweet Shoppe. The festival runs Nov. 28 through Dec. 1 at the South Towne Expo Center from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Discount tickets available at Zions Bank locations. Every penny pen-ny raised helps needy children chil-dren at Primary Children's Medical Center. The SCERA Center for the Arts will bring the Radio City Music Hall to life with "Return to Christmas," a production filled with original and traditional music. '""A 1 imm Storyteller Lora Schmidt is shown here telling a story in Mrs. Davis' third grade class at Mapleton Elementary. Schmidt is the Artist in Residence for November. She is working with the 3rd grade on developing stories to tell. She has told the students stories in the catagories of a personal experience such as how they got a scar, fairy tales with magic or folk tales where the problem was solved by the thinking and clever action of the protagonists. She is on the roster of artists for the Utah Art Council and has been a storyteller at the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival and in many schools throughout Utah. The residency is funded by a grant from the Utah Arts Council Arts in Education and the National Endowment for the Arts. n iMmi,, The Pet Dish Pets eat lots of things! Dr. Harold Davis D.V.M. Mt. West Animal Hospital . You say your dog ate your homework? Now that is just silly ...right? Actually it may not be such a laughable idea. Dogs eat just about whatever they can find. Labradors and Golden Gold-en Retrievers are notorious for eating interesting things. Sometimes there is a reason that your dog might choose a particular thing to eat such as nutritional deficiencies. It might be a liver disease. But don't worry, much of the time they just do it. A recent internet pole was taken to compile a list of notable things that were eaten by their pets. A very common response was of the underwear variety. vari-ety. Unmentionables seem to rank high. Dogs took the opportunity to sample rope, rocks, jewelry (including (in-cluding a diamond pendant necklace), squeaker toys, tube socks, rubber bands, a jar of Vaseline, spicy jerky, a bag of Dum Dum suckers and a toy dinosaur. Man's best friend may not seem so friendly when he consumes your paycheck, twice. A 7-pound Chihuahua Chi-huahua ate 125 Super Complex-B tablets. A Boxer found a Victoria's Secret bra to his liking. All this may be amusing but it can also be a concern. con-cern. Much of the time a veterinarian will try to get the dog to vomit up the object or try to pass the object in a different direction. The pup that ate the diamond pendant was able to deliver it back to the owner in about two days. This is really the desired de-sired method as X-rays and surgery can cost in the neighborhood of $1,000-$ 1,500 in serious cases. , If you find you are missing something and suspect sus-pect your dog is holding out on you, it might be a good idea to consult with your vet to get some advice ad-vice on what you should do. Chemicals and chocolate choco-late are worth calling right away. Bottom line, when someone tells you their dog ate their homework, it might really be true. mum CUAUTYCAEi; ORDER NOW Have A Complete New Kitchen For Your Holiday Entertaining f ENS KITCH DIRECT is. !. - This Complete Kitchen Package KNOTTY CHERRY OR MAPLE CABINETS EVEN INCLUDES 1$?; 'If Ml COUNTERTOPS! AND HARDWOOD OR TILEFLOORING ALL INSTALLED FOR JUST $9,000.00' i.j. ." 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