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Show Thursday, June 5, 2008 SPRINGVILLE HERALD La Casita is Springville Business of the Month for June La Casita, the Mexican restaurant that is an institution insti-tution in Springville, has been named Business of the Month for June by the Springville Area Chamber of Commerce. Located at 333 N.Main Street in Springville, most citizens have probably eaten at La Casita in the past 30 years. On Friday the 13th of October, Luis, Sr. and Luz Muzquiz opened La Casita Ca-sita Restaurant at its present pres-ent location. Friday the 13th proved to be a lucky 30-year business for the Muzquiz family as they have owned and operated it very successfully for all of those years. Luis, Jr. and Katie Muzquiz took over ownership owner-ship and management of the restaurant in March of 2003 and Luis, Sr. and his wife, Lilly, still work and add "atmosphere" to the business. Employees Carol Klauck " and Bere Ruiz have served patrons, faithfully for 28 and 25 years respectfully. respect-fully. All of the employees employ-ees work hard in the food preparation and most of their employees have been long-term and important components of the establishment. estab-lishment. : La Casita specializes in over 50 authentic Mexican combination dishes and over 20 specialty recipes. A take out menu is also available for those who do not have time to stop and enjoy the atmosphere. La Casita prides themselves them-selves in using the best and freshest products available, including meats, cheeses and fresh produce. All items are prepared fresh as ordered and everything, ev-erything, including the sauces, guacamole and meats are cooked up daily for excellent flavor and freshness. New additions are being be-ing made to the menu with daily specials. One of the newest that is a success are the Fish Tacos made with tilapia, cabbage and tomatillo sauce. Many people say that two of their favorite dishes at La Casita are the Carne Asadas and Chile Rellen-os. Rellen-os. Those who have eaten there before and come back to the state or are passing through, make it a point to stop in and dine. The owners of La Casita and all of the employees express ex-press their love and gratitude grati-tude to all of the customers who repeatedly come to enjoy a special meal, great friendships and the quaint, hospitable atmosphere. Call them at (801) 489-9543. ; : t - Art city Days children 9s Art Contest Hobble Creek Learning Center is proud to sponsor the first annual Art City Days Children's Art Contest, Con-test, hildren in grades K-7 are invited to submit their best artwork on the Art City Days theme "We've got HeArt." Prizes will be awarded to each of three age groups, and an overall grand prize will be given to the best work of art submitted. sub-mitted. Each age group winner will be invited to ride in the Art City Days parade. Students are welcome to submit artwork in any medium. me-dium. Entries are due Saturday, Satur-day, June 7, 2008 between 9 a.m. to noon. All entries must be submitted to Hobble Hob-ble Creek Learning Center, located at 375 S. 300 East in Springville. Entries should not exceed 11x14 inches, and should be ready to display. There is no entry fee. Entry forms can be downloaded from the city website or from www.hob-blecreeklearning.com. www.hob-blecreeklearning.com. Artwork will be on display at Hobble Creek Learning Center June 13 from 4 to 6:30 p.m. and June 14 from 1 to 4 p.m. Awards will be given out Saturday, June 14, at 3 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Hobble Creek Learning Learn-ing Center is an educational educa-tional center which offers preschool, tutoring, after school programs and summer sum-mer camps. The center is currently enrolling stu- f " :v.. t . 'm" . ' ; 1 Vv. - . v. . . 5 ST . MM 1 : of die Monti LaCasita Mexican Restaurant was chosen as the Business of the Month by the SpringvilleMapleton Area Chamber of Commerce. Lynzie Dunkley is shown here painting at Hobble Creek Learning Center, they are sponsoring a children's art contest during Art City Days. dents in summer art, science sci-ence and creative writing camps. The summer camps are hands-on adventures that help children explore the world around them and develop their natural creativity. For more information infor-mation on the Children's Art Contest, Summer Camps or other HCLC programs pro-grams visit the web www. hobblecreeklearning.com or call 491-0825. M. -JL- lr fV' .X t am! ; i wifrmi wl 833 S. 170 E. Provo 377-1011 boxmartofprovoyahoo.com 625 N. State St. Orem 224-2698 boxmartqwestoffice.net Communis Talent Festival Saturday at Arts Park The annual Springville Community Talent Festival Festi-val promises to once again provide thrilling entertainment entertain-ment by some of the area's ar-ea's finest artists in vocal, instrumental, dance and piano performance. Free to the public, the Arts City Days event is .sponsored by the Springville, Arts Commission and Springville Spring-ville City. The program begins be-gins at 7 p.m. at the Spring Acres Arts Park (east of the high school), on Saturday, Satur-day, June 7. Guest artists at the festival festi-val will be beautifully costumed cos-tumed hula dancers from the Guave Jelly Dance Studios who will perform three native Hawaiian dances; Mormon Tabernacle Taber-nacle Choir member Leslie Les-lie Walker directing her talented children's choir, Hobble Creek Singers, as they sing "The Happy Wanderer." The Charisma Ballroom Team will dance a dramatic Latin Medley (Numba, Jive, PasoDoble) arranged by Yellow and choreographed by Charisma Charis-ma studio director Tresa Anderson. Among the other outstanding out-standing artists appearing appear-ing at the 2008 event are Abigail Taylor, a skilled young pianist, who will perform. "Piano Concerto in C, Third Movement," by Haydn, and vocalist Mad-die Mad-die Dayton, who appeared at the 2007 festival, singing "Not for the Life of Me." Several former members of the Springville High School Folk Ensemble have formed the fiddle group known as Maple Syrup. Appearing at the festival are group members Alex Booth (vocals, fiddle), Kjer-sti Kjer-sti Jones (vocals, fiddle, mandolin), Alex Woolsey (banjo) and Heidi Beddoes (vocals, mandolin); they will perform several folk favorites. Newcomer Tiffany Tif-fany Pederson will accompany accom-pany herself in the piano as she sings "This Is My Day." Kaylee Wolfe, Mandy Belknap, Kayleb Evans have formed a dance group they call the Hula Sisters. Their "Hula Dance" provides pro-vides a beautiful complement comple-ment to the hula performance perfor-mance of the festival's larger Guave Jelly guest artists. Tyler Wood, an experienced ex-perienced stage performer, perform-er, makes his third appearance appear-ance at the Talent Festival as he sings "Broken Vow" by Laura Fabian and Wal ter Af anasieff . i Classical violist Maria Lowry, a recent graduate of Springville High School, will perform the enchanting enchant-ing "Romanze" by Max Bruch. She will be accompanied accom-panied by Jayne Galoway. With the help of her young brother Junior Diaz, Laura Diaz will dance and flag twirl to the tune of "One, Two Step," by Sierra. Vocalist Vo-calist Janene Pearce, a performer per-former at past Freedom Festival events, will sing "Since I Fell for You" by Buddy Johnson. Matthew Nui will sing his comedic interpretation of the Aretha Franklin standard "Respect." Tyler Smith, Derek Larsen, Danny Dan-ny Frewin form Blue Sky Jazz which won this year's talent contest at Springville High School. The band will perform "Wave" by Jobin. Anne Kawai and Alyssa Jones will perform the entertaining en-tertaining piano duet "Fiddle "Fid-dle Fancy" which has a surprise at the end. Three Crowshaw sisters, Amy Blackburn, Megan Hanks and Tara McCausland have formed Union, a folk group that blends beautiful harmonies in the medley "I'll Fly AwayBlack Horse in a Cherry Tree." Jonathan Nui, brother of Matthew, has a voice that Talent Festival attendees could one day see on the finals of American Idol. Jonathan will sing his own composition of "A Thousand Thou-sand Words" and accompany accom-pany himself on the guitar. Talented Cassie Tobler returns to the Talent Festival Fes-tival stage to sing "Breaking "Break-ing Free" with schoolmate Zach Hixon from the popular popu-lar "High School Musical." The Master of Ceremonies Ceremo-nies will be Dr. Wayne Merkley who is a Utah native. Most of his youth was spent in Beaver and Parowan. After completing complet-ing his doctoral studies at the University of Utah, Wayne spent the next 38 years as a Professor of Biology at Drake University, Univer-sity, a private university in Des Moines, Iowa. He and his wife, Gretta, moved to Springville last July. Organizers believe the festival audience will be richly rewarded in attending attend-ing the 2008 edition of the festival and invite readers of the Springville Herald to tell family, friends and co-workers about this Art City Days event. "da yftiz&ttp ?itexJL ffajbjkip fwyerie, && !Hordtm, Unify ifti n tr vn'l 15 i 489-7088 SAVE HQNDSEDS OF DOLLARS OR MM (EHm Ml MIM SAVE ON ALL HIGH EFFICIENCY AIR CLEANERS The Earlier You Buy, The More You Save! 4 6 months No InterestNo Payment Financing Available a 4 Call Today For A FreeNo Cost Estimate S Harvey Honting and Air Conditioning www.harveyheatingandair.com Enter our dr: MMley ; 'GO tO "''9 WWW. ."1 "8 f-. 10m D" ll'CQS OaUCDS - CCD DUD tn J ! 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