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Show MJ(y(ggtteD(3)D5i I' Orchard Elementary "Students of the Week" for August 14, 1998, from grades kindergarten kindergar-ten through third included: (Front, left to right) Marilyn Goodrich, Melyssa Son, Sarah Woodruff, Andrew Stevens. (Center) Mark Poole, Lauren Harper, Michael Garlick, Kinny Edmunds. (Back) Hailey Goodman, Morgan Hampton, Travis Hoki, Jeremy Church. itls time for the Timpanogos orytelling Festival The 9th Annual Timpanogos Storytelling Festival will be held from August 27-29 at the Olmsted Park, located at the mouth of Provo Canyon. All proceeds pro-ceeds from the festival benefit the Orem Public Library. This year, the festival features six nationally renowned storytellers storytell-ers Barbara McBride-Smith, John McCutcheon, Vicki Juditz, David Novak, Waddie Mitchell, and Sheila Kay Adams; musicians; musi-cians; and many local performers. There will also be students from the Alpine School District performing per-forming as storytellers. f ' ' r ' New to the festival this year is the Heber Creeper Story Train, where for $25 participants will enjoy a train ride, dinner, good scenery, and some great storytelling. Thursday, August 27, there will be workshops held near Sundance which will feature Juditz, McBride-Smith, and Novak. The workshops are $30 each; lunch is $6. At 5:30, the Heber Creeper Story Train with dinner, stories, music, and melodrama melo-drama will be boarded at Vivian Park junction in the scenic Provo Canyon for a three-hour round-trip round-trip along the shores of Deer Creek Reservoir and through Heber Valley. Friday, August 28, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., there will be a full schedule of events at the Olmsted Park, concluding with Bedtime Stories at 7 p.m. Ghost Tales will take the stage at the SCERA Shell that evening at 8:30. Saturday, August 29, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., activities will continue at the Olmsted, and Laughin' Night at 8:30 at the SCERA Shell will bring this year's festival to an end. For recorded, information on the festival, call (801) 229-7436. For ticket information, call 229-7161.. 229-7161.. : ' Barbara McBride-Smith i Barbara McBride-Smith tells Greek myths like you've never heard them before. McBride-Smith McBride-Smith is entertainer, comedian, historian, and storyteller all rolled into one package. . In collaboration with her husband, hus-band, a professor of ancient Greek, and her best friend, a psychiatrist, psy-chiatrist, McBride-Smith writes her own material, mining the, truths in classical mythology, but giving the tales a contemporary slant. , Using her broad Texas drawl, a mischievous sense of humor, and pun-peppered colloquialisms, colloquial-isms, McBride-Smith lampoons the ancients. Along with all the fun, however, she carefully pre-- pre-- serves the depth and drama found in the writings of Homer, Hesiod, and Euripides. Her stories sto-ries make you laugh, but they also give you a new take on the struggles of "we mortals" who live V L X j' ' niinriffll urn HI .-s--c . . . our lives on this earth. John McCutcheon John McCutcheon is a powerhouse power-house of gentle energy channeled into music that touches the human hu-man spirit. He labels himself a storyteller who happens to put some of his stories to music. He likes to talk, often introducing his songs with long, rolling, and usually usu-ally entertaining tidbits about how the song was written or why he likes to sing it. Most of the time, McCutcheon's stories have a sort of down-home humor to them that leads nicely into the song they precede. With McCutcheon; it's like sitting out on the back porch and listening to a natural-born natural-born entertainer who makes you smile. McCutcheon takes a leap to greatness with his instrumental work. He plays piano, guitar, banjo, fiddle, autoharp, a fabulous fabu-lous hammered dulcimer, and his own body (called "hamboning"). Each time he changes instruments, instru-ments, he offers another facet of his personality to the audience. Vicki Juditz Vicki Juditz "is a born storyteller... humorous and heartfelt, heart-felt, with an eye for the incongruous incongru-ous and ridiculous," says the LA Times. She writes and tells true stories about experiences that have changed her such as the time she became a literacy tutor. In one piece, she talks about going to a neighborhood that she wouldn't ordinarily visit and getting get-ting to know her pupil, a single mother from Ecuador. During the story, she emphasizes the importance impor-tance of taking chances, working together, and developing friendships. friend-ships. Juditz is best know for Teshuvah, Return", her solo theater the-ater piece about her journey to Judaism, for which she received a Drama-Logue Award, an L.A Weekly nomination for Best Female Fe-male Solo Performer of 1994, and an Ovation Award nomination. On television, she played Hayden's secretary on "Coach" and was featured in the PBS series, se-ries, "Storytime". David Novak David Novak embodies the definition of the word creative. He is an entirely original storyteller story-teller whose tales are inventions of his imagination or original adaptations ad-aptations of classic fables or myths. A trained theater professional, profes-sional, Novak uses his skills as an actor and director to bring his stories into the third dimension. His expertise in the art of mime and circus techniques allows him to transform everyday objects and simple props into magical uses for his storytelling. Novak's keen artistic eye is always at work, carefully selecting select-ing the theatrical and literary elements of his program. It is this selectivity which separates the art from the craft and the primary pri-mary artist from a merely interpretive inter-pretive one. Dave is that primary artist in the truest sense. Waddie Mitchell Waddie Mitchell says he "can't ever remember "finding1 cowboy poetry. It was always there." Indeed, In-deed, from his earliest days on the Nevada ranches where his father worked, Mitchell has been immersed in cowboy poetry, a tradition tra-dition that is as rich as the lifestyle that spawned it. Mitchell carries on an art form that catalogues the grand and the mundane, the humorous and the tragiey the life and death struggles and triumphs that make up the cowboy life. Within those tales are the insights and lessons and punch-lines people passed on to succeeding generations genera-tions since the beginning of that epic portion of America history. "All the time I was growing up, we had these old cowboys around," he said. "When you live in close proximity like that with the same folks month after month, one of your duties is to entertain each other, and I suppose sup-pose that's where the whole tradition tra-dition of cowboy poetry started. You find out that if you have a rhyme and a meter to start that story, people will listen to it over and over again." Sheila Kay Adams Sheila Kay Adams comes from a small mountain community in . western North Carolina. She describes de-scribes herself as a seventh-generation ballad singer who wants to be their "preserver, sharing them with the wider world". She is doing just that by sharing English, En-glish, Scottish, and Irish ballads that date several hundred, and in some cases, even a thousand years old, at major festivals, colleges, col-leges, and universities throughout through-out the United States. She tells of the time when she sang her first ballad as a young woman in a group of "old people". When she insisted that she didn't know any of the old songs, her great-aunt prodded her and said, "Yeah, you do. You know every one that I know. You just don't know that you know them." Afterwards, Adams said, "It was like I was possessed. I wanted to learn every ballad I'd ever heard within three weeks! It had clicked in my mind that they were all going to die, and nobody else was learning the ballads bal-lads nobody but me." 10th birthday In 1999, the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival will cel-ebrate cel-ebrate its 10th anniversary. The event will feature a number of favorite tellers from past festivals, festi-vals, including Donald David, Bill Harley, David Holt, and Ed Stivender. August 26-28, 1999, will be the dates to remember! News and information from local schools and colleges 'V 11 'Until if I - ' ' ' f Back to school (and back to being good citizens) are these Vuieyard Elementary "Vikings of the Week", honored August 14, 1998: (left to right) William Mitchell, Izumi Okamura, Cura Benally, Kyndra Bell, and Brittney Lopez. (Not pictured: Jared Eck) H v,f ' -.Kjj ,,i j!5 'yy ' .s.' " "3-S!S i If 1 " .(' I lmmmn Orchard Elementary "Students of the Week" from the upper grades recognized August 14 included (front, left to right): Jacob Bradshaw, Delfino Rodrigues, Steven Dickson Stessi Dort, Brooke Shurtleff. (Back) Rachel Balden, Mark Pledger, Josh Bradshaw! Garrett Argyle, Emily Primrose. Fir School Utah Valley State College 1 (UVSC) will host the 32nd annual an-nual Summer Fire School August 21 and 22. The Annual Summer Fire School is the largest fire-related training event in Utah, with 39 classes and over 400 participants representing many of the 229 career ca-reer and volunteer fire departments depart-ments in Utah. There will be 34 fire service professionals instructing topics such as: clandestine drug labs, hazardous materials awareness, propane and natural gas emergencies, emer-gencies, vehicle extrication, and first aidCPR. Classes will be held on campus. ' For more information, contact Troy Mills, 764-7730. Council approves cable TV franchise transfer A transfer of the Insight Communications Com-munications cable television franchise to UACC Midwest, Inc., was approved by the Orem City Council August 11. The trade is part of a deal between be-tween Insight Communications and TCI that has Insight eliminating elimi-nating its television cable franchises fran-chises in Utah. . UACC Communications is doing do-ing business locally as TCI Cable. The company's request to transfer trans-fer the existing non-exclusive television franchise from Insight to UACC was granted by the council action. Orem City Manager Jim Reams said the franchise agreement agree-ment does not mean that other cable television companies cannot can-not come into Orem. TCI officials said they do not anticipate any immediate changes in programming, and that they will take the opportunity opportu-nity to learn the nature of the community". , Councilwoman Judy Bell and ; Mayor Joe Nelson said Orem citizens citi-zens are looking forward to improvements im-provements in cable service. 0rem Scouts earn Eagle Award A listing received from the Utah National Parks Council, Boy Scouts of America, showed that the following Orem Scouts earned the BSA's Eagle Award during July: Brian David Andelin, Jr., Nathan Andrew Beckham, Corianton Clay Blackham, Bryant V. Blackham, Dallin B. 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