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Show Times Newspaper Wednesday, June 20, 2001 Page 9 VSC BY DANIELLE WHITE Former ASUVSC President Baron A. Rohbock once boasted that "if you want a good education, educa-tion, there are nine different institutions in-stitutions in the state to choose from, but if you want an excellent education you go to UVSC." Perhaps, he wasn't merely boasting. Four ladies from UVSC competed com-peted in the Miss Utah Scholarship Scholar-ship Pageant June 1 1-16 at Mountain Moun-tain View High school. Jeanna Cunningham, Ashley Garbe, Maranda Lamb, and Nicole Shaw each vied for the coveted cov-eted state-wide title, presenting their platforms and hoping to blaze a trail of hope, leadership, and inspiration. "W , vre so excited to see that theie. ere other girls from UV'-C at Miss Utah along with us. It was great to have that common ground and support each other," Cunningham said. Utah U A look at news and events in Utah Events The 17lh annual Writers at Work through June 29 at Westminster the opportunity for writers and ideas. It also provides young and sionals in the field. Their will also and open to the public. For more 485-5100. Ballet West announces its 2001 cludes a variety of both classical and contemporary performances, ranging from old favorites to exclusive premieres. The programs include: La Sylphide, An Evening of Ballets I, The Nutcracker, An Evening of Ballets II, Swan Lake and the 2002 Cultural Olympiad Performance. For more information on dates, times and tickets, call Ballet West at (801) 323-6920. Ballet West is also pleased to announce an-nounce the promotion of Seth Olsen to the position of principal art ist for the upcoming season. The Wasatch Arts and Music Unity Festival will be held June 23 from noon to 10 p.m. at the Utah State Training School Amphitheater Amphithe-ater at 850 East 700 North, directly west of the Mt. Timpanogos LDS Temple. Admission is $5. The 2001 Brown Bag Concert Series is holding its second one-week one-week block June 25 through June 29. It will be held at City Creek Park in Salt Lake City. Performers include: Michael Lucarelli, Top Brass Quintet, Stacey Board, Harry Lee & the Back Alley Blues Band, and Cris Talley. Concerts are free to the public and run each weekday from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, call the Salt Lake City Arts Council at 596-5000. The Summit Institute for the Art and Humanities is proud to announce their 2nd annual Westbound Festival Series. The first weekend week-end of festivities will be July 14-15 at the Canyons Resort and the second weekend, July 21-22, at Park City Mountain Resort. The two weekends will feature exhibits and demonstrations, readings and discussions, performing arts, and the art corral. For more information, in-formation, call 435-649-2315 or visit the web at www.summitinstitute.org. Deer Valley Resort's popular summer day camp for children is back for a sixth season, with new programs that are open to children chil-dren as young as 18 months old. Featuring safe, fun and educational educa-tional children's activities from now through August 17, Deer Valley Val-ley Summer Adventure Camp has prove to provide those memories, skills and friendships that most of us carry into adulthood. For more information, contact Christa Graff at 800-424-3337 or view the website at www.deervalley.com. Pioneer Theater Company has announced its 2001-2002 season. The professional company will open with The Three Musketeers on Sept. 19- Oct. 6. Other performances include Duke Ellington's Sophisticated So-phisticated Ladies, Oct. 24- Nov. 10; Communicating Doors, Nov. 28- Dec. 15; Dinner with Friends, Jan. 9, 2002- Jan. 26; Phantom, March 20, 2002- April 6; April 24, 2002- May 1 1; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, May 29, 2002- June 15. For tickets and information contact the Pioneer Theatre Company Com-pany box office at (801) 581-6961 or visit the web site at www.ptc.utah.edu. Thirty-four of the world's brightest young pianists will be at the Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City to compete in the 2001 Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Competition from now through June 23. In the same style as the 2000 Junior Competition, all 34 of the competitors will play through the semifinal round, after which six finalists will be chosen by the International Jury. Tickets for the competition can be purchased through ArtTix at 355-ARTS or www.arttix.org. The Utah Shakespearean Festival will host A Shakespeare Sketchbook, Sketch-book, a one-time only exhibition featuring the original artwork of James C. Christensen, The exhibit opens Monday, June 25 in the Randall L. Jones Theatre lobby and will feature 40 original sketches and oil paintings created for Christensen's new book of the same title. Artwork will go on sale on July 6 as part of the Festival's fund raising gala For tickets and information call 800-PLAYTLX. The Utah Shakespearean Festival and Southern Utah University Univer-sity are calling all scholars, or anyone who would like to be a scholar, to the inaugural Wooden O. Symposium to be conducted this summer sum-mer in conjunction with the Festival season. The symposium will be conducted August 6 through 8 on the SUU campus. Those who are interested may submit papers for reading and review at he conference, or may simply attend to hear what others are saying about Shakespeare and his life and times. The symposium sympo-sium will publish the selected papers in booklet form on the World Wide Web. For more information or to register call Dr. Robert Behunin at 435-586-7957 or Michael Don Bahr at 435-586-7880. represented She is passionate about her platform "Reach for your dreams, not for drutjs." She said that the subject matter tugs at her heart strings." "I chose that platform because I had a dance partner for four years that, due to famiiy problems, prob-lems, started to do drugs and to this day I don't know where she is," she said. Cunningham continued, contin-ued, "She inspired me to encourage encour-age people to reach for their dreams and stay drug free. Serving Serv-ing as Miss Lehi really helped me strengthen that platform and know that it's something I need to be doing.." Cunningham performed a lyrical lyri-cal dance number at Miss Utah and is a Dance Sterling Scholar. In high school she was an Academic Aca-demic All-State Drill team member, mem-ber, a Region Drill Down Champion, Cham-pion, All-Star 2000 Grand National Na-tional Dance Champion, as well as an All-American Scholar, and a recipient of the National Honors conference will be held June 24 College. The conference provides art patrons to meet and discuss upcoming talents to meet profes be evening readings that are free information call Natalie at (801) - 2002 season. The schedule in Corner Society Scholarship Award. She also works as a dance instructor at Hot Shots Dance Studio and Academy. "Dancing has always been something I"ve really enjoyed doing," do-ing," Cunningham said "1 hope to be an adolescent psychologist, but continue teaehingdance." She added that "UVSC has a great Behavioral Science Department. I had a new psychology teacher last semester and he was great. I hear there are a "lot of great professors pro-fessors I need to take psychology classes from at UVSC." Maranda Lamb, Miss Utah State Fair, shares Cunningham's passion for encouraging youth to strive for excellence. "My platform is one-on-one youth mentoring because I saw a great need for it in the community. commu-nity. I want to be a criminal prosecuting pros-ecuting attorney and in the long run I want to prevent from seeing see-ing some of the people I work with," Lamb said. "I believe we need to start young in teaching values to our children." While there was no specific person per-son who impacted Lamb's life and influenced her to adopt her platform, plat-form, she credits her parents for being good examples. "My parents have been the greatest examples to me. They have taught me that children need to feel loved. So, I try to give children the strength they need to succeed, to emphasize the importance im-portance of education and supporting sup-porting lower income families," she said. Miranda graduated from Springville High School in 1999 where she was named "Who's Who Among American High School Scudents" four years straight. Additionally, she has cut two CDs, been a member of the Utah Valley Handbell Choir, served as the American Legion Auxiliary Girls State Representative, Representa-tive, and received the Miss Utah 2000 non-finalist interview award. "I think the most important thing at Miss Utah is that you have a solid interview where you come out of it feeling great, and having a chance to meet so many at state competition new friends," Lamb said. ' When it comes down to it, if you were able to show people who you are and see your desire to serve that's what matters." Having the courage to be yourself your-self in all circumstances, may be a true strong point for contestant number seven Nicole Shaw. After taking campus by stampede stam-pede with her unabashed down-to-earth country girl personality, she won the 21st annual Miss UVSC Scholarship Pageant in February. Shaw's electric fiddle performance dazzled and delighted, de-lighted, and ever since, the "Orange "Or-ange Blossom" tune she performed per-formed has become her signature - representing her spunky, fun-loving fun-loving attitude. Her platform, "Valuing the gift of life through seatbelt and car seat safety," epitomizes the positive posi-tive outlook she projects through all she does. "1 love life. I want to help others oth-ers value their lives more," she said. "Everybody thinks I have been involved in some terrible accident and so that's why I chose my platform, but I haven't. 1 chose it because it's positive. It's something that can be fixed the problem can be addressed; it can be cured. I like that it allows me to educate others, especially children, chil-dren, on how to take care of themselves." them-selves." Shaw, who hopes to be a middle school teacher, has hosted a slew of assemblies on seatbelt and car seat safety at local elementary schools, through the "Hold on the Dear Life" program. "There was a family I know that was involved in an accident There was a huge truck pulling a fully loaded trailer that was traveling at about 50-60 mph and slammed into their car. All of the children were in car seats and wearing seatbelts," she said. "Their car was so damaged, that if they hadn't buckled up they probably wouldn't have survived. The leading lead-ing cause of death among American Ameri-can children today is car crashes, but it's so preventable." After two trips to Miss Utah, Nicole has decided that is her last. Once her tenure of service as Miss UVSC ends next spring, she will rst z This month marks the 200 birthday of our founder, Brigham Young, To celebrate his birthday and to honor his commitment to education Zions Bank introduces the Zions Bank Founders Scholarship Program. Beginning this fall, each of Utah's eleven colleges and universities will award a four-year, full tuition Zions Bank Founders Scholarship to a Utah high school student of their choice. The schools will select recipients based on scholarship, citizenship and community involvement. For more information, please contact your high school academic counselor or one of the schools listed. WE HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN WHO KEEPS US IN BUSINESS Mmbtr FOIC end her pageant participation and direct her energies toward other goals. "I have had wonderful opportunities opportu-nities being Miss UVSC so far It s been so much fun, and Serving people is such an amazing honor. I still look forward to having more opportunities to reach more people, but I have had a chance to go to Miss Utah twice. I"m really re-ally lucky. Yet, it's probably time for me to start looking toward the future finishing my education, planning to marry and raise a family." Nicole's first trip to Miss Utah was as Miss Payson 2999. When she isn't promoting her platform, Shaw can usually be found riding her beloved horse, Gold. She is the vice president of the UVSC Rodeo Team where she competes in barrel racing. "I'm most comfortable in my steatson and cowboy boots riding my horses and playing my fiddle," she said. "I'm a country girl at heart. It reflects my personality best." Almost down the street from Payson 's pride, Nicole Shaw, is Miss Salem Ashley Garbe. Garbe, an aspiring reporter and songwriter, has composed .'10 original songs. In fact, she performed per-formed an original vocalpiano score at Miss Utah for the talent portion. While she loves to perform per-form musicallly, Garbe, after she graduates from UVSC, plans to work for a national broadcasting net work. And, aft er Garbe graduates, gradu-ates, she'll join another group of accomplished young women. Among the UVSC Students who went to Miss Utah last week, were five UVSC alumni who were also contestants vying to win the prestigious pres-tigious state title. Miss South Jordan Christine Young and Miss Payson Shenelle Salcido, both class of 2001; Miss Kane County Amie Vreeken: Miss American Fork Larissa Kanno, and Miss Utah Valley Rebecca Marchbanks. "It's incredible how many of the girls are from UVSC," Keri Mecharn, director of the Miss UVSC pageant and coordinator for student life and clubs. "We have a lot of really talented girls go to Miss Utah." The school has never had a Miss Brigham Young University College of Eastern Utah Dixie State College Salt Lake Community College Southern Utah University Snow College University of Utah Utah State University Utah Valley State College Weber State University Westminster College UVSC go on to become Miss Utah, however, they have won various awards through, both the Miss Utah organization and the Miss America Scholarship Program, for which our school and state competitions com-petitions are affiliated Nicole Shaw wont eh talent award for two consecutive years. It appears those eight years of playing the fiddle have borne the fruits of their labor. Talk to your future spouse about finances before tying the knot The wedding season is here It's the time when brides wearing white and grooms dressed in black join together to start a new life as one. "Let's hope they don't find their finances in the red," said Mike Kidwell, vice president and co-founder of My vesta om. According to Kidwell one of the first things that a young couple should do it compare spending habits. "Every person has a different spending style," Kidwell said. "We see a lot of couples where one person per-son is a spender and the other is a saver. It's best to discuss these differences and find out how each person handles their money. This keeps things honest and open, which will help to avoid surprises later on." When discussing the types of spending patterns that each partner part-ner has, it's a good idea to discuss lifestyle, too. Since both partners will most likely have different spending patterns, asking a few questions can raise which money-issues money-issues are the most important. According to Kidwell some of the best questions to ask are: How much of your income do you want to put in savings? How will you decide how much spending money each of you should have? What kind of financial risks are you and your partners comfortable com-fortable taking when investing? mm m |