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Show Thursday, September 13, 2007 0 R E M TIMES Page 17 SCERA High School Musical plays live at SCERA Center The Disney television phenomenon, "High School Musical" has graduated to a super cool stage spectacular spectacu-lar and is dancing and singing its way toward Orem this month with 65 teens in the cast exuding energy and talent. The musical has practically become a cult favorite with everyone from teens to adults and will play live on stage at the SCERA Center for the Arts, Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m. and continue through Oct. 1 on Mondays, Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays, with an additional addi-tional show each Saturday at 2 p.m. The show opens SCERA's 2007-2008 indoor Encore Season. Sea-son. All seating is reserved and tickets at $12 for adults and $10 for children (age 3-11), students stu-dents with ID and seniors ages 65 or older are available from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and on Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m. at the SCERA Center, 745 S. State St., Orem, or by calling 225-ARTS. Tickets may also be purchased online at www. scera.org. "This is such a fun production," produc-tion," says Mindy B. Young, director di-rector and choreographer. "It deals with basically good kids involved in friendship, studying, study-ing, sports and theater. The music is lively and makes you want to dance. There are more ensemble numbers and even more great music than the TV movie." The story focuses on Troy, the school's basketball star, and Gabriella, a shy brainiac, who meet at a New Year's Eve party at a ski lodge. They participate in karaoke and find that they like it, even though his focus has been sports and for her, studies. Both are excited when they meet again after Gabriella transfers to East High. The two decide to break out of their cliques by auditioning for the school's musical, but it's a problem because it's a status quo school where the jocks are simply jocks, the brains are simply brains and the thespians are strictly dramatic. Chaos in the teenage social order ensues when Sharpay and Ryan, the brother-and-sister drama club stars, are threatened by Troy and Gabriella. Wildcats Pep Rally The SCERA is featuring "Wildcats Pep Rally" Saturdays at 12:30 p.m. with games, activities, treats and photos with the cast of "High School Musical." Tickets must be reserved in advance and are $10 each and does not include admission to High School Musical matinee show that begins at 2 p.m. Season tickets available 2007-2008 SCERA Encore Season Sea-son tickets are available, which includes "High School Musical" and 11 other events for $78 for adults and $65 for children, seniors and students. Tickets are available from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and on Saturdays Sat-urdays from noon to 6 p.m. at the SCERA Center, 745 S. State St., Orem, or by calling 225-ARTS. Tickets may also mm Jr Excavating Operated Equipment Rental Equipment Hauling Dump Trucks Erosion Control SPRINGVILLE.UT 801-794-2880 Come in for a our preferred Home & Auto Carriers & TRAVELERS Hope and Help for QomosexnalitY Evergreen International Conference Joseph Smith Memorial Building Salt Lake City, UT September 21 and 22, 2007 1-800-391-1000 www.evergreenintemational.org be purchased online at www. scera.org. Utah County Arts Board Exhibit to open The Utah County Art Board presents an exhibit of oil and watercolor paintings by three artists, Kris-tena Kris-tena Eden, Heidi Adkins, and M'lisa Paulsen through Sept. 28, at the Utah County Art Gallery. Gal-lery. The gallery is located in the Health and Justice Building, 151 S. University Ave., Provo, and is open Monday-Friday 8 a.m to 5 p.m. A reception takes place Friday, Sept. 7, 6 to 9 p.m. The public is invited. American Fork Arts Council Symphony rehearsals to begin be-gin Rehearsals for the 2007-2008 2007-2008 season of the American Fork Symphony will begin Sept. 8 at 8 a.m. in the American Ameri-can Fork Junior High School band room, 1120 N. 20 West. The orchestra will give its first concert Oct. 22 in the American Fork High School auditorium. There are openings for string players, as well as for percussion and some other instruments. However, the orchestra or-chestra welcomes players of all orchestral instruments. Players interested in joining the symphony, or for more information should contact Maxine at 756-2330. The symphony is under the direction of co-conductors Alan Allred and Dr. Terry Hill. Lehi Arts Council Naturally Lehi Take your best shot and get ready for "Naturally Lehi," an amateur photo contest sponsored by the Lehi Arts Council. The contest, to be held in January 2008, is seeking remarkable, original photographs of nature taken within the boundaries of Lehi. Photographs may show natural landscapes, wild animals or insects in-sects in natural settings, plant life and other natural scenes. Amateur photographers of all ages may participate. Contact Linnie Brown at 766-2234 for more information and an entry GRAND OPENING SALE UltraLux 1000 ." 1 i : . - ' 1 " . if S" ? i f ( i ' QUEEN SET S689.00 KING SET $939.00 FULL SET $559.99 TWIN SET $429.00 MATTRESS FACTORY OREM 1032 S. State 801-802-7234 quote from one of 1 Tuc Hartford Group iieaai form. Images of people, pets, and domestic animals will not be accepted. Each person may submit up to two photos. Eligibility Eligi-bility is limited to amateur photographers pho-tographers of all ages, who are residents of Utah. An amateur photographer does not earn more than 25 percent of his or her income from photographic sales, is not a member of a professional pro-fessional photo organization, does not regularly publish photographs pho-tographs in books, magazines, newspapers or online for a fee. There are two age groups of 18 and under and age 19 or older. There will be $300 in cash prizes awarded in the adult group, and $150 in cash prizes will be awarded in the 18 and under group. Photographs must be hand-delivered hand-delivered on Wednesday, Jan. 16 between 4-7 p.m. at the Lehi Arts Center, 685 N. Center Cen-ter Street, Lehi. Photographs must be framed and ready to be hung, in a minimum frame size of 8 by 10 inch, and accompanied accom-panied by a completed entry form. Photographs will be displayed dis-played at the Lehi Arts Center from Jan. 19-26. Work from the exhibit must be picked up on Jan. 28 between 4-7 p.m. Photographs will be judged by a panel of three professional photographers. All work will be insured during the exhibition exhibi-tion for the photographer's stated value. Any inquiries regarding re-garding sales will be referred to the photographer. The submission of entries gives the Lehi Arts Center the right to reproduce work for publicity and educational purposes. More information on the contest is available from Linnie Brown at lblinniebrown.com or 766-2234. Fall registration Registration Regis-tration is being taken for fall classes, which begin on Sept. 18, at the Lehi Arts Center, 168 N. Center St., Lehi, or online at www.lehicityarts.org. Subjects offered are cooking for kids, mom & tot, movement and music, mu-sic, arts and crafts, sculpting, children's music theater, ballroom ball-room dancing, stage lighting design and tole painting. 4 A little furnace lovin' . Cats are self-cleaning and self-maintaining, but they view everyone around them as objects to do their bidding. Your furnace is just the opposite. It takes orders from you, loves you. won't shed on you and wants to serve you all winter. All it needs is a little preparatory affection. We suggest getting your furnace serviced by a qualified heating contractor. Perks of a healthy furnace. Someone once said, "Tis cheaper to maintain than to fix." That person was very wise. And good-looking. Yes, that person was me. As the Energy Wise Guy. I can say for certain that in addition to saving money on the least expensive natural gas in the continental US, you'll also be glad you serviced your furnace because: 1. ft 71 keepyou warm all wmterlong. Nobody likes to be caught in the cold with their furnace down. 2. 01 Bessie (or whatever you named your furnace -you have named your furnace haven 't you?) will be a fine-tuned fine-tuned machine, running more efficiently and saving you money. 3. Bessie will last longer if propedy maintained. Finding a from the veterans t Peterson was sworn into the army, the doctor told his wife that she was three months pregnant. Six months later, Maurice Mau-rice received a telegram when he was in Camp Blamling: "The baby was born this morning. Everything is fine." "Advanced "Ad-vanced age" hadn't prevented Maurice from being drafted, nor from being involved in some sheminigans in boot cump. Incidentally, Maurice died the day after this inlcniew was conducted. was sworn into the army in Atlanta, and about two or three weeks later we were put on a train for Camp Blanding, Ma. We arrived about three o'clock in the morning, and at six we were got up and taken to the parade ground, where the battalion commander welcomed wel-comed us to basic training. He said, "You're in the infantry. You travel on your feet and on your belly. You're here to learn how to cut the guts out of Japs and Germans, after which you'll have a 10-day 10-day leave before you embark for combat. If any of you b ds think you're going to transfer to the signal corps, you won't be. You're in the infantry, and you will be sent overseas as replacements for casualties in combat areas." At Thanksgiving, it was announced an-nounced that five percent of our company would get three-day three-day passes for Christmas. The captain's name would be on eight slips posted outside the mess hall. I was one of the eight. While I was eating chow, a GI offered me ten dollars for my pass. I knew I couldn't get 0(1!) 03l 7 days. 4 lines and a photo. Includes Classified Marketplace & online. If it doesn't sell, renew for 7 days FREE. lick themselves clean. iaely, jour fiiitiaee can 'f 8 l(S 4 way to get a break army during holidays Editor's note: The is the first in a series of articles about Maurice Peterson, a resident of Pleasant Grove. The dav that 28-year-old home without somebody sharing shar-ing their gas coupons to buy gas, so 1 sold him my pass. On I'X'c. 23, there was a big formation on the parade ground. The colonel wished us all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and released us back to our huts. But one of the four guys who were to ride with me to Atlanta worked in the orderly room, and he knew where the passes were kept. So after the parade, pa-rade, this guy walked down to see if anybody was in the orderly room. After his third trip, he put his hand inside his coat and pulled out a handful of blank passes. One of the guys riding with me sat down and wrote each of us a pass. This was about six o'clock, and it was getting dark. Now we faced the obstacle obsta-cle of getting past the MP's at the gate. We pulled up, and 1 showed the MP my fake pass. He looked at it, stuck his head in the car, and said, "Oh, you fellows got passes, don't you?" One boy said, "Yes, Sir." The MP said, "Merry Christmas." We drove to Atlanta for Christmas and got back just before roll call in the morn 0201? GEL? 0Sl Be proactive. It's good for you. Short of growing out vour hair, there are a few th ingsyou can do to prepare without the help of a heating eontraetor. like changing your air filter. It's simple, cheap and if you have a wild imagination, really fun. While you're at it. Ask vour heating eontraetor to check your furnace and water heater for a Green Sticker. It will ensure these appliances are properly adjusted and working as efficiently as possible. 1 I ing. The sergeant, seeing me so beat, asked me, "Where were you Christmas Eve?" I lied: "I spent the night with a buddy of mine over in M Company." The sergeant gave me a week's KPduty, washing pots and pans in the kitchen after regular drill. Incidentally, the fellow who had written the passes was killed the next spring in Europe. Still, he had used the fake pass to spend his last night with his wife. To our knowledge, nobody ever knew we had had fake passes; pass-es; or if they did, they never said anything about it. 1 did get a 10-day delay in route to the port of embarkation. embar-kation. 1 saw my daughter when she was 10 days old. Then I spent 27 days on a Liberty ship, the USSM.M. Guhin, out of Newport News, Virginia, headed to "parts unknown." It turned out that I was on my way to Naples, Italy. Three days after landing land-ing in Italy, I was in a grape vineyard, being shelled by a formation of German Mess-erschmitt Mess-erschmitt fighters. The next time I saw my daughter, she was 22 months old. Next week: Combat in Italy. Some veterans may wish, on their own, to tupe or digital record their memories of military service. These will be transcribed and archived. I'or instructions on how to do this, e-mail Don Norton, at don norton byu.edu. heraldextra.com 2aUuT?1rrald k5 ' To find a heating contractor, call the Rockv Mountain L-as Association. 8oi 83a oioo tit i 800 729 6791 QUESTlIt Gas ThermWise.com |