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Show Thursday, April 3, 2008 NORTH COUNTY NEWSPAPERS Page 13 pents Utah County reps to speak to GOP women Utah County legislators will wrap up what was accomplished at the recent legislative session April 7 at the monthly meeting of Utah County Republican Women at noon in the second floor of the Provo City Library, 550 N. University Uni-versity Ave. A light lunch will be served and the public is welcome. Legislators invited are Ken Sumsion, Crair Frank, Stephen Sandstrom, Lori Fowlke, Brad Daw, Kieth Grover, Christopher Christo-pher Herrod, Stephen Clark, Rebecca Lockhart, Aaron Til-ton Til-ton and Michael Morley. For further information call Pres. Suzanne Merrill at 796-0831, 796-0831, or Program Chair Millie Ashby at 226-1784. USU Extension 4-H receives GreenWorks grant Utah State University Extension 4-H, in partnership with Thanksgiving Point Institute, received a GreenWorks! Grant through Project Learning Tree, the environmental education program of the American Forest For-est Foundation. The award will help 4-H teen leaders plan, design and implement summer sum-mer camp programs for 1,600 younger campers. Through the project, the 4-H Growing Leaders Club at Thanksgiving Point will have the opportunity to maintain a garden, begin a solar greenhouse green-house program and develop new gardening activities with Junior Master Gardeners. According to Dave Francis, USU Extension 4-H youth development specialist for science, engineering, technology technol-ogy and natural resources, the grant will provide additional youth activities that teach . about the environment through hands-on discovery and will help build leadership and life skills. "We are especially pleased that the program will provide an opportunity to utilize a youth-teaching-youth model to learn about the environment," he said. Since 1992, Project Learning Learn-ing Tree has distributed more than $500,000 to fund 730 grant projects in communities across the country. The project proj-ect provides educators with environmental education curriculum cur-riculum resources that can be integrated into lesson plans for all grades and subject areas. Women in Leadership "Minerva "Mi-nerva Teichert, Artist and Entrepreneur" will be the focus of the April meeting of Women in Leadership. Dr. Marian Ashby Johnson will highlight Teichert's background and personality, her unique talents, her training in Chicago and New York, and the reasons behind be-hind her choice of subjects. The meeting will be held April 10, beginning at 11:30 a.m. for networking and 12 noon for the actual meeting presentation. It will be held at the Provo Library, Room 309, 550 N. University Ave. A buffet buf-fet lunch will be available for $7. New members and guests are always welcome. Women in Leadership was established in 1993 as a nonpartisan non-partisan forum which explores current issues, and supports and prepares women for leadership lead-ership in volunteer, appointed or elected positions on community, commu-nity, county or state levels. Fairytales come to life with Perennial Dreams Wendy Cook NORTH COUNTY STAFF Nada Meeks of Orem is an author, illustrator and now, a publisher. She encountered opposition in the real world of publications publica-tions when she tried to get her initial children's work published, pub-lished, but she didn't give up. Instead, she decided to go into the business of self -publishing and named her new publishing company Perennial Dreams Publications. Since that point in time years ago, Meeks has written and illustrated "Ordinary Angels," An-gels," "Snowman Band" with music, "Christmas in July" with music for the Provo Freedom Free-dom Festival and "Beyond the Moonlight Hills." 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Meeks said she has always loved to draw and read, which later in her life became the foundation for her illustrating and writing children's literature. litera-ture. "I've always drawn since I was little and my grandma always al-ways read to me," said Meeks. "My art teacher, Mrs. Flan-nigan, Flan-nigan, in high school encour aged the class, 'What do you want to do all day long that you won't get tired of do that.' All I could think of was reading and drawing," The books in her future fairy published series include: "Fairy Spell," "Rhymes that Attract Fairies," "Twilight Fairies," "Moon Fairies," "Sun Fairies," and "Fairy Song." Meeks said she believes literature in rhyme can be a great teaching tool and that belief is reflected in her work with each of her authored works done in rhyme. "Both of my parents are teachers," Meeks said. "I have worked with teaching reading in one form or another. She said there is an immediate association as-sociation with words in rhyme for students learning to read. Her collection of works are not only poetic, but interactive as well as will be the future fairy series. "For example, families and school teachers will be able to use the information in the books to create a fairy land, a fairy recipe or fairy activities and dances of their own," said Meeks. Meeks uses mixed media with the illustration of the book "Fairy's Spell," favoring her main technique of using oil and colored pencils. She also plans on using photo manipulations manipu-lations through computerization computeriza-tion for her fairy books. Her brother, Langford Meeks, is a professional photographer pho-tographer and photographed subjects, children and adults, for her fairy series in a "fairy" shoot March 15 at the Pleasant Grove Library for several of her books. From these photos she will create the pictures for her Fairy Series including her first book. Meeks said she loves to invite children and the rest of the community to be a part of her illustrations. "For example, for the illustrations il-lustrations in "Fairy's Spell," we invited people all over the county to dress up as fairies and come and get their photo taken," she said. "We finished the photos for the first book, but I'm sure there will be future fu-ture opportunities for those who would like to be forever in the illustrations of one of my next fairy books." While it's difficult for some artists to part with their creations, cre-ations, Meeks enjoys sharing. "I'd love the chance to go from library to library showcasing show-casing my series and the fun, charm and whimsy that fairies bring to children and adults alike," she said. Fairmont fZi SttbiBSM L2Z. 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