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Show New Utah! - Wednesday, May 10, 2000 - Page 16 dm r"a rfi f n n nss r-Tv By Karli Poyfair Pleasant Grove City Editor it was a small cast, a small audience and a small stage, but there was nothing small about the performance of "The Foreigner" at the Keith Umsteson Little Theatre by the Pleasant Grove Players. The cast is to be commended for their fine performance opening night and hopefully, as word spreads of the play, the audience will be larger in subsequent sub-sequent performances. The same set was used throughout the performance and it was very tastefully done. The warm, inviting living room made the stage seem larger than it was. The walls were painted and decorated beautifully. beauti-fully. - "The Foreigner," by Larry Shue, involves the socially shy Charlie being left at a small Georgian boarding house. He doesn't want to have to talk and converse with other people, so his friend Froggy invents a story that Charlie is a foreigner and can't speak a word of English. Charlie then become the pet project and confidante of all the other boarders. He hears many conversations that he shouldn't and in the end he helps save the day and is loved by everyone. Charlie was played by Thane Bingham, in his first performance perfor-mance with the PG Players. A large part of the character he played involved using facial expressions and reacting as if he didn't understand what others oth-ers were saying. He did an excellent job of acting without speaking and had the audience laughing at his antics as he portrayed a foreigner. The other character who's performance stood out was Tracy Fielding as Catherine, one of the boarders who is engaged to the Rev. David Marshall Lee. She really stole the show as the spoiled, sarcastic sarcas-tic debutante. Her acting and southern drawl were right on. Dustin Harding excelled in his role as Ellard, the younger brother of Catherine, who is really not as dumb as everyone is made to believe. I've seen the play performed before and Ellard was played by a man much older than Harding. But I thought casting a younger performer per-former worked well here, especially espe-cially since Harding was so believable. Jason Boren did a fine job as the suave, charismatic Rev. David, who is engaged to Catherine but ultimately has evil designs for her money. The audience also seemed to love Dennis Purdie as Owen. Donna Bingham and DeShawn Smith were also enjoyable to watch. The only problems with the play seemed to be some pauses and stumbling over words in the fourth act, which was understandable given the fact that it was opening night and the play was put together in only five weeks. However the pauses really didn't take away anything from the performance. perfor-mance. On the whole, the actors all nailed the southern drawl of their characters.. The audience felt like they were right there in the deep south. It was a bit puzzling though to have Froggy speak with a strong Australian accent, especially since the play takes place in Georgia. Charlie doesn't speak with an accent, so to have a Southern drawl and an Australian accent along with him was a bit too much. The Foreigner continues playing through May 22. Shows begin at 7:30 Friday, Saturday and Monday nights. Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for children chil-dren and can be purchased at the door. :: PROFESSIONAL REMANUFACTURINC OF TONER INKJET Refills Save 40 or Mq 1160 S. State 160 OREM 22 jB0 Family Floral celebrates grand opening in new location AMERICAN FORK - Family Floral and Gift is celebrating its grand opening in its new location, 1 East Main, American Fork, now until May 13. Free gifts will be given to everyone who comes in during the grand opening, and a grand prize of a dozen roses to be given out on May 13. The new facility is able to offer better parking, more space and visibility and do it all under one roof Built in 1905, the historic bank in American Fork is still adorned with authentic lead crys tal windows but now hold tender leaves instead of legal tender. Unlike most floral shops, Family Floral and Gift offers many gift ideas for any occasion. Lynne Sandberg, owner and manager, said that they can cater to most needs. "We offer a large variety of gifts like picture frames and plush animals... as well as Kara Chocolates," Sandberg said. Family Floral will also be offering classes on flower arranging, arrang-ing, how to tie corsages, bouton- nieres and swags. "I'm excited about offering these classes. You can leave your name, address and phone number num-ber and we will invite you to join the classes free of charge," Sandberg said. Family Floral and Gift's motto is "Where you're treated like family." fam-ily." They are open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call Lynne Sandberg at 756-6602. Denmark Continued from front page ; A public showing of the finished fin-ished works is taking place this afternoon, after which the statues stat-ues are to be shipped to Denmark so they can be installed in time for the ceremonies. cere-monies. ; As an added point of inter-pst, inter-pst, the paving stones that will surround the statues in both locations will serve as a permanent perma-nent memorial of specific emigrants. emi-grants. Site preparation and landscaping is also being provided. pro-vided. For a donation to the cost of the statues of $500 or more, descendants of the emigrants can honor their pioneer forefathers forefa-thers by having the names of their ancestors inscribed on the stones with other identifying information. Sculptor Smith was a natural natur-al "choice for this project. His great-grandmother, upon whom the "Kristina" statue is based, settled in Alpine in the early years of the city's existence. On his father's side, a direct ancestor was the first blacksmith black-smith in Draper, arriving in 1854, which is how the family's name became Anglicized. ; Although he said he was somewhat ignorant of his heritage her-itage at the time, Smith served an - LDS mission to Denmark beginning in 1961, which he said profoundly affected the future course of his life. After returning from his mission mis-sion and graduating from BYU with a fine arts degree, he returned to the country to spend a year at the Danish Royal Academy. He has continued contin-ued to maintain ties there ever since. The origins of the growing ties between the two countries that have resulted in this celebration cele-bration actually go back more than a decade. In the late 1980s, the owner of a Salt Lake City construction company who prefers to remain anonymous set- up the Scandinavian Scholarship Endowment at BYU. , . . The present administrator of this fund is Ford Stevenson, wn0 is himself a Danish descendant and a former missionary mis-sionary to the country. He explained the purpose of Office Visits $15 Everyday Low Fee! Not an introductory rate. Manipulation & Therapy included NO HIDDEN CHARGES Cash payment - $20 with check. the endowment, as specified by the donor, was to improve the image of the (LDS Church) in Denmark and Norway." The donor selected those two countries coun-tries because his ancestors emigrated emi-grated from there; he also served a mission to Norway and later returned as a mission president. Smith explained that the endowment fosters ties with the countries in two ways. The scholarship is for a non-member student from the donor's ancestral cities to come to BYU for a year of study. "These awards have become quite prestigious now, and those who have benefitted from them maintain a network of awareness in their home countries," coun-tries," Smith said. Funds provided by the endowment also pay to bring prominent Danish and Norwegian leaders to Utah from the fields of government, education, business and the media. During their visits, the leaders lead-ers present lectures at BYU's Kennedy Center for International Studies, visit with LDS Church leaders, tour BYU and other church sites, and see some of Utah's National Parks. Smith became involved with these visits because the "Kristina" statue is among those in the sculpture garden on the south side of the BYU Museum of Art. Whenever a visitor was coming, Stevenson would call him and invite him to come over and explain the statue. The work depicts a teenage girl facing into a stiff wind. Smith said her expression represents rep-resents the yearning to come to America and Utah, but also being torn by a desire to remain in her homeland. One set of visitors from about five years back had a direct impact on the development develop-ment of this project. Danish Foreign Minister Uffe Elleman Jensen and his wife Alice Vestergaard, an executive in Danish television and radio, "came as skeptics but have become bridge-builders," Smith said. It fell to Smith to conduct them on their drive through southern Utah. Along the way, he took them to the cemeteries in Mount Pleasant and Spring City, where they found all the Danish headstones "very moving," mov-ing," Smith said. Jensen was later nominated as one of two choices for president presi-dent of the new European Union. Though now retired, Smith said he continues to be a key coordinator with the Danish government. In 1998, a committee of LDS Church leaders and members in Denmark was formed to begin planning the anniversary celebration. Denmark was the first non-English speaking country to receive missionaries, and Danish was the first foreign for-eign language that the Book of Mormon was translated into. Stevenson said that in the not-too-distant past, more than 40 percent of Utahns claimed Danish ancestry. Many of those descendants still live in northern north-ern Utah County. As the work of the celebration celebra-tion committee progressed, it was suggested that a replica of the "Kristina" statue would be an appropriate gift to the Danish people. Smith was approached, and said he happened hap-pened to have one remaining casting available from the original orig-inal pre-set issue of six. In time, the choice of locations loca-tions was narrowed to the harbor har-bor and the national park, where Stevenson said .the largest July 4th celebration outside of America takes place. Not wanting to disappoint those in favor of either one, the committee recommended a statue for each. Smith was again approached, and went home to ponder the options. Overnight, he came up with the idea for "The Mormon Emigrant Family," which he roughed out in wax and took back to the committee. The rest, as they say, is history. his-tory. This second statue was inspired by Kristina's experiences experi-ences as well, Smith said. She is again represented as the young girl, along with a broth er. Her mother holds a baby, who represents a toddler son who died on the voyage across. Looking backwards is the family grandmother, who left her husband behind to take the trip with her family. Smith said the statue reflects his sense of the inner conflicts of all those who left home for an unknown land of promise. He concluded, "the statues now stand for all those people coming home, in a sense, to Denmark. They represent the binding ties and the completion of the link." 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Sharp, MD Just in case any of you have been stuck in Outer Mongolia or somewhere some-where for the past few weeks, you may be interested to know that Spring has arrived. Most of the early bulbs, like Tulips (for those of you who did not lose them to the deer) are already done blooming and the trees are leafing out. To a certain group of people, that can only mean one thing; allergies. If you have allergies, and have not discussed them with your doctor recently, perhaps you should as the medicines for this continue to improve. Allergies baffle me to some extent. 1 mean, I can't think of any reason for them at all. After all, that pollen isn't hurting you any. The basic process is this: pollen comes floating through the air, (we'll use a pollen allergy for the sake of convenience), and gets sucked up your nose when ' you take that deep breath of clear spring air. Now comes the puzzling part. Your body derides to treat this grain of pollen the same as it does a bacteria or a virus. Your immune svstem is able to create antibodies to protect it from dangers in the environment so it creates antibodies against the pollen. Now it is primed to react when again exposed to that pollen. When it happens, hap-pens, certain inflammatory cells, called mast cells, migrate into your nose and basically explode with histamine when stimulated by exposure to the pollens. Histamine makes your nose run, your eyes and throat itch, and you sneeze and sneeze. With that as a basic primer, you can now understand some of the options for treating allergies. I can think of four different points at which you can intervene. inter-vene. First: keep the pollen out by using central cen-tral air conditioning with the windows closed and do the same in your car. You could wear a respirator mask when out in your yard. Make sure you wash your hands before touching your face. Second: if you can keep those miserable mast cells out of your nose, you don't react as strongly. Steroids work great for this. Currently in vogue are the nasal steroid sprays because you can accomplish this using very low doses. Third: block the action of the histamine with antihistamines. The current generation gener-ation or these work well and don't make you tired. Previously used ones, like diphenhydramine and chlorpheniramine chlorpheni-ramine can make you really tired and groggy. Some studies have suggested lli.it ewn those who don't perceive any tiredness may be just about as impaired as someone who has had a couple of l-inks, so they should absolutely not be used il you need to drive or operate " potentially dangerous equipment . Fourth: try and get rid of, or its block, those stupid antibodies tfa got the whole thing going in the first place. That is where allergy shots come in. Although they'' well, they involve a large timers" mitment, at least initially, so are; for everybody. Other than the misery they cays are there any other reasons for treating them? At least one stud)' shown that kids with untreated allergies did much worse ins than those without any allergies. They were too distracted by thw misery to do well. Kids who the" had their allergies treated with older antihistamines did just at as poorly. They were no longer"5 erable, they were just too tired. Kids treated with the newer, nor-dating nor-dating antihistamines did just abas ab-as well in school as those 'hoi: not have any allergies. Allergies asthma, seem to be increasing can affect both school and wort performance. Diaonosin? allergies may bea nie as going through your symp vvilh vour doctor and might in- .Mort yc a trial of allergy medicine definitive testing may invt scratch test, intradermal or tests. 0- Most times the scratch test ': you an adequate answer, is u and saretodo, and may be 0 by your family doctor oranJI" gist. ThcIHC-lliShl.indHclliC! ,,f;m7'"'" . is currently hi. ivy patients. They act anccs. ., in! CCCft fl" 1 L ftjf INTKRMOUNTA1N HEALT'1' I MC ID! 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