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Show CASTLE VALLEY TIMES COOLER TIMES Castle Valley, Utah - Volume 3, Number 9 - You’ve Come a Long Way, CV Players! This year there will be three different youth acting troupes: 12-yearolds and up will be doing serious drama September 15, 1994 - Long Pants At Last! See you there, and welcome, players, to the big time! FLASH! NEWS BREAK! Paula Gehrhart, head of the San Francisco-based Tributary Theater, and its director have agreed to meet with us our younger players will have a choice within the next two weeks to discuss drama and inspire our players. Kaaron will notify you, or call 4056 for the of doing either improvisational exer- where and when. —Kaaron Jorgen This year I am going to a new school, HMK in Moab. After the long hot summer, it feels good to be back in Wilderness or Dumping Ground? name is Ms. Amy Stocks. She is really (Shakespeare and modem playwrights); cises and writing their own play, or creative movement/dance/pantomime to music. All three troupes will perform for the public this winter. MOST EXCITING ON THIS FALL’S AGENDA is the support and instruction we will be receiving from professional actors. Kaki Hunter and Donny Kiffmeyer, the heartblood of Moab's community theater, will be giving a workshop for all players at the Jorgen’s, September 25th. In October, John Burroughs Rice, college drama teacher and professional actor, will be coming up from Bluff to work with some of our players on Shakespeare and more traditional drama styles. We will also be commuting to nearby communities to see live drama: Old City Park later this month for the Tributary Theater productions, and all the way to Grand Junction this spring to see The Mouse That Roared. The three troupes will be scheduling their own meeting times (call Kaaron, 4056, for older and play writing players; or Ann Cummings, 6968, for creative movement). In addition, all players will be meeting several times this fall for workshops and family potlucks. Our schedule for the next two months: Sept 25—Workshop with Kaki and Donny, 2-4 pm, Jorgen’s Oct 1 or Z—Trip to Moab for play in Old City Park (optional), followed by discussion (and possibly pizza?) Call Kaaron to arrange transportation. Oct. 9—Creative Movement workshop for all players with Ann Cummings (location TBA). October (date TBA)—Workshop with John Rice. Oct. 23— Improvisational Workshop, Jorgen’s, 3-5 pm, followed by FAMILY POTLUCK. Ag 3: n school. My teacher is really nice. Her place that is hard to put into words. It spoke to my heart long ago and kept tugging at me until I finally made this loving and caring. We’ve been studying dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. I’m not that interested in dinosaurs but she makes it fun learning about their names, where and how they lived. My favorite ancient animal is the saber toothed tiger. HMK is for grades 4, 5, and 6. I like my school and the princi— area my home. I have been deeply pal even though I don’t know him very Driving to Monticello, I am always struck by the magnificent beauty of this land. There is something about this touched by the power of this land, and there is no question that some of the most spectacular country in the world is to be found in our own backyard. Because there is so much open land here in southeastern Utah, it seems well. I like it because my teacher is so great and at recess I play basketball with my friends and I get to sit more in the back on the school bus. —Dashiel Kulander. to be a desirable area for some not so desirable projects. I remember fighting the bus. and defeating the proposed nuclear waste dump that was to be located one mile from the Canyonlands National great. My teacher is really nice. Park boundary. And remember the I love school, ALL of it! Even ——-Sarah Stocks. Recess and music and RE. are —Emy Stocks Cisco toxic waste incinerator? We won that battle too. But the fight to protect wilderness is a never~ending one, and now upon the horizon looms our next Getting the Mail Star Routes are roads, mostly in test. And so back to my drive to Monticello. I was on my way to a public hearing. Back in January, the army released a plan which proposes to fire missiles from Green River, Utah, to White Sands missile range in New Mexico. Part of the process would require 3,000 pound booster rockets to be dropped on “impact zones” in southeastern Utah. These drop zones, which take in about 80 square miles, the West, over which the U.S. mail was originally carried by horse or wagon. Rather than pay federal postal workers, contracts were set up with local entrepreneurs. These routes were marked in postal publications by a star. In the 18803, Star Routes were involved in millions of dollars worth of fraud involving Post Office department officials, contractors, subcontractors, and—you‘ll have to take my word for would be evacuated for each firing. this—U.S. Senators. Through padded Military helicopters would sweep those petitions, congressional appropriations areas chasing out anyone who may be were secured for contracts to set up More WILDERNESS More MAIL on Page 4 on Page 8 |