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Show L ESTYLE EDITOR; JEAN CAREY CI THE DAILY HERALD (www.HarkTheHerald.com) 344-25- ft Ridin' herds, rhymin' n. u IF YOU GO WHAT: Cowboy Poetry Gathering 1 "to ' 1 words 1 - i t 4 TICKETS: ! I 800-888-849- 9 or www.smithtix.com V' f INFO: (435) or 654-235- 2 Wednesday 5 p.m.: Dutch oven cook-of- f competition dinner, Midway Town Hall 7 p.m.: Cowboy 1 Brenn the part with poetrymusic concert, big-rimm- ed Midway Town Hall hat; but he is by trade. With four albums under Thursday singer-songwrit- er his belt, Hill travels to 7 p.m.: Cowboy Poetry Express, Heber Valley Historic Railroad; ride with f about 100 concerts II during the summer. He poets and musicians as they entertain on board; cost $25 j and wife, Sylina, and baby boy, Quayden, have "a little bit of livestock for Sour Dough recreation" Slim that he comes home to in Hooper. Hill and more than a dozen other entertainers will reminisce about the cowboy way of life at the 8th annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Buckaroo Pair today through Sunday in Heber City. During the five days of the gathering last year, 4,000 people partook of cowboy offerings; organizers hope attef'ance tops $,000 this year. "I mainly write and ring," said Hill, 26. "I guess the stuff I write is poetry to music." "Western Way," the official magazine of the Western Music Association called him "the future of western music," said Hill's manager, Brian Ferriman, who added, "He's got real He's very young Ktential. Buck McCain Around the campflre: "A Quiet Night" by Buck McCain exhibits the Old West style of cowboys. That same style will be coining to the 21st century-thiweek with Heber City's Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Buckaroo Fair. Musical performers Wylie, below below Brenn and Hill, left, right, are both participating in this week's gathering. s J, f " of west- ern music contemporaries. Many veterans are considerably older." At 16, Hill performed two nights a week in a bar in Ogden. The teenager ended up in Elko for a Sat- - Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Horse demonstration clinic with Clay Wright, Doug Holmes Arena 5 p.m.: Buckaroo Fair with 40 booths of cowboy collectibles; cowboy poetry, eat at Eddie Deen's BBQ 7 p.m.: Bar J Wranglers 9 p.m.: Country swing dance with Wylie and The Wild West Saturday " - I - - urday night concert. "There was an audience for the kind of music I was writing," said Hill of his Elko appearance. "They seemed pretty receptive to a young guy singing about a vanishing way of life." Hill doesn't feel his X Generation "has paid enough respect to tradition" and added, "I don't Frontier Psychiatrist What would Coco Chanel think? Do you suffer from frighteningly white legs and a stomach so pale it glows? As season gets under way, some are opting to skip the ultraviolet lights of tanning beds in favor service called Mystic Tan. of a In a service somewhat akin to a car wash for the skinj patrons stand naked on an oval positioning plate and are sprayed up and down with nozzles distributing tanning lotion. No sunburns, no bikini lines just a lovely fake-and-ba- self-tanni- . " The service takes less than 60 seconds and purports to distribute color more evenly and naturally than application. Locally, it is available at Seaside Laundry & Tanning, that South Provo establishment that lets you bask in a tanning bed while simultaneously permanent pressing your darks. "It's been really, really popular," said manager Alicia Hansen, noting that people like the ease and speed of the service. At her salon, Mystic Tan typically costs $15 for the first application, and $20 for subsequent uses. Several other local salons offer similar spray-o- n services, which promise all the brown ... with none of the burn. Elyssa Andrus at-ho- self-tanni- , events at Wasatch High School in Heber City unless noted visit www.hebercitycow- boypoetry.com Hill might be a at heart, and glow. Buckaroo Fair Sunday WHERE: All The Daily Herald orange-is- h & WHEN: Today through By KAREN HOAG and NOVEMBER 6, 2002 WEDNESDAY, (Hah high in perfection According to National Geographic, five of the "50 Perfect Places in America" are in Utah. The November issue features a report in which hikers, climbers and photographers were polled, culminating in the top-5- 0 list. The Utah locales are: The Maze in Canyonlands National Park; the Rectory, northeast of Moab; Muley Point, northwest of Mexican Hat, San Juan County; Monument Valley; and the San Juan River. The experts surveyed were asked where they go to which explains why only one of Utah's escape crowds made the cut. national parks Couch potatoes everywhere were disappointed to learn that all of the "perfect places" on the list are located outdoors. Eric D. Snider - 1.i!)ftn!s i other musicians 7 p.m.: Bar J Wranglers and other musicians Sunday 3 p.m.: Bar J Wrangler Gospel Hour, nondenominational !i know what it is, maybe the fast pace, but we're traveling around the country playingto the Baby Boomers and their parents." As Hill journeyed through small town America, he was inspired to write his most recent song, "Pick-UTruck Cafe," which will highlight his 2003 album. p 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.: Buckaroo Fair; cowboy poetry, BBQ 3 p.m.: Wylie and The Wild West concert and Entertainers besides the above: Joni Harms, Sour "It's where the good oP guys gather at the local greasy spoon to talk about what's going on," the singer said. "One thing they have in common is, there are a lot of one ton or ton pickup trucks parked out front. It's very hard to find a 4 three-quart- er Dough Slim, Steve parking place." Lyrics include: "Talk about the weather and the prices of cattle, "Your wife's worthless brother and his brand new saddle. "Talk about women, the See COWBOY, C2 & Terri Taylor, RP Smith, Ken Overcast, tlillbilly Voodoo, BrVnn Hill (Utah native), KevinMcNivens, Jeff Carson, Blue Sage, Kacey Musgraves, In Cahoots, Round Valley Riders Special education joins mainstream By SOLOMON MOORE Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO -Moji Duenas cannot read and may never learn to. Nor walk or can the speak or feed herself. She is incontinent. Convulsions sometimes rattle her body. Yet Moji is a high school student in the San Francisco Unified School District, taking most of her classes with teens en route to college. She is part of San Francisco's ambitious and sometimes painful effort to integrate most disabled students into regular V m. It t classrooms. San Francisco began its program eight years ago, making it one of the first urban school systems in the nation to do so. The results have profoundly affected the district. Many parents and school officials say San Francisco's changes, which now are implemented in half the public schools there, give disabled children a chance to thrive. They have fewer limits placed upon them and have nondisabled children as behavior models. Even some parents of regular students say their children are learning valuable lessons in com- - KANUI LYNN BtACHLos Angeles limes One class: Alexander Babitsky, in orange, participates with Jeffrey Chan, left, and Helena Colindres, right, in their class at Alamo Elementary School in San Francisco. passion and tolerance. At the same time, the transition has not been smooth. Some teachers and administrators resent having to work with disabled students. Special education teachers are scarce. A number of handicapped youngsters find it difficult to fit into regular classes sometimes they are neglect ed by teachers or picked on by schoolmates. And a growing segment of educators say the effort, known as "inclusion," is proving to be more expensive than having separate classrooms for the handicapped. Principal Andrew W. Ishibashi of George Washington High School, which Moji attended, respects the district's policy respecting parents' wishes on inclusion where possible. But he doesn't think it's realistic in the case of severely disabled students like Moji. "She's mentally untrain-able,- " he said. Unhappy with that assessment, Moji's mother, See SPECIAL ED, C2 |