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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, March 17, 1999 - Page 7 has been extremely helpful Fundraising begins for European trip by CEU art students by Freda Aron As the sun started its downward hide and seek to the sym- phony of exquisitely expanding hues of pink, blue, orange, deep red, the audience took to their seats . . . stone benches, rocks, and plain, unadorned ground. Flutist Aldean Ketchum played a number of songs his grandfather had taught him, the gentle and pensive tones set the stage for the dancers who followed. Ketchum, the of the liyoung bretto for the Ute Opera presented by the Salt Lake Opera Company at Utahs Centennial (1996) in traditional dress set an imposing figure. Dancers Wanda Ketchum, Paul Pacheco and Jackie Cantsee were above the audience on a wooden walk, and did their individual dances in traditional dancing outfits proudly and in the manner to which they had been trained. Hes a fancy dancer High School, Blanding, and Making up his own fancy moves Designing his own outfits Using his own colors With their own special Whitehorse High School, meanings Concentrating to the music Feeling the beat of the drum (excerpted from Ron Atines poetry) This was a most spectacular fund-raiskick-of- f for the continued adventures of the Four Comers Speak, a traveling art group which is taking their talent across the sea, and joining Austrians and Germans in a er Montezuma Creek) before the group leaves on their journey. It promises to be an expensive trip. The support of the com- munity is needed, and has been generously forthcoming. The students themselves prepared Navajo Tacos and refreshments. It was a truly ecumenical affair, with Sioux, Pueblo, Navajo, Ute, and Bilagaanas. It was a lovely sharing of people, plans and hopes, great hopes. Three baskets were raffled off, with a variety of household happening this The event is all goodies. At each fund raiser, June. coming raffle tickets will be sold for under the guidance and direction of Ruthellen Pollan, Art special treats offered by the Professor at the College of business people of the surEastern Utah - San Juan rounding communities, i.e.,: Its been Pollans restaurant meals for two, bed Campus. and creativity and breakfast for two, hotel level energy that has catapulted CEUs art rooms for two, etc., etc. Mixed in with us common department into such promifolk were some of the digninence. in our midst who enjoy taries There are other scheduled fund raisers (Moab, San Juan being like the rest of us. Like multi-ethni- c First Annual 4-Co- Phil Mueller, of radio station KUTA and wife Lu, Blanding Councilwoman; archaeologist Winston Hurst and wife Kathy; former Dean of CEU Kay Shumway and wife Patsy, president of the Blanding Chamber of Commerce; Gary Guymon and wife Sharon, owner of the Homestead Steakhouse. Old, old friends and benefactors of Blanding, Dr. Dee and Beppy Gibbons, who donated their home to CEU as the administration building about 20 years ago. Working with the group to facilitate the trip and help with the arrangements is the Director of International Business for the State of Utah, Franz Kolb. Kolb is a native ofAustria who is the liaison between both governments. This week, Pollan is on her way for a special meeting with the Austrian General Counsel, Werner Brandstetter, in California, a representative of the government of Austria who Leadership Conference mers MAXIMIZINQ YOUR RESOURCES Building Life Skills March 18- - 20, 1999 San Juan High School Blanding Conference Topics Include: Promoting Self Esteem Getting Out of Debt Raising Animals to Raise a Family Youth and Families Staying Connected Emergency Preparedness Time Management Diabetes: What Approach to Take with My Diet Selecting Apparel to Enhance your Figure Helping Youth to Succeed Character Counts Canning Tomatoes & Salsa Choosing Foods Wisely Diabetes: Practical Hints in the Kitchen Youth City Councils Starting a Small Business Community Learning Centers Parenting Grief: Coping with Loss Conflict Resolution Caught in a Web Dilemma Sharpening Skills Fruit Trees, Training & Care New Directions in Apparel Care Discipline Without Tears Parenting & Marriage as a Community Resource Soil Improvement for Landscaping & Gardening Planting Pennies for Tomorrows Harvest Getting Ready for Spring Fertility and Fertilizers Diversity Time is Running Out, Y2K Meeting Common Ground Self-Employm- Registration Cost: $25 Day Rates: Thurs. $10, Fri. $15, Sat. $10 College Credit Available 4-- H and very personally involved in paving the way for all of the troupe on their most unusual and historic journey. Included in the group of traveling art students will be Marcus Williams, Loren Crank, Ty Johnson, Aldean and Wanda Ketchum, Shannon Spencer, Tom Yellowman, Ron Atine, Jackie Cantsee and Paul Pacheco. Will the gentle beauty and talent of our Native American citizens impress their foreign contemporaries? Without a doubt. We all wish them the best. Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought Henri Louis Bergson Bluff writer to read from new book March 18 On March 18 at 8 pm, Bluff resident and writer Ellen Meloy will read from her new book, The Last Cheaters Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest at Recapture Lodge in Bluff, Utah. This nonfiction work, released in February, has already received national attention; Meloys first book, Ravens Exile, was a Spur Award recipient for contemporary nonfiction. Meloy will be joined by Scott Russell Sanders, author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction including novels and collections of short stories and personal essays such as The Paradise of Bombs, Staying Put, and Writing from the Center. The free public reading is the kick-of- f event for the San Juan Writers Workshop, at which Meloy and Sanders will be key instructors. This four-da- y writing retreat, offered by Canyonlands Field Institute, invites beginning and experienced writers alike to explore the heart of their writing within the heart of southeastern Utahs canyon country. In its second year the San Juan writers Workshop appeals to writers from the Four Corners states and beyond. For information contact Canyonlands Field Institute at The San Juan 435-259-775- 0. Writers Workshop and free reading are funded in part by the Utah Arts Council and the Utah Humanities Council. G For more information and a complete schedule, contact the USU Extension Office at 435-587-32- 39 Sponsored by: Utah State University, Colorado State University, New Mexico State University, University of Arizona, College of Eastern Utah, 21st Century Community Learning, San Juan Foundation, Department of Workforce Services, Division of Child and Family Services and Four Comers Hentage Council. Utah State University Extension Service is an equal opportunity employer, provides programs and services to all persons regardless of age, gender, color, race, religion, national origin or disability. V PAUL R. MACDONALD D.D.S. 15 EAST CENTER STREET BUNDING. UTAH 84511 |