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Show Wednesday, December December now being Registrations 3 Mens on 3 for new accepted Uintah at Basketball League Recreation. The fee is $120, with $20 discount for teams registered and paid in full by Jan. 16. Deadline to register is Jan. 23. Adult Racquetball League singles open, A and B leagues and beginning Spencer Express Writer He remembers them as the last words that his grandfather spoke to him. Guiding words, and words that the old man knew in his heart were womens registration. league Registration $25 per player until Dec. 19, $30 after Dec. 19. Registration deadline Jan. 9 Uintah Recreation, 134 W. Main, Suite 101. Uintah Recreation ski package. Five trips, includes transportation and lift pass. $230. I intah Recreation District, 134 W. Main, Suite 101. true. Stan told Harrison this he that must promgrandsonfriend ise to go to jewelry school. Harrison had shared many experiwith ences grandson Randy Fullbright. It was with Harrison that the child had learned to respect ancient found nestled within the and mesas of his beloved canyons December 18 Stockman's Noon. Rotary. Restaurant. TOPS meets in Conference Room of Vernal City Building. II 0 p.m. Gwen Peterson, Open House DinaSewers Sewing Guild. 8 p.m. at USU l.xtension office, potluck and gift exchange. F lection of 2004 officers. dancers Powerhouse present The Nutcracker Ballet. Cast of 75. Free to public. IJintah High School Auditorium. Curtain at 7 p.m. Fun for the whole family. Joint community concert Basin and the Basin Brass Quintet 7.30 Symphony. pm. at Vernal Middle School Free admission to the west. His grandfather would take him to McConkies and up Ashley Creek. As a boy, he had set up an easel alongside his grandfather and they painted in acrylics together. And Harrison had watched and anticipated the master craftsman that Randy could become. Fullbrights father was an engineer for Halliburton, and had taken his young family with him to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Brail. For some children such an international childhood could have been daunting. But for the young Fullbright, having his eyes opened to other cultures and different people was a good experience. Of his stay in Brazil, he recalls I spoke Portuguese with a grin, well and my mother would really get me out of school to go to the market with her. After their Halliburton experiences Randy, his mother and step father lived in the boonies, above Rangely at White River. He graduated in petroleum technology from the college in Rangely and began a five-yecareer with Getty Oil. He operated the Bonanza pipeline. to Lana then married By Aldredge, he followed her insistence to go to jewelry school and attended the jewelry program at Oklahoma State University. It was an intense, one-yejewelry making and designing course that he had seen advertised in a stack of magazines that Vernal jeweler Shriss Anderson had given him. He also took concentrated week-lon- g specialized courses with the Gemological Society of America in California for advanced diamond instructions. But I was always in trouble and getting reprimanded, he remembers without much sign of remorse-- he was less traditional than his teachers. They werent very artsy, he recalls. Fullbrights professional life as a master craftsman jeweler was about to take off. By now, the Fullbrights lived in St. George, where he worked for goldsmiths. Thats where the artist in him woke up he says with enthusiasm. There are so many fine artists down there," he says, and St. George was still kind of sleepy, when they first moved to Utahs Dixie. The setting was perfect for him to begin tapping his own design energies. The Fullbrights became the parh ents of premature twins Paige and Shelby, and Randy found himself a stay at home Dad. Lana was employed out of the home, and Randy's studio was at home where he could tend the twins. It was during this time that he ran across a picture of an antique metal Japanese vase, finely executed in a layered technique, mokume-gane- , from the Ido Period. Between 1651 1728 A.D., a Japanese swordsmith mastered the brass artform. Fullbright taught himself how to do mokume-ganadmitting that dealing with 21 separate work processes has lead to some real disasters. But I rarely give up totally on anything, he admits. Some of my best wp-- k came from mistakes. It was his growing national recognition for design and mokume-gan- e that techniques that lead to Rozwell thing! Yes, the Rozwell of the 1947 supposed crash of extra terrestrials of conspiracy theory fame in New Mexico. Fullbright has a hard time not laughing when he retells the comedy of errors and gullibility of people when it comes to such things as flying saucers. I've found out who did it and why," he says of the hoax that used a scrap piece of his mokume-gan- e metal as a supposed piece of a crashed space ship. nine-year-o- ld ar Psilomelane stone makes this pendant with pearls more striking. 1 1.30-12:3- 6-- ' My . tm .! y-- t IX? ') mar community. Randy Fullbright melts wax to create paper casting molds of a petroglyph design. December 19 Community dance at Golden Age Center, 155 South 100 West, p.m. every Friday night. Kays Band provides the music. Deadline for Jr. Jazz 5th grade grade girls and boys. girls and Uintah Recreation District, 134 W. Main, Suite 101. ' for Youth Indoor Deadline and Soccer, girls boys Registration $30. Uintah Recreation, 134 West Main, Suite 101 6-- Chrysoprase, pearls and diamonds are combined in this stunning pair of Fullbright earrings. Dinosaur bones and ancient Japanese Peart4t3tJ mohume-gan- e 'oUWnd bVdoch com- - mokume-gan- e bine on this bracelet. enhanoe the dinosaur bone tip of this one ' December 20 dancers Powerhouse present The Nutcracker Ballet. Cast of 75. Free to public. Uintah High School Auditorium. Curtain at 7 p m. Fun for the whole family. Happy llariukkah. Community Hikes sponsors an e Green River hike from easy the Green River campground north to in Campground Split Mountain Dinosaur National Monument. Meet at Basin Sports, 5 0 W. Main, Vernal, at 10 a.m. Bring food, water, warm clothes and good hiking shoes. two-mil- December 2 I DS Slake Annual Glines Christmas music fireside. 7 pm 1270 West 1500 south. ree, family oriented, audience participation. Annual community turkey shoot at Vernal Rod and Gun Club. 12 pm. 1 f - . t- ; pxa CXJ The ; r 1 December 23 of Vernal Chamber Area Commerce. Noon. Golden Corral. Ail District Uintah School schools and grades will remain open until normal closing times before closing for Christmas holiday vacation. first piece of jewelry in his Vernal made Fullbright studio was this pendant showcasing dinosaur bone and handmade chain. ' t - V 1 k' H cvI v kj j;v December 24 Grace Baptist Church, 3816 South 2500 Last, Christmas I ve candlelight service for the family. 7 p in . if a three-mont- -- 789-835- 6. a.m.-12.3- ar f 17 are Fullbright has the hands of a master craftsman e, B1 7, 2003 Community Calendar EKpmssmm By Maureen 1 Faithfully detailed bronze replicas of McKee Springs petroglyphs imi December 25 Merry Christmas. Sr . are one of Fullbrights trademark art- - works. UFO permanent display museum at Rozwell. Fullbright began sensing the big city" feeling in southern Utah. His artistic abilities had been honed and tested adequately, and it was time for the family, which had by now added another son, to return to at This Fullbnght nng of opal and mokume-gan- e has been used in a lapidary journal. He did it as a hoax but it got so big so fast that he let it go. Before the episode was exposed, the twisted chunk of thin metal was kept under lock and key by the Rozwell Police Department for two years, national network television would drop short comments into about the newscasts mystery in metal Rozwell, and the Fullbrights refused to answer their own telephone for two weeks because every nut case in the country was on the phone." An Albuquerque reporter, John Fleck, tracked Fullbright down and asked, What can you tell me about an odd piece of metal?" Fleck told Fullbright that his jewelry scrap was, by far the best of the bunch." when it came to such artifacts. three-foo- t A photographic enlargement of the scrap was shown at the Johnson Spate Center show of hoaxes." The metal itself is on the Vernal. like Vernal," he says with vigor. People say that Vernal isnt a good place for arfists! Well, something is here-i- trf been attracting people like me for thousands of years," he says waving his arms towards the mountains and canyons alive with petroglyph evidened left by early, ' native artists. AH the inspiration in the world is out there at your fingertips. This is amazing country," his voice trails off. I havent even scratched the surface." Today ancient petroglyph have an ever growing pull on his talents. The walls of his Main Street are alive with various presentations of the mysterious figures. He has interpreted them in many bronze casts, some with colored glazes, others more traditionally brass colored. Some are mounted, some are individually hung. I , of his images and groupings have in common is their trueness to the actual artifact. I dont figures, he says emphatically of the ageless figures that are so unique that they can be identified by the area in which they were created. These figures were important to To change them those people. around would be like taking the Bible and ripping out a page here and there. Those figures were deeply significant to the people who made them." His camera is a frequent companion on outings so that he can photograph the petroglyphs he enjoys so much. His is the only gallery to carry his petroglyphs. When he moved from St. George he reduced the number of galleries carrying his jewelry, pottery, and other work from II down to two. He began doing hand built pottery in St. George to prove a point to an artist friend. In his first year creating pottery he won a purchase award from the St. George Art Museum and a blue ribbon. He also knows his work is in such demand nationally that he doesnt dicker over prices. He has many patrons around the country who One thing that all simply want to collect his work. I get funny, he says. This stuff is meant to be seen, not kept in a little glass box somewhere. In October, he won the Utah Aus Council jurors award in Crafts and Photography for three pieces of his gold jewelry. A sheepish grin crosses his face as he recalls his eye doctors shock upon finding out that he had done these jewelry designs with a badly damaged cornea-- in other words with only one functioning eye, and no depth perception. He is now recovering from a corneal transplant with 36 stitches in the eye. He has promised his doctor not to do jewelry for awhile. Im already off on a new tangent. Im doing paper casting," he says, seated above an intricate wax sculptured petroglyph that will become part of a mold for casting paper I havent even done it yet. I just get an idea and jump in with both feet. Its the same as with the bronzes. I hadnt cast bronze in my life until the twins were lom. When it comes to his future he Whatever happens, says simply, prize-winnin- g hapjvcns. December 26 Community dance at Golden Age Center, 155 South 100 West, p.m. every Friday night. Kays Band provides the music. 8-- December .30 No Vernal Area Chamber Commerce meeting. of December 31 New Year's Lve Watch Night Service, Grace Baptist Church, 7 p m. Preaching, games and a video. Die New Years Fve community dance will be held from 9 to 12:30 pm. at the Golden Age Center, 155 West 100 South. Kays band provides the music. There will be no dance held Friday, Jan. 2. January 5 All Uintah School District schools and grades will resume at their regularly scheduled times. lo place items of public interest on the Community Calendar, mail to the Venial 1 xpresv, PO. Box 1000, editor (a venial com, or call the Vernal Lxpress at 789-351- |