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Show .A c J PACE B 1 X ' Monday, October 27, 2008 ( t ' K J EDITOR 1 Dana Bell, X 1 L i 586-548- 8 . Dancing event popular among team, students By DANA BELL dbellsuujournal.com Orem resident, competes in the SUU Cory Mince, a Outdoor Centers Bouldering Competition in the Sorenson P.E. Building. This is the second year the Outdoor Center has ld had this competition in the fall. SUU Outdoor Recreation & Education Director Rob Myers said the Outdoor Center also has a second competition in the Utah Summer Games. The Sharwan Smith Center Ballroom transformed into a Latin-base- d club when the Ballroom Dance Company hosted a salsa dance on Thursday. Assistant Ballroom Dance Company Director Deborah Packard said she was pleased with how the event went. Packard said she was not sure how the event would go because it was the first time the company has hosted a salsa dance. Packard said about 146 people attended the Salsa dance and it was about even between company members and siudents or community members. It was a pretty good balance, she said. For the first 30 minutes there was a salsa dance lesson. Packard said it went well, but it was difficult to teach that many people, especially with it not being a structured class. Chelsea Brown, a sophomore theatre arts major from Salt Lake City and Ballroom Dance Company member, said she thought the lesson went well and Packard did a good job with teaching. (Packard) is good at teaching, she said. Packard said once the general dancing started, she stayed available for anyone who still needed help with the dance steps. At one point a Bachata music style came on and Packard said if anyone needed help with Bachata dance steps she could help them. She said almost everyone on the dance floor came to her to get help learning this dance style. Prior to the event, Packard said the company has had free salsa dance classes every Tuesday and Thursday for thje past month. Packard said there was a positive response from the students and that is one of the reasons why the company had the event. We wanted to have a place for people to go and show off what they have learned over the last month, she said. Salsa dancing is popular across the country and in Utah, but hasnt become too popular in southern Utah and the company wanted to raise awareness about the dance style, Packard said. Brown said she enjoyed the event and also enjoys salsa dancing. Chris Smith, a freshman at George Wythe University, said he enjoyed the event. Smith said the reason why he came out to the event was because he has a friend in the company. i See SALSA, Page B2 Bouldering competition attendance hits top By DANA BELL dbellsuujournal.com Several spectators came to watch SUU students and residential climbers compete in the SUU Outdoor Center Bouldering Competition on Saturday. SUU Outdoor Recreation & Education Coordinator Rob Myers said he thought the competition went well. Myers said this is the second year the Outdoor Center has had this competition in the fall. In addition to the fall competition, Myers said the Outdoor Center also has a competition for the Utah Summer Games. Myers said the competition went better than last year, he said this camaraderie between the year the Outdoor Center limited the amount of climbers to 50. climbers, she said. He said the competition is open Watson said she noticed some to anyone age 12 and up. of the climbers did not know one said Myers another, but were there was a good still cheering for (was) mix between each other. SUU students said Myers and community members, but for one supporting the most part it another is one was a college-base- d of the primary crowd. reasons for the K a r e e n Karleen Watson competition. He Watson, a senior said the communication competition isnt major from Grantsville, said supposed to be climbers competing she was impressed with how the against one another, but rather climbers are competing against themselves and making their own achievements. "There a sense of camaraderie between the climbers." 1 climbers Watson said before she climbed it was helpful to watch how other climbers maneuvered the wall. It was useful to see what movements and holds the climbers would do, she said. It was also encouraging to see a climber finish the wall, Watson said. When see someone you complete a climb you know it is she said. Watson said she likes the feeling of accomplishment when climbing. for (Its) people, she said. Watson said climbing is also a good way for people to conquer fears; for example a fear of heights. do-abl- e, See CLIMB, Page B2 Trevor Harbison, a master of accounting student from Vernal, dances with Chelsea Brown, a sophomore theatre arts major from Salt Lake Cit during the Ballroom Dance Companys salsa dance. Pumpkin Festival fun for community By ANNA COLE Children paint pumpkins at the Pumpkin Festival at the Randall L. Jones Theatre lawn. Other activities included face painting and musical hay bales. acolesuujournal.com Community members and their children gathered on the lawn of the Randall L. Jones Theatre with color, laughter and chatter during Saturdays Pumpkin Festival. The grounds were filled with booths for games food, merchandise, decorations and arts and crafts. Booths ranged from musical hay bales to face painting to a pumpkin painting booth. Ted Porray, a Cedar City resident and member of the Utah Shakespearean Festival Guild, said helping sponsor the Pumpkin Festival was beneficial both to the guild and to the community. (For) people in the community, it allows them the chance to get the merchandise we have because its all new merchandise, he said. And it allows them to buy things at inexpensive prices and we get to donate money to the (Utah Shakespearean Festival), and the festival is a terrific organization. Porray, who dressed up like a pirate for the festival, said he and his wife dressed up for the fun of it, and because the kids like it. Usually the Guild people wear the yellow shirts and sweatshirts and stuff ... so we just decided to dress up in costume, because its more fun that way and you get to say argh, he said. 1 had a little kid call me Jack Sparrow, so I guess Im Jack Sparrow. Porray said he would definitely come back to help out again. As long as they have this, well be here, he said. I think its terrific for the community because its a great deal for the kids Its a very family friendly, festive festival. Barbara Wolf, a Cedar City resident and volunteer with the Women in Business, said the turnout was better than she had . . . anticipated. I was worried about it being at the same as the sheep festival, but it hasnt seemed to hurt the attendance from what I see, she said. Maybe it just makes it so they can go here and there and keep both sides of the family entertained. Wolf said this was the first year she had volunteered, and was enjoying the event. The kids are loving it. she said. Parents seem to be enjoying it. I think its a great event, especially on such a nice day. I think anything that promotes the families getting out and doing some fun things together is time good. Melissa Montiano, an Enoch resident, brought her son Owen to the Pumpkin Festival for the first time. He was too little last year, he wouldn't really appreciate it, so this is the first year that weve been here, and well absolutely be back next yeai. she said. Owens favorite parts of the Pumpkin Festival were the 'eaf coi ral and the pumpkin painting, Montiano said. He loved the pumpkin decorating, she said. (I enjoyed) just seeing him have fun. I enjoyed watching him have fun in the leaf corral. is The Pumpkin Festival a good representation of Cedar City and the kind of ' community it is, Montiano said. I dont think you could really pull this off in a big city, so this is just everything that Cedars about, she said. You see so many people you know here, and this is just cool. The weathers just perfect. This is why we love Cedar, because they do fun stuff like this. a Susan Cedar Wooten, and resident membtr City See FUN, Page B2 4 |