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Show Painters profile April 9, The 1986 Page Five Pyramid Artist brings wealth of talent to area by LaVerne Nelson PLEASANT A relative newcomer to this city, who is interested in becoming involved in the MT. art and community circles is LaVerne Nelson, who has been a professional artist since the 1960s. For many years she lived, painted and taught art in Hotchkiss, Colo, under the name LaVerne Carruthers. In 1979, she moved to Fairview, Okla. and continued with her art work until moving to Mt. Pleasant in November of last year when she married Evan G. Nelson, a n local artist, formerly of Thistle. LaVerne is well versed in painting as a result of study at Northwestern and Southwestern State Colleges in Oklahoma and the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, besides having the good fortune to have studied with two members of the Royal Society of the Arts of London, England, Mario Cooper and Merlin Enabnit. She studied watercolor with well-know- Diary of Anne Frank to play at Snow 16-1- Moroni stake plans fireside MORONI The Stake Young Men and Young Women will hold a Fireside Sunday evening, April 13, at 7 p.m. at the Moroni Stake Center. Speakers will be from Utah State University. An invitation is extended to all youth age 12 and older to attend. FREE Edmunds; Crib corner 18 or over, or married to participate Must be Treana Seely enters event BRUNCHES LUNCHES SALT LAKE CIT- Y- Treana Seely, 15, daughter of Ms. Shirley Seely, Salt Lake, and Edward Seely, Mt. Pleasant, has been selected as a finalist in the 15th annual Miss Utah National Teen-Age- r Pageant May 2, 3, and 4, at the Sheraton Hotel. Ms. Seely is the granddaughter of Helen Jensen, Spring City and Velores Seely, Mt. Pleasant. Mildred Seely, Mt. Pleasant, is her PARTIES ANNIVERSARIES WEDDINGS CLUBS WE HAVE Back drops Fountains, etc. Food Dishes Wedding Cakes Custom made veil head pieces r lighting Tables - Lace and colored cloths Indoor-outdoo- YOU DO THE ifvtf Ml 1 PUNNING r. Each contestant participates WE DO THE WORK CALL LOIS TUCKER 462-218- 2 396 W. 200 S. Mt. Pleasant collection in storage awaiting transportation. Mrs. Nelson missed the international exposure, but did get the paintings back after two j in the Volunteer Community Service program of the National Teen-Age- r encourages Pageant which teenagers to participate in school and civic affairs. Contestants will be judged on Scholastic achievement leadership; poise personality and appearance. HELP WANTED Spring City announces an opening for an individual who will be responsible for all work on city power, street and water systems. Applicants should have prior electrical and plumbing experience and must be able to operate a backhoe, dump truck and similar heavy equipment. Applications will be accepted at city hall until noon Friday, April 18, 1986 application forms are available at the Spring City city hall and 233 E. 6th Kristie Peterson Kristie Peterson to enter pageant PLEASAN- T- Kristie daughter of Starla Peterson, Mt. Pleasant, and Larry Peterson, Boise, Id. has been selected as a state finalist and will MT. is Nelson traces her painting career to the age of nine, when she was fortunate enough to have an enthusiastic art teacher in the public school system at Fairview, Okla. Although she always won medals and ribbons in the district school competitions, her first actual recognition came in high school when she won a school-wid- e contest for class ring designs, and the rings that year were actually made from her design. LaVerne was drawn between art, music and writing during her formative years, but settled on art as the most intensive subject. However, she earned money with all three, having played a tenor dance band saxophone in a during two years of college in Oklahoma and playing the organ in a small town dinner club weekends in Colorado. Her writing took the journalism route when she worked part-tim- e as society editor for a small weekly newspaper during high school. She later helped with homework for a relative who was minoring in Journalism in college. In 1971 in Hotchkiss, Colo., a position that lasted for several years and even included simultaneous editing of the Paonia Paonian, nine miles from Hotchkiss. Both were owned by a Grand Junction newspaper firm. A few years ago, LaVerne decided the stress of commissioned portraits was getting somewhat difficult, as was the strain of teaching. She says but she is a hard works herself harder than she does her students. task-mistres- She had been resting on her laurels for awhile, but since in Mt. Pleasant has felt the urge to wet the brushes and get back to painting. She is currently busy portraying many of the picturesque old homes and outbuildings in the Sanpete Valley. She adds that being married to another artist is a distinct advantage, because he understands if she would rather paint than discuss the weather, bake bread, or dust the furniture. arriving Peterson, -- The Patchworkers, EPHRAIM the Sanpete Chapter of the Utah Quilt Guild, will meet Friday, April 11, at 2 p.m. in the City Library. Quilters will be making the evening star block under the direction of Betty Roberts of Gunnison. When the quilt is finished it will be raffled off this summer with proceeds going to help fund the Patchworkers Guild. Those who started their block in March should bring the finished block to the meeting. Sanpitch Camp plans meet The Sanpitch Camp Daughters of the Utah Pioneers will meet on Tuesday, April 15, at 2 p.m. in the Moroni Stake Relief Society room. Pioneer stories will be told by Ruth Draper, and a pioneer history will be read. The nominating committee will present the roster for elections. Refreshments will be served. All members and eligible members are invited to attend. Seminar planned Don Aslett, often GUNNISON will called the Cleanup King appear at the Gunnison Valley High School on Saturday, April 19 at 12:30 p.m. according to Mary Lois Madsen, USU Extension Service. Aslett is a noted entrepreneur, cleaner, real estate developer, publisher, writer, consultant and humorist. LaVerne Nelson of Mt. Pleasant is happy to be applying paint to canvas Evan since her move last winter to this area. She and her Nelson, paint in their home studios in the southeast part of town, with both interested in similar subjects, but very different in their styles of rendering those subjects. Both are active members of the Sanpete Valley Art Guild. artist-husban- Jacci Den Hartog exhibits works MORONI Jacci Den CLAREMONT, CA Hartog, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Den Hartog of Mt. Pleasant is displaying her sculptures at a Claremont gallery as a project for a Master of Fine Arts degree. Miss Den Hartog received her undergraduate degree from Linfield College in McMinnville, Ore. Since arriving in Claremont, she has shown her work in several group shows in Fullerton, Irvine, and Claremont. Her sculpture involves itself with formal investigations of geometery and construction. The pieces extend from a minimalist tradition and are not about narrative effects. The attitudes of the pieces are occasionally playful and often provocative. Miss Den Hartogs methods involve straightforward constructions and undisguised materials, including plaster, wood, and rubber. She is also a graduate of Wasatch Academy. WATKINS DEALER Products. Monthly Specials it it Call Judy Morley Full line of Watkins North. Spring City years. Her former memberships include the Women Artists of the American West, headquartered in Norco, Calif., the Colorado Portrait Artists the Southwest Association; Watercolor Society, and many smaller art groups. Among her hundreds of past commissioned portraits was one of Congressman Wayne Aepinall of Colorado, who hung his portrait in his offices in Washington, D.C. until his retirement. Others, she said of these United Statees. Patchworkers plan meeting Treana Seely OH! .aqie J DECORATING 8 CATERING Let us help you with: s, have included college presidents, prominent surgeons, corporate heads, politicians and Joe Blows children" and have been sent border to border and coast to coast d Mr. and Mrs. Jay (Marva) Olsen, Fountain .Green, announce the birth of their 19th grandchild, a boy born to Connie and Wayne Jarrett in the Juab Hospital, their second son. Other grandparents are Earl and Beth Jarrett, Nephi. HOSPITAL all-gi- rl compete in the Miss Utah Co-e- d Pageant the end of May at the Salt Lake Sheraton Hotel. Miss Peterson is a junior at North Sanpete High School where she is a varsity cheerleader, member of the girls varsity volleyball team and member and captain of the girls varsity basketball and track teams. She is an honor roll student and member of the foreign language club. She also enjoys water skiing, tennis, singing and dancing. is a sponser The Miss Utah Co-epageant. PREGNANCY TEST SANPETE VALLEY through workshops and private instruction. She was honored to have been considered protege of Merlin Enabnit, a title that influenced Grumbacher Art Supply officials of New York to print free flyers for each of her demonstrations, lectures and workshops for many years. For three yeaars, Mrs. Nelson was on the governors interim advisory panel for the Colorado Council on the and Arts and Humanities, simultaneously served as interim advisory chairman for the Western Mountain Visual Arts Committee, later serving a fell year, by governors appointment, on the Advisory Council after organization was completed. married Wanda Lloyd. They are the parents of four children. She is a worker in genealogy name extraction, former counter hostess at Temple Sauare. in meetinghouse librarian, teacher and Relief School Sunday Primary, Society; born in Garfield, Utah, to Harry Thomas and Ethel Walker Lloyd. The Edmunds will assume their new responsibilities about midyear. 283-402- Sat. April 26, 1986 9 a.m. - 12 noon and Oklahoma. She has taught in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas and Utah, with her students consisting of rank beginners to college fine arts graduates in the same workshhop. Her paintings are in countless private and public collections throughout the United States, including a landscape in the permanent collection of Oklahoma State University at Stillwater and four westerns and portraits in the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Hereford, Tex. LaVemes work has been accepted in numerous national shows, one of the most prestigious being a show of the American West in the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, Calif. Others include the difficult Philbrook Art Museum at Tulsa, Okla.; the Eastern Colorado Museum at Grand Junction; the Women Artists of the American West Show at Las Vegas Museum; the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame at Hereford, who commissioned her to do the official portrait in 1979 of the annual inductee. The portrait, in full color, appeared on the cover of the Sidesaddle, their annual rodeo program. In the two of her western historical portraits were accepted to be shown in Japan for three months with an extensive collection of antique western memoribilia. After having been approved by the Japanese and American embassies, both were stolen along with an antique gun counselor; mayor of South Jordan City; sales manager of door sales company. He was born in Wales to Carl Kaestli and Mabel Harriet (Bogh) Hannsen at n as well as having judged and-o- r jurored many shows in Colorado and elders quorum presidents years in a narrow Amsterdam attic during World War II, commented Dr. Kim Christison, head of Snows Theatre Department. Winner of the Pulitizer Prize and the Critics Circle Award, the play explores the forced intimacy and interdependence of eight people crammed into a dingly shelter offered to them by Dutch friends: The Franks with their two teenage daughters; the Van Daans with their boy; and Mr. Dussell, an elderly bachelor. Their struggle to survive together, their anguish and their petty quarrels, great hopes and little on the stage in joys are nine scenes, bridged by Annes narration of brief passages from the diary. The play is under the direction of Richard Haslam, settings by Steve Tweed, costumes by Kathleen Hansen and technical direction by Grady McEvoy. Tickets may be reserved by extension 265. calling lecture-demonstratio- Moab, SOUTH JORDA- N- T. Kay Edmunds, 63, a former Wales resident now living in South Jordan, has been called as mission president of the Ohio Akron LDS Mission. Presently serving as a Temple Square tour host, Edmunds has served as a high councilor, bishops counselor, high priests group leader 16-1- in the Anne Frank, April Crane Theatre. This is a poignant dramatization of the dairy of a old Jewish girl, written while she and her family hid from the Gestapo for two In 1967, she judged the exhibit and gave a Former Wales resident heads mission Mike Robinsen and Amy Slaine star in the Pulitzer Prize winning drama, The Diary of Anne Frank, which will be presented April 9 in the Crane Theatre at Snow College. Curtain time is 8 p.m. Snow EPHRAIM College Theatre will present The Diary of Cooper and his wife, Dale Meyers of New York. However, she considers the day she first began studies with the late Merlin Enabnit, formerly of Chicago and Phoenix, as the turning point in her career. His wizardry with color made her see color in a new light, and she studied extensively with him an equal opportunity employer. 445-334- 7 Um Ftn. Green d, NOTICE TO PRESSURIZED IRRIGATION SYSTEM USERS IN MT. PLEASANT The irrigation season is only a few weeks away. The city is requesting that each person that is to the Pressurized System to inspect their system and to make sure that the system will be ready for the irrigation season. Also, if there is any damage to the system on your property, you should see to it that the system is operational prior to the start of the irrigation season. If you suspect damage to the connected distribution system, please notify City Hall as soon as possible. If you have any questions on this matter, please call City Hall with your question. Published in The Pyramid March 26, April 2 and 9, 1986. |