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Show ;EE CE Student Artists Exhibition Jan. 2. Sedona, event showcases and teachers. At students by The Scenic Environmental Film Festival Nevada City, Jan. 10-- 1 Wild ARIZONA all-da- y works for sale si tow's end, the public can voce for the most student artwork. At the Sedona popular Arts Center. (888) 954-444- 2. 1. This cinematic gathering will explore subjects on wildlife, water issues, forestry, biotechnology, and more, in styles ranging from animation to drama to investigative documentary. In historic Miners Foundry. (530) Art of Western Uvinj Exhibit and Mote than and exhibit this items are at handmade 500 sale of Western-inspire- d clothing, jewelry, accessories, home furnishings, and equine Sale i Wickenburg.Jan. 9. gear at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum. (928) 684-227- 2. & ext. 202. 265-596- 1, Tour of the Tall Ships Newport tall historical the Tour Beach, Jan. The Lynx, and Chieftain Hawaiian ships educational highlighted by At the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum. (300) 2. pro-gram- s. rd . 200-523- 9. UTAH NEVADA Car-Tone- The Power of Paint s: 28. Exhibition displays Reno, Jan. and beautifully brilliant of the most tome colored paints available. In the Changing Exhibits Gallery at the National Auto- mobile Museum. (775) 333-930- Post Surrealism Exhibit Logan, The Nora Ecdcs Harrison Museum of Art at Utah Scare opens is 20th anniversary celebration with an Jan. 4. th look at (435) 797-141- 4. 0. Keeping the Valley Green Silent Movie Series: 4 Movie Shorts Salem, Jan. 14. Movie buS will Boise, Jan. 1 1. Unique trio brings together musk from the 1920s, 30s, and '40s in tinging, instrumental playing, and tap dancing. At 7:30 p.m. in Boise High School Auditorium. (800) covers the technological advancements In conservation, recycling, land protection, and advances in food products for animals. love these classics: Sever Weaken with Harold Lloyd (1921), Trned m a tide meting Laurel & Hardy (1932), What Next? with Busier Keaton (1927), and Charlie At the Carson Valley Museum and tural Center. (775) 782-255- Historic Elsinore Theatre. (503) Come and See Weekend 2nd Annual Atta Boy 300 Come see what Cottonwood, Jan. life is like in a monastery. For single women interested in a religious lfe. At the Monastery of St. Gertrude. (208) Jan. IDAHO Gardtx-rville.Jan- Manhattan Rhythm Kings 635-524- CALIFORNIA The best furniture finds are off the beaten path. Cul- 5. 0. 10-1-2. 962-322- 31. This display . 4. Bend, Top m ushers from Germany, France, Switzerland, Canada, and the USA will compete in this 300-mi- le event, one of only 1 0 sanctioned World Cup skd dog 2. the world. (541) . 375-35- WASHINGTON OREGON races in Chaplin in Trifle Trouble (1918). At the 382-871- 1. Snowshoe Walks at Paradise 7. Join a ranger fur a Ashfoni, Jan, of Mount Rainier section a walk through National Pack. Crane to Jackson Memorial Visitor Center, SatunLyt and Sundays oily. SnowsSioes provided. (360) 569-221- 1. Did You Know... d that dynamo who sealed the first ever was bom and raised in Olympic gold medal for a U.S. womens gymnastics team second-grade in California, nailed teacher a Tucson. On July 23, 1996, Strug, now the home gold. her performance on the vault to bring ARIZONA Kerri Strug pint-size- The California Strawberry Festival celebrates the leading $ 00 million. industry in Ventura County, where annual strawberry revenues top of its million proceeds have been Since the festival's 1984 inception, nearly $2 civic and donated to local educational organizations. CALIFORNIA 1 thought to be a derivation of a Shoshone word word thought up long meaning Gem of the Mountains," is actually an invented State." Gem the as is known ago. Even so, Idaho IDAHO' The name Idaho, once The state's largest tree is a western red cedar 18 feet in diameter located near Elk River (pop. 156). The exact location of every state champion tree is available from the University of Idaho Extension Forestry service. Four types of marble were used to create the 50,000 square feet of carvings inside Idaho's Capitol: red marble from Georgia, gray from Alaska, green from Vermont, and black from Italy. Idaho has the only Capitol heated by geothermal water in this case pumped from a source 3,000 feet underground. The state reptile is the desert tortoise, the largest reptile in the southwestern United States. The tortoise, which can live to age 70 and beyond, spends much of its life in underground burrows to escape the summer heat and winter cold in Nevada's extreme southern portions. NEVADA Bom in Salem in 1884, A C. Gilbert invented Erector Sets one of Americas most famous construction toys. An Olympic gold medalist in the of the worldwide Toy Manufacturers pole vault, he also was the first president Association. A.C. Gilbert's Discovery Village, founded in 1989 in Salem, fearures hands-o- n exhibits to spark childrens curiosity in science. OREGON Barbara Roberts, born in Corvallis in 1936, became Oregon's first woman governor on Jan. 14, 1991. She was elected secretary of state in 1 984, becoming the first Democrat elected to that post in 1 14 years. In 1998, Roberts took a position at Portland State University's Hatfield School of Government. The lowest temperature ever recorded in Utah was 69 degrees below Feb. zero on 1, 1985, at Peter's Sink in Cache County. UTAH Adam West, known best as televisions Batman, was bom on Sept. 19, 1928 in Walla Walla (pop. 29,68 6). He won Anderson William West after impressing producers in bis commercial for Crusader role of the Capcd the Batman ended, West has appeared in dozens of Since 60s. the in Nestles Quick WASHINGTON television programs. |