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Show 6 Tuesday, December THE GREEN SHEET 22, 1987 Arts Tours To Range From Opera To Bluegrass County Land Lease, Building Offer Lets Work Activity Center Set Sites On Move with 1,200 already completed this center has helped some patrons get jobs in the community year - has lengthened the as house cleaners. SALT LAKE. A 1.5 acre land attention of these span contribution from Salt Lake individuals from five minutes to There is also ceramics boutique and a County building two hours. where patrons make ordered construction offer from F.C. Stangle has led the Work Activity Center to set its sights on a move. Construction of the new facility is already under way in the Metro Business Park, 2100 So. Redwood Rd. The new site will offer larger classrooms and bigger workshops. Thirty-twyears ago the Work Activity Center was started by a of with parents group offspring. "They handicapped decided they wanted to help each other out with some respite time," said Jeanette Drews, director of Paula Huff Green Sheet Staff Writer by The If diversity, quality and adaptability are the Utah cornerstones of the Performing Arts Tour, audiences are in for a treat next year with choices ranging from grand opera to bluegrass. The Utah Arts Council Board of Directors Dec. 11 approved the Utah roster for the 1988-8which Arts Tour, Performing features six outstanding artists and companies on roster. a SALT goods for the community. With the new facility in Metro Business Park under construc- tion, the Work Activity Center is looking toward new indepen- - dence. rT 12 the ago, years high-qualit- for each technical company, Ensemble. In the dance category, the Tour features A Company of Four, Dance Childrens Theatre, Folkdance Underground, RepertoDance Theatre, ry Dance Company and Utah Ballet. Theater offerings include a one-ma- n play on the life of Paul Robeson by Robert Ingram, Jr. and the UofUs Classic Greek presenting the performing arts and substantial in fee support for each residency. This makes a performing arts series feasible for any Utah Ririe-Woodbu- community. For information on presenting groups from the Tour, contact Susan Boskoff at the Utah Arts e Council, 533-589- Theatre Festival, presenting Euripides Trojan Women. In the JazzTraditional Music category, the Tour offers the steel percussion duo of Ron Brough and Headlining the Tour in 1988-8will be the Western Opera Theatre, a professional, touring company of the San Francisco Opera Center, presenting Puccinis Madame 9 Doug Hardin . Dennis Johnson works at dismantling a meter to salvage valuable metals. He WORK ACTIVITY CENTER . . is employeed at the Work Activity Center where he makes a wage. WEST VALLEY. The only change in West Valleys garbage collection over the holidays will be for those who have their garbage picked up on Fridays. With Christmas and New Years Day both falling on Friday, the regular Friday garbage pickups will be on Saturday, said Public Works Director Glenn Weaver. Residents should have refuse on the curb by 7 a.m., Dec. 26 and those were facilities each participating at a cost of $30 when administrated social through each, that amounts to $155,000. "If a program wasnt needed," Lu services and stayed on when they to transferred over said, "people wouldnt pay fees to were in For Recreation and Parks 1977. participate in it." Included in the he supervised the growth of the youth basketball eight years of the centers and for operation program, is the addition of the last four years he directed the instructional league for the very divisions recreational programs. young, three to four years old. Lu He has a masters degree in is also proud of the' Dftfsions education and administration. program, which though "Believe me, I fully understand started on a trial basis, drew over the responsibility the citizens of Jan. Salt Lake County has put on my 1,500 yountsters its first year. He noted that County Recreation shoulders, Lu stated, "and I and Parks has received national appreciate the confidence and support of the county commission. recognition from the National Association of Counties for its Im confident that, in a few years, with ambitious our sports and latch-keprogram. Its Recreation and Parks can staff, help a trend he would like to see make this a better community." continued. Lu, 48, began with the county back in 1971. He worked with the centers countys ' ll folk vocalist The Ages, solo folk vocalist Michael Slizewski, the Tenpenny, which performs music of the British Isle. Council To Accept Entries For Exhibit On Utah Papermakers Garbage Collection Glen Lu Wolf, solo K. Davis, the Jarman Kingston Quintet, Jazz Through Butterfly. The Tour also wall feature the World String Quartet, New of the winner prestigious Music Prize Chamber Naumburg in 1979 and currently the -- programs, especially its sports activities are ran on a user fee basis, the income derived from the fees covering the cost of running the activity and nothing more. However, Lu said that he recognizes the fact some people, who would like to participate, may not be able to afford those fees. The Recreation Division, he noted, has been working with the Kiwanis and advisory clubs about setting aside funds to help those who cannot pay. Fees not only help cover the cost of activities, they also are good yardsticks for how well a particular program is being accepted. In youth basketball alone, with over 5,000 youngsters e Tour provides Utah communities access to some of the finest state, regional and national touring companies at affordable prices. to a rigorous In addition selection process to ensure a roster, the Tour provides promotional materials assistance environment where handicapped could increase their people knowledge and learn skills, all with volunteer help. That idea caught on quickly. Ten years later a And director hired. was contracts were eventually acquired so patrons could earn pay for some of their work. Today those patrons do anything from stuffing envelopes to making jumpropes for the American Heart Assn. They also tear apart meters to salvage precious metals, make childrens building block sets, quilt and do ceramics. But their is more happening at the center than wage earning or craft making. A program for the mentally retarded - a group involved in some serious jump rope making 3 Other performing artists and companies include: Quintessence, an Arizona wind quintet; Loren Kahns Puppet Theatre, a New Mexico company; Loose Ties, a Wyoming newgrass and and group, bluegrass a . New England Metamora, traditional music trio. Utah artists and Twenty-onselected for the were companies Tour next season, including some newcomers as well as Tour veterans. classical music roster The includes the Contemporary Music Consortium, pianist Christopher Giles, the Hill String Trio, the Duo with JensenWoodbury Ricklen Nobis, the Millant Trio, and the Salt Lake Vocal er development. The idea was to create a safe Continued from page University. out-of-sta- Developed at Harvard e quartet-in-residenc- 9 o full-tim- LAKE. 2. must be ready for display. In addition to the artists books, the exhibit will include selections from the University of Utahs Fine Arts collection and Special SALT LAKE. Entries for Salt Councils upcoming exhibition titled "Beyond the Book: Artists Books in Utah" will be accepted Jan 22 and 23. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. local artists are invited to submit work original emphasizing unusual or unique bindings; handmade or other specialty Lake Arts 6-- surfaces; at the sculpted papers; Collections. This exhibit will open at Finch Lane on March 4, with a public reception from 8 p.m. All entry forms must accompany each work submitted for the jurys review. For more information call the arts council at designs; and illustrations Finch Lane Gallery. All work 596-500- or u u uu u u c y wvc .multi-purpos- e Continued from page LasLChance to Save! SAVE $40000 1 observed. The council passed by a 1 vote a motion by Fisher to return the to the proposal Planning Commission. In other business, Miriam Farnsworth, chairwoman of the Commission on the citys Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, presented the city with reproductions of the original U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. The documents have been reproduced on five pages, each measuring about two feet wide by three feet high. Council members commented favorably on Farnsworths suggestion to frame and place the documents in the new city hall. The council appointed Gordon Evans, councilman elect from District 3, to the Housing Authority Board. Evans replaces Councilman Pete Winder, who did 5-- DOOR CRASHER SPECIAL Decorator Lamp Reg. $59.00-$79.0- 0 Only mrm BEDROOM SETS 2 DINETTE SETS W Sets Oak Finish ses fsale149! E: c. g SETS Sets : f 799 BUNK E FICUS TREES BEDS Sale 9 Sal. TABLES SPECIAL Set Each 2g 2 Reg. $109 3 $49 44UVY$ Sale SPECIAL Oak Finish 49 Sale &yV44UVYY$ MATTRESS or 25 EBOX SPRINGS 49 Twin POUF PILLOWS Reg. $149 S E Full 5: 59 Queen 69 3 22 Sold In Sets Only Jmmm. 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