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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS Community val, Across the Waters from Eig Water. Jay Buckey of The Marty Domestic Blitz Warburton Band will be giving workshops in his Virtual Band learning method on Saturday and Sunday at the festival. Bring your fiddles, guitars, banjos, mandolins and basses and join in the fun sessions. There will be a Quiltin & Fiddlin quilt show in the gym honoring several quilters who have been quilting all their lives. Their quilts will be on display (some for sale) and their life stories shared. Gate prices are: $5 per person, children under 5 years old admitted free with adult. The performances will be as By Dixie Brunner As envy Computer an astute lifes that observer of little idiosyncracies, Ive noted a weird trend emerging of late. How can I put this delicately? n Men.. .(no intended), have a new thing as it were. They dont go to the locker room and talk about women and their conquests, they sit around offices and compare the size of their ROMs. put-dow- Computer sizes, skills and abilities, are mens new bragging rights. Their identities are no longer defined by how they appeal to the opposite sex, but rather by what their computers can do. To be perfectly honest, the whole techtoy thing is nothing new for us women to deal with. Men have always enjoyed their material possessions. Now dont lecture me about being feminist. I am just keenly aware of the differences between the sexes. Just because I happen to be a member of the sex which isnt quite as unusual as the other, well, what can I say? You never read much about Henry Fords wife did you? Theres a perfectly good reason. She was home watching the kids while he was out tuttling around in his horse-les- s carriage! While women always get a bad rap for being talkers and always on the phone, we did not come up with the whole telephone idea! Alexander Graham Bell thought it was a good idea to have a little toy that you could communicate with your neighbors with. And while it has always been a well-kesecret, the real reason Bell invented the phone was to call his friends and discuss sports. pt Fast forward numerous de- cades. A woman did not invent the remote control, we would have had more sense than that! Men did for the simple reason that it takes too much energy to get up out of that rediner, and manually switch those channels. We, as the fairer sex, also know that the whole remote control thing is weird anyway, because men switch channels so fast that their brains couldnt possibly have time to process any of the channels theyve surfed past looks goo...I start to Hey I see as a brief glimpse of a say, show which might be interesting. Wow, look at that whale jump...I interject as an animal station passes by. So the whole computer thing was inevitable. Men lie toys, and computers fill the bill. And in our relatively-aflluen- t society, many of them have enough money to invest in their fun. But what interests me is how excited they get over them. Computers are everything to them. They are defined Dixie, did you hear that Joe Jones just bought a new 70 K modem? Well, thats nice, honey. ' We need one if the Jones have one, he charges. Well be the laughing stock ofthe entire neigh- Canyon Country doggers at this year's Southern Utah Bluegrass Festival, along with many other wonderful' performers, crafters and artisans. and see Kanabs own Como award-winnin- g Southern Utah Bluegrass Festival ready to go! Make your plans now to attend The Second Annual South- ern Utah Bluegrass Festival 2000. The site will July borhood. be the same as last year, Kanab Perhaps its just that I really Middle Schools Cowboy Stadont understand computers. The dium, and the gate fees have great psychologist Sigmund Freud been lowered to be more family 14-1- 6, would probably hypothesize that friendly. I suffer from computer envy. This years festival will feaI type. I occasionally retrieve ture Canyon Country Cloggers My computer and I arent providing their , They have attended the Western National Clogging Championships, winning many honors. They have performed at the MGM Grand Theme Park in Las Vegas, NV. All the individual teams are award winners, and delight audiences with their energetic routines and showmanship. Other performers at this years festival include High award-winnin- g Plains Tradition of Colorado, dancing. The dancers, under Andy Rau Band of Califorthe direction ofMerrilyn Cornell, nia, The Marty Warburton are made up of a variety of teams Band of Las Vegas, The Hat of very talented individuals, in- Band of Arizona, The cluding the Canyon County Slickrock String Band of Dazzlin Darlins, Canyon Coun- Kanab, and guest performers try Stompers, and Canyon Coun- and the winners of the.band contest at last years festi try Cuties. high-steppin- g, friends, as it were. Were just acquaintances. OK, I admit that I am a computer dyslexic, and Ive resisted many opportunities to improve myself. I guess my mom was right. As you get older, you just dont want to try new things for fear of feeling stupid. I have a 12 year old nephew who designs web pages. I was concerned about web feet at his age. I have a son who won a tech award at school. I won the best poem about apples at his age. Another nephew uses his computer to trade stocks. I traded boys phone numbers at his age. So I think computers really are a man thing. And while I am of the opposite sex, Fm going to attempt to get savvy on them. I am going to steal away some time and learn how to better use the computer... Hey, I yell impatiently from the basement office. Will one of you guys come down and show me how to turn this thing on? semi-cordi- al high-energ- y, (Mkct? PERSONALIZED Saturday-10:0- 0 p.m. a.m. to 4:00 Sunday-10:0- 0 p.m. Free to the public, after hours shows, open mike stage, and jam sessions: Frontier Movie Friday: at 7:30 p.m. Town-start- s Chuck Wagon Saturday: Cookouts (behind Dennys Wigwam) with optional buffet for $10-star- ts at 7:30 p.m. Although some shaded areas will be provided, please plan to bring umbrellas for shade, and leave your pets at home. Tickets are available in Kanab at Center Street Gallery & Music, 10 E. Center Street, and Special Tees, 183 S. 100 E. Contacts: Terry Griffin at or Terry You Cottrell at can slikrokkanab.net or visit our website: 435-644-52- 61 435-644-34- 97. il: Yall come! & COMFORTABLE John Armstrong DDS Robert Gibson DDS Larry Staples DDS Nileen Whitlock RDH I I Call now for an appointment v .435-S44-41- 81 till to 7 p.m. a.m. to 7:00 Friday-noo- n Ask us about our new orthodontic procedures, with new techniques tiiat decrease treatment time up to 40! 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