Show MMill f Wednesday October 6 2004 Sanpete Messenger' K Heaven Help Us By Corrie Lynne Player When they come back in the door Last time I explained how I managed to keep my sanity while shoving my kids out the door to school This time I’ll consider when the flow reverses and they come back home When my kids ranged in age from they arrived home at three different times so my lists and charts tracked who should be home when (including one in college who really didn’t like being lumped in with the high schoolers but hey she was living at home Avoiding Afternoon Confusion Take everything to your room: don’t drop your backpack books or shoes in the entryway kids sauntered through the front door shedWhen ding books shoes coats and whatever the entry soon resembled Mt Everest Check with me within 15 minutes of school’s closing If somebody had to stay after for a rehearsal or activity I expected a call I dispensed groundings for lateness from school I did for breaking curfew (note: grounding wasn’t appropriate for the actually I’ll consider handling adult kids living at home in another column) for some reason like to hang around Young adolescents school for hours with their friends They become adept at making up excuses that sound pretty plausible if you don’t listen just as UU'JT £ I closely used to be more naive than I am now I believed my kids when they’d stroll through the door and say “I had to stay after for a test in Mr Carter’s class” However I caught on when Mr Carter called me to inquire about why my foster daughter had failed to attend a makeup session for the sixth day in a row Fix a snack and eat it before 4 pm If I didn’t put a time limit on snacks the boys ended up s emptying the refrigerator and leaving the rest of us Start one hour of homework immediately This point doesn’t need a whole lot of explanation If your kid avoids homework immediately after school is out he’ll never manage to get around to it at all When kids didn’t come home on time 'dnd didn’t do their I lost track of who was supposed to be homework immediately doing vhat and when Or I remembered Eric did his homework and transferred that memory to Micah (who rarely did any) So I urge you to post a chart if you have more than one kid It will save you a lot of stress BRUCE VAN DER RIET MESSENGER PHOTO I 1 Softening Evening Uproars V b b b' r 1 V b' (V V i: r ti Afternoons and evenings tended to blend together so my third time category flowed directly from the second I did try to be sure particular tasks were accomplished by bedtime Otherwise when I told certain kids to “head for bed” they countered ” with "I have to finish my book report lab notes drill sheet Bedtimes for teenagers are difficult to define However teenagers need much more sleep than their younger siblings because growth only occurs during sleep And teenagers grow faster than at any other time in their lives except infancy But if you can figure out a way to convince your that she needs an earlier bedtime than your write me! I never had a clue on that subject I just growled “I’m going to bed if I hear one sound out of any of you I’m nailing your bedroom door closed — with you behind it” Then I made sure that particular kid woke up without argument the next morning If he groaned “I’m too sick to get up” I hauled him out of bed anyway The only way I wouldn’t was if he actually ran a fever or looked sick here’s where that Help From Above comes into play I also eliminated television and computer games on school nights unless something wonderful or important was on like the Olympics or a presidential speech Remember how you handle your kid depend? entirely on your unique family and situation That’s why repeat “Use Help From Above” over and over in this column I give you suggestions and I share ideas from my friends and readers but you should never try anybody’s ideas without spiritual confirmation Thanks to all of you who have made this column such a success I appreciate your feedback (even if you don’t agree with me) I’ve been a mom and grandma for nearly 40 years and I still learn something new almost every day The bad guy "Krojack” played by Trent Bean Is threatening to shoot “Axel McGee” played by Chris Cook Thinking quickly Axel hides behind a terrified “Miss Killroy” played by Melanie Parry while evil henchman “Novotny” played by John Lineback stands in the background with a rifle Woody Allen comedy opens season The Snow College theatre department opens its season tonight with the play “Don’t Drink the Water” in the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts The presentation will fun Oct 6:9 at 8 pm A comedy written by Woody Allen “Don’t Drink the Water” is set in a foreign American embassy where an American tourist and his family rush to escape police who suspect them of spying It’s not much of a refuge however for the ambassador is absent and his son now in charge has been expelled from a dozen other countries Nevertheless they carefully and frantically plot their escape In the meantime the ambassador’s son and the family’s daughter fall id love The play features many Snow students including Chris Cook as Axel Magee Leslie Williamson as Marion Hollander Scott Parker as Walter lol lander Megan leaps as Susan lol lander and Trenton Bean as Krojack Brad Olsen technical director of the theatre ails department is director Woody Allen was born in Brooklyn New York in 1935 Allen derives his comic material from his uiban Jewish back- ground Although he intended to he a playwright he began writing stand-ucomedy monologues while still in high school He later became a comedian who depicted an insecure and person Tickets may he purchased the box office or by calling at Central Utah Art Center showing big boost in visits with reliquaries By John Hales Staff writer EPHRAIM — The Ephraim Art Center has seen its patronage increase nearly 400 percent in recent weeks following its new director’s efforts to revive the gallery Director Adam Bateman says the number of visitors to the center has leaped from three to four per day to an average of 80 per week although he doesn’t personally take credit for that improvement One factor however has been Bateman’s goal of bringing different but interesting art to Ephraim which is demonstrated by the current exhibit in the center’s upstairs gallery The exhibit features the work of Provo artist Jason Lanegan whose sculptures The Lanegan exhibit will are not quite what one would alien to a tattered old glove to a lock of hair from the be shown until expect Lanegan doesn’t work in traditional sculpting media her sister such as clay marble or metals but utilizes such common materials as cigar boxes and ' At glass vials V The ordinariness of the materials is misleading howv-- n 4 ever the sculptures are anyif a 1 4 thing but common Bateman I 1 ‘ k i says exhibit viewers are taken aback by what at first seems f to be a lack of sophistication in the art but then become extremely interested as they 441 learn about the meaning Lanegan bases his work 1$ i on fusing two meanings of the I I word relic Generally the term relic refers to any object from the past kept for its historical association Religiously the word has a more specific meaning the Catholic and :X pyX Orthodox traditions and refers to objects that are considv ered sacred because of their connection to Jeaus or holy people Fragments of the cross or bones of the saints are examples of such relics In medieval times churches would house the relics in structures built for that purpose called reliquaries Melding those definitions Lanegan creates reliquaries that encase items from his own history Thus his works are interesting not only v : r for their artistry but also for their personal meaning to th6 artist In addition to appreciJL ating the reliquaries as sculpture spectators can wonder JOHN HALES MESSENGER PHOTO about the meaning of the A sculpture created by artist Jason Lanegan of Provo items contained within them: Lanegan's work Is on display at the Ephraim Art Center anything from a plastic toy until V HA J ' O' u s ) 'si vA'L |