| Show PANDfQMINf For Susan Artwork antiques and fun Aitiite from the be featured at the Fine Alt and Antique Auction to benefit the Susan Grey Medical Trust Grey was denied insurance coverage for needed medical treatment of ovarian cancer and the community is wotting to help raise the necessary funds for her treatment The Fine Ait and Antique Auction is Saturday Jan 23 at the Logan Golf and Country Club (710 North 1300 East Logan) A silent auction and auction preview begins at 6:30 pm and the live auction begins at 7:30 pm Utah State University ait Professor uiris Terry will be the auctioneer Music is provided by die guitarist Zac Bettinger Refreshments will be catered by the Grapevine Restaurant A $S donation is requested A selection of auction items follows: In ceramic aits Susan Hama Beth Calengor Sharon Brown Mikkelton Marilyn Krannich Mailt I r r f writ Fine Art and Antique Auction fund- raiser When: 6:30 pm Saturday Jan 23 Where: Logan Golf and Country Club Tickets: $5 at tne door Lambert The Rasmussens and Marion Haws will be represented Sculpture will be available from Tbm Gale Jack O'Neill Kit Flannery and Carol Doubek Doubek's creatures have been seen at the National Museum for Women in the Aits the National Wildlife Art Museum and the Royal Museum in Brussels Belgium Fine woodworking will be available from Glenn Leonard John Ellerbeck Dacy and Aaron Davidson and Urban Forest Leonard it making a piece especially for this event It will be a bookcase of the mission style from the early century arts and crafts era similar to Gustaf Stickley Wood carving by Mark Ault wood sculpture by Joe bowls by Don Edvalson will Chesla and turned-woo- d be presented Metal arts will be available from Jeff Keller and Malen Pierson form there will be framed In linocut prints by Mary Donahue a framed print of Merlin Olsen Park by Eric Dowdle and a black and white print by Sheila Nadimi Paintings are available from Pat Gordon Bob Davis and Brooke Olsen There will be a charcoal drawing by John Hernandez and colored pencil drawing by Jarod Croner Prints of Moishe Smith will be aue- honed A photograph by Scott T Smith will be auctioned In addition photography by Julie Hollist Dan Miller Tim LattMiiwn promiM sounds oti and new In tonigfil’s conceit Breaking that glass shield Lettermen set to entertain Eccles crowd e prepared to be entertained That’s the warning Tony Butala and The Letter-me- n have for tonight's audience at the Ellen Eccles Theatre “When people pay for a babysitter fill their car with in the lobby they gas pay to see us and buy the need to be given something they can’t get by staying home We hive to break that glass shield between us and the audience We bring audience members on stage we tell stories we make fon of each other We have a good time with our audience we sweat on people!" The entertainment began in 1938 when Butala founded The Lettermen Actually it staited earlier than that kid who could sing — when Butala was a really sing The eighth of 11 children Butala's mom put him into a dance class to keep him occupied A performance at an early recital proved to him and others around him what a great singer he was A trip West so his mom could nurse her sister back to health found him auditioning for the Mitchell Boys Choir The good news was I made the choir The bad news was my family lived in Pennsylvania'’ After a family consultation a teary-eye- d mother left her talented young ton in Lot Angeles in the hands of the Mitchell Boys Choir Many successes and a few yean later Butala moved hia family to the West Coast The fate ’30s and early '60s were a busy time for Butala His voice could be heard all around Hollywood and Vegas but the eventual outcome of his work was the formation of The Lettermen The breathy sounds of this male trio first hit the airwaves with The Way You Look IbnighL” They fol irt or ' PLEASE SEE SUSAN ON 12 i i lowed with “When I Fall In Love” The Theme From Summer Place” “Put Your Head On My Shoulder” and many more And while members of the trio have changed over the years their sound and Butala’s devotion has not "We’ve done over 150 shows every year since 1961 and at least one album Wb just finished our 69th album We always have new music out there” They’ve also gained fame worldwide "People in Japan love our songs 'Sealed with a Kiss' and ‘Mr Lonely' We just did our 23th tour of Japan ’What I Did For Love' wu gigantic in Japan” Butala's breathy sound has always been the recognizable thread that is The Lettermen These days singers Donovan Scott Tfea who became a Lettennan in 1984 and Darren Dowler who joined the group in fen of 1995 make up the male trio With those three on stage Butala assures the audience can expect to hear a nice mix of old and new “If you see our show you'll see the best love songs of 1999 We never have been and never will classify ourselves as a nostalgia group We are a contemporary ’ group from 1999 that happened to have hits m the 60s '70s and '80s although we have an obligation to do the tongs the people in that audience want to hear to do every hit record the Lettennan ever had We just do them in medley form " With homes on the East and West coasts a vineyard in Napa Valley a recording studio in California and family and friends covering the globe Butala has the recipe for a foil plate So what keeps him and The Lettermen on the road and on their way to Logan? 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