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Show Page 4 The Ogden Valley news Volume XXV Issue XI July 1, 2019 Balloon Festival Offers Arts, Crafts, Entertainment, Local Food, and Fun! This year’s Ogden Valley Balloon Festival in Eden is scheduled for August 16, 17, and 18. The Balloon Festival is being held at Eden Park, with morning hot air balloon launches, arts and crafts, kids’ games and food booths, as well as continuous live entertainment. The popular Balloon Glow will take place Friday and Saturday evenings, August 16 and 17, at dusk, at approximately 8:45 p.m. at Eden Park. “We are so happy Eden Park is allowing us to take advantage of this wonderful location,” commented Terry Murphy, Chairperson for the festival. “The site offers a nice shaded area for the arts and crafts vendors, a perfect viewing area for all of the live entertainment from 4:00 to 10:00 p.m., and a spacious area for our food vendors with a lovely bowery with picnic tables for diners to relax and enjoy the full medley of local foods. The views looking northeast over the Valley are just wonderful, and the visual connection to the balloon launch site adds a new synergy to this year’s event,” states Murphy. The return of the fundraiser breakfast for the Ogden Rescue Mission is back! Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, beginning at 7:00 a.m., a buffet breakfast will be served at Eden Park in memory of Gary Dowdy. All proceeds from the breakfast will be given to the Ogden Rescue Mission. Other food vendors include BBQ Chicken, BBQ meats, snacks and treats such as kettle corn, ice cream, and shaved ice, which will be available so bring those appetites! New to the event for 2019 is the Digital Merchant Series—bridging the gap between the local community & virtual world! This year the festival will team up with Michelle Robinson of the Bitcoin and Blockchain community to host the first experimental social event with an objective to educate the community on real life application of the up and rapidly coming digital currency technology. This event will feature an informative symposium on Friday to educate attendees on the apps currently available. Thereafter, on Saturday, we will continue education throughout the day while featuring vendor booths where festival attendees can interact and transact with these apps. EDEN PARK ACTIVITY SCHEDULE Friday 7 – 8 a.m. Balloon Launch 7 – 11 a.m. Breakfast 4 – 10 p.m. Artist & Crafts Booth/Food Vendors 2:30 – 2:50 p.m. Crypto Kick Off 3 – 3:55 p.m. Bowery-Kala - Intro Digital Currency 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Stage - Koreen Greenwood 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Evening Balloon Launch 6:30 – 7:45 p.m. Stage - Mother of Mayhem 8 – 10:00 p.m. Stage - Penrose 8:45 – 9:30 p.m. Balloon Glow Saturday 7 – 8 a.m. Balloon Launch 7 a.m. – 10 p.m. Artist & Crafts Booth/Food Vendors 7 – 11 a.m. Breakfast 9 – 9:45 a.m. Bowery-Digital Merchant Symposium Kick Off (bowery) 4:30 – 5:45 p.m. Stage – Dave Quackenbush 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Evening Balloon Launch 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Stage - Mighty Happy Crew 7:30 – 8 p.m. Stage - Deja Mitchel Dance Performance 8 – 10 p.m. Stage - Christian Miller Band 8:45 – 9:30 p.m. Balloon Glow Sunday 7 – 8 a.m. Balloon Launch 7 – noon Booth & Food Vendors 7 – 11 a.m. Breakfast Entrance to the festival is free, other than nominal fees for family games and food. Free shuttle rides provided by Powder Mountain Shuttle from Snowcrest Junior High and Powder Mountain parking lots. Bicycles can be ridden to the event and locked along the park’s chain-link fence. This event is made possible by a generous donation from Stage Sponsor Ogden Regional Medical Center, RAMP, Powder Mountain, Community Foundation of Ogden Valley, Mountain Luxury, Farmers Insurance/ Paul Persico, Water Wellness, Rise Broadband, Nui, and Legacy Sponsor Nordic Valley. Lodging sponsors include Basinview Lodging, Powder Mountain Escapes. Other supporting sponsors are Waypoint, Mountain Arts and Music, Zion’s Bank, and City Center Sound and Stage. For more detailed information, directions, schedules, maps, and much more, please visit <www.ogdenvalleyballoonfestival.com> The Waifs Perform at Outdoor Summer Concert July 31 at Ogden Nature Center The Outdoors at the Ogden Tickets - Tickets may be purchased online Nature Center event combines an unrivaled outdoor setting with talented folk rock musicians! Held in the glen behind Ogden Nature Center’s rustic Visitor Center, this summer evening will find you lounging on a picnic blanket with toes in the grass, sunset in the distance, and tapping away to great live music. Bring your family and friends, a picnic dinner, drinks, low-rise chairs or a blanket, and enjoy a summer night at Ogden Nature Center. Always a sell-out, the beloved Australian folk rock band, The Waifs, are returning to Ogden Nature Center with a five-piece band that’s better than ever. A trip that began in a van in 1992, with the three troubadours playing gigs anywhere in Australia that would have them, has led The Waifs to multiple ARIA awards, platinum albums, and successful tours across the world, including opening for Bob Dylan in North America and Australia in 2003. The hard yards in those early days paid off in terms of their career, but also bound the three of them together as friends. The stripped down, cohesive return to their original sound in their sixth studio album release “Temptation” (2011), demonstrates that, for these old friends, true chemistry never fades. at www.ogdennaturecenter.org or by phone at 801-621-7595, or in person at Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. 12th St. in Ogden. Ticket prices are $25 for adults and $12 for children 12 years and under. You can listen to The Waifs - Bridal Train at <www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k7OncTVHkI> <Listen%20Link:%20%20https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=_emz0o638PQ&index=1&l ist=RDHCCibYIEP6XHQ%0d> Details • Concert begins at 7:00 p.m. with gates opening at 6:00. • Seating is general admission on the lawn. Bring your own low-rise chairs, picnics, beverages and blankets. • The concert will be held rain or shine and tickets are nonrefundable. Box Dinners - Box picnic dinners by Union Grill may be ordered when you purchase concert tickets! They are $11 each, and orders must be placed by Friday, July 26, 3:00 p.m. Special thanks to the following organizations and individuals for making this summer concert possible: The Standard-Examiner, Joan Evans Ahlf, Mara Brown, Ogden City Arts, and Beehive Cheese. Arts, Music and Oral Histories Mountain Arts and Music has planned a summer full of creativity for Ogden Valley. OPEN ARTS AND MUSIC will be held in Huntsville Square every Thursday June 20 to August 29. Bring your artwork in progress to work on and get inspiration and ideas from other artists and from art instructors; you can learn how to watercolor during the evening from two art instructors. Watch your kids or grandkids create art at the Kids’ Art Station. You could also get up on the stage at the open mic and read a poem or sing a song. You could get friends together and work up something for the open mic stage. Or, you can just sit back, enjoy something off Chef John’s barbeque, relax, enjoy the creativity around you, and enjoy some awesome music in the lovely tree-shaded space of Huntsville Square. The Thursday fun begins at 5:30 p.m. and lasts until dusk. There is no charge, and everyone is welcome to do art or music! Looking for something very fun to do July 4? Come on down to Huntsville Square for the Mountain Arts and Music, Arts and Music Festival. There will be vendors of original fine art, a kids’ art station, community art display, and live music throughout the day. The day starts at 10:00 a.m. and continues until 6:00 p.m. The festival is free of charge, and is a lovely place to be on a beautiful summer holiday. You can hang around for evening happenings at Huntsville Park and for the fireworks. Check out our website at www.mountain- artsandmusic.org for the music lineup and for more details. At the Arts and Music Festival, and every Thursday at the Open Arts and Music, an opportunity will be offered for Ogden Valley residents to share their stories about their experiences with the Huntsville Holy Trinity Monastery. Mountain Arts and Music is partnering with Weber State University in an oral history project about the Huntsville Monastery. Anyone who is interested in sharing their experiences and memories of their interactions with the monastery and/or monks is invited to participate in this project. Interested individuals will be asked to fill out a preliminary survey, which will be used to personalize a 30 minute taped interview. The interviews will initially be done at Huntsville Square during Open Arts and Music events, every Thursday evening between 5:30 and 8:00 p.m. Other opportunities for interviews will be developed at a later time. The interviews/ stories will be archived at the Weber State University library, and will be available to the public through podcast programs and printed formats in newsletter or newspaper articles. If you are interested in participating, please visit our website at www.mountainartsandmusic.org/monastery-oral-history-project then click on access the survey, complete it, then submit it, and you will be contacted to schedule your interview. Make this your creative summer at Huntsville square on Thursday evenings! 4783 N. 3100 E., Liberty ~ 801-745-6200 ~ Admission Free MOVIES on the MOUNTAIN JULY 1ST - AUGUST 5TH JOIN US! Free family-friendly movies every Monday night at dusk. Mini Golf, Kids Zone, and Dining in Earl’s Lodge open at 6 p.m. snowbasin.com |