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Show CouUuRIER Wasatch PAGE 17 County's Source Paints allery YLE for News JuLy 7, 1999 Image Local yy IFEST Talented selection has a local, regional flavor handling LIFESTYLE EDITOR. Earth, Williams’ work a relative is Art from the newcomer. and | By JEAN CROASMUN attitude-. bender in the world of sa on the Wasatch Back. How is Art: from the ‘Earth different from the gaggle of galleries in Park City? HEBER - A ten-year old boy walks into an art gallery, fascinated, spending what must seem like hours scrutinizing each First, it’s not in Park City; Art from the photo, painting and sculpted pot while his Earth is in Heber, in the old Train Depot, mother stands in the doorway, tapping her — next door to Snake Creek Grill. The floor is _ foot. “Are you an artist?” finally asks the made of wood and the walls are merely gallery owner. “Yes,” the boy nods. painted. It’s the art that’s highlighted, not Weeks later, the boys’ own paintings are the surroundings. some of the gallery’s hottest sellers. Second, Art from the Earth is afford- A bud-_ The young-artist in question is Midway resident Lionel Williams, a pre-teen painter whose work is selling up a storm, at least in at attractive IT art of dollars to no more thana few hundred for even the largest, most spectacular pieces. And third, the gallery owner is no suave -Heber’s art arena. And the gallery who is See ART on page 19 Salt Lake artist Ben Behnnin’s fish platter is one of the many local, affordable pieces at Heber’s. new gallery, Art from the Earth. Gallery owner, Lynette oo looks nOr artwork that fits the Stay natural style and preferences of area reser: Censor This By DAN STEPHENS PUBLISHER *ve never found the bible to be offensive; church bored the daylights out _ of me, except for those hip -- Saturday night folk masses where the nuns got down with some acoustic guitar, but as far probably ought to explain what we’re doing and what we hope to achieve. | I’ve always Network to block out Web sites liked newspapers. I’ve always been kind of a political wonk. Like most people who are overly involved with politics, I fanta- sized about what it would be like to run for polit- not everyone agrees with me. too long ago, it was disthat Smart Filter, an censoring software by the Utah Education We think it is much easier to read, has a smaller “footprint,” takes up less room on your table or started out to welcome you, the reader, in this first paragraph, but I realize that instead, | as the bible goes, I’ve always | felt that a little bit of begatting was good for a person. I guess Not covered internet licensed By JEAN CROASMUN C ourIER Lirestve that dealt with sex, drugs, and Eprror | other evils in our society, became a little overzealous and blocked out sites containing the Bible, the U. S. Constitution, the Koran, the game “Candyland,” anti-drug information sites, and some LDS General Conference speeches. Now I’ve always been a firm believer that public schools as of late have been a bit quick to jump the gun on censoring. One of the true beauties of a public education is the cultural diversity it affords. The kids in the parochial schools might have known how to make plaid skirts and knee socks look cool © _ by the sixth grade, but not a one of them could say “bite me” in five different languages like we public schoolers could. We didn’t have cool stuff like the internet when I was in school. Geez, we barely had computers, unless TRS-80 or the Apple 2E; if we wanted to see a the computer, and what high school kid doesn’t dirty pictures on the computer, we had to figure you count the dirty picture on want to see out how to | ical office or start my own newspaper. I thought long and hard about entering politics. After being appointed to the Midway Planning Commission I got just close enough to local politics to realize you’ve got to be few bricks short to want to be a politician. Makes a rock fight look both safe and sane. Not for me, thank you very much. Which left starting a newspaper. Many, especially my wife, would argue that starting a newspaper requires some of the same basic qualifications as being a politician, mainly being a few vanity. You might want to keep it around all week to refer to our weekly calendars of events and check out our advertisers’ weekly specials. Newspapers have historically advocated positions they thought were in the best interests of their readers. But the notion that the media should fairly state both sides of an argument stems from the early days of television when the FCC insisted on the “Fairness Doctrine” as a concession for broadcasting licenses. Papers aren’t television stations. We don’t lease a part of the public owned broadcast spectrum. Politically we are all over the map. We range from slightly to the right of Genghis Khan (Sam Allen) to a little left of Edward Abbey (Jean) or somewhere in between. Regardless of our positions we will endorse and advocate policies we believe in. We do believe that those who don’t share our views are entitled to publicly disagree with us. If you think we are off base (or our rockers), we invite you to respond. In some cases a letter to the loaves light. There must be easier ways to lose editor is the appropriate forum. In other cases you money. Probably just a midlife crisis, but I’m at may need a guest column. Either way we will the age now that if I don’t try it now I never will. _work with you to print your side of the story We have a fairly unconventional business exactly as it was submitted. strategy here. The five of us starting this paper We don’t charge for obituaries for residents of (Kari, Susan, Sam, Jean and myself) all have an Wasatch County. When you are dealing with the equity risk in the venture--we sink or swim loss of a loved one the last thing you need is a bill together. If we’re ever a bit intense, bear with us. for the obituary. We don’t charge for weddings | We don’t charge a subscription for this paper. for residents of Wasatch County. Consider this These days America Online sells for more than our wedding present to you. We don’t charge for $7,000 a customer and cable TV companies pay public announcements or inclusion on our events calendar, just let us know what’s happening so we program the 1/2 inch by 1/4 inch pixels and draw the picture $4,000 plus per customer in acquisitions. You are ourselves. can place it on the appropriate calendar. 3 you pay a-subscription to read our ads? If you — We’d always like to know how we can better agree our paper is worth reading we hope you serve you, our reader. If we’re off track tell us. will also support our advertisers, who in effect We’ll strive to accomodate your concerns. But are paying you to read their ads. Slick deal, eh? we can’t know what changes you want if we And since you couldn’t make heads nor tails of what we drew, no one ever even thought to censor us. Instead of being electronically censored, we were physicalSee CENSOR on page 20 ae reception than a cut-off ear. students-attainable prices. Prices primarily range from a couple eT eT nowadays, the Hallmark card gets a better idea of showcasing local unknown artists and . is a tiny Catholic church, and | thing to the Sistine Chapel in this artist’s hometown able. Lynette Livingston, owner and operator of Heber’s Art from the Earth, had the an extremely valuable commodity. Why should _ We are printing this paper in a tabloid style. don’t hear from ao ‘so please give us your input. es Perhaps, but the closest He Michelangelo in the making? ding Van Gogh? |