The herald Journal auGuST 24-30, 2012
Cache Magazine
Wilderness watercolorsArtist Ernie Verdine paints daily,
completing 100 pieces this year alone
I am amazed with people who can stick to something every single day, whether it be going to the gym, read-
ing, practicing an instrument, singing, meditating or painting. Some people can just pick a goal and do it.
About five months ago, I decided to take one photo every day. I’d read about other people doing this for blogs, and one of my friends did it for a month. I decided to take on this project for a year because I love pictures, captur-ing memories and long to be better at artistic things. I knew my photos would be basic snapshots, but they would tell
stories about people I like to be with, places I like to go and the pretty things I see.
While I’d like to say I’ve completed this goal perfectly, I’m not even close. In fact, this last month has been pretty much a doozy in that aspect of my life. Remem-bering to take one photo a day is harder than you think, especially on the days you stay home and pictures of various rooms have already been shot. Also, you can only take so many pictures of yourself.
Of course there are several days when it’s easy, too, like when you’re walking around the streets of Chicago like I did a few weeks ago, or you get to see your nephew on a horse for the first time, or you’re at a party with a bunch of friends.
I’m not giving up taking photos —yet
— because I just don’t want to. It’s good for me to have goals, even the simple picture-taking goals. Perhaps a little aspiration like this will someday translate into me exercising every day, or writing a book.
This week’s main feature is about Ernie Verdine, an artist who paints every day. He says he just can’t go without it. Some days this means waking up in the wee hours of the morning. Even on the frustrating days, when he starts over on a project or repaints, he’s determined to keep art an active part of his life. This year alone, he’s finished 100 paintings. How many people can say they’ve done that? That’s determination I tell ya, and I hope to get more of it.
— Manette Newbold
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3 Nashville Tribute Band to perform LDS concert
4 Trout and Berry Days includes multiple concerts
4 Singer/songwriter Sarah Sample coming to Logan
5 Caffe Ibis to host Jack Sears art collection
7 Joseph Gordon-Levittgoes full-speed in ‘Premium Rush’
11 ‘Les Miserables’ to take stage in September
10 Smithfield photos taken by summer citizen
11 Heather Malmberg writes about her Klingons
14 See what’s happening this week
13 Take a stab at this week’s puzzle
Winter watercolor scene by Ernie Verdine. On the cover: A fall scene painted by Verdine.
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August 24-30, 2012
Nashville Tribute Band coming to USU
Multi-platinum winning singer/songwriter/producer Jason Deere and the Nash-ville Tribute Band will per-form a concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27, in USU’s Kent Concert Hall.
This summer, the Nash-ville Tribute Band has been on a western states tour per-forming in Oregon, Idaho, Arizona and Utah.
Opening the show will be rising pop/country star Katherine Nelson, sharing selections from her just-released CD “Born Brave.” The album was produced by Deere and recorded in Nashville with such leg-endary musicians as Larry Stewart (Restless Heart), Ilya Toshinsky (Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood) Nir Z (John Mayer, String), Rob McNelly (Lady Antebellum) and multi-Grammy award-winning mix engineer Silvio Richetto. Joining Nelson and Deere will be the popu-lar country trio Due West.
Deere, who co-wrote the hit single “Love’s Lookin’ Good on You” for the block-buster country group Lady Antebellum, with Mark Lopez of Due West, said he always enjoys performing in Logan.
“I love the college campus atmosphere in Logan. Mon-day is the first day of classes at USU, so there should be a lot of excitement and antici-pation at the concert. We’re going to get the school year off to a rocking start.”
The band will perform songs from a trio of CDs including their 2011 release
“The Work: A Tribute to the Missionaries,” as well as two previous best-selling albums: “Joseph: A Nash-ville Tribute to the Prophet”
and “The Trek: A Nashville Tribute to the Pioneers.”
Deere has written songs for some of Nashville’s big-gest stars – Little Big Town, Leann Rimes, Jessica Simp-son, Be Be Winans, Natalie Grant, The Wreckers, James Wesley and Stealing Angels — and is just as comfortable penning tunes about the heritage and tradition of his faith.
The Nashville Tribute Band is a collection of art-ists and musicians who come together under Deere’s musical direction. Many of them have solo careers or play with well-known groups. The Nashville Trib-
ute Band has performed hundreds of concerts in the U.S., Canada, Australia and China.
Tickets for the show are $6 to $9 and can be pur-chased online at www.nash-villetributeband.com.
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“I think all art-ists are their own worst critic. That’s the way it is with me. ... I think ev-erybody has art ability. Art is art. It’s the interpreta-tion of the eye.”
– Ernie Verdine, page 8
Available for adoption
Pet: WranglerFrom: Cache Humane Societywhy he’s so lovable: Wran-gler is a very handsome pointer. He is an unclaimed stray so he is now up for adoption. Those who want a young, very active, smart and devoted dog who is eager to learn should look no further. Wrangler will need continued obedience training to be a great member of the family. He is an active breed and will need an active owner who can keep him in tip-top shape with exercise.
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ALL MIXED UPNashville Tribute Band coming to USU
whaT: Nashville Tribute Band concert with Katherine Nelson and Due Westwhen: 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27where: Kent Concert HallTickets: $6 to $9. They can be purchased at www.nashvilletributeband.com.
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Songwriter Sarah Sample coming in concertThe Bridger Folk Music
Society presents a concert with singer/songwriter Sarah Sample at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at Crumb Brothers Bakery, 291 S. 300 West in Logan. Tickets are $13 and are available at www.bridgerfolk.org, or by call-ing 435-757-3468, or take your chances at the door. Seating is limited, and this show tradi-tionally sells out, so advance purchase is recommended. The concert is sponsored by Import Auto and Utah Public Radio.
Sample has performed all over the four corners and then
some in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming and Texas.
Sample’s album “Never Close Enough” is to her as “Flam-ing Red” is to Patty Griffin: a marked departure from a prom-ising, acoustic debut but never too far away from her soulful
folk roots. Sarah’s passionate, soul-stirring voice is up front. On “Never Close Enough,” with some new musical colors and a great new family of songs, Sample achieved her dream to stay true to the muse while stay-ing faithful to her roots.
“Someday, Someday” is Sam-ple’s latest release. And after two albums, an EP, and lots of touring into her career, Sample is quickly shedding any traces of up-and-comer with its arrival.
For more information, go to www.bridgerfolk.org or www.sarahsample.com
whaT: Sarah Samplewhen: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25where: Crumb Brothers Bakery, 291 S. 300 West in LoganCoST: $13
Multiple weekend concerts will rock ParadiseParadise City and the
Paradise Ranch Roping 4H Club are pleased to announce the Trout and Berry Day’s con-cert featuring Western entertainer Mary Kaye at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24, at the Paradise Park, 8970 S. Hwy 165.
Mary Kaye is a mul-tiple award-winning entertainer. She is the current Western Female Performer of the Year with the Academy of Western Music. In 2010, she was named Female Vocalist of the Year by the Western Music Association. She was also one of most popular performers at the annual Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous held in March.
Born in Texas and raised in Mississippi, she now resides on a 100-year-old pioneer homestead in a small Western town in central Utah with her husband,
Brad, and their 10 children. Her music is rooted deeply in the Western landscape her life is immersed in.
Mary Kaye tours extensively and this year alone will perform in 11 Western states. In January, she released her latest CD, “No Wilder Place,” which is current-ly No. 1 on the Western music charts and has received very favorable reviews in the Western Horseman, American Cowboy and The West-ern Way magazines.
For more information, visit marykayeknaphus.com.
Tickets are $10 per person in advance or $12 at the gate, and $20 per family in advance or $25 per family at the gate. They are available at www.4hranchroping.com or from 4H club members. For additional information, call 435-512-5087.
Musicians to perform as part of annual Trout and Berry Days celebration On Saturday, Aug. 25, Cache Valley’s south end
will be rocking with the Country-Rock Fest for Hope. Held in conjunction with Trout and Berry Days in Paradise, this live music festival will feature local talent as well as a guest bands from Ogden and Oregon. This free event is being held to raise aware-ness for the Cache Valley for Hope Cancer Founda-tion, a progressive charitable organization that helps local families struggling with cancer. In addition to the regular activities of the Trout and Berry Days celebration, the live music will start at 11 a.m. and end with a family dance from 7:30 to 11 p.m..
11 a.m. — Shawn and Mindy Potter12 p.m. — The Polluters1 p.m. — Break/Auction2 p.m. — Kountry Knights3 p.m. — The Polluters4 p.m. — Chandler and Darci O’Brien5 p.m. — Kalei Hogan6 to 7:30 p.m. — Trout Dinner 7:30 to 11 p.m. — Sagwitch Basin Boys and
Kountry Knights
Those who like to dance, listen or sing along are welcome to the event. Everyone is also invited to stop by the Cache Valley for Hope booth and find out how they can help their neighbors and friends who might be struggling with the high costs of can-cer.
Photo courtesy Lori Faith Merritt
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From Sept. 7 to 17, select works from the private family collection of Jack Sears will be exhibited at Caffe Ibis Gallery Deli, 52 Federal Ave., in Logan. This collection will be featured as a part of the Logan Down-town Gallery Walk on Friday, Sept. 7, with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m.
Don’t miss out on the rare opportunity to view this special family collection of one of the most prominent Utah artists.
Sears was born in Salt Lake City in 1875. He studied art in San Francisco at the University of Deseret, and in New York as a part of the Art Students League. He worked as a cartoonist for New York syndicate newspapers before working at Times News as a political cartoonist and illus-trator for several other news-papers including the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tribune. After going back to study art
in New York from 1904-1918, he returned to Utah where he became instructor of art at the University of Utah for 24 years. During his teaching career, Sears founded the commercial art department at the University of Utah.
Sears worked in various media, constantly sketching life around him. Apart from creating numer-ous drawings and paintings, he also wrote and illustrated the books “The Diary of a Cat” in 1934 and “Cat Drawings” in 1943.
Caffe Ibis to display Jack S. Sears exhibit
‘West Side Story’Four Seasons Theatre Company
presents Leonard Bernstein and Ste-phen Sondheim’s musical adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet,” “West Side Story.” Performances are Aug. 30 and 31, Sept. 1, 3, and 6 to 8 at 7:30 p.m. on the Sky View High School stage. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door and are available at fourseasons-theatre.org or by calling 435-563-6273.
This tale of rivalry and forbidden love has been a favorite of audiences since 1957. The Tony Award-winning score includes the songs “I Feel Pretty,” “Tonight,” “Maria,” “America” and many more. Don’t miss the time-less music and dancing that has made
“West Side Story” one of the most beloved musicals of all time.
PoochPaloozaDog lovers of Cache Valley are
invited to attend an Animal Fair and PoochPalooza presented by the Cache Humane Society and Zoomdog Agil-ity and Sports Club. This free event will be held at the Cache County Fair-
grounds from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8. The Animal Fair and Pooch-Palooza is geared toward building up the Cache canine community and encourages people to spend more time with family, including the dog, and get together with other local dog own-ers. The day’s activities will include agility trials, presentations, booths, canine contests and fun games for kids. Everybody is invited — especially the family dog.
Food fightA food fight fundraiser for Zac
Lockhart will take place from 4 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Little Bear Bottoms Resort and Corn Maze in Wellsville. The food fight itself will take place at 5:30. There will be mul-tiple inflatables by Checketts Amuse-ments, Hershey’s syrup slip ‘n’ slides and four 200-foot water slip ‘n’ slides. When it gets dark, two movies will be screened on two separate screens. Pro-ceeds will help with hospital bills for Lockhart, who recently had a cancer-ous tumor.
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This remake of the 1976 girl-group tale is like a box of July Fourth sparklers. It sizzles briefly whenever people open their mouths to sing, but in between, when people open their mouths to talk, the characters mostly are like burned-out sparklers — stiff, inert, disposable metal sticks. Not really the way we’d like to remember Whitney Houston or welcome a gifted singer such as Jordin Sparks to the big-screen. But the main attraction is the glitter and glamour, and in that it delivers, compensating somewhat for the bad melodrama and bad acting in a bad story of a Supremes-style sister act on the late 1960s Motown scene. In the title role, “American Idol” winner Sparks is eager and earnest, singing beautifully but acting in flat, breathless tones, infus-ing Sparkle with all the conviction of a drama club diva with her first lead in a school play. She’s upstaged by the other actors — among them Carmen Ejogo, Tiki Sumpter, Derek Luke and Mike Epps
— none all that good but at least able to mug their way through the lurid story. Houston’s death in February turned director Salim Akil’s movie into a memo-rial of sorts, but as the sisters’ stern mom, she speed-mumbles through her dialogue, while the one solo number she sings is blah, a sad reminder of another glorious voice gone gruff with time and hard living. 116 minutes.
— Review by The Associated Press
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★ ★ ‘Sparkle’director // Salim AkilStarring // Jordin Sparks, Carmen Ejogo and Whitney Houston rated // PG-13 for mature thematic content involving domestic abuse and drug material, and for some violence, language and smoking
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The world of bike messengers in New York City is a dangerous one. We’re informed at the beginning of “Premium Rush” that there are about 1,500 of these thrill seekers spread throughout the city. They dart from one part of the city to another, deliver-ing packages faster than any mail service could. The way they do this is by swerving in and out of chockablock traffic in the middle of Manhattan at break-neck speeds. This isn’t a job for the weary.
Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is one of these maniac messengers. He informs us that he rides a fixed-gear bike with no brakes. He routinely speeds down the street, weaving in and out of traffic as fast as he pos-sibly can (most of the time going faster than the cars). Not only does he have to dodge cars and aggressive cab driv-ers, but we soon learn everything is a hazard. Yet, Wilee loves this line of work, and boy, does it look like work. He pedals, and pedals, and pedals without stopping. I got tired just watching him crank those ped-
als around as fast as he could.
The stunt work in this movie is amazingly nim-ble and fun to watch. It will also give you pause. You may wonder, like I did a few times, “How in the world did they film this without killing Joseph Gordon-Levitt?”
The cycling stunts are that intense. They’re just as engrossing as any car chase you’ve ever seen, maybe even more so since bikes are much more maneuverable, offering up a cavalcade of options that just don’t exist within a car.
Wilee is asked to deliver a package for a young Asian woman. He doesn’t know what’s inside, he just knows he has a certain amount of time to get from point A to point B. Everything is going smoothly until he runs into a suspicious-looking man played by Michael Shannon. The man happens to be a dirty cop, but Wilee doesn’t know that. All he knows is that this man wants the envelope and he’s not going to give it up. Then the man tries to run Wilee down with his car in the street.
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the best American actors working today.
The real drawback to the movie is that it feels like we need a full explanation of what’s in the envelope so it pro-vides backstory through needless flashbacks that only serve to undercut the aggressive action. Director David Koepp could’ve decided to go the Hitchcockian route and provided a story about a regular man, thrust into an extraor-dinary situation, and never really offering a reason why. The movie would’ve been that much more interesting had we not known the background behind the envelope and instead watched Wilee and Detective Monday battle it out until the end. The flashbacks really grind the pulse-pounding bike action to a halt. It’s understandable why they’re there, because Koepp feels that we need an explanation to why it’s all happening, but we don’t. The stunts, action, and Shannon’s acting are captivating enough. Koepp should’ve just played to his strengths for the duration.
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With the mantra of wanting to enjoy retirement, Ernie Verdine has done just that.
Enjoying life has translated into painting or sketching on a daily basis for the 67-year-old Logan resident. If he goes several days without picking up a brush, Verdine feels he is in a slump.
“I know artists that will go several weeks without painting,” Verdine said. “If I went that long, I would really start worrying. This year I’ve probably done 100 paintings already.”
He is quick to point out his painting are “not large.” Still, the 16x20 works of art take time. Plus, he admits to tearing up some pieces if he is not happy and will redo a scene three or four times before feeling good about it.
“I take stuff to different galleries and dif-ferent shows, and I don’t want to present something I’m not happy with,” Verdine said. “I want to put my best work out there.”
The median Verdine works in is watercol-ors, which can be unforgiving.
“It’s one of those of medians that is dif-ficult to control sometimes,” Verdine said. “You end up with good stuff and not so good stuff. You get little surprises; the flow of the paint on the paper kind of adds to watercolor. It blends. Some of it is contrived, some of it’s matter of technique.”
Verdine takes a moment to show and explain what he is talking about in his studio located in the upstairs of his house. He has plenty of examples of his work as more than 40 paintings are hung on the walls of the guest bedroom that is his studio for now. He is thinking of turning his garage into a studio.
The Missouri native said he has always drawn and remembers doing line drawings as young as the third grade. He painted with oils in high school and transitioned to acryl-ics because his wife is allergic to oils. Thirty years ago he started working with watercol-ors. He said most of his art is self taught.
Liquid graphite is another median he uses.
Verdine also continues to use acrylics and even mixes it with watercolors sometimes. He has also worked in pastels and continues to do pencil drawings.
Most of his work has a wilderness look. He said he is inspired by nature, old build-ings and old man-made structures. Pine and spruce trees are in many of his paintings.
“I like the Cache Valley area and the can-yons,” Verdine said. “I’ve been asked what my work should be called. I was like, ‘how about Wilderness Watercolors.’”
He also likes painting winter scenes.“In the winter, you can kind of see the
bones of nature, see the trees and limbs,” Verdine said. “I really like winter and fall scenes.”
Since retiring from the Air Force 12 years ago and moving to Utah to be closer to some of his five children, Verdine has been able to focus a lot more time on his art.
“I wanted to enjoy my life, enjoy my retirement,” Verdine said. “My wife does the same thing. She’s an accomplished rug hooker and hooks these fabulous rugs. We have kind of divided our house up. She has her areas, I have my area. We just do what we enjoy doing.”
Verdine primarily does landscapes from northern Utah, southern Idaho and the moun-tains in the Uintahs. He goes out and takes photos at various times of the year for refer-ence. Then he does preliminary sketches in what he calls his pencil journals for watercol-ors. He also paints from memory and what he called his interpretation of what he sees.
When it comes to painting, Verdine likes to mainly use earth tones. They include various grays, yellows, amber and some greens. He does “float color” like blue and red sparingly.
Then there is the paper. For Verdine, he likes the heaviest weight.
“I beat the paper to death sometimes,” Ver-dine said. “I throw dirt on it, gravel on it and have been known to throw salt on it. ... I do a lot of scrubbing and polishing.”
Those techniques are used to get texture. He uses the heavy paper in order to be a little rough with it. And he doesn’t like to tack or tape the paper down.
A piece can take him several days to com-plete, depending on how motivated he is. The painting he was working on Tuesday morning was something he was redoing from something he had painted Monday.
“How long it takes me all depends on how wrapped up I am in it,” Verdine said. “Some-times I will be painting in the early morning hours and before I know it the sun is coming up.”
Over time Verdine has developed his own style and technique. As he has concentrated on painting more, the quality of his work has improved. When he reaches, what he calls a plateau, Verdine tries a new process or tech-nique. It’s an ever-evolving art.
“It’s a matter of refinements,” Verdine said. “A painter can sense progression. ... I think all artists are their own worst critic. That’s the way it is with me.
“... I think everybody has art ability. Art is art. It’s the interpretation of the eye.”
Then there is the issue of selling his work. If something is really good, he has a hard time parting ways with it. If it turns out at the other end of the spectrum — not up to his standards — Verdine won’t sell it either.
Having gone to art fairs and been a part of art guilds in the past, Verdine currently has 24 paintings in galleries. He plans on getting more of his work in galleries in the future.
His work can be seen locally at the Logan Fine Art Gallery (60 W. 100 North), at his house or on his blog at www.eaverdine-fineart.blogspot.com.
By Shawn Harrison
Wilderness watercolors
Jennifer Meyers/Herald Journal
Local artist Ernie Verdine works on a watercolor painting in his studio Tuesday.
With the mantra of wanting to enjoy retirement, Ernie Verdine has done just that.
Enjoying life has translated into painting or sketching on a daily basis for the 67-year-old Logan resident. If he goes several days without picking up a brush, Verdine feels he is in a slump.
“I know artists that will go several weeks without painting,” Verdine said. “If I went that long, I would really start worrying. This year I’ve probably done 100 paintings already.”
He is quick to point out his painting are “not large.” Still, the 16x20 works of art take time. Plus, he admits to tearing up some pieces if he is not happy and will redo a scene three or four times before feeling good about it.
“I take stuff to different galleries and dif-ferent shows, and I don’t want to present something I’m not happy with,” Verdine said. “I want to put my best work out there.”
The median Verdine works in is watercol-ors, which can be unforgiving.
“It’s one of those of medians that is dif-ficult to control sometimes,” Verdine said. “You end up with good stuff and not so good stuff. You get little surprises; the flow of the paint on the paper kind of adds to watercolor. It blends. Some of it is contrived, some of it’s matter of technique.”
Verdine takes a moment to show and explain what he is talking about in his studio located in the upstairs of his house. He has plenty of examples of his work as more than 40 paintings are hung on the walls of the guest bedroom that is his studio for now. He is thinking of turning his garage into a studio.
The Missouri native said he has always drawn and remembers doing line drawings as young as the third grade. He painted with oils in high school and transitioned to acryl-ics because his wife is allergic to oils. Thirty years ago he started working with watercol-ors. He said most of his art is self taught.
Liquid graphite is another median he uses.
Verdine also continues to use acrylics and even mixes it with watercolors sometimes. He has also worked in pastels and continues to do pencil drawings.
Most of his work has a wilderness look. He said he is inspired by nature, old build-ings and old man-made structures. Pine and spruce trees are in many of his paintings.
“I like the Cache Valley area and the can-yons,” Verdine said. “I’ve been asked what my work should be called. I was like, ‘how about Wilderness Watercolors.’”
He also likes painting winter scenes.“In the winter, you can kind of see the
bones of nature, see the trees and limbs,” Verdine said. “I really like winter and fall scenes.”
Since retiring from the Air Force 12 years ago and moving to Utah to be closer to some of his five children, Verdine has been able to focus a lot more time on his art.
“I wanted to enjoy my life, enjoy my retirement,” Verdine said. “My wife does the same thing. She’s an accomplished rug hooker and hooks these fabulous rugs. We have kind of divided our house up. She has her areas, I have my area. We just do what we enjoy doing.”
Verdine primarily does landscapes from northern Utah, southern Idaho and the moun-tains in the Uintahs. He goes out and takes photos at various times of the year for refer-ence. Then he does preliminary sketches in what he calls his pencil journals for watercol-ors. He also paints from memory and what he called his interpretation of what he sees.
When it comes to painting, Verdine likes to mainly use earth tones. They include various grays, yellows, amber and some greens. He does “float color” like blue and red sparingly.
Then there is the paper. For Verdine, he likes the heaviest weight.
“I beat the paper to death sometimes,” Ver-dine said. “I throw dirt on it, gravel on it and have been known to throw salt on it. ... I do a lot of scrubbing and polishing.”
Those techniques are used to get texture. He uses the heavy paper in order to be a little rough with it. And he doesn’t like to tack or tape the paper down.
A piece can take him several days to com-plete, depending on how motivated he is. The painting he was working on Tuesday morning was something he was redoing from something he had painted Monday.
“How long it takes me all depends on how wrapped up I am in it,” Verdine said. “Some-times I will be painting in the early morning hours and before I know it the sun is coming up.”
Over time Verdine has developed his own style and technique. As he has concentrated on painting more, the quality of his work has improved. When he reaches, what he calls a plateau, Verdine tries a new process or tech-nique. It’s an ever-evolving art.
“It’s a matter of refinements,” Verdine said. “A painter can sense progression. ... I think all artists are their own worst critic. That’s the way it is with me.
“... I think everybody has art ability. Art is art. It’s the interpretation of the eye.”
Then there is the issue of selling his work. If something is really good, he has a hard time parting ways with it. If it turns out at the other end of the spectrum — not up to his standards — Verdine won’t sell it either.
Having gone to art fairs and been a part of art guilds in the past, Verdine currently has 24 paintings in galleries. He plans on getting more of his work in galleries in the future.
His work can be seen locally at the Logan Fine Art Gallery (60 W. 100 North), at his house or on his blog at www.eaverdine-fineart.blogspot.com.
By Shawn Harrison
Wilderness watercolors
Jennifer Meyers/Herald Journal
Local artist Ernie Verdine works on a watercolor painting in his studio Tuesday.
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Top of Utah Entertain-ment will present the student edition of “Les Miserables” at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 6 to 8, and 10 to 15 at the Elton Eccles The-atre in Logan. A matinee performance will take place at 2:30 p.m. Satur-day, Sept. 8.
The show will be per-formed by a cast of 130 students younger than 19. Director Gwendolyn Dattage said, “It has been amazing to watch this show change the lives of students in the cast. Every cast member has put 100 percent into this show and I couldn’t be happier with how the production is turning out.”
Dattage also said she’s never seen a more excited cast. “These kids came together and have become one big family. It’s a joy to watch them all support each other and work as a team.”
The story of “Les Miserables” recounts the struggle against adversity in 19th century France. Imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread, petty thief Jean Valjean (Corbin Lee and Peter LaBarge) is released from his 19-year term and not only becomes an honest man, but the mayor of a prosperous town and a loving adoptive father — violating his parole in the process. The relentless Inspector Javert (Brady Stuart and Scott Glattli) makes a decent life for Valjean impossible while continuously pursuing him. Only years later, after Valjean proves his mettle during a bloody student uprising and saves the life of a young man hopelessly in love
with Valjean’s adopted daughter, does the ex-convict finally feel fully redeemed. The play was originally adapted from Victor Hugo’s timeless novel.
Auditions for “Les Miserables” were held in May and the students have been practicing throughout the summer. Dattage said it took a month to nail down all the parts with auditions taking place in several high schools from Box Elder and Bear River, throughout the valley and up to Preston and West Side High School.
Tickets are $17 to $19 and can be purchased at
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yOUR sTUFF“Fabric Softener”By Heather Malmberg
When my skirt clings to my legsfull of static, fresh from the laundrylike Ben Franklin’s hair after the stormI can rub the skirt with a dryer sheetor spray it with aerosol hairsprayor, as a last resort, I can useCling-Off, the powerful de-clinger.
None of these methods work on my Klingons.
Michael, my Klingon, thinks I’m the hippest thingsince bell-bottomswhich would be fabulous if he weren’t slightly crazy.Devin, my Klingon, thinks I’m the hottest thingsince sunburnwhich would be lovely if he weren’t a pathetic mama’s boy.Jeff, my Klingon, thinks I’m the grooviest thingsince discowhich would be pleasant if he weren’t an utter
narcissist.Landon, my Klingon, thinks I’m the sweetest thingsince Cool Whipwhich would be nice if he didn’t lack a backbone.Jonathon, my Klingon, things I’m the smartest thingsince the computerwhich would be great if he weren’t so stupid.
Now, I could have been honestand told each Klingonexactly why he didn’t have a Weight Watchers chance in a bakerybut I’m not that cruel.Instead,
I told Jonathon I needed to focus on school, and never on him
I told Landon I had an incurable diseaseI told Jeff I was a lesbian I told Devin I was moving to Guam andI told Michael I’d had a religious conversion.
Having shaken my skirt freeof the current batch of Klingons,I openly embrace the new recruits.
Send your poems and stories to [email protected].
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The generous and gentle Robert Hass has titled his retrospective collection of essays and talks with a reference to a theme that always sets his work apart: the act of attention.
Visible from the first essay, written 27 years ago, through the last are the lush layers of Hass’ rare combination of bril-liance, erudition and self-awareness. He is unusual-ly present, able to ponder “what light can do,” and he notes with just enough modesty that this can
sometimes overtake him in the form of “digression inside the digression.” But he offers his thoughts with surpassing clarity and circumspection. His passion for the subjects he surveys, dissects and gleefully honors is more tender than fiery — whether he is celebrating the complexity of Anton Chekhov’s short stories, giving Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” the full cultural context it merits, or exploring the over-looked back story of a protest at the University of California at Berkeley.
A reader never feels ill-equipped, as so often
happens with literary criticism. Instead, we’re all welcomed to the party Hass throws in honor of great creativity. Hass often builds this openness
on personal anecdotes, setting a critique of the Wallace Stevens poem “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” among his recol-lections of an impromptu drive with seven fellow students to Carmel, Calif., for example. Recounting how he and his friends read and reread the work enables Hass to mention the evolution of his own thinking and include dif-fering views of the poem.
Hass, a UC Berkeley professor who served as U.S. poet laureate from 1995 to 1997 and has received major awards for his poetry and a previous essay collection, writes
with the confidence of deep familiarity instead of a sense of superior-ity; nearly every piece teaches us something, though he rarely instructs. He is clearly frustrated with the simplistic news coverage of — and com-munity response to — the fight over cutting down part of a planted grove of trees at UC Berkeley to make way for the football stadium’s renovation. So, asked to deliver a research lecture, which appears as “An Oak
Grove,” the book’s final entry, Hass reveals the many lessons about the area’s rich botanical and cultural history and even the Arts and Crafts move-ment that the conflict could have provided.
If the collection includes perhaps too many essays and talks, or a reader finds one or another a bit too long, it’s easy to skip ahead. Savoring just one of these life-giving morsels is memorable, even tran-scendent.
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Smart Bites free weekly workshops will take place at 11 a.m. every Friday through Aug. 24 at the Cache County Senior Center, 240 N. 100 East in Logan. The hour-long workshops will be packed with valuable nutrition information, easy recipe dem-onstrations, samples and simple exercise ideas.
Eagles Lodge (a private club for members) will host a luau at 7 p.m. Aug. 24. There will be finger foods, a raffle, limbo con-test and live music. Cost is $3 for members and $5 for guests of members. Eagles is located on the corner of 900 North and 200 West. For more information, call 435-752-8776.
Tim Pearce will perform alter-native rock/reggae music from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24, at Caffe Ibis. Free.
Singer/songwriter Cherish Tuttle will perform from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24. at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza, 99 E. 1200 South. Every-one welcome.
Register by Saturday, Aug. 25, for a 12-week series about the Constitution and the role of government to take place Wednesday nights from Sept. 5 to Nov. 28. Individual, couple and family pricing is available. Please visit http://www.eventsnearhere.com/find-events/ID/Weston/addetail/2583/ or call 435-764-1750 for complete details.
Common Ground Outdoor Adventures is hosting the annual Century Ride Fundraiser on Saturday, Aug. 25. For more information, call 713-0288 or visit cachevalleycentury.com.
Mom’s Night Out is Aug. 25 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Stork Land-ing, 99 W. Center St. in Logan. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call 435-792-
4453. Free.
The USU Common Literature Convocation will take place at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 25 at Kent Con-cert Hall. David Baron, author of
“The Beasts in the Garden,” will speak.
Paradise Trout and Berry Days events will take place all day Saturday, Aug. 25, at the Paradise Town Square. The schedule is as follows: 5K run at 7 a.m.; breakfast from 7 to 10 a.m.; flag ceremony at 8 a.m.; 3 on 3 volleyball from 9 to 11 a.m.; booths from 10 a.m. to dark; parade at 10:30 a.m.; pie eat-ing contest at 11:30 a.m.; trout scramble at noon; community auction at 1:30 p.m.; mud volley-ball at 4 p.m.; trout dinner from 6 to 9 p.m.
Day of Culture and Brother-hood will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 25 at the Logan Tabernacle. The event will focus on promoting better understand-ing of different cultures in the valley. There will be free live entertainment, a food/crafts sale and more. The Hispanic Health Coalition will also sponsor a 1-mile walk, free health screen-ings, information booths, music and entertainment, prize draw-ings and more.
All are invited to a one-day, all-day meditation retreat beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at the Unitarian Univer-salist house, 595 E. 900 North. No experience necessary. The day ends with a performance of sacred chanting by Salt Lake City musician Leraine. Suggested donation $25.
Kaiti Jensen will perform at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sour-dough Pizza. Everyone welcome.
AARP will hold a free Car-Fit program from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25. This program assists mature drivers by show-ing them how to adjust seats, belts, steering wheels and other items so they can be safer and
more comfortable while driving. It only takes 15 minutes and can help drivers feel more secure in their driving habits. Call Susie at 435-753-2866 for location and reservations.
Scotty Haze will perform folk/blues/rock music from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, at Caffe Ibis. Free.
Common Ground Outdoor Adventures is hosting a movie night from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Mon-day, Aug. 27. Cost is $3. For more information, call 713-0288.
The Logan Aquatic Center will adjust hours Monday, Aug. 27, now that kids are back in school. Hours will be 3 to 8 p.m. Monday, 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, noon to 7 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. The pool will be open from noon to 7 p.m. Labor Day Monday. The pool will close for the season Tuesday, Sept. 4.
The schedule for the Hyrum Senior Center is as follows: Monday: Fit Over 60 at 10 a.m.; Tuesday, chair yoga at 10:30 a.m., card games, Pinochle and Bunko at 12:30 p.m.; Wednesday, Mike Hatch will play the piano; Thursday, chair yoga at 10:30 a.m.; Friday, Bingo at 12:30 p.m. The center is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. There are quilts to work on every day. Lunch is at noon every day except Thursday. Please call 245-3570 to reserve a place. The center is located at 675 E. Main St. in Hyrum.
Learn how to treat ailments without a trip the doctor’s office at a free essential oils class from 10 to 11 a.m. or 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 28, at Citrus and Sage, 130 N. 100 East in Logan. For more information, contact Deonne Johnson at 435-227-
5343 or [email protected].
The Food Sen$e girls will teach a free class on using gar-den veggies in various meals at a free cooking and community class at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 28, at Macey’s Little Theater.
Common Ground Outdoor Adventures is having a pre-trip meeting for the Bloomington Lake destination trip Tuesday, Aug. 28, at 5:30 p.m. Pre-trips are mandatory for anyone who is attending a destination trip. To request more information, call 713-0288.
Chimney Choir will perform indie/acoustic music with Hoodoo and RacecaR RacecaR at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 28, at Why Sound. Cost is $5.
Trina Thomas will teach a free cooking and community class on using garden vegetables with any dinner plan at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19, at Macey’s Little Theater.
A support group for people with mental illness is held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. every Wednesday at the NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) office in the basement of Bear River Mental Health, 90 E. 200 North, Logan. For more information, call 435-787-4165.
Common Ground Outdoor Adventures is having volunteer orientation from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 29. For more information, call 713-0288.
Utah State University Exten-sion is offering a research-based course, “How to Avoid Fall-ing for a Jerk (or Jerkette).” Whether you are single, dating, engaged, or single again, this class offers information about how to pick a partner and devel-op a relationship in a healthy way. This program is free. The last class will be held from 6 to 8:15 p.m. Aug. 29 at the Child &
Family Support Center, 380 W. 1400 North, in Logan. Dinner is provided each evening. Call 435-232-6022, or email [email protected] to register. Registration is also available on eventbrite.com.
Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will visit Logan Can-yon for cycling and horseback riding from Thursday, Aug. 30, through Saturday, Sept. 1. To find out more information about desti-nation trips, call 435-713-0288 or visit www.cgadventures.org.
Origami Ghosts will perform indie/acoustic music with Iver Anchor at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, at Why Sound. Cost is $5.
A free women’s hockey night will take place from 8:45 to 9:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, at the Eccles Ice Center. All women and girls ages 6 and older are welcome. No experience needed. Equipment and instruction will be provided. For further information, email [email protected] or [email protected].
The Farmer’s Market in Hyrum takes place from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday at 675 N. Main St.
The Cache School District and the Up to 3 Early Intervention Program will conduct a screening for children 0 to 5 years old who may be eligible for programs for preschoolers with developmental delays. Children who will not be 5 years old by Sept. 1, and who may demonstrate delays, are encouraged to attend this screening session. The Bear River Head Start program will also conduct a screening for the 2012-13 school year by appoint-ment. These screenings will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 30 and 31 at Bear River Head Start, 852 S. 100 West in Logan. For more information, contact Kellie Garcia at 753-2100 ext. 1902, Kathleen Westover at 753-0951 ext. 122 or Marla Nef at 797-2043.
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Family Support Center, 380 W. 1400 North, in Logan. Dinner is provided each evening. Call 435-232-6022, or email [email protected] to register. Registration is also available on eventbrite.com.
Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will visit Logan Can-yon for cycling and horseback riding from Thursday, Aug. 30, through Saturday, Sept. 1. To find out more information about desti-nation trips, call 435-713-0288 or visit www.cgadventures.org.
Origami Ghosts will perform indie/acoustic music with Iver Anchor at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, at Why Sound. Cost is $5.
A free women’s hockey night will take place from 8:45 to 9:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, at the Eccles Ice Center. All women and girls ages 6 and older are welcome. No experience needed. Equipment and instruction will be provided. For further information, email [email protected] or [email protected].
The Farmer’s Market in Hyrum takes place from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday at 675 N. Main St.
The Cache School District and the Up to 3 Early Intervention Program will conduct a screening for children 0 to 5 years old who may be eligible for programs for preschoolers with developmental delays. Children who will not be 5 years old by Sept. 1, and who may demonstrate delays, are encouraged to attend this screening session. The Bear River Head Start program will also conduct a screening for the 2012-13 school year by appoint-ment. These screenings will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 30 and 31 at Bear River Head Start, 852 S. 100 West in Logan. For more information, contact Kellie Garcia at 753-2100 ext. 1902, Kathleen Westover at 753-0951 ext. 122 or Marla Nef at 797-2043.
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