Hard News Café Weekly News Roundup (2/11/13)

News about Cache Valley and USU
from the Department of Journalism & Communication 
 



February 11, 2013

All the Local News:
Plane crash, Lewiston’s movie house, immersion French in Paradise, BBQ, tiny string players, ping pong for a good cause, 1,483 pancakes, Black History Month, CNN reporter coming to USU, Aggie sports and, well . . . the weather. Sigh.

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CACHE VALLEY & UTAH NEWS

10-year-old kids making sweet music: ‘I like all the sound we make’
Story & Photos by Katie Swain LOGAN—More than 15 years ago, a grassroots movement of parents had a vision for an elementary school orchestra program for their children. “The first class we taught had about 10 students,” said James McWhorter, the Mountain West String Academy’s program director. “Now we’re in 16 schools, we have 32 classes, about 40 teachers and assistants, and more than 400 students.” The little musicians like it. Fourth grader Hanna Jenson says, “I like hearing all the sound we make.”
 




North Logan city officials weigh benefits of boundary change
By Jonathan Larson NORTH LOGAN—The City Council met Wednesday to discuss a potential boundary change: a trade with Logan to acquire land along the west side of U.S. Hwy. 91, in an effort to straighten city boundaries and allow for greater development. “It makes it so that you just have Logan that goes to a certain point north and North Logan from that point on,” Mayor Lloyd Berentzen said. “It just cleans up the property line for the entire city.”

Oui, merci! Providence first-graders can learn in French, come fall
By Paul Christiansen PROVIDENCE—Many called it a gift they could give their children. As parents gathered at Providence Elementary Tuesday night to hear details about the French dual-language immersion program their sons and daughters will enter in the fall, most were excited and eager for the opportunity.

The ribs are back! Savannah’s BBQ reopens after long hiatus By Jessica Sonderegger LOGAN—In the world of barbecue, serious BBQ artists pride themselves on original recipes and housemade sauces that can satisfy all preferences—smoky, spicy, tangy, sweet. BBQ chefs then complement their “world famous ribs” and smoked meats with only the highest quality corn bread, coleslaw, barbecue baked beans and sweet potato fries. After renovations to a new downtown Logan location, Savannah’s BBQ is back, and they’ll be glad to show you what you’ve been missing.
   
Richmond P&Z approves conversion of Pet Milk factory to warehouse
By Shayna Marcure RICHMOND—“Do you want an eyesore?” Local businessman Quentin Casperson stood before the Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday, seeking a conditional use permit for the old Pet Milk factory. “We’ve finally got some serious money that will let us use the building for something good.”
 
1,483 pancakes! IHOP fundraiser for kids is about giving—and eating
By Jessica Sonderegger LOGAN—Local restaurants may have seemed unusually vacant Tuesday night, even for a weekday in Cache Valley. But one restaurant found weekend-style success, offering something even “Taco Tuesday” couldn’t compete with: free pancakes. There were lines out the door for the Logan IHOP’s seventh annual National Pancake Day—a day to raise money for local children’s hospitals. Lindsey Lopez—the reigning Miss Cache Valley—says the flapjack extravaganza serves to “bridge the gap between free pancakes and a good cause.”

  





AggieTV News—Plane crash ends well, winter weather & more.
By the ATV News staff 
LOGAN—On this week’s ATV News, plane crash! Kelton Wells shows you that what goes up, must certainly come down but with a very happy ending. Marie Titze shows you the pros and cons of doing a study abroad while Jenna Lynn brings you the latest on Logan’s air quality. We’ll show you how one store owner brought a shoplifter to justice using Facebook. It’s Black History Month—Loren Brewer visited the Black Student Union and got a dance lesson. People from around the world enter their work into the Logan Film Festival, while a local Improv group gets laughs for a cause. There is all that and more on this week’s ATV News. Click here for full newscast.




A night out at Lewiston Theater
By Shayna Marcure LEWISTON—Tenth row up, and two very comfortable seats in, is where you found me at 9 p.m. Saturday night, enjoying my treats and the second digitally projected film ever showcased in the 76-year-old Lewiston Theater—and all for under $4. “Here Comes the Boom is the first movie that we have used the new digital projector with,” said Randi Barr at the city-owned theater. “And it’s been fabulous.”

USU NEWS

ATVNews: Ping pong for a cause, spelling, & great Aggie club sports
LOGAN—On this week’s Aggie TV News, a look at national and international headlines from North Korea and Egypt, ping pong, spelling bees, hanging art and keeping the campus safe at Utah State; more wintry weather, and great Aggie sports action. (Full newscast here.) 



Fry Street Quartet concert honors Caine family generosity, impact
By Curtis Lundstrom LOGAN—It’s been 10 years since the Fry Street Quartet first came to Cache Valley, and the classical musicians performed a concert Thursday to honor some their greatest benefactors—Dan C. and Manon Caine Russell. “Without the support of Dan and Manon, the culturally rich environment of Cache Valley, which we all enjoy, would be a very different place, as would the college that was named for their family,” said Craig Jessop, dean of the Caine College of the Arts. “We are most grateful.” The new endowment will provide a means for current and future students to take USU’s already nationally renowned music department to the next level.


CNN’s Jessica Ravitz comes to USU for Morris Media & Society Lecture
LOGAN—Jessica Ravitz, former Salt Lake Tribune religion writer and now a reporter for CNN, comes back to Utah on Feb. 27 to deliver a Morris Media & Society Lecture at Utah State University. Her Morris Lecture, “Persistence, Patience and Compassion: An enterprise journalist’s toolbox,” sponsored by the USU Journalism and Communication Department, is Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 11:30 a.m. in the Agriculture Building Auditorium on the USU campus. The event is free and open to the public.
 





OPINION-REVIEWS

Creepy but compelling: ‘Stoker’ director connects with actors, audience
By Dani Hayes

PARK CITY—Director Chan-Wook Park welcomes us into his dream—or perhaps his nightmare—through his beautifully created film “Stoker,” which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The film’s intricate plot spirals around the concept of interlacing fear and sexuality. A small family suffers the loss of their father, leaving only the mother and teenage daughter. Then Uncle Charlie Stoker (Matthew Goode) comes for a visit. His charm and quiet intrigue ignites a battle of affection between the mother, Evelyn Stoker (Nichole Kidman), and daughter India (Mia Wasikowska). An already tense mother-daughter relationship is exhausted and eventually broken by the new visitor in their home; for India, her mother has moved on too quickly after her father’s death, especially with her own brother-in-law. 






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