Thursday, December 18, 2008
Work on the Website
Please return to my main website, Strictly Rocky Mountain, the travel & lifestyle magazine for the Rocky Mountains.
That is where most of my new information is included with articles, events, tips and travel ideas.
www.strictlyrockymountain.com
Thank you,
Lee
That is where most of my new information is included with articles, events, tips and travel ideas.
www.strictlyrockymountain.com
Thank you,
Lee
Monday, July 14, 2008
Cedar City, Utah Events
Neil Simon FestivalJuly 17 – August 9
The Neil Simon Festival will take place at the Heritage Theater, 105 N. 100 E., Cedar City. Presenting three plays: two of Simon’s works, “Fools” and Brighton Beach Memoirs”; and “I Do! I Do!” with book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt. For more information or tickets call 866-35-SIMON 7-4666 or www.simonfest.org.
Thunder on the Mountain Motorcycle Rally
11TH Annual Thunder on the Mountain Motorcycle Rally July 18 in Brian Head includes a BBQ, poker run and touring ride. For more information call 702-595-5711 or visit www.brianheadchamber.com.
Duck Creek Chili Cook-off July 18 – 19
Duck Creek Chili Cook-off at Duck Creek on Hwy U-14. Enjoy lots of food, craft booths, vendors and a live band both nights. For more information about the activities visit www.duckcreekdays.com or call 435-682-3330.
Curtain Call LuncheonsJ uly 18 - August 29
Curtain Call Luncheons every Friday at a local restaurant in Cedar City, lunch included. Get up close and personal with the actors of the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Purchase tickets at the Guild Courtesy Booth in the Utah Shakespearean Festival Auditorium. Contact 435-586-2300. Parowan Summer Concert SeriesParowan City Summer Concert Series July 18 at Main Street gazebo in Parowan from 8 – 10 p.m. Groups TBA. For more information call 435-559-4504, 435-477-9022 or visit www.parowan.org
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Earth Day Art Contest at Ogden Nature Center Calling all kids who love nature: Children in kindergarten through the fifth grade are invited to combine their artistic talents with their love for the earth by entering the Ogden Nature Center's annual Earth Day Art Poster Contest.
This year's theme is "Take Action." All entries will be exhibited in the LS Peery Education Center at the Ogden Nature Center starting on Earth Day, April 21, through May 31, 2007.
**Special note for teachers: If your entire class enters artwork in theOgden Nature Center's Earth Day Art Poster Contest, your class will be entered in a drawing to receive one of three FREE wildlife presentations -at your school, in your classroom!
** Guidelines:
€ Entries must be 9" x 12" with the theme "Take Action."
€ Please do not glue anything onto your project.
€ On the back, please include your name (first and last), school, grade(k-5), teacher, home phone number and project title.
€ Entries must be received at the Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. 12th Street,Ogden, UT 84404 no later than 4:00 p.m. Saturday, April 14, 2007.
€ Late entries may not be judged.
€ There is no fee to enter. Entries will not be returned but may be picked up May 31 through June 16. After June 16 contest entries will become property of the Ogden. Prizes will be awarded to three winners in each grade, with one grand prize winner per grade.
The winners will be invited to an awardsprogram on Earth Day, April 21, at 11 a.m.This contest is sponsored by the Ogden Nature Center, Ogden City Arts/OgdenCity Corporation, and ATK Thiokol.
This year's theme is "Take Action." All entries will be exhibited in the LS Peery Education Center at the Ogden Nature Center starting on Earth Day, April 21, through May 31, 2007.
**Special note for teachers: If your entire class enters artwork in theOgden Nature Center's Earth Day Art Poster Contest, your class will be entered in a drawing to receive one of three FREE wildlife presentations -at your school, in your classroom!
** Guidelines:
€ Entries must be 9" x 12" with the theme "Take Action."
€ Please do not glue anything onto your project.
€ On the back, please include your name (first and last), school, grade(k-5), teacher, home phone number and project title.
€ Entries must be received at the Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. 12th Street,Ogden, UT 84404 no later than 4:00 p.m. Saturday, April 14, 2007.
€ Late entries may not be judged.
€ There is no fee to enter. Entries will not be returned but may be picked up May 31 through June 16. After June 16 contest entries will become property of the Ogden. Prizes will be awarded to three winners in each grade, with one grand prize winner per grade.
The winners will be invited to an awardsprogram on Earth Day, April 21, at 11 a.m.This contest is sponsored by the Ogden Nature Center, Ogden City Arts/OgdenCity Corporation, and ATK Thiokol.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THE 5TH ANNUALFLY WITH THE FLOCK 5K FUN RUN
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THE 5TH ANNUALFLY WITH THE FLOCK 5K FUN RUN AT THE OGDEN NATURE CENTER
Enjoy the great outdoors and a fun, physical morning at the Ogden NatureCenter¹s 5th Annual 5K FUN RUN on Saturday, May 12. The beauty of thewildlife sanctuary is the setting for this spirited 5K and this is a greattraining run for the Ogden Marathon the following week.
The course is twolaps winding through 152 acres on dirt trails.Start time is 8:00 a.m. with registration the day of the run between 6:30and 7:30 a.m. Registration fees are $18 for adults and $12 for children.After May 1, late registration fees are $22 for adults and $15 for kids.Cool t-shirts and a tote bag full of goodies are guaranteed to those whopre-register and all participants will be entered to win prize drawings.
There will be fun activities for the whole family. Young and old should wearsomething wacky for a crazy hat contest! Children can run a 2.5k orparticipate in a 100 foot kids dash with medals for every child whoparticipates. The Ogden Nature Center's staff will be on hand to introducelive birds of prey and other native animals. Roosters will cater a pancakebreakfast following the race, with coffee donated by Grounds For Coffee.
Please dress appropriately. The FUN RUN will be held rain or shine. All proceeds will directly benefit the Ogden Nature Center. Special thanks toour generous sponsors -- especially the L.S. Peery Foundation and Striders.To register go to www.ogdennaturecenter.org, and click Fly with the Flock 5KFun Run. To register in person, go to the Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. 12thSt., Ogden, UT or call 801-621-7595.
Enjoy the great outdoors and a fun, physical morning at the Ogden NatureCenter¹s 5th Annual 5K FUN RUN on Saturday, May 12. The beauty of thewildlife sanctuary is the setting for this spirited 5K and this is a greattraining run for the Ogden Marathon the following week.
The course is twolaps winding through 152 acres on dirt trails.Start time is 8:00 a.m. with registration the day of the run between 6:30and 7:30 a.m. Registration fees are $18 for adults and $12 for children.After May 1, late registration fees are $22 for adults and $15 for kids.Cool t-shirts and a tote bag full of goodies are guaranteed to those whopre-register and all participants will be entered to win prize drawings.
There will be fun activities for the whole family. Young and old should wearsomething wacky for a crazy hat contest! Children can run a 2.5k orparticipate in a 100 foot kids dash with medals for every child whoparticipates. The Ogden Nature Center's staff will be on hand to introducelive birds of prey and other native animals. Roosters will cater a pancakebreakfast following the race, with coffee donated by Grounds For Coffee.
Please dress appropriately. The FUN RUN will be held rain or shine. All proceeds will directly benefit the Ogden Nature Center. Special thanks toour generous sponsors -- especially the L.S. Peery Foundation and Striders.To register go to www.ogdennaturecenter.org, and click Fly with the Flock 5KFun Run. To register in person, go to the Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. 12thSt., Ogden, UT or call 801-621-7595.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
WORKSHOP with Karen Chamberlain
Saturday February 17, 10 am - 1pm at the Taos County Chamber of Commerce Meeting Room.Cost $35 and $30 for S.O.M.O.S. members. For reservations and/or information, call S.O.M.O.S. 505 758-0081 or email us at somos@laplaza.org.
INTIMACY AND SURPRISE: ELEMENTS OF MEMOIR AND STORY - A workshop with Karen ChamberlainThis workshop focuses on methods of infusing clarity, vitality and flow into the writing of personal real-life stories. Lively examples, discussion, and writing exercises are aimed at giving participants confidence in the value of their stories, and specific skills and techniques for writing them.
Please bring a notebook or journal, and pencil or pen. Karen will also be reading on Friday February 16 @ 7:00 as part of the S.O.M.O.S. Winter Writers Series @ the Harwood Museum.
BIO- Karen Chamberlain received a BS degree in zoology and chemistry and a BA in English and history from the University of New Mexico, and later earned a Master's in Literature and Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.Ms. Chamberlain has worked at several occupations, advertising copywriter, tutor. For six years she was senior writer and associate producer for the PBS-television nature series, "Wild America."
During that time, she also directed the Aspen Writers' Conference and established the Aspen Writers' Foundation, developing several supportive programs for writers of all ages. In 1992, she co-founded "Nature Within," a summer outdoor writers' program based at a wildlife sanctuary in the Colorado Rockies and featuring as faculty such nationally noted authors as Jorie Graham and William Kittredge. For ten years she served as Literary Coordinator for Canyonlands Field Institute's Desert Writers Workshop, near Moab, Utah. In 1999, she co-founded the Glenwood Springs Writers' Workshop, a bi-monthly critiquing and support group.
For five years Chamberlain was also the poetry editor for Mountain Gazette magazine.Ms. Chamberlain began writing at age ten. Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Hudson Review, The Nation; Poetry, Orion; The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature; and The Geography of Hope: Poets of Colorado's Western Slope. She has been honored with a 1983 The Nation/Discovery Prize, a 1989 Fellowship in Poetry from the Colorado Council for the Arts, a 1993 Poetry Award from Poets & Writers Magazine and the Poetry Society of America, and a 2004 Contribution-to-Poetry Award from Sparrows Poetry Festival in Salida, Colorado.For a five-year period of her life, Chamberlain lived on a remote ranch in southeast Utah; a memoir of her desert experiences entitled Desert of the Heart: Sojourn in a Community of Solitudes, has been published and is available from Ghost Road Press, Ingram, Amazon She is completing a collection of poetry, Ephedra, and other work in progress includes a collection of essays, Swimming With A Candle; a novel, The Woman Who Said Welcome; and and a fictional tale for horse lovers of all ages, Blackie The Mustang: An American Black Beauty Story.S.O.M.O.S.229 Paseo del Pueblo SurP O Box 3225Taos, New Mexico 87571505-758-0081FAX 505-758-4802www.somostaos.org
INTIMACY AND SURPRISE: ELEMENTS OF MEMOIR AND STORY - A workshop with Karen ChamberlainThis workshop focuses on methods of infusing clarity, vitality and flow into the writing of personal real-life stories. Lively examples, discussion, and writing exercises are aimed at giving participants confidence in the value of their stories, and specific skills and techniques for writing them.
Please bring a notebook or journal, and pencil or pen. Karen will also be reading on Friday February 16 @ 7:00 as part of the S.O.M.O.S. Winter Writers Series @ the Harwood Museum.
BIO- Karen Chamberlain received a BS degree in zoology and chemistry and a BA in English and history from the University of New Mexico, and later earned a Master's in Literature and Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.Ms. Chamberlain has worked at several occupations, advertising copywriter, tutor. For six years she was senior writer and associate producer for the PBS-television nature series, "Wild America."
During that time, she also directed the Aspen Writers' Conference and established the Aspen Writers' Foundation, developing several supportive programs for writers of all ages. In 1992, she co-founded "Nature Within," a summer outdoor writers' program based at a wildlife sanctuary in the Colorado Rockies and featuring as faculty such nationally noted authors as Jorie Graham and William Kittredge. For ten years she served as Literary Coordinator for Canyonlands Field Institute's Desert Writers Workshop, near Moab, Utah. In 1999, she co-founded the Glenwood Springs Writers' Workshop, a bi-monthly critiquing and support group.
For five years Chamberlain was also the poetry editor for Mountain Gazette magazine.Ms. Chamberlain began writing at age ten. Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Hudson Review, The Nation; Poetry, Orion; The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature; and The Geography of Hope: Poets of Colorado's Western Slope. She has been honored with a 1983 The Nation/Discovery Prize, a 1989 Fellowship in Poetry from the Colorado Council for the Arts, a 1993 Poetry Award from Poets & Writers Magazine and the Poetry Society of America, and a 2004 Contribution-to-Poetry Award from Sparrows Poetry Festival in Salida, Colorado.For a five-year period of her life, Chamberlain lived on a remote ranch in southeast Utah; a memoir of her desert experiences entitled Desert of the Heart: Sojourn in a Community of Solitudes, has been published and is available from Ghost Road Press, Ingram, Amazon She is completing a collection of poetry, Ephedra, and other work in progress includes a collection of essays, Swimming With A Candle; a novel, The Woman Who Said Welcome; and and a fictional tale for horse lovers of all ages, Blackie The Mustang: An American Black Beauty Story.S.O.M.O.S.229 Paseo del Pueblo SurP O Box 3225Taos, New Mexico 87571505-758-0081FAX 505-758-4802www.somostaos.org
Thursday, January 04, 2007
SOMOS Winter Writers Series READING/WORKSHOP
Friday, January 19, 2007, 7:00 PM @ the Harwood Museum, 238 Ledoux St., Taos $7, $5 for SOMOS members - Breaking the Language Barriers. Join poets Valerie Martinez and Jesus J. Barquet for a journey across borders and cultures, into forbidden zones and the sacred, exploring what holds us together, what keeps us apart. This noche caliente of bilingual cross-fertilizations is sure to sizzle the mid-winter blues away.
Valerie Martinez’s first book of poetry, Absence, Luminescent won the Larry Levis Prize and a Greenwall Grant from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry; Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today’s Latino Renaissance, and Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred. Martinez served as assistant editor of the anthology Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Writing by Native Women of North America. An essay about Joy Harjo (along with poems by Harjo and Martinez) will appear in the anthology Women, Sisters, and Saints: Women Poets and Their Mentors. She is currently Asst. Professor of English and Creative Writing and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at the College of Santa Fe.
Cuban poet, literary critic and translator Jesus J. Barquet will give a bilingual performance from his latest works on war and migration. Barquet’s books include, among others: Consecration of Havana, which won the Gold Letters prize, Poetic Scriptures of a Nation (Havana Lourdes Country Prize), Theater and Cuban Revolution: Subversion and Utopia, and Un no rompido sueño, winner of a Latin-Chicano Poetry Prize. His most recent poetry translation, “Jose Angel Valente: A Selection of His Poetry,” was published in Puerto del Sol. Barquet is Professor of Hispanic Literature at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. A rare treat will follow Barquet’s performance: On Saturday, January 20, he will conduct a S.O.M.O.S.-sponsored poetry workshop, “Navigating Your Book of Poems” $50 plus $8 for materials; @ the Taos Public Libaray 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM For information and sign-up, contact S.O.M.O.S. at (505) 758-0081 or email somos@laplaza.org
Valerie Martinez’s first book of poetry, Absence, Luminescent won the Larry Levis Prize and a Greenwall Grant from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry; Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today’s Latino Renaissance, and Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred. Martinez served as assistant editor of the anthology Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Writing by Native Women of North America. An essay about Joy Harjo (along with poems by Harjo and Martinez) will appear in the anthology Women, Sisters, and Saints: Women Poets and Their Mentors. She is currently Asst. Professor of English and Creative Writing and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at the College of Santa Fe.
Cuban poet, literary critic and translator Jesus J. Barquet will give a bilingual performance from his latest works on war and migration. Barquet’s books include, among others: Consecration of Havana, which won the Gold Letters prize, Poetic Scriptures of a Nation (Havana Lourdes Country Prize), Theater and Cuban Revolution: Subversion and Utopia, and Un no rompido sueño, winner of a Latin-Chicano Poetry Prize. His most recent poetry translation, “Jose Angel Valente: A Selection of His Poetry,” was published in Puerto del Sol. Barquet is Professor of Hispanic Literature at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. A rare treat will follow Barquet’s performance: On Saturday, January 20, he will conduct a S.O.M.O.S.-sponsored poetry workshop, “Navigating Your Book of Poems” $50 plus $8 for materials; @ the Taos Public Libaray 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM For information and sign-up, contact S.O.M.O.S. at (505) 758-0081 or email somos@laplaza.org
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Kaibab National Forest Seeks Comments
WILLIAMS, Ariz. – The Kaibab National Forest is seeking comments from the public on its proposal to conduct salvage logging, reforestation and fuels reduction activities in the Warm Fire area on the North Kaibab Ranger District.
The Warm Fire burned about 40,000 acres in the central part of the Kaibab Plateau from June 25, when fire managers shifted to a wildfire suppression strategy, until it was contained on July 4.
The area is important to the district’s heritage, range, recreation, timber and wildlife programs.
The proposal calls for salvage logging on approximately 9,990 acres, resulting in removal of approximately 84.5 million board feet of timber products. Slash disposal and other fuels treatments would be conducted on some logged areas to protect future regeneration.
Reforestation proposed for the wildfire area includes allowing aspen to naturally regenerate on approximately 4,050 acres, planting of ponderosa pine on 5,370 acres, and planting of mixed conifers (ponderosa pine and Douglas fir) on 5,270 acres.
A more detailed explanation of the proposed action is available on the Kaibab National Forest web site at www.fs.fed.us/r3/kai.
Kaibab National Forest Supervisor Mike Williams defined the purpose and need for the Warm Fire Recovery Project based on the recommendations of a team of Forest Service specialists, which evaluated resource conditions in the fire area in September and identified opportunities for recovery work.
Williams identified three main needs for the project: Recovering the economic value of the burned timber, reforesting burned conifer stands and moving them towards longer-term desired conditions, and breaking up fuel continuity in the burned area.
The forest welcomes comments on the Warm Fire Recovery Project at any time, but those received by January 26 will be most helpful in developing an environmental impact statement for the project.
Interested parties should email their comments to “Warm Fire Recovery Project” at mailroom_r3_kaibab@fs.fed.us, fax them to (928) 643-8105, or mail them to:
North Kaibab Ranger District
Post Office Box 248
Fredonia, Arizona 86022
Comments may also be hand delivered weekdays to the district office at 430 South Main Street in Fredonia from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Oral comments may be provided to Interdisciplinary Team Leader Lois Pfeffer by telephone at (559) 359-7023 or (307) 754-8197. Please call to arrange a time to submit your oral comments.
Comments most helpful to the project development process are those which specifically identify issues caused by or related to the proposed action.
More information about this and other projects in the Warm Fire area is available on the Kaibab National Forest web site at www.fs.fed.us/r3/kai, or by calling the North Kaibab Ranger District at (928) 643-7395.
The Warm Fire burned about 40,000 acres in the central part of the Kaibab Plateau from June 25, when fire managers shifted to a wildfire suppression strategy, until it was contained on July 4.
The area is important to the district’s heritage, range, recreation, timber and wildlife programs.
The proposal calls for salvage logging on approximately 9,990 acres, resulting in removal of approximately 84.5 million board feet of timber products. Slash disposal and other fuels treatments would be conducted on some logged areas to protect future regeneration.
Reforestation proposed for the wildfire area includes allowing aspen to naturally regenerate on approximately 4,050 acres, planting of ponderosa pine on 5,370 acres, and planting of mixed conifers (ponderosa pine and Douglas fir) on 5,270 acres.
A more detailed explanation of the proposed action is available on the Kaibab National Forest web site at www.fs.fed.us/r3/kai.
Kaibab National Forest Supervisor Mike Williams defined the purpose and need for the Warm Fire Recovery Project based on the recommendations of a team of Forest Service specialists, which evaluated resource conditions in the fire area in September and identified opportunities for recovery work.
Williams identified three main needs for the project: Recovering the economic value of the burned timber, reforesting burned conifer stands and moving them towards longer-term desired conditions, and breaking up fuel continuity in the burned area.
The forest welcomes comments on the Warm Fire Recovery Project at any time, but those received by January 26 will be most helpful in developing an environmental impact statement for the project.
Interested parties should email their comments to “Warm Fire Recovery Project” at mailroom_r3_kaibab@fs.fed.us, fax them to (928) 643-8105, or mail them to:
North Kaibab Ranger District
Post Office Box 248
Fredonia, Arizona 86022
Comments may also be hand delivered weekdays to the district office at 430 South Main Street in Fredonia from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Oral comments may be provided to Interdisciplinary Team Leader Lois Pfeffer by telephone at (559) 359-7023 or (307) 754-8197. Please call to arrange a time to submit your oral comments.
Comments most helpful to the project development process are those which specifically identify issues caused by or related to the proposed action.
More information about this and other projects in the Warm Fire area is available on the Kaibab National Forest web site at www.fs.fed.us/r3/kai, or by calling the North Kaibab Ranger District at (928) 643-7395.
