Cache Valley New Horizons Orchestra

Friday, March 11, 2016

The Cache Valley New Horizons Orchestra 

Friday, March 11, 2016

7:00 p.m.

Free to the public- All are welcome

The Cache Valley New Horizons Orchestra will present their Winter's End Concert in the historic Logan Tabernacle, as part of the Cache Community Connections Concert Series.  Dr. Harold (Harry) Heap will be featured as the guest organ soloist.  He will perform with the orchestra as well as on two solo selections. 

Dr. Heap received his Bachelor's Degree in Voice and Choral Music Education from the University of Iowa, a Master's Degree in Conducting from Eastern Illinois University, and a Doctorate in Choral Literature and Conducting from the University of Illinois.  He has taught choral music and conducting at universities in Iowa, Illinois, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Utah.  

Founded in 1991 at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York the New Horizon concept is now an international organization, New Horizons International Music Association (NHIMA) with participating groups found in cities all over the world.  There are no try-outs, no grades, just adults coming together to experience the joy of making music together. 

The Cache Valley New Horizons Orchestra began in September of 2014, sponsored by Cache Valley Center for the Arts and the USU Music Department/Caine College of the Arts.   Directors are Patty Bartholomew and Janice McAllister, long-time string educators with assistance from USU music student, Taylor Clark.  Participants come from all over Cache Valley and Box Elder County. The evening promises to be a delightful exchange of new found talent and beautiful music! 

For anyone interested Cache Valley New Horizons Orchestra rehearsals are held from 12:00-2:00 p.m., Monday and Wednesday, in the Carousel Ballroom of the Bullen Center, 43 South Main in Logan, Utah.  More information is available at the website for Cache Valley Center for the Arts.   Newcomers are always welcome.  It is never too late to begin learning something new!

THE CONCERT AND LECTURE SERIES IS SPONSORED BY  CACHE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS AN INTERFAITH AND CIVIC ORGANIZATION, AND IS ALSO SPONSORED IN PART BY THE RAPZ TAX.  THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS ALLOWS FREE USE OF THE HISTORIC LOGAN TABERNACLE, AS WELL AS PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT.

Radon and Lung Cancer Connection

Wallace L. Akerley, M.D.

Huntsman Cancer Institute

Friday, February 12, 2016

7:00 p.m.

Free to the public - All are welcome

Wallace Akerley, MD, is a professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and the Senior Director of Community Oncology Research at the Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) in Salt Lake City, Utah.  

Before coming to Utah in 2002 he was previously Director of Medical Oncology and Associate Director of the Boston University Cancer Center.  He treats patients with many types of cancer, focusing on lung cancer and melanoma.  He believes that over 100 people per year in Utah (including many otherwise very healthy young adults) are needlessly dying from lung cancer caused by radon a radioactive gas which is the leading cause of lung cancer after smoking, killing approximately 21,000 people in the United States each year.  

In view of a religious culture that discourages smoking, Dr. Akerley is interested in why Utah’s lung cancer rate is not decreasing like it is in other states.  Part of the explanation may be that many houses in Utah have radon levels equivalent to a person smoking one or two packs of cigarettes a day including homes in Cache County where approximately 53% (among the highest in Utah) of the 2,207 dwellings tested for radon had levels high enough to be considered potentially dangerous to health.  Dr. Akerley has a passion for preventing this cancer and states it is one of the few cancers almost 100% preventable.

He will present a lecture, free to the public about his research concerning radon induced lung cancer and steps everyone should take in their homes to detect and correct any radon problems they may have.  This lecture is sponsored by the Bear River Health Department and Cache Community Connections.

THE CONCERT AND LECTURE SERIES IS SPONSORED BY  CACHE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS AN INTERFAITH AND CIVIC ORGANIZATION, AND IS ALSO SPONSORED IN PART BY THE RAPZ TAX.  THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS ALLOWS FREE USE OF THE HISTORIC LOGAN TABERNACLE, AS WELL AS PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT.

Martin Luther King Celebration

Friday, January 15, 2016
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Free to the Public-All are welcome

The Right. Reverend Scott B. Hayashi was consecrated as the Eleventh Bishop of Utah on November 6, 2010 following his election in May, 2010.

Bishop Hayashi was ordained a priest in 1984. He has served as a parish priest from 1984-2005, serving in congregations in Washington, Utah, and California. In 2005 he became the Canon to the Ordinary in the Diocese of Chicago.

Bishop Hayashi was the youngest of 3 children from an un-churched family from Tacoma, Washington and he is the only active Christian from this nuclear family. His desire to know and to understand spirituality in general led him to a longing to know Christ when he was 15-years old.

Hayashi attended Harvard Divinity School where he met his wife, Amy, who was then a student at Episcopal Divinity School. They have been married for 34 years and have three daughters. His undergraduate work was at the University of Washington where he received a Bachelor of Social Work degree. He also obtained a Certificate of Theology from CDSP in 1984.

He served as a Conference Leader for CREDO from 1999 – 2010 and has worked with nearly 600 clergy of The Episcopal Church in the area of wellness and development. He has served in rural, urban and suburban parishes, thus drawing on a variety of experience in a broad spectrum of the Episcopal Church. 

In addition to his duties as the bishop of the Diocese of Utah, Hayashi serves as the national chaplain for The Daughters of the King.

Bishop Hayashi has fought for the dignity of all humans in our immigration laws, health care for all, rights for all who are made in God’s image, and respect for those of other faith traditions.

 THE CONCERT AND LECTURE SERIES IS SPONSORED BY  CACHE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS AN INTERFAITH AND CIVIC ORGANIZATION, AND IS ALSO SPONSORED IN PART BY THE RAPZ TAX.  THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS ALLOWS FREE USE OF THE HISTORIC LOGAN TABERNACLE, AS WELL AS PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT.