|
OREM
• Utah's Junior Miss Lindsay Brinton, Sterling Scholar music and general scholarship award winner, will offer a piano concert at 7 p.m. Monday at Seville Retirement Center, 325 W. Center St. Lindsay will be joined by her sister Stephanie Brinton, who also holds a Sterling Scholar music award and who was Utah's Junior Miss 2006. They will perform solo classics and duets alongside their mother Sally Brinton, a Juilliard graduate.
PROVO
• A support group meeting for those with macular degeneration will be from 1-3 p.m. on Wednesday at the Provo Library, 550 N. University Ave., Room 201.
The Utah Chapter of the Foundation Fighting Blindness is sponsoring the monthly support group meeting to answer questions and be a resource to deal with degenerative eye diseases. Melanie Haws of Mountainland Aging and Family Services and Adam Reynolds from Rocky Mountain Low Vision will be there to display items to support those with low vision. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information, log on to http://www.FightBlindness.org.
• On Wednesday BYU's Publication Lab and the BYU Chapter of the Association for Mormon Letters will sponsor a Publishers Fair from noon until 5 p.m. in the Garden Court of the Wilkinson Center.
This annual event provides students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends the opportunity to meet with editors from a range of markets, such as Deseret Book, Cedar Fort, LDS Church Magazines and Utah Historical Quarterly.
Editors will meet with prospective authors, illustrators, photographers and editing students to examine their work and offer suggestions and sometimes even jobs.
Authors who wish to submit their work to a publisher should bring either a query letter and synopsis or the manuscript in proper format along with a submission letter and a self-addressed, stamped envelope. BYU's Publication Lab can offer assistance with preparation, queries and submission letters.
The lab is open daily, noon to 5, in the Info Commons of the Harold B. Lee Library.
SPRINGVILLE
• The Springville Public Library is celebrating National Library Week by bringing Brandon Mull, author of the popular Fablehaven fantasy book series, to speak and sign copies of his books at 7 p.m. on Thursday at City Hall, 50 S. Main St.
Additionally, the library is instituting a Food for Fines drive during the week of April 14-19.
Patrons who owe fines may bring unexpired, undented, nonperishable canned foods to pay for up to $25 in fines. Canned meats will be worth $2; all others will be worth $1. Fines for lost items are excluded.
For more information, visit the Springville Public Library or call (801) 489-2720 or see the library's Web site at www.springvillelibrary.org. |
