Local artist wins ‘mammoth’ competition
Josie Luke
Lyndsay Reid of Orangeville recently won the Judges Choice award in the adult division for The Year of the Mammoth Art Competition held by the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum. Reid will have her work printed on a mug which will be available for sale in the museum’s gift shop beginning in early May.
The Prehistoric Museum received 45 entries in The Year of the Mammoth art contest this winter. The contestants ranged in age from kindergarten to 53 years of age. Winners were chosen in three age categories: K-6th grade, 7th-12th grade and 18 and over; and in three choice categories: People’s Choice, Judges’ Choice and Director’s Choice.
Reid graduated from the College of Eastern Utah with an Associate’s degree in fine arts in 2004, and from Southern Utah University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2006 with an emphasis in illustration. She works in many mediums including digital, mixed media, oil, watercolor, acrylic, pencil and conte crayon.
Reid’s favorite medium is mixed media where she likes to focus on more stylized design. As to the animated design of the mammoth, Reid said, “I do realistic things too, but I wanted to do more of a cartoon to draw kids in.”
She explained that in beginning her design, the first step she takes is to sketch a rough draft. She then scans the sketch into Photoshop where she uses it as the bottom layer and then finishes the design over the top of it. The process of making the mammoth design took nearly four hours to complete.
More of Reid’s work can be seen at www.coroflot.com/lyndsayreidillustration.
Students inducted into honor society
The Emery High School Chapter of the National Honor Society held their Induction ceremony on April 8.
Tamra Luke, 2007-2008 President of the Honor Society, welcomed those present. Then society member, Taryn Baker presented a musical number, “Someone Needs Your Star.” This was followed by a humorous reading from Jordan Sanders and Katherine Debry, “Jerry Finnegans’s Sister.” Faculty member Lee Moss, offered some interesting comments for the students. He told them, “You will never get far away from where you are. Wherever this life takes you, you will never go far from the talents and characteristics of who you are.”
National Honor Society Junior Inductees are: Keera Allred, Nikki Carter, Addison Collard, Justin Cox, Landon Fehlberg, Marie Harvey, DeAnn Jensen, Dustin Jensen, Karson Jensen, Rebecca Lofley, Brett Mecham, Lacey Montgomery, Whitney Saupan, Courtney Sitterud, Nicole Smith, Kamerson Stilson, Tayler Tanner, Adriane Weihing, Natalie Winn, Casey Wood, and Brantz Woolsey.
National Honor Society Senior Inductees are: Lacie Henry, Dempsey Jeffs, Jalee Jensen, Keven Jensen, Leslee Lake, Kirsa Merrell, Nicole Murray, and Tarra Tuttle
The awards were presented by Emery High School Principal Gwen Callahan.
Emery hosts State Speech competition
Emery High School hosted the State Drama competition April 12-13. There were 16 schools and approximately 200 students at the two day event.
Neal Peacock, Speech and Drama teacher said the students did exceptionally well in both Speech and Drama.
Those receiving straight Superior ratings were: Scenes, Katherine DeBry and Jordan Sanders; Contrasting Monologues, Dory Peacock, Kaitlin Potter and Courtney Reynolds; Humorous Reading, Karla Urie; Dramatic Reading, Alisha Royall.
Peacock said the schools are no longer given first, second or third place in Festival competition. Each student is judged and receives their own rating. He also reported that Region Drama competition was held last week at Carbon, and Emery High received first place at that event.
Students take flight for design contest at CEU
The Engineering Department at CEU held a design contest on April 10. Students from around the area were invited to attend, including Emery, Carbon and Wayne County High Schools. The students were challenged to design and build a glider crafted using only aluminum beverage containers. The gliders were then hand-launched off the five-story computer business building.
A preliminary qualifying competition was held at Emery High school the week before, with the best gliders advancing to CEU.
Roger Boyer, a sophomore at Emery, was the clear winner with a time of 9.6 seconds. Junior Austin Gillins captured second place with a time of 6.6 second and Sophomore Amanda Maxfield took third place with a time of 6.4 seconds. Keith Bird won the most original design with his Diet Coke Bomber.
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