1 B2 Sunday, June 12, 2011 Sunday Arizona Daily Sun azdailysun.com SPOTS from Page B1 The gifted are blamed for terrorist attacks happening in the fictional United States. These are people who have the ability to read minds and see the future, and they are called traitors and terrorists because the government believes that by not revealing their gifts that they allowed I innocent people to die. Hence, they are ruled "Enemies of the State" and considered just as guilty as the terrorists who planted the bombs. The problem with that is that guilt is not black and white, and the truth is that the people on the list are only guilty of being different. For that reason, they are tagged with tracking devices, forced to wear IDs and given "rules" to follow while the government "assesses" them.
They are essentially segregated, all without trial or due process of law, and they are stripped of their civil rights. People are afraid of the group because they don't know why these people were put on the list or that they are gifted. They only know that the government considers them dangerous. The second thing that happens is if someone stands up for someone on the list, the government also classifies them as a suspect, which makes even Paivi's closest friends afraid to be near her. It's a disturbing notion what kind of change fear can bring, and how people are willing to sacrifice their freedoms and not speak out because of that fear.
But, it is something that was seen firsthand by the World War II generation, and a great lesson to be reminded of, even in fictional teen lit. The book serves as a reminder of the importance of being aware of your rights and what is going on with the world, and remembering to use your voice to speak out against injustice. Because in the end, the voiceless are rounded up and taken away like the people Paivi loves the most. Heather Crabtree is a Page Editor for the Daily Sun, and spends countless hours reading and writing when not at her desk. She can be reached at 556-2260 or Fab 05 Things to do this week A WALK IN THE PONDEROSAS: Wednesday, 9 11 a.m.
Take the walk that put us on national news. Join USFS interpretive rangers Steve and Lois Hirst to learn about the signature tree of Flagstaff on an easy stroll into the Flagstaff Hotshot ranch. Sponsored by the Interpretive Partnership. Free. Hotshot Ranch, Snowbowl Road.
527-8229. "IN A BETTER WORLD" PREMIERE: Wednesday, 7 p.m. "In a Better World" winner of the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film makes its Flagstaff premiere. $12 per person; $9 for Film Sedona members; $6 for full-time students. Harkins Flagstaff 11 Theatres, 1959 S.
Woodlands Village Blvd. 282-1177. JOSEFINA JAVELINA: A HAIRY TALE: Thursday, Friday, Saturday shows at 3 and 5 p.m. "Josefina Javelina; A Hairy Tale The Play' is the story of a girl who wants to become a ballerina. She leaves her home in search of following her dream.
Along the way she meets colorful characters such as the trickster Coyote. Suggested donation $10 per family, $5 per individual. NAU Studio Theatre, Performing Arts Building 37. 523-3765. WILDFLOWERS AND WINE: Friday, 5:30 7:30 p.m.
Enjoy a June evening in the gardens at The Arboretum. A wide selection of red and white wines will be available for tasting at a series of locations throughout the gardens. Joel Rieck will provide live entertainment outdoors during this festive occasion. (includes five tickets for tastings: additional tasting tickets available. The Arboretum at Flagstaff, 4001 S.
Woody Mountain Road. 774-1442. FLAGSTAFF MUSIC FESTIVAL: Saturday noon 10 p.m. and Sunday (June 19) noon 8 p.m. Flagstaff Music Festival celebrates local music and the Flagstaff Music scene.
Come enjoy two days of great music in the heart of historic downtown Flagstaff. The festival is free. Beer, food and other vendors will be available. Free. Heritage Square.
699-0119. Putting your best paw forward in dog parks BY WILLIAM HAGEMAN neighborhood, scavenging, sleeping and Chicago Tribune (MCT) Dog parks provide an opportunity for a pet to get some exercise and to socialize. Same goes for the pet owner. But there are rules and conventions that you and little Spanky need to follow. We checked with Marc Morrone, host of "Petkeeping With Marc Morrone" on the Hallmark Channel, to discuss dog parks and what pet owners should consider.
He draws a parallel between what goes on at dog parks and how parents choreograph their kids' activities. Everything these days is scripted, he said. "When I was a kid growing up, the kids were outside all day and the dogs were outside all day," he said. The dogs did their thing scouting the the kids did theirs (scouting the neighborhood, scavenging, playing). "Now, today I go back to the exact same block, and all you see are fences.
No kids, no dogs. It's all scripted. I tell my kids, 'Go out and play! 'With who? Did you make a play So, yes, dog parks are sort of unnatural in that regard. We tell our dogs what to do and when to do it. It's a far cry from letting them run loose in the neighborhood.
"What goes on in a play group with dogs is much more intense than 40 years ago on my block," Morrone said. "They do nothing all day and they go to the dog park for 30 minutes and all their activity is condensed." THERE'S MORE TO THE STORY Visit www.azdailysun.com for the full version of this story. Dream," a Bruce Aiken painting Daily Sun) of Mount Sinyala. The painting is one of 50 in a new exhibit. FROM RIGHT, ALAN PETERSEN, Museum of Northern Arizona curator of fine art, works Tuesday afternoon with Jodi Griffith, MNA installationist, and Kelsey Connair, intern, to hang "George's Petersen said there are basically three viewpoints in Aiken paintings of the canyon: Views from the rim; views from twothirds of the way down the canyon at Tonto Plateau; and views at the level of the Colorado River.
As curator of the exhibit, he chose the Shoshone Point painting for its panoramic quality. "It's a masterpiece a large work that exemplifies his style and perspective on the canyon," Petersen explained. OVERVIEW OF A LIFE EXHIBIT from Page B1 The "Full Measure" exhibit features 50 works of art, from small pencil drawings and pastels, up to the 6-foot by 9-foot Shoshone Point image. Earliest pieces are from the 1960s when Aiken was an art student, leading up to recent work examining details of rock from the canyon, which were completed in his Flagstaff studio downtown on North San Francisco Street. Petersen said the MNA exhibit is the most comprehensive overview yet of Aiken's life and work.
"We're not billing it as a retrospective, but it is," he commented, while installing paintings Tuesday afternoon in the Waddell gallery. Petersen, who is an art teacher and well- -known painter, came onboard in 2005 as fine arts curator at the museum. He worked with MNA Director Robert Breunig to develop a sequence for top- notch artists they AIKEN from Page B1 He said he is thrilled and honored to be having a show at MNA. "I can tell you this: I think the Museum of Northern Arizona is a class act," he said. "I'm thankful they chose me.
I'm following in very good footsteps Merrill Mahaffey and Ed Mell are masters, and Gunnar Widforss is one of my heroes." He also praised Petersen. "They picked out some really super things from my career, and the real credit is to Alan Petersen," he said. "He's a real curator. I'm honored to know him." Aiken said people are in for a surprise when they see the diversity of the exhibit. "Most people just know me for my canyon work, but there's a lot of variety in the show," he noted.
"That's something about me that a lot of people don't know: I have basically traveled the world and painted everywhere I've gone. As a result, I have a lot of work that shows that" Youth from foster care trace their roots no BY KRISTIN J. BENDER The Oakland Tribune (MCT) OAKLAND, Calif. Alexis Henry spent the years from age 8 to 11 in foster care because of suspicions of abuse within her family. Those years, she said, were rough.
She diverts her eyes downward and is expressionless when she talks about the time period. She rejoined her family when she was 11; by 17, she had a daughter of her own. She gave birth to a son about story. four months ago. Like many urban youngsters, Henry, now 22, was not raised in a traditional nuclear family.
She lived in foster care homes, moved between Berkeley, Oakland, Davis and Sacramento, and her parents didn't talk about their roots or their ancestors. "Family business is family business," the Union City, woman said she heard her relatives say. "And at first, I didn't care about my When Henry went looking for help with Alameda County Beyond Emancipation, an -based nonprofit group that assists former foster children who are now adults with housing, education, employment and social services, she got more than she expected: (Betsey She learned how to trace her family history. "It's very addicting," she said about using sites such as ancestry. com or familysearch.org to locate her ancestors.
"I kept getting hint after hint (about my family) on the sites, and so I kept going." Before long, she had located the names of her grandparents, and found that one grandfather had served during World War II. Since starting working on her family tree four months ago, Henry said she has traced her ancestry back six generations. "The whole reason I am doing this is because of my kids, so they don't have to do it," she said of her children, Aamaya, 5, and Ray, 4 months. The project was spearheaded by Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson after he did some digging into his family history. "I kept on hearing elders in the community say that the younger generations the seem disconnected from a sense of family history, that knowledge of your roots and your heritage," he said.
"A few years ago, I had the chance to look into my family history, and it gave me a deeper appreciation for what my parents and grandparents went through in their journey out of the South." With the help of the Mormon Temple Family History Center in Oakland and the African American Genealogical Society of Northern California, the Family Journeys Ancestry Project was launched in February. Teens, and and even some elementary school students, searched would feature. "The idea was to showcase the best artists of the Colorado Plateau," Breunig said. "We made a 10-year plan, and we're halfway through it." Some of the artists featured thus far were Joella Jean Mahoney, Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Merrill Mahaffey, Ed Mell and Gunnar Widforss, the -American watercolorist who Aiken said is his greatest influence. Petersen said Aiken is the latest artist to be included in the exhibit series.
"Bruce is kind of a natural for a number of reasons because of the subject matter, the Grand Canyon, and his commitment to the local art scene," Petersen said. "There are no other artists who have lived in the canyon for 33 years. Any exhibit is the story about the artist, and Bruce's story is just amazing." A SENSE OF PLACE Aiken was born in 1950 in Greenwich Village on Manhattan Island. "My mother taught me how to paint," Aiken said, speaking Wednesday in his studio. "I grew up around her easel in New York City." He left home at 19 and headed for the West with $100, a 35mm camera and a sketchbook.
Enrolling at Phoenix College, he took classes in geology, and also in figure drawing from artist Merrill Mahaffey, who would become a lifelong friend and mentor. He also met his future wife, Mary Shields, and IF YOU GO WHAT: "Full Measure The Artistic Legacy of Bruce Aiken" WHEN: Sunday, June 19, through Sept. 6 WHERE: Museum of Northern Arizona, 3101 N. Fort Valley Road ADMISSION: $7 adults, $6 seniors $5 students and $4 children (7-17). INFO: Call 774-5213 or visit www.musnaz.org WHAT: Brunch and Exhibit Opening with Bruce Aiken TICKETS: Visit musnaz.
or call 774-5213, Ext. 270 talked to her of his dream of leading "an exceptional life in an extraordinary place," according to the MNA press release for the exhibit. That extraordinary place turned out to be the Grand Canyon. Starting in 1973, Aiken lived with his family near Roaring Springs in Bright Angel Canyon, where he worked as a water plant operator at the National Park Service pump house. Although most of the oil paintings in the exhibit show the many views and moods of the Grand Canyon, the subject so dear to his heart, other pieces were inspired from Aiken's travels in Mexico, France and Italy, as well as paintings from his artist -in-residency at NASA.
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(928) 522-0568 2250 N. Steves Blvd. Flagstaff, AZ Mon Sat 9am 6pm Closed Sunday websites, census and Social Security records, and travel and military documents to find clues about their ancestors. Because youths today are adept at using Google to find information and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to share that information, the project was not looked down on as "old school," said Nicka Smith, a 32-year-old volunteer with the African American Genealogical Society of Northern America. "You have to meet them at the level they are on," said Smith, who has traced her family history back to 1810 and has a family tree that includes about 2,100 people.
She worked with Henry and Delexes Woods, a 23- year -old Berkeley man who was raised by a single foster mother. "They had more challenges because they were in the foster system," Smith said. "We had to have some hard conversations about what family is. We kept assuring them that even if they find out one thing, that is more than some people find in their entire lives." They hit some challenges along the way, Smith said. For example, some pedigree charts list a place for "husband" and a place for "wife," Smith said.
Those titles, she said, were foreign to some in the program because their parents were not married or their father was not around, or they were raised by grandparents. "It can get discouraging when I can't find anything, but I don't let that stop me from trying," said Woods, who is finishing his project along with about 10 former foster children from Beyond Emancipation, and 35 others from McClymonds High School in West Oakland, Berkeley Technology Academy and Hoover Elementary School in Oakland. "The project has been especially meaningful for (former foster) youth because a number of them have lost touch with parents or other family members and are working to reconnect with them through this project," said Hannah Greene, Carson's communication coordinator. "The youth now have a different understanding of where they come from. Their perspective has been widened and communication between the youth and their family members has become stronger." Carson said a number of youths have found ancestors as far back as five, six and seven generations.
Finding out about family can lead to better self-esteem: Perhaps someone in the family owned a business, was a schoolteacher, fought in a foreign war, or was a leader in the community, Carson said. THERE'S MORE TO THE STORY Visit www.azdailysun.com for the full version of this story. FREE with 2011. POPCORN Harkins Theatres Loyalty T-Shirt ULTIMATE MOVIEGOING' Discount shows $1 REFILLS everyday with 2011 Flagstaff 11 before 6pm Lanyalty Cup ALL. DIGITAL SOUND GOURMET SNACK BAR ULTIMATE SEATS Tickets at www.HarkinsTheatres.com or 928-525 FILM (227) Whogland Village Blvd University Ave SUPER 8 10:30.
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