Campus and community briefs
Facilities dept. names employee of the year
Curtis Christensen has been named USU Facilities 2004 Employee of the Year.
Christensen works as a Facilities maintenance representative on the graveyard shift project crew and has been employed with USU Facilities since March 2000. His duties include cleaning carpets and refinishing floors throughout all the buildings on campus. He works in a crew of three employees and says he enjoys his work.
Christensen is a hard worker and quite often works beyond his job description, according to the Facilities department. The department said he is an honest employee and those working with him enjoy him very much.
His supervisor, John Mayers, says he is a top-notch employee. The Facilities staff said they are proud to have him as their employee of the year.
Water conservation conference is Tuesday
The landscape architecture and environmental planning department is hosting “Desert Water: Shaping Our Future” on Tuesday. The Sustainable Landscapes Conference will be held in the Eccles Conference Center and begins at 8 a.m.
Keynote speakers include Robert France on “Deep Immersion: The Experience, Management and Restoration of Water,” Joan Stafford on “Fire and Flood: When it Rains it Pours,” Thomas Cathcart on “Wastewater and Stormwater Management of Sustainable University Buildings,” and Alan Matheson on “From Whine to Water: The Miracle of Collaboration.” France will give closing remarks on the ethics and philosophy of water conservation.
A number of workshops will also be held and breakfast and lunch will be provided. Students can register for $10 and community members for $40 at the door.
Antiques to be shown at S. E. Needham
Mary Gilbert Palmer, jewelry historian at S.E. Needham Jewelers, will be showing newly acquired European antiques during her Spring Antique Show April 2 and 3. This Cache Valley preview will be the first showing of the jewelry and small European antiques she found during her March buying and research trip to England and Germany.
For Palmer, jewelry is more than just decorative and ornamental.
“Jewelry is material culture, actual artifacts from the past,” Palmer said. “The wonderful thing about jewelry is that it functions the same today as it did 100 years ago. Folks may not think they enjoy history, but when they fall in love with a fabulous piece of antique jewelry, it immediately connects them with the past.”
Palmer will display her collection at S.E. Needham Jewelers on Main Street in Logan April 2 from 4 to 8 p.m. and April 3 from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. The show will be free and open to the public. The April 2 show coincides with a Lladró event featuring a new sculpture.
Candidates to speak at Democrat Convention
The Cache County Democrat Convention is slated for Saturday at noon in the Logan High School Little Theater.
Registration begins at 11:30 a.m. Attendees will hear from candidates for governor, attorney general, U.S. Senate and U.S. Congress. Nominations will be made for Utah Senate, Utah House and the county council. Delegates will be elected to the Democratic State Convention May 7 and 8. Those interested in attending the Cache County Democrat Convention should contact Gina at 753-5156.