Campus and community briefs
Pet Walk-a-Thon is planned for Saturday
Management and Human Resources 3110 students are putting on a Pet Walk-a-Thon Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at Elk Ridge Park (1060 E. 2500 North). There will be contests including Frisbee throwing, owner/pet look-a-likes and a tug o’ war. There will also be prizes, free food and music.
All of the proceeds go toward finishing the Humane Society animal shelter. Registration for those with pets is $15 and they can register at the event or at PETsMART.
Friday carnival to raise money for kids
Students are invited to help raise money for the Boys and Girls Club of Cache Valley by attending the CarnAggieval, a carnival to be held at the Fieldhouse on Friday from 5 to 9 p.m.
There will be inflatable toys, games and challenges in a carnival atmosphere and pizza and soft drinks will be served.
Admission is free, and game tickets are three for $1. All proceeds will be donated to the Boys and Girls Club of Cache Valley.
Reading reception held for contest winners
A reception and reading of first-place entries of the Utah State 2004 Creative Writing Contest will be held Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. in the Utah State University Haight Alumni Center. Refreshments will be served at this free event, and everyone is invited.
The annual publication of winning entries, “Sribendi,” produced by Melanie Abshire and contest intern Chelsi Lasater, will be available at the reading. Winning submissions will also be posted on http://websites.usu.edu/english.
Novelist Barnes to share story with locals
Award-winning author Kim Barnes, whose most recent work is the novel “Finding Caruso” which debuted to national acclaim in 2003, is in Logan this week for two public events.
Barnes, perhaps most widely known as a memoirist for her first two books, “In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in an Unknown Country” and “Hungry for the World,” will participate in a public roundtable discussion with members of the department of English Creative Writing Faculty. The event is free and will take place in the USU Haight Alumni Center Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, Barnes will read from her work at 7 p.m. at Borders Books, 1050 N. Main St. This event is also free and everyone is invited.
Barnes received the PEN/Jerard Fund Award for an emerging woman writer of nonfiction for In the Wilderness. The book has also been honored with a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award and the 1997 Pulitzer Prize. Together, she and Mary Clearman Blew edited Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers.
Barnes’ personal essay, “The Ashes of August,” appeared in The Georgia Review and was selected for inclusion in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho and lives with her husband, the poet Robert Wrigley, and their children on Moscow Mountain.
Barnes’ visit to Logan is supported by the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation and the department of English at USU.
Congratulations to the floral judges
The USU Floral Design and Floral Crop Judging Team traveled to Fort Collins, Colo. to attend the National Intercollegiate Floral Crop Quality Evaluation and Design Competition held at Colorado State University. They were awarded fifth place in overall judging and placed in three of four design categories. The team is sponsored by the Plant Science Department.