Campus and community briefs

The City of Logan Parks and Recreation Department announces the groundbreaking of two local trail construction projects.

The intent of the construction of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail is to link communities along the shoreline of ancient Lake Bonneville from the Idaho border to Juab County. The Logan segment of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail to be constructed at this time is along the upper east bench from the Logan-North Logan city limits to the floor of Logan Canyon. The Parks and Recreation Department hopes to work closely with Utah State University and the County Extension Office on developing a native plant arboretum along the trail corridor to serve as a fire or fuel break.

The Logan River Trail project located at 1600 South Street and Park Avenue will connect a section of trail from Park Avenue to 1000 West. The non-motorized trail is slated for completion at the end of November.

Art specialist to give free public lecture

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art and the School of the Arts in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences will host a public presentation by Gerald Nordland on Wednesday at 6 p.m.

The presentation in the museum’s Marie Eccles Caine Gallery is open to the public and free of charge. Nordland is a specialist in 20th-century art and former director of a number of American art museums, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Milwaukee Museum of Art.

During his presentation, Nordland will play a rare copy of a recording by the Studio 13 Jass Band. Some members of this band are artists represented in the exhibition – Richard Diebenkorn played the trombone and Emerson Woelffer played the drums. Following Nordland’s talk, a live jazz concert organized by Utah State University’s music department will take place in the Chase Fine Arts Center’s Kent Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m.