The beauty of Rock Canyon in Provo is known around the world. Local students flock to it for hiking, rock climbing, mountain biking and camping every day of the week, and the canyon has had visitors from as far away as Austria and France. It is almost literally our own back yard, located just behind the Provo LDS Temple — a five to fifteen minute drive from downtown Orem, Provo, Pleasant Grove, Springville, and many other local cities.
June 3rd- Warrant Service – A 37 year old male was arrested and booked into the Utah County Jail for outstanding warrants discovered during a routine traffic stop. June 4th- Hazardous Materials – The Woodbury Business building was evacuated for most of the day due to a suspicious substance found in the building.
Plans to improve public transportation with an enhanced bus system called Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) have been underway since the Provo-Orem Rapid Transit Corridor Alternatives Analysis was completed in 2005. BRT is an innovative, high capacity, lower cost public transit solution that can significantly improve urban mobility by operating on bus lanes or other transit-ways to combine the flexibility of the buses and the speed of the rail.
It’s the Fourth of July again, and before passing out during the family volleyball game due to a mixture of heat exhaustion, beef ingestion and those seventeen mai tais that seemed like such a good idea, we thought we’d bring you a fearsome foursome of Top Fours.
Events Calendar June 21 – July 4 Music June 21: Utah Premiere Brass Band – 7 p.m. at Covey Center for the Arts, 425 West Center Street, Provo. The event is open to the public. June 22: Open Mic Night – 8 p.m. at Muse Music, 151 North University Ave. Provo.
America: the great nation that would love to throw itself a birthday party. Instead of baking a cake for Lady Liberty, how about looking at classic American movies that aren’t as awful as INDEPENDENCE DAY and THE PATRIOT, but are patriotic in their own right? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S.
If you enjoy hectic parking, deafening noises, and 50,000 people giving you extreme social anxiety, then perhaps you already have plans for the 4th of July. However, if you are one of the few that avoid the Stadium of Fire in Provo at all costs, but still wish to celebrate America’s day of independence, here is a list of alternative activities you can enjoy for the 4th of July that have little or nothing to do with Joe, Kevin, or Nick.
The fourth day in July may be most well known as the holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, but guess what? Other things have happened on that date as well. Here are some additional July 4 events, births and deaths. Events 1636 – City of Providence, Rhode Island forms.
For fans of local music, date night just got moved to Tuesdays. Each week for the rest of the summer, Utah’s finest singer-songwriters will gather at the Tahitian Noni Gardens to play the Hammer Hands LIVE Playlist Concert Series. The lineup is different every week, but will always include the talented and charismatic Shaun “Hammer Hands” Barrowes, the driving force behind the series.
Disney’s classic Beauty and the Beast, which was adapted into a live musical in 1994, opened last weekend at the SCERA Shell, beginning Utah Valley’s outdoor theater season. UVU’s own Emily Smith will star as Belle, returning to SCERA after playing another Disney princess – Cinderella – several years ago.
