American Heart Association Walk or Volunteer!

Get out and walk or volunteer this week-end to fight cardiovascular disease!

Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of all Americans. ’In fact, someone dies from CVD every 38 seconds!” says The American Heart Association.  It is responsible for more deaths in women than all forms of cancer combined.  In infants, the most common cause of infant deaths from birth defects are caused from congenital cardiovascular birth defects.

If you would like to walk, here is the website and the event information:

Event Information

• Date:     May 19, 2012
• Location: Julia Davis Park Time:
• Festival Area Opens: 8:00 AM, Walk Begins: 10:00 AM
• The Route: 3-mile walk & 1-mile optional Route

Event Schedule
8:00am - Festival Area opens at the Julia Davis Bandshell

• -Complementary healthy snacks
• -Company Photos
• -Heart/Stroke Survivor Red Cap pickup
• -Family Fun Zone
• -Heart health education
• -VIP Area (for walkers who have raised $1,000 or more)
• -Turn in donations

9:00am – Opening Ceremonies & Announcements 10:00am – Walk Begins through downtown Boise (1-mile & 5K routes) 11:00am – Awards presentation for top companies and individuals

http://heartwalk.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=481881

The Event Coordinators could still use Volunteers!!  Here is information from the Volunteer Committee:

Friday, May 18^th  [5-10 Volunteers]1 pm – 5 pm; This day will be primarily fun set-up and much less involved than Saturday, the day of the event. You’ll get to be involved with the behind-the-scenes crew getting ready for the big day!

Saturday, May 19^th  [10-15 volunteers]5 am – 8 am; For you early morning birds, who like to get an early start, please join us in the final moments before the event while we put together all the loose ends in anticipation of our 10,000 walkers. Things will be fun and busy as we prepare and then you will be done just in time to enjoy the festivities or participate in the walk! We promise coming to help out this early will pay off when you get to see all the fun things we have coming for the festival!

8 am – cleanup is complete (usually by 1pm);  [50-75 volunteers] Those who volunteer for this shift will get to be in the midst of all the action and help out with making sure the event is as fun as possible for both you and our walkers! Help our photographers, vendors, stage managers and more run the show, or be a smiling face and cheering voice for all our incredible walkers in a great community space!

Please contact Debbie Mills, Heart Walk Volunteers Committee, at debbie-mills@leavitt.com for further details!

The Egyptian Theatre Events

The Egyptian Theatre is a beautiful historical theatre located in downtown Boise at the corner of Main Street and Capital Blvd.  It hosts many concerts, speakers, opera performances, film festivals, weddings, parties, benefits and more.  It is available to rent for different events too.

If you have never been to the Egyptian Theatre, it has several venues booked through the end of the year that you may enjoy.  Some of these sound like lots of fun!

November 17 – 19:  Warren Millers Like There’s no Tomorrow, 7 p.m.  $15/ticket:  ’This year, Warren Miller Entertainment offers your first stop for preseason powder stoke, with the introduction of its 62nd annual winter sports film, Warren Miller’s . . . Like There’s No Tomorrow. Narrated by Olympic Gold Medalist Jonny Moseley and shot on location on five continents, . . . Like There’s No Tomorrow celebrates the moments that make up a perfect winter. Tour the world’s most inspiring snowy landscapes, from the rugged peaks of New Hampshire’s Mount Washington to the legendary powder of Squaw Valley, California; from the striking Himalayas in Gulmarg, India to the southern hemisphere’s highest peak in Portillo, Chile. Alaska. Utah. Colorado. New Zealand. Norway. It’s all here, just waiting for you to fill in the blank’.

November 21:  Michael McDonald:  Two shows, 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., $29.50/ticket: PURCHASE TICKETS AT: http://www.ictickets.com/Event/Default.aspx?id=1114

 

December 3 and 4:  Sung in English with English surtitles:   Amahl and the Night Visitors.  Saturday, Dec. 3rd at 2:30pm and 7:30pm and Sunday, Dec. 4th at 2:30pm.  Various pricing depending on level.  Family Passes are available! Visit:  http://www.egyptiantheatre.net/ for pricing and details:  Synopsis: Amahl, a disabled boy who can walk only with a crutch, has a problem with telling tall tales and, occasionally, lying. He is sitting outside playing his shepherd’s pipe when his mother calls for him (Amahl! Amahl!). After much persuasion, he enters the house but his mother does not believe him when he tells her there is an amazing star “as big as a window” outside over their roof (O Mother You Should Go Outside; Stop Bothering Me!). Later that night, Amahl’s mother weeps, praying that Amahl not become a beggar (Don’t Cry Mother Dear). After bedtime (From Far Away We Come), there is a knock at the door and the mother tells Amahl to go see who it is (Amahl … Yes Mother!). He is amazed when he sees three splendidly dressed kings (the Magi). They tell the mother and Amahl they are on a long journey to give gifts to a wondrous child and they would like to rest at their house, to which the mother agrees (Good Evening!; Come In!; Have You Seen a Child?). The mother goes to fetch firewood, and Amahl seizes the opportunity to speak with the kings. King Balthazar answers Amahl’s questions about his life as a king and asks what Amahl does. Amahl responds that he was once a shepherd, but his mother had to sell his sheep. Now, he and his mother will have to go begging. Amahl then talks with King Kaspar, who is childlike, eccentric, and a bit deaf. Kaspar shows Amahl his box of magic stones, beads, and licorice, and offers Amahl some of the candy (Are You A Real King?; This is My Box). The mother returns (Amahl, I Told You Not To Be A Nuisance!). Amahl is told to go fetch the neighbors (All These Beautiful Things) so the kings may be fed and entertained properly (Shepherds! Shepherds!; Emily! Emily; Olives and Quinces; Dance of the Shepherds). After the neighbors have left and the kings are resting, the mother attempts to steal for her son some of the kings’ gold that was meant for the Christ child (All That Gold). She is thwarted by the kings’ page. When Amahl wakes to find the page grabbing his mother, he attacks him. Seeing Amahl’s weak defense of his mother and understanding the motives for the attempted theft, King Melchior says she may keep the gold as the Holy Child will not need earthly power or wealth to build his kingdom. The mother says she has waited all her life for such a king and asks the kings to take back the gold. She wishes to send a gift but has nothing to send. Amahl, too, has nothing to give the Child except his crutch. When he offers it to the kings, his leg is miraculously healed. He leaves with the kings to see the child and give his crutch in thanks for being healed.

December 15 and 16:  Menopause The Musical® In Concert.  7:30pm.   $30.00/Ticket.   ‘What happens when you give the four women in Menopause The Musical® the black lace bra and a microphone? Menopause The Musical® IN CONCERT, a unique experience in theatre entertainment. It is ALL the words, the jokes, the fabulous songs and staged in a concert format. The laughter-filled 90-minute production includes parodies from the classics of the ‘60s and ‘70s and ‘80s. Disco hit “Stayin’ Alive” becomes “Stayin’ Awake,” Motown favorite “My Guy” is transformed into “My Thighs,” “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” switches to “In the Guest Room or on the Sofa, My Husband Sleeps at Night,” and “Puff The Magic Dragon” becomes the anthem to exercise, “Puff, My God I’m Draggin’”. Each week women of all ages and stages find their spirits lifted by the show’s light-hearted look at menopause. No longer is it The Silent Passage’!

December 18 and 19:  6th Annual X-TREME HOLIDAY X-TRAVAGANZA Concert.    $25/ticket:  ’For the 6th consecutive year, Curtis Stigers presents the event of the season: Two rollicking, no-holds barred evenings of entertainment at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Boise, featuring the finest talent Idaho has to offer, all to benefit The Interfaith Sanctuary, a shelter for the homeless. Over 20 acts a night hosted by Curtis and the The Fool Squad, with music, comedy, dance, origami, tumbling, claymation, animal tricks (no animals will be harmed, blah blah blah…) and much more!!! But seriously folks, this is a barnburner! Get your tickets now before they sell out (and they always do!)’.

Check out these events for your holiday entertainment!  

For ticket information please visit:  http://www.egyptiantheatre.net/

 

 

 

 

 

Scary Things to do Before Halloween!

This is the last week-end to take in some of the SCARY festivities before Halloween on Monday. I personally am a chicken so I had to go to my friends and my children to find out the fun, spooky events going on.

Field of Screams:  Located at I-84 and Eagle Road.  During the day this corn maze and festival area is a wonderful family experience but after dark it becomes the Field of Screams.  Open at dark on Friday’s and Saturday’s the peaceful corn maze turns into a scary experience complete with a legend of why people are roaming the fields and screaming out.  Visit their website to read about the legend:

http://www.farmsteadfestival.com/FieldOfScreams.htm

Haunted World:  Located on Hwy 20/26 (Chinden Blvd) and Northside Blvd.  Open dusk to 10:00 p.m. Monday to Thursday and dusk to 12:00 on Friday and Saturday.  This venue has several scary things to enjoy:  Haunted World, Skullvania and the Corn Maze.  You can definitely make an evening out of your visit.  Check it out at this website:

http://hauntedworld.org/Page1geninfo.html

Scary Movies:  My teenage daughter and her friends like to make a marathon of scary movies.  This is when I disappear because I would have nightmares for weeks!  Here is a list of some scary movies you may want to check out for your movie marathon:

1. Paranormal Activity
2. Insidious
3. The Ring
4. The Blair Witch Project
5. The Shining
6. Silence of the Lambs
7. The Shining
8. The Exorcist
9. Rosemary’s Baby
10. Carrie
11. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
12. The Nightmare on Elm Street
13. Halloween
14. Friday the 13th
15. The Omen
16. Scream
17. Alien
18. Saw
19. The Descent
20. The Hills Have Eyes

There are TONS more too.  Just go to your local video rental store or whatever online service you have.  I personally have seen a handful of these and I realize that I am not cut out for scary movies.  When the movie marathon is on at my house, I will be locked in my room watching some sappy  ”feel good” movie!