Luau, Underwear🩲💪

What’s Up Provo!

First thing we need to know about today is that it is underwear day, and also work like a dog day.🛠🩲💪

That's a weird combo. But if you're going to work hard, might as well be comfortable.

Also, this is the last week before school starts again. It is amazing how quickly the summer has gone by. We hope we can help you make it a great last week, create some memories, and send the kids off to school on a great note.

What’s Happening

Here’s a quick overview of today’s top events:

Ono’s Malasadas

OUR STORY

While on their annual vacation to the Hawaiian Islands, Sophia Bussio and her family discovered Malasadas, a Portuguese fried sweet dough, a food staple in Hawaii. Sophia and her family saw the opportunity to bring the malasada magic to Provo. Excited to embrace the opportunity, the Bussios dove headfirst into the world of fried dough, later naming their new company “Ono’s Malasadas.”

OUR NAME

The name, a fusion of Hawaiian and Portuguese, encapsulates what a malasada truly is. “Ono” in Hawaiian means “delicious,” while in Portuguese, “Malasadas” translates to “bad dough” — a contradiction that perfectly describes the treat.

🎥 Scera Summer Matinee
The last day for the Scera Summer Matinee series, which has been going since may, ends Aug 8th. This week the Scera is Migration (PG)🦆 at 10:30am and 1pm, and Flipped (PG) at 10am.

📖 Early Literacy Workshop
Bring your 2 to 3 year olds to the Provo Library for the Early Literacy Workshop. Participate in activities to help prepare your child for reading. Register here.

🥾 Hiking
Get out of the city entirely and explore the mountains. By this time of year the trails are all clear, and now the air is mostly clear too because of the storms that rolled through. While you are out there might as well look for the $25,000 two guys buried somewhere along the trails earlier this summer. Utah Treasure Hunt 2024

🏃‍♀️ Olympics
Some of our beloved local athletes are competing in possibly the biggest races/competitions of their lives today! Whittni Orton from BYU is racing in the 5000m final this afternoon (1:10pm MDT), and James Corrigan and Kenneth Rooks, both from BYU (I guess they are calling BYU Steeplechase U), are competing in two different heats to make it to the finals for the Men’s 3000m Steeplechase.

Back to School Luau🍍

University Place from 7pm to 9pm

Get excited about going back to school! University Place is here to help you with fire, food, dancing, and activities for the whole family.

According to the post from University Place, bring “a few dollars” and get some food from the Hungry Hawaiian, a snow cone from Kona Ice, and a drink from Quench It!.

They also encourage you to bring blankets and/or chairs so you can enjoys the entertainment in comfort.

We’re excited for this one! It’s going to be Haramai!

More info

Interactive Family Movie - The Princess Bride👸

Provo City Library @ 6:30pm

Everyone loves the Princess Bride, it really has it all. Love, revenge, adventure, humor. There’s nothing better. Except for a nice M.L.T. A mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich when the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. They’re so perky.🥪

(If the last half of that paragraph was confusing to you then you really need to go and see the movie.)

Here are some more details for the library: We'll have props and treats so you can act along "as you wish"!

More Info

🌾 Springville Sunset Farmer’s Market
Get outside and enjoy the sunset while supporting our local farmers and artisans at the Springville Sunset Farmer’s Market. Starts at 5pm, and it located on 110 S Main St. in Springville.

Quick Tip

It’s national Simplify Your Life week. One cause of clutter in our lives are constant notifications. Research shows that switching attention between the real world and your phone all day long is cluttering our minds and making us “chronically distracted”.

A tip from author Cal Newport (we’ve been reading his book Deep Work recently) is to decide in advance what times you will check your phone/email. Maybe that’s only a few times a day, or once an hour, whatever it is do your best to stick to your plan. If you absolutely must check something earlier, Cal suggests to at least wait 5 minutes, didn’t give in right away so you don’t reinforce any impulsive habits.

You may feel a little anxious at first, but over time you will see the benefits. Don’t let notifications control you.

What’s Coming

🏫 Back to School Nights
Aug 8th » Spring Creek Elementary, Wasatch Elementary
Aug 9th » Timpanogos Elementary, Provost Elementary
Next Week » Edgemont Elementary, Canyon Crest, Westridge Elementary

⚽ BYU Women’s Soccer
Aug 7th vs UVU and Aug 9th vs Wyoming

🛸 Free Movies
Friday August 9th, 2001: A Space Odyssey at BYU, Star Wars: Episode 1 (outdoor movie) @ University Place

Live Music

@ The Velour
Wednesday: Open Mic
Friday, Aug 9th: Botanical Animal, OracMind, Hasha
Saturday, Aug 10th: Kin Lodge, Abner Avenue, Wild Flour, Rex

@ The Boardwalk
Friday, Aug 9th: Filibusters, Always Her, Calling Card
Saturday, Aug 10th, CARE, OrcaMinda, Hasha

What’s the Weather

Today
97° 🌡️ | ☀️ | 0%

Tomorrow
98° 🌡️ | ☀️ | 0%

What to expect this month
Hotter than average expected, could get some monsoon rains throughout the month of august. Not clear if it will be wetter or drier this month, but the change in weather might change whether we continue getting smoke from California, Oregon and Washington.

Men and Women’s Gymnastics, Swimming, Track and Field Relay Events

🤸‍♂️ Gymnastics: men’s parallel bars (5:45 a.m.), women’s balance beam (6:36 a.m.), men’s horizontal bar (7:31 a.m.), women’s floor exercise (8:20 a.m., E!)

🏃‍♂️ Track & field: men’s pole vault final (1 p.m.), women’s discus final (2:30 p.m.) women’s 5,000m (3:10 p.m.), women’s 800m (3:45 p.m.). NBC is airing the finals.

🏀 3x3 hoops: women’s bronze (3 p.m.), men’s bronze (3:30 p.m.), women’s gold (4:05 p.m.), men’s gold (4:35 p.m.). NBC is airing the gold medal matches.

🏃‍♂️ Triathlon: mixed relay (2 a.m., USA Network)

🚴‍♀️ Cycling track: women’s team sprint bronze (1:53 p.m.), women’s team sprint gold (1:58 p.m.)

🔫 Shooting: 25m rapid fire pistol men’s final (3:30 a.m.), skeet mixed team gold (9 a.m.)

🚣‍♀️ Canoe slalom: women’s kayak cross (10:55 a.m.), men’s kayak cross (11 a.m., USA Network)

🏸 Badminton: women’s singles bronze (3:45 a.m.), women’s singles gold (4:55 a.m.), men’s singles bronze (8:30 a.m.), men’s gold (9:40 a.m.)

🏃‍♂️Mens 3000m Steeplechase Round 1 (11:04 AM MDT) (Featuring BYU athletes Kenneth Rooks and James Corrigan)

Jimmer Update:
Team USA (3×3 Mens Basketball) was knocked out of the tournament by the Netherlands with Jimmer injured on the sideline. He “tore two different ligaments completely” in his adductor.

“This is devastating for me as I have put two years into qualifying for the Olympics with this group who are my brothers,” Fredette wrote on Instagram as part of the post.

“In that time we went from a no name team to the number 1 team in the world this year- and did things that no American team has ever done. I also became the #1 ranked player in the world on the same day i was injured. Pretty crazy coincidence. But we were fully prepared and excited to make a medal run here in Paris.”

Reminders!!!

BYU Organ Workshop Registration
Registration

Lindon Jr Rodeo Muttin Bustin Registration filling up🐑
Registration

Public School Starts Aug 13th!

Current Fire and Fireworks Restrictions
No fireworks and heavy restrictions on campfires.

More info

Words To Remember

Thanks for reading! Have fun storming the castle!🏰