Money for the library + outdoor markets 💵 🍠

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.

OUR MENU

Events

Today

Taxation Public Hearing 💰

Provo City Hall @ 6pm on August 14th

The Provo Library needs additional funding and so tonight the city council is meeting to discuss whether or not we should increase property taxes to cover the shortfall.

If you want to share your opinions about this, this is Provo City suggests you do one of the following:
-Email [email protected].
-Post on the Open City Hall forum.
- Attend the public hearing on August 13th, 6pm, at City Hall or by Zoom. Information to join by Zoom will be published on August 8th. (We have not been able to find the Zoom link yet…)

Also, here are some of the details from the Provo City website that interested us:

How much will property tax go up (if approved)?
“The average homeowner would pay an extra $1 per month, approximately. The exact impact on your property tax will depend on the assessed value of your property. For example, if your home is valued at $482,000, you would pay an extra $11.93 per year. If your business is valued at $482,000, you would pay an extra $21.69 per year.”

What will happen if it is not approved?
“If the tax increase is not approved, the library will cut $482,000 from its budget. This includes cutting some collections, reducing staff and hours, and possibly shutting down some nontraditional services like the attic, creative lab, and outreach programs.”

🌼 Utah Flower Market 
Roses are red, violets are blue, come to The Flower Market this afternoon. The flower vendors and food trucks will be at Grove Station (273 S 2000 W Pleasant Grove) from 11am to 1:30pm.

🍅 Sunset Farmers Market 
It looks like it is going to be great weather for a walk through a Farmers Market. So go to 300 East Center Street in Orem and peruse the shops from 5pm to 9pm.

Yoga and Piano Lab at the Library 🧘‍♂️🎹

Piano lab starts @ 9am, Yoga starts @ 5pm

These are two different events, both happening at the library. The Piano Lab will be open from 9am to 9pm. The library will also be having an all-abilities yoga class. The class will start at 5:00pm and will go for about a half hour. (Bring your own mat and please register online.)

Coming up this week

⚽ BYU Women’s Soccer hosts Wisconsin (Thursday, Aug 15th)
South Field @ 7pm

🧶 Crochet Club (Thursday, Aug 15th)
Come to the Provo Library (The Nelson Attic) at 6pm for an hour long crochet basics class. But then stay from 7pm to 8pm to work on the monthly crochet project: Sampler Blanket: Spider Stitch. More details

⚽ Teen D&D Club (Thursday, Aug 15th)
Provo Library 260 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm

🥁 Concert in the Park (Heber): Nate Robinson (Thursday, Aug 15th)
Main Street Park in Heber from 5pm to 9pm

🎶 Outdoor Concert: Stranded At Home & Flashback Brothers (Friday, Aug 16th)

The concert will be at Orchard (University Place) from 6pm to 8pm.

About the bands:
Stranded At Home is a local rock band “somewhere in the niche of punk rock and modern rock”
The Flashback Brothers is all hits, all the time. (50s to 80s hits). The Flashback Brothers started in 2005, is based in Provo, and has been playing up and down the Wasatch front for years.

⛏🧱 Board Games and Minecraft Club (Friday, Aug 16th)
Provo Library from 5pm to 8pm

🎸🍔🏞️ Bluebird Cafe Concert Series (Friday, Aug 16th & Saturday, Aug 17th)
Performances start at 8pm.

Quick Story

Steve Martin was born on Aug 14th, 1945 (79 years ago).

Steve Martin has had a long and successful career as a comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician. He has received five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and an Honorary Academy Award, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and in 2004 was ranked by Comedy Central as the sixth greatest stand-up comic of all-time.

It seems like Steve Martin has been famous forever, but in reality he was not an overnight success. He spent years performing in empty rooms, getting booed and heckled. Professional critics often gave him poor reviews. Even his own father disapproved and was 'a little embarrassed' by Steve.

But Steve kept at it and after fourteen years he finally found success.

Martin explains that being good, counterintuitively, is harder than being great: “Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking,” (when they are “great”). “These nights are accidental and statistical: Like lucky cards in poker, you can count on them occurring over time. What was hard was to be good, consistently good, night after night, no matter what the abominable circumstances.”

Happy Birthday Steve!

What Else

Live Music

@ The Velour
Tonight: Open Mic
Thursday, Aug 15th: (New Band Showcase) Kara Nosack, Kristina Evonne, Melody Reid, Anni Pasto
Friday, Aug 16th: Alexa Wildish & Lennon VanderDoes from The Voice season 24 will play, alongside Jordan Moyes
Saturday, Aug 17th: “The Battle for Sandy Ampitheater” (mini-Battle of the Bands) The bands competing are: Seaslak, Local Kin, Avintaquin, and Brysn

@ Guru’s Cafe
Live Music 7pm to 9pm

@ The Boardwalk
Friday, Aug 16th: Treeson, Greenbriar, and Chris Silverman
Saturday, Aug 17: Absolved, DTA, Goodtears, and Run Your Luck

@ The Rise
Friday, Aug 16th: City Line, 45th Decibel, and Jacob Omen
Saturday, Aug 17: Michael Morrow and The Culprits, Blackwater Voodoo, and Black Tie Event

@ Java Junkie
Thursday, Aug 15th: Abby Lee, Aaron Sedrick, Rachel James, Kelsey Nay, and Samuel Charles
Friday, Aug 16th: Open Mic
Saturday, Aug 17: Stranded at Home, Orchard of Strings, and Flying Coffee Beans

Weather

Today
85° 🌡️ | 🌤️ | 10%

Tomorrow
90° 🌡️ | ☀️ | 0%

Reminders!

🏫 Early Out Schedule
Most schools are doing early out all week (elementary school early out times: 1pm, 1:20pm, or 1:30pm)
*Parent teacher conferences are also starting at some schools this week—check your school’s calendar.

👪 Applications due soon for UVU Stronger Families Project
Fall Session (Sep 24 to Nov 21 every Tues or Wed or Thurs). Will be covering topics such as how to improve interactions and emotional patterns within the family, etc.. Sessions fill up fast! Register / More info

⚰️ Arsenic and Old Lace - Hale Center Theater
Get your tickets, shows start Aug 16th

Words To Remember

We’ll leave a quote from someone else whose birthday is today, Annie Oakley.

(If you don’t know Annie Oakley she was a world famous marksmen and entertainer in the late 1800s and early 1900s. She was a part of the famous Buffalo Bill Wild West shows. One of her acts involved shooting a cigar out of her husband’s mouth on stage.)

Aim high Provo!

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Wednesday, Aug 14th, 2024