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School Nights, Markets, Nose Competitions 🏫🥬🐽

School Nights, Markets, Nose Competitions 🏫🥬🐽

Library nose naming competition, Library budget shortfall, Farmer's Markets, School open houses - Aug 12

Whats Up Provo
August 12, 2024

What’s Up Provo!

The Provo City Library is doing a “Whose Nose” competition today. The Olympics are over but the competitions continue! 💪

Here are the top events happenings this week:

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

Reminders!

🏫 School Starts on Tuesday
Most schools are doing early out all week (elementary school early out times: 1pm, 1:20pm, or 1:30pm)

👪 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

Taxation Public Hearing 💰

Provo City Hall @ 6pm on August 14th

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.”

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

What’s Happening

Today

🐽 Provo City Library: Do you know the nose?
Test your skills, or your kid’s skills, at the Provo Library by matching the nose to the animal it belongs to. Prizes are available! The contest is going on all day, just head to the Children’s Desk for more information.

🍅 Springville Sunset Farmer’s Market
Spend the evening with at 110 S Main St Springville for the weekly Sunset Farmer’s Market. Starts at 5:00 PM and usually goes until 9pm.

🥬 Mapleton Farmer’s Market
Mapleton’s Farmer’s Market starts at 6pm and goes until 8:30pm.

Back to School Nights and Back to School Open Houses 🏫

Edgemont elementary at 5pm
Canyon Crest at 4:30pm
Westridge Elementary at 4:30pm

Later this week

🧃 SCHOOL STARTS (TOMORROW)
Early Out all week for most schools

📖 Senior Book Club: Amazing Grace (TOMORROW)
Provo Library at 1:00pm

🍅 Sunset Farmers Market (WEDNESDAY)
Orem from 5pm to 9pm

⚽ BYU Women’s Soccer hosts Wisconsin (THURSDAY)
South Field @ 7pm

🥁 Concert in the Park (Heber): Nate Robinson (THURSDAY)
Main Street Park in Heber from 5pm to 9pm

🎶 Outdoor Concert: Stranded At Home & Flashback Brothers (FRIDAY)
The Orchard (University Place) from 6pm to 8pm

Tips of the day 💡

Two tips that would have been good to know at the beginning of summer:

Keep fruit flies away 🦟

A small bowl of vinegar + soap will lure and kill any fruit flies that have been bothering you. Also, keep your drains clean. 🚰 Fruit flies often breed in drains.

Keep wasps away 🐝

How to get rid of wasps when you're eating outdoors

Don't let these pests ruin your al fresco lunch...

www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/house-and-home/household-advice/a688699/how-to-get-rid-of-wasps

TL;DR: Wasps love pretty much every food except cucumbers. They also don’t like citronella-infused candles. Strangely specific but good to know.

Also, the first wasp to arrive at the party is a scout and will recruit others so catch it before it tells the others if you can. Avoid killing it because it will release a chemical signal which will bring other wasps.

What Else

Live Music

@ The Velour
Thursday, Aug 15th: (New Band Showcase) Kara Nosack, Kristina Evonne, Melody Reid, Anni Pasto

Weather

Today
84° 🌡️ | 🌦️ | 50%

Tomorrow
80° 🌡️ | 🌦️ | 60%

Highs are expected to be in the 80s all week. More consistently sunny weather starting Wednesday/Thursday through the end of the week.

Trivia

Since the Provo Library is doing a nose competition we thought we’d copy them. But instead of animals we’ll do famous people. See if you can match the name to the nose. 👃

Names: Ben Affleck, Paul Rudd, Casey Affleck Ryan Reynolds
Noses: