What's Happening in Provo & Orem | Nov. 15th, 2024

What’s Up Provo!

Finally, the long awaited day has come! It’s National Clean Out Your Fridge Day!

We always feel so much better after National Clean Out Your Fridge Day. No more moldy leftovers, empty condiment bottles, or brown and partially open bananas.

Oh, National Clean Out Your Fridge Day, if only you came more often… 😔

Anyway, let’s get to it! Here are some highlights of today’s newsletter:

• Top events: Holiday Mountain Market 🏔️ | 2024 Tree Lighting Concert 🎄🎤 | BYU vs Kansas | Cowboys and Indies

• 🍔 Will Ferrin gets free food for life from Chubby’s + Ski and Sports updates

• Friday To-do’s: Rake or Don’t Rake

The Bulletin 📌 

IHC adds new pain management clinic in Provo 💉 

IHC’s new pain management clinic is located in the Sorenson Legacy Tower on the campus of Intermountain Utah Valley Hospital. Article

Looking ahead at ski season 🎿 

"Almost a foot of snow fell yesterday [a few days ago now] up in Little Cottonwood Canyon (and) other places…” Great to hear! Also, check out which ski resorts have added runs and increased access. Article

Sports 🏈🎾⚽️ 

🏀 BYU adds 7-footer Xavion Staton to BYU 2025 class. Staton is the highest-rated high school recruit ever to come to BYU. Article + Highlights
🏀 BYU also added another 4-star recruit, Chamberlain Burgess, from Orem High School. Article
🏀 BYU women’s basketball beats Colorado State 69 to 59. Recap
🏀 One more basketball update - BYU men’s basketball defeats Queens 99 to 55. Recap
🏈 Will Ferrin (BYU kicker) will now get free Chubby’s FOR LIFE after his game winning FG kick against Utah.

Today
50° | ☀️ | 20%

Holiday Mountain Market 🌲 

Don’t forget about Holiday Mountain Market happening today and tomorrow. It will be “bars galore” with a hot cocoa bar, a “build your own wreath” bar, and a charms bar. But also lots of great local vendors, holiday treats, and just a great way to kick off the season.
The Barn 1546 Hidden Creek Lane, Heber City | Friday from 2pm-6pm & Saturday from 10am - 4pm | More info

👽️🎸 Cowboys and Indies 2024
This annual event brings together roots, rock, indie, and synth for a two-day musical crossover festival. Like those Spotify Discover playlists, only it’s live and local. Tonight, Local Kin, Mom Dad & Me, Beck Brothers, and Welcome Home Sundance will be performing. And tomorrow night the bands will be Rally, Grizzly Goat, Internet Lover Boys, and Saemore.
Velour | Friday and Saturday @ 7:30pm | Night 1 | Night 2

Also:
👉️ BYU men’s cross country will run in the NCAA Mountain Regional
👉️ BYU women’s cross country will also run in the NCAA Mountain Regional
👉️ Cargo Cinema $2 movies in Springville - Record Shack and Collectibles | 5pm: Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone & 8pm: Remember the Titans
👉️ Movie Night at the Orem Library: Fantastic Mr. Fox (PG, 2009)
👉️ Wonder of Scripture Lecture by Ravi Gupta at BYU at 11am
👉️ BYU women’s soccer vs Santa Clara (NCAA Tournament Round 1)
👉️ Classic Film Free Showing: Sabrina at the Harold B Lee Library Auditorium

Saturday
37° | 🌨️ | 50%

2024 Tree Lighting Concert 🎵🎄 

Elleigh Marie of American Idol will be performing at this concert/tree lighting/gingerbread festival!

Elleigh is from American Fork, and the first time she auditioned for American Idol she was 16. She didn’t get far, but earlier this year she auditioned again. She nailed her audition, made it to L.A. and eventually into the top 24 contestants!

More about the event: Santa will be there at 11am, the Gingerbread Festival starts at 3pm and will feature a life-sized gingerbread village (beware of witches), and the concert starts at 5pm with the tree lighting at 6pm!
Traverse Mountain Outlets | More info

BYU vs Kansas 🏈 

Tomorrow will be the first time Kansas has played at LES. We hope Kansas and their fans enjoy their first trip to Provo, to a certain extent, but let’s make sure they leave with a loss!

Here’s how game day is going to look:

🎉 Cougar Canyon (food trucks and activities, free to attend, BYUtv will be broadcasting) starts @ 5pm
✋ The Cougar Walk will be on the southwest corner of the stadium @ 6:15pm
🏈 Kickoff is @ 8:15pm

Preview | Watch | Listen

🤓 Final Fall Trivia Night at the Bean
We love it when there’s an event with trivia, it gives us an excuse to add our own trivia questions. This time they’re all animal-related, ‘cause it’s the Bean Museum:

1️⃣ Question: What is a group of bears called? Answer: A sleuth. Or sometimes they are also called a sloth.
2️⃣ Question: Reindeers eyes are golden-colored in the summer, but what color are they in the winter? Answer: Blue, it helps them see in the lower light levels.
3️⃣ Question: How tall was the Colossus Penguin? Answer: 6ft 8in. About as tall as Lebron James.

Anyway, it’s a competition between teams of 4, spots fill up fast!
Provo Library | 11am-1pm | More info

Also:
👉️ Pumpkin Plunge Fundraiser (proceeds go to “Shop with a Cop”) in Midway
👉️ BYU men’s basketball vs Idaho at the Marriott Center
👉️ Date Night Cookie Class @ Baking Me Crazy
👉️ Big Band Jazz Concert @ UVU

🎸 Live Music

@ The Velour
Friday & Saturday - Cowboys and Indies

@ The Boardwalk
Friday - Street Youth, Ignatious, Baghead, Venus Death Trap
Saturday - Christian Kamko, Analog Attitude

@ The Rise
Saturday - Lighten Up, Francis, English Budgies, Lazy Loners

Friday To-do’s

We’ll all be cleaning out our fridges today, of course, considering the holiday and everything, but there are a few other tasks on our minds as well:

✅ Decide if we should even bother raking… 🍃 Apparently there is a debate about whether to rake your leaves or not. The Spruce’s advice | Should you rake your leaves? Yes and No | What happens if you don’t according to TruGreen

✅ If we do decided to rake then get a new rake, or something better than a rake 🍂 For some of us, the leaves are only now starting to fall… So here are some ideas from Tom’s Guide article about rake alternatives.

Thanks!

Thanks for reading everyone! Have fun this weekend and Go Cougs! 😉 

-Nicole, Josh, & Carlie

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