Wizards at the library plus farmers at the market

What’s Up Provo!

Whether you are muggle, wizard, or witch, we hope today is a great one.

Top events happening today:

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

Today

🍓 Provo Farmers Market
Did you know up to 200 vendors set up shop at the Provo Farmers Market. Come to Pioneer Park and check it out. Open from 9am to 2pm.

Thrifthood Palooza 👕

160 S 100 W St #1, Provo

We almost forgot, it’s National Thriftshop Day! Celebrate it at Provo’s very own Thrifthood. They’re doing another $5 pile!

Here’s what they’re saying about it: “5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY $5 PILE PALOOZA just make sense 🤪 our BIGGEST $5 pile to date‼️

we will be throwing in $1000 worth of extra cash/giftcards in the pile!”

Check out their website.

🧙 A School Day of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Get sorted, muggles. Sorting and magical classes at the Provo Library start at 11am and go until 1pm with another session of sorting/classes starting at 2pm and going until 4pm.

🎸🍔🏞️ Bluebird Cafe Concert Series + Live Music @ the Owl Bar

Sundance @ 8pm

Artists performing @ The Owl Bar

Artists performing @ Bluebird Cafe: Josh Osborne (a multi-platinum, GRAMMY Award winning songwriter. Josh has 23 No. 1s on the Country charts), Chase McGill, Emily Weisband. Performances start at 8pm.

Coming Next Week

🎸 Concerts in the Park: Portal 6 Monday, Aug 19th 
Mapleton City Park @ 7pm

🍓 Mapleton Farmer's Market Monday, Aug 19th
Mapleton City Park @ 6pm

🍒 Springville Sunset Farmers Market Monday, Aug 19th
110 S Main St in Springville @ 6:30

🔒🚨 Sundance Outlaw Life: Full Moon Lift Rides Tuesday, Aug 20th
Sundance from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM

🎨 Fall 2024 Beehive Bazaar Handmade Art and Craft Fair Tuesday, Aug 20th
520 N Main Street in Springville from 10AM to 8PM

🔊🎧 Basic Audio Production - Free Class Wednesday, Aug 21st
Basement Creative Lab of the Provo Library from 7:00pm to 8:30pm

🖍️ Chalk the Block starts Thursday, Aug 22nd, ends Saturday, Aug 24th
Riverwoods from 7:30am to 9pm

💃✨ 19th Annual DANCING UNDER THE STARS Friday, Aug 23rd
Scera @ 8PM

🏊‍♂️ 2024 SPLASH SUMMIT SUMMER TRIATHLON Saturday, Aug 24th
Reverse order sprint triathlon: 5k run, 8-mile bike ride, 300-yard swim, and then slide down "Avalanche" to the finish line
Registration

Mental Diet

“Not long ago, a successful executive… hired me to mentor him on improving his productivity. He was doing well, but knew he could optimize his time and output further with some coaching.

I had him track his activities for a week, and I noticed something I see too often: He spent an incredible amount of time reviewing the news—forty-five minutes in the morning reading the newspaper, another thirty minutes listening to news on his morning commute, and an equal amount of time tuning in again on his drive back home. During his workday, he’d check Yahoo! News several times, spending at least twenty minutes in total. When he got home, he’d catch the last fifteen minutes of the local news while greeting his family. Then he’d catch up on thirty minutes of sports news and thirty minutes of the 10 o’clock news before going to bed. In total, he was spending 3.5 hours with the news each day!

…he was getting very little valuable information through his programming choices—or, rather, his lack of choices. So why did he spend nearly four hours a day consuming it? It was a habit.

I suggested he keep his TV and radio off, cancel his newspaper subscription, and set up an RSS feeder so he could select and receive only the news he deemed important for his business and personal interests. Doing so immediately cleared out 95 percent of the mind-cluttering and time-sucking noise. He could now review all that mattered to him in less than twenty minutes a day. This left the forty-five minutes in the morning (his commute time), and that hour in the evening for productive activities: exercise, listening to instructional and inspirational material, reading, planning, preparing, and spending quality time with his family.

He tells me he’s never felt less stressed (constant negative news has a tendency to make you anxious), and more inspired and focused than he does now. One small, simple change in habit, one giant leap forward in balance and productivity!”

-Darren Hardy (Compound Effect)

Live Music

@ The Velour
Saturday, Aug 17th: “The Battle for Sandy Ampitheater” (mini-Battle of the Bands) The bands competing are: Seaslak, Local Kin, Avintaquin, and Brysn

@ The Boardwalk
Saturday, Aug 17: Absolved, DTA, Goodtears, and Run Your Luck

@ The Rise
Saturday, Aug 17: Michael Morrow and The Culprits, Blackwater Voodoo, and Black Tie Event

@ Java Junkie
Saturday, Aug 17: Stranded at Home, Orchard of Strings, and Flying Coffee Beans

Weather

Today
80° 🌡️ | 🌧 | 70%

Tomorrow
85° 🌡️ | ⛅ | 20%

Right now it looks like next week will be mostly sunny and in the mid to high 80s.

Reminders!

👪 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

⛷️ Ski Ticket Price Increase
The Epic Pass price goes up on September 2nd. (The Epic Pass can be used at Park City.)
Beaver Mountain passes are available now, but their ticket prices will increase after Aug 31st.
Still waiting for price update from Sundance, Alta, Snowbird, etc…

Words To Remember

Stay dry this weekend and see you on Monday Provo!

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Saturday, Aug 17th, 2024