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Aerospace museum rolls out eggs, planes

ROY -- Join in the fun at Hill Aerospace Museum's Easter Egg Hunt and Plane Talk on Saturday.

The Easter Bunny will be on hand to oversee the egg hunt, which starts at 9 a.m. and will be organized so that age groups search in separate areas. Some eggs will contain notes that can be redeemed for special prizes.

When Fernando Valenzuela, the screwball-throwing left-handed pitcher, took the home-field mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers, it was to the organist playing ABBA's romantic "Fernando." Most of the people there would sing along. They knew the words.

ABBA's music is much like the national pastime -- just a part of the fabric of things. Hits like "Fernando," "Dancing Queen," "Take a Chance on Me" and "Waterloo" are stuck in the heads of millions still, long after the band's heyday as the most commercially successful band of the 1970s.

"When they came out, they had a unique sound -- especially their recording techniques," said Christian Fast, of Stockholm, Sweden. Fast performs as part of a tribute act called "ABBA -- the Music," which performs the band's music with the Utah Symphony on Thursday in Ogden and the following weekend in Salt Lake City.

What other day of the year can you happily walk around with an ivy wreath atop your head? Or find out how to grow seeds in a soda bottle? Or meet an alpaca?

Must be the annual Earth Day Celebration at the Ogden Nature Center, where visitors can enjoy everything from nature crafts to astronomy lessons to recycling workshops.

"It's a great mix of education and fun," says Brandi Bosworth, public relations coordinator. "So there are great activities for kids of all ages and then there are educational workshops for the more serious conservationists."

Shawn Paulsen was a cop who just couldn't stop joking around.

Between the wisecracks and messing with people, he knew he needed a different career.

"Basically, I never fit the profile of a cop because I don't like coffee or doughnuts and I kind of made jokes at everything. I wasn't really serious," said Paulsen, of Roy, in an interview in advance of four shows next weekend at Ogden's Wiseguys Comedy Club. "I guess I have always been the joker or the class clown."

A castle designed by one of King Arthur's rocket scientists -- that's how one of his friends described John Bruce's entry in this year's Birdhouse Competition and Exhibit at the Ogden Nature Center.

"A Bird's Home Is His Castle," Bruce's entry, was named Best of Show during an award ceremony on Wednesday. The Judge's Choice award went to Oscar Gonzalez and Johny Rios of Ogden. Rounding out the top three entries was Ogden's Darrell Stokes, with an honorable mention.

Competition was stiff this year, with a record-breaking 73 entries.

Tami Crowley is an avid collector and lover of art. Seven years ago, she and her husband opened Artists & Heirlooms, an art gallery on Ogden's Historic 25th Street.

Last month, they changed the name to Crowley Gallery & Café and changed the space to include a dining area where patrons can enjoy artistically designed cuisine by chef John Ewing.

Crowley said she has wanted to add a café to the gallery for quite some time, to enhance the experience for art strollers and collectors. She met Ewing at the local Farmers & Art Market last July, and everything seemed to click.

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21-and-over venues

AMERICAN LEGION POST 87, 128 S. Main, Layton. 801-544-7220. 8 p.m. Fridays: karaoke. Friends of veterans welcome.

AMERICAN LEGION POST 134, 345 S. Depot St., Clearfield. 801-773-9419. 8 p.m. Fridays: karaoke. Friends of veterans welcome. 

B-2, 22 E. 200 South, Clearfield. 801-773-7164. 9 p.m. Saturdays: live entertainment.

BOGEY'S, 22 E. 200 South, Clearfield. 801-773-7164. Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays: karaoke with Crazy Britt (Music Man joins him on Thursdays and Fridays). Fridays and Saturdays: DJ Jarvaicios. Also Saturdays: DJ Aqua Blue.