3rd Annual Spring Spaghetti Feast

Our 3rd Annual April Fools' Day Parade & Spaghetti Feast is sure to be a huge hit, as always.

Prizes will be awarded for the best "Flying Spaghetti Monster" costume.

The Parade will start at Old Main Hill at Noon, and end at Merlin Olsen Park. We will be pouring free beer at our BierGarden pavilion. There will be free pony rides for the kids, and ice cream and rootbeer floats for everybody!

No Spaghetti Feast would be complete without music, and this year's special guests are sure to be legendary - Marie Osmond performing with Lady Gaga, for one night only. They will be doing a once-only medley duet of She's A Little Bit Country, She's A Little Bit WTF.

We are looking forward to making this year's spaghetti feast the best ever! Hope to see you there!

BioFuel - the homegrown solution

(I would like to point out in advance that not all BioFuel is made from Ethanol, and not all Ethanol is made from corn.)

Growing up in Cache Valley, I was always fascinated by the ruins of the old sugarbeet refinery by the train tracks outside of Logan. After WW II, it became cheaper to use sugarcane from the Phillipines, and the sugarbeet refinery closed down.

At some point in my early teens, gasoline prices jumped all the way to a whole dollar - which caused great problems for owners of gas stations, since the pumps and signs were not designed for such amazingly high prices. About this same time, I became aware of the hypothetical use of biomass as a substitute for gasoline. In the words of Henry Ford, "Anything made from a HydroCarbon can be made from a CarboHydrate".

Passing the old sugarbeet factory always made me think - partly about all the jobs that had been lost by farmers and factory workers when it closed down, and partly about all the jobs that could be regained if it opened again.

There are some who believe that our military involvement in the Middle East is about Petroleum, and I will not speculate about that here. However, it cannot be denied that billions of American dollars are being pumped into foreign countries - and some of these same countries use our own money to wage war against us. Our country would be more secure, in many ways, if we ended our addiction to oil. Besides - we could create thousands, even millions, of American jobs.

Cache Valley is in a unique position to create a new biofuel technology. USU has a world-famous Agricultural department, and its Engineering department has had the most science experiments sent into outer space of any University in the world. If we can send a man to the moon, we can figure out a homegrown solution to run our cars - one that enriches American farmers, and American scientists.

There are other countries researching this technology, and eventually a solution will be found. Cache Valley Brewing Company would like to make it happen right here - even if we have to build our own distillery.