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Who
are These Amazing Youth, Anyway?
Sacramento Outtakes One
By Scot Facer Proctor
Editors'
Note: With your help in sending in the names of these wonderful
youth in the last two days, we have placed a number of captions
on the pictures below. Please help us fill in all the rest
of the blanks. You wouldn't want one youth to be left out,
would you? If you can help us identify any of the youth below
(who have not been identified) please
click here.
We’ve received a mound of mail
concerning the Sacramento Temple youth celebration and dedication
this past week. It has been gratifying and just plain fun. We’ve
had piles of letters wondering if we took a picture of someone’s
daughter who danced in this or that part of the celebration, or
if we have a shot of someone’s son who performed during this
or that part of the evening’s show. It seems like everyone
in the Sacramento Temple District truly dedicated themselves to
bring forth this amazing and wonderful production.
I’m going to do something we’ve
never done before on Meridian — I’m going to publish
a quasi-photo essay of the Sacramento Temple Youth Celebration and
then ask you to caption the pictures for us! That’s right.
I want you to do two favors for us:
The first one is this:
if you recognize someone in any of the pictures below (we will label
them with numbers), will you write to us via e-mail (you can see
the feedback link over there on the right and about the middle and
at the end) and tell us who that person is (or who those people
are)? Be sure to tell us which picture you are talking about. Use
the common left to right approach that all captions utilize, so,
for example if you know all three people in a picture, just say:
Photo #7 left to right (l-r is fine): Sally Thompson, James Gartner
and Bill Johnson. Tell us where they’re from if you know (the
Sacramento California East Stake or the Antelope California Stake
of the Citrus Heights Stake, etc.). That’s the first thing
I want you to do.
The second thing I want you
to do is this: Make sure, through your many networks and
friends, that you let that person, or those people know that they
are there on Meridian and send them the link or tell them about
it! If you look over to the left side there (you may have to scroll
down a little bit — you may also see it on the right side)
you’ll see a small little box that says: Share the article
on this page with a friend. Click here. You will see that this is
an easy way to share with up to five friends. You can copy and past
the URL (the web address) of this article if you so prefer.
I’ll be straightforward with
you: This is called “word-of-mouth” or “grapevine”
marketing. It spreads the word about Meridian Magazine and it lets
people see themselves recorded from this magnificent event. It’s
a win-win situation.
Notice that I called this “Outtakes
One.” Based on your response, I will do Outtakes Two and Three
and even Four if I need to and publish other pictures of you amazing
Latter-day Saints as you attended the Temple Dedication on September
3. After you have captioned those pictures — then we will
re-publish the pieces in a week or ten days with the names in the
captions (depending on how you respond!). Is that a deal?
I shot 2,364 images in four days and
I want to share many of them with you — but you have to participate
or we will just have to go on to publishing other things. Will you
help us? I will publish them in groups of 10 pictures (for download
time).
Okay, let’s have some fun (by
the way, if you want to add a very brief caption, besides just the
names, to the picture because of your intimate knowledge of that
scene or those kids, please feel free and we will consider publishing
the entire caption). Oh, and no fair if someone like Janine Nelson,
Scott Eckern, Kieth Merrill or Paul Allen just jump in and start
filling in the blanks.
Click on
any photo to enlarge.
Photo #1
Catherine
and Beth Castillo (sisters) of the Ashton Park Ward, Sacramento
East Stake. Both were "Brooklyn Saints" in the production.
Photo #2
Jenna
Borchardt, age 15, Hagan Park Ward, Sacramento Cordova Stake.
Photo #3
This
is the last remaining person is Part One to identify. Can
anyone help us? Surely someone knows who she is. Who
will help us?
Photo #4
Boy
on left is Kyle Wagner of the Chico Stake. Girl in center
of boys is Marissa Larsen, Chico 5th Ward, Chico Stake. Young
man on the right in the green vest is Taylor Wasden from the Chico
3rd Ward, Chico Stake (a number of people wrote in to identify Taylor).
Photo #5
From
a Meridian reader: "The woman standing with her hand
in the air is my Mom, Kathie Turner, of the Chico Stake."
Click
Here to Respond
Photo #6
Young
woman dancing in Karly Manwill, Chico Stake, Paradise 1st ward.
Young woman clapping is Analisa Davenport, Chico Stake, Paradise 1st
ward. The young woman to the left of Analisa is Paige
Hughes, Paradise 1st ward.
Photo #7
"Nick"
was played by Erik Eckern and "Sarah" was played by Kaitlin
Hancock.
Photo
#8
Boy
on the immediate front left is Russell Westrup, Sacramento North
Stake. The one young man whose face you can actually see in
the circle is Clayton Allen, singer, dancer, 'class clown,' and
son of musical director, Paul Allen. He is from the Sacramento
Cordova Stake. To his left (our right) was character "Azariah"
played by Spencer Borup. Redheaded boy with back to us is
Chris Harris, Rosemont Ward, Sacramento Cordova Stake. From
one Meridian reader: "The blond haired boy in the circle
is my son, Cory Hinds, from the Hagan Park Ward and the boy between
Cory and Clayton Allen (barely visible) is Austin Hodnett from the
Hagan Park Ward."
Photo #9
(l-r
of boys we can see clearly): Javier Schmidt, Joseph Horst,
James Tracy, Hunter Gould all of the Carmichael Stake.
Photo
#10
(l-r)
Emily Child, 14, Sun River Ward; Adrianna Teerlink, 15, Sun River
Ward; Shelby Turley (made age requirement for production by one
day), Sun River Ward; (behind Shelby) Rachel Poore, 12, Sun River
Ward; Kirstin Hamaker, 17, Camellia City Ward. All are from
the Sacramento Cordova Stake. Girl in background wearing a
light green dress trimmed with white lace and dark green around
the lace is Jamie Bowles, Hagan Park Ward, Sacramento Cordova Stake
(behind the boy in the dark shirt).
Stay
with me here. You've done really well captioning these pictures
so far. Can you help me on parts 2, 3 and 4?
Click
over to the next group (Part 2) and let’s keep working.
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