Cyan Magenta Yellow Black Wednesday, March 2, 2005 A3 Sanpete Messenger/Gunnison Valley Edition Sanpete County Sanpete County Compiled by John Hales THURSDAY, MARCH 3 Snow College presents convocation series NEWS•BRIEFS COUNTYWIDE INTEREST Conservation center is selling plants By Kathy Lin Eggleston RICHFIELD—More than 29 species of trees, 22 species of shrubs, 13 kinds of wetland plants and five grasses and herbaceous plants, all adapted to Utah conditions, are available for spring planting to beautify and enhance farms and wildlands. The Lone Peak Conservation Center and Nursery, run by the state of Utah, produces a variety of tree, shrub, and grass seedlings for use in conservation plantings. “They are perfect to attract wildlife to your property, protect your home and farm from winter’s winds, stabilize an abused hillside, or provide your property with a source of firewood, posts and other wood products,” forester Jason Johnson of the six-county area said. Orders are available on a first-come first-served basis. Call Lone Peak Conservation Center at (801) 574-0900. Plants will be delivered the week of March 20-26. Farm Bureau Women’s Conference scheduled SANDY—Women across the state are invited to attend the Farm Bureau Women’s Conference March 11-12 at the Country Inns and Suites in South Jordan. The Farm Bureau sponsors the conference to give women the opportunity to develop leadership and communication skills. The theme is “Celebrate What is Right with the World.” The conference will features a lineup of speakers including Susan Roylance, author of “Mothers and Fathers Defending Marriage and Family in the Halls of the U.N.”; motivational speaker Kathy Loveless, a former Miss Utah; and Sherry Saylor, vice-chair of the American Farm Bureau Women’s Committee. All women are invited to attend. The registration fee is $20 and covers two lunches and all conference materials. To register or to receive lodging information, call (801) 233-3010. Advance registration for the conference is preferred, but participants may also register at the door. VERN BUCHANAN / MESSENGER PHOTO Benefit concert raises $1,600 Cindy Simmons (left) and Mary Knaphus, who organized a Muscular Dystrophy benefit concert held last Saturday in the Eva Beal Auditorium in Manti, are shown reading poetry written by a young boy who died of the disease when he was just 11 years old. The concert featured nine talented local performers who kept an enthusiastic audience entertained for 2 1/2 hours. The volunteer effort, which also included a silent auction, earned over $1,600 for the charity. sored a meeting Monday, Feb. 28 to discuss what is needed to re-establish the Family-to-Family program in Sanpete County. The program, once known as the Family Council, has been defunct in Sanpete for about two years, according to Bonnie Nordell, a Manti resident who hosted the meeting and who has several children with disabilities. Kessler and Nordell say the program has been inactive due to burnout of parents (the same people were doing all the work), and because of the distance people throughout the county would have to travel to attend gatherings. However, they are making a concerted effort to bring the program back to life. “Parents [of disabled children] need to know that they aren’t alone, that there is a link there, that there is support,” Kessler said. They also hope to increase the community awareness of people with disabilities. “There’s a need to get the awareness out there. We’re looking for volunteers and ideas,” Kessler said. March is Disability Awareness Month. Advocates reactivitation of disability support group By John Hales MANTI—An effort is underway to reinstate a countywide support group for people with disabilities and their families. Kathy Kessler, an outreach advocate trainer for the Disability Law Center and the Governor’s Council on People with Disabilities, spon- Job Vacancy The Manti Ladies Literary Club will meet at 4 p.m. in the Manti Public Library. Bridget Funk is chairman of the event, and Dr. Leonard Aste will speak about his trip to Nepal. LDS singles to have dinner and program The 30-plus singles of the Gunnison Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will have a dinner and program at the Centerfield Ward building at 6 p.m. Please bring your own dishes. The singles meet the second Thursday of each month. THURSDAY-SATURDAY, MARCH 3-5 Snow College to present “The Fantasticks” The Snow College Theatre Department’s production of “The Fantasticks” will begin at 8 p.m. at the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $7 for adults, $6.50 for seniors and youth under 18, and $2 for Snow College students with an activity card. The box office can be reached by calling 283-7478. FRIDAY, SATURDAY, MARCH 4-5 Meeting to discuss farm, ranch management Rural Utahns for Local Solutions will sponsor Steve Rich, president of Rangeland Restoration Academy, who will discuss holistic management of public and private lands. The first session will be Friday 3-8 p.m., and the second session will be Saturday 9 a.m.-noon in the Scandinavian Room at the Noyes Administration Building at Snow College in Ephraim. LDS singles to hold dinner and program The 30-plus singles of the Gunnison Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will have a dinner and program at the Centerfield Ward building at 6 p.m. Please bring your own dishes. The singles meet the second Thursday of each month. FRIDAY, MARCH 11 Red Cross to sponsor blood drive The American Red Cross will have a blood drive at the Red Church at 48 S. State Street in Mt. Pleasant from 3-8 p.m. For more information, call John Allred at 462-2240 or Nina Johnson at 4622361. LLOYD CALL / MESSENGER PHOTO Brunger honored at open house Sally East, (left) replacing Dixie Brunger as Mt. Pleasant city recorder (center), and Mt. Pleasant mayor Chesley Christensen (right). Brunger recently retired after 30 years of service in the Mt. Pleasant office. “I’ve been looking forward to this for a couple of years,” Brunger said at a farewell open house for her last Friday. 7 T H A N N U A L F O O D D R I V E South Sanpete School District 39 S. Main, Manti, UT 84642 - 835-2261 Feb. 16, 2005 SATURDAY, MARCH 12 Gunnison seniors to have party The Gunnison Valley Old Folks Party will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Gunnison Stake Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. Lunch and dinner will be served. Come and enjoy the entertainment, stories, pictures and friends. MONDAY, MARCH 14 Miss Manti meeting to be held All women age 17-24 interested in participating in the Miss Manti Scholarship Pageant on May 14 are invited to an initial meeting on March 14 at 5 p.m. at the Manti City Building. Participants must be age 17 by June 1 to be eligible. Questions may be directed to Serri Ashton at 835-8517. RECURRING EVENTS The following position has been declared open for the 2004-2005 school year: Scout-leader roundtable held The Sanpete District scout-leader roundtable will be held the second Thursday of the month at Ephraim Middle School at 7:30 p.m. Wrestling Coach School: Gunnison Valley High School To Apply: Complete District Application Form (can be found at www.ssanpete.k12.ut.us) Submit a ltter of qualification/resume Deadline to Apply: March 9, 2005 Return to: Kirk Anderson Gunnison Valley High School 35 East Bulldog Boulevard Gunnison, Utah 84634 or: Don Hill South Sanpete School District 39 S. Main Manti, Utah 84642 435-835-2261 South Sanpete School District is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or disability. 2/23, 3/2,9GM Literary club to meet THURSDAY, MARCH 10 Volunteers needed for medical response team By John Hales MANTI—The Sanpete Citizen Corps Council—an organization that provides various kinds of support to Sanpete County communities—is searching for volunteers with medical training who could serve as a resource during local emergencies or disaster. Council chairman Richard Hight says the volunteers would form a group called the Sanpete County Medical Reserve. The group would include the services of doctors, nurses, EMTs, military medics, dentists and others who could give medical assistance in emergencies. Hight, who also works with Sanpete County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Management, is also looking for all individuals who have received CERT (Citizens Emergency Response Team) training. Hight would like such people to contact him so he can invite them to a major CERT exercise planned for April 8-9 in Moab. Lodging and meals will be provided at the event, Hight says. For further information on the Medical Reserve or the CERT exercise call Hight at 835-2191. Free weekly lectures and performances are held from 12:301:30 p.m. every Thursday in the Jorgensen Concert Hall of the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts at Snow College. For information call Diana Spencer at 283-7410. This week, Reverend France Davis of the Calvary Baptist Church in Salt Lake City will discuss “Leadership Principles from the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Weight-loss support group meets Bring a bag of nonperishable food items the week of March 7th to your local Curves and join with no service fee. All groceries will be donated to local food banks. curvesinternational.com 000-000-0000 000-000-0000 000-000-0000 283-4366 000-000-0000 000-000-0000 43 E. 390 N., Ephraim • 283-4366 Local AddressLocal Address Local AddressLocal Address 43Local East 390 North Address Ephraim, UT 84627 Local Address Local AddressLocal Address Local AddressLocal Address *Offer based on first visit enrollment, minimum 12 mo. c.d. program. Not valid with any other offer. Valid only at participating locations. What do you think? Write a Letter to the Editor #FU :PVS -JGF Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) meets every Thursday at 5 p.m. in the basement of the Sanpete Valley Hospital. For more information call Carolyn at 436-8773 or Elaine at 462-9315. Regional LDS singles hold events Friday, March 25—A single-adults potluck dinner and dance will be held in Spring City at the chapel at 164 South Main St. Dinner will begin at 7 p.m. This is a potluck dinner so bring something to share. The dance will begin by 8:30. This dance is for all single adults ages 21 and over from around the region. Dances will be the fourth Friday of each month, except in December the dance will be on New Year’s Eve. For more information, contact Paul Hart at 462-0301. Saturday March 26—The single adults will go bowling at Jorgensen’s Lanes (980 S. Main in Richfield) at 7 p.m. The cost is $1 for shoe rental and $2 per game, and everyone will chip in for pizza afterwards. Bowling will be on the last Saturday of each month. For information on other singles activities, call the Sanpete Singles Hotline at 462-3063; or, if you would like to receive e-mail calendars of events please write to plhart@cut.net.