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Show 'il Garfield Memorial Hospital staffers worked long and hard during Intermountain Health Care's Community Outreach Volunteer day. The crew has been clearing away debris from the Red Canyon campground amphitheater and restoring it for future use. Hospital Volunteers Reconstruct Historic Amphitheater At Red Canyon Campground PANGUITCH In an effort to involve their 17,000 employees in working on projects in their local towns and cities, Intermountain Health Care recently sponsored a Community Outreach Day to heighten the awareness of their commitment to the human service needs in the communities they serve. The day also provided opportunities oppor-tunities for people who want to volunteer, but don't know how to get involved. Garfield Memorial Hospitals and Clincs employees, physicians, physi-cians, board members and their families and friends volunteered to restore the amphitheater at the Red Canyon campground. The amphitheater is an historical his-torical site that was originally constructed in the 1930's. Over the past 60 years, mud and rock slides had completely buried the stone benches and washed away the stage. Garfield Memorial Hospital's administrator Wayne Ross, who with Jon Torgerson and Stan Foy prepared breakfast for the group, said, "It's unbelievable to see what the amphitheater looked like before we started, and see the finished product now." Hospital volunteers, under the direction of Laurie Soper, who served as Community Outreach Day coodinator, along with Carl Guillette and Kim Soper of the (See Hospital Volunteers Redo Amphitheater On Page 5A) Volunteers Redo Amphitheater From Front Page U.S. Forest Service, spent over 500 hours in the past three summers digging, hauling dirt and resetting the stone benches. The benches and stairs were all cleaned and reset, and the Forest Service has built a new stage, and constructed a retaining wall behind the amphitheater, so it will not be washed away again. |