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Show Southern Utah's Christmas Tree Lane Readied f . i '. :- t Tr . "T"? rff v M . . i .":; - , ..' iiTTt ; m f A; ; ' i:' ' . j ... . ;-"f , .. , : '. " ;. . '.v . . u ...... v: "rv : , f. , 4,' ' v J sifr, V.. V 'ry ' , i . Wis Wr : '- r . i - What has become a Christmastime tradition in southern Utah Christmas Tree Lane will continue this weekend, but with an even greater participation than at any time in the past. Sponsored by Richfield East LDS Stake, the event will open Friday in the Richfield Youth Center, 190 West 100 South, and continue through Sunday. Duane Bresee, chairman of the program, said over 50 trees will grace the large gymnasium gym-nasium of the building, all following the theme of "Christmas, Christ's Birthday." Time of the program each evening is 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Ad-missionis Ad-missionis free. In addition to the many trees and various decorations, the traditional live Nativity scene will be presented at 6:30, 7 and 7:30 p.m. outside the building by the Richfield Eleventh Ward. Santa Claus will also be at the center throughout each of the evenings. Special musical programs will be presented as part of the activity inside the building. Among the .scheduled groups will be the Richfield High , School Orchesis, directd by Sharon Wall; RHS Sound Celebration, dir ected by Sharie Jorgensen; vocal selections by Ross, Jennifer and Jason Bumgardner and Cyndi Huntsman Hunt-sman and Kelli Butler; traditional tradi-tional Indian dances by students from the Bureau of Indian In-dian Affairs Dormitory, directed by Esther Adison. Also, the , Ashman Elementary Elemen-tary School third Grade, directed by Sue Southwick; Richfield Junior High Special Chorus, directed by Bruce Wurslen, and vocal solos by Bruce Wursten. Entrance to the event will be through the main south entrance en-trance of the building which has been specially decorated by Mrs. Jo Bray. Mrs. Vicky Ross is painting the entrance windows win-dows to complete the display. In the event of snow by the weekend, bobsled rides will also be provided, Mr. Bresee stated. The community Christmas tradition began in 1971 in the halls of Richfield High School, with each club at the school entering a tree in the "Hall of Trees." The participation became so great and crowds so large that the tradition was stopped for a bigger place. It was temporarily put aside after 1974 and resumed in 1979 in the Youth Center location. The Richfiejd East Stake picked up sponsorship and the program has expanded to include in-clude the community as a whole. Working with Mr Bresee are JoAnne Fanning, Val Chappel, Harley Toone and Ron Johnson. The animals for the nativity scene will be provided by Billy White. Grant to Help Expand Public Radio in Utah The University of Utah department of Media Services has received a grant of $600,000 from the National Telecommunications Telecom-munications and Information Agency in the Department of Commerce. In turn, the department depart-ment will act as coordinating agent on behalf of a number of state agencies and organizations organiza-tions that will receive funds from the grant. The multi-purpose, multi-agency multi-agency grant will fund the first phase of a plan to expand public radio services within the state, upgrade the translator system for KUED, the public television station, complete sections of the Department of Transportation's Transporta-tion's narrow-band microwave looping system, construct the first leg of a microwave system (Continued on Page 10) JoAnne Fanning, left, and Duane Bresee practice decorating tree for Christmas Tree Lane program which is scheduled Friday through Sunday at Richfield Youth Center. Over SO trees, special programs are planned. Public is invited free. Grant to Help Expand Public Radio in Utah (Continued from Page 1) for higher education from Cedar City to Salt Lake City and establish a local organization organiza-tion and production center at Southern Utah State College. Assistance from the grant will go to Utah Department of Transporation; Utah Highway Patrol; Utah State University; Southern Utah State College; Paiute Indian Nation; Utah State Board of Regents; Summit Sum-mit and Rich counties; noncommercial non-commercial radio stations in Logan, Cedar City, St. George arid Salt Lake City ; and KUED, Channel 7. When notified of the grant award, Project Coordinator Milt Davis said, "I am delighted that we can continue cooperative telecommunications telecommunica-tions activities among various state agencies." Davis, who is also associate director of the University of Utah Department of Media Services, Ser-vices, said the grant represents years of cooperative effort by Davis, who is also associate director of the University of Utah Department of Media Services, Ser-vices, said the grant represents years of cooperative effort by state agencies attempting to develop and use telecommunications telecom-munications in the state at the lowest possible cost. "We've come a long way with very little money,' he" noted. "There is a great deal left to be accomplished, and it is my hope that the cooperation exhibited ex-hibited in this grant will continue con-tinue as the pattern for development develop-ment of future telecommunications telecommunica-tions projects in the state of Utah." Specific projects to be funded by the grant are: 1. Completion of the Utah Department of transportation's microwave system. This will permit complete comprehensive comprehen-sive looping for the Department of Transportation and the Utah Highway , M voice grade circuits' 2. Exl A public radio service to u..rved state areas. KUSU-FM and KUER-FM will provide this service through extended translator operation. Rich and Summit counties will be served in the expansion. 3. KUED improved television translator service which will upgrade the quality of service to all of southern and eastern Utah. 4. Video microwave two-way interconnection between Cedar City and Salt Lake City. This will be desigend for distribution of broadcast educational materials, and it may also be used for training and instruction instruc-tion by multiple agencies of state and county governments. 5. TV production facilities at Southern Utah State College to create regional programs for use by schools and for Native American services. 6. FM transmitter at Southern Utah State College and associated equipment, to provide greater regional coverage and interconnect to KUER in Salt Lake City in-order in-order to provide regional and national service to the area. 7. Test equipment for service of interconnection microwave ; system and translators. 8. SCA modulators for KUER-FM to provide reading service for the blind and news service for the deaf through the translator and microwave in-t terconnection service. Project development will begin as soon as funds are received from Washington. |
