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Show Thursday, January 29, 2009 The Gunnison Valley Gazette Page 5 Guitarist Chris Proctor Support your local home creamery returns to Gunnison For the first time since November 2007, when the Top Stop fuel leak closed the Casino Star Theatre in Gunnison, live music will soar from the stage, as noted Utah guitarist Chris Proctor, recording artist with Wyndham Hill and former National Finger-Style Guitar Champion, performs at the Casino Star Theatre at 7:00 p.m., on Thursday, February 26. Since Chris last played at the historic theatre in 2007, the ceiling has been completely replaced and, along with the walls, now boasts an elegant, coordinated color scheme. Nearly century-old light fixtures have been restored where possible and replicated where necessary from molds of the originals. New fire-retardant curtains frame the stage, and gorgeously upholstered acoustical panels enrich and mellow the sounds. Most important, a massive positive-pressure, rapid air exchange system ensures clean, safe air, free from toxic fumes, throughout the building. Proctor creates a variety of stunning effects and moods. With a coast-to-coast travel schedule and a dozen CD’s to his credit, he is a favorite among guitar and music lovers and critics. An acclaimed composer, he is also a phenomenal performer of a spectrum of folk, jazz, pop, classical, and ethnic works. The concert will begin at 7:00 p.m. Tickets, at $7.50 for adults and $.5.00 for seniors and students, are available at Rasmussen’s Ace Hardware in (435 S Main, Gunnison) and the Sanpete Messenger Office (35 S Main, Manti), and at the theatre box office before the performance. Ticket orders of $30 or more may be purchased with Visa, Mastercard or Discover cards by telephone at 435-979-2798. The following article was submitted by Audrey Boore and was from the Gunnison Gazette, August 1909. Supporting your local businesses was even a concern 100 years ago. A creamery without patronage is certainly poor investment, yet such would be the condition of our local concern if the example being set by certain ones of its shareholders were followed out by the rest. That any need should exist for citing encouragement of a plant so well fitted for the business as the Gunnison Valley Creamery speaks woefully bad. While the creamery giving highest test obtainable for butter fat, turning out the very best butter product as it does, and extending courteous treatment toward its patrons, there ought, from this stand point alone, to follow a determined stand to make of it a home industry with credibility and yielding profit to the investors. Besides there is in charge as operator a man wholly competent to handle every detail required in manufacturing of the product and honest to a fault. Then why this disposition to give outside concerns preference? It seems like our policy in the past to down home enterprises from mere envi- ousness clings with us. Isn’t it time we shaped a different policy respecting this matter? Wheel out of the suicidal rut of the past onto a grade of progression. In the person of J.A. Tuft the concern has at its head a man who stands straight for the farmer; more is paid for your cream than is obtained elsewhere; the lessee, Mr. J.I. Larson is a practical dairyman of more than ten years experience; there is good profit in the business when adequate support is extended. Why then not round to and send to your won creamery enough supply of cream for its capacity? You can do it, and that’s what is needed to make the concern pay instead of a continuous kicking against the imaginative. Support your own creamery that it may take its rightful position as a leading enterprise among the large farming community constituting this section of Gunnison Valley. by AUDREY BOORE In the early years the farmers milked several cows twice daily by hand. The milk was set in large flat pans in a cool place so that the cream would rise to the top of the pans. The cream was skimmed off by hand and saved in a milk can. The skim milk was used by the family, fed to the calves, pigs and chickens. The cream was made into butter for the family and the extra was sold. The can of cream was taken to the creamery every few days. The creamery tested the amount of butter fat in the cream and the amount was so much per amount of butter fat. The farmer then received this amount. This was sometimes all the cash money that the farmers received for many months, which they used to buy supplies that was needed. A number of the ladies milked the cows and this was what they called their mad money. Later years, a hand-turned cream separator was designed, with the cost at a point that the farmers could buy one. It separated the skim from the cream by a series of medal discs that the milk was spun through. You could run many gallons of milk through in a short time. After the local creameries closed, cream was shipped by train in five or ten gallon milk cans to one of the larger cities that had a creamery. I can remember shipping cream to both Denver and Salt Lake City during my growing up years in Colorado and in the first years we lived in Utah. Sanpete County 4-H Workshop Reach more than 340,000 households in Utah The Sanpete County 4-H is holding a workshop on February 14th, Saturday, entitled “Keeping it Green with Junior Master Gardeners”. It will be held in Ephraim at Snow College West Campus, 325 W. 100 N., from 9 until 11 am with registration from 8:45-9 am. It is for kids from Kindergarten-12th grade. A parent must accompany children Kindergarten-2nd grade. The workshop is free to 4-H members ($1 without card) and will cost $2 if you are not a current 4-H member. This workshop is full of hands-on activities and games from the Junior Master Gardener Program. Participants will rotate through four classes; making orange pomanders, veggie taste tests and veggie prints, making the water cycle and candy soil, and making handmade paper and seed magnets. There will also be a How to start your own Junior Master Gardeners club. Check out the JMG site (http://jmgkids.us/) on the internet and see what this program is all about. To register call: Sanpete County 4-H (283-7583) or register by sending an email to 4hsanpete@gmail.com. The JMG program is a great way to learn more about plants and plant science! Come and join in the fun! Heidi Larsen at the Foxwood Apartments. tobacco use and exposure. Awards are given to businesses or housing developments that show outstanding leadership in developing tobaccofree policies. Smoking is not a right that is protected under the Civil Rights Act because smokers are not a protected class under federal law. In contrast, nonsmokers have a right to be free from exposure to secondhand smoke by both legislation and law. Every year more than 53,000 Americans die from secondhand smoke exposure STATWIDE ADVERTISING NETWORK 2x2 Display Network Reach up to 340,000 households for $320 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 801-308-0268 www.utahpress.com Classified Network Reach up to 200,000 households for $163 Central Utah Equipment Sales Courtesy Photo and thousands more suffer from other illnesses caused by secondhand smoke such as asthma and bronchitis. Smoking outside the home not only protects the nonsmoker, it actually decreases the amount of exposure smokers get to carcinogens as well. If you own and/or manage multiple housing units and are interested in establishing a smoke-free policy, please contact our Tobacco Prevention and Control Program at Central Utah Public Health Department at 435-896-5451. Subscribe to the Gazette! Call 528-5178 Concrete Contractor Residential & Commercial Footing, Walls and Flatwork Man Tries Out For Pro Team After Using Thera-Gesic • New 9’ forms for 9’ basements • Referrals available • Free estimates • Tear out old concrete & replace • 15 years experience ® BEXAR COUNTY- After applying Thera-Gesic to his sore right knee, Tom W. tried out for his favorite basketball team. 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