Show A10 Sanpete Wednesday December Valley Edition Messenger-Gunniso- 2004 1 final days to donate clothing to needy families By Staff writer Today and tomorrow are the last days you tan contribute to Santa’s Clothing Shop this year These families are then given a special invitation to come to the basement of the Santa's Clothing TLA City Hall on Friday evening and Saturday morning to shop for Christmas Students from the Snow College LDS First Stake will be at the city hall to help fold clothing and sort the gifts Donators should consider their donations as Christmas gifts and give items that they would be glad to receive Donations will be collected at the Ephraim City Building south basement door Drop off your items any time during the day If no one is there you may leave the items at the door Or your donations can also be left in Manti with Diane Bair at 226 Ephraim Shop has been a community project in Sanpete County for many years Donations of new or clothing and gently-use- T churches in the county as well as other community resources will submit names of families who need help Karen Buchanan household items are collected from generous folks throughout the county and distributed to families in need Children’s clothing is greatly needed The committee appreciates monetary donations as well which allow them to purchase some new items to give Their goal is to give each family at least one new gift Many families in the area arc in need Many of the Thursday Dec ? Bar-- J 2 Wranglers to perform in Ephraim The Bar--J Wranglers will be in concert at the Snow College Activity Center at 7 pm following the Ephraim City “Parade of Lights” Tickets are $9 in advance or $ 0 at the door Family tickets are available for $40 for a family up to six people For tickets call Manti Home Shaw to help swimming pool VERN Manti will host a holiday to benefit the new swimming pool Seven homes will be on display during the tour from Tickets are $5 in advance or $6 at the door and can be purchased at the Manti City office or at participating Manti businesses MESSENGER PHOTO BUCHANAN Judith Olsen of Ephraim and Snow College students Jacob Perschon of Riverton and Kit Wallis of Vernal look over donations to Santa’s Clothing Shop W 300 N or Kelly Howell at 425 S 100 E For more information call Bair at or Judith pm Manti High School presents Christmas play Howell at Olsen at Manti High School will present its second performance of “It’s a Wonderful Life” at 8 pm at Ephraim Middle School following Ephraim’s "Parade of Lights” Admission is $2 shop for Christmas You can help with donations Make your check payable to “Shop with a Cop” Mail or take your donation to a Far West Bank in Ephraim or to Sandy Wright PO Box 497 Fairview Utah 84629 If you have questions call Wright at Thursday Dec Christmas 2 - Friday Dec 3 Home Tour held in Gunnison The Gunnison High School drill team the will host a Christmas Home Show from pm Nine homes are on the tour and tickets are available from any member or at Valley Furniture Rasmussen’s Ace Hardware and GIC Donate to food bank ‘The Food Bank serves all of Sanpete County border to borsays Kristy Jensen She adds that the Food Bank helps nearly 10 percent of the county’s citizens every month Over 1300 people were served in October You can help Donations of packaged or com- ru der” By Karen Buchanan jb J mercially canned items or cash can be taken to the Food Bank at 1080 Blackhawk Dr in the Mt Pleasant Industrial Park any Wednesday or Friday from pm Or you can take your donations to any of the four Far West Bank offices — Ephraim Main Ephraim North Mt Pleasant and Donate to Shop with a Cop The “Shop w ith a Cop" program provides needy elementary-agchildren from each Sanpete County community with money to shop for Christmas The program is sponsored by local and county police officers and On Saturday Dec at 7 am the children who are chosen by each elementary school principal and the cops will have breakfast at McDonald's McDonald’s donates the breakfast They will then drive in the officers’ cars to where they will be given $100 to 867-576-1 Ton sty toes Latest Digital Technology Affordable Reliable Quality Hearing Aids for all incomes All instrument sizes available 75 day risk free trial period on Instruments all new Hearing In Carrying Gunnison top of the line REXTON hearing aids Dec DIGITAL FREE Hearing Aids Initial Starting at $485 ea and j 8th 10 & off : ALL Hearing Test Consultation 22nd Purchases value this coupon Thank You For Your Help In Support Jensens Tree ofAngels The Tree of Angels in Jensen's Department Store in Manti is an annual Christmas tradition The Child Abuse Prevention Team sponsor of the tree invites you to come to the store select one or more angels and then provide gifts for the individuals selected Last year the program served 100 children To take part in this effort call Kay Jensen at or drop in at Jensen’s Creating 2 Ask Utah the Utah State Legislature to establish an Interim Study Group to solve the health insurance crisis in rural The Board supports ) the Department of Community and Economic Development’s budget request for an annual appropriation of $100000 to sustain the Utah Smart Site Program’s efforts to create technology-base- d jobs m rural Utah and 2) the “Funding for Tourism” legislation sponsored by Senator Scott Jenkins to provide more marketing and advertising dollars to the Utah Travel Council to promote Utah tourism via a performance-base- d approach Support Utah's agribusiness economy by continuing the annual Diversified Agribusiness Conference initiated this year in Ephraim developing a supplemental “toolbox” of diversified agribusiness strategies and asking the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food to explore the creation of a Agribusiness Innovation Center 4 The Board requests the Legislature to rural economic “clusters” designate Utah State University to assume the lead role in 1) identifying crossing county regional and on occasion state lines and 2) convening local representatives of Utah State University the Utah College of Applied Technology other colleges and universities the Department of Workforce Serv ices the Utah State Office of Rehabilitation Small Business Development Centers school districts economic development organizations elected officials private businesses and others to develop strategies for identified regional economic clusters for helping new and existing rural entrepreneurs the Utah Department of Community and Loan Fund to expand its existing program stage rural entrepreneurs Encourage early uleef 1)16 folloinE suggestion Economic Development to woik with the Utah to rural Utah for the purpose of providing financing for will be implemented through a meeting tentatively sched- - for December on CoverTK7 to com cne a statew ide meeting of local officials to discuss coordination and Reiuest cooperation rural land use natural resource public land use and energy policy These recommendations are just a starting point of a strategy of economic development projects for rural Utah e invite you to join us as we seek future input on these very important goals to reinvigorate our rural economy a r concert held at Snow College The Snow College Music Department will hold a Choral Christmas Concert at the Eccles Performing Arts Center at 7:30 pm All seats are $1 and proceeds benefit the program Wednesday 8c Friday Dec 810 LD Singers hold Christmas concert The LD Singers will present a Christmas concert at 7:30 the Ephraim LDS Institute Admission is free pm at Thursday Dec 9 Utah Symphony to perform at Snow The Utah Symphony will present a full orchestra performance on Thursday Dec 9 at 7:30 pm in the Snow College Eccles Center for the Performin g Arts The concert will include Mozart’s Symphony No 30 Schoenberg’s Verklacrte Nacht and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto featuring Ralph Matson as soloist Snow College musical groups will provide Christmas music in the lobby of the Eccles Performing Arts Center from prior to the concert and tours of the ft pm building will be available Friday Dec 10 the First Rural Action Agenda The Governor’s Rural Partnership Board extends its appreciation to the hundreds of people from across rural Utah who provided input to us over the last five months Our efforts are in response to new legislation sponsored earlier this year by Senator Tom Hatch from Panguitch Through surveys focus groups and regional meetings you have helped us identify several ways to improve rural Utah’s economy that we believe are both meaningful and achievable In accordance with our charge the following recommendations will be presented to the Utah State Legislature the Governor’s Office and Governor-eleJon Huntsman Jr for their consideration I Tuesday Dec 7 Christmas will be sent overseas The Manti American Legion Auxiliary Unit No 31 continues its project to knit or crochet 2000 pairs of slippers to be sent to military hospitals The majority of the slippers will go to hospitals overseas If you knit or crochet you can help Call or to pick up yarn or for more information The auxiliary also makes nightgowns for the VA Gift Hospital Shop Every year the group delivers Christmas food baskets to various families in the area Call one of the above numbers if you would like to help in any of these projects home-sho- Sanpete Valley Hospital will sponsor its annual Holiday Home Show from pm All homes are in the FairviewMilbum area Tickets are $5 in advance or $7 the day of the show and are available at Beck’s Home Furnishings and Sanpete Valley Hospital The Forgotten Patient Christmas Project at the Utah State Hospital is asking for your help in donating gifts to patients w ho otherwise would receive little or nothing for Christmas The gifts are usually planned for individual patients with the provider being given information about the individual The giver wraps and labels the packages and delivers them to the hospital before Christmas Donations of cash or generic items are also appreciated Groups who want to carol or stage parties for the patients are always welcome Contact Shawna Peterson Licensed Clinical Audiologist ' Saturday Dec 4 Hospital hosts holiday Donate to Forgotten Patient Project Anderson Hearing & Audiology Bart Anderson ms ccc-- a faaa M Ephraim City’s “Parade of Lights” will march down Main Street at 6 pm Entertainment will be presented prior to the parade from 4:30-pm on the north side of the City Building Fairview— during bank hours from now until Dec 22 Call the Food Bank at or Jensen at Tesri Free Hearing Friday Dec 3 Ephraim hosts light parade Mayfield hosts Christmas party Residents of the area formerly occupied by the United Order will host a party at 6:30 pm at the Mayfield LDS Ward Santa will visit and entertainment will be provided by the Mop Heads A dinner is planned Saturday Sunday Dec ‘ The 11-1- 2 Vif Messiah’ presented at Snow College The Snow CollegeEphraim “The Messiah” will be at 7:30 Center annual presentation of Handel’s at the Eccles Performing Arts pm At us A Wednesday Dec 15 Ephraim Middle School presents Yule Candles 4 Ephraim Middle School will present the “Yule Candle” at its annual Candlelight Ceremony at 7 pm at the Eccles Performing Arts Center on the campus of Snow College H Thursday Dec 16 H Children’s n chorus performs at Snow College The Snow College Children’s Choir will perform at 7 the Eccles Performing Am Center Admission is free Saturday Dec Christmas n H pm at 18 drawing held in Mt Pleasant Annual Christmas drawing in downtown Ml Pleasant at 2 pm at the recreation center Santa Claus will be in attendance Tickets for the draw are free with every $5 purchase from participating local vendors For information call Fairview City IJgld Parade at 6 pm Fairview City’s Lights Parade at 6 pm Santa Claus will visit and refreshment w ill be served after the parade a I the City HalL Call fur information si'it :nn 'A v S'' v U3 POOR |