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Show t ayuu b s>ie IUU Salt Lake City UT 84124-1550 II,,LI,,I,,,II,,l,I,LL,II,I,LI,I,II T H E O N ET H A T ' S R ^ L I,I,I,I,,,II,I ^ The Soanish p Fork News X L O C A L L Y O W N E D A N D O P E R A T E D WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 , 2009 50?f VOL. 4 / NO. 26 SPANISH FORK, UTAH ICELAND DAYS 2009 I Annual \ cultural pelebration : held \ Jeril Bills i STAPF WRITER ; The Icelandic Association of Utah held its annual Iceland Days Celebration in Spanish Fork June 26-28. Events began Friday at the Spanish Fork Stake Center, with Icelandic culture workshops, beginning with a presentation by Jack Tobiasson titled "Fun Facts About Iceland," followed by workshops on genealogy, wool spinning and Icelandic children's stories. For the last workshop, attendees cooked their own Icelandic pancakes from a previously-prepared batter. The main events took place on Saturday at City Park, and included Icelandic food; a children's fair; a children's choir, in which participants sang in both Icelandic and English; a quilt auction; the presentaJeril Bills / Spanish Fork News See CELEBRATION • A7 HONORED: This year's Heritage Award recipients included Lynette Reynolds, Norma Jones (above) and Krege Christensen. Voting 'too close to call' Jen Allen STAFF WRITER Christy Hardman / Spanish Fork News RESTORATION COMMITTEE: The committee to restore the Pioneer Cemetery is pictured here with the nearly completed sculpture that will be placed in the old cemetery. Pictured, left to right, are Beverly Lewis, Telia Montague, Susan Barber, Pat Mitchell, Janene Baadsgaard and Cleo Cox. Cemetery statue nearing completion Christy Hardman STAFF WRITER On Monday, June 22, 2009 the DUP Pioneer Cemetery restoration committee went to see the progress of the sculpture that will be placed in the old cemetery. The statue won't be finished for a couple of weeks, and will be unveiled on July 21, 2009 at the rededication of the Pioneer Cemetery. The committee chose the sculpture from a number of sketches that various artists submitted last year. In May 2008, they chose the work of Alex and Erasmo Fuentes of Mapleton. "So many pioneer sculptures are of parents weeping over their child's grave, but the feeling we wanted people to come away with is of reverence and hope," said Janene Baadsgaard, a member of the restoration committee. Baadsgaard has an ancestor buried in the Spanish Fork Pioneer Cemetery. When the committee came together with the goal to restore the cemetery, it was only a weed-covered hill with a stone and mortar monument. "There were 15 names on the monument, and my ancestor was not on it," Baadsgaard said. She realised that if her ancestor was not listed, there must be others left off as well. Baadsgaard knew the first thing they had to do was find the lost individuals who were buried there. "It has turned out to be a harder job than we anticipated. Back then they didn't keep records. They were just trying to survive," she said. They went to the city and studied the sextons' records, but, as Baadsgaard said, the records were "spotty at best." "It looked like someone had tried to go in 10-20 years later to fill in the spaces, but it was never completed," Baadsgaard said. They found the microfilm at the LDS family history center that listed the See CEMETERY • A7 Over the past few weeks, many parents of Nebo School children have been curious over the proposed bond. While some supported the district's attempt to gain funding for the bludgeoning school system, others opposed it so fiercely as to make signs that they held while standing out on Main Street in Spanish Fork. Nebo held it's caucus for the proposed bond on June 22,2009. The school district passed a bond 10 years ago for $140 million dollars, and this year is asking for $160 million more to add to Taylor Elementary in Payson, build new elementary schools in Spanish Fork, Springville and Payson as well as two new junior high schools. The need is such that the school district increases by 1,000 students every year. In a pamphlet put out by the school district, they cited that most of the current schools are currently over-populated. When the votes were counted it was "officially too close to call" it a win or loss for the district, said Nebo School District Public Information Officer Lana Hiskey. With a turnout over 10 percent, 3,057 votes were for the bond while 2,930 votes were against. Votes will be recounted via canvassing on Wednesday, July 1 at 5 p.m. |