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Show Community-wide celebration will include feasting, 14-ward Primary parade, auction, other festivities Last-minute preparations are being completed com-pleted this week for the big community-wide "Kolob Day" Saturday, August 27, a fun-filled day of entertainment, feasting, sociability, and value-shopping, designed to benefit the near-completed near-completed building fund of the new Kolob Stake House. Concession Con-cession tands, carnival rides bazaar booths, and other structures struc-tures are being built in the area surrounding the stake house, Hohble Creek Park and the Brookside School Campus to accommodate the large number num-ber of people expected to attend at-tend the many events scheduled for the day. As a new feature of the celebration, a miniature parade will be held beginning at 9:30 a.m. sponsored by the Primary organizations of the 14 wards o f Springville and Kolob Stakes. All youth are invited to participate and are asked to assemble at Springville Stake House at 9:00 a.m. for the march from there to the Kolob Stake House. Preceeding the parade, and as the first major attraction of the day, a chuck wagon breakfast will be served from 6:00 to 10:00 a.m. on the patio of the new building. At 10:00 a.m., immediately following the Parade, the concessions and the midway will be opened, and this will include such items as train rides, ferris wheel, car rides, pony rides, fish pond, dunking machine, games of skill ,baloons, pop corn, cold drinks, ice cream, hot dogs, hamburgers, and many items for sale ranging from home-baked home-baked ' bread, pies, cakes, to food supplements and life in- i surance policies. - All items offered for sale will have been donated in full or in part, and the money derived de-rived from their sale will go to the building fund, according accord-ing to Hal L. Taylor, general chairman of the event. Script tickets have been offered in advance in each of the wards, and these tickets will be good for the purchase of any item I o r entertainment avail able throughout the day. Tickets ! will also be on sale on the grounds during the day. j Dinners may be purchased j at noon. In the afternoon the festivities will include movies, cartoons, and more refreshments. refresh-ments. Beginning at 3:30 p.m. a huge auction sale will get underway un-derway conducted by professional profes-sional auctioneers. Hundreds of j items of good value will be of- ; fered and will be sold to the highest bidders. Services such as medical care, wash jobs, ; grease jobs, plowing, carpentry work will be sold as well as ; farm and garden produce, canned can-ned commodities, stoves, refrigerators, re-frigerators, beds, matresses, automobiles, livestock, quilts ' oil paintings, furniture of all j kinds, and miscellaneous household house-hold appliances. j The giant beef barbeque which is anticipated as one of j the outstanding treats of the I day will be served at 6:00 p.m. j A large prim beef will be pro- fessionally cooked in a large pit by coals from hickory wood just previous to the serving. j Planned as a climax to the I many activities will be the ; dance in the church beginning j at 9:00 p.m. It is hoped that ' this will celebrate the end of the fund drive on the stake basis, and everyone is invited ! to join in the fun. In connection with the Kolob Day event, the senior Aaronic Priesthood members of Kolob Stake have conducted a scrap metal drive during the past ! week and are still accepting any items which may be added to their collection at the First-Twelfth First-Twelfth Ward parking lot. ! Arrangements for pickup of j metal may be made by calling the chairman of the event, ) John Stokes, or Porter Leavitt, j Carlos Hjorth or Jack Andrea- son. ' ' The Scouts of the stake also have added their support to the fund drive by collecting cotton rags throughout the community. This activity was directed by Byron Cottam and scoutmasters in the various wards. |