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Show Strawberry Days Committee Recognizes Volunteers, Their Contributions and Gives Back to the Community Again know that their hard work and generosity has helped to again to give back even more to the community. A great portion of those who volunteer during Strawberry Days are current PGHS students and a lot more PGHS alumni. According to the Strawberry Days committee, each year it takes between 150 and 200 people each of the four days to pull it all off. The celebrations volunteers perform all sorts of different tasks for the committee. Some work on the grill cooking the hamburgers while others work the windows and others work on slicing and prepping the strawberries and cream. One of the tasks that volunteers perform that not a lot of people know about is topping the strawberries each night. Each night there averages between 300 and 500 flats of strawberries. The Lions Club is great to let the committee use their building where about 145 to 155 of the volunteers come from eight Pleasant Grove and Manila stakes from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The remainder come from groups such as Youth Court, Kiwanis, Lions Club, individual families, Scouting troops, teams and crews, LDS young women groups, and other groups throughout the community. This year the FFA participated and helped paint and restore the trailer that the Strawberry Days Committee uses at the carnival on the corner of Main Street and 200 South. The FFA painted it like a big strawberry. Then they came and helped man the trailer during the celebration. The money that these volunteers bring in through the concessions is used to help some of the other events during the celebration such as the free concert and strawberries and cream, Huck Finn Day, and the children's parade, all of which are free to the public. This year, thanks to their hard work and dedication as well as a good turnout even after supporting all of these other activities, we still had some money remaining! The Pleasant Grove Strawberry Days volunteers and committee have been able to donate $2000 to the lighting the "G" project. David Beck at Pleasant Grove High School has said that this should be enough to ensure that the "G" will be lit for Homecoming. The Strawberry Days Committee wants the 700 to 800 Strawbery Days volunteers to A I . V . - - Wf . $ t ., ' . r U - V: ' "V '' ' - -T"'"' ; V - - -.v.r Si-- ' ft S A' it - .v- - - . ; . - Each night of the Strawberry Days celebration there was an average of 300 ' to 500 flats of strawberries cut and prepared by volunteers. Shown are I to r, Kelsey Waters, Lindsey Del Castillo and Peyton Shaw. |