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Show Locals earn George Washington honors medal carry out programs that promote the concept of free institutions and responsible citizenship. Awards programs sponsored by the Foundation Found-ation honor individuals, organizations, organiza-tions, corporations and schools for their contributions on behalf of these same goals, according to Robert W. Miller, Foundation president. Also, the Foundation sends 3,000 people yearly to Valley Forge to workshops and seminars : held there to promote freedom. Many of these people are high school juniors and secondary school teachers. By GARY R. BLODGETT Six patriotic Utahns including three from Davis County have been chosen to receive the coveted George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. Also, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will be honored with the National Na-tional Recognition Medal by the same organization. This award will be presented immediately following follow-ing the choir's "Music and the Spoken Word" broadcast on Nov. 20. The award is being given to the choir because of its "strong evidence evi-dence in support of patriotism," according to Richard W. Miller, president of the Freedoms Foundation. Founda-tion. The choir has performed at three U.S. presidential inaugurations inaugura-tions and the nationwide Bicentennial Bicenten-nial Program in 1987, and 10 of the more than 100 recordings by the choir are devoted to patriotic music. The three Davis County proud recipients are Stan Ferguson, Bountiful; Jack S. Bailey, Center-ville; Center-ville; and Stacey Mollenhauer of Syracuse. They are joined by Elder L. Tom Perry and Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Council of the Twelve of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints; and Richard W. Lin-ford Lin-ford of Salt Lake City. The prestigious award winners are chosen by 25 people from all walks of life with nearly 300 recipients reci-pients selected nationwide. Mr.' Bailey's award-winning story titled: "Kids: What They Write about the Constitution," is a compilation of kids' thoughts about ab-out the Constitution. Mr. Bailey gathered his material from an essay contest he was asked to judge. "I was impressed and dumbfounded dumb-founded about what kids think about ab-out our Constitution," said Mr. Bailey. "I was impressed by the strong feelings that they have at a young age, but also the misconceptions misconcep-tions that some of them have about the Constitution." Mr. Ferguson was honored for his written article titled, "America: "Amer-ica: The Dream Goes On," and Ms. Mollenhauer, a student at Clearfield High, received a student award for her article titled , ' 'America: 'Amer-ica: The Land of Dreams." Freedoms Foundation is a nonprofit non-profit organization established to |