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Show Thursday, May 24, 2007 i SPRINGVILLE HERALD 11 Two statues dedicated in Springville Saturday v i - f - ' f ' ' ' i tv kM$r Springville City Councilman Phil Bird, Chairman of the Arts Commission Delora Bertelsen, and Cemetery Sexton Michael Bartholomew are shown here by "The Messenger" statue by Gary Price that was dedicated in the Evergreen Cemetery Saturday. It stands in the middle of the new "Heaven's Garden" area set aside for the burial of babies and infants. 1 - 5 t v "Sommer's Magic," a statue by Jeanne Young, was rededicated Saturday in a new location in the city. It originally sat in front of the law office of Alan Young and has now been placed at the Arts Park as part of the Statues to Live By program. Shown with the statue are Max Knight, Teddy Anderson, Springville City Councilman Phil Bird, Vern Swanson and Arts Commission Chairman Delora Bertelsen. 8MP Helen Beardall SPRINGVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY The year 1853 was filled with notable events for the new town of Springville. The citizens held their first municipal election wherein where-in Gideon B. Wood was elected as the first mayor, with 12 citizens elected to positions of. alderman and councilors and Cyrus San-ford San-ford as the marshal! The spring and summer of 1853 found newcomers moving in, new homes being be-ing constructed with timber harvested from the forks of Hobble Creek Canyon. New land was surveyed, plowed and planted with hopes of harvesting great and bounteous boun-teous crops of fruits and vegetables in the fall. The little children were sent to summer school, be- ing too little to help with the business of gardening, while their older siblings were taught the art of working in the fields. The farming areas were expanding, and those who had lived in the fort had ventured out in new, heretofore unplowed fertile fer-tile grounds, but lurking among the hills and dales of Springville as well as in other parts of Utah County, mi DQcific REDIT FBEECHEC 7 OPEN A NEW CHECKING ACCOUNT! 1.1 1 1 - v i ;-i in nr PITTS of SpringviUe Juab and Sanpete counties, were the original inhabitants inhabit-ants of the valleys. They were very sneaky in their daily activities as they moved around and about the settlers and presented new problems to the newcomers. new-comers. How do you deal with this group of people, who were dressed in attire that drew stares from all the new white settlers? With their clothing made out of skins of animals, some decorated dec-orated with frills, fringes ad beads, feathers placed in bands that surrounded their heads of black hair and paint on their faces, it made many of them look very formidable. Little skirmishes came about that put the settlers on constant alert. Cattle were stolen, then retrieved after a peace settlement by the local peacemaker. (One of the men was William Smith, who was an interpreter). inter-preter). The settlers tried to work with the Indians, as they used "tithing melons, potatoes pota-toes and other stuffs" to appease ap-pease them and their appetites. appe-tites. Blankets on occasion were used to settle differences, differ-ences, but this was a scarce V I r ut W mm Horizon UNION FB BOX OF CHECKS WHEN YOU or i r ir ... CRKUIT A group of Springville citizens met at the Evergreen Ever-green Cemetery Saturday to participate in the dedication dedi-cation of "The Messenger" statue by Springville sculptor sculp-tor Gary Price. The piece, which Price calls a "Guardian "Guard-ian Angel," was placed in the middle of a plot of land that has been set aside in the cemetery for the burial of babies, and infants. "We had a need we hadn't met for several years," said Mike Bartholomew, Bar-tholomew, cemetery sexton. sex-ton. "We wanted to meet the needs of families who lose children and don't have a place to put them. We have room for 400 infants in-fants now in this section of the cemetery." . Bartholomew indicated commodity and only used as a last resort, much to the disgust of the Indians. On one such occasion after an altercation, one Brave lost his life, and it did not make a difference to the Indians what type of peace settlement was forthcoming. forth-coming. They did not agree and hostilities increased, the loss of the Brave was his fault. Revenge was the order of the Indian, and a settler in Payson was killed shortly after. A Calvary company was organized, and upon arrival in Payson they found that Chief Walker, head of the Ute Indian group, was himself him-self organized with several hundred of his braves and were not to be contended with. The Walker War was the result. Settlers in all the communities were warned and guards placed about their areas "to protect the people and the livestock. In Springville, as a measure mea-sure of safety, a new fort was constructed, surrounding surround-ing four-square blocks. Block houses were constructed. con-structed. The buildings were connected by a stockade stock-ade ten feet high, which was built of logs set three-feet three-feet deep in the earth. 96 E. Center Springville 489-3603 586 N. Main Payson V 465-0111 vvw.pacifichorizoncu.com UNIONS lender that three infants or babies can be buried in the same space as an adult. He plans to place a bench and some plantings by the statue for families to come and meditate medi-tate and feel comfort. The "Heaven's Garden" area is on the east side of the cemetery. "We are grateful tb Gary Price and all those who made this possible," said Bartholomew who said the 1 dedicatory prayer. : Citizen Max Knight said the rededicatory prayer for "Sommer's Magic," a statue by Jeanne Young, j It was placed at the Arts ! Park near the stage area It had formally been in front of Alan Young's law office on 200 South and 100 East, and is the second statue to be placed at the Arts Park in the Statues to Live By Program and the 48th one in the community. Arts Commission Chairman Delora Bertelsen Ber-telsen and Teddy Anderson, An-derson, who has worked with the statues program since its inception, talked about the history of the 'Arts Park. They pointed out the plaques that 'have been placed around the bottom of the statue base honoring donors to the original Arts Park construction. con-struction. ', "The Arts Park is a lot of donations in time, work and money and some scrounging," said Bertelsen. Ber-telsen. "We used National Endowment money and the city matched it with some money and the cost History All residents were called in, livestock was herded to the compound each night and housed within the walls, and a strong guard stationed sta-tioned outside every night for months. There were few settlers compared to the hundreds of braves that were determined to bring destruction to them. To be continued... EE5T BODYSHO? PRACTICES ' FOR LESS! 35SE.900S. Provo, 84606 (801)377-2327 HOURS Monday thru Friday 7:30 AM -5:30 PM Saturday 9:00-12:00 574 N State St Orem, 84057 (801)224-9911 HOURS Monday thru Friday 8 AM -6:00 PM Saturday Call for an appointment Sunday - Closed Credit Cards Accepted I KAWASAKI CARES; Aiwat wv .i ayr fiicwn am ffiipa foWf? iyuyirtr of the property." "The National Guard spent their weekends for months leveling out the property and readying it," said Anderson. "The cost . of what they donated alone we could not have done." The new tenant at Young's law office did not want the statue and it has been stored at the art museum mu-seum until a suitable place could be found. Anderson talked about Gary Price and how he came to the city in 1990 with the idea of placing Spring Sales G23s (Lac w gr mt looting for the ferfect fartntr! A Nissan from Ken Garff can last forever... Well, almost! Ken Garff I Ken Garff. I: Orem-886-448-0140 - 285 W. University Pkwy SLC 866-51 1 -5555 Ogden 801 -337-71 44 777 South West Temple 900 West Riverdale Road w- . LJt tmtZ J"j0 7 r r ill fwtaiteSu IDsite Step 6SH $feas andl MUuiJi M&au -America Welcomes the World llZjorch lf zizJb vdu t. main bt. always at duffv. J.l American Fork M M M At M fd. Nwt ik ip; ,rf 'i &w Attxim to to statues throughout it. She also thanked the Springville Spring-ville Parks Department for readying the spot for the statue. "All the statues are donated to the city, and the city workers prepare the area for placement," said Andersoa The Arts Commission is currently seeking donations dona-tions for "The Crow Shaman" Sha-man" a large bronze of an Indian by sculptor David Scott Rogers. It will be placed on the northeast side of the City Center Park. Event OremSalt Lake Ogden iilip .srt!irr"iftJ- i s, i t 4 1 : . 4 1 : Let tiieguud times rcJlT :- 1 Y0UR BEST DEAL IS - (rftrtenai'n! sMsfcin rw fwori nnal i j?' ''?: -r je. - |
