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Show 0 R E M TIMES Thursday, June 12, 2008 Annual Utah Lake Festival draws large crowd Page 12 MARIO RUIZ Daily Herald A boatful of Utah Lake State Park visitors return from a tour of the lake Saturday, June 7, 2008. This year's Utah lake Festival offered visitors boat tours, fishing workshops, and children's crafts and games free of charge to the public. t - .:- - i: :,) : . J - j " - " '' ' ' ' i ' , i ' f 4 ' - t : , V f 'if V'L m . '-: : :xv r ''I,'", ,."' " ' ' ' A , " ' EL - ' Caleb Warnock Hundreds if not thousands of people converged on Utah Lake State Park on Saturday for free fishing day and the annual an-nual Utah Lake Festival. The crowd was by far the largest yet for the festival, now in its fourth year. Freebies abounded. Visitors Visi-tors were given free hot dogs, snow cones and popcorn. Santaquui manned a booth to give away free Mount ainland apples. The Sierra Club gave away free energy -saving compact light bulbs. And the line for free boat tours of Utah Lake never grew shorter than the length of the pier. Courtney Lee, a Provo employee em-ployee who worked the snow cone stand, said the lines had been constant until ice temporarily tempo-rarily ran out around noon. "We've had no breaks and I've got red hands from tiger's blood," she said with a laugh. Tiger's blood is a blended strawberry- and coconut-flavored snow cone syrup. Robyn Know It on of American Ameri-can Fork brought her five children ages 4-11 after reading read-ing about the even! in the city's newsletter. "1 think all the free things were very family-friendly," she said. The kids had their faces painted, made necklaces, and painted pictures of fish, just for a start. Which was their favorite? "1 say everything," said 7-yearold 7-yearold Ethan Knowhon. The family had been camping camp-ing at Utah Lake State Park last year and the kids had a great time jumping off the dock into the lake, fishing, and paddling in a blow-up raft, said Robyn Knowhon. The festival inspired the family to think about coming back to camp again. Susan Wilson of Magna took a free brochure of archeo- logical sites and history around Utah Lake from the Utah Valley Val-ley Sierra Forum. She brought her daughter and two granddaughters grand-daughters to the festival. "We caught four fish," said 8-year-old Martha Wilson excitedly. ex-citedly. "I caught the very first fish" June suckers, one of the most endangered fish in the world, native only to Utah Lake, were also on display in a tank. "So when the pioneers first came to Utah, do you know what they used for money?" said Kristen Bonner to a group of visitors at the Living Planet Aquarium booth. She pointed to the June suckers in answer. " They also paid tithing with them. There were millions and millions of them, and when they ran out, the pioneers replaced re-placed them with carp." Scott and Briana Grow came from Salt Lake City with their three children, ages three weeks to four years old. "We want to go out to the lake to do a little fishing with the boys," Scott Grow said "If they get bored of fishing they can do the booths," said Briana Grow. Public interest in Utah Lake has bumped up a notch since last year, with the formation in January of the Utah Lake Commission, said Reed Harris of the June sucker recovery program. "We are finding that once people know, they want to come and be a part of what's going on here," he said M in CE-UTAH Oil BurnooR EARLV VOTING L0CATJ0.NS i SCBEDITI 12-5pm 12-5pm 12-5pm 12-5pm12-5pm 12-Sjni 12-5pm 12-5 tfpn Upn 3-7pm tyttfpn J-Jpn 3-7po Wpn tyi 12-5pm 12-5?!! 12-5ffl 12-512 12-5pm 12-5pm t2-5pm tHpn tefenfarfo 8aR-5jpm SanSan-SjpRSaRtS Sara-Spa teEsi t2-5pm 12-5pm 12-5pm 12-5pm12-5pm 12-5pm 12-5pm 12-5pm 12-5pm f i MtL, I' www.martinKolIisionrepair.com satisfaqionV , f " i GUARANTEED v A j7xD A great product can determine the size of your business, but it's the foundation of customers that keep it standing Your odvertwiig message am reach more than .. 92,000 reoders every Sunday in me Daily Herald. tSHR ftiW , . T-iiii mi n i "A We pay your first 3 mortgage payments wtien you buy a home from COUNTRYSIDE ESTATES Countryside Estates in Santaquin, Utah. Ony 15 mtfUif vxjth o Prcvo - e& bench bcatsn - muft pie Ikxxplans to cncwse from - many custom features and amenes - starting from the rrwJ $2DCs CaR for won irrfwrnation on m cwrMt and lnctt)m Ml to vH4 Mr ne4el ftentci. 801-735-9055 STRATFlELD t SratSeMhomes com irasfljiu.vtu mwkh mm soa . ! I. o . II II SS O E Itf T A L Dr.NickGronemanDMD 801-756-5136 186 South 1100 East American Fork, CT 84003 I V 1 I ML X-RayExsus, and Cleaning oi FREE Teeth WMtenisg |