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Show Thursday, February-12, 2009 Page 2 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN tLi vj-y x diJ dLSLiiiDiLH NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED Donations help restore Pioneers museum Caleb Warnock The Daughters of Utah Pioneers Pio-neers museum in American Fork may be closed for the winter, but that hasn't kept it from being filled with volunteer volun-teer workers. After what may be years of benign neglect, the museum is under the helm of a new director, direc-tor, and volunteers are working work-ing feverishly to increase the relevance of the museum and its contents to the community. In March 2006. Karen Adams Ad-ams of the DUP wanted to take a few pictures of items inside the museum, located in a white building at 100 East and Main Street behind the library and senior center. When she walked in, she discovered a pipe had broken and flooded part of the building. "We were very fortunate that nothing was damaged," she said, noting an emergency cleanup crew was called in to dry the building and move the displays. Since that moment, Adams has been working to revive the museum. There was much work to do. The building hadn't had a working furnace in almost a decade at that point. School groups had stopped visiting, DUP members had stopped using us-ing the building for meetings, and the building was slowly being abandoned by those who Tlll.l-... 9 CRAIG DILGER Daily Herald Dan Adams stands in the doorway of the Adamson Cabin that is part of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers museum in American Fork on Feb. 4. had once used it regularly. "We think the furnace went out in about 1995," she said. Today, thanks to thousands of volunteer hours, it has new lighting, signs, wheelchair-accessible ramps and sidewalks, it has been repainted, there are computers in the building, and a massive effort is in full swing to recatalog the museum's muse-um's inventory, take photos of everything, learn and record the history of every item, and then reorganize and refresh the displays. Another major problem is that many people just don't know the museum even exists, said Adams. "Nobody knew what this little white building was," she said. In the past three years the museum has benefited from about $10,000 in grants and donations in addition to volunteer volun-teer hours. Two historic cabins have been added to the property, proper-ty, and Adams's husband, Dan, is overseeing work to restore them. This summer, when the museum opens for two days a week in June, July and August, Au-gust, visitors will find the museum mu-seum has been expanded into f ' " ' P. : ' . . 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"People, especially children, have no idea what the early pioneers had to go through to live here," Dan Adams said. "They basically started out with log cabins because that was the fastest way to get a structure to live in." The cabins now have new shake-shingle roofs and rough-hewn rough-hewn lumber floors, made from Heber spruce cut at a local mill. Rotting foundation logs, called sill logs, in each cabin have been replaced, and new windows and doors are being installed. The cabins, which were recently saved from demolition and moved into a city park next to the museum, mu-seum, are being chinked, and a wrought -iron fence will be put around them this spring before pioneer relics are added to the cabins. The Adamses say they are hoping for an increase in visitors, who may arrange tours by appointment or take regularly scheduled tours this summer. They are also hoping hop-ing to get donations from the community of wrought iron fencing, a pioneer wagon for display, and a box stove for one of the cabins. Herald Continued from Page 1 into the Daily Herald is part of an ongoing strategy to strengthen the company's core daily product while reducing re-ducing costs associated with production and mailing numerous nu-merous small titles, said Herald Her-ald president and publisher Rona Rahlf. "This will greatly simplify our sales programs as well as strengthen the local news identity of the Herald," Rahlf said. "Rather than breaking up news and advertising across several papers, everything every-thing will be in one place." Advertisers will benefit from greater audience reach than they currently have in the North County weeklies, she said. Combined circulation of the five weeklies is about 5,800. but about one-third of those subscribers also subscribe to the Daily Herald, which means redundant costs in newsprint, handling and mailing, mail-ing, Rahlf said. The company will continue to mail advertising to all non-subscribing non-subscribing households in Utah Valley through Savvy Shopper Deals (formerly known as Central Utah Quality Qual-ity Buys). Other weekly newspapers owned by the Herald in Springville, Spanish Fork, Payson and Sanpete County are not affected by the announcement. an-nouncement. The Herald purchased the North County weeklies in 1999 from Brett Bezzant of Pleasant Grove. At the time, the newspaper group was known as New Utah. That purchase was followed by the purchase of the Orem Geneva Times in 2000. The paper was renamed Orem Times in 2007. Recycle Continued from Page 1 In his annual state of the city address earlier in the evening. eve-ning. 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