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Show A Blanding plans Frontier Days Jones or Hugh Kirkham. A fast pitch softball tournament will start early in the Bland ings annual Frontier Days celebration will be held the first week in July, with a full schedule of activities climaxed on Wednesday, July 4, with the annual parade, and a full program of other events. Chairman .of this years Frontier Days is Jerry Westring. The annual parade, scheduled for 10 a.m. the morning week, with the championship game to be played at 5:30 p.m. on July 4. A Bruce Dillon concert is scheduled for the evening of Tuesday, July 3, at the San Juan High School auditorium, starting at 8 p.m. Other July 4 activities will of Wednesday, July 4, will have include a hill dumb for jeeps at 2 p.m. at the old rodeo grounds; swimming events; concessions; kiddie contests; pie - eating contest; greased pig contest, and many other events. Many of the contests will be at the baseball field. Activities July 4 will begin with the presentation of colors in a ceremony at 6:30 that morning at the airport, followed by a breakfast served by the Lions Club, also at the airfield. A horse race is scheduled for 4 p.m. that day at the old rodeo grounds. as its theme This is My Those wanting to Country. have an entry in the parade should contact either George Fair cancelled San Juan County apparently will not have a county fair this year. The county commission said recently that the fair thus far has generated no interest, and sufficient interest has not been displayed in recent days to warrant holding the fair, they said. Although there will be no general county fair this year, there will be some special events and competitions during August of interest to everyone in the county. The Junior Livestock competition and sale will be August 15. On August there will be a horse show and horse games, if enough people come forth to handle both events. The Fair and exhibits 17-- 4-- A Wilderness meetings set 18 Two public meetings called by the San Juan County commission for the purpose of forming effective opposition to wilderness designations in the San Juan area will be held this week and next in Mont-icel- lo and Blanding. The meetings originally were scheduled for last month, Commission Chairman but E.S. Boyle said this week that it had been impossible to compile all the necessary information by that time, and the H Sentenced meetings were rescheduled. The first meeting will be tonight, Thursday, at Montic-ell- o High School auditorium, and the second will be Tuesday, June 26, at San Juan High School auditorium in Blanding. Both meetings will start at 8 Farmington, New Mexico, man was sentenced last week in Seventh District Court inMon-ticel- lo to years in the Utah state prison for aggravated A watch country of San Juan beckons the visitor to shadows and clouds the-ever-changi- sit a spell and Photo by Alvin Reiner . 1-- 15 sexual assault. The defendant, Elmer Wesley Hayes, Jr., 36, had entered a guilty plea May 17. The incident took place last November 3 when a Moab teen-ag- ed girl working in an all night market said she was forced into a car by a man and raped in a remote' area' of San Juan County, south of Moab. Journal chronicles pioneers trek to county This journal is an imaginary one. The dates and events as well as the names of the people were taken from several sources. It Recounts the adventures of those who took part in either the exploratory party or what is known now as the Hole in the Rock party. During the next year we hope to give you the account of the events that ended with the founding . of both Bluff City and the huge San Juan County on April 6, 1980. As I turn the pages of the journal that my grandfather kept of the record of the days events ever. since he was a teenager, ! remembered the stories that he and my father had told me. Suddenly something struck me: I was reading of events that took place ' just 100 years ago. There were the lists of names of those who were called for this as yet unnamed mission, but that was later called the San Juan Mission. These were the hardy pioneers who, on April 6, 1980, founded both Bluff City, as William Hutchins named it, and San Juan County. We pick up the journal in its tenth week: Sunday, June 15: Meetings and Sunday School were held in the camp. Monday, June 16: We contin- ued to work on the dam. The closing length went out to- wards night. Tuesday, June 17: Worked on the dam this morning. This evening we went to the Mitchells place to attend a wedding. Miss Clara M. Mitchell and a Mr. Williams were married by a Presbyterian minister from Maricos, Colorado. Wednesday, June 18: We orseveral parties toganized day. One to explore the country upstream and go for supplies. Another was to explore the country near the Blue Mountains, and a third was to return to Moencopi for the loose stock that had been left there. Before they left we drew lots for the land that had been located and agreed to work on a cooperative basis thru the season, explorers and farmers to share alike. From now until the middle of few enAugust there are-very tries in the journal. The party that went after the stock returned with the families that had been left at Moencopi 'in about three weeks. The party that went to the Blue Mountain came in with a favorable report. The ones that were left at of activi- week, organizers of the celebration said this week. will be August 17. More information on these jeyents will conaeJrom the Extension office. Interested owners and competitors horse should contact Jim Stevens for information or to volunteer for those events. Canyon full schedule ties will be announced next the camp gave up and moved to Montezuma Creek where a fort was built when the river fell to such a low level that it was impossible to get water in the ditch. One entry is interesting: Friday, July 4; A celebration was held today. Elizabeth Harriman had made a flag. The blue came from her little girl's dress, and ZechariahB. Decker had contributed his underwear. All joined in the celebration. The Indians were especially interested in the display of guns and shooting. Friday. August 2: A baby girl was born to James L. and Elizabeth Davis, the first white child born in the San Juan Mission. So we leave you now until August 18, when we prepare to start back to report our findings and lead the main mission to the new country. . -- p.m. Commissioner Boyle said commission members will have maps, overlays and other documents, to show the effect of planned wilderness designations in this area. We want to show the people exactly what this wilderness designation will mean to our county, and we want to organize resistance to the governments plans, he said. The San Juan County commission has gone on record as being unanimously opposed to some of the proposed wilderness designations. Commissioner Boyle said this week that one of the controversial points in the wilderness designation issue is the definition of a road. We maintain that if a drive vehicle can go on then its a road, the comit, but the missioner said, Bureau of Land Management has a different definition. Mr. Boyle said that the commission would display at the meetings photographs of roads in areas where BLM says there are no roads. Those attending the meetings will be advised as to how to contact Utah senators and representatives to express their opposition to the wilderness designations, the commissioner said. four-wh- eel |