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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Thursday June 18, 1981 - Page 3 Booths, a parade, rodeo, fireworks, motocross, ball and pancakes for Pioneer Days A fun weekend is in store July 24 and 25. Dr. Gerald Miller, chairman of Monticello Pioneer Days activities, announced the plans at the Moiticello Chamber of Commerce business meeting Tuesday. Pioneer Days events will really begin on July 17 with the judging of the queen contest. The contest is being directed by Cindy and merchants will be sponsoring candidates and proBur-tensha- w, beer, herb teas, juices .T-shi- rts The LDS Church will sponsor seven to nine booths featuring returned missionaries. Each missionary will tell about the country he visited with food samples, native articles and examples of traditions as illustrations. viding prizes. Friday morning, July 24 at 10 a.m., the parade will begin. Every LDS ward is planning to enter a float, as will civic groups and businesses. Pearl Lewis is in charge of the parade and Jackie Palmer is in charge of the kidd.e parade. Around noon, the carnival in the Arita City Park will begin. Sparks and the E.S.A. sorority are coordinating the carnival. Seventeen booths are registered. Food booths will sell Navajo tacos, sloppy joes, hot dogs, Kool-Ai- d, baked goods, homemade root sc f. The San Juan Record will hold contest called "Names and It will be a guessing game using the enlarged baby pictures of prominent men, women and teenagers in Monticello. Faces in the News. Ideas for booths are still being accepted and there is no charge for registering. Contact Arita Sparks at home or at Redds Motors. Electric power for booths will be available. Robert Levreault, a local musician, will be performing in the pork during the carnival. i ill l Ll CT. Crow Canyon CHUCK WAGON Southwestern Grub Western Folklore and programs Music and stage shows By 303-565-89- and pickles. Other booths include x ring toss, fish pond, quilt raffle, and hats kitchen items, and rock art information. reservation only 75 Cortez, Colorado Paul Redd is organizing games for children. Games are planned to include a greased pig contest, chicken chase and sack races. David Bronson is coordinating a and a 3 -- mile run. For the le Run for Jackie Palmer will be in Fun, charge of the adult section and Connie Allred will be in charge of the childrens section. Everett Johnson is in charge of organizing a motocross and he is presently looking for a place to hold this event. Anyone who can be of help in find.ng a site for what was a very popular event last year is urged to contact Johnson. : half-marath- on one-mi- The rodeo, sponsored by the Lions Club, is scheduled 1HC :o be- - gin Friday at 7 p.m. There will be a dance after the rodeo, scheduled to begin around 11 p.m. After the program, there will be a fireworks display supervised by Bruce Adams. Saturday morning at 6 a.m., the Lions C lub will hold a pancake breakfast in the city park. Chamber President Rick Terry announced to the members that watering restrictions in Monticello had been lifted. Terry said that the mountain springs are producing more water than ever before, and diat the intake at the reservoir is now 1700 gallons per minute. Sometime Saturday morning, a softball tournament, coordinated by Bruce Adams and Doug will begin. The tournament is still in the scheduling stage. A second rodeo will be held Saturday afternoon. El-dre- ge, At 8:30 p.m., the LDS Church wiU give a musical program on the football field at the high school. The choirs from all four wards will sing patriotic numbers and Montezuma CreekBlue Grass is tentatively scheduled to appear. Next weeks speaker will be Wayne Ross of Intermountain Health Care. The public is invited to the Tuesday noon luncheon at Hogies and anyone interested in the future of Monticello is invited to join the Chamber and help the city grow. director reviews county health program Wayne Ross, director of Intermountain Health Care, met with the commissioners to review the new health planning commission, entitled San Juan Health Care. The Commission has representatives from the hospital, nursing home and emergency care who help set policy for health in the county. The executive committee is Arlow Freestone, administrator of the hospital; Rayburn Jack, administrator of the nurs ing home and Ross. The board has organized the ambulance groups into organizations, is forming a foundation to raise money for health care, is looking at plans for a new B landing Clinic, is exploring the pos- sibility of a physical therapy program, is consolidating mental health, and is studying an alcohol rehabilitation program. The boards immediate prob- lems are concerned with roofing problems at all of the healthcare facilities, a July 1 salary increase for health workers, boiler room repairs at the hospital, and the possible loss of five patients at the nursing home in July because of Medicaid cuts. The commissioners and Ross debated at length the kind of health care that should be available in Bland ing. Ross wants to purchase land across the street from the nursing home to build aclinic with an emergency room, equipment and laboratory services. The commissioners felt that since Blanding has decided to deed the X-r- ay land around the nursing home to the county, and since the home al- ready has a staff, maintenance crew, and heating system, it would be more economical to build the clinic as an addition to the nursing home. Concerning financial matters, Ross reported that for this fiscal year the hospital will breakeven, the nursing home will be close to the budgeted $116,000 loss and the ambulance service will lose about $500. The commissioners requested that Ross report to them more often so they will be better in- formed, and that the health board study the adequacy of ambulance service in the county. Vote for Water is a Vote for the Future for BOTH a RESERVOIR in MONTICELLO and a NEW HIGHWAY and a BIG RESERVOIR in RECAPTURE CANYON These projects are endorsed by Monticello and Blanding Chambers of Commerce |