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Show Sanpete crafts available If youre looking for beautiful crafts, take a tour through Sanpete County starting in Fountain Green with EweNique Gifts and meander into Mt. Pleasant which has two stores. The Craft Coop and Farmers Floral displaying various items. In Ephraim stop at Sanpete co-o- p Sampler, the newly-restormere where members of the Workers are nearing completion of the Ephraim Square project Sanpete Trade Association have which will become a center for the promotion of and viewing of art. loaded the building with many It will also be a sales gallery for Central Utah artist and workshops items. will be offered by established professionals. The gallery will be open In Manti youll find Country in June. The building is located south of the co-o- p building in a Cousins and Antiques Etc. restored relief society stone granary which is listed on the National Sanpete craftsmen have turned to making craft items to sell both in Register of Historic Buildings.' and out of the county to increase their family incomes. Ephraim Among them is Mary aagard. Fountain Green, who began making co-o- p dolls about four years ago. Her interest grew when she decided to teach porcelain doll making and studied under fine instructors. also makes Mrs. The old mill is open for public Aagard by Ida Donaldson The second phase of the Eph- tours at the Scandinavian Festival, replicas of all the Utah LDS raim Square Project, the restoration Temples in porcelain which are of the 1871 United Order Co-o- p Building, received the "go ahead" in 1990 with the acceptance of a proposal from Ephraim to the Community Impact Board for about $360,000. Half will be given as a y back grant, and the other half as a r, loan with an agreement that private funds will be raised to secure the loan. hand-mad- e HCoq 22, 1991 Tin Vifmmii sold at Mormon Handicraft in Salt Lake City and at the Sanpete Sampler in Ephraim. Some of the dolls you see at the Rtwaiuw Guidt Pay Sanpete County Fair are made by classes. girls in Mrs. Aagards The girls have won blue ribbons in the county and state fairs. 4-- H ed Restored building becoming tourist center no-pa- hi Money received from private sources will be used to purchase government securities to pay off the loan in the period. The proposed plan will include the completion of the annex on the Building, the parkEphraim Co-o- p lot, ing granary, and landscaping of the area in between the granary and 20-ye- ar Co-o- p. is a major The Ephraim Co-o- p tourist attraction since the comple-- j tion of phase one which included the conversion of the main floor of the old mill which is being used by the Sanpete Trade Association to have handicraft shops, booths and I work areas on the floor and repair I work. Phase one also included new windows and doors and painting. The entire project involved the rehabilitation of three century-ol- d buildings on a Main Street comer: 1 the three-stor- y old mill, an adjacent I stone house and the Relief Society I granary. The exteriors of the old mill and the attached stone house Ihas maintained, as far as possible, Itheir original appearance. The top floor of the old mill vill become a social center where neetings, seminars, banquets, receptions and similar events will held. The three floors of the old mil will be connected by a period into Irior stairway. I The interior of the old mill will lalso preserve, as far as practical, jits pioneer appearance in keeping rith the projects historical I EPHRAIM CHAMBER of COMMERCE 20-yea- Spokesmen for the business and professional community Innovators for itBUILDING Fitteac A BETTER EPHRAIMw Liason for governmental and civic agencies Organized for economic development |