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Show 467 T E ALT 300 LAKE 31 Dec ASSN PRESS UTAH S CITV , HI 93 84111- - Dty The Voice of Sanpete Valley Volume One Hundred MT. PLEASANT, UTAH 84647 - July IS, 1992 Number Price 506 Twenty-Nin- e Fountain Green plans Lamb Day events by Jessie Oldroyd FOUNTAIN GREE- N- Delicious Lamb Day sandwiches, entertainment, games and prizes will be part of the annual Lamb Day celebration, Friday and Saturday, July 17 and 18. Reigning over this years events are the Lamb Day Royal- ty, Queen, Janae Olsen, daughter of Steven and Candy Olsen; first attendant, JoAnne Syme, daughter of Clayton and Helen Syme, and second attendant, Jenny Jacobson, daughter of Wendell and Melba Jacobson. Festivities begin with the lamb Friday. Lambs will be judged at 2 p.m. and exhibited in pens all day Saturday before auctioned off. Calvin being Baird, Rowen Monsen, Steven Olsen, Bryan and Susan Allred and Annette Hansen will be show chairmen for the event. A youth talent show will be held at 7 p.m. Friday. Other Friday activities include a mens softball game and a dance for all ages from 9 p.m. to midnight. Dance music will be provided by "Intense Country." Also Friday, pits for the lamb barbecue will be prepared at 8 near the flag pole. There will be three fun mn categories: the 5 K, e fast walk, and Lamb Scram for kids 12 years of age and under. Prizes, trophies and ribbons will be awarded. Chairman is Yvonne Hansen assisted by Elaine Anderson. two-mil- p.m. On Saturday, events will begin with the fun run. Registration begins at 6 a.m. and the run starts at 6:30 a.m. at the park A flag ceremony will be held at 7:30 a.m., followed by a chuck wagon breakfast from 7 to 9 a.m. under the direction of Dorothy Cook and her committee. The program featuring Fire on the Mountain will be held at 10 a.m. Mens softball games will be held all afternoon under the direction of Wendell Jacobson. The mammoth parade starts at 1 p.m., followed by activities, entertainment, games, food and prizes and the famous lamb sandwiches, all at the park. Dancing to music by "Mirror Image," will conclude the celebration at 9 p.m. Popular bluegrass singers to perform in Lamb Day program by Jessie Oldroyd FOUNTAIN GREE- N- "Fire on the Mountain," a country bluegrass group, will be featured during Lamb Day, Saturday, July Fire on the Mountain will be featured during the Lamb Day program, Saturday, July 18 at 10 a.m. They have performed on radio and television, and for such people as U.S. President Ronald Reagan, the King of Norway, the Prime Minister of Israel and the 18, at 10 a m. U.S. Ambassador to Finland. The band was Band members include Martin originally formed as an official Lewis, Michael Jensen, Mark Rick Mark performing group for Brigham Geslison, Davis, and Young Universitys International Curtis Miner. Watts, Folk Dance Ensemble. Members, Martin Lewis, of Provo, which have been together for vocalist and fiddle, has played four years, have traveled to the violin since age 12 and the numerous states and various fiddle since age 20. He toured foreign countries. In 1988, the with BYU and received his bachband participated in the opening elors of music and education in ceremonies of the summer Oly1988. He teaches at Spanish Fork Intermediate School. mpic games in Seoul, Korea. Michael Jensen, Newark, Calif., bass and vocalist, has played the piano since age 13 and the bass for the past six years. He was a member of the BYU barbershop ensemble that participated in five international folk He graduated from festivals. will be the mens softball tournaBYU and served an LDS Mission ment at 8 a.m. at the ball park. to Japan. Play will continue all day. Mark Geslison, Spanish Fork, starts at 9 The mini mandolin, vocalist and guitar, has a.m. at Skyline Mountain Resort been the e winner of with swimming, biking into numerous state and national Fairview. contests. He toured with the BYU American Folk Ensemble. He is set A horseshoe tournament graduated from BYU in Spanish for 10 a.m. at the Lions Park. and music, and served an LDS A mutton and sour dough Mission to Mexico. dinner will start at 1 p.m. Rick Davis, Walters, Ok., Entertainment will be provided at 2 p.m. by the Fellingham Family banjo and vocalist, has played the has This banjo since age 12. He also pergroup Singers. formed a variety show toured with the American Folk Ensemble and is a graduate of around the country. At 5:30 p.m. will be the ATV BYU with a degree in communications. He is a private Pulls at the rodeo arena. The 8th annual demolition banjo instructor. He served an derby will be held at the rodeo LDS Mission to Brazil. Mark Watts, Salt Lake City, arena. Trophies and prize money is the Utah Fiddle Champfiddle, crowd A of will be awarded. ion. He also ranked high in the over 3,000 is expected. e "Junction 89" will provide the U.S. Weiser Natonal Id. He Fiddle Contest at Weiser, music for the dance which will be is the senior at held at the old dance hall design engineer for 9;30 p.m. Evans and Sutherland, Salt Lake City. He is a graduate of University of Utah, and has a masters degree in He served electrical engineering. an LDS Mission to Colorado. Curtis Miner, Orem, guitar, bass, and vocalist, has played bass and guitar since age 14. He is a student at BYU and is a computer aided design specialist. Fair view festivities begin Saturday horses work together to team a certain number of cows in a pen. The horse parade will be held at 6 p.m., Thursday, July 23, on Main Street. Trophies will be awarded in four categories. Following the parade at 7 p.m. in the rodeo arena, Sann petes popular band, "Junction 89" will perform. FAIRVIEW Beginning with the third annual mud volleyball tournament, Saturday, July 18, this community will begin a week-lon- g celebration in honor of the coming of the pioneers to Utah on July 24, 1847. The event will be held in the rodeo arena at 10 a.m. Finals will be held Monday, July 20 at a 5 p.m. in the arena. Trophies will be awarded. A special patriotic program is planned for Sunday, July 19, at 7 p.m. in the Fairview First LDS Ward. Dr. Gail Madsen, a Fair-vienative, now living in Colorado, will be the guest speaker. melodrama will be on tap Tuesday, July 21, at 8 p.m. on the elementary school stage when the North Bend Entertainers perform, "The Shame of North Bend, or Dirty Works at the Lucky Cuss." Team penning will be on Wednesdays schedule at 8 p.m. in the rodeo arena, riders and country-wester- The Clegg Championship rodeo will begin at 8 p.m. A second night of rodeo is scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday, July 24. July 24th events Fridays events, July 24, will start with a big bang when Phil Murray and the fire department set off a big blast at 6 a.m. n A fun run, beginning in and ending at city hall will precede the firemens breakfast at 7 a.m. Other events include the flag raising at 7:30 a.m. at Lions Park by the boy scouts: a program by the DUP at 9 a.m. at the Second- - w ed Mil-bur- Third Ward Church; and the childrens parade at 10:30 a.m. The Miss Fairview Royalty Shelley Sherman, Tara Coates and Camie Church will reign over the mammoth parade which starts at 11 a.m. Trophies will be awarded to participants of both parades. The EMT beef barbecue will begin at noon at the Lions Park. A carnival is planned. Entertainment will be provided by the Bareback Band starting at 1:30 p.m. The popular group has performed throughout the western United States. A hobby and craft show will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. at the senior citizens center and the o Rodeo for kids Little 12 and under starts at 3 p.m. entertainment at 7 p.m. will be by Ludawn and Soundquest. The rodeo follows at 8 p.m. Buck-a-ro- Pre-rod- Saturday, July 25 Opening Saturdays events first-plac- top-rat- ed Old-tim- James Ivory James Ivory to be FG grand marshal FOUNTAIN GREE- N- Life- time resident, James Ivory, will be the Grand Marshal of the Lamb Day parade. He will be driving his almost antique John Deere. Ivory has served for 23 years on the Lamb Day committee taking charge of the lamb pits and lamb barbecue. He has also served for eight years on the city council and was instrumental in Continued on page 3 Fairview Museum receives large donation from Eccles Foundation FAIRVIEW The Fairview Museum of History and Art restoration and building project will move forward thanks to a large donation by the George S. and Delores Eccles Foundation. Fairview City, project sponsor, and the museum board received word Friday that the Foundation is contributing $100,000 towards restoration and rebuilding of the project. This will allow the city and to proceed with the $800,000 project. The Eccles donation can be used as the defeasance or collateral deed to repay the $400,000 loan from the Community Impact Board. Fair-vievoters approved the other interest-fre- e $400,000 in a revenue bond election last September. The bonds will be repaid at an annual rate of $20,000 over 20 years by Fairview property owners. Curly Swensen, director of the museum, expressed his gra museum w titude to the Eccles Foundation for its generous gift and concern for the benefit of the people of Fairview. "Not everyone and especially small towns like ours, get donations like this," he added. Swensen said the board of directors has worked hard to make the entire project a reality. "This donation will now make it possible to bring the two funding packages together so we can move forward on the entire project," Swensen said. He also expressed his thanks of the community who have given their support and understanding and for sticking with us, regardless of negative criticism and opinions, to get the job done. Swensen expressed his gratitude to the many volunteers who have donated time whether five hours or 500 hours to the museum "We could not have done this without the si.nnort " to the many people Vem Fisher, a member of the of the CIB, that the museum board or the city does not have to go back to the board, but needs to provide the CIB with a letter stating that the funds are now available. The CIB extended the dead-lin- e from January to August to building. it museum board to come up studies indicate allow Preliminary may cost less to build a new with the defeasance funds which building than to remodel the old will be used to repay the building. It has been estimated $400,000 CIB loan. that to bring the building up to Speaking for Fairview City, seismic codes will cost over Mayor Jerry Hansen said, "the museum board and the city have $170,000. Fisher worked directly with worked hard and close together Foundation Director, Lisa Eccles, on the project." and also with the CIB and bondHe explained that the first ing attorneys to bring the project will be to the restoration priority funding together. Future plans include exhibit of the north building which will of the wiring, space to house a replica of an include upgrading and adding a heating ancient mammoth which was plumbing rooms will also rest New under uncovered four years ago system. be added. the dam at Huntington Reservoir. "During the next few weeks, The museum also needs space for will decide how we want to we additional exhibits. forward with the rest of the move a Fisher said that following project, " the mavor said. conversation with Sherrill Clark museum board who was instrumental in putting the funding package together, said the board and city will finish its study on whether to remodel the south school building or build a new The Bareback Country-Wester- n Band will perform on July 24 at 1:30 p.m. at the Lions Park as part of Fairviews Pioneer Day PoloUfin taAM |
