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Show Page 26 - 11.1 994 Pyramid Recreation Guide - May Fairview Museum has mammoth project ments, tools and spinning wheels, the mammoth exhibit was obin addition to rock and mineral tained from the Permanent Comcollections. munity Impact Board through The building was originally a bonding by the City of Fairview. grade school, constructed of Half of the funding is covered by quarried stone in 1900, and a loan made possible by a donadesigned by Richard Watkins who was an important early Utah tion from the George S. and architect. The museum itself was Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, 1988. founded in 1967 by Lyndon and the other half is covered by the not fossilized, Though the citizens of Fairview by a skeleton was surprisingly well Graham and Golden Sanderson. for The in was It tact. $800,000 and general obligation bond. expansion preserved temporarily stored in facilities at the Univerof Utah, then transported to a sity facility in Price which was capable of preserving it. Molds were made of the bones so fiberglass and resin copies could be made, Moroni Feed Company re- states turkey and egg industries one of which was purchased by mains one of the largest employ- face sizable cutbacks. the museum because of its close ers in Sanpete County, stabilizing Joseph Nielsen indicated that proximity to the discovery site. and banks the are reluctant to lend money furnishing economy The museum will be open delectable turkey meat to millions to businesses that have a good around Memorial Day through Americans. of year, then a bad year. October, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monis appreciated so much Turkey "Theyre good time bankday through Saturday, and from in Utah that Governor Norm ers," one turkey grower com1:30 to 6 p.m. on Sundays. 1991 mented. June proclaimed Bangerter Visitors may call the museum Turkey growers agree that at or Director Carl as "Turkey Lovers Month." is up because of the the of consumption Copies proclamation to arrange Swensen at of to C. were variety turkey available. Years Joseph presented special tours almost any day of a homemaker had to purof ago, the year. Tour guides are avail- Nielsen, Ephraim, president chase a whole turkey and some... Moroni Feed Company. able during the tourist season and The proclamation noted that times had a difficult time being by request at other times of the "turkey contributes to a nutrition- creative enough to use all of the year. al, diet; the turkey meat. The museums third annual is a major economic Today turkey is deboned at industry lace day is set for July 12 and force in Utah; Utah is a major the Moroni plant and the raw will feature lacers from Wheeler of turkey productsfor meat is shopped to the Moroni Farms who will demonstrate provider the nation and several foreign Feed Company plant in Salina lacing techniques. Various kinds countries." where it is made into turkey of lace will be on display, includhas steaks, ground turkey, turkey consumption Turkey ing new and antique lace made increased 126 percent from 1975 roll, turkey roast, turkey sausage, by Sanpete residents, and Manti to 1991, with per capita con- smoked turkey, cooked and roastTemple lace, as well as other sumption climbing from 8.5 ed turkey ham and hand work. to 19.2 pounds during pastrami. pounds On display are miniature that time period. Turkey is then shipped to carvings by museum Pounds of turkey meat pro- Pace Stores and Price Clubs in the late Lyndon Graham. Art Utah and California. Consumers work by Ella Peacock, Theodore at find it easy to prepare and enjoy Moroni were cessed Plant the Wassmer, Lee Bennion, B. F. down from accordone smaller portions and greater ago, year . Larsen, Max Blain and Sandra to Moroni Plant ing Manager variety. , Johnson, among others, grace the David Bailey. The plant proThe company hatches its own exhibit halls. cessed 71.5 million pounds in turkey eggs produced at breeder Other works of art include 1991 compared to 72 million farms in Juab, Washington, sculptures by Avard Fairbanks pounds in 1990. Sevier and Sanpete counties. and a Native American collection One of the reasons production From breeder farms, the eggs go of pottery and basketry. will be lower is that poultry to the company hatches and then A collection of over 2,000 producers, as well as all areas of to brooder coops where they are pioneer artifacts includes agricul- agriculture, cannot obtain capital, local farmers on feed grown by ture machinery, early imple Without a source of credit, the produced at the companys feed mill. The Fairview Museum, located at 85 North 100 East in will soon be undertaking an expansion to house a replicated skeleton of a Columbian mammoth found while excavating under the Huntington Reservoir Dam along Skyline Drive in Fair-vie- climate-controll- ed Sanpetes turkey industry sustains economy -- j, FAIRVIEW Of HISTORY - 427-927- 2, ; AND ANT "TI"L HOME TH LOVE AND 427-921- 6, MUSEUM SHRINE DEVOTION ft well-balanc- ed oven-prepar- The Fairview Museum of History and Art, 85 North 100 East, will soon construct a facility to house a replicated Columbian mammoth skeleton, excavated along Skyline Drive in 1988. ed . The term "skyscraper" was first used to describe the high Home Insurance Build- erected in Chicago in 1884. m8 ten-sto- ry TERREL'S THRIFTWAY Utah - Mt. Pleasant, 0PEM: Monday - Saturday 7 a.m. 462-2?2- 2 -- 10 p.m. CUMMISOM THRIFTWAY Gunnison, Utah - 52-206- OPEN: Monday - Saturday Sunday 0 7:20 a.m.-- 9 p.m. 9 a.m. - p.m FULL LINE GROCERY PIZZERIA DELI & BAKERY IN-STO- RE We Accept BO JMj Saturday, July 11 has been designated as free fishing day in Utah. On that day only, according to officials, a license is not required. All other laws and rules remain in effect, however. Sky advertising was introduced Amenca m 1908 when a plane flew over Broadway towmg a box tate ngged with a dummy on a Among red deer, the male is called a hart, the female, a hind advertlsinS ba?ner traPezfd and their offspring a calf. a . For all your summer food and recreation needs see us first!! Free fishing Veterans remembered American flags wave every Memorial Day weekend and Veterans Day along Memorial Drive leading to the Mt. Pleasant City Cemetery in a joint effort by American Legion Post No. 4 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9276. Last year 182 flags were displayed, each commemorating the life of a loved one who served in the military through donations of family members. Their number grows each year. The event is gaining national and worldwide notoriety, and was filmed by the Korean News Service and photographed by the National Geographic Society last Memorial Day. EPHRAIM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE dn Znbiaim, And am |