| Show - r- Vol ¥M No 23 78 U c'lnesday oi (111k r 23 do your Christmas shopping Friday at the Jayeette Christmas Bazaar Santa will be on hand for the valley tots to visit with him promptly at 2 pm in the old Gunnison Church Lots and lots of handmade gifts and decorations will be available for your selection After Santa's visit to leave your plan our with children babysitting service while do your shopping you the Proceeds from bazaar will be used to purchase additional playground equipment for the City Park A toy raffle will also be held that same day Toys our donated by businessmen are on Gunnison the at display Office News Valley Tickets are 50? each or 3$100 They can be purchased from any Jaycet-tmember or at the bazaar Plan now to attend an afternoon of fun for the kids and peaceful shopping for you Your support of our Valley clubs is appreciated season’s first FIRST snow covered the area with anywhere blanket of the to a from three white stuff on Saturday Nov 1!) Salina a less than (45) of reported precipitation while temperatures a of a low to 20 high of 10 ranged from SNOVV-T- he Gunnison the snowfall contained while tem25 inches of moisture low peratures recorded ranged from a of 21 to a high of 52 The Mayfield area had an unofficial ten inches ot snowfall This wintery scene is in The National FFA bestowed Organization the Honorary American Farmer Degree upon 89 total of 1915 years ex tea c h ng per e nce vocational agriculture They have helped 8872 teaching in 84 states The presentations were made during the 50th National FFA Convention in KanMissouri sas City 1977 November the Of these Degree National Organization's the highest degree American Farmer was earned by 2(15 of their One hundred students ninety eight of their students were elected to state FFA leadership positions onora ry T he Richard vocational C Kjar agricultural at Gunnison Valley High School was one of those honored Kach recipient was presented a certilicatc a and key gold designating the highest degree ot membership m the FFA n s t r u c tors T he honored this year have a teacher students achieve the FFA’s State Farmer American Degree is vocational Farmer limited to agriculture teachers who have demonstrated outstanding leadership abilities as exemplitied by the local classroom and FFA success prog r a m Criteria used to select the recipients include their e a c her training professional service FFA activities and and awards participation in local state and national activities to vocational in education promote agriculture agribusiness The recipients were guests of honor at a dinner Wednesday evening Nov 9 sponsored by Ford Tractor Iperations Troy Michigan John C Johnson General Sales Manager Ford Tractor Operations tor North America Michigan speaker Troy was the guest Wrestling Basketball Conferences Underway basketball Wrestling conand ferences are on the agenda at Gunnison Valley High School for the next week First wrestling match of the season will be held at 2 pm Friday Nov 25 in Gunnison The Bulldogs will take on Manti Basketball season opener will be at home Saturday Nov 26 against Piute The game will begin at 5:45 pm with junior varsity competition followed at pm by varsity action Parents of junior and senior high students may meet with teachers between 8 a m and 4 p m Monday Nov 28 in the The junior gymnasium and senior high students will be dismissed from classes but elementary school students will attend classes as usual 7:80 Jaycees Sell Christmas Trees Get ready for Christmas’ The Gunnison Valley Jaycees are prepared to sell you a beautiful Christmas tree They can be seen and purchased at Allen 85 Dyreng’s residence West 2nd South in Gunnison and at Doug second house liU' Mi AMn I’m li iil Is iir price reduction on the cost of perpetual care of Gun mson Pity Cemetery lots will come to an end on March i 1977 according to citv officials regulates how the fund may be invested Contact for this can be made at the city office or telephone with Camille Nielsen HELP NFFDKD! We need help to find relatives of the following people who have or have had lots in the Gunnison Cemetery Movell EM Jolly Snow MP Fierce FF Snively Peter C Jensen Sena Gjettrup LD Christensen JR SJ Cor- Robinson Jessie J Cain Martin Gunderson Mary E nwall Erick Christensen Ella RobinWangalin son LH Erickson Paul Anderson Ross Richards BS Frome Andrew Olsen AD Dimmick Mattie Dack George Peterson Soren Jensen mil tiilni lolm am E Jensen NC Christensen Erick Pederson J Metcalf Jr Knighton Mary Erastus Olsen Bernard Madsen Hans Nielsen Carlson Marie Johns n Jens Jeppson AG Louisa Larson Caroline Hansen LP Ograin David Bywater NG Kearns James Rasmussen JD Pine Ellen J Brown JN Christensen James Christian Hansen Jergensen Maria Anderson Andrew Bogh These people would not have lived in the valley for many years Their families may have kept in touch with local friends or relatives It you can help us make a connection with members of any of the above families please call Gunnison City Hall or Lions Plan Newspaper Pick-u- p Project t y v- Gunnison Valley Lions Club has found a market for old newspapers and will begin gathering them in the near future as a project The dub is requesting ' mil that valley residents In Richard Kjar Receives Honorary FFA Degree outstanding vocational agriculture instructors Cost Will Hmcrease Greener said According to the plan the reduced price also applies to perpetual care on newly purchased sites and city officials invite residents to purchase lots the March before In February of 1976 deadline Those who Pity Council member have signed contracts for Phyllis Greener who is monthly payments may in the continue to charge of pay the concemetery proposed that tract and will not be afthe then perpetual care fected by the deadline fee of $40000 be lowered However those not on to $25000 as a special incontract will be subject ducement to lot owners to to the raise in Drice pay for the care The The perpetual care fee proposal was adopted on is designed to create a r a plan The council has decided the permanent trust fund from which the earnings price for the care of an lot will go back to are to apply on the maintenance cemetery at least the $40000 so no more yearly fees previously charged by will be charged Inof the first March creasing costs of labor State law requires that and materials make it this trust fund may not be impossible to stay at the used for any other puramount Mrs lower Also the law pose A Way to Fifteen Cents Cemmefteiry Santa’s On His Remember 11177 RaDene Pickett presents $50 check to Marla Hansen EMT President Homemakers Present Check To EMT’s Gunnison Valley Young Homemakers presented the Gunnison Valley EMT’s a check for $5000 to purchase Pres supplies RaDene Pickett gave the check to EMT representative Marla Hansen at their last meeting held Nov 16 Utah That evening Power & Light’s Home members who donated baked goods for the service project When Santa Claus comes to town on Nov 25 the Young Homemakers will have a bake sale along with the Jaycettes’ bazaar Come join the fun that day begin saving and bundling their papers More information on dates and of methods of pick-upapers will be printed as soon as the club can form committees for carrying out the project Many community imhave been provements carried out by the local Lions Club with the aid of such funds and the Club is asking the cooperation in this of all citizens project Economist Advisor Carla Christensen of Richfield gave a food demonstration and talked on conserving the used She energy stove oven refrigerator and microwave to show us tips Special thanks go to Chairman Jo Ann Otten and her committee for the hard work in raising money for the EMT’s Thanks also to all club Fayette Plans Building Fund Dinner Nov 26 A building fund dinner and auction will be held Nov 26 at 7 Saturday pm at the Fayette Ward Chapel Donations will be accepted Bring your own dishes Everyone is invited and strongly encouraged to attend it will be an evening of fun for a very worthy cause Weather Free CO N S E R V N G of an diameter concret® pipe in the Gardner Ditch in Gunnison is nearing completion The $1(10 060 project to replace the open with the buried pipe is being linan-cejointly by a $50 linn grant Irum the t onsei a inn and Agricultural Stabilization scr n e and in Hill mu n ilitih water ri'jlils is taking ( onsli union co oi iiunnison t the 11000 feet ol pipe in the ditch Residents ol the area base exlor the pressed appreciation project which in addition to hcautilNing the is also safer than the neighborhood open ditch Pictured are Lawrence Hansen Ieo Sorensen Standlev Pickett Hal Pickett and Nay Mater saved by the project should be omew here around 80 to to percent |
