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Show G Address Service Requested Presorted Standard U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 11 Gunnison, UT ECRWSS GUNNISON±ALLEY *met ‘6.oteraeaft '12eeo04ftex i Volume 7 • Number 47 hag C IA-Z.11W (CD 21 alleS Gunnison Senior Center will be closed Thur Nov 24 for Thanksgiving Free Movie Matinee Sat Nov 26 • 3 pm @ Casino Star Theatre Gunnison Valley Christmas Light Parade Sat Nov 26 • 6 pm Gunnison Main Street starting at 300 South and heading north to the park. Santa will be at the park to visit with the children. Entertainment and hot chocolate also! For parade info contact Jeremy Vincent @ 528-3060. Lunch is now served at the Gunnison Valley Senior Citizen Center Weekly Mondays thru Thursdays Email items for What's Happening in Gunnison Valley to aazette@gtelco.net Thursday, November 24, 2011 Copy Price • One Dollar kick off the Christmas season in Gunnison The Christmas season is once again upon us and there are several ways to get things started in Gunnison Valley. The activities begin Saturday the 26th with a free matinee at the Casino Star Theatre starting at 3:00. The movie will be Rio and is sponsored by the Gunnison Valley Businessmen. Just before the movie the first weekly drawing in the "Gunnison Give Back Give Away" will be held. See page 2 of the Gazette for all the details in this promotion by the Gunnison Businessmen. Then on Saturday evening at 6:00 the annual Christmas light parade will begin. The parade route will change this year in hopes of making things a little easier. The parade will follow the same route as the Fourth of July parade. It will begin at 300 South and head north on Main Street to 300 North where it will make a left turn and go around the block and end at the Lions Pavilion in the park. The kids will then be able to visit with Santa in the Lions Club building where they will receive a bag of candy donated by the Lions Club. There will also be a mail box there where the kids can drop off their letters to Santa (please include a self-addressed stamped envelope if you want an answer from Santa). sion, therefore, is to educate about the cultural particulars that make the area important locally, within the state of Utah, and to the nation. "Several 'cultural landscapes' have shaped life and lifestyle throughout the heritage area. Two of those — agriculture and cooperative experiments — are well-illustrated by Sanpete's turkey industry," says MPNHA Executive Director Monte Bona. The turkey is so important to Sanpete that a museum exhibit about the bird is currently under development at the Fairview Museum of History and Art. "I don't' know anything that typifies Sanpete more than turkeys and tenacity," says Suzan Rasmussen, the exhibit's creator. The idea of the exhibit, Rasmussen says, is to "use the turkey as a lens to focus on the creativity and the tenacity of the Sanpete people, who will do anything to keep their land and feed their families." The turkey industry, in fact — combined with good old-fashioned pioneer-style perseverance (some would call it downright Sanpete stubbornness) — to some degree • b. ) 1"11111 - 1444‘ " Waif 411 i l fitiMilli7.01110111& 41 ar en me Santa in last year's Christmas light parade. There will also be free hot chocolate and entertainment at the Lions pavilion beginning just after the parade. Saturday is also Small Business Saturday. This is a national movement held to encourage consumers to shop at smaller local businesses instead of at big box stores. As of 2009, locally owned businesses contributed 48% of total national retail revenue— down from 59% in 1990. There Turkeys: Thanksgiving's symbol has specW place in Sanpete County MORONI—Sanpete County has a singular place in the rich agricultural heritage of Utah, and Thanksgiving is a perfect time to recognize it. In fact, there's a fair chance your Thanksgiving turkey came from Sanpete, since the county is home to the Norbest turkey production plant. The importance of turkeys in Sanpete — not only to the county's economy, but also to its heritage and lore — is illustrated by Utah's Commissioner of Agriculture and Food, Leonard Blackham, who was himself a Sanpete turkey grower from Moroni, where Norbest is based. "From an economic point of view, in our little valley of Sanpete it [the turkey industry] is major. It's the largest industry, and the largest private taxpayer," Blackham says. "In Sanpete County, being called a 'turkey' might not be positive — but it's certainly not too negative," he says. Sanpete County is within the Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area (MPNHA*), which celebrates the history and culture along U.S. Highway 89 in central and southern Utah. Part of the MPNHA's mis- 2 is little doubt that the eateries, salons, clothing stores and pet shops scattered among America's neighborhoods need to stay afloat in order to keep the community tax base healthy and its citizens employed. aufA ruson1117:ey azette With this in mind most of our local businesses will be having sales and specials to kick off the Christmas season. Let's all have a great Christmas season in Gunnison Valley! Rifle raffle Wooer ar • en me unmson Ta ey azette saved Sanpete. Turkey-raising was not originally among the agricultural efforts of the area's Mormon pioneer settlers of 1849 and years thereafter. By the 1860s, turkeys were kept as a yard animal to control insects. In the early 1920s, individual farmers experimented — somewhat successfully — with commercial turkey production. In 1923, Benjamin Brown and three others formed the Mark Pickett, with the American Legion Post #104, presents Steven Buchanan the rifle he won in the Legion Rifle Raffle. Roland Christensen (right) of Christensen Arms, generously donated the rifle. The rifle is a Christensen Arms 243 Winchester carbon one custom bolt action rifle and is valued at just over $2000. According to Pickett, the rifle raised over $2500 which will go towards the new Veterans Memorial. Thanks to all who participated in this worthwhile project. See TURKEYS, Page 4 1-LZL - ez9 • uospune `LIT.10N 00Z iseAA 1.9 • •oo weweldwi uospuno aps Aapsoupoi uom I Ez JaquiawN Appsoupahl lAVGI °la °44 5! fiool. ja40.6 eve enogbitioage sanieA easeetsej |
