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Show Address Service Requested Presorted Standard U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 11 Gunnison, UT ECRWSS GGUNNISON±AtLEY e e aeet V‘aotereexat# Weeivizafteit 8 110111!19 t f Thursday, June 27, 2013 Volume 9 • Number 26 3229 2 Copy Price • One Dollar Childs to serve as Grand Marshals in Gunnison parade by ANITA LYONS For information on participating in the Gunnison 4th of July parade, call Gunnison City Hall at 528-7969 or Jeremy at 528-3060 Donations for the 4th of July Auction can be taken to Gunnison City Hall or can be picked up by calling Yori Ludvigson at 435-773-7180. This year's proceeds are going to the new bathrooms at the high school football field. Miss Gunnison Valley Pageant Sat June 29 • 7 pm @ GVHS Auditorium Gunnison 4th of July Celebration July 3 & 4 @ Gunnison Park Relay for Life Aug 2 & 3 Senior Citizen Lunch is served Mon - Thur @ Gunnison City Hall Email items for What's Happening in Gunnison Valley to gazette(agtelco.net or call 528-5178 Knowing a recounting of their abundant life could take all night, Janet Childs accelerated interview conversation by summarizing a lifetime of church service: "Jay has been in six different bishoprics and on the high council; we both work at the temple; we've been on two missions; and I've been in Relief Society and Primary presidencies." Jay and Janet will ride together in the Grand Marshall float for Gunnison's Independence Day parade this year. Aside from service in church, the couple has served in the Jaycees, Lions club, and Senior Citizens groups. They currently volunteer at the prison. Their chosen careers were service oriented too. He taught school, and she was a nurse. The couple were both born in Gunnison Valley, Jay in Gunnison, Janet in Axtell. He was the youngest of four children and the only boy born to Newell and Wanda Childs. She was the oldest of three daughters born to Carlisle and Louise Sorensen. Jay grew up helping his father on their farm, west of Fayette and the Sevier River in a place they called "Westview." There they raised cattle and the crops to feed them, as well as trucked livestock. When Jay graduated from high school, he went to Utah State and earned a degree to teach agriculture because, he quoted his mother, "You're not going to be just a farmer." When the Ag teaching job at GVHS was given to Richard ourtesy oto Jay and Janet Childs, surrounded by their children, will be this year's Grand Marshals at the Gunnison 4th of July parade. Kjar, Jay went back to school at BYU, where he earned a degree in elementary education, and he spent 30 years teaching 5th grade at Gunnison Valley Elementary, from 1964-1994. Summers he worked various jobs to support the family: construction, built fences on the mountain, and owned Sugar Valley Machinery. Janet remembers pumping water out of the well and heating it on the old coal stove in her childhood home in Centerfield. "There was no electricity or running water in our home until I was nine years old," she said. She also remembers pumping (with her hands) the treadle of the sewing machine to give her seamstress mother's legs a rest. When she was 12, her family moved into the Victorian house that still stands just north of Gunnison Market. While in high school she met Jay at a mutual dance. It was love at first sight. School dances were held every Friday night, and the couple danced the waltz and the foxtrot, but especially loved the jitterbug. The family recently celebrated their 60th anniversary, and Jay's 80th birthday. They were married in the Manti temple January 16, 1953. The couple has ten children, 5 of whom live in Gunnison Valley. Peggy (Ken Peterson) in Bountiful, Jannie (Brent McClellan), Steven in Arizona, nna yons unnison "a ey azette Jay and Janet Childs. See GRAND MARSHALL, Page 7 Gunnison Stake to present patriotic fireside by ANITA LYONS Gunnison's celebration of Independence Day will begin this Sunday, June 30, when Hospital Administrator Mark Dalley speaks at the patriotic fireside. "I don't have too many opportunities to pay tribute to my dad," said Dalley, so when Stake President Greg Rosenvall asked him to tell his father's story at the fireside, he couldn't say no. Dalley's father, Frank, served in both World War II and the Korean conflict. "My dad never talked about it," said Dalley, "I only knew a little about one battle he was in, from seeing a news article." In 2001 a 50 year reunion for the 215th Armored Field Artillery Battalion was held, and Danny Roberts, who had served in the unit, became head of a committee to record the battalion's history in film. Roberts interviewed veterans, both Ameri- ourtesy oto Mark Dailey, who will be speaking at the Gunnison Stake's patriotic fireside, stands by a photo of his father. can and Korean, to make the film. "I appreciate Roberts for pulling this together," said Dailey. He said when he saw the film, "I learned things I never knew about my dad's experiences. I realized I knew nothing." The unit, made up almost entirely of men from Southern Utah (Dalley's fa- they was from Summit), "had some pretty remarkable experiences." Dalley will show the video at the fireside after telling some of his father's history. "President Rosenvall reviewed it and felt like it was appropriate," he said, "It's a touching story." The fireside will begin at 7 p.m. in the Stake Center. ourtesy oto The Miss Gunnison contestants with the current Miss Gunnison: McCall Grajek, Breeann Lambertson, Yiesel Perez ( this year's queen) and Madelyn Christenson. Miss Gunnison Valley Pageant to be held This year's Miss Gunnison Valley Scholarship Pageant will be held this Saturday evening, June 27 at 7 p.m. at the Gunnison Valley High School auditorium. The emcee for the evening will be Gunnison's own Court Hardy. Hardy is the pharmacist at Gunnison Family Pharmacy (formerly Jensen Drug). He is best known for his upbeat and helpful attitude and his desire to make people look forward to visiting the pharmacy. His passion for helping people to get and stay healthy has endeared him to the community. He was born in Plano Texas and raised on the eastern bench of the Salt Lake Valley in Holladay. After graduating in 2008 from the University of Southern Nevada, now called the Roseman University of Health Sciences, Hardy and his wife Lindsey moved to Washington, Utah where he See PAGEANT, Page 7 PRE-SEASON AR CONDITIONOV6' WE! 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