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Show Panguitch Clubs Vital To Growth of Community Panguitch dubs play a very big and active part in enriching the lives of the towns society. They contribute to the educational needs as well as the financial needs of the community residents, according to the capabilities of each club organization. LIONS CLUB Besides holding informative meetings the Lions Club also donates money to a number of important and worthwhile projects. In the past they have donated money to the music department to revitalize it; donated $1500 to each the North and South wards toward their assessment to the stake center, given $1,000 to the Garfield Memorial Hospital TV system . presented $900 to a person in town needing medical attention. They helped get the TV transmitters in the Panguitch area and helped maintain them for many years. They help keep the rodeo grounds in good condition and are responsible for the annual race meet. They bought and hang the .Christmas decorations each year. They bring Santa Claus to the county-city courthouse each Christmas season to visit the children of the area. They helped with the glucoma clinic and helped get the AM and FM radio stations in the area. They also helped sponsor the win-terization and water crisis workshop that was held in our area. LADY LIONS Besides assisting their husbands when the help is needed, hold educational and entertainment meetings once a month and assist in the mutton frys held during the summer. They help financially in many of the same projects the Lions contribute to. GARFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL & CLINIC PINK LADIES This group has donated a cart to hold gifts and items to be sold in the hospital with money being used for the benefit of the hospital. They have donated a rocking chair to the mothers room and a toy box to the clinic, built by Gaylene Moore and Mike Owens. They feel if the communication was better between the nurses and volunteer women they could donate more time. Anyone desiring to join the volunteer group can contact June Davis, Anna Pollock, Jerry Patteron or Syble Taylor. AMERICAN LEGION The American Legion Post performs military rites at funerals of veterans. They help transient veterans. They have a child welfare program. It is an organization to help get legislature passed to help veterans. They sponsor boys to go to boys state each year. They present a program on Veterans day at the high school. AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY This group sponsors the girls at Girls State each year. They are the only unit in the State of Utah that sponsors girls from other high schools other than their own. They sponsor Piute, Bryce Valley and Escalante because there is no unit in their community. They also have a child welfare program. They sponsor the Gold Star Mothers tea each year. They sponsor the Veterans Day banquet yearly. They donate cookies and gifts to the veterans hospital. The auxiliary also sponsors the heart fund drive each year. BIG FISH CB CLUB Monitors Channel 21. They give tourists helpful hints as to places Xo go and things to do. They are available for information and emergency help. They hold cook-outs and camp-outs during the summer. All CB'ers are welcome. QUESTERS CLUB A club for young women of the area. They are responsible for the Easter egg hunts in Panguitch, hold a baby contest each year. They help Santa Claus visit the children at their homes previous to Christmas Day. They have at least one service project a year to help assist the lives of someone in the Panguitch area. The Questers hold their meetings once a month teaching the ladies such things as cake decorating, home furnishings, ceramics, cooking, dangers of cancer, childbirth, fashion shows, musicals asnd fun parties and other educational meetings. LITERARY CLUB Helped a great deal in getting the City room ready for community use. They hold a service project each year. They provide cultural activities for the women with good book reports, a good music, poems, art and other forms of culture each meeting. They would like to encourage younger women to join the meetings. They are held on the third Monday of each month at 3:30 in the city building. DAUGHTERS OF UTAH PIONEERS There are two camps in Panguitch and one camp in Hatch. Anyone may join whose ancestors came to Utah before May 10, 1869. A lesson is given that has been prepared by the Central Committee mostly Utah Histories. Some personal Histories are given and a history of one local ancestor is given each month. The 24th of July Pioneer Day's program is presented by the DUP at which time a youth and older person are chosen as I queens to reign over the I celebration. They have a I museum that opens in May and I will stay open through Sept IS. They are open from 4 to 8 p.m. nightly. Hatch has a museum that may be seen by calling either Effel Riggs or Velma Huntington in Hatch. BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S CLUB They donate money to a worthy projects or organizations each year such as the pink ladies and Panguitch City Park. They sponsor a graduate Tea for the graduating high school students. They pay all the expenses. They give a $50 scholarship to an outstanding high school graduate each year. They sponsor a Woman of the Year and a Young career Woman each year. Diane Houston was elected Young Career Women this year with Geneal Jacobson as runner up. Edra Miller was chosen as Woman of the Year. They are a nationally federated club. They have lessons in their meetings that keep the women up with the world. (Continued on Page 10) Clubs Vital To Growth of Community (Continued from Page 4) HOMEMAK1NG CLUB These ladies are in charge of the Cancer drive each year. They are responsible for checking in the articles displayed at the Garfield County Fair. Last year they held a Bicentennial quilt festival. They hold a money making project yearly then donate the money earned to a worthwhile community project. They just bought two Samsonite tables and chair sets and gave them to the Senior Citizens Development Center. Their meetings, which are held the second Wednesday of each month are centered around Cultural and Homemaking aspects. |