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Show 'Future Rockhounds' Slate Initial Show The "Future Rockhounds of America" will hold -their First annual gem and mineral show May 3, 4 and 5 at the Social Hall in Panguitch. "Future Rockhounders" are students from Panguitch Middle School and Pangultch High School who will participate with help from their parents in sponsoring the gem and mineral show. A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held May 3 at 9:30 a m. and the show will be open May 3 and 4 from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. and May 5, the final day, from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. There is no charge for admission to the show but students are offering tickets for a $1 donation which will be used toward the grand prize, a beautiful wood burl table, to be awarded at 6 p.m. on the final night of the show. Exhibitors will arrive from all over Utah to participate in the show and their fine collections will be displayed in special cases for the public to view. Local students will also be exhibiting gemstones they have cut and polished since forming their organization at the beginning of the school year. Elementary students will show their rock "critters" which will be numbered for the public to vote on their favorites. A "wheel of fortune" game will also be a special feature at the three-day event. A turkey dinner will be offered and the snack bar will be open with all proceeds from food sales to go to the Panguitch High School scholarship fund. Food chairman is Mrs. Art Evans, PTA president, assisted by student chairmen, Michelle Linford and Heidi Hepworth. Donations are being soliciated: salads, cakes, pies and other food items. Those willing to help should contact Mrs. Evans or one of the student chairmen. Thursday morning's ceremony will open with an invocation by Panguitch Middle. School principle Earl Roe, and with boy scouts from Virgil Anderson's scout troop presenting the colors and leading the pledge of allegience. Barry Erickson will sing the national anthem and Panguitch city manager Bruce Fullmer will welcome visitors to Panguitch and participants in the gem and mineral show. He will be followed by Steve Marshall, Panguitch Chamber of Commerce president. Three field trips will offer unique opportunities to rockhounders who are expected from throughout Utah. Friday's field trip to Orderville to hunt for septarian nodules will be conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cropper. Participants will leave at 8 a.m. from the social hall and should take lunches for the all-day trip. Saturday's trip to the Monroe area will be conducted by George Proctor to hunt for nodules of obsidian and manganese. The group will leave the social hall at 8 a.m. and should bring lunches. On Sunday, rockhounders will head for Circle Cliffs an approximately 120-mile trip, tq search for petrified wood. They wfl' leave the social hall at 6 a.m. and should plan lunch. There Is no charge for any, of the field trips and those participating in the Sunday excursion may choose not to return to Panguitch and head home from the Circle Cliffs-Boulder area Bill Niebel, who conducts, daily classes for the students oh a volunteer basis in the school district's lapidary arts center, encourages everyone to support' the students' first large-scale project, their First Annual Gem and Mineral Show. |