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Show Holiday Fun Planned For Many Garfield County Communities Final preparations for traditional 4th of July celebrations are underway under-way for most communities in the county where vacationing families are invited to join in the festivities. The American flag will be flying high in towns throughout Garfield County as residents, ever patriotic and conscious of their heritage, proudly display the national emblem. em-blem. A few even continue the traditional tra-ditional early morning flag ceremony. cere-mony. Boulder is holding its celebration celebra-tion on Saturday and has set some exciting activities for the day. Outstanding Out-standing music by "The Blue Grass Conspiracy" will be featured from noon until dark at Anasazi State Park. A parade starts at 4 p.m., featuring Southern Utah University's Univer-sity's popular bagpipe band, the "Scarlet & Black Highlanders." Children's games at the school will follow. A buffet-style dinner will be held at the firehouse at 6, and a youth dance from 6:30 until 8. Capping off the day's activities will be a dance at 9 featuring Boyd Griffin's Grif-fin's Oak Creek Band. Also on Saturday night, the first of two nights of junior rodeo sponsored spon-sored by the Panguitch High School FFA, will start at 7. A second rodeo is set for Monday night at the same time. Events slated include a buck sheep ride, junior ju-nior and senior steer rides, girls and boys barrel races, girls and boys goat tie, pig chase, rabbit chase and bull ride. The little town of Hatch, one of the smallest towns in the county, in the spirit of the holiday.wiil hold its flag ceremony at 7 a.m. at the town hall on Saturday, presented by the Boy Scouts. Children's races and games are set for 10 with free ice cream for everyone at noon. Afternoon hours will be taken up with softball and horse shoes at the park. A potluck dinner is set for 6:30 p.m. and fireworks at dusk. Other communities will celebrate cele-brate on Monday, July 4. Tropic's celebration will take place on Monday, beginning with a 10 a.m. flag ceremony at the scout house at the park, followed by traditional tradi-tional children's races and games. Folks are asked to bring donations for the big bake sale. Eating will be the order of the day, with hamburgers ham-burgers and hot dogs going on sale about 11:30. In the evening at 5:30, everyone will gather again at the pavilion at the park for a Navajo tacos prepared by Sandy and (See July 4lh Holiday Fun Planned On Page 3A) July 4th Holiday From Page 1 Irving Madsen. Proceeds from all the day's activities will be used for improvements at the park. In tiny Henrieville residents will herald the holiday at the town hall with a flag ceremony at 8 followed by kids races and breakfast. Gayle Moore has the details. In Antimony, the county's northernmost small community, the local 4H riding club, "Lonesome Dove," is in charge of activities. They will be selling ''.inch, and organizing activities centered cen-tered around a parade, talent show, kids games and mud volleyball. Ice cold watermelon and fireworks are planned for the evening. Folks in Panguitch will start the day with a kiddie parade at the courthouse. A pit barbecued beef dinner is set for the fairgrounds followed fol-lowed by children's races at the park and a carnival fair. A dance is also planned for the evening. |