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Show Pioneer Day Celebrations Set Throughout Garfield County Garfield County communities are preparing for the summer's biggest holiday weekend with Pioneer Pi-oneer Day activities taking place throughout the area. Antimony will celebrate on Saturday, Sat-urday, July 24, with breakfast at 9:30 a.m. at the LDS church, pioneer pi-oneer activities that will include a taffy pull and blacksmith shop at 10:30, and at noon, a bakery, horse and wagon ride and pioneer games and relay races. BoulderEscalante activities will start on Friday in Escalante with a dance featuring the "Virgin River Band" starting at 9 p.m. and ending at 1 a.m. at the old Escalante High School gym. It will be $5 for singles sin-gles and $8 for couples. On Saturday, a kids' parade will start at 9:30 a.m. , with the main parade set for 10. Five-year-old Feliesha Kay Owen, "Miss Elko, Nevada,"and winner of several Nevada Nev-ada state honors, will be featured in theoarade. A noontime dinner will get underway at 1 1:30 a.m. at the LDS church, $20 per family and $5 per person. A special program is set for 1:30 p.m. at the church following dinner, and at 3 p.m., a carnival and races will be held at the ball field. Nighttime activities will feature a rodeo at 7, followed by fireworks at dusk. The three Bryce Valley communities commu-nities will celebrate together, with all proceeds from activities and advance ad-vance rodeo ticket sales to area Boy Scout troops. Festivities begin on Friday night with a dance at the Henrieville fire station. Featured band will be "Dance Express." Tickets will be $5 for couples and $3 for singles. On Saturday, all activities are scheduled for Cannonville where breakfast at the park will start the day at 7. Floats will start lining up at 8:30 at the LDS church, with the parade set to start at 9. At the park following the parade, pa-rade, children's races and games will be held, along with activities for the adults: horseshoes, volleyball, horseback riding competition, musket mus-ket loading, and quilting. There will be a special .performance by the Bryce Canyon Cloggers, and lots to eat including hamburgers, hot dogs, soda pop, scones, sno cones; and cotton candy. Mud volleyball is set for 1:30 p.m., then everyone will head for the rodeo at Rubys Inn. where fireworks fire-works will follow the rodeo at dusk The tiny town of Hatch will hold an old fashioned July 24 celebration, cele-bration, the last remaining community commu-nity in the county to start its festivities festiv-ities with the traditional early morning flag raising by the Boy Scouts. A parade is set for 10 a.m., followed by races and games. There will be a softball game at 2 p.m.. Dinner is set for 6 featuring pit barbecued beef with all the trimmings. Dinner tickets are $20 a family, $5 for adults and $2.50 for children under 12. Fireworks are planned for dusk. Panguitch Homecoming will be held in conjunction with three days of celebration centered around Pioneer Pi-oneer Day. On Thursday at 7 p.m., the first Panguitch Invitational Rodeo will be held, followed by a dance featuring featur-ing "Stampede" at the county fair building. At 10 a.m. on Friday, there will be jackpot roping at the fairgrounds, fair-grounds, a library fund raising bazaar at the old SUE building and quilt bazaar at the old Sears. Once again in the evening at 7, the rodeo gets underway, followed by a dance at 9, with "Stampede" at the fair building. Saturday's fun will start at 6:30 a.m. with an outdoor breakfast at 1st east and Center streets, a parade at 10 a.m., starting on 1st south at the Panguitch High School Gym, going west to Main Street, north on Main Street to 4th North and back again to the high school. A Daughters of Utah Pioneers program will beheld at 11 a.m. at the LDS Stake Center, followed by a barbecued dinner at the fair building. build-ing. At 2 p.m., there will be youth activities at the high school athletic field. The evening's fun will center around the High School Invitational Rodeo Finals set for 7. Capping off several days of fun in Panguitch will be a final dance to "Stampede" at the fair building. |