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Show s . .- " "' . Y;": Talented Alana Davis displays plaque she received from the Panguitch Business Women's organization when the group named her its "Woman of the Year for 1993." PBW Names Alana Davis "Woman Of The Year 1993" PANGUITCH Talented Alana Davis of Panguitch was named "Woman of the Year" for 1993 by the Panguitch Business Women's organization. Honored for her generous donations of time, energy and creative artistic talent of which she has given so graciously to the community, she was presented with flowers and a plaque recognizing her "outstanding achievement in community com-munity service." Alana was born in Areata, Calif., to Hal and Vera Olsen and moved to Panguitch at age 4. She is a 1970 graduate of Panguitch High School. She married Dennis Davis a self-employed brick mason, in 1972 and they are parents of four: Bobby, 21, living in Alaska; Colby, 18; Kip, 17; and Misty, 7. Her community service has included in-cluded making scenery, backdrops, costuming and creating many character char-acter figures such as a hippo, pink panther, giraffe, gingerbread house, a large flag and a statue of liberty. For the past four years, Alana has designed and executed the backdrops back-drops for the PHS Bobettes drill team presentations, and, for all four of those years, Panguitch has captured cap-tured first place honors in their novelty routines. for which her backdrops were created. Alana says the Bobettes and their advisors tell her what type costu.es they will be wearing and sometimes play the background music for their novelty routine and from there, Alana's imagination just goes to work. She has lots of praise for her long-suffering family. The backdrops back-drops take days, even weeks, at a time to design and to make, during which her family and house "really suffer," she says. "Thank heaven," she says "that Dennis has learned to cook." When the elaborate projects are underway, "I've just learned to stay out of her way!" says Dennis. Eighteen-year-old Colby can take a large part of the credit for the successful projects, Alana says. He helps to gather cardboard, paper and materials, to transport the large backdrops to performances and set them up. "He even repairs broken wires in moving parts of the backdrops," back-drops," says Mom Alana, and "his technical assistance I could not do without." Some of the backdrops have exceeded eight feet in height, she said. Asked if she'd majored in art, Alana said that artistic talent is in her bloodlines. Both her parents were artists, as are all five of her brothers and sisters. Her hobbies include oil painting and ceramics |