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Show Quitters Donate $240 A beautiful quilt display at the old Sears Store was the highlight of the Panguitch July 24th activities. One hundred sixteen quilts handmade hand-made by Panguitch ladies, their mothers, their grandmothers and great grandmothers was a sight to behold. Every type of quilt imaginable imag-inable was on display, many were very old with at least three of them dating back to the 1800s. The quilt show was the idea of several Panguitch ladies who have wanted to do this since the last quilt display back in 1971 at the Social Hall. They wanted to raise money for the new Long Term Care Facility Facil-ity and that they did. There were 737 people who registered at the display and through donations alone they were able to present me with $240 toward the new facility. Thank you to everyone who took part in the display by allowing us to share your quilts. Thanks to those who spent time setting up the displays and attending to the registration regis-tration desk. Quilting is an important impor-tant part of our heritage and I appreciate appre-ciate your efforts in helping to preserve pre-serve and share that heritage. Dennis Moser Panguitch |