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Show Communities Join For Pioneer Day Celebration Activities TROPIC Henrieville, Can-nonville Can-nonville and Tropic joined forces for the second consecutive year to celebrate July 24. All three of the Bryce Valley communities contributed con-tributed liberally with time and effort ef-fort to create a success for the holiday holi-day celebrants. The festivities started with a breakfast in the Cannonville park which was well attended. One of the reasons for the attendance was that Tropic Fire Chief Pat Pollock drove PW X tfctf' 04tW" '&f& V -' f rj&4t , j Murky water didn't deter these Bryce Valley youngsters from trying to catch small fish the big Tropic fire truck around town at 7 a.m. with the fire siren wide open. Since the town of Tropic has a bowery and was able to accommodate accommo-date the two huge nylon canopies the main events were staged there. The dinner benches were taken from the bowery and placed under one canopy that covered the cemented area between the bowery and the scout house, while the other canopy was set up on a small knoll where bare-handed during the Bryce Valley Pioneer Day celebration. ( celebrants could sit, watch, and visit. Concession tables were set up in the bowery. All was in readiness for the midway events following the parade. As in all traditional parades in the Bryce Valley area Boy Scouts led off with a display of the American Ameri-can flag, followed by floats, beribboned bikes, horsemen and anybody that had the parade spirit. Most of the floats depicted the pioneer pio-neer spirit of the area and extolled basic American ideals. Concessions were manned by people from the three towns and the turnout was good. Over 450 people took advantage of the fun holiday that brought families back to their home town. There were log sawing contests, black powder shooting, fish grab, darts, races and a lot of different games. Celebration officials said that this year's sale of foods and goodies tripled last year's sales but that sales volume was not a consideration considera-tion for the event, since the focus was on fellowship. Under the bowery were small steaks for sale, scones, hamburgers, cotton candy, hard candy, sno-cones, sno-cones, popcorn in several varieities, watermelon, soda pop, pastries and bake sale items. Many people sat under the bib canopy and "just plain visited," as one coming-home-person said. One of the high points in the festivities was an authentic Indian group. The Fremont Indian Dance group from the Fremont State Indian Indi-an Park between Highway 89 and I-15 I-15 on 1-70. All the costumes were made by the individual dancers and were authentic. Most of the music was composed by the members of the dance troop. There were afternoon programs and a mutton fry in the evening. The celebrators went to Henrieville1 for a live music dance at the Henrieville Hen-rieville fire station. Most agreed that if the celebration lacked anything, any-thing, it was more time to spend getung reacqainted with the visitors and former Bryce Valleyites. |