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Show Several Days Of Festivities Will Celebrate Utah's 'Pioneer Day9 Garfield County residents and visitors to the area all over the county will gather in several communities com-munities to Pioneer Day Utah's most popular summer holiday. The Monday holiday has stretched to several days of festivities in communities scattered throughout the county. Festivities began in Panguitch on Wednesday with the first of four nights of the Panguitch Invitational High School Rodeo followed by a dances, Thursday through Saturday. All over the county, special activities that include many class reunions will be taking place. Bryce Valley Residents in the three Bryce Valley communities of Tropic, Cannonville, and Henrieville will begin festivities centered around their theme "2000 Celebrating Life, Past and Present" on Saturday in Cannonville at the park with a 7 a.m. flag raising, a 3K walkrun and breakfast. There is a $1 entry fee. Prizes will be awarded to first, second and third place winners in each of eight categories. Breakfast starts at 8 a.m. at the park. Rita Twitchell (435-679-8658) and Marsha Holland (435-679-8987) have the details. Monday's traditional Pioneer Day celebration will take place in Tropic at the park, with floats and entries lining up at the elementary school at 9:30 a.m. for the parade starting at 10. Everyone (individuals, (indivi-duals, families, organizations, businesses, busi-nesses, good friends, everybody) is invited to participate. Steve and Machelle Pollock (435-679-8503) can explain entry details. The traditional holiday carnival starts at 1 1 with races, games, lots of food and prizes. The Pioneer Day event is sponsored by the three Bryce Valley LDS Wards. More information is available from Lori Mecham at 435-679-8761. Escalante Escalante and Boulder residents will celebrate the Pioneer Day holiday together as they traditionally tradition-ally do. On Friday, there will be a dance at the old high school gym from 9 until midnight, featuring "Crossroads." "Cross-roads." Tickets are $7 for singles and $10 for couples. The theme for Saturday's parades is "Millennial Pioneer." The kids' parade starts at 9:30 a.m. and grownups are set for 10. The Griffins will shoot-it-out on Main Street at 11 (that's before "High Noon", folks!) and at 11:30 celebrants will begin lining up for barbecued beef dinner at the LDS cultural hall where you can feed the whole family for $30, or individual adults can eat for $5, children 6-12 for $3 and kids 5 and under eat free. After everyone has rested up, a special Pioneer Day program is set for the LDS Cultural Hall at 2, kids races at Escalante Heritage Park at 3:30, and a carnival at the Escalante Center at 4. The big rodeo starts at 7, followed by fireworks if the weather and the law permit. Hatch The small community of Hatch (See ACTIVITIES on page 2-A) ACTIVITIES From Front Page will have its own old-fashioned small-town Pioneer Day celebration with a flag-raising conducted by the Boy Scouts at 7:30 a.m. at the park where the smell of pancakes cooking from 7 until 9 is expected to lure everyone in town to the DUP breakfast by donation. At 8 a.m., the traditional "Dips Run" gets underway followed by the parade at 9:30 (parade lineup at the church at 9:15). There will be games at the park for kids of all ages at 10 a.m. Afternoon and evening activities include a Softball game for everyone at 2, and a roast beef dinner at 6. Feed-the-family is $20; adults, $5 each, kids 12 and under, $2.50. There will be fireworks at the park at dusk. Panguitch Panguitch will have completed for full days of activities and a special fireside on Sunday evening before the official Monday holiday rolls around. Festivities began on Wednesday with the first evening of the (See ACTIVITIES on page 4-A) ACTIVITIES From Page 2-A Panguitch Invitational High School Rodeo followed by a country western dance and rodeo video replay at the fair building, setting the schedule for the next three nights, with the rodeo starting at 7 each evening. The Panguitch 2000 All-School Reunion held in conjunction with the rodeo and Pioneer Day festivities will fill the city with former residents and old school buds. Reunion registration starts at the old Panguitch Drug on Main Street Thursday morning at 10 a.m. and on Friday morning at 8:30 where an historical slide presentation presenta-tion and memorabilia display starts at the same time both days. Rodeo events (slack) begin at 10 on Thursday. Jackpot team roping starts at 9 a.m. on Friday and a Dutch oven cookoff is set for 11:30. At 5 p.m., a junior prom formal and (See ACTIVITIES on page 8-A) ACTIVITIES From Page 4-A tuxedo gala will take place in the parking lot at the new Panguitch Drug. Following the night's rodeo, along with the Country Western Dance, at the fair building, a Reunion Dance, with Purple Sage featuring music from the 40' s through the 70's, will take place at the PHS gym. Saturday's activities include the Pioneer Day Parade, starting at 9 a.m., the Craft Fair from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Social Hall, a Daughters of the Utah Pioneers program at 1 1 a.m. at the LDS State Center, and a deep-pit barbecue at the fair building at noon. Tours of Panguitch Historic Homes will be conducted from 1 until 5 p.m., kids races and games will take place at the baseball complex, and "Panguitch Pride," an All-School Reunion Extravaganza is set for the PHS gym at 3 p.m. Again, in the evening following the rodeo, there will be two dances, a Country Western at the fair building and a Reunion Dance with Purple Sage at the gym. Rodeo tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for children, with an all-performance all-performance pass for adults, $15 and for kids, $9. Dances are $5 per couple and $3 per person. The barbecue dinner is $5 for adults and $3 for children and the chuckwagon breakfast $4 per person, or $16 for immediate family. |
