Show Send Entries in For Saga of The e an i c This is a time for re remember remember- ing Spring and early summer with graduations Memorial Day visiting with friends from years past at cemeteries and class reunions all bring their own nostalgia Most of us have visited cemeteries recently with dates on markers reaching as far back as the earliest settlers of these valleys and we remember the first settlers came to Manti Just two years after the first emigrants reached Salt Lake Valley From the vantage point of now it seems a short time until many of the towns in had been incorporated irrigation companies had been formed and the citizens had worked together in many ways to improve their lot They built homes schools and churches and by the turn of the century the Temple in Mantl Manti was 12 years old Sanpete Stake Academy had outgrown its it's limited borrowed facilities and a campus with buildings belonging to the school was planned If we look at those days in terms of only the years that have passed it might be easy to forget the great strength of those people and the dedication dedication dedication dedi dedi- cation sacrifice and hardship Increased by sickness plagues famine drought Indian troubles troubles troubles trou trou- bles with which they laid the foundation for what we now enjoy in Sanpete Stories of some of those early settlers will be recorded again this year in the 1973 edition of the Saga of the There is just one more week before the closing date of the contest Remember send your entry to Box Ephraim before June Additional copies of the rules are available available available avail avail- able from committee members |