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Show Family Festival Program Set In conjunction with Utah Valley Family Month, a program "Family Festival" will be Saturday, November Novem-ber 4 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at the Provo High School auditorium. "The purpose of the Festival is to honor families nominated for last year's Utah Valley Family Month," said Virginia Cutler, chairperson. "Talented families such as the Osmonds will perform musical numbers. num-bers. Gov. Matheson will also be present to tell about the proclamation declaring November as Family Month Mon-th in Utah." A $10 per person donation is asked as admission to the program. "The purpose of the donation is to fund the 'Family Monument' statue to be placed on the southwest corner of the Utah County Square across from the Provo Tabernacle in downtown down-town Provo March 2, 1979," Mrs. Cutler said. "The sculptor, Avard Fairbanks is from Payson and is noted for his work throughout the world." The Festival program consists of: the George Osmond family (Utah Valley Honorary Family of the Year 1977-78); Gov. Matheson; Keith Melville family and Merril Oaks family of Provo; Phillip Jones family of Payson; and the Ronald Lee family of Orem. A king-sized quilt of the "Family Monument" will be auctioned to the highest bidder during the program. 'Ticket sales are made by representatives in LDS wards in Utah Valley," the chairperson said. "Everyone in Utah Valley is welcome to attend." The sculptor, Fairbanks, is an 81-year-old artist from Payson. One of his well-known works among Mormons Mor-mons is the monument "ATragedy at Winter Quarters" which depicts two pioneering parents looking into the grave of their infant son which died during the arduous trek west. He also sculptured the busts of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon which can be seen at the Salt Lake Temple LDS Visitor's Center. "The eight-foot-high monument will be placed on a pedestal five feet in height," Mrs. Cutler said. "Information "Infor-mation about family life in Utah Valley will be placed in a box inside the pedestal." The material inside the box will consist of biographical information about 1977-78 Utah Valley Family of the Month nominees; biographical information in-formation about 1977-78 Utah Valley Family of the Month nominees; biographical data about all the "Utah Mothers of the Year," from Utah County; a book that lists all the donors to the monument; newsclip-pings newsclip-pings about the monument; and reasearch data about family life in Utah Valley in 1978. "There is no projected date to open the box," said Mrs. Cutler. "However, I hope that it would be opened in 25 years." The Saturday "Family Festival" has been endorsed by the Utah Valley Public Communication Council and donations toward the monument are therefore tax deductible the chair person noted. |