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Show By GARY R. BLODGETT News Editor BOUNTIFUL -- It's going to be a great weekend to stay home and enjoy Bountiful's annual Handcart Days celebration. SO INSTEAD of going into the hills with the throngs of vacationers, remain at home and join the thousands of south Davis County residents resi-dents who will be taking in the musical production, produc-tion, parade, concessions, cultural and arts show, melodrama, race, chuckwagon breakfast break-fast and free swimming being offered as part of the traditional Handcart Days festivities. (See daily agenda, Front Page). Six days of events actually began Tuesday with a softball tournament that will climax with the championship game on Monday. Games are being played at Bountiful Park, 150 W. 500 North, and at Rocket Park, 1300 East Center. A NEW, and original musical production, "Pioneers, Plums and People" - which features fea-tures historical events dating back to the arrival arriv-al of the Pioneers to the present day saga of the Floods of 1983 -- will be presented free to the public tonight (Wednesday), Thursday and .Saturday. The musical production, featuring a cast of 350 local residents, will begin at 8 p.m. nightly at the Woods Cross Musical Center (formerly Valley Music Hall). PRE-SHOW EVENTS will begin at 7 p.m. which will include demonstrations of Mountain Moun-tain Men; making of pioneer candy, bread and butter; quilting; weaving and move. Samples of the home-made products will be provided to all who attend. (See separate story about production, above). BOUNTIFUL'S traditional Handcart Days parade will be held Friday, starting at 6:30 p.m. at 1200 South Main and proceeding north along Main Street to 400 North and 100 West (City Park) where it will be disbanded. Concessions, games for all age groups, sporting events, band concert, cultural and arts display, and exhibits will be available at City Park following the parade and lasting until 10 a.m. MOST OF the rides, concessions and sports events will be staged at the City Park while cultural arts exhibit and displays will be in the National Guard Armory adjacent to the park. A 10-killometer run will be held Saturday at 7 a.m. pre-race registration will begin at 6 a.m. at the National Guard Armory. The race will begin and end in an area between Bountiful Junior High and the Armory. ALSO KICKING off Saturday activities will be a chuckwagon breakfast being served from 6 a.m. until 10 a.m. at two locations -- Bountiful Bounti-ful Park Bowery and Woods Cross High School. Family and individual tickets will be available at both locations. Food for the breakfast is being sponsored by Winegar's Supermarkets, Inc., which will provide pro-vide sausage, scrambled eggs, hotcakes and a drink. Cost is $1.50 for adults and $1 for children chil-dren under 12 years of age. AN ESTIMATED 8,000 people are expected to be served at the two locations. However, because of the two breakfast sites, lines and waiting time are expected to be much shorter than in past years. A musical melodrama by the Bountiful Community Com-munity Theatre will be presented at 100 West Center Street on Friday, at 8 p.m. PRESIDENT Richard Eyre will be guest speaker at an LDS Church fireside on Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Woods Cross LDS Regional Center. The only activity to be held in conjunction with Handcart Days on Monday will be the tournament softball games which will be held throughout the day at Bountiful Park diamond. SPECIAL events scheduled over the weekend include dedication of the new Val Verda Arch at 3100 South Orchard Drive on Saturday at 10 a.m. and a skydiving and precision preci-sion landing demonstration Saturday noon at Bountiful City Park. Rendell N. Mabey, prominent Bountiful civic, church and political leader, has been named Grand Marshall of the parade. He has been involved for several years im promotion of Bountiful July 24th activities. THE PARADE will feature various entries of individuals, groups, floats, posses, marching bands, musical groups, and of course, the traditional tra-ditional clowns. Bountiful Jaycees and Jaycee Women will host an auction for Muscular Dystrophy on Saturday at 3 p.m. All proceeds will go to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Past auctions auc-tions have raised $2,500 to $3,000 and more is expected this year, according to Jaycee officials. |