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August 2019MEETING SCHEDULE & OFFICE HOURS

City Council Thursday, August 1 at 7:00 p.m. Planning & Zoning Meeting Wednesday, August 28 at 6:30 p.m.

All meetings are held in City Hall (45 South 100 East) and are open to the public. City Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

CITIZEN OF THE YEAR RECOGNITION

We are pleased to report that as part of the Pioneer Day celebration, the first Citizen of the Year award was granted to Courtney Syme. Courtney was nominated due to his tireless efforts to establish a committee to promote, and work to raise the necessary funds for, and to then construct, the Spring City Veterans’ Memorial. The entire project was completed and paid for within a year’s time (although Courtney and the Committee are continuing with improvements to make the monument even more beautiful). Under Courtney’s direction and leadership, this ambitious project became a beautiful reality, a wonderful addition to our city and a permanent expression of gratitude to all who sacrificed for our country. Thanks for all this well deserving first Spring City Citizen of the Year has done for us.

DUP NEWS By Carla Nelson

July has been an amazing month. We are all blessed to live in such a beautiful, free country. Here in Spring City we have just celebrated our Pioneer Heritage and those who have gone before us. We all have

our part to play as we move forward; each of us is making memories. This month I would like to say thank you to three special people who make it possible for us to have our museum open through the summer months - Kathy Ragner, Ed Greenmun, and Jim Fleming. These individuals volunteer their time each week. We could not share our museum without them. The best part about memories is being able to learn more about all those who make our blessings possible. We also thank all of you who have donated artifacts that make the museum more interesting. We are grateful for daughters and associates who take many visitors on tour of our city and share our history. We are proud to live in Spring City.

PIONEER DAY EVENTS AND WINNERS

We just finished a very successful Pioneer Day Celebration in Spring City. We had great participation in al our events and a variety of activities to participate in for children, teens and adults. Thank you to everyone who made the celebration such a success. We especially appreciate the support of the Mayor and City Council as well as all the city employees who worked so hard to have everything ready for us to use.

We appreciate the efforts of Lurlynn Potter in organizing the parade. The parade winners for this year were: Best overall: Flemming Family; Audience Participation: North Sanpete Marching Band; Best Use of the Theme: Birch Creek Ranch; Most Innovative: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. Cheryl North was in charge of the 2nd Annual Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest. We had over 70 participants this year, and here are the winners: Ages 3-5: First Place: Lucy Jones Second Place: Colin Stoehr Third Place: Paige Ann Hansen Ages 6-9: First: Lizzy Allen Second: Payton Griffith Third: Jayleigh Newton Ages 10-12: First: Daniel Jenkins Second: Rachel Jenkins Third: Sage Meyer Our 5K/1Mile Race Winners are: 1 Mile: (1) Wylee Allred; (2) Eva Shiumway Boys/Men 5K: Ages 6-11: (1) Kyson Bowles; (2) Braxton Allred Ages 12-20: (i) Orange Peel; (2) Levi Bowles Ages 21-30: (1) Ben Jones; (2) Layne Cook See Winners on Page 2 for more Results.

PARADE NEWS Lurlynn Potter reports that this year's parade was well attended. The streets were lined with people thrilling at the Army National Guard, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, the Sanpete Marching Band, lots of beautiful royalty, floats, horses, and a total of 44 fun entries. Even though Smokey Bear was called away and could not attend, we had a great turn out. Grand Marshals for our parade were Bob and Margaret Olsen. It was delightful to hear Bob playing some old folk music from his repertoire of over 200 songs. Lurlynn has been organizing this parade for 4 years now, and is sad to say that she needs to step away from this fun service due to family health issues. Lurlynn reports that she loves this town and has enjoyed being involved in the parade. She says “Thank you for the opportunity to "clown around" and serve you at the same time.”

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Ages 31-40: (1) Josh Dimick; (2) Chad Jones Ages 41-50: (1)Mike Bowles Ages 51-70: (1) Ray Miller Girls/Women 5K: Ages 6-11: (1) Billie Bowles Ages 21-30: (1) Katelyn Ripplinger Ages 31-40: (1) Melinda Jones; (2) Fawn Bowles Ages 41-50: (1) Sue Poulson; (2) Lorrina Allred Ages 51-60: (1) Karen Lewis; (2) Shannon Mickel Ages 61-70: (1) Jyll Okelberry This year’s celebration also included the First Annual Corn Hole Tournament. It was an overwhelming success. We had 30 plus adult teams and 8 teenage teams participate. Plans are already in the making for an even bigger and better tournament for next year. Thanks to Selicia Mackay and Tracy Kummer for organizing this fun event. Adult Winners: (1) Cornhole Nelsen (Steve Cornelsen & Dennis

Nordfelt); (2) Canned Corn (Alan Kendall & Clay Snow); (3) Double Baggers (Josh Westergard & Steven Lewis) Youth Winners: (1) Shut Your Cornhole (Kadience Allred & Ashton Olson); (2) Hard Core Corn (Preston Madsen & Tyler Allen); (3) Big Bag Theory (Braden Olson & Andy Allred)

BLUEGRASS AND FOLK FESTIVAL AUG 2-3

Don’t miss the Spring City Bluegrass and Folk Festival, to be held on August 2 and 3. This is a great opportunity to hear some top rate bands and musicians and enjoy a festival atmosphere. On Friday, August 2, admission to the music festival will be $10 for locals and their friends when they come together (one day tickets are otherwise $15). The Festival will also feature a vintage automobile show, on the City Ballfield, from 9 am to 4 pm on Saturday, August 3. Admission to the car show is free. As a result of the festival and car show, the Spring City Park and Ballfield will be closed to the public on August 2 & 3.

ANNUAL PAINTING COMPETITION AND ARTIST

STUDIO TOUR - AUG 31 This year’s annual painting event promises to be bigger and better than ever. Talented artists will be painting our beautiful landscapes beginning on August 24, and will exhibit their works on Saturday, August 31. You can see their work and hear announcements of the winners at a reception to be held Friday, August 30, at 7 pm at the Spring City Arts Gallery. The artists will be competing for thousands of dollars in prizes, and their work will be for sale to the public at the end of the event. August 31 also marks your annual opportunity to visit the studios of our amazing local artists. This is fun chance to get to know them better and see how they work.

ANNUAL BARN DANCE AUG 31

We continue the annual tradition begun by the Schroeder and Janke families years ago. This year’s barn dance will

take place at the Anderson Barn, at 390 South 100 West, from 7 to to 9 pm on Saturday, August 31. We will enjoy music by Union, the Snow College Commercial Music Ensemble, and some great food. We invite attendees to bring a food item to share.

COMMUNITY DOINGS by Jane Hawkes

August Community Classes

Our Community Classes continue in August on Thursday evenings at 7pm at the Old City Hall City council room at 150 East Center Street. Classes are open to the whole community August 1 — CERT Training August 8 — Health Bag Distribution August 15 — Garden Tour August 22 — Art of Bartering August 29 — How to Use Radio Frequencies

Food Storage Outlet The Food Storage Outlet is open from 6-7 each Thursday evening.

Police, Fire and Emergency Perhaps you saw our Spring City Citizen Corps and Fire Department Communications Trailer on Pioneer Day at the SE corner of the Old Church parking lot. It has the capabilities of Solar Energy for GMRS Radios. It will be used as a Central area for Communications by the Fire Department, CERT teams in Disasters/Emergencies, finding Lost Children, and any other local emergencies that we may be called upon to handle. I understand that our Volunteer Fire department members excelled in their handling of the fire in Hidden Valley, by being extremely well trained concerning structure fires. Kudos to them.

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UTAH SUMMERS Coming to Appreciate Our Stimulating

Extremes of Climate By Randal B. Thatcher

Growing up in Utah, I always had something of a love/hate relationship with summertime. On the plus side, no school; but, on the minus side, the heat! There are hotter places on the planet, to be sure; and our hot season is gratefully devoid of the sticky humidity of certain other hot locales. But still... This aversion to the blistering heat of a Utah summer certainly factored into my decision to migrate up to the less extreme climates of the Pacific Northwest for 30 years. So, after resolving, six years ago, to finally return to my native state of Utah, I knew I would again be subjecting myself to these hot Utah summers. And, while they’re every bit as hot as I remembered, I’ve also found places of refreshing respite, just as we had as kids growing up in this hot, desert state. And these cool dips, here in my new Sanpete environs—whether into a canyon creek, a reservoir, or a neighbor’s private pond—have become fond reminders of those gleeful plunges of yore—into a muddy irrigation canal, or the murky pond at the local golf course. I can fondly recall, while cycling in the cool of an early summer morn, those carefree bike rides of my childhood, of the sweet smell of sagebrush, or the lilting song of a Meadowlark, and of that unmistakable smell of wet asphalt immediately after a cleansing summer cloudburst. And these memories combine to get me to wondering whether my childhood summers in Utah were really as miserable as I’d remembered them. Or, if maybe those hot summer months had, instead, been uniquely formative. It was in this frame of mind that I recently picked up Willa Cather’s novel, My Ántonia, and read, in the introduction, her ode to her own formative years on the plains of Nebraska. She spoke of “the dust and heat, the burning wind,” and what it’s like “to spend one’s childhood...under stimulating extremes of climate: burning summers when the world lies green and billowy beneath a brilliant sky, when one is fairly stifled in vegetation, in the color and smell of strong weeds and heavy harvests...” And her suggestion that, “no one who had not grown up in a little prairie [or desert] town like this could know anything about it.” Well, Willa, I do know something about it. And so do many of you, who were lucky enough to grow up in this high desert state of Utah, “under stimulating extremes of climate.” The experience has helped make me the person I am. And unless you are a transplant from milder climes, it has likely done the same for you. And so, until autumn brings her cooler temperatures, you’re likely to find me up Canal Canyon, grabbing a heat-beating soak in that blissfully soothing creek!

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REMEMBER THAT OUR BEAUTIFULLY RESTORED COMMUNITY CENTER HAS GREAT SPACE AVAILABLE FOR RENT, WHETHER FOR AN EVENT OR AN OFFICE. CHECK WITH THE CITY STAFF FOR DETAILS.

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Calendar / Scheduling To schedule an event in the Community Center/ City Hall, other City buildings, grounds, or to get an event on the Spring City calendar/newsletter, please contact David at the Spring City offices: Email: deputytreasurer@springcityutah.org; Text: 801.473.6671 (No calls)