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The 2016 Miss Nephi Pag-eant will be held Tuesday, April 12 at 7:00 p.m. in the Juab Junior High audito-rium. The doors will open at 6:30 pm and tickets are $5.00 per person. Seven young ladies will vie for the title.

Emma Lainhart is the daughter of Kurt and Kimm Lainhart. She will perform a vocal/sign language solo to “Glorious”. Kaitlin Guillory is the daughter of Robert and Jill Guillory. She will perform a contemporary jazz dance solo.

Marissa Richardson is the daughter of Sam and Shelly Richardson. She will be sing-ing “Via Dolorosa”. Celina Messersmith is the daughter of Terry and Tam-my Messersmith. She will be singing “This Girl is on Fire”. Brynn Jones is the daugh-

ter of Mike and Sloane John-son. She will be playing the ukulele and singing “Have You Ever Seen the Rain”. Bailey Cordner is the daughter of Paul and LaDawn Cordner. She will be perform-ing a piano solo. Hannah Robins is the

daughter of Rick and Heidi Robins. She will be perform-ing a piano solo. The event will be emceed by Mike Price and the mis-tress of ceremonies will be Kynlee Sessions, Miss Nephi 2015.

Emma Lainhart Kaitlin Guillory Marissa Richardson Celina Messersmith Brynn Jones Bailey Cordner Hannah Robins

Miss Nephi Pageant will be held April 12th

A LITTLE SPRING BIRD PLAY • Our photographer caught these crows and a large hawk enjoying the spring updrafts and having a little “battle” west of Nephi on Monday. Spring is here and today and Thursday should be in the 70’s, but the weatherman is calling for more rain on Satruday and Sunday with the warm weather returning for the fi rst of next week.

Commissioners asked to update master list for CIB projects

By Myrna Trauntvein

Times-News Correspondent

All county projects, includ-ing proposed city projects for the cities within the county, are included on a master list which is reconsidered and up-dated each year. Emery Polelonema, Six County AOG Regional Planner, works each year to meet with representatives of each of the communities included in Juab County to get the planning list of the communities. He then meets with commissioners to make certain that the county list is up to date. “I traveled to all the commu-nities in the county in Janu-ary,” he said. “I learned the needs of each community and then prepared the Consolidat-ed Local Capital Improvement List Update with those needs in mind.” “Do you have any changes that you see that need to be made?” he asked. Rick Carlton, commissioner, said that the county had re-ceived a CDBG (Community Development Block Grant) in the amount of $192,000 and wondered if the awarded grant monies needed to be included on the updated list. “If there are any CDBG monies received by the county, I would always like to include the information on the updated list,” said Polelonema. The grant money, said Carl-ton, is to be used for renova-tions planned for the county building. Those are to include renovations of the Senior Citi-zen and Health Department lo-cations that will allow for bet-ter service for the residents of the area. “The county will need to put in $60,000 toward their match,” said Carlton. “If you would like to com-plete an application to receive money from CDGB,” said Pole-lonema, “you will need to do it by October. That is the submis-

By Myrna Trauntvein

Times-News Correspondent

The 3rd Annual Juab Coun-ty AGtivity Day was popular, once again. There were 175 participants at the event this year and there were 275 entries in the Juab County Commission Col-oring Contest. Both numbers indicated that the program was con-tinuing to grow, said Melonie Brinkerhoff, program director. “The fi rst year, we held the event in the city library,” she said. “There were 60 partici-pants.” In the coloring contest, last year, there had been 100 par-ticipants. Brinkerhoff presented a framed photo of one of the win-ners of the contest to commis-sioners for permanent display.

The coloring was completed by Carter McPherson, son of Sta-cy and Jamison McPherson, Nephi. “The coloring contest was open to children from age one to fi ve,” said Brinkerhoff. The drawing, entitled: “Seize the Future,” was designed by Penny McComber, owner of Penny Lane Creations. Topics this year were jam-packed with great agricultural information and applied learn-ing through hands on experi-ences, she said. The intent was to bring ag-riculture awareness locally through a series of exciting ro-tations.The storytime session was geared towards 0-5 year olds and the school session was for 5-12 years old. “We took a random survey of those who attended,” said Brinkerhoff. “One thing a few mentioned was the back-

ground noise.” The groups rotate through four activities and it would be better next year to have two buildings with two groups in each rather than four groups in just one building. “Next year we would like to use both the multipurpose building and the recreation building,” she said. This year there were: Wig-gling Worms at Work, First Peas to the Table, Clarabelle-Making Milk and So Much More, and Beef Cattle in Agri-culture. The book was won by the Wild West Preschool. Another thing that was sug-gested, said Brinkerhoff, was that there be some kind of bags for the participants to put all of the great handouts in. That had been resolved, she said. The Farm Bureau will supply bags for next year.

She and Jamie Garrett, county events supervisor, had been discussing displaying the coloring pages submitted in the county building. This year they had been taped to the walls in the multipurpose building and then taken down after the event. Some of the contestants had claimed their pages but others had not. “If we used free standing displays the pages could be placed in the hallway of the county building,” said Rick Carlton, commissioner. Clinton Painter, commission chairman, said they would not want to tape the pages on the wall but they would like to fi nd a way to display the coloring pages.

Commissioners are debriefed about Juab County AGtivity Day event

See Ag Day on page 2See CDBG on page 3