MONA ROYALTY • Queens: left to right, front row, Alli Whicker, daughter of Jarrett and Colette Whicker: Sidney Hancock, daughter of Tyler and Melissa Hancock; MaKadee Kay, daughter of Jeff and Lacie Kay. Kings: back row, left to right, Jarrett White, son of Tyson and Jennifer White; Austin Park, son of Josh and Diana Park; Hunter Fowkes, son of Ben and Amanda Fowkes. The royalty invite you to come to Mona and celebrate Pioneer Day with them on Friday, July 21st and Saturday, July 22nd.
MONA GRAND MARSHALS • Left to right: Hal Newton, Tyler Keyte, Shawna Keyte, Debbie Newton, Brenda Newton, Shanna Memmott, Mike Memmott, Ed Newton. Not pictured: Nila Keyte
By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Mona is ready for their Pioneer Heritage Day which will begin on Friday July 21 and will end on Saturday, July 22 with a fireworks display. The theme this year is: “A pioneer is someone who goes before showing others the way to follow.” From 6 to 7 p.m. on July 21, there will be a Senior Citizens Appreciation Dinner at the city park. It will cost $10 per adult, $5 for senior citizens and children 12 and under. Saturday’s events will begin with a 7 a.m. 5K color run/walk with a $15 registration fee per person or a $50 fee for a family of four. From 7:30 to 9 a.m. there will be a Lions Club Breakfast and flag raising at the city park. From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. there will be a car show with day of registration subject to availability. Check-in starts at 8 a.m. with the show beginning at 11 a.m. At 10 a.m. the parade will begin. Prior to that there will be a line up at 9:30 a.m. at 300 South and 300 East. The parade will proceed down Main Street to 100 North. Jonathan Jones, council member, is in charge. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. there will be Pioneer Villages Free Family Games at the city park. The games will consist of a bean bag toss, cupcake walk, hula hoop contest, stick pull, bobbing for apples, fish pond, butter making and corn hole. There will be a sack race at 1 p.m. for age groups 4-6, 7-9, 10-13 and 14 -adult. At 1:20 p.m. there will be a three-legged race for the same age groups as the sack race. At 1:45 p.m. will be the wheelbarrow and leap frog relay with the participants choosing a partner. From 11 a.m. to dark there will be the rock wall, swings, obstacle course and water slide available with an arm band purchase. From 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. there will be train rides with the proceeds going to benefit the Mona City Basketball Court fundraiser. At 11 a.m. raffle tickets go on sale in the new city building. Pre-purchase of raffle tickets began July 5. Also at 11 a.m. the DUP and craft and food booth will open with carriage rides to the DUP cabin. Proceeds benefit the local DUP. At 11 a.m. there will also be entertainment featuring the local fiddle talent of Sheryse Linton. At 11:30 a.m. the Bluegrass Band, “Molly in the Mineshaft,” will play. They perform a fusion of styles including contemporary folk, bluegrass, jazz, Celtic and rock, revealing the band’s wide range of influences. Members of the band have performed in venues and concert halls across the United States and in Europe and include the three-time National Twin Fiddle Champions. At 1 p.m., singers Lyndy Butler and Cherie Call will perform. Both have successful solo careers. They’ve teamed up to do their first album of children’s music. Both women are the parents of four children each. Those children have inspired some fun, heartfelt songs. At 2 p.m. there will be a Greased Pig Cast Run. A $5 pre-registration and release form is due by 1:30 p.m. At 3 p.m. there will the Mona’s Got Talent Show. Contact Alicen Allred to enter. At 4 p.m. will be the DUP sponsored watermelon eating contest and quilt raffle. At 4:20 p.m. there will be a Christmas in the Park sponsored pie eating contest and decorated tree raffle. At 4:45 p.m. the cars show awards will be presented. There will be serve to win drawings and a general raffle of all prizes. At 8 p.m. will be the band, Foreign Figures, which is an infectiously rhythmic and emotionally driven alt-pop outfit from Orem. They performed in July 2014 and have since amassed an intensely loyal following as one of the fastest growing independent bands in the western United States. Within their first two years, the band self-released both an EP and an album. At dark there will be the annual fireworks show. The national anthem will be sung by Foreign Figures. At the end of the fireworks, at 11:30 p.m., there will be a dance with music provided by Jason Gibson. No alcohol is allowed at any of these events nor at the park.
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