Welcome to the 633rd meeting of the Rotary Club of Dixie Sunrise. This morning our club was brought up to speed on the MANY activities in this community brought to us by the Leisure Services Department of St. George City. Our speaker this morning was Kent Perkins, Leisure Services’ Director for 26 ½ years. While he did indeed give us a glimpse into the upcoming Arts Festival about which he was asked to speak, he brought updates of an enormous number of programs in place and in process.
Kent began his program by sharing with the Club this year’s Arts Festival Poster a print from featured artist, Al Rounds. The festival will again be held on Easter weekend, April 10th and 11th. Motorists will be pleased to hear that no roads will be closed this year for the festival. The event will be placed entirely in Town Square. 110 artists, including 12 local artists have been accepted to display work. 20 food vendors will be on site to feed us, 3 stages are in place for entertainers to add spice to the day and the Paul Mitchell Salon will be offering a Kids Creation Station. The festival has evolved over it’s 30 years from an initial position of “open to anyone we can find” to a juried process by which 200 to 300 applicants are screened for the opportunity to display their work. 30, 000 to 40, 000 persons are expected to pass through the event this year.
Kent spoke about so many other projects that we could go on and on and on. Let me just briefly refer to a few of them:
April 9th the City will be dedicating a new park with wonderful park equipment and a splash pad in Washington City.
A new park is in process in the Dixie Downs area and will be named the Firehouse Park. (Did you know there are over 30 parks in our area?)
The extension of the City Trail System from Bloomington into Sun River will follow the river and because of that has been paved in a special eco friendly material called “soil cement”
St. George has been selected to host the Iron Man Triathalon beginning in 2010. That event because of numbers of participants and support and length of the event will bring significant dollars in the area economy.
The St. George Marathon is 33 years old! It has grown so drastically that one must enter a type of lottery to even hope to be accepted to participate. The first sign up day was April 1st and on that day 1,200 people submitted applications!
Other projects include:
Free Concerts in the Park resume next week
Mayor’s Walks resume in April
Pickleball is expanding
Trees and being grown and planted
And
The City welcomes Eagle Scout projects and has lots of options to offer.
-- PE Marla Shelby-Drabner
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