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2020 North Sanpete High Junior Prom Royalty
Halee Pay, queen, daughter of Todd Pay and Jessica Pay, Moroni, and Adam Cox, king, son of Spencer and Abby Cox, Fairview, were chosen to reign over the Junior Prom held last weekend, March 6 and 7, at North Sanpete High School. (Photo courtesy of Jammie Hansen Photography)
Pyramid managing editor retires BY CHERYL BREWER AND RAY LAFOLLETTE
MT. PLEASANT— Cheryl Brewer, managing editor of The Pyramid retired at the end of January 2020 after almost 25 years of sharing the news with Sanpete County. Ray LaFollette, her office assistant for the past three years and nine months, has also announced his pending departure. A replacement managing editor has not been announced. In the fall of 2019, Cheryl relates that she was heavily thinking about retiring. It wasn’t an easy decision for her, but then decided that yes, it was the right time to step away from her long association with The Pyramid. But in doing so, Cheryl took a glance back at her career at the paper and how it has changed over the years. When she was hired at The Pyramid April 1, 1995, it was after being laid off at Pyke Manufacturing in Manti. At Pyke, Cheryl was a seamstress making outerwear garments and had worked for 11 years in sewing factories both in Mt. Pleasant and Manti. Being laid off from Pyke, she found herself, a divorced, single mother of three. Although her children were mostly grown, she still needed to find employment that could support herself and family. Cheryl decided to take a night time computer class at Snow College to learn how to use Word Perfect 5.1, which opened a new door for her. When she was hired on April Fools Day at The Pyramid, Penny Hamilton was the editor. At that time the paper was owned by the Martin Conover family from Springville.
Cheryl Brewer
Ray LaFollette
During the past 24 years, Cheryl has witnessed many changes in the newspaper industry. In the beginning, she relates, deadline day was a day when everything had to be completed that day. The staff would write all the stories and save them to a floppy disc. Then, no one went home until the paper was done, which made for some very long days. Cheryl says she will always be grateful to Penny for the guidance and the many things she taught her about writing. After about a year, Cheryl’s job required traveling to Springville once a week to do the paper layout, which was done by hand. They used to size the pictures, run the stories out on paper, and trim them into the column sizes, then waxed and attached the stories onto grid sheets for each page. Next, each page was photographed and made into negatives which Cheryl
then transported to the Orem Geneva Times, in Orem, where The Pyramid was printed. After printing, Cheryl loaded up all the newspapers, and took them to Springville where they stuffed the papers with flyers, labeled them, and then bagged them for the post office. On her way back to Sanpete, she also delivered them to the post office and to various vendors. This whole process was an all day job and sometimes into the night. She remembers driving many nights through horrific winter weather. Sometimes only going about 20 mph through blinding snow storms and watching for road delineators to help stay on the road. Penny Hamilton left The Pyramid for other employment in August 1997. With that departure, Martin Please see RETIRES, Page A8
Dance through time at Pioneer Day Meeting set March 21 MT. PLEASANT—The Annual Pioneer Day Meeting will be “Dancing Through Time” Saturday, March 21, at the Mt. Pleasant Utah North Stake Center, 461 North 300 West, hosted by Mt. Pleasant Pioneer Historical Association (MPPHA). Doors open at 10:30 a.m. for visiting and lunch will be served at 12 noon. Admission is free, but lunch is extra. However, the MPPHA will buy lunch for all attendees age 80 and older, everyone else must buy their own at the door. This Pioneer Day Meeting is an opportunity to remember and celebrate the history of Mt. Pleasant and this year’s focus is “Dancing Through Time.” Think back on all those past fun events spent dancing and watching others dance and Snow College Ballroom Dance the joy felt at those times. Think of Company will perform as part all those who love Mt. Pleasant and of this year’s Annual Pioneer bring them to this celebration. Day Meeting Saturday, March 21, at the Mt. Pleasant Utah North The Snow College Ballroom Dance Stake Center, 461 North 300 West. Company, under the direction of Dr. “Dancing Through Time” is the Robert Cox, is coming to perform focus and doors open at 10:30 a.m. and may invite attendees to join in. It for visiting. Lunch will be served at has been recommended that attend12 noon. All are welcome to attend ees come prepared to dance and wear and admission is free, but lunch is extra unless you are age 80 or older. their dance shoes.
The ever popular bake sale with all sorts of yummy items is returning. Plan on buying something for later or at the event. The MPPHA appreciates any items that are donated for the sale. Two quilt auctions will take place. One auction just for those who attend the meeting and another for anyone in the community, even if they are not present at the event. Those who attend the celebration will be able to purchase tickets during the meeting at the church beginning at 10:30 a.m. and must be present to win that quilt drawing. The other quilt will be auctioned with tickets available around Mt. Pleasant during the weeks before the celebration and need not be present to win. Watch for opportunities to buy tickets while out and about the area. The Relic Home museum will be open for visitors after lunch. It will be a good opportunity to come see what is new in the collection at the first home built outside the old Mt. Pleasant fort, 150 South State, Mt. Please see MEETING, Page A8
JOSE LUIS MAGANA, ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Donald Trump greets the crowd after speaking at Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2020, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. President Trump received 298,936 votes in the Utah Statewide 2020 Presidential Primary Election held March 3. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Voters narrow choices in presidential primary their reports. There were a total of 11,867 registered voters who could SANPETE COUNTY—The unof- vote. Of those, 688 were Demoficial results of the March 3, 2020 cratic and 8,095 were Republican. Presidential Primary Election in Please see PRIMARY, Page A8 Sanpete County 2nd and 4th Congressional Districts have been released by Sanpete County Clerk Sandy Neill. All 29 of the precincts in the two 8 08805 93545 5 congressional districts provided RAY LAFOLLETTE
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