Mendon May Day— 1991
Mendon City Council Meeting— Steve Hatch informed the council that no one will help with May Day. He is still looking for help.
Mendon City Council Meeting— David Kotter reported that clean up day for Mendon will be April 20th, with April 27th being used as a back-up day. Steve Hatch reported on May Day. The dancers are taken care of but a chairman has not been found yet. Dennis Obray suggested, with reservations, of paying someone to chair the celebration. The council felt that this was the wrong direction to go.
Ward Bulletin Announcement: May Day— There will be a meeting next Sunday, March 24th, for mothers and daughters concerning the maypole dance, for May Day. The meeting will be immediately after Sacrament meeting in the children’s meeting room. This includes all girls in the first through fifth grades. For more information call Kim Willie. Practice begins April 1st off the bus at the church.
Ward Bulletin Announcement: May Day— Practice for the maypole dance is tomorrow April 1st, off the bus at the church. For more information please contact Kim Willie.
Mendon City Council Meeting— Mayor Earl Doolittle announced the drawing for May Day queen. Steve Hatch read the names of the girls in the drawing. The Mayor drew the name of Alison Clemensen as our May Day queen this year. Steve Hatch reported that Paul Murray will be our May Day Chairman this year. Nola Murray will put together a newsletter to be mailed out with the water bills.
Ward Bulletin Announcement: The queen’s court practice song will be at 4:10 p.m. in the Relief Society room instead of noon.
Mendon May Day Activities Set— Mendon will hold its traditional May Day celebration on Friday and Saturday. A dance will be held at 8:30 p.m. Friday in the Mendon LDS Ward, 20 North. 100 West, with music furnished by Guy Bartholomew. The floor show, provided by a group of Utah State University international students, will begin at 10:00 p.m. Cost will be $1.00 per person or $5.00 a family Refreshments will be served. Crowning of the May Day queen, Alison Clemensen, sixteen, daughter of Kim and Mercedes Clemensen of Mendon, will begin at 10:00 a.m. Saturday on the town square. The other members of the court are the high school juniors living in Mendon. The braiding of the maypole by sixty grade-school-aged girls will follow the crowning. A program will then be held in the LDS Church. The Mendon Arts Council will sponsor a bake sale that afternoon in the Mendon school building. Other afternoon activities include soccer and baseball games; family games and horse rides for children, ages two to five. Food will be available at the food stand on Saturday beginning at noon until 7:30 p.m. May Day celebrations were a common spring celebration in most communities during the early settlement of Cache Valley. Mendon was settled in 1859 and the May Day celebration has been continuous since 1864.
Ward Bulletin Announcements: Mendon’s May Day Celebration— Is scheduled for Friday, May 3rd and Saturday, May 4th. The May Day dance will be Friday at 8:30 p.m. The floor show will be at 10:00 p.m. Admission is one dollar per person, or five dollars per family. Guy Bartholomew is providing the music. Saturday’s activities will begin with the crowning of the May queen and the maypole dance at 10:00 a.m. The May Day program will be held immediately after at the church. There will be afternoon activities and the food stand will be open. We hope you will take part in the activities. The Mendon Arts Council— Will be having a bake sale on May Day, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Please drop off your contributions to the school after the maypole dance, Saturday morning. Thank you. . The Mendon Arts Council— Will have copies of the long awaited book, “History of Mendon,” available for sale during the forthcoming May Day celebration, next Saturday May 4th. The cost of this beautiful volume of over 500 pages, will be twenty-five dollars, tax included.
Mendon May Day Celebration Set— Mendon will hold its traditional May Day celebration on Friday and Saturday, and crowning of the May Day queen will be Saturday. A dance will be held at 8:30 p.m. Friday in the Mendon LDS Ward, 20 North. 100 West, with music furnished by Guy Bartholomew. The floor show, provided by a group of Utah State University international students, will begin at 10:00 p.m. Cost is to be $1.00 per person or $5.00 a family Refreshments will be served. Crowning of the May Day queen, Alison Clemensen, sixteen, daughter of Kim and Mercedes Clemensen of Mendon, will begin at 10:00 a.m. Saturday on the town square. Other members of the court include all high school juniors living in Mendon, Petersboro and Cobblestone. The braiding of the maypole by sixty grade-school-aged girls will follow the crowning. A program will follow in the LDS Church. The Mendon Arts Council will sponsor a bake sale from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. in the Mendon school building. Other afternoon activities will include a trap shoot, races, baseball games, family games and horse rides for children ages two to five. Food will be available at the food stand on Saturday beginning at noon until 7:30 p.m. May Day celebrations were a common spring celebration in most communities during the early settlement of Cache Valley. Mendon was settled in 1859 and the May Day celebration has been continuous since 1864.
Mendon May Day Celebration This Weekend— Mendon will hold its traditional May Day celebration on Friday and Saturday. A dance will be held at 8:30 p.m. Friday in the Mendon LDS Ward, 20 North. 100 West, with music furnished by Guy Bartholomew. The floor show, provided by a group of Utah State University international students, will begin at 10:00 p.m. Cost will be $1.00 per person or $5.00 a family. Refreshments will be served. Crowning of the May Day queen, Alison Clemensen, sixteen, daughter of Kim and Mercedes Clemensen of Mendon, will begin at 10:00 a.m. Saturday on the town square. The braiding of the maypole by sixty grade-school-aged girls will follow the crowning. The Mendon Arts Council will sponsor a bake sale from noon until 2:00 p.m. in the Mendon school building. Other afternoon activities will include baseball games, family games and horse rides for children, ages two to five. Food will be available at the food stand on Saturday beginning at noon until 7:30 p.m.
About Cache— Mendon will hold its traditional May Day celebration on Friday and Saturday. A dance will be held at 8:30 p.m. Friday in the Mendon LDS Ward, 20 North. 100 West. Cost will be $1.00 per person or $5.00 a family. Refreshments will be served. Crowning of the May Day queen, will begin at 10:00 a.m. Saturday on the town square. The braiding of the maypole by sixty grade-school-aged girls will follow the crowning. The Mendon Arts Council will sponsor a bake sale from noon until 2:00 p.m. in the Mendon school building. Other afternoon activities will include baseball games, family games and horse rides for children, ages two to five. Food will be available at the food stand on Saturday beginning at noon until 7:30 p.m.
Ward Bulletin Announcements: A Special Thanks— To all who participated, and or helped out with yesterdays successful May Day celebration.
Picture Caption: Makin’ Merry— Sixty elementary school girls braided the traditional maypole Saturday in one of the highlights of the annual May Day celebration in Mendon. Other activities included a dance Friday, the crowning of a May Day queen, baseball games, family games and horse rides for children Saturday afternoon.
Rally ‘Round The Maypole, Ancient Rite Weaves Spring Magic In Mendon— Mendon’s annual May Day celebration proved to be a success with a large turnout as sixty young women from Mendon danced around the maypole, a tradition originating in medieval England. The May Day celebration committee crowned Alison Clemensen as its 1991 queen and Stock Longhurst as consort. Twelve maids of honor were chosen along with escorts. Max and Carolyn Baker of Mendon introduced the queen’s court during the May Day program at the Mendon chapel. Other items on the program agenda were May Day songs, a piano solo and a reading by Robert Campbell. Cache Valley residents participated in a variety of activities at Mendon’s City Square Saturday, featuring a turkey shoot, horseshoes, pony rides, water fights, softball games and even haircuts. Picture Caption: Ayrowyn Kay Tanner, three, daughter of Burt and (Ellyn) Kookie Tanner, was selected by the May Day queen as a flower girl. Picture Caption: Maids of honor along with their escorts watch as the maypole dance is performed.
Picture Caption: Sixty local Mendon girls perform the ancient maypole dance by weaving strands of yellow cloth around the maypole. The dance has its roots in medieval England.
Weather— The excitement in the air can only mean one thing. Just four more shopping days till Mendon’s May Day celebration…
Printed May Day Program: Mendon May Day, May 4th, 1991, 10:00 a.m. Queen’s Court: May queen, Alison Clemensen; Consort, Stock Longhurst; Flower Girl, Ayrowyn Kay Tanner; Crown Bearer, Kade Clemensen. Maids of Honor with Escorts: Stefanie Kraus with Scott Obray; Lauralee Petersen with Chad Nye; Michelle Bradshaw with Gregory Hudson; Heather Walbridge with Robert Woodbrey; Loni Bird with Christopher Woodbrey; Kimberly Olsen with Jonathan Watkins; Tami Erickson with Kimball Owens; Amy Helpingstine with Kenneth Markey; Nina K. Grover with Robert Lemon; Suzanne Hansen with Jason Lyle; Wendy Fryer with Mike Wursten; Kamilynne Hart with Brant Wilcox. Assistants to the Queen’s Court: Vicki Olsen, Linda Hudson, Paula Watkins, Mercedes Clemensen and Denise Longhurst. Maypole Dance Instructors: Kim Willie, Claudia Larsen, Carolyn Kerbs, Doreen Taylor, Patty Taylor and Kristine Groll. Maypole Dance Accompaniment: Norma Myers. The 60 Maypole Dancers for 1991—
| Andrea Clemensen | Leslie Willie | Sara Eck | Christy Cressall |
| Katie Fryer | Emily Miasnik | Heather Ruggles | Elysa Kidman |
| Jami Olsen | Amanda Anderson | Carolyn Cheal | Lisa Zobell |
| Jennifer Jones | Laura Krebs | Amanda Hyer | Shalice Groll |
| Lisa Larsen | Cindy Larsen | Skye Longhurst | Eliza Walbridge |
| April Kirk | Sara Kirk | Jenny Bowen | Arianne Holladay |
| Holly Thompson | Amber Hyer | Tonya Mills | Katy Cheal |
| Maria Taylor | KaDee Larsen | Rachel Kidman | Lisa Miasnik |
| Shanda Hart | Jamie Cherry | Kara Hopkins | Suzanne Lindbloom |
| Emily Groll | Blaire Fonnesbeck | Bessie Walbridge | Jennifer Miller |
| Valerie Miasnik | Amy Miasnik | Beth Holladay | Jessica Miller |
| Traci Woodbrey | Erin Hofler | Marci Bradshaw | LaShell Wells |
| Betsy Bowen | Melissa Taylor | Jennifer Taylor | Heidi Bowen |
| Denise Beatty | Amanda Hardman | Joylyn Tanner | Daci Kunsman |
| Kristine Willie | Leia Larsen | Jennifer Lindbloom | Amelia Jackson |
May Day Program: Introduction of Queen’s Court, Max and Carolyn Baker; song, maypole dancers; master of ceremonies, Max Baker; opening prayer, Maxine Sorensen; May Day songs, Richard Watkins; queen’s award, Mayor Earl Doolittle; song “From A Distance,” queen’s court, accompanied by Paula Watkins, soloist, Melody Jones; songs, Cache Children’s Choir, Bonnie Slade conducting; reading, Robert Campbell; piano solo, “For Elise” and “Appalachian Air Dance,” Timothy Bowen; vocal duet, “Dearie,” “Dear Hearts and Gentle People,” “A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet,” “Sun In The Morning,” Clyde and Margene Hurst; closing prayer, Flora Mae Cheney. Afternoon Activities: Bake sale, 11:00–3:00 p.m., Kathleen Walbridge; hair cuts and hair painting, noon–3:00 p.m., Janette Major and Judy Shelton; turkey shoot, time to be announced, Braydy Nelson; races for all ages, 1:00 p.m., Kenneth Buist; horseshoes, 1:00 p.m., Fred Bowen and Gilbert Petersen; pony rides, 2:00–3:00 p.m., Mercedes Clemensen; water fight, 3:30 p.m., Kenneth Buist; commercial softball, 5:00 and 6:00 p.m., Kenneth Buist. The food stand will be open from noon to 7:00 p.m. May Day Committee: Paul Murray, chairman; Paula Watkins, May Day dance; Kim Willie, maypole dance; Vicki Olsen, queen’s court; Kristine Groll, May Day program; Kenneth Buist, afternoon activities; Terry and Carol Thompson, food stand; Nancy Bodily, arts council; Christene Helpingstine, publicity; Kathleen Walbridge, bake sale. A special thanks to T. Kay Sorensen for his time and effort he so willingly gives to May Day. Thanks to the many more who helped on each committee. Thanks to Steve and Rhyll Croshaw for the sound system. Thanks to Stan Buxton for organizing assistance. And thanks to all of you for your help and support. You’re what enables us to keep the May Day tradition alive.
Mendon City Council Meeting— Steve Hatch thanked Paul Murray for being chairman of May Day.