In Commemoration of the Americans With Disabilities Act signed in 1990 providing the wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disabilities.
In the Town Square Park in St.George. There will be Entertainment, Speakers, Flag Ceremony, ADA Walk, Rides, booths and more. Come and join the fun!
February 15-24, 2013
The 2013 St. George Area Parade of Homes promises to be the best in our 23 year history featuring 28 homes totaling over 85,000 square feet of innovation, inspiration and ideas for you to build on. St. George was recently listed in the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 10 markets in the country forecasting real estate growth over the next year making it the right time to buy while mortgage rates are still low and inventory is still available. It’s not just about the right market, beautiful homes or the perfect lifestyle, it’s about creating dreams for you to build on. DON’T MISS THIS YEAR’S PARADE – FEBRUARY 15 – 24, 2013! See why more than 24,800 people attended last year.A special thank you to our main sponsor Zions Bank for their outstanding support. Thank you to our supporting sponsors- Questar Gas, Boulevard Home Furnishings, Burton Lumber, KSL Television, The Spectrum and Kony 99.9.
Here is a LINKto the Parade of Homes FACEBOOK page
HOME PAGE of the St. George Parade of Homes
Dixie State College Name Change…what will be the new name?
Dixie State Colllege, St. George, Utah
“The new name recommendation will advance to the Utah State Board of Regents for approval Friday, Jan. 25th, where it is also anticipated that at that meeting (held at DSC), the Regents will vote to formally approve university status for Dixie State College. The matter will then move on to the Utah State Legislature, where the new name of the institution will be presented for final legislative approval and funding consideration.
“As with stakeholders at large, the Trustees saw the merits of several different naming options, and the majority preferred ‘Dixie State University,’” Chair Caplin continued. “In the end the Board chose to unite as one body. We unanimously stand behind the Dixie State University name and encourage all stakeholders to do the same. This is the time to combine our resources, make our best contributions, and rally around this great institution.”
Jacob Marley visiits Ebenezer Scrooge at the St. George Dickens Festival
The sights and sounds of 19th Century London come alive at the Dickens’ Christmas Festival.
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United States and Canada Daylight Saving Time 2012 Ends on November 4, and the clocks will need to go back an hour.
Set all your clocks and watches back one hour prior to going to bed and you gain an EXTRA HOUR OF SLEEP!
“A polished gem of a chamber dance troupe from Minnesota…Mr. Sewell is…one of American ballet’s most inventive choreographers…Different and unpredictable, this is the company to see.”
– Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times
REMEMBER! Guests who stay with us and attend any events associated with Tuacahn receives 10% off their accommodations. Just show your ticket stubs to the front desk at time of check in or prior to departure.
Join us for these fun Halloween events!
Washington County School District Foundation invites you to celebrate Halloween on the Town and raise funds for Washington County Schools. “Halloween on the Town” features Southern Utah’s first “Haunted Cave” plus the family-friendly “Spooky Town Fair.”
While the Haunted Cave will entertain the community all month long, the Spooky Town Fair will be a one-day Halloween-themed fair-style event in downtown St. George at Town Square. All profits benefit the students in the Washington County School District.
For more information, dates and details click on the links above. Then make plans to join us during the month of October as we put the FUN back into FUNdraiser!
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If Odyssey Dance Theatre’s “Thriller” isn’t part of your yearly Halloween tradition, it should be. The spooky spectacular combines technical aspects of dance while paying homage to the stars of All Hallows’ Eve.
Throughout the two-hour program, “Thriller” highlights all the heroes of the season, including Frankenstein’s monster and his bride, skeletons, mummies and werewolves. But among the ghouls, you’ll find other unlikely heroes of Halloween, such as Bubbles the Clown and the “Giggle Girl,” who sings and maniacally laughs her way through songs such as “I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus.”
Critics agree that Odyssey Dance Theatre is nothing short of spectacular:
“Compelling dance performed to perfection! Young, trim, slim, and athletic…Great fun!” –The Spectrum
“Odyssey’s “Thriller”..a delightful “Dance Macabre”….As for humor, there were bucket loads. Laughs abounded during a “Romeo & Juliet” inspired “Frankenstein & Frankenstein” and “Jason Jam,” a work that used a lot of percussive dancing, a la “Stomp”, that spotlighted three “Friday the 13th” villains dancing with ice picks, machetes and, of all things, chain saws. The whole idea was cool…” — Scott Iwasaki, Deseret News.
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In 2000, local optometrist Dr. Sheldon Johnson was leveling a hill on his property in St. George, Utah. As he removed layers of sedimentary rock, he encountered a thick level of sandstone. As he tore it up in large blocks, a fantastic object was revealed – a three-dimensionally preserved dinosaur track. It was to be the first of thousands of tracks made by dinosaurs and other animals that have now been recognized or recovered from the numerous layers of sandstone and mudstone that formed almost 200 million years ago on the shores of an ancient lake in the vicinity of St. George.
Dr. Johnson had seen dinosaur tracks in the region, but at first he was confused. The footprint he saw was visible in both the brittle clay below and also on the bottom of the sandstone block he had overturned. Experts, including Utah State Paleontologist, Dr. Jim Kirkland, came to help identify additional tracks at the site which revealed the extensive trackways to be found here.
Realizing that these tracks would be best served if they were maintained for scientific and educational purposes, Dr. Johnson and his wife, LaVerna, worked to set aside the land and its fossils. Eventually the Johnsons donated the tracks that had been found and arranged for the land to be cared for by the City of St. George. They worked with scientists, local businesses, and government officials on the local, state, and national level to create the museum that is here today. They founded the DinosaurAh!Torium Foundation that continues to preserve this site as a creative learning environment with hands-on activities that challenge, enlighten, and entertain the minds of all who come.
The best preserved and most numerous of the tracks today form the in-place trackway and exhibits of the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm. Many other fossils, including bones of dinosaurs and fish, shells of small aquatic animals, and leaves and seeds of plants, have joined the footprints to enable paleontologists to reconstruct the nearly 200 million year old ecosystem preserved here with unprecedented clarity, an extreme rarity for rocks of any time period.
Since the initial discovery, hundreds of thousands of visitors, including paleontologists from all over the world, have marveled at this unique discovery.
