(Photo by Ana Trinidad for the Daily Press)
Carol Ann Fugagli, UGWA’s administrative assistant and education and outreach director, explains the wheel of fortune to a Makers Market shopper on Saturday. Participants got to spin the wheel, which dictated an insect-related activity for them or a family member to complete.
By ANA TRINIDAD
Daily Press Correspondent
A summer of “make-and-take” activities continues every Saturday through October from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in downtown’s Main Street Plaza, a collaboration among Silver City MainStreet and the Silver City Arts and Cultural District, joined by other community organizations, groups and artists.
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ASHLAND Mayor Matt Miller has had a vision of a redefined downtown since he first ran for mayor in 2017.
Miller had a plan put in place called the Targeted Action Plan. This would encompass a four-step program to help the city improve, with Main Street Plaza being a tentpole step.
A five-year plan in the making, Main Street Plaza on 80 E. Main St. will open June 12. [We] spent so much time in the planning stage, Miller said. It usually takes years to put together and finalize those resources.
The four-step program starts off with a downtown plaza, something the city lacked; a town square area where the community could gather for events. The project was called Main Street Plaza.
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Green Flake, an enslaved worker and Latter-day Saint from North Carolina, arrived in the Salt Lake Valley with two other Black pioneers July 22, 1847 two days before Mormon prophet Brigham Young supposedly declared, “This is the place.”
Flake, Hark Lay and Oscar Crosby Smith scouted the valley, tilled the ground, planted crops, and laid down a trail for their enslavers and vanguard wagons that soon would arrive.
The three are memorialized at This Is the Place Heritage Park, near the mouth of Emigration Canyon in the eastern foothills, as well as downtown, on the Main Street Plaza’s larger-than-life Brigham Young statue, where they are listed as “colored servants.”