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Sugar Days 2021


Sugar Days 2021

Sugar Days 2021 was a great success! It was wonderful to see our community in large numbers outside in the park.

Sponsors

We'd like to thank our great sponsors:

  • Idaho Central credit Union
  • Stones Automotive Group
  • Rocky Mountain Power
  • PSI Environmental Services
  • Dickinson Frozen Foods
  • Fuzion Dance Studio
  • Top Notch Beef & Jerky
  • Rusty Spur Country Swing
  • Broulim's

We hope other businesses and individuals will consider sponsoring Sugar Days and other community events in the future. From city funds, we budgeted $4000 for Sugar Days 2021. I don't have the final figures yet, but I think the total cost for the event will end up somewhere around $8,000, which we will be able to cover because of our generous sponsors. Next year, we'd like to budget a lot less city money for the event, so we're going to need all the sponsors we can get.

Community Talent Show & Dance

The talent show and dance were new additions to Sugar Days this year. I was worried how the talent show would go, when we had only one or two acts signed up with only a couple of weeks to go.

In the end, I think we had eight performances. And they were great! In fact, the talent show might have been my favorite part of the event. We appreciate all those who jumped up on our little stage and shared their talents. We'd love to expand this element of Sugar Days, and have the talent show going throughout the day.

The dance wrapped up the evening for us. Mayor Adams buzzed up on his four-wheeler with lemonade and refreshments, and everyone had a good time. I'm sure there was no alcohol involved, but that blue lemonade drink had a little kick...

We'd love to have an even larger group for the dance in the future.

Volunteers

We're grateful for those who helped plan and run the event:

  • Kim Forbush
  • Michelle Adams
  • Melanie Hansen
  • Sugar-Salem HS Student Body Officers
  • LDS Missionaries
  • Isaac Dayley
  • Tamara Dayley
  • Nathan Dayley
  • Logan Dopp
  • Arlynn Jacobson and his crew of faithful city employees

We always appreciate the help and always need more.

Sugar Days 2022

See you next year at Sugar Days 2022 (July 9th)!

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