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Kaycee Feild, World Champion and South Utah County resident, rides at the 2014 Fiesta Days Rodeo.
Sp. Fork rodeo becomes one of nation’s best under Money’s care Fact: There have been 34 consecutive sellouts at the Fiesta Days Rodeo. It’s not too surprising that a little boy who practiced his roping on the teeter-totter at his grandparents’ farm would end up being the rodeo director in Spanish Fork. It is more than a little surprising that during his 32 years of involvement with the rodeo, he has seen it grow to become one of the top 40 (out of 720) Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association (PRCA) events held each year. Steven Money was born in Spanish Fork 63 years ago and likely was riding a horse before he was walking. He loved going to the Moneys’ farm to rope, ride and breathe in farm life with all its sweat and splendor. The young lad was heartbroken when in
second grade he moved to Provo for a couple of years, escaping to the farm in Spanish Fork in the summers. So determined was he to return that he asked his prayers “every night without fail” that he could to move back. “I needed farm air and I needed rodeo air,” Money said. Money related that he entered his first rodeo while a sophomore in high school. “We thought we were cowboys, but we weren’t. It’s a pretty tough sport to try to learn and conquer. There was no program set up that taught you how to ride a bucking horse or how to rope. You had to do it on your own,” he said. After high school, Money’s involvement with rodeo increased. See MONEY on page A4
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Thousands flock to Payson temple open house By Christi C. Babbitt After more than three years of construction, the Payson Utah Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has opened its doors to the public, with tours of the building beginning April 24. Thousands had obtained tickets online before tours began of the 96,630-squarefoot structure, and the city prepared for the crowds by posting signs with parking notices and directions to local shopping and dining along the streets leading to the temple. A total of 20,000 volunteers were expected to help direct traffic and parking and assist visitors in other ways during the four weeks of tours. The last tours will be on May 23.
“It’s been a great opportunity as we’ve started this journey to receive so many visitors to the temple,” said Larry Duffin, chairman of the temple’s open house committee. Duffin spoke to members of the press, who were given an early tour of the building on April 21. The press tour was guided by Elder Kent F. Richards, executive director of the church’s Temple Department and a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy. Richards said the overall theme of the temple’s décor was apple blossoms, reflecting the orchards grown in Utah Valley. The hundreds of stained glass windows found on the exterior and interior of the temple feature depictions of greenleafed branches. As one moves to higher See TEMPLE on page B2
A sealing room in the new Payson Utah Temple features floor-to-ceiling stained glass windows.