New Town Website

The Town of Cedar Fort, Utah has a new website. It can be found at www.townofcedarfort.com.
The site features news and events that affect the residents of the Town of Cedar Fort. As well as a feature to pay your town utility bill online.

Cedar Fort has events throughout the year that will appear in the news section and on the Town's Event Calendar.

Just added this week is an online virtual tour of the Old Cedar Valley Elementary School, which now serves as Cedar Fort Town Hall.

Future features may include a community forum to discuss relevant events, for local services offered to residents and a classified section for local items "for sale". (depending on community interest).

Cedar Fort School

CDP Theme Day: People Watching

Watching people is a lot of fun...
This is a my dad helping my son work on the car. They did eventually get the bumper apron secured to the car and I am happy to say that the car did pass the safety inspection after this makeshift repair and the more involved repair that we did to the driver side front wheel hub earlier in the day.
It would have been more fun to get a shot of the three generations working on the hub but since we were the only ones there and someone had to take the picture... alas only these two made it in the shot.

Back to School

 

It is back to school week in Utah. What better way to emphasize this important week than to talk about Cedar Valley School. It was built in 1909 and remains the only remaining 2 room school house in Utah County. There are a few others statewide, but Cedar Fort has the last one in this county.

My son went to this school for 2 years (his 5th and 6th grades) he goes to 7th grade in Junior High school this year. Today the 7th graders go to school to learn their way around the school. They will experience the biggest transition going from Elementary School to Middle School (or Junior High) so they go in a day early. The rest of the school grades return tomorrow.

It is safe to say that a lot of the kids going to school today will have a bit of a culture shock, not just because they are going to Junior High but because they are going from a 103 year old school with 24 students in 6th grade to a middle school with over nine hundred 7th graders. 

Please be extra careful out there driving around today and tomorrow. School is back in session.

 

I can actually remember when schools used real school bells, not too unlike this one.

Sunday Drive

I love a good lazy Sunday morning Drive...

Fire Engine Friday: Cedar Fort 612

Another blast from the past Cedar Fort style... This is Cedar Fort 612, she was replaced along with CF 611 when the Pride of Liberty Place (CF 231) was added to the line up.
I don't know all the details about her but I am guessing she is a late 60's Ford based, American LaFrance pumper. And judging from the door I am not too sure that she saw service in Cedar Fort for too long before she was traded up.

If any folks from Cedar Fort Fire are reading this and have the details, please comment.

Goin' Diggin'

Just a quick post today... We are heading up to the wedding in a few hours.
This is the blushing bride out diggin' in her big black Chevy.

For those that don't know, the phrase "goin' diggin' is a colloquialism meaning to "drive around where there are few roads usually in four wheel drive vehicles."

Bridget & Brandon

 

 

The Annual Cedar Fort Water Fight

An aquatic skirmish in the intersection near my home. The dark Ford delivered an effective broadside while the white Chevrolet dripped away down the street to fight other battles.

The annual Cedar Fort water fight is a tradition that happens each July 23rd and is said to have begun in the 1920's by a bunch of mischievous young men that had learned of a slumber party being attended by the young women of the town. The boys gathered up water in buckets from the town ditches and thoroughly doused the slumber party. 

Local boys taking their best shot. One of the water grenades struck me in the abdomen but bounced off harmlessly and exploded on the ground. Ha! I am waterproof!

The following July 23rd the girls returned the dousing in kind and so the tradition was born. It continues to this day, every July 23rd, as the young folks of Cedar Fort and neighboring towns prepare days in advance with coolers full of water balloons super-soaker water cannons and hoses with high pressure and long ranges. The better to reach out and drench someone. And by someone I mean anyone, because everyone is fair game, as I soon learned.

This young man cornered me when I was out photographing fire trucks for Fire Engine Friday. I was able to dodge the balloon and return home unscathed.

In three water fights I have had my car drenched and been hit with balloons twice, but I have yet to get wet. Having said that, I believe I may have just painted a target on my back for next year. 

The result of a direct hit by a well aimed bucket of icy cold water.

The local paper did a story on this annual event and can be found at the Daily Herald
Cedar Fort Residents Celebrate with Water