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Dear Friends, After catastrophic flash flooding abruptly devastated parts of Cedar City, Utah at the end of July. Many students from Southern Utah University were displaced from their housing and lost many of their belongings. Utah Daughters from the Bald Eagle Chapter came together gathering hundreds of in-kind and cash donations to replace what the…

Hello Friends, Community Classroom is one of our favorite service activities that we do throughout the year. Our generous Utah Daughters donate to school food pantries throughout the state to assist children and their families. Leading the way is the Salt Lake Valley Chapter’s donation of over 500 pounds of food and school supplies to the…

Dear Friends, I was very honored to join with the Daughters of the Uintah Chapter as they hosted a fundraiser benefitting the Valor House Veterans in Salt Lake City as they walked around Liberty Park. Many Utah Daughters from across the state pledged five dollars to virtually support the walk or came to participate in…

Hello Friends, As Utah State Regent, I am pleased to present the Modern Irrigation Monument which commemorates the Utah Pioneers’ ingenuity in diverting creek water to irrigate their newly sown fields upon arrival in the Salt Lake Valley in July 1847. At the 1931 dedication by the Utah State Conference of the USSDAR, an American…

Hello Friends, The Fur Trappers and Traders monument is located in Warm Springs Park in Salt Lake City. This marker commemorates the arrival of these explorers  to the Utah Territory. James Bridger, Etienne Provost, and Jedediah S. Smith were named as the principal leaders on the monument’s bronze marker listing them as discoverers, fur trappers,…

Hello Friends, It is my privilege to work with the members of the Pony Express Chapter and the Sego Lily Chapter on the restoration of a large NSDAR marker commemorating a “Site of a Pony Express Station 1860-1861.” The marker was originally dedicated in 1924 by the Spirit of Liberty Chapter, NSDAR. Pony Express riders…

Hello Friends, The Escalante Marker is located at 10 South Main Street in Spanish Fork, Utah. It is a tribute to the Spanish Priest/Explorer Father Silvestre Valez de Escalante, the first white man to reach the State of Utah on September 23, 1776. With an early snowstorm and short provisions, Father Escalante and his small…

Hello Friends, As the Utah State Regent, it is my honor to present the beautiful DAR Drinking Fountain and Monument, that was dedicated in1905 by the Spirit of Liberty Chapter, Utah’s first DAR Chapter. It is currently located in a flower bed within the park. The Monument is made of splendid Vermont granite and featured…

Hello Friends, As we continue to celebrate Women’s History Month, I would like to call attention to Honorary State Regent Susan Holt and her State Regent’s Project. Her project began in July 2018 to restore the Gold Star Mothers’ Memorial on Gold Star Hill at Memory Grove Park in Salt Lake City. After months of research, Mrs.…

Hello Friends, The month of March has been designated as Women’s History Month. This Regent would like to discuss one of our State Society’s founding members. Harriet Jacques Wetmore Sells was a Real Daughter. A Real Daughter is a daughter of a Patriot who fought or assisted the American Revolution. She suggested the name “Spirit of…