2025-06-25 Final BIG important email for CHF '25... Please read and take notes :) Hello CHF Family, Wow, here we are, just days away from another great event. So much work has gone into the planning and preparations. Thank you so much for everyone’s efforts to make this great! Once again here are things to look at and be sure you know WHERE and WHEN you are scheduled. Please look carefully (these are for people on the program, and in some of the scheduled shift areas… chores, games, candles, paper making, children’s militias, shut the box, lucet classes, Elevenses, Bread with Brits, etc). Links below to shift schedules/ People where and when •[General Map/Schedule](https://schedule.colonialheritage.org/) ←–event guide for everyone (participants and public) •[Google Sheet view of Schedule with participant names](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16u7_5mvlgBMo4HiIbjv2OgE3JKWXcjdRw6op1nhrPw4/edit?usp=sharing) (extra tab at the bottom telling program performers where/when by person’s name) •[Chores/Games/Paper Making/Candles/Militias Schedule](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vezXTjI7SiDfTF89OTiknGnuy_ULWrAFqwkKa0T1nV4/edit?usp=sharing) ←- •[Videos/Instructions for Chores and Games](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fZ6xj1EmSplaWUM88oaq4SwbZ-fZ_JFeGj_44j8obkk/edit?usp=sharing) •[Declaration of Independence participants](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bL7HUpoctytHP2b0ONEyQcgV6ek1S23SqK-LiN_qmBw/edit?usp=sharing). (1:30-2:30 ish) ← •We are providing LANYARDS for our official volunteer photographers this year. If you see someone with a camera and the CHF ID, and you are not busy, they may ask you to move to a certain spot for better lighting.Try to accommodate if possible. •Work begins the NIGHT of June 30 at Orem Storage (1080 S. State Street , Orem) to load the trucks/trailers (around 6pm) if anyone can come and help out. If you show up and can't get in, call Kim at 801-362-5442 . •July 1 beginning at 8 am we will be unloading the trucks, setting up the big tents, and dispersing equipment throughout the park. This is a HUGE task that wears us out even before the actual event begins, so PLEASE, if you are in town and able or if you know people that are local and can assist, come on over. We will be there ALL DAY and late into the evening. We are usually near the large pavilion. Call the above number if you can't find us. •July 2 is the day that most individual camps set up will happen. It will be good to see everyone! **Caution: When driving vehicles onto the park lawns, do NOT drive over the orange flags/cones/paint that mark the sprinkler boxes. You drive on them and break them, you pay for them. :) Remember, we are setting things up a bit differently in the north end of the park, so please call Kim if you are in the “horse shoe shaped ” area when you arrive so we can be sure you get to the correct location. Many others in the park are in their usual locations. •Clothing check out at the main pavilion will also happen this day (July 2) from 4-6 pm for those that have not yet been outfitted. Remember, we only have 1 or 2 in the pavilion to help with clothing on event days, so be patient. •Parking for participants is north of the park (at the elem. school) or south of the park (limited) in the grassy/dirt area EAST of the pool parking. You will be TOWED if you park in the actual pool lot that is on the south end of the park or west side of the pool. You may also park in the lot that is EAST, backside of the Scera Theater (south of park). Please avoid parking in the lot by the main pavilion. •All areas of the park need to be set up and ready to go by 9 am on July 3rd.. Cars need to be off the park lawns by 8:30 ish. Any "non colonial" items need to be out of sight, covered up, etc. •Event runs July 3,4,5 9am - 5pm daily. •We will have officers (some plain, some uniformed) that will be patrolling or very near by. If circumstances require help, obviously 911 for EMERGENCIES, but other smaller needs please call Kim (above number) or Jeff (8013625443). We will get someone over to where they are needed. Each info booth, gift shop, Jeff, and Kim and Holly White (over the info booths) will all have radios. •Lunches for our full-day adults and teens jr. high and older will be Jimmy Johns Sandwiches (July 3), Subway Sandwich (July 4), and Zupas sandwiches (July 5) with chips, fruit, and cookies. For younger children (elementary age through 12), we have PBJs, yogurt, goldfish crackers, fruit and a sweet treat. If you have special dietary needs, please plan for those. I am so sorry we are unable to make special arrangements with such a large event and so many people and needs.. **Although we DO have a few veggie sandwiches (those people please text Kim). Obviously there are a LOT of people to feed, and it is a LARGE AREA to get to. We will "try" to get lunches out to each area starting around 11:30. Non full-day participants, please bring snacks/meals as needed. •Gove Allen has firewood for those that need it. Keep in mind, there are no open fires on the lawns. All fires must be contained in off-ground workings. •Showers will be available to those that are camping at the park during the event days/nights over at the pool. (Pools are not available to us). Be aware (from what I hear), the showers are "open" as in multiple shower heads but no individual stalls. You may want to wear "something" if that bothers you or if you worry about children in the shower areas. Wed, July 2: 6-7PM Thurs, July 3: 7-9AM, 6-7PM Fri, July 4: 5-6PM Sat, July 5: 5-6PM •Honey Bucket porta-potties will be available at three locations throughout the park as well as the restrooms at the main pavilion and apparently at the Scera Shell outdoor on the northeast.. They will be listed on the map as soon as we have it printed. •Pizza Potluck will be July 3 after the event closes at 5pm. Give the bakery area a bit of time to get the pizzas going, so we will say around 6:00ish or shortly after. We will have paper plates/cups there for your use (yes, I know, not era correct). We had a big jug of water there last year. Dough, sauce, cheese and pepperoni are supplied. Any other toppings that you want to share, bring them on over. DANCE begins at 7:00 pm. So we will let the Shaws/dance people eat first.:) •Dinner Potluck will be July 4. Because it is the 4th of July, there may be quite a few that will not want to participate in the potluck, but for those still camping in the park and any others that would like to party-it-up with the group, bring your potluck items to share to the main pavilion by 6:30 and we will try to eat as close to that as possible. •Medical/Info tents (4 of them) will be set up around the park again. We will have air conditioners in the main pavilion. If participants or the public need to be cooled down, Jeff can bring people in the Ranger to the pavilion if they can not come on their own. We also have a wheelchair at the main pavilion. •Jeff (my dear sweet man whom I love and am in debt to) will again be bringing ice around to each camp area in the mornings. He picks it up around 6:00 am and he usually delivers it around 7- 7:30 am. I realize that is early, so hopefully he will not wake you, but he needs to get the camps done so that he can then get all the water/ice out to the barrels throughout the park for the day to begin. He is a busy man. ***We will again have the non-horse-drawn carriages (ours and Allen’s Rangers… yes, 2 this year). We TOTALLY know it is not era appropriate, but in order to keep the public and our participants hydrated in a large park, it is kind of unavoidable. •Lost children and Lost/Found items should be sent to the gift shop during the event (adjacent to the main pavilion). • a ZOOM meeting Q &A will be held on Sunday, June 29th at 7:00 pm Mtn Time. This is not required... but merely to answer any questions that anyone might have. It will be SHORT. (7-7:30) so jump on this link if you have questions that have not been answered here. Link: https://byu.zoom.us/my/professor Password: 6545654565 Meeting ID: 6545654565 Direct link: https://byu.zoom.us/my/professor?pwd=SStMTXBsUFZHeWtlYjNxbXlTMnNTdz09 See you all in just a few days! Safe travels everyone, and thank you for your hard work! :) . Kim Gardner\ CHF '25 Chairperson