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An organization of student mothers, organized in the 1920’s, who helped provide for the needs of Fruitvale High School. They met twice a month during the day.
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An organization founded by Flora Eaton as a social outlet during the Depression. During the meetings, if anyone said anything gloomy or about hard times, they were fined. Their initiation included a Chinese prayer. Members held Halloween parties, at which they tried to eat donuts on strings and bobbed for apples. Mrs. Nisley, wife of the superintendent of Fruitvale’s schools, was also a charter member.
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A Lions Club, based in the Fruitvale area of Mesa County, which served the greater Grand Junction and Mesa County areas for several years. The Fruitvale Lions Club was founded in 1955, with the Clifton Lions Club sponsoring its incorporation. The Fruitvale Lions provided college scholarships and study abroad opportunities to youth, and helped needy citizens of Mesa County get eye glasses through their vision program. Charities they sponsored included:
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Fruitvale School District 28, originally part of Allen District 13, was founded in 1895. The District constructed a one-room school house in 1897, and a larger school house sometime between then and 1917. In 1911, the District added a high school curriculum, and then a junior high curriculum in 1915. It enlisted the help of the WPA to build a high school in 1936. In 1946, the Fruitvale District consolidated with Clifton District 43 and Pear Park District...
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According to Edith (Burns) Strain, the church was founded as the Methodist Episcopal Church at Clifton (of which Strain was a member). The church was organized in 1906 and the first church building was constructed at 4th Street and Grand Avenue in Clifton in 1907. The church was dedicated by Methodist preacher and governor Henry A. Buchtel.
Because the foundation of the original church building was sinking, a new building was constructed and dedicated...
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A Lions Club, based in the Orchard Mesa area of Mesa County, which has served the population of Orchard Mesa and the county since its incorporation in 1971. Founding members include Mesa County Oral History interviewee Dale Luke.
In order to fund their charities, they worked the concession stand at the Mesa County Fairgrounds (then Uranium Downs) with the Fruitvale and Redlands Lions (collectively known as the Tri-Lions) during the 1980’s. They...
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The Red Cross Land and Fruit Company managed the Cross Orchards, located at what is now 3073 F Road in the Fruitvale area of Mesa County, Colorado. Cross Orchards was the largest fruit growing operation in the county for many years. It was founded by Isabel Cross and later owned by her younger brother, Walter Bigelow Cross. Isabel (shown living with Walter as children in Vermont in the 1860 U.S. Census), apparently bought the land on which Cross...
