{"id":1312780,"date":"2019-07-24T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/founders-to-be-honored-as-silt-heydays-celebrates-50-years\/"},"modified":"2019-07-24T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T00:28:00","slug":"founders-to-be-honored-as-silt-heydays-celebrates-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/founders-to-be-honored-as-silt-heydays-celebrates-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Founders to be honored as Silt Heydays celebrates 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.6654411764706\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-984725-184\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/SiltHeydayat50-rct-072518-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/SiltHeydayat50-rct-072518-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kyle Mills \/ Citizen Telegram | Silt residents enjoy the traditional Silt Heydays pancake breakfast during last year's event at Stoney Ridge Park.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Silt residents enjoy the traditional Silt Heydays pancake breakfast during last year&#8217;s event at Stoney Ridge Park.<\/strong><br \/>Kyle Mills \/ Citizen Telegram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/SiltHeydayat50-rct-072518-2.jpg\" alt=\"Silt residents enjoy the traditional Silt Heydays pancake breakfast during last year's event at Stoney Ridge Park.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/SiltHeydayat50-rct-072518-2-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/SiltHeydayat50-rct-072518-2-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kyle Mills \/ Citizen Telegram | Bob Gordon\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Bob Gordon<\/strong><br \/>Kyle Mills \/ Citizen Telegram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/SiltHeydayat50-rct-072518-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Gordon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/SiltHeydayat50-rct-072518-2-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/SiltHeydayat50-rct-072518-2-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kyle Mills \/ Citizen Telegram | The parade for the 49th annual Silt Heydays begins its procession down Grand Avenue last year. This year marks the 50th anniversay of the annual community event.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>The parade for the 49th annual Silt Heydays begins its procession down Grand Avenue last year. This year marks the 50th anniversay of the annual community event.<\/strong><br \/>Kyle Mills \/ Citizen Telegram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/SiltHeydayat50-rct-072518-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"The parade for the 49th annual Silt Heydays begins its procession down Grand Avenue last year. This year marks the 50th anniversay of the annual community event.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/SiltHeydayat50-rct-072518-2-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/SiltHeydayat50-rct-072518-2-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kyle Mills \/ Citizen Telegram | The Porch Pickers perform at Silt Heydays last year during the annual pancake breakfast at Stoney Ridge Park.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>The Porch Pickers perform at Silt Heydays last year during the annual pancake breakfast at Stoney Ridge Park.<\/strong><br \/>Kyle Mills \/ Citizen Telegram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/SiltHeydayat50-rct-072518-2-3.jpg\" alt=\"The Porch Pickers perform at Silt Heydays last year during the annual pancake breakfast at Stoney Ridge Park.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/rifle-news\/founders-to-be-honored-as-silt-heydays-celebrates-50-years\/?#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/rifle-news\/founders-to-be-honored-as-silt-heydays-celebrates-50-years\/?#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">If you trace back five decades of history, you will find Bob Gordon and Mary Jane Hangs were there when Silt Heydays began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Gordon, who grew up in nearby New Castle, a carpenter by trade, had purchased a home in the small neighboring town of Silt with his wife Judy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cSilt was kind of a different town back then. It was kind of a shot out of the Wild West. It was the perfect farming community,\u201d Gordon said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">While working out of state in 1968, the Gordons came upon a small festival in Northern California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI spent a short time in California framing for a guy,\u201d Gordon said. \u201cI was there when they did Big Foot Days, and it was just a celebration that brought all kinds of people together. They just had a really good time \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI had an idea. We came back to Silt, and I started talking to all my good friends about this Big Foot Days, and how impressed I was with it,\u201d Gordon said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Lifelong Silt resident Mary Jane Hangs, who ran the local drug store at the time, remembered when Bob came home from California and asked everyone to meet at the Odd Fellows Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cAll the business people and anybody else he badgered into coming that night \u2026 there must have been 50 people at that first meeting,\u201d Hangs said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cHe said he had an idea that can put Silt on the map. We all went, because we respected Bobby. He didn\u2019t tell us what it was about until we got there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Hangs recalls the idea as a little hometown type of doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She said Gordon was bound and determined that Silt was going to do it, and everyone there thought it was a good idea and they were willing to do the work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">When it came to deciding on what to call it, Gordon remembers the chatter between everyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe started talking about it and people began saying, \u2018Hey, what you think?,\u2019 and someone else would say, \u2018Hey, what do you think about this?,\u2019\u201d Gordon said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That\u2019s pretty much how it started. And Silt Heyday, singular in those days, was born.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Gordon and Hangs said it was a real town effort to get the community event off the ground and running.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThey took the fire engine out and gathered up donations for the first one. They did that for a couple of years,\u2019 Hangs said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The first annual Silt Heyday all began in Veterans Memorial Park in 1969, in the heart of town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Gordon said fellow Heyday founders Ray and Veta Scherar lived right next to the park back then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cRay opened his garage door and we cooked breakfast right there,\u201d Gordon said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThere were a few of us cooking and people really turned out. It was pretty much a whole town effort,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Hangs can\u2019t recall how many people came, but she still remembers everyone there who helped cook that first breakfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe fed a lot of people. The Silt people came that first year, and they really took a part in it. They have always been true to it,\u201d Hangs said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Hangs said the first year after the breakfast, they had a parade and even had a queen contest, hamburger lunch in the park, children\u2019s games, and finished the night with a potluck supper and a dance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThe park was full with people chit-chatting,\u201d Hangs said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She even remembers that it rained the first year, but it didn\u2019t stop people from enjoying the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt was all over by midnight. Everybody had a good time and enjoyed it so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The 50th Silt Heydays will get underway Friday with live music and fireworks at Stoney Ridge Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A full day of festivities begins at 7 a.m. Saturday with the traditional Pancake Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Gordon and Hangs will lead the parade down Grand Avenue at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI\u2019ll be happy to see some old friends that I haven\u2019t seen for a while. I know they will be there \u2014 I\u2019m sure they will,\u201d Gordon said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:kmills@postindependent.com\">kmills@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/rifle-news\/founders-to-be-honored-as-silt-heydays-celebrates-50-years\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silt residents enjoy the traditional Silt Heydays pancake breakfast during last year&#8217;s event at Stoney Ridge Park.Kyle Mills \/ Citizen Telegram Bob GordonKyle Mills \/ Citizen Telegram The parade for the 49th annual Silt Heydays begins its procession down Grand Avenue last year. This year marks the 50th anniversay of the annual community event.Kyle Mills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1312780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 06:11:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}