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Twilla City Library uses $10,000 Carnegie gift to refurbish pioneer monument; mural to be unveiled April 4
Summary
Library Director Chase Randall told the council a $10,000 Andrew Carnegie Foundation gift covered the near-$10,000 cost to clean and refurbish a vandalized pioneer monument; the library plans to hang an America250 mural on April 4.
Chase Randall, Twilla City Library director, told the council the library qualified for a $10,000 gift from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation and used the funds to refurbish a vandalized pioneer monument on the library grounds.
Randall said the library was founded as a Carnegie library and “they sent us a check for $10,000 of onetime funds as a as a gift um with no conditions,” which matched the bids to restore the monument. He showed before-and-after photos of panels and a centerpiece statue by sculptor Peter Fillerup, and described oily residue used in the vandalism: “it was like a rubbed in kind of like a Vaseline or some sort of oily substance onto the onto the monument.” Randall said the panels engraved with the names of more than 800 pioneers were cleaned and that the restoration preserves the memorial erected by the Sons and Daughters of Utah Pioneers.
As part of the city’s America250 events, Randall said the library will hang a mural celebrating U.S. achievements on Saturday, April 4, and invited residents to see the restored monuments and mural.
The council received the presentation and thanked Randall; no formal action or expenditure vote was required for the gift-funded restoration.
