Mission Viejo Stake LDS Pioneer Day Celebration: Saturday, July 29th, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. at Oso Viejo Community Park on the Village Green. BBQ dinner served from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Enjoy the sounds of the “One-Gig-A-Year Band.” Pioneer games. Please, NO PETS. 5K and 1K walk/run. Registration online at http://
“July 24, Pioneer Day, is celebrated yearly in “Mormon Country” and increasingly on an international scale among Latter-day Saints. On this date in 1847, the first Mormon pioneers (143 men, 3 women, 2 children) led by Brigham Young, entered the uninhabited Salt Lake Valley. They began the pioneer settlement of more than 400 communities in the intermountain West, Canada, and Mexico. Before the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, 80,000 Mormon refugees and converts went west in perpetual immigration. Six thousand lost their lives and were buried along the way.” (http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Pioneer_Day)
