Shirley Howell has passed along an updated program for this year’s Bunker Family Reunion to be held June 13-17 in Salt Lake City. BFA Members should note these details are different than those mailed earlier with the Bunker Banner.
Day 1: Wednesday June 13, Arrival
6+ p.m. Sign in Host Room: orientation materials, auction items put on display
7:30 p.m. Optional: visit Tabernacle Choir rehearsal 8:00 to 9:30 p.m.
Day 2: Thursday, June 14 Breakfast on own
9 a.m. Bus Tour
Cruise Downtown
State St. North: City Center
State Capitol: Stop at Mormon Battalion Marker
South and turn on South Temple: Beehive, LDS
Temple Square
9:45 I-80 to Great Salt Lake turnoff near Saltair
Get acquainted on bus
10:15 Fifteen minute photo op with GSL in background
10:30 Leave for Kennecott Pit
DVD re Great Salt Lake
11:15 Kennecott Pit for 40 minutes
noon Leave for Snowbird resort
1:15 Snowbird Lunch
Tram Ride
4:00 Reboard Bus, drive to Hotel
5:15 Return to Hotel
Dinner and evening on own
8:00-9:30 (optional) Tabernacle Choir Rehearsal
Day 3: Friday, June 15
9 a.m. Walk to Family History Library,
9:15 Family History Library Tour and Orientation
10:00 Tour Temple Square
12:30 Lunch: Lion House
1:30 Beehive House
2:30 Joseph Smith Building
6:30 Banquet
BFA Business, Auction
Speaker: Gaylen Bunker, “Edward Bunker and Pioneering the West.”
Day 4: Saturday, June 16
9:00 Board Vans
9:45 University of Utah/Rio-Tinto Kennecott Utah
Museum of Natural History
(spectacular new museum, with major dinosaur skeletal remains)
11:00 Board vans
11:15 Tour spectacular Red Butte Gardens
12:00 Board vans Board Bus
12:30 Return to Hotel
Afternoon on Own
Gateway
City Creek Center
Family History Library
LDS Church Museum
7:00 Celebrating Edward Bunker (Program)
___BFA Promotion of 2013 Boston Reunion
___Musical Number; Sharlene Wells Hawkes
___Powerpoint Presentation: Bill Hartley, “Edward Bunker’s Infantry Service in the Mexican War, Ft. Leavenworth to Santa Fe to San Diego”
address: 3051 South 2900 East Salt Lake City, Utah
Day 5: Sunday, June 17 On your own
9:30 to 10:00 Tabernacle Choir broadcast (be there at 9:00)
Reunion Registration by May 1st
Lodging: Salt Lake Plaza at Temple Square
122 W. South Temple 1-801 521-0130
free shuttle S. L Plaza Hotel ( call at Kiosk)
You must make your own hotel
reservations. Ask for rooms reserved at a
special Bunker Family rate.
Room rate: $82. 1-2 beds, 1-2 people
after May 1st , rooms if space available
TRAX, downtown train ,is free within downtown and runs
right past the hotel, New City Creek Mall, and The Genealogy Library.
Reunion Registration
Single Person $20
Couple $30 $______
Bus Tour June 14 $40 ea $______
Lion House Lunch $20 ea $______
BFA Banquet $50 ea $______
Van to Sites June 16 $20 ea $______
Total For Events $______
Make check payable to:
Bunker Family Assoc SLC
Send Registration to:
Shirley Howell
38 West 1600 South
Orem, Utah 84058