Welcome to Short Creek Festivities

Short Creek Festivities is a committee of life long residents of the combined communities, Hildale Utah, Colorado City, and Centennial Park Arizona, with the exception of Brody Olson. Brody is not originally from the communities but is very much loved and accepted as such. We are determined to rebuild our communities and see them begin to thrive economically and socially.

Our goal is to create events and opportunities for residents of the Short Creek Valley and surrounding communities to come together as equals and to exchange ideas as friends.

In the spring of 2015 George and Miriam Jessop, along with Harvey Dockstader, and Villia Holm founded Short Creek Festivities, and organized a July 4th celebration again after 13 years of no community celebrations of any kind. The attendance was expected to reach 250-500 people, a good turnout considering the massive number of residents who had left the community. George sent invites daily from the Facebook event page asking everyone to share and invite anyone they thought may have an interest. The number of responses soon reached 2000-2500, but on the day of the event we estimated 5000 people came. The healing that took place on this day changed our community. It ignited the flame to rekindle old friendships and make new relationships with people who were previously separated by religious beliefs.

Since that day there has been a constant stream of people who previously left the community, some claiming they would never come back, returning to reclaim their homes.

The July 4th events in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 were met with equal success. 2020 had a parade only due to COVID-19 restrictions. We expect this healing success to continue to grow with each July 4th event.

Short Creek Festivities is recognized by the IRS as a nonprofit public charity. Our IRS identification number is 82-0700914. It is our hope that we can raise the funds to make our community a fun and happy place.

About the Campaign

4th of July Funding campaign.

We are reaching out to any who have an interest in the SC Festivities 4th of July breakfast and fireworks. It has been a community tradition for people to come and enjoy at no cost for many years. We want to continue this tradition but we need your help with donations to achieve this.

The past few years has brought so many people together, the healing, the love and friendship that has been demonstrated is monumental. What your donation will help with is, breakfast, bounce house activity for children, watermelon, and fireworks. There are other items as well that are incorporated in the production of the day. We sincerely need your help, great or small. Thank you for being a part of bringing our community's back together. To make a donation go to scfestivities.org, we are a nonprofit organization; we can offer tax write-off for your donation.

For businesses or individuals that donate $500 or more we want to add your name to our sponsors section as an advertising and acknowledgment of your support. At your request we can make your name and donation private. Thank you to all that have helped this be the success it was the past few years.