Sasquatch Jr. found

Sandy Mountain Festival organizers celebrate Zachary Funk's find

By Garth Guibord

The Sandy Post, Jun 23, 2009, Updated Oct 30, 2009 (1 Reader comment)

Garth Guibord / Sandy Post

Sandy’s Zachary Funk shows off a little bit of the determination that helped him locate Sasquatch Jr.

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Friday, June 19, started out as a typical day for Sandy’s Zachary Funk. Little did he know the events that would unfold would turn him into the local version of Indiana Jones.

Funk found Sasquatch Jr.

As Funk recalled, his morning began with a typical meal for treasure hunters and creature-seekers: pancakes. The day lay before him as many others had — work at Momentum Bike Hike and Board, then volunteer at the Sandy Baptist Church during its Junior High Explosion event.

He got to work on time, and in the middle of the day, his boss asked him to send a fax. Funk, who just graduated from Sandy High School and will leave for Marine Corps boot camp in October, went down to the UPS Store on Proctor Boulevard to perform the duty, and that’s where he met his fate.

“I looked in all the stores; it’s kind of dumb not to look,” Funk, 18, said about the search for Sasquatch Jr., the diminutive version of the hairy humanoid that’s the theme of this year’s Sandy Mountain Festival.

As Funk took a look around the store, his eyes fell on a shelf where Sasquatch Jr. was perched. He recognized the undersize Bigfoot from stories in the Sandy Post that detailed his disappearance and offered a reward for his safe return.

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