Jo Lynn Ford Appointed Assistant Principal of Spanish Fork High

Jo Lynn Ford was appointed by the Nebo Board of Education as the Assistant Principal position at Spanish Fork High. Mrs. Ford is filling the vacancy left by Steve Dudley’s retirement after 36 years of service.

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Photo courtesy Nebo School District

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Yard of the Week Brings Joy to Caretaker and All Who Behold its Beauty

Creativity blooms among the flowers interspersed with delicate decor.  This is the home of Trudy Taylor Barrick, who has made her corner lot an eye pleaser for all who pass by or stop for a visit.  We pay the home a visit this week, honoring it, but more so Trudy’s efforts with the Yard of the Week award.

“This is my first attempt at yard work  in many years,” said Trudy. “I started growing from seed back in February, knowing that we had pulled out most all vegetation the prior year.  It has been a real learning experience for me.  I have never grown vegetables before, let alone from seed and it has been a lot of trial and error.  I found that my cucumbers growing next to my pumpkin plants were actually holly hocks.  I am starting to get color on most of my flowers.  It’s exciting to see how fast things change.”

Her home, which has been referred to as the Wilson, Brown, Barrick House, was built in the late 1890s.  It was originally owned by Trudy’s great-grandparents, and then her grandparents and her mom, Sue Taylor, who was raised there.  The home was sold out of the family in the late 1980s, but was purchased back by them again sometime after. Trudy has resided there for the past fifteen years.

Evening sunflowers that stretch upward in front of the home are Trudy’s favorites this year.  “They grow very fast and will get up to ten feet tall,” she explained.

“I started planting a bit prematurely and lst a lot of plants due to frost,” she added concerning the entire lot and her captivating experience this season. “In the early spring, I spent a lot of time preparing, planting, and taking care of my yard.  I spend up to two hours weekly to maintain it.

“I have really enjoyed the whole process and am excited to see how things look once everything is in full bloom.  It has been very therapeutic and thoroughly enjoyable!”

Take a Peek at the Prizes & Giveaways Lined Up for Saturday's Shop Payson Expo

Shop Payson Expo Prizes & Giveaways

• Big O Tires - $500 Gift Certificate

• Strait Line Financial Services - 2 Rounds of Golf at Gladstan Golf Course

• Edge Clothing Store - $250 Gift Card

• Ms Mustache - $100 Gift Certificate

• Jamberry - 1 Manicure Nail Wrap and 1 Pedicure Nail Wrap

• Behling Insurance - Gift Card Amount to be Determined

• Blaney Tree Service - Truck Load of Fire Wood

• Bread By Erika - Loaf of Fresh, Made from Scratch Bread

• Customer Value Package - $20 Orange Peel Gift Certificate

• Serve Daily - Gift Certificate to Pizza

• Diva's Salon - Free Haircut and Eyebrow Wax

• Forget Me Not Flowers - Purse with Prizes & Goodies inside

• It Works - Free Body Wrap

• Lou's Barber Shop - Free Shaving Kit

• Nebo Comfort Systems - Basket of Goodies

• Party Hoppers - Free Bouncy House Rental

• The Payson Chronicle - Free Cooler & 1 Year Subscription

• Stampin' Up - Basket of Goodies

• Trading Talents - 4th of July Wreath

• BMM Entertainment - Playing at the Expo

• Taco Time - T-Shirts and Hats

• Classic Beauty & Barber - Free Eyelash Extensions, Free Haircut or Shave and Free Massage

• Zions Bank - Backpack with Flannel Blanket, Frisbee and Piggy Bank

• Daily Herald - 2 Lagoon Tickets

• Not Just Dust - Working on Big Prize

• America First Credit Union - Working on Big Prizee

• Headshed - Working on Big Prize

• Health Can Be Simple - Working on Big Prize

• Marlene Humphries - Working on Big Prize

• Maurices Clothing Store - Gift Cards

• Mt Nebo Law - Working on Big Prize

• Networking Nights - Working on Big Prize

• Rory Adams Farmers Insurance - Working on Big Prize

• Security Service Financial - Working on Big Prize

Utah Valley Home Builders Association Parade of Homes Continues This Week

Pictured, left to right, Byron Bastian and Curtis Cerenzie of Heritage Builders inside the “Serenity Plan” home located at 1042 West 1150 South in Payson.  The Home Show continues until 21st from Noon till 9 PM.

Yard of the Week Honor Goes to David and LaRaye Gabbitas of Santaquin

The David and LaRaye Gabbitas home in Santaquin.  The lovely lot has been chosen as the second Yard of the Week for the 2014 summer season.  

Our second Yard of the Week award goes to David and LaRaye Gabbitas, whose lot in Santaquin, is charming in its decor and rich with alternating plantlife as the seasons shift throughout the year.

The family moved into the home in 1997 and have improved the landscape over time.  Their care has even included a parcel outside their property’s boundary.  A strip of ground which runs alongside an old rock irrigation ditch, still in use, has been brought to life by the generous steward, filled in with a well trimmed lawn, Red Hot Pokers, and thriving white and yellow daisies, a favorite of LaRaye’s.

Poppies, from the more familiar red to a multi-colored white and pink, are new this year. They frame the outer area of the yard, surrounding several American flags on display.  Not far are several beds showcasing welded and sculpted treasures: Wildlife, wagon wheels, and rustic pots offsetting purple Allium giganteum, cacti, and other plant life native to our region.

Missing now are the irises and peonies that are remarkable.  They bloomed and died off a few weeks ago, as they are known to do.  Annuals fill in the gaps and the yard maintains its loveliness regardless of season.

Candidate Open House in Payson Tomorrow Night

The Payson Chamber of Commerce announced earlier today that Brian Hulet and Mike Hardy invite the community to come and meet Jacob Atkin, Candidate for Utah County/Clerk Auditor, and Lorne Grierson, candidate for Utah County Commission.

The candidate open house will be held at the Payson City Center Banquet Hall on Thursday, June 19, beginning at 7 PM.

Organizers ask the public to please take the time to come and find out their positions on matters of government that impact us as citizens of Utah County.

Grass Fires Plague Interstate Near Santaquin Friday Morning

Dan Olson, veteran Santaquin firefighter, reports on the Friday morning grass fires near I15. Read complete story in this week's edition of The Payson Chronicle.

Lavender Day June 28

Doing Good

Adrienne Dixon of Potions Salon in Orem is organizing a benefit for a local crisis center for women.  Send us a photo of someone you know who is doing good in the community for consideration in an upcoming post and edition of The Payson Chronicle.  Email your submission to paysonchronicle@gmail.com.

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Daniel Oler Awarded Payson/Elk Ridge Annual UVU Scholarship

Pictured: Daniel Oler (left) with Mayor Rick Moore (right). The two attended a recent UVU Scholarship Luncheon held at the UVU Alumni House in Orem.  (Story and photo published in the June 4, 2014, edition of The Payson Chronicle.)

Daniel Oler has been awarded the Payson/Elk Ridge Annual UVU Scholarship.  The scholarship has been funded through profits from the Payson/Elk Ridge Corn Maze, sponsored by the two cities. The maze operated during the fall of 2011 and 2012  at the southwest edge of Payson.

Mr. Oler received a partial scholarship for the Fall 2014 semester at Utah Valley University.

Each year, scholarship recipients and sponsors are invited to attend a luncheon at the UVU Alumni House, where they meet and talk over lunch.  The students are invited to share their personal,  educational, and career goals with their scholarship sponsor.

This year’s luncheon was attended by Mr. Oler and Payson Mayor Rick Moore, who expressed his congratulations to the local scholarship recipient.

Congratulations Season's First Yard of the Week: Wayne and Amy Taylor Home in Payson

Lou the lovable Bulldog is pictured in front of his home.  This would also be the home of Wayne and Amy Taylor, owners and caretakers of the season’s first Yard of the Week, a beautiful lot in Payson.  

For its character and simple beauty, one of Payson’s oldest maintained properties receives the season’s first Yard of the Week.  This would be the home of Amy and Wayne Taylor, whose lovely shady lot in northeast Payson has drawn the attention of locals and visitors passing through.

We offer our congratulations to the Taylors, and share with you their story behind a local property’s rich history and charming appeal:

Our house is a typical Victorian sandstone with fretwork o’plenty!  It was built in 1892 for a local patriarch for the LDS Church on the east side of town.  It sits on a huge corner lot, surrounded by its original picket fence that serves as a charming pain when it comes to its neverending keep-up!

Our family moved to Payson from San Francisco in 1971. The home has been kept in the family ever since. We bought it from Mom and Dad, the late Jim and Julie Reece, in 1992.  After many years of renting it out, we were happy to be able to restore it to its original, deserved charm.

We added the pond fifteen years ago. There is something about the tranquility of running water that makes all of the upkeep worth it. Some of the Coi have lived there happily since the beginning.

The shady patio, covered by a fifty-year-old English walnut tree, is the "hot spot" during the summer.

Many lazy summer morning coffees and evening barbecues are spent here with family.  It always seems 20 degrees cooler here, no matter what time of day.

One thing that we love are the dandelions and violets.  The cute bugs (excluding grasshoppers) are always welcome.  They get watered and tended to all the same!

Yard of the Week's Whereabouts Soon to be Revealed

A tree house hideaway hides behind the house at the site of the season's first Yard of the Week.  Its whereabouts will be revealed soon.  Stay tuned.

Good Old Days: Fudge

By Mildred Olson

He was fun-loving, kind, and unbelievably patient. He had to be. He was the only male in a family of five females: four sisters and his mother.

When his father died, he found himself with the responsibility of the farm, a large herd of cattle, sheep, several horses, and all the tasks in the 1920s. When he discovered one of the horses had a cut on its leg, he contacted his friend, whom he called a horse doc, and was given a bottle of horse liniment. He had to apply it several times a day, so he put it in the kitchen cabinet, keeping it easy to get to.

As a break from farming, he loved to make fudge, and, in the evening, decided it was a good way to relax. He made it so often he felt he could make a batch with his eyes closed.

Perhaps that is what he was doing the night he poured a teaspoon of horse liniment in it instead of vanilla. The bottles looked alike and were sitting side by side. He poured the fudge into the cooling pans and, as soon as it was cool, he cut himself a large piece. One bite and he recognized its strange, weird taste. It was then he knew what he had done. He warned the family not to eat it and put it outside on a small table under the apple tree.

The next morning, he was shocked to see four young neighbor children stuffing their mouths with the fudge, unaware they were being watched until they heard the door being opened. In seconds, they were gone.

He later learned the children, surprisingly, did not get sick, He never reported the 'theft' to their parents. He moved the bottle of liniment to the barn and never made fudge again.

Considering everything, he figured that was one of his good old days.

A peek at 2014's first Yard of the Week

We open the season with a lovely lot in town. 
Do you know where it is?

Find out in next week's edition of The Payson Chronicle.
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Royal Responsibilities In Full Swing

Payson City Royalty duties are in full swing: Miss Payson Cassidy Gull (right) and 2nd Attendant Makala Swalberg (left) took part in today's Chamber Business of the Month Award presentation at Dixon Meat, an event that follows and precedes many other functions and responsibilities held by the queens.  Find out more about the event in next week's edition of The Payson Chronicle and now, on our website, at paysonchronicle.com.  Missing from photo: 1st Attendant Paige Downey