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Lunchtime in Payson

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Satchel Paige

 

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Missed Antiques Roadshow Appraisal Reveals Baseball Memorabilia’s Real Value 

Memories of meeting the great Satchel Paige

Delicate ephemeral letters, a baseball hand-signed by Satchel Paige, and a missed opportunity to join the line of appraisals by Antiques Roadshow released memory’s floodgates this summer. The televised program, which offers assessments of heirlooms and artifacts by experts in antiques, made a stop in Salt Lake City in June. With his brother Brent, Gordon Loveless had hoped to discover the material value of memorabilia from his past. A baseball autographed by Paige when, at 59, he was transitioning from player to coach and Gordon, then 22, was at the threshold of what could be. “It was an honor to know someone of that greatness,” Gordon told The Payson Chronicle in a phone call last week.

The memorabilia’s value, it turns out, is inestimable by monetary rating, and is instead found meaningful through the events retold and the appreciation Gordon holds for the rare chance at meeting the great Satchel Paige.

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Go Lions

 

Payson Newspaper Publishers Through The Years

 

Published in the September 24, 2025 edition of The Payson Chronicle.

Payson Youth Council Holds Bake Sale for New Fire Station

 

Make A Difference

 

Happy Autumn

 A harvest-ful party in early 1920s

Payson, Utah.

Happy Autumn! 🍂 

(Photo courtesy of Coralee Wilson)

Onion, Flower and Art Show winners are listed in this week’s edition!

Biggest Onion 2025

 

This onion’s a Golden Onion Days winner. Onion, Flower and Art Show winners are listed in this week’s edition. 

Vote

 

We have some elections coming up 

in South Utah County. 

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Business of the Month

 

Presented to Publisher Michael Olson by the Chamber at this evening’s Payson City Council meeting. 

In This Week’s Edition of The Payson Chronicle

 

Make A Difference

 Make A Difference And New Friends: Join The Payson Cultus Club

PICTURED (left-right): Payson City mayoral candidate (c1990) Richard “Dick” Harmer chats with Payson Junior Cultus members Dorothy Argyle and Beth Dixon at a meet-the-candidates night hosted by the club. Today, Junior Cultus members are among friends joined together in the Cultus Club. (Candidates not pictured: Don Cristiansen, mayoral, and city council contenders Don Dixon, Gary Adams, Jill Sullivan, Brent York, Ray Hiatt, Willis Pulver, and Clinton Dansie, who was represented that evening by his wife Ann Dansie.) 

Ever wonder how you could make a difference in our community? The Payson Cultus Club invites you to join them in this endeavor.

This club is a cultural, educational and service organization. Right now the members are collecting food items to feed school children on weekends. This is an ongoing service project.

The Payson Cultus Club meets every first Thursday at 1 PM in the Music Room on the second floor of the Peteetneet Museum and Cultural Arts Center.

The cost to join the club is $10 and worth every penny.

Upcoming events include an opening social luncheon. The Payson High Trouveres will perform in December. 

Mourning the Passing of Our Friend

 

Walter Lynn Kerby

February 11, 1947 — September 11, 2025

Lynn was born on February 11th, 1947, in Safford Arizona to Walter and Bea Kerby. As a young boy, his parents moved to Genola, Utah where Lynn learned the value of hard work helping to take care of the family dairy farm with his Dad and Brothers.  

After graduating from BYU in January of 1970 with a Degree in Manufacturing Engineering he began his career in the medical device industry, where he was awarded many patents. His work and designs were instrumental in helping to save many lives and help doctors and nurses stay safe in the course of their work.

Lynn married his Wife Mary in the Manti Temple on August 22, 1968. He loved his family and enjoyed spending time with his kids and grandkids. He could make or fix just about anything and always had some sort of project going. He enjoyed his yard and gardening and was especially proud of his pumpkins. He enjoyed playing games, ATV’s, fishing and hunting. He was a creator and loved woodworking and crafted something special for each of the grandchildren.

He was a great example who fought through multiple health issues throughout his life never complaining or giving up. Lynn was a kind soul and loved everyone. 

He is survived by his loving wife of 58 years Mary. His children; Todd(Ana), Alisha, Jared, Tyler(Julie). Sister; Jan (Bill / deceased), Brothers; Keith (Peggy), Blair (Debbie / deceased), and Terry (Lisa). He is also survived by his 14 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.

Funeral Service will be held September 19, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. in the Cedar Creek Ward (7655 East 15000 North Spring City, Utah, 84662) with a viewing from 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. prior to services. A viewing will also be held Thursday September 18, 2025 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. also at the church. Interment will be in the Payson City Cemetery.  

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 Santaquin Canyon: The Stone Spine And Green Heart Of A Small Utah City

Ute Chief Santaquin (1837-1911), after whom the city and canyon were named.

 

Santaquin Canyon was close to home and heart for Myron Olson (1919-2015). The Santaquin native is pictured (left side) as a young man employed in sign making and other tasks for the forest service while employed with the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) work relief program during the Great Depression. (No immediate identification available for the three individuals pictured to the right.)

  

SANTAQUIN, Utah — Tucked into the southern limb of the Wasatch Range, Santaquin Canyon is at once intimate and rugged: a narrow gorge that rises quickly from the valley floor into forests and jagged ridges, a seasonal creek that threads the canyon bottom, and a patchwork of old picnic groves, lone campgrounds and switchback roads that bear the traces of both geological time and human lives. For generations the canyon has been a place where Santaquin residents escape heat and suburbia, where anglers and mountain bikers seek shade and singletrack, and where the long story of central Utah—indigenous lifeways, Latter-day Saints’ settlement, small-scale industry and modern recreation—can be read in stone and stream. 

1944 Payson Junior Cultus Club Summer Project

 

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 COMING UP in The Payson Chronicle—Highways Through The Heart Of Central Utah: The Roadways That Shaped Payson And Santaquin

Few forces have reshaped the economic and social life of central Utah as profoundly as the state and federal highway systems. In communities like Payson and Santaquin, highways and freeways have not just carried cars and trucks — they have carried livelihoods, commerce, culture, and opportunity. From the first graded state roads that connected farm towns to markets, to the roaring interstate that today moves thousands of vehicles daily, the story of central Utah’s roadways is inseparable from the story of its people.

 

PHOTOS: Farming in his blood, Myron Olson (pictured, right, standing in Santaquin pasture in August 1961) carried on the agrarian tradition he inherited from both his father Vivan Olson (pictured, left) and his maternal York and Carter family lines on a small farm in Santaquin. With his Chicagoan wife Ethel Walin Olson and the couple’s children a home and farm were built on land that, today, is part of the Macey's grocery store parking lot. Fruit trees, blackberry and raspberry bushes, grape vines, and vegetable gardens that were rotated and replanted with the changing seasons were spread out in plots and groves on the Olson family property. The farm flourished along what once was a busy stretch of Highway 6 that was later outpaced with the arrival of Interstate 15. The family harvested the fruits of their labor and sold them from a stand set up just steps from their home.

 

A few blocks west of the Olson family farm was Verl Wall’s produce stand. A permanent structure with a cooler was built in 1988 next to his home along the highway of East Main Street, or SR 198. The business was called Grandpa V’s Family Fruit Stand (Verl is pictured in front of the fresh produce company’s sign). Locally grown fruit and vegetables fed thousands of new and repeat customers. Consistent use of this well-traveled roadway kept the fruit stand in the sight of travelers and customers who had become accustomed to the stop off I-15. The modernized stand thrived until its closure following the final harvest of 2020 and Verl Wall’s retirement.

Paysonians: VOTE!

 

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 Make A Difference And New Friends: Join The Payson Cultus Club

PICTURED is a newspaper clipping--a letter to the editor of its time, written by Elsie Warner, a member of the Payson Junior Cultus Club. The letter is one of about a dozen like it written by World War II-era club members who campaigned for women to vote as part of their 1944 summer project. The Payson Junior Cultus Club has since integrated into the Payson Cultus Club.

Ever wonder how you could make a difference in our community? The Payson Cultus Club invites you to join them in this endeavor. 

This club is a cultural, educational and service organization. Right now the members are collecting food items to feed school children on weekends. This is an ongoing service project.

The Payson Cultus Club meets every first Thursday at 1 PM in the Music Room on the second floor of the Peteetneet Museum and Cultural Arts Center.

The cost to join the club is $10 and worth every penny.

Upcoming events include an opening social luncheon. The Payson High Trouveres will perform in December. 

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After the Harvest

 

Smooth start—and finish—to a spectacular Golden Onion Days Celebration in Payson:

PHOTO: Payson Events Coordinator Janeen Dean holds a bag of golden onions in accordance with the celebration she oversees. Beside her, Friday morning, is the millstone monument that recalls Payson’s industrial past. The iconic Memorial Park Bandstand behind her would soon stage a string of Golden Onion Days performances that played out through Monday evening, Labor Day 2025. 

Story in this week’s edition of The Payson Chronicle.

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