Chronicling Local Weddings: Photos Now Being Accepted

Dust off Grandma's picture album and prepare to share your family's legacy. The Payson Chronicle is now seeking wedding photos taken of local couples throughout the years.  Submissions will be considered for publication in a forthcoming exclusive wedding edition.

Please include a summary, 500 words or less, detailing the wedding location, the scene, and participants who contributed to the special day. Email this, along with a JPEG-photo of the couple, to paysonchronicle@gmail.com. Include also your contact information and relationship to the couple.

Submission deadline is March 31, 2012.

'Core' of Santaquin Community Come Together for Thirteenth Annual Chamber Installation Banquet

The fallibility in consistently forecasting Mother Nature's intentions became a narrative to recognizing the universal fallacies of human nature by Santaquin Chamber Installation Banquet guest speaker, Kevin Eubanks. The meteorologist and popular KSL Channel 5 weather forecaster proved infallible, however, when it came to consistently sparking laughter from the crowd of local business owners and leaders as he joined them in the Santaquin Senior Citizen Center on February 25.

Identifying the crowd in the room that night as the community's core, Eubanks highlighted the beneficial conditions made possible in of a society that works collectively through difficult weather.

Senate Candidate To Speak in Payson

Dan Liljenquist, candidate for the US Senate, will be holding a town hall in Payson on Tuesday, March 6, 2012, at Mt. Nebo Jr High School,  from 7:00-8:30 PM.

A former state Senator, Liljenquist has been recognized nationally for his work on pension and Medicaid reform. He will be in Payson to talk about his run for the US Senate.

The public is invited to attend and ask questions.

Underage Drinking Topic of March 29 Town Hall Meeting

Communities That Care coordinator, Kim Lefler, with a memento symbolizing the perils of substance abuse.  The photo was taken in her office inside the Payson City administrative building  in October 2011. 

Underage drinking is the focus of an upcoming town hall meeting hosted by Communities That Care of Payson. The event will be held in the Payson High School Auditorium on March 29, from 7-8:30 PM. Parents Empowered is scheduled to present, according to Communities That Care coordinator, Kim Lefler.

Affiliated with the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Communities That Care is a coalition-based prevention program that enlists local stakeholders as engaged participants. Through education and consultation, these influential community members are kept apprised of current research on problem behavior, such as substance abuse, delinquency, and violence, as well as given tools by which they might effect change.

Payson City's partnership with the program began last year.

According to Lefler, a Take Back Event is also in the works. Slated for April 28, from 10-2 PM at Payson Market, “people can bring their unused prescription medication for safe disposal,” she said.

LDS Missionary Announcement: Clinton Wayne Brown

Clinton Wayne Brown has been called and assigned to labor in the Peru Lima North Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He will be speaking in Sacrament meeting on February 26, 2012, in the West Mountain Fourth Ward, at 9 AM. The church is located at 10400 South 5237 West, Payson (West Mountain).

Clint is the son of Joel and Marcine Brown of Payson, Utah. He is the grandson of Mary Jean Brown and the late Wayne Brown of Payson, and Corwin and Martha Hancock of Bountiful, Utah.

Please come to our home for refreshments immediately following Sacrament meeting. We are at 7685 South 5600 West, Payson.

LDS Missionary Announcement: Tyler William Rebol

Elder Tyler William Rebol has been called to serve as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He will labor in the Texas Dallas Mission.  He will give his missionary farewell talk on February 26th, 2012, 1 PM at the Payson Seventh Ward, located at 1138 East 100 South, Payson, UT. His parents are Shasta and John Rebol.

We are very proud of you Tyler! This will be the best two years of your life!

Love,

Your family

Salem Hills High Lady Skyhawks Blast East 71-28 in First Round of 4A State Basketball Tournament

Pictured: Jerika Dufey (00), Kiley Williams (20), and Lyssa Hanks (54) 

At Salt Lake Community College, the Lady Skyhawks were too quick for their East High opponents, and after a relatively slow start, went on to a 71-28 rout.  Hailey Ingram, Lyssa Hanks, Brooke Ford, and Missy Belliston led the Salem Hills scoring attack.

Next up for the Lady Skyhawks will be Mountain Crest on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at SLCC in the quarterfinals.  Mountain Crest defeated Hillcrest 60-35 in the game preceding that of Salem Hills and East.