Gayle Gammell

Mapleton resident Gayle Gammell has been selected to serve as the grand marshal of the 2023 Pioneer Days parade. The parade will be held Saturday, July 22, at 9 a.m. on Mapleton’s Main Street.

Gayle White Gammell was born in Spanish Fork and has lived in Mapleton her entire life, excluding her time as a student at Brigham Young University. She married Blake Clyde Gammell and they have four children: Jen (Randy) Larsen, Kristin (Brad) Northcutt, Lorelei (Preston) Back and Matt (Christie) Gammell. She has 20 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren (soon to be seven).

Gayle graduated from BYU with a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education. She worked for two years as a teacher at Maeser Elementary School in Provo, then worked with her husband and family in the family business, ClydeCo Building Supplies.

She served as a wife and mother as well as a church and community worker. With her husband, she was president of the Utah County Recreational Swim Program and worked in the Mapleton Baseball Association. She served as chair of the Miss Springville-Mapleton Pageant and was a PTA volunteer in local elementary and secondary schools.

Gayle and her husband served as chairs of the Art Ball at the Springville Museum of Art for two years, and she was a member of the Nebo Education Foundation for 25 years.

Gayle has a great love for the city of Mapleton. Her grandfather, Oscar Whiting, was bishop of the Mapleton 1st Ward when there was only one ward in Mapleton. He also served as the city’s mayor.

After the passing of her mother last year, the family’s farm was sold. Wood from Gayle’s grandfather’s sheds is now part of the Barn and Blacksmith Shop at Mapleton’s Historic Old Towne Square.

Although there has been a lot of growth and change of the years, Gayle believes it is a wonderful place to call home and raise a family.

DATE: Saturday, July 22

TIME: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

LOCATION: Mapleton City Park

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This Pioneer Days tradition has fun for the whole family. Enjoy live music from the gazebo, carriage rides around the park, Old Towne Square tours, pioneer games, carnival games, face painting, food trucks and more. Both free and ticketed activities will be available in the park.

Punch passes may be purchased in advance at tournament events, the Concert in the Park or the Mapleton City Building.

Bring the whole family to Memorial Hall to complete service projects for all ages during the Humanitarian Fair. A free craft corner will also be available for the little ones. This year’s service projects will include:

• Weaving sleeping mats on giant looms for homeless and refugee communities.

• Assembling wooden toy cars for children across the world.

• Making Turtle Shelter lifesaving vests for the homeless.

• Cutting diapers for preemie babies in Utah hospitals.

• Tying quilts for hospitals and Ukrainian refugees.

• Cutting fabric and panels for Days for Girls.

• Making bereavement bracelet sets for moms and babies.

• And more!

Do you have a favorite project you work on? Would you like to sponsor a project? Want to learn more about the available service projects and how you can get

DATE: Saturday, July 22

TIME: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

LOCATION: Memorial Hall involved? Visit justserve.org/mapletonhandstohearts.

Bring your favorite chair and blanket to Ira Allan Sports Park and enjoy food trucks, a helicopter fly over and ping pong drop, a showstopping concert by The Party Crashers, and one of the greatest fireworks displays the state of Utah has to offer!

Food Trucks –5 to 9 p.m.

More than 20 of your favorite food trucks and vendors will be lined up in the parking lot on the northeast side of the park offering a variety of selections to feed the whole family.

before the concert.

Ping Pong Drop Registration

Registration is in-person only and available at the following times and locations (no registration will be offered at Ira Allan Sports Park the night of July 22).

• Parks and Recreation Office, Mapleton City Building (downstairs), Monday, June 12, through Wednesday, July 19, Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• During tournament events at Ira Allan Sports Park on Saturday, July 15, from 9 to 11 a.m. and 6 to 8 p.m., and Wednesday, July 19, from 6 to 8 p.m.

• At Mapleton City Park, northeast corner of the park, on Saturday, July 22, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

DATE: Saturday, July 22

TIME: 5 - 11 p.m.

LOCATION: Ira Allan Sports Park

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Fireworks Show –Following the Concert

After the concert, we’ll paint the night sky with a brilliant array of colors. Each shell is hand selected and placed to a custom selection of music starting with “Come, Come Ye Saints” to honor our pioneer heritage. This show is sure to take your breath away!

Road Closures

The following road closures will take place for the Firework Finale events:

• 800 West from 1600 South to Park Meadows Drive (1 to 11:59 p.m.)

Ping Pong Drop –

6:30 to 7 p.m.

Enter the coolest prize drawing around to win some awesome prizes! Our helicopter ping pong ball drop is sponsored by Coin Crazy FFC and Trapnell Orthodontics and is open to children ages 4 through 14. Dr. Trapnell will fly his helicopter over the drop zone and release numbered ping pong balls for the kids to collect. The winning numbers are announced onstage

Party Crashers Concert – 8 p.m.

This year’s concert will feature the Party Crashers. The Party Crashers think outside the event entertainment box to deliver a musical experience that is fresh, engaging and different. Their artists bring years of television, film, music and theater crews as performers, writers, arrangers and producers. This hot Top 40 band is one of the nation’s premier groups. Their talent and energy guarantee an entertainment experience like no other.

• 1600 South from Hwy. 89 to 800 West:

• East traffic only for pedestrian walkway (1 p.m. through the start of the fireworks)

• West traffic only for pedestrian walkway (after the fireworks)

Free Public Parking

Free public parking will be available in the field at approximately 1400 West 1600 South, and a public walkway will be available along 1600 South from 800 West to 1400 West. A drop-off zone will be available at 800 West on 1600 South.