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PANGUITCH MAIN STREET, INC. RECEIVES 2012 ORGANIZATION AWARD FROM THE UTAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION
On May 4 Panguitch Main Street, Inc. received the 2012 Outstanding Organization Award from the Utah Heritage Foundation. Panguitch Main Street was chosen for its support of many programs, events and projects to keep Panguitch City a worthy National Historic District. It was also noted that the historic red brick buildings are still in use as homes and businesses and that the people of Panguitch still possess the values and traits of their stalwart pioneer heritage. Panguitch Main Street Director, Cheryl Church and Board Chairman Art Cooper attended the awards luncheon at the Salt Lake Masonic Temple to accept the award.
FIELD DIG NEAR FREMONT
On May 19, Steve Taylor of Fremont organized a wonderful field day for his Wayne County history class and members of the Old Spanish Trail Association (OSTA). Taylor received permission to conduct a dig in a field near Fremont. On January 13, 1854, John C. Fremont’s Fifth Expedition camped at this location in a grove of Cottonwood trees. Bob Leonard, U.S. Forest Service archeologist and OSTA member led the survey. Participants were instructed in how to use GPS coordinates to document each artifact found. The group used metal detectors to identify possible locations containing metal artifacts. Then, used shovels to dig them out. No evidence was found of the Fremont expedition, however the group did identify horseshoes, a shovelhead, an axe head, a few cut nails and other items from a homestead at the location. William Taylor built a home in the grove in 1878 and lived there until 1886 when he relocated to Idaho. Some of the artifacts found dated from that period. At the conclusion of the field day, the group enjoyed Steve Taylor’s Dutch oven ribs. Thanks to Steve for planning such an exciting and educational
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Thursday, May 24, 2012 • Issue # 945
KERRY ANDERSON RETIRES Kerry Anderson began his teaching career at Wayne High School in 1973 after graduating from BYU where he had a successful wrestling career. He has taught business, technology, history, driver’s education, physical education, and was the district technology director for a time period. When he started teaching at Wayne High School, there was not a baseball program, so he organized it. He was instrumental in creating the baseball complex we now have and successfully coached baseball for 25 years. In 1991, he put together and coached a girl’s softball team; they went undefeated that year and only lost to one team the next year, all the while playing against 2A teams, as no other 1A school had a girl’s softball team. He has coached track for both the boys and girls until this year. The girl’s team won the state title in 1991 and had a run of state championships for the years 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002… a six year streak. He and Greg Southwick coached together during this time. In 2007, the boy’s track team won the region team title and finished third in state. There have been numerous individual state champions and state championship teams in all areas of track and field. There have only been two wrestling coaches in the entire history of Wayne High, J. Alton Balle and Kerry Anderson; their coaching has covered a time span of approximately 70 years. Although Coach Balle did not have a championship
team, Kerry attributes him as building a winning tradition and setting a strong foundation for future success. Kerry has been given the honor as being the “most winning” coach in Utah high school wrestling history. He amassed 16 state championships and eight runner-ups...more than any other school being coached by the same coach. There have been 99 individual state wrestling champions, 27 All-Americans,and 20 region team titles. He was the Utah National Team Coach for eight years and coached numerous wrestlers from Utah at Jr. Nationals in Fargo, North Dakota. He served as a USA wrestling coach taking a team to Slovenia and coached many years at the Utah Summer Games. Kerry was one of the first coaches inducted into
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the Utah Hall of Fame in 2002. He was inducted into the National Hall of Fame in 2003. His legacy lives on in the many successful coaches who have come through his program--to name a few: George Chappell- North Sevier, Brian Pace- Dixie, Rhett JefferyPanguitch and Enterprise, Mitch Stevens- Clearfield, Vance Morrell- Wayne, Michael Durfey- Wayne, Craig Blackburn- Arizona, Gordon Ellett- Wayne, Scott EllettWayne, Blake Turner- Millard, Corey Anderson- Delaware, Dan Taylor- Wayne, Mike Stephenson- Wayne, Greg Pace- Wayne, Tony Jackson-Wayne, Jan Ellett- Wayne, David Chappell- Wayne, Ted Peterson- Wayne, and Larry Bray- Wasatch and Wayne. Kerry’s time invested in coaching has been supported and encouraged by his wife, Sherry, who has missed very few matches in the last 39 years. She has always been the wrestlers’ greatest fan! Kerry has taught or coached almost every student who has passed through Wayne High School in the past 39 years. He believes the statement, “Outstanding young men and women are Wayne County’s best export”. To you, Kerry we offer our sincere thanks for showing us all what a $5 Job looks like!
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself. Peter da Silva Wayne Phone: 435-836-2622 Garfield Phone: 435-676-2621 Fax 1-888-370-8546 PO BOX 472, Loa, Utah 84747 snapshot@live.com ALL content for THE WAYNE &GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER must be submitted on FRIDAY BEFORE 5:00 PM to be included in the following Thursday edition of the paper.
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