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ADDRESS40 S. Main St., Suite 10, Spanish ForkPHONE NUMBER(801) 798-8352EMAIL ADDRESSoffice@spanishforkchamber.comWEBSITEwww.spanishfork-chamber.com

Candi HigleyDAILY HERALD

Business and community members gathered at the Chillon Reception Center in Spanish Fork on Friday night to participate in the annual Spanish Fork-Salem Area Chamber of Commerce’s Installation and Awards Banquet. Members of the chamber presented various awards to businesses and individuals in the community.

The Total Citizen of the Year Award was presented to Cary Ludlow Hanks. Hanks was chosen by her community and has been someone whom many businesses credit with helping in their success.

“I love Spanish Fork and Salem and our businesses here,” said Hanks. “My greatest desire is to help them succeed. I want to help them in any way.”

The Business of the Year Award was pre-sented to Macey’s Stores with director and manager Bill Summers accepting the award.

“This means a lot,” said Summers. “When Macey’s first came to Spanish Fork they were told they would never make it in Spanish Fork. I appreciate our city leaders. And I am thankful to Spanish Fork for their support.”

The Business Person of the Year was pre-sented to Susan Taylor, owner of Susan’s Hair Design.

“I feel very privileged and didn’t expect this,” said Taylor. “I started my business when I had little kids at home. They have stood by me and helped me. I am also thank-ful to my husband for his support.”

The Community Action Award was pre-sented to Steve Henline, owner of Hand in Hand Outdoors.

“There are many others who deserve this award,” said Henline. “These men behind me have shown me there are many things more important than self. I want to thank you all.”

Other awards included: the Education Partnership Award, Dale Phelps of Nebo Credit Union; Spanish Fork Mayor’s Award, Dr. Don Robertson; Salem Mayor’s Award, Robert and Barbara Palfreyman; President’s Award, Bridges Program; Director’s Award, Randi Kaufmann.

Outgoing chamber board members were presented with service awards. Recipients included: Susan Taylor, Brenda Liddiard, Rocky Giles, Tony Jewkes, Mike McKell, Tonjelle Halladay and Mike Mendenhall.

New board members also were installed at the banquet.

The 2013 board of directors will include: Brad Tanner, president; Becky McConnell, president-elect; Cary Robarge, past presi-dent; Cary Hanks, executive director; Susan Taylor; Brenda Liddiard; Mike Mendenhall; Randi Kaufmann; Tonjelle Halladay; Amy Dickerson; Frank Lillywhite; Steve Clegg; Tim Shanto; Yolanda Moser; Lance Wilson; Terri Williams; Brent Wignall; Stacy Beck; Rick Ainge; Susan Barber, Rotary represen-tative; Janie Christensen, Salem City; Rod Dart, Spanish Fork City; Lana Hiskey, Nebo School District; Mike McKell, Kiwanis rep-resentative; and Ed Jeffreys, treasurer.

Award winners at the Spanish Fork-Salem Area Chamber of Commerce 2013 Installation Awards Banquet on Jan. 18, included Susan Taylor (left) of Susan’s Hair Designs who was named Business Person of the Year and Bill Summers (below left), the director and manager of Macey’s Stores who received the Business of the Year award from Brad Tanner.

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Chamber holds their annual awards banquetCelebrating success

“I love Spanish Fork and Salem and our businesses here. My greatest desire is to help

them succeed. I want to help them in any way.”

— Cary Ludlow Hanksowner of Cary’s Designs Floral and recipient of the Total Citizen

of the Year Award

Guests listen during the Spanish Fork-Salem Area Chamber of Commerce 2013 Installation for Board Directors and Community Awards Banquet on Friday, January 18, 2013 at the Chillon Reception Center in Spanish Fork.

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“It is so empowering to be able to see so many other women who are trying to balance business and a family,” Hair said. “It buoys you up. You know you aren’t alone.”

Jessica Cardenas, an employee at Servpro, came because of her experience with members of the Spanish Fork and Utah Valley chambers.

“I love the Spanish Fork Chamber,” Cardenas said. “I am re-ally excited about this because it will help develop relationships in the community.”

Niki Peterson, owner of Miss Niki’s Childcare in Spanish Fork, came to the event because she just started her business.

“I am hoping to talk to others and find out things that can help me,” Peterson said. “I want to hear other people’s ideas.”

Patricia Mills is a licensed clinical social worker with a private practice in Spanish Fork. Kaufman, her daughter, encouraged her to come, network and help build her practice.

“I love anything I can do to help support women,” Mills, who specializes in women’s mental health issues, said. “The way I grow my business is through word of mouth, so to be able to have this networking group will be nice.”

A year membership is $30 and networking luncheons are $8.

Candi HigleyDAILY HERALD

Women who are business owners or work for companies in Springville and further south now have an opportunity to net-work, support and help their businesses grow thanks to a new women’s group, Women in Business South Utah County, which held its first meeting and noon networking luncheon Wednesday in Spanish Fork.

“We saw that there was a need for women to be able to net-work with other women,” said Amy Dickerson, president of Women in Business South Utah County. “We wanted not only a way for women to come together but also a way to get involved and make a difference in the community.”

The guest speaker for the first luncheon was Debby Lauret, the director of Women in Business North Utah County. Lauret is the economic development director for American Fork City. She spoke to more than 50 women about how to network like a pro and the mentality and abundance of a giver.

“Too many times we take what we have learned from the chamber of commerce world,” Lauret said. “We hand out busi-ness cards and shove them in people’s faces. This isn’t a hunting game. This is about creating relationships. We need to have the farming mentality. We are planting seeds and nourishing them.”

The north county group has been available for women for about six years. Lauret has seen how the group has benefited many women and their businesses.

“Once you create a network for your business, it can really take off,” Lauret said. “These women help each other connect and find resources. They also enjoy giving back to the commu-nity. We hold two conferences a year, one of which is a chari-table conference. We find ways to raise money and give back to programs in our area that need it.”

Dickerson is planning to run the south county group in a simi-lar fashion.

“We will have once a month noon networking luncheons,” Dick-erson said. “We will also hold two conferences a year, one being on education and networking and the other being a humanitarian conference.”

Dickerson has three people helping her on a board of direc-tors, but the group is looking for others to join the board.

Randi Kaufman is the vice president, Christy Hair is the public-ity coordinator and Cary Hanks is the adviser. Open spots are for a secretary, community coordinator and recruitment coordinator.

Networking the focus of women’s organization

Women listen to Debby Lauret (below), of the North County Women in Business, speak at a luncheon for the South County Women in Business at CheapsShots Photography in Spanish Fork on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013.

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South county businesswomen form new group

Lana HiskeyNEBO DISTRICT’S COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST

Captains and student leaders from six high schools and seven junior high schools attended the Nebo School District’s Winter Academy. The purposes of the Captains Academy are to promote sportsmanship between the schools through the captains and leaders working to-gether at the academy, promote better relations between the students and athletes, develop leadership through the academy activities, and develop relationships with coaches and admin-istrators as they present at each academy.

This winter Captains Academy included captains from boys basketball, girls basketball, wrestling, drill team, student government, boys

swimming, girls swimming and band.Superintendent Rick Nielsen started the

academy by welcoming the team captains and letting the students know that students come first in Nebo School District. “The key to Cap-tains’ Academy is that it enhances sportsman-ship, builds friendships, builds leadership capac-ity, and embodies all that high school athletics is all about,” he said.

Kirk Chambers, head football coach at Span-ish Fork High, played professional football for the following teams: Cleveland Browns, Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions, and the Atlanta Falcons last year. He led a discussion on “What is a Leader?” Then the students worked in groups to answer the questions, “What is a leader?” and “What is the role of a captain?”

Spanish Fork Junior High’s Assistant Prin-cipal Mark Bake introduced “Sportsmanship” with a short YouTube clip by Tom Rinaldi of ESPN. Then the students worked in groups again to answer the questions, “How can we as leaders instill sportsmanship at our school?” and “How can we instill better sportsmanship at our school?”

Each high school sends a captain for each sport. The captains do not sit with their own school; rather, they sit with sport captains and leaders from other high schools. The captains listen to each presenter, and then work col-laboratively to present their position and ideas back to the entire group.

The keynote speech was given by Kyle Wilson, an Intermountain Healthcare Clinic

Manager. Wilson was a two time All-Stater in football, a two time State Champion Wrestler, a BYU football scholarship recipient, the BYU football team captain, and on the Mountain West Conference All-Academic Team. He addressed various ways on how to become suc-cessful.

Everett Kelepolo, Nebo School District’s ath-letic director and organizer of these academies, said, “Captains Academy has provided a power-ful forum for athletes and school leaders to dis-cuss and implement essential leadership traits and the value of great sportsmanship.”

A big thank you to Laura Salazar, Communi-cations Director at Intermountain Healthcare, for the delicious lunch provided for the cap-tains and leaders.

Student team captains and leaders from the six high schools and seven junior high schools.

Nebo School District hosts Captain’s Academy

Dickerson is hoping businesses in the area that may be interested in hosting the luncheons will call her.

“We think this will give businesses the opportunity to be spot-lighted as hosts,” Dickerson said. “We had such a great turnout and we can’t wait to involve more women in the community.”

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EXECUTIVE BOARD Brad Tanner Triple T Heating & Cooling2013 PRESIDENT

Becky McConnell Macey’s PRESIDENT ELECT

Cary Robarge Robarge Collision PAST PRESIDENT

Cary HanksCary’s Designs Floral EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Susan Taylor Susan’s Hair Designs

Brenda LiddiardCircle V Meat

Tony Jewkes Heideman, McKay, Heugly & Olsen

Lance Wilson Lance Wilson State Farm

Stacy Beck Utah Valley Magazine

Rick Ainge Ainge CPA

Brent Wignall Wiggy Wash

Yolanda Moser South Valley Gym

Becky McConnell Macey’s

Steve Clegg Clegg Automotive

Tim Shanto

American Family Insurance

Mike McKell McKell Christiansen Law Office

Rocky Giles Rocky’s Tire Pros

Terri Williams Rise, Prioritize, Organize

Sean Nielsen Zap Pest Control

SML Construction Steve Leifson, 01/30/13

Susan Barber Susan Barber, 01/29/13

America First Credit Union Robert Ames, 01/18/13

Nothing But Tan Ty-ler Garcia, 01/15/13

ACN American Communications Net-work Gary L. Pinegar, 01/08/13

Waffle Love LLC Adam Terry, 01/08/12

Women in Business South Utah County Amy Dickerson, 12/19/12

Sprint Gary Tippets, 12/06/12

All Tune Automo-tive Ray Christensen, 12/05/12

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Calendar of EventsWomen in Business South Utah County Connections LuncheonWhen: Wednesday, Feb. 20, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m.Where: South Valley Gym, 583 N. State Rd., 198, Salem, UT 84653.What: Connections luncheon will feature speaker Randi Kaufman of RK Creative Consulting who will address the impact of social media on your business. Cost is $8. Membership is $30 or $20 if you attend this meeting. Contact: RSVP by calling (801) 798-8352

Bills & Bagels in South County When: Saturday, March 2, 7:30-9 a.m.Where: Nebo School District Office Board Room, 350 S. Main, Spanish Fork. What: Bills & Bagels will allow businesses and the public to interact with legislators in our local districts on issues important to our area.

Noon Networking LuncheonWhen: Wednesday, March 13, 12-1 p.m.Where: High Chaparral, 457 S. Main, Spanish Fork. What: Come network your business with local business owners and managers. Lunch is $8.

On February 1, the MMHS Ellevés competed in the State 4A Drill Team Competition held at Utah Valley University. The Ellevés placed sec-ond in the military category, third in the dance category and fifth in the kick category.

Overall, Maple Mountain placed third. There were 15 4A schools competing.

Shalee Hiskey, daughter of Bruce and Lana Hiskey, was named to the Academic All-State Team. Each 4A school could nominate seniors on their team with a GPA of 3.75 or higher. Only 10 seniors are named to this team. The combined average of this year’s 4A Academic All-State Team was 3.987.

Two Ellevés were also named to the 4A All-State Dance Tea – Shalee Hiskey and Jamie Topham, daughter of Greg and Mi-chelle Topham.

Each 4A team sent three girls to learn a rou-tine that they auditioned in front of judges and then 20 girls were selected as the 4A All-State Dance Team.

The All-State team performed the audition routine and was given certificates and medals.

The Ellevés would like to thank all of the students, parents, administration, and fans who came to State. We really appreciate all of your support this year!

Miss Spanish Fork 2011Whitney Talbert is host-ing the 2013 Miss Teen Ex-traordinaire Pageant on Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. at the Spanish Fork High School Auditorium.

This pageant is for special needs high school girls from South Utah County.

In it’s third year, every girl is a winner and the girls learn confidence, poise, and have a great time making new friends.

Talbert is well known in Spanish Fork for her work with special needs children, espe-cially her Kickball Tournament

and the Teen Extraordinaire pageants.

Come and support these awe-some young women at the pageant.

Tickets are $5 at the door that night. Bring the whole family for a night you will never forget.

Maple Mountain High School Ellevés Pose After Winning 3rd at State.

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Brockbank in-school challenge benefits food bank

Brockbank Elementary re-cently completed their annual food drive.

Usually the food drive is held before the holidays, but this year Brockbank decided to have it in January.

After talking to local food banks, they said this time of year food is especially in need because after Christmas they have a hard time building back up their supplies and there is significant need with all the cold, winter weather we have

been having. The student council spon-

sored the drive and worked hard to get all the students excited about it.

To help get the students motivated, they decided to have an in-school competi-tion between the grades and classes. Students were divided into two groups – kindergarten through third grade and fourth through sixth grades.

It was a great success!

Class winners were Mrs. Linda Argyle / Mrs. Whitney Munns’ third-grade class (K-3) and the older grades (4-6) had a tie with Mrs. JaNae Wilson’s sixth-grade class and Mrs. Sara Stout’s sixth-grade class bringing in the most cans.

Even though these classes won the school competition, really everyone wins because Brockbank was able to do-nate 1,398 cans to Tabitha’s Way in Spanish Fork.

Sixth Grade Student Council Members include Caleb Dillman (back left to right), Rachel Cahill, Ben Boyack, Camille Brown, Katelynn Poulsen, Kaden Armour, and Nicolas Aguero, Emma Argyle (front left to right), Amanda Mitchell and Emily Lund.

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The Utah Association of Secondary School Principals presented its Principal of the Year award to Dave McKee, Principal of Spanish Fork High School.

McKee started his educational career teach-ing Japanese, sports medicine, health, physical education and driver education at Payson High School.

He also coached football, golf, track, and bas-ketball. McKee has served in administration at Spanish Fork High since 2003.

He earned his Master’s Degree in Athletic Administration from Idaho State University and his Administrative Endorsement from Southern Utah University.

“I have worked with Dave for many years and have always been impressed with his extensive knowledge of education and clear focus on student learning,” said John De-Graffenried, secondary director.

“He is a great teacher, an outstanding coach and a dedicated principal. Dave knows each student, attends their activities and en-courages them to do their best,” he said. “He is innovative and has the capacity to connect with individual students, parents, and teach-ers in a productive ways.”

Principal McKee has developed a highly successful attendance policy which has changed the culture of the school. The school vision statement is: Here, We Learn for Life.

“This is not what we say we are; it is who we are, that drives us to improve and con-tinue to improve,” he said. He recognizes the value of professional learning communities, which serves as a vehicle of collaboration with an emphasis on intervention and stu-dent success.

Principal McKee has worked hard to pro-mote technology so that the school has over 400 combinations of laptops, net books and iPads for student use.

Some of the state’s criteria required to be selected for Principal of the Year include: • Providing direction and focus by involving teachers, staff, parents and the community in achieving the goals of the school.• Model continuous professional growth and assists others to focus on student learning.

• Establishes and maintains a positive school climate and utilizes effective problem-solving techniques.• Acknowledges achievement or accomplishments of students, teachers, and school community.• Communicates effectively and models val-ues, beliefs, and attitudes that inspire others to higher levels of performance.

“Mr. McKee is a compassionate, dedicated principal who creates a welcoming learning environment for all students, supports teachers as they advance in practice and professionalism, and makes Spanish Fork High School a place of learning and growth,” said Deon Youd, an Eng-lish teacher at Spanish Fork High.

“Mr. McKee is deserving of Principal of the Year,” said Kippy Bishop, Spanish Fork High secretary. “He is a collaborative leader who involves teachers, staff members, parents, stu-dents, and the community in achieving school goals. One of his greatest traits is his ability to initiate change. He has created a learning cul-ture that has been embraced by all stakeholders. Because of his Instructional leadership abilities, he has shaped SFHS into a great school that is focused on student achievement.”

Assistant Principal Steve Dudley said, “Dur-ing the past few years Mr. McKee has seen Spanish Fork High School go from 1850 stu-dents down to 850 students. During this time it became necessary to move half of the faculty and staff to other schools. This was one of the most painful things that Dave had to do as a principal. It was like losing part of his family. Through all of these changes, Dave has main-tained an excellent staff, a loving and caring school environment, and a school culture that promotes learning.”

Some of McKee’s past honors include Neu-mont University Excellence in Technology Education Award 2008 and Utah Foreign Lan-guage Teacher of the Year 1992-93.

He has served as Payson High’s Foreign Lan-guage department chair and athletic director. He played football for BYU from 1976-78 and again in 1981.

Dave is married to Jodi and they have two children and reside in Elk Ridge.

Dave McKee named Principal of the Year

Spanish Fork High School’s principle Dave McKee poses for a photograph in his office on Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. McKee was named as one of the 2012-13 Utah Secondary Principals of the Year by the Utah Association of Secondary School Principals.

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Business of the Month for February is the Dug Out Texa-co. Blake Barney is the owner and Bob McConnell manages this awesome business located on the south end of Spanish Fork Main Street.

The Dug Out is a favorite with local residents and local high school students. Blake and Bob have been members of the chamber and our business community for many years.

Although the Dug Out is fairly new, their expertise is from years of business experi-ence here in Spanish Fork.

Attending the celebration for the Dug Out was Blake’s parents, Dale and Ila Mae Barney, and Bob’s wife Becky McConnell. Members of the Chamber were there to con-

gratulate the Dug Out includ-ing, Brad Tanner, Bob and Becky McConnell, Rod Dart, Eric Melander, Heathre Hone, Chris Baird, Ron Payne, Frank Lillywhite, Amy Dickerson, Terri Williams, Brent Wignall,

Ed Jeffrey, Carol Ford, Wendy and Jody Osborne, Lance Wil-son and Cary Hanks.

Photo courtesy of Museum Editions, cake from Macey’s and Spanish Fork Channel 17. Con-gratulations to the Dug Out.

Chamber honors the Dug Out

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