September 2009
Photos for September 1, 2009
Many Beaver Valley and Whispering Pines residents got a glimpse of the Water Wheel Fire from the mirrors in their vehicles as they left the area.
Forced out of their Whispering Pines home, Dave and Edith Watson spent Monday under a shade tree at Payson High School with their dogs Misty, Shadow and Precious and their cat, which was in a kennel. The couple has lived in Whispering Pines for nine years and said they knew a fire could force them out of their home. The Forest Service said Whispering Pines residents can return to their homes at 5 p.m. today, via the Control Road.
Ben Rogers and Erich Romberger amuse themselves with a quick game of chess as they wait for potential customers at the Boy Scouts yard sale, Saturday, Aug. 29. Money obtained from the yard sale will be used to help finance future Troop 354 activities.
Both the Payson Senior Center and the Pine-Strawberry Senior Citizen Center will offer flu shots in the coming weeks. The shots are for “regular” flu, not the “swine” flu, as that vaccine is still in development.
Charlie and Rhonda Walters, DPS Sgt. Terry Lincoln and officer Seth Meeske show the almost 100 teddy bears that were collected for the “Comfort Bears” program in memory of the Walters’ son Andy, who was killed in 2007 in an auto accident in Star Valley.
Each year at the start of school, the Rim Country and Payson Rotary Clubs jointly give each third-grader at area schools a free dictionary. This year the two clubs will have given more than 270 dictionaries to students at Pine Elementary School, The Shelby School, Tonto Basin Elementary School, Payson Community Christian School, as well as Payson Elementary School, Julia Randall Elementary School and Frontier Elementary School by the time the project is finished. Pictured: Rim Country Rotary secretary Donna Kline distributes dictionaries to Julia Randall Elementary students Melissa Caspisa, Jared Richardson and Raegen Ashby.
The Kiwanis of Zane Grey Country awarded Terrific Kids a certificate, T-shirt, bumper sticker and a coupon for a free scoop of ice cream at Scoops to each class winner for the month of August at Frontier Elementary School.
Junior Vargas and Christian Martinez complete the nailing of plywood into place before the trim is put around the soon-to-be-installed windows.
Both the Payson Senior Center and the Pine-Strawberry Senior Citizen Center will offer flu shots in the coming weeks. The shots are for “regular” flu, not the “swine” flu, as that vaccine is still in development.
Richard Alvarez To Buy This Image, contact: <a href="mailto:atowle@payson.com">atowle@payson.com</a>
Jared Perez and Dawson Davis work together to put the roof on the new Little Red Schoolhouse in Tonto Basin. Perez and Davis are in Richard Alvarez’s building and trades class at Payson High School. Students in the class work on several community projects a year. To Buy This Image, contact: <a href="mailto:atowle@payson.com">atowle@payson.com</a>
Visit Pine for pancakes, Tonto Village for barbecue and take a tour around the Rim for old-fashioned fun in both communities for the Labor Day weekend. There is a craft fair in Pine and fire district fund-raisers planned in Tonto Village and Beaver
Bob Edwards shook hands and greeted a number of people after his speech to about 50 members of the Citizens Awareness Committee at the Payson Public Library.
The Water Wheel Fire jumped Houston Mesa Road Sunday afternoon south of the Water Wheel Campground. By Tuesday the fire had consumed 773 acres and was 20 percent contained, but had not claimed any structures or grown in size since Monday.
Woods Canyon Lake is the place for twilight fishing this September. Last Wednesday (Aug. 26), a solo fisherman reported to Rory Aikens of Arizona Game & Fish he pulled 67 trout (between 11 and 15 inches long) out of the lake — all “beefy and good fighters.” He put 61 back in.
Jimmy Cross and Emery McKeen showed once again Payson fisherman know the big lake in their front yard. The two won a $1,300 prize at Roosevelt Lake.
Bryce River, a 2003 graduate of Payson High School, will soon be deployed to Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne Air Assault Division.
Freshman Longhorn Chance Randall (34) stiff-arms a St. Johns defender at the first “real” game of the season on Thursday, Aug. 27.
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