Board Members
Ted Winder |
Raised on the family dairy farm in rural Salt Lake County, Ted is a fifth generation Utahan.
He attended Ricks College and the University of Utah where he majored in geography.
For 30 years Ted was employed with Morris Murdock Travel in Salt Lake City.
During his career he worked as a travel counselor, human resource manager and Vice President of Operations.
In 2002 he worked with the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee.
Following the Winter Games, Ted set up his own company as an independent tour guide.
He contracts with tour companies and can usually be found on a motor coach with seniors who are on tour to see the sites.
He specializes in the Western U.S. and Canadian Rockies.
He also does international tour management and has experience in more than 60 countries.
Ted has served on the Salt Lake County Library Board and has been awarded the District Award of Merit from the Boy Scouts of America.
He is a Certified Travel Counselor (CTC) and Life Member of the Travel Institute in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
He is a founding member and past president of the Utah Tour Guide Association.
Ted and his wife JaNae make their home in Torrey.
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RayLynne Cooper |
RayLynne Cooper is the founder and owner of Serenity Springs Assisted Living Center in Loa, Utah.
Prior, she spent 20 years as an estimator and construction manager for Layton and Wadsworth construction in Salt Lake City.
In 2007 she decided her dream was to open an assisted living center in rural Utah.
After a year of research she selected Wayne County as the ideal home for her new business.
She immediately joined community groups, is a member of the Utah Daughters of Pioneers, and is involved with renovating the Loa Tithing Office, Wayne County's only building listed on the National Historic Register. RayLynne is a strong advocate for small business development and lifelong professional education.
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Vicky Bower |
Vicky Bower is the owner of Kindred Spirits, a Utah State Package Store in Bicknell.
Her store has increased revenue 800 percent since her initial contract award from the state DABC.
Vicky is a public service veteran with seventeen years of public safety experience as Emergency Program Manager,
EMT-Intermediate, EMT Instructor, CPR Instructor, and Training Officer, as well as emergency response and pre-hospital patient care.
She served eleven-years as EMS Director while simultaneously maintaining the position of Emergency Management Coordinator for
Wayne County in rural south-central Utah.
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Amy Jackson |
Amy has been in the customer service industry since the ripe old age of 8.
Her family owned and operated the Mt. Boulder service station where she would pump gas, wash windshields and
check oil & tires in most every customer's vehicle.
Later she delivered propane around the county and went on to work as a waitress in many of the local eateries.
Amy married her high school sweetheart Tony Jackson, has five children and lives in Bicknell.
She is very involved in the public schools as assistant cheer coach and gives service in her church with scouting and young women.
Amy works with her husband at Jackson Excavation and Bullhead Sand & Gravel where she puts together bids,
estimates, schedules, billing, and financial reports.
She loves Wayne County and the way people help and serve one another.
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Brian Swanson |
Brian has been visiting Wayne County since the early 1970s, bought property in 1986, and moved here full time in 1999.
While schooled as an artist in Illinois and Washington State, Brian also had a professional career in construction,
supervising large commercial construction projects.
In 1987 he started a small art installation business in the Seattle area while working as an artist showing in galleries
and designing public art projects. From 1990-1998 he served on the board of The Kirkland Arts Center,
four of those as chairman.
In 2003 with partners Karen Kesler and Sally Elliot (who built Skyridge B&B) and his wife Pat Priebe,
Brian opened Gallery 24 in Torrey.
Brian was active on the board of the Wayne County Travel Council for five years before helping set up the Wayne County
Business Association in 2009.
Hiking, skiing, and fly fishing are some of his favorite ways to spend time.
Brian helps the County grow in a sustainable and prosperous way while retaining the rural lifestyle and beautiful scenery
that is so unique to the area.
He relishes the sense of community and the talented people that we have in our county.
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Ty Markham |
Ty fell in love with Utah in the late 60's while attending Brigham Young University.
She vowed to return to Utah someday, and did.
But not until after putting a husband through Northwestern Dental School (by teaching HS English in Winnetka & Chicago),
raising a family in Huntington Beach, California and founding/directing a private elementary & Jr. high school there (1980-2008),
finishing a master's degree (1986) and later a doctorate (1992) in clinical psychology at Pepperdine University,
working as a neuropsychologist from 1991-1994 in LA area hospitals,
and then as a licensed clinical psychologist at the University of Utah from 1994-2009.
She is now in her third [and she claims, "final"] career as owner/innkeeper of the Torrey Schoolhouse B&B.
Her interests are sustainable agriculture ("permaculture"), green design & construction, off-grid living,
independent films, geology, astronomy, and pioneer history.
As a board member of the WCBA, she hopes to see Wayne County achieve a thriving Farmers Market,
and to inspire potential business owners to start a cottage industry.
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Jess Alvey |
After marrying her husband Duke, Jess moved to Hanksville in 1994.
She grew up in Magna, Utah where she was a student leader at Cypress High School.
Computer Science classes (her major) kept her busy at Weber State University and she taught for 12 years at Snow Canyon High
before becoming involved in small business development.
The Alvey's own and manage Stan's Chevron, Convenience Store and Burger Shak as well as the Whispering Sands Motel in Hanksville.
Jess is the mother of six children and also stays busy with church and community activities.
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LeEllen McCartney |
LeEllen McCartney retired from the Air Force as a Colonel, after serving almost 23 years as a judge advocate.
She has worked as a Circuit Defense Counsel in the Republic of the Philippines, Deputy Staff Judge Advocate at Beale AFB,
California, served as the Legal Advisor to the Air Force Drug Testing Laboratory,
and worked in the General Law Division of the Office of the Judge Advocate General.
As the Staff Judge Advocate for the 325th Fighter Wing at Tyndall AFB, Florida,
she also served as the primary legal advisor to the Commander of First Air Force,
the Joint Forces Air Component Commander for Operation NOBLE EAGLE.
Ms McCartney has also been the Chief of the Government Trial and Appellate Counsel Division for the
Air Force Legal Services Agency and the Staff Judge Advocate for the 316th Wing at Andrews Air Force Base,
Maryland and the Air Force District of Washington, Bolling Air Force Base, District of Columbia.
After retiring from the Air Force, Ms McCartney worked as a career clerk for Judge Scott Stucky of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces for two years, before moving to Teasdale, Utah.
She is married to Richard A. McCartney and has three grown children and six grandchildren.
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Gary Bagley |
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West Taylor |
West Taylor has been a businesses owner and entrepreneur for the past 15 years.
As a young man he spent his summers living on his Grandfathers farm in rural Southern Utah.
From this foundation West has patterned his life.
Married to his high school sweetheart for 25 years they are enjoying raising their four children and two grand children back on the
family property in Fremont Utah.
West has always had a dream that at some point in his life he would find a way to mix his gifts and talents in the business
arena with his love of horses. West made a dramatic move in 2011 leaving his business of 15 years to "really get to know horses".
He first adopted two Mustangs from the Onaqui herd in Utah,
from there he has really grown his love of the Mustangs and his training techniques in the natural/energetic equal communication between equine and human.
West now spends his time engaged in the training and promotion of Americas Wild Horse.....The Mustang.
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Lore Anderson |
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Marcus Lewis |
Marcus was born and raised in Overton, Nevada.
He attended Southern Utah University and graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting.
He received his Master's in Accounting in 2000 from Southern Utah University and received a job offer
from Kemp Burdick, Hinton & Hall, CPA's & Advisors
(based out of St. George, Utah - Now known as Hinton Burdick CPA's & Advisors) and went to work in their Mesquite,
Nevada office at the first of that year.
In 2003, Marcus was offered a position with Garkane Energy as their Director of Member Services/Staff Assistant in
Loa and has worked for Garkane for the past 9 years.
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Ann Torrance |
While waiting for her newly planted orchard of heritage apples to begin bearing, Ann Torrence works as a photographer,
writer and occasional publisher. She and her husband Robert Marc live in Torrey.
In 1996, they founded Signature Immunologics, Inc., to provide reagents for the biomedical research.
Ann was the 2010 Entrada Institute Artist-in-Residence, in which she photographed Wayne County volunteers.
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Bob Palin |
Bob was born and grew up in Luton, England where, in the era when computers were hand cranked, he graduated
with a degree in Computer Science from what is now The University of Bedfordshire.
After moving to Kansas to work on a USAF project he found his way to Wayne County via California, Germany and California again.
Bob is the owner of Fremont River Software and takes on projects from small web sites, to online stores and large
database systems. He is an enthusiastic photographer and loves to show people the Capitol Reef back country.
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