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Wednesday, March 2, 2022 • Vol. 131, No. 9 • Free
Layton Auto Body rescues Sanpete Pantry food truck BY GLORIA ALBRECHT
The Pyramid
When Sanpete Pantry’s mobile food truck broke down on the road south of Sterling 2 weeks ago, the sheriff impounded it and it was towed to Layton Auto Body shop in Ephraim. The truck broke down between Manti and Gunnison after Gunnison’s mobile food drop, where the Sanpete Pantry had helped 30 families. With a broken transmission, the disabled food truck was sitting at Layton Auto Body Shop. Robby Layton, owner of Layton Auto Body assessed the charges for the impound fee, the towing, storage for the truck, removal of the transmission, having the transmission rebuilt, and reinstalling the transmission at about $2,500. It takes a lot of donations to the Food Pantry to cover a cost of that magnitude. Layton’s Auto Body generously
decided the cost was “no charge”, providing all the services and labor to the Sanpete Pantry for free, and going out of their way to get the repairs done quickly with the help of Action Transmission. They even bought and installed new windshield wipers on the truck after driving it back to the Sanpete Pantry in the snow and noticing that the current wipers has outlived their usefulness. On Wednesday, February 23, the team from Layton’s Body Shop showed up at the Sanpete Pantry to deliver the newly repaired food truck back. Robby Layton, along with his wife, mechanvics and staff got a tour of the Sanpete Pantry and even donated their time to create some “kid packs” to help feed Sanpete’s school age children who are food insecure. As if the kindness of the Laytons and their staff wasn’t enough, Robby Layton took up a collection at his
shop and presented the pantry with a cash donation of $451.69 from his team, while he and his family themselves presented the Sanpete Pantry with another $4,000! This much money will feed 556 kids. Layton Auto Body documented their journey with the Sanpete Pantry mobile food truck in a Youtube video that is really fun and heartwarming to watch. “Food Pantry truck breaks down – can we save it?” is the name of the video that details how Layton Auto Body rescued, fixed, and returned the food truck and then visited the Sanpete Pantry. The mobile food truck drops are back on schedule now. The truck goes to Gunnison every first Thursday of the month from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. and every third Tuesday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon. It will COURTESY PHOTO be in Fountain Green every fourth Robby Layton, left, and his team fill kid packs at the Sanpete Pantry with the help of the Sanpete Pantry’s staff. Thursday of the month.
SANPETE VALLEY HOSPITAL
NORTH SANPETE GIRLS WRESTLING
Three 2-22-22 babies born at hospital Lady Hawks
finish season placing 8 of 11 wrestlers and fifth overall
is two now!” smiles Charly. “We are the luckiest family in the world to have our two girls as ours, to have Brighten join our family. Family really is the most important thing. A special thank you to doctors and nurses of Sanpete Valley Hospital and the Manti Clinic. What a wonderful staff to work with to bring our new baby girl into this world safely.” Rexley Rayne Palmer mom, Hillary Palmer, says “It’s been fun to have our baby be one of the three born on 2-22-22 at Sanpete, and we’re so grateful
The North Sanpete Girls Wrestling started the season with 15, eleven of these wrestlers qualified for the state tournament at the 1A/2A/3A Girls Divisional tournament on 5 February 2022. The Lady Hawk wrestlers then capped off a groundbreaking wrestling season by placing eight of eleven wrestlers and placing 5th overall in team points. Perhaps the biggest individual achievement this tournament was Freshman, Whitley Kinross (Jones), who entered the state tournament ranked 6th place in the 105lb bracket. She pinned two different wrestlers from Manti High School and earned a shot at the championship and a state title at 105lbs. Whitley placed second place in her first state tournament and will undoubtedly challenge for the title next season. Two Lady Hawk wrestlers placed 3rd in their respective brackets. In her second season wrestling for North Sanpete, Willow Stewart faced one of the most challenging brackets in the tournament. Ranked 3rd place in the 135lb bracket going into the state tournament, Willow faced challenging opponents and found a way to win her way into day two of the tournament. After losing to 1st place Weston (Rich) in her semi-finals match, Willow bounced back to place 3rd place in only her second state tournament.
Please see BABIES, Page A2
Please see WRESTLING, Page A2
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CLOCKWISE FROM LOWER LEFT: Baby Bradley; Baby Hill; and Baby Palmer. What are the odds? Brighten Day Bradley, Kezzie Jewkes Hill, and Rexley Rayne Palmer were all born on 2-2222 at Sanpete Valley Hospital. Two of them are the second child born to the family, one of those babies was actually born at 2 p.m.! “As the labor and delivery manager, I always get excited to be a part of deliveries that occur on certain holidays like New Years,” says Suzy Zahler, OB nurse manager at Sanpete Valley Hospital. “So as the date of 2-22-22 was approaching, I was hoping we’d get a baby born on that date. Imagine my excitement when
we had not one, not two, but three born here on this date! And one of them at 2:00 p.m.! Who would have ever thought that possible at our rural hospital!” “Kezzie is our second baby girl!” said Whitney Hill, proud mom of Kezzie Jewkes Hill, the baby born at 2 p.m. on 2-22-22 at Sanpete Hospital. “She weighs the exact same as her older sister did, too. Kezzie’s name is to honor a few of her great-grandmothers.” Nathan and Charly Bradley say their baby, Brighten Day Bradley, was also their second child. “Our new lucky number
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