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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Candy Peterson |
In her junior year of high school, Candy's family moved to the big city of St. George.
It was quite a change from growing up on a ranch in Boulder, Utah.
She went on to attend Southern Utah University in Cedar City where she majored in business, computers and marketing.
She graduated with a Master's degree in Education.
While in college she was an active member of the Professional Business Leaders Association and worked in the offices of Wal-Mart.
In 2006 she and her husband Brian moved to Wayne County where they run the Big Rock Cattle Company just south of Loa.
Candy also supervises the accounting and payroll duties for Royals Foodtown.
In addition to her professional responsibilities, she is involved in church, scouting and school activities and the mother of three boys.
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Emma Jo Cadwalader |
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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 |
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Gary Bagley |
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West Taylor |
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Janet Borg |
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Diane Goodwin |
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Bob Palin |
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