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Katie Edelbrock grew up playing paintball. On Saturday, Edelbrock got to pass that tradition on to her 15-year-old son Chris, playing alongside him in several games of paintball at the Payson Multi-Event Center.
From the lack of paint on her, Edelbrock knew what she was doing, especially since she was vastly outnumbered by pre-teen boys.
The town sponsored the paintball tournament, bringing in staff from the Denver-based American Paintball Coliseum (APC) Saturday. From 8 a.m. to roughly 1 p.m., participants ran around the forest north of the event center where APC had set up 10-plus obstacles, shooting green colored paintballs at each other during 15-minute rounds. When hit, it left participants with white paint splotches.
Courtney Spawn-Kort and Kaprice Bachtell must like lemonade because they have made the most of the lemons COVID-19 handed them.
When the pandemic threatened to cancel last summerâs popular food truck festival at Green Valley Park, Spawn-Kort, the townâs Parks, Recreation and Tourism director and Bachtell, the townâs special events coordinator, came up with a plan to scale down the August event to assure it could take place. But that was just part of the plan. Theyâve added a new Pop-Up Food Truck Food Court at Rumsey Park from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friday, April 16 and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, April 17.
They learned proposed construction could start as early as the spring of 2021.
But only if some key pieces of the puzzle fall into place, said Courtney Spawn-Kort, director of Payson Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department.
The idea for a splash pad came from a groundswell of community interest in January 2019.
By July of that year, the council had received a splash pad study from the interested citizens and allocated $250,000 from the budget to pay for the project.
The pandemic stopped progress earlier this year, but already the town has spent $29,700 to move the project forward. Part of this cost went into exploring the best site for the project, another to pay for a title report in order to submit for a $205,000 federal grant.