Heritage Court 2018
April MacLeod
April MacLeod has seen a fair chunk of Hailey history from the double-decker wooden deck that her husband Bob had built off their 1927 home near Buttercup Road.
And she’s had a hand in a lot of that history, having worked and volunteered for an array of organizations from the Blaine County Recreation District to the Crisis Hotline, from the board of the Hailey Public Library to the Blaine County Fair Board.
MacLeod will be honored for her contributions to Hailey and the Wood River Valley on June 10 when she is inducted into the Blaine County Heritage Court, along with Faye Hatch Barker, JoAnn Levy and Vonnie Olsen. The coronation ceremony, which will feature entertainment and refreshments, will be held at 3 p.m. at The Liberty Theatre in Hailey.
Faye Barker
Pat Barker didn’t know a lot of girls growing up, considering there were just 50 students at the old Bellevue School in what is now Bellevue Park.
But it felt right when he slipped an engagement ring on the finger of Faye Hatch, who was one grade behind him, as she entered her senior year.
It stuck. Pat and Faye have been married 53 years, carving out a niche for themselves on a patch of ground along Gannett Road that once was part of the family sheep ranch.
“I wrote ‘A diamond is a girl’s best friend’ in my high school yearbook,” Faye said, pulling the Growler yearbook from a shelf in her living room as evidence.
JoAnn Levy
JoAnn Levy Embodies the Aloha Spirit.
Her license plate says “Aloha O.”
And JoAnn Levy has always striven to impart the aloha spirit to Sun Valley—her paradise on earth.
“ ‘Aloha’ is a way of thinking and a way of being,” said the Hawaiian native. “I practice aloha. I work at being friendly and making people happy.”
Levy’s efforts to do her part to create a Sun Valley paradise have prompted her to take on a variety of tasks from serving as mayor of Sun Valley to being a faithful donor of furniture, clothes and books to the Gold Mine thrift store.
Vonnie Olsen
Vonnie Olsen had no idea the adventure that awaited her when she married the milkman of Carey.
When heavy snows came, even she was pressed into collecting and delivering the milk.
“Paul would collect the cans of milk and take them to the Kraft plant,” she said. “And when everything got snowed in, you couldn’t get to the places where they had the cans because nothing was plowed. So we’d commandeer all our friends who had snow machines and everyone would go out and collect the cans of milk. If we hadn’t done that, the milk would have gone to waste.”