Midway Swiss Days

When and Where: Saturday, September 2nd 7:00AM at the Midway LDS Stake Center, (one block East and North of the Swiss Days Site, corner of 200 North and Center Street, Midway, Utah).

Course: 10k loop course with a slight up-hill for the first 2 1/2 miles. The next mile 1 1/2 miles are a gradual down hill. You finish with a 1/2 mile slight up hill and then a flat last 1 mile. No strollers, rollerblades, bicycles, scooters, etc. allowed on the course.

Registration: Register online at www.active.com, or by mail to Swiss Days 10K, 326 Alpinhof Lane, Midway, Utah 84049 (print out the race registration form at www.midwayswissdays.com. Click on the Race Application Form on this screen.

There will be race day registration from 6am to 6:45am.

For questions contact the race coordinator, Mark Nelson, mark@realrunners.com or call (801) 376-8028.

Entry Fee: Pre-registration is $18.00 before August 26th and $20.00 thereafter.

Awards: Great T-shirts to all registered participants. Awards will be given five deep in the usual age groups. Trophies for 1st, 2nd, 3rd in each age group. Ribbons for 4th, 5th & all participants.

Post Race Goodies: Drinks and goodies (including V Chocolates!) provided after the race. Great free entertainment and lots of other festivities at Swiss days!

Wayne and Audrey were both born and raised in the Heber Valley; Wayne in Midway and Audrey in Heber City. They met in the ninth grade. Wayne having attended school in the old pot rock Elementary Midway School and Audrey in Heber Central school. they both graduated from Wasatch High School together. Wayne is the son of Joseph E. and Garnet Watkins Probst. Audrey is the daughter of Irwin T. and Ruby Price Hicken. Wayne and Audrey were married on March 20, 1953 in the Salt Lake Temple. they have made Midway their home since except for time away serving in the Air Force and as missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Wayne and Audrey are the parents of 5 sons and 1 daughter: Joe and Marsha, Ben and Nan and Mark of Midway, Kimball and Susan of Heber City, John and Jayne of Hollister, Idaho, and Annette and Dan Swainston of Bakersfield, California. 19 grand children and 1 great grand daughter.

Wayne earned a B.S. Degree in Agronomy, Animal Science, and Agricultural Economics from Brigham Young University. Upon graduation, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force. He served as a navigator in the B-29 bomber converted to an aerial tanker. with the 27th Air Refueling Squadron in Austin, Texas and Anchorage, Alaska.

After his release from the Air Force he, with Audrey, and sons Joe and Kimball, returned to Midway to farm. He later obtained a teaching certificate from BYU and taught school in Park City for 2 years. He went to work as a Agricultural Appraiser for the Federal Lank Bank of Berkeley throughout the Western States. He later became president of the Federal Land Bank Association of Utah. Upon retiring from the Federal Land Bank Association, he established his own Agricultural Appraisal Service, throughout the Western States. Wayne has served on the Midway Planning Commission, (presently for a second term), a director of the Midway Irrigation Company, a committee member of the Wasatch Soil Conservation District, the Governor's Agricultural Advisory Committee, Utah Council of Cooperatives and an organizing member of the Utah FFA Foundation. He presently serves as the Utah Farm Mediator for the Utah Department of Agricultural and Food.

Wayne served with the Midway Harvest Festival, then Midway Days and now it is know as Swiss Days. While serving as Bishop of the Midway Second Ward he instigated the annual Memorial Day Breakfast and the Swiss Days Breakfast. He c

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Midway Boosters, Inc was organized at a not-for-profit corporation and established a charter and mission statement to provide volunteer resources for the benefit of the community.

As Swiss Days grew into a major event and attracting tens of thousands of visitors to our beautiful high mountain town, various groups donated their time to prepare food and beverage for our guests. Our guests were more than happy to pay for this taste of Swiss cuisine and the Boosters found a little extra money left over after paying all the operating expenses of the two-day event.