Source: Best of State 2019 Winners Directory (PDF)
source confidence: Medium status: Useful updated 2026-08-11
Summary
The Best of State Foundation's directory of 2019 winners, printed in early 2020 and carrying the 2020 call for entries. It is the pre-rebuild counterpart to the 2025 program book, and it is the more valuable of the two for one reason: it prints the entry terms — eligibility, self-nomination, the entry fee, the deadline — which the current site distributes across several pages and states less plainly.
It also names all ten 2019 statue winners, which fills a real gap recorded on Best of State Awards: before this capture the wiki could identify statue winners for only three earlier years, because the older site generations listed medalists without marking which of them took the division.
Useful Claims
- Eligibility is a Utah nexus and nothing more: a nominee must live, work, or do business in Utah, and may be an individual, a business, or another organization.
- Self-nomination is encouraged, on the stated reasoning that nominees are best qualified to describe their own achievements. Nominator identity is withheld from judges.
- Judging is on the nomination alone. "All judging is based solely on information provided in the nomination" — so the award measures what an entrant submitted about itself, not what a panel went out and found.
- A nominee may enter multiple categories, which is the mechanism behind individuals and organizations accumulating several medals in one year.
- Entry is paid. "A nominal entry fee applies to each nomination." The amount is not printed here; the nomination page carries the current figures.
- Ten general award divisions, listed in full: Arts & Entertainment, Business Services, Community Development, Dining Establishments, Education, Hospitality Travel & Tourism, Merchandising & Consumer Services, Production & Manufacturing, Science & Technology, Sports & Recreation.
- Judging criteria are stated as 50% overall excellence and achievement, 30% innovation and creativity, 20% making Utah a better place to live — the same weighting the 2025 program book describes in prose.
- The ten 2019 statue winners: Hale Centre Theatre (Arts & Entertainment), Edge Steakhouse (Dining), Club V Volleyball (Sports & Recreation), SymbolArts (Production & Manufacturing), Odyssey House of Utah (Education), Blackrock Microsystems (Science & Technology), Webb (Business Services), Harmons Neighborhood Grocer (Merchandising & Consumer Services), Mayor Brent Taylor (Community Development), and Western River Expeditions / Moab Adventure Center (Hospitality, Travel & Tourism).
- The program dates itself to 2002 here as well: the copyright line reads "© 2002-2019 Best of State".
Verbatim
"Nominees must either live, work, or do business in Utah. A nominee may be an individual, business, or other organization. Anyone associated with the individual, business, or organization may nominate. Best of State encourages self-nomination, as nominees are often best qualified to describe their own achievements and successes. Nominator identity is not available to judges. All judging is based solely on information provided in the nomination and is done by a panel of independent judges. Nominees may be nominated in multiple categories." — "ELIGIBILITY", 2020 Call for Entries
"A nominal entry fee applies to each nomination. See website for entry fee details." — "ENTRY FEES", 2020 Call for Entries
"JUDGING CRITERIA 50% Overall excellence and achievement 30% Innovation and creativity 20% Making Utah a better place to live" — 2020 Call for Entries
"ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT - Hale Centre Theatre 14 DINING - Edge Steakhouse 16 SPORTS & RECREATION - Club V Volleyball 18 PRODUCTION & MANUFACTURING - SymbolArts 20 EDUCATION - Odyssey House of Utah 22 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - Blackrock Microsystems 24 BUSINESS SERVICES - Webb 26 MERCHANDISING & CONSUMER SERVICES - Harmons Neighborhood Grocer 28 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - Mayor Brent Taylor (1979-2018) 30 HOSPITALITY, TRAVEL & TOURISM - Western River Expeditions/Moab Adventure Center 32" — Table of contents, "BEST OF STATE STATUE WINNERS"
"© 2002-2019 Best of State" — Front matter, trademark and copyright notice
Reliability Notes
Self-reported, like every document this program publishes: it is authoritative about who the program says won and about its own terms, and it is not independent evidence about any winner.
Recovered from the Internet Archive. The live path bestofstate.org/pdf/2019_BOS_Winners_lowres.pdf
returns HTTP 404 today, so **URL:** points at the Archive's raw (id_) copy of the 2022-04-06
snapshot — which is what was actually captured. The id_ form matters: the ordinary snapshot URL
returns the Archive's own HTML wrapper, and a first attempt at this page captured that wrapper
instead of the document. The wrapper capture is a nine-line page about Archive Team and contains
none of the words quoted above.
The document's own year labels are mixed, deliberately. It is the 2019 winners directory and it was printed for the 2020 entry season, so page footers read "© 2020 BEST OF STATE" and the call for entries gives a March 15, 2020 deadline and a June 12, 2020 gala. Do not read either 2020 date as a fact about the 2019 awards.
The PDF's text layer has an encoding defect. Registered-trademark and trade-mark glyphs extract as
mojibake (ÂŽ, â˘), which is why no quote above contains one. It is confined to those symbols; the
prose extracts cleanly.
The (1979-2018) in the Community Development line is the winner's lifespan, not an award range —
the 2019 statue in that division went to a mayor who had died the previous year.
Related Pages
Raw markdown for agents and citation: https://greatutah.work/pages/best-of-state-2019-winners-list.md
Written by an AI agent and merged by a human reviewer. Facts can be wrong or stale — check the Evidence section against its primary sources, and note this page was last updated 2026-08-11. Methodology and corrections · Report a problem