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Show A-12 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Wed/Thurs/Fri, September 26-28, 2018 Core saMples By Jay Meehan TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM Cosmologics AMENDED AGENDA SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL Wednesday, September 26, 2018 NOTICE is hereby given that the Summit County Council will meet in session Wednesday, September 26, 2018, at the Summit County Courthouse, 60 North Main Street, Coalville, UT 84017 (All times listed are general in nature, and are subject to change by the Council Chair) 1:45 PM - Site visit to Three Mile Canyon Landfill located at 6550 West Three Mile Canyon Road, Coalville, UT; Tim Loveday (35 min) 2:20 PM – Travel to Coalville (20 min) 2:40 PM Closed Session – Property acquisition (75 min) 3:55 PM - Move to Council Chambers 4:05 PM – Work Session 1) Pledge of Allegiance 2) 4:10 PM – Chalk Creek to SR-150 (U-133) survey and concept design project update; Derrick Radke (15 min) 4:35 PM - Convene as the Governing Board of the Mountain Regional Water Special Service District 1) Consideration and possible approval of Resolution MRW 2018-09-A, a Resolution Annexing Certain Real Property to the Mountain Regional Water Special Service District (FRSTW-AM-F2-B); Dave Thomas Dismiss as the Governing Board of the Mountain Regional Water Special Service District 4:45 PM Convene as the Board of Equalization 1) Discussion and possible approval of 2018 stipulations; Kathryn Rockhill and Steve Martin (10 min) 2) Discussion and possible approval of Save our Stage Foundation’s request for property tax exemption; Alisa Robinson (20 min) Dismiss as the Board of Equalization 5:15 PM Consideration of Approval 1) Consideration and possible approval of tax refund of $2,118.20, regarding property owned by Mark Stemler; Alisa Robinson 2) Consideration and possible approval of Memorandum of Understanding Documenting A Cooperating Agency Agreement Between The Forest Service And Local Governments In Utah For Working Together On National Environmental Policy Act Analyses For Greater Sage-Grouse On National Forest System (NFS) Lands In Utah; Dave Thomas 3) Council Comments 4) Manager Comments 5) Council Minutes dated September 12, 2018 6:00 PM Public Input One or more members of the County Council may attend by electronic means, including telephonically or by Skype. Such members may fully participate in the proceedings as if physically present. The anchor location for purposes of the electronic meeting is the Council Chambers and Conference room, Summit County Courthouse, 60 N. Main, Coalville, Utah Individuals with questions, comments, or needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Annette Singleton at (435) 336-3025, (435) 615-3025 or (435) 783-4351 ext. 3025 Posted: September 21, 2018; Amended September 24, 2018 Vail residents: Snowmaking upgrade was long overdue Vail Resorts set to start expansion at eponymous ski area SCOTT MILLER Vail Daily VAIL, Colo. — After subpar early snow the past two seasons, a Vail Resorts plan to expand snowmaking on Vail Mountain is drawing mostly positive reviews from local business owners. Buzz Schleper, owner of Buzz’s Boards in Vail Village, said the plan, which would expand snowmaking on the mountain, would add much-needed beginner and intermediate terrain in the early season. “It’s a better variety of runs for different (skill) levels,” Schleper said. Getting snowmaking at Mid-Vail opens better terrain for beginners, Schleper said. Expanding snowmaking will “make it so people aren’t so disappointed … with the one run that’s open” in the early season, Schleper said. At Vail Resort Rentals, owner Dale Bugby said the announcement of expanded snowmaking is overdue. Early snowmaking on those critical runs to get from lift to lift has been “badly needed,” Bugby said, adding that more early-season snowmaking will “almost guarantee” skiable terrain for those booking lodging for Thanksgiving and the rest of the early season. Bugby said having more of the mountain open early presents a better opportunity to attract guests. “We’ve struggled to book people in advance when we don’t have snowmaking,” he said. Another longtime resident, Realtor Craig Denton said he’s long believed Vail Mountain’s snowmaking machinery should be near the top of the mountain. “I think it’s a no-brainer,” Denton said. “Last year, there should have been man-made snow on top.” Denton said in his view, not many people ski the front side of Vail Mountain once they’re at the top. Better conditions at both Mid-Vail and Eagles Nest would give people a chance to ski at high elevation and then ride down on the gondolas that serve those on-mountain facilities. But the additional snowmaking won’t come this year. In fact, it could take some time. According to Sally Gunter, Vail Resorts senior manager for communications at Vail and Beaver Creek, the plan’s timetable depends on when the U.S. Forest Service approves it. Once that happens, “the new or retrofitted snowmaking pipes would be installed during a multiyear roll-out,” Gunter wrote in an email. But after the last couple of years, helping nature in the season’s first weeks has taken on new importance. Schleper, a Vail Valley resident since 1972, said early snow usually would come, even at the last minute. “We’d count on the (natural) snow to open a good portion of the front side” of Vail Mountain, he said. Years ago, Schleper said employees at his shop would be worried when snow wasn’t coming in November. “It always showed up,” he said. That hasn’t happened recently. While news of expanded snowmaking atop Vail Mountain was well-received by most of the people contacted for this story, Claggett-Rey Gallery owner Bill Rey took a different view. “I see it as a double-edged sword,” Rey said. While acknowledging that snowmaking will help lay down a better early-season base, “My concern is that we really need Mother Nature.” Rey noted Vail’s efforts to become a more sustainable community and wondered if those goals mesh with adding more snowmaking to the mountain. Snowmaking “uses tons of water,” he said. Gunter noted that Vail Resorts hasn’t used all the water it’s allowed to for snowmaking. The proposed expansion isn’t expected to exceed the company’s water rights, she wrote. “Our current snowmaking does not use all of the water we have, even in a very dry year,” she wrote. Arapahoe Basin to begin making powder this week ANTONIO OLIVERO Summit Daily KEYSTONE, Colo. – Snowmaking has commenced in Summit County, Colorado, with visions of fresh turns on the horizon. High atop the Continental Divide, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in Keystone fired up eight snowmaking guns early Friday morning. A-Basin’s snowmaking team blanketed an area around mid-mountain at the top of the High Noon trail with snow. It’s the earliest the ski area has started its snowmaking in 10 seasons, as the average start of snowmaking occurs in the first few days of October. “We fired up last night,” A-Basin chief operating officer Alan Henceroth wrote on his blog. “The wet bulb temperature got down to 25 (degrees Fahrenheit) for about six hours. The snowmakers have been training and testing for the last week. They put a little bit of snow on the ground. “It wasn’t a big night,” the COO continued, “but it was a very productive and important night. We will probably have a few more nights like this. It is good to run the system and work out any kinks. A snowmaking system has miles and miles of machines and equipment. Most of that gear lives outside and is exposed to weather and wildlife. Testing is good, running the system under real conditions is even better. The objective is to be fully ready when we get that 36-hour period of temperatures in the teens. “We will be ready.” Though A-Basin has approximately 25 total snow guns in its fleet, the ski area only runs the ones located where the temperatures are optimal. Also this season at the ski area, 100 percent of the energy used for A-Basin’s snowmaking system is coming from renewable solar energy. “I’m shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.” – Captain Renault (Claude Rains), “Casablanca” (1942) Omens drop. Their shapes and signal-to-noise ratios vary, of course. Of late, however, they have become a torrent. At times, like, say, two-years ago this November, they grab you by the lapels and shake your bones. This morning, with assistance from the avian community, it was the night sky speaking in tongues. Seemingly inverted and transposed east to west, Cassiopeia, as is its usual wont, defied translation into linear thought. I’d have to figure it out for myself. That’s never a good sign. If that wasn’t enough, Orion had juxtaposed the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades star cluster. This had interpersonal implications into which I flat-out refused to enter. Who’dathunkit? The cosmos is chaotic – its evolutionary violence muted by distance. It just seemed that the constellation deck had been shuffled more than its normal rotation around Polaris could explain. I retreated to the sparkle of the clearest night sky I’d contemplated in ages. With the “micro” killing me, I wrapped myself in a blanket of “macro.” Then, as if on cue, came the morning’s biggest shock of all: the unmistakable, but somehow rekindled in a different key, signature cooing of a mourning dove. I couldn’t believe it. They’d been gone from these parts longer than the buffalo. It was music to my ears and heart. As I spun slowly with head tilted back checking out the visible cosmos from the small deck out the back door, the totally unexpected and once-familiar song pattern of “trill-coo-coocoo” washed over me. Elation followed. Consensus has had it that those bullying Mexican whitetail doves had usurped its ter- ritory a dozen-years or so ago. Although a beautiful bird, especially in takeoff and landing, not to mention its elegant yet feeble mimicking of a starling murmuration, the interlopers have proven too aggressive for our tastes. But there it was, the signature pattern of the mourning dove song almost as perfectly rendered as the one in my audio memory files. As I write this, I still haven’t actually laid eyes upon the songster-in-question, but, utilizing my acute audio directional faculties in the black- The white tails, rather than communicate within a musical sensibility, vocalize in a much more strident fashion – say, like a drill instructor at boot camp.” ness of pre-dawn (yeah, right), it was quite easy to locate its perch atop the fireplace vent on the westernmost peak of the roof. Although it possessed an unfamiliar quality of “roughness,” more timbre and bass than I was used to – like a New Orleans disc jockey tracing the vocal lineage from Louis Armstrong through Dr. John and Tom Waits – my pattern-recognition detectors immediately defaulted to DEFCON 3. “That is the coo of a mourning dove,” they sang into my inner ear. “There is no doubt about it, it’s the myth of fingerprints. I’ve heard them all.” That’s just my pattern recognition translator-chorus showing off. Forgive them. They get rather full of themselves. Pay them no attention. “You don’t suppose the two species actually bred and came up with a hybrid, now do you?” They added (in a minor key, more of a statement than a question). It’s a chorus of white male voices, which does little to detract from their “know it all” attitude. Imagine that! The white tails, rather than communicate within a musical sensibility, vocalize in a much more strident fashion – say, like a drill instructor at boot camp. Or, if that doesn’t work for you, how about the less-than-articulate ramblings of the national Twitter feed. They came to change the narrative. They blunder, therefore they are! Theorizing on the whys and wherefores concerning the return of the Mourning Dove (see how I advance my thesis with nary a smudge of logic or anonymous sourcing), I offer both our radical fire season and the always-compelling magnificence of the harvest moon. Whether or not it’s visible, doves have a history of intuiting its presence. Which brings us back to the current mischievousness of the night sky and its relationship to the singular cooing of the mourning dove. Could I interest you in a clean one-owner hypothesis that our favorite bird population had been held incommunicado by Montana Wildhack on the planet Tralfamadore until it was time to alert our “brain trust” that the sun had indeed crossed the equator on its journey south. It’s either that or a dark-web gambling conspiracy to which, for national security considerations, I am not privy. Shocking, I know! Let’s shut the joint down! Jay Meehan is a culture junkie and has been an observer, participant, and chronicler of the Park City and Wasatch County social and political scenes for more than 40 years. Biker rides to end stigma Activist goes coast to coast for mental health awareness MCKENNA HARFORD Sky-Hi News GRANBY, Colo. – When Denny Ying pedaled into Granby on Saturday, he was over 1,000 miles into his mission to bike from San Francisco to Boston while raising awareness for mental health and suicide. But Ying said he stopped tracking miles long ago; his journey isn’t really about that. “I used to care about the numbers a little bit more but then I realized who cares about the miles it’s the conversation we’re having and the lives we’re touching,” he said. “The reason why I’m riding is to connect with people so we can raise awareness.” Ying, a 36-year-old California native, started his trip in August. But the idea began to form long before then, when he was facing some personal and professional struggles. Ying had never experienced such serious doubt and began to question his decisions. He needed change. Not just physically, but mentally too. He came up with the idea to travel from coast to coast to raise awareness and start conversations about mental health because he feels strongly that it affects everyone. “Last time I checked I’m human and last time I checked I have feelings and whenever there’s a human with feelings, mental struggle is going to be there,” he said. “While it is devastating, while it is overwhelming, we have to be that beacon that we seek to see in the world.” So he sold everything and bought a bike, some gear and some bike packs. First, Ying rode from Denver to Chicago, which he said could be called a practice ride for his current journey, since he didn’t train before setting off. At that time Ying was riding to raise awareness specifically MCKENNA HARFORD/SKY-HI NEWS Denny Ying had no prior experience with endurance sports, but felt he had to do something to raise awareness of mental health issues. about veteran suicide, but he heard so many stories, some about first responders, some about young teens, some about parents, that he felt his larger goal should be to help spark community-wide change. “The goal is to encourage the community to keep having these conversations and reach out if they need help,” he said. Ying said these conversations also have an impact on him and that he’s learned a lot from his travels so far. He’s learned it’s ok not to be perfect and to make mistakes. He prioritizes and is learning his limits. While the goal is to get to Boston, Ying said he’s not worried about a timeline anymore. He’s just doing what he can each day and remembering the priority is the being there for people along the way. “Perhaps we can learn to enjoy the process and know it’s ok if it’s not perfect,” Ying said. “I have learned to give myself the permission to not have everything figured out.” Ying tries to start conversations at all of his stops, usually with first responders, local mental health groups and media to help spread his word. He also posts to a Facebook page and has a group for people to share stories and experiences. But he knows he is only one guy so, ultimately, wherever he ends up after completing his ride, he wants to start a cycling team for anyone struggling with mental health or suicide to con- tinue building a safe place for people to open up. “Once that is built it could live forever and I won’t, I’m perishable,” he said with a laugh. “This takes a whole community to do, this is so much bigger than I am.” As for the more short-term future, Ying is riding to Denver from Winter Park on Sunday where he is meeting up with April Paige, founder of the Check-In Foundation, which aims to spread suicide awareness through cycling and sports communities. But even when Ying doesn’t have a partner, he never rides alone. He always carries a shirt and a biking sleeve, which carry the names of people who died by suicide whom he has learned about on the way. This journey continues their memory by helping others in need, Ying said. “When people are struggling we feel that we’re not important or that the world is better without us, (…) but the better question is – is that the truth,” Ying asked. “And so the goal is to remind people who are still with us and struggling that while all those things that we feel are very real and very painful, they are not the truth. “The truth is there is a possibility that life could be amazing, not only that we can survive, but that we could have the opportunity to thrive and shine, if we give ourself the chance and our life the chance.” |