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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, August 15-17, 2018 The Park Record W AY WE WERE Park City’s first playground Green Tips Energy efficiency around the household MEGAN NICK Energy efficiency is a key transition to a sustainable lifestyle. There are simple changes to our daily habits that can benefit our wallets and the environment. When our community uses less energy, we reduce power plant emissions and byproducts of power generation that are harmful to us and the environment. In short, the less energy we consume, the less mining and drilling, the less transportation of these resources, and the less toxic fumes released by power plants. Here are simple ways you can help: 1. Switch to LED light bulbs. One LED can save $1.23 a year and lasts six times longer than any other light bulb. LED efficiency also eliminates the need to use multiple lights. Rocky Mountain Power customers can receive initial LEDs for free through the Wattsmart starter kit. Contact www.homeenergysavings. net or call 800-942-0266. 2. Unplug appliances and purchase a power strip. Appliances such as toasters, coffee makers, and electronic chargers use electricity when plugged in and turned off. Advanced power strips can control the use of electricity when it is not needed and save money! 3. Use Energy Star appliances. An Energy Star dishwasher will save 3,870 gallons of water on average over its lifetime, use 25 percent less energy and reduce water use by 33 percent. Water conservation is a top priority for us since Utah is the second driest state in the country. 4. Turn down the air conditioning and heat. Heating and cooling defines nearly half an average home’s utility bills. Can you turn down the heat, throw on a sweater? Recycle Utah, your community non-profit drop-off recycling center, provides these weekly tips. Visit their website for more information – www. dated Mining Company donated a stretch of land that ran from China Bridge north past the rear of the Elks Hall at 550 Main St. Before the playground could be installed, the Marsac machine shop, sheds and garages had to be removed, the ground beneath leveled, and Silver Creek covered. Once work was finished, the land was ready for equipment. The Kiwanis donated the first batch, a Giant Slide and a Giant Stride installed during the summer of 1929. Soon after, a local company donated a wire fence to circle the perimeter, and the Park City Fire Department installed two water fountains on the grounds. Steadily more equipment was added, and by summer’s end, “the kids at the playground [were] trying hard to wear out their pants and pantaloons on the teeter-boards and chutes.” Today we may take playgrounds for granted, but just remember, a century ago Park City didn’t have one! To view a visual chronology of playground equipment through the decades, and to learn more about the playground movement, stop by the Park City Museum to see Once Upon a Playground, an exhibit that takes visitors on a nostalgic trip through playgrounds of our past. Open now until Oct. 16. Recycle Utah COURTNEY TITUS PARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM, POP JENKS COLLECTION Park City Museum A group of children is thrilled with the Giant Slide, one of the first pieces of equipment installed at Park City’s first public playground in 1929. For many of us, it’s impossible to remember our childhoods without recalling time spent at a playground, climbing the jungle gym, jumping off swings, or spinning on the merry-go-round. However, in America at the turn of the twentieth century, providing dedicated outdoor areas with equipment on which children could play was a fairly new concept. While today Park City has at least nine public playgrounds, before 1929, we didn’t even have one! Inspired by German philoso- phy that emphasized the health benefits of outdoor exercise, the playground movement in the United States began with the sand gardens of Boston in the 1880s. The movement was primarily a response to negative impacts of the industrial revolution, specifically crowded urban life and long hours spent in factories. At first, playgrounds were seen as necessary only in urban areas, which lacked the space and nature abundant in smaller towns and the countryside. In the following years, many assemble Park City’s Premier Co-Working Space A-9 involved in the movement saw additional social, moral, physical and educational benefits to children, and deemed playgrounds essential for all cities and towns. In Park City, the playground movement was mentioned as early as 1910 in a Park Record newspaper article that called for greater civic improvement to make an “ideal town,” including clean streets, good schools and playgrounds. 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