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Show A-2 The Park Record The Park Record. Serving Summit County since 1880 The Park Record, Park City’s No. 1 source for local news, opinion and advertising, is available for home delivery in Summit, Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis and Utah counties. Single copies are also available at 116 locations throughout Park City, Heber City, Summit County and Salt Lake City. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Summit County (home delivery): $56 per year (includes Sunday editions of The Salt Lake Tribune) Outside Summit County (home delivery available in Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis, Weber and Utah counties; all other addresses will be mailed via the U.S. Postal Service): $80 per year To subscribe please call 435–649– 9014 or visit www.parkrecord.com and click the Subscribe link in the Reader Tools section of the toolbar at the bottom of the page. To report a missing paper, please call 801–204–6100. 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Prosecutors asked the court to require Childers to undergo random drug testing, allow random visits to his home and uphold the protective orders that are in place for all the parties involved in the case. “The state has received information from other parties that the defendant is using illegal drugs,” Summit County Prosecutor Blake Hills told the court. “He is also not supposed to have contact with any of the witnesses and no supervised contact with children.” Judge Patrick Corum authorized random drug testing, but denied the request for random visits to his home. Childers is currently being supervised through Summit County’s Adult Probation and Parole. Childers is accused of hosting a party at his home in December that six children — ages 14 and 15 — attended, according to court documents. Documents allege Childers collected all the teen’s cellphones to prevent them from documenting the party. Prosecutors allege Childers encouraged the teens to smoke marijuana he provided and that they agreed to do so. He also invited a female stripper to the party who showed her breasts to the teens, according to charging Continued from A-1 Fireworks reported For questions about your bill, please call 435–649–9014 or email accounts@parkrecord.com The Park Record online is available at www.parkrecord.com and contains all of the news and feature stories in the latest edition plus breaking news updates. The Record’s website also hosts interactive entertainment, restaurant and lodging listings and multimedia features. Contents of The Park Record are Copyrighted 2015, Wasatch Mountain News Media Co. All rights reserved. No portion may be reproduced in any form without written consent of the managing editor or publisher. The Park Record (USPS 378-730) (ISSN 0745-9483) is published twice weekly by Wasatch Mountain News Media Co., 1670 Bonanza Drive, Park City, UT 84060. Periodicals postage paid at Salt Lake City, Utah, 84199-9655 and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Park Record, P.O. Box 3688, Park City, UT84060. Entered as second-class matter, May 25, 1977, at the Post Office in Park City, Utah, 84060 under the Act of March 3, 1897. Subscription rates are: $56 within Summit county, $80 outside of Summit County, Utah. Subscriptions are transferable: $5 cancellation fee. Phone: 435–649–9014 heard that night and the night before. Earlier on Sunday, someone on Fenchurch Drive at 2:10 p.m. told the police fireworks had been used in the daytime and nighttime hours. The person was worried about someone lighting fireworks in the dry conditions, according to department logs. A minute earlier, the police fielded a fireworks complaint from someone on Doc Holliday Drive. “We’re concerned about the danger involved, especially the fire hazard,” Phil Kirk, a Police Department Continued from A-1 Project reimagined Inn and related uses as a Class II development in August of 1985. The 1998 Development Code allowed for a change of use in the existing building from a hotel to a school and it operated as a school until 2008. Hoffvest LLC initially submitted a proposal to the county to con- Wed/Thurs/Fri, June 20-22, 2018 Driver hits two at a busy Park City corner Pedestrians sent to the hospital while police ticket the motorist JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record COURTESY OF THE SUMMIT COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Adam David Childers, 46, of Summit County, will face a jury trial in September for charges that he gave drugs to minors at a party in his Trailside home. documents. In January, law enforcement began questioning Childers about the party. Four of the teens then went to Childers’ house and recorded conservations in which he explicitly told them to lie to the police because he could get in trouble for “providing you guys drugs,” charging documents state. Prosecutors say Childers told the children to “deny, deny, deny” the accusations and keep their stories straight. Childers told them, if necessary, to say he gave them fake marijuana he got in Mexico and that the woman’s breasts were covered, according to court documents. After the police interviewed Childers and he knew an investigation was taking place, he gathered the drugs and paraphernalia to get “rid of everything that was not prescribed,” according to court documents. captain, said. Kirk said police officers who respond could confiscate the fireworks and warn the people involved. The authorities have long cautioned they could pursue someone to reimburse the costs of fighting a fire started by fireworks. Park City officials for years have worried about the prospects of fireworks or open flames like campfires starting a devastating wildfire in the community. Places like Old Town and Deer Valley are especially susceptible in the heavily wooded terrain. “This year due to the below average precipitation and above average temperatures, along with the forecasted weather data, and fuel moisture content, fire danger is at a higher level than previous years,” Thacker wrote in the report to the elected officials. “This coupled with the established wildland fire areas throughout the city create great fire safety concerns for the residents and structures in the area.” struct a 15-room hotel project, along with a restaurant and fitness studios. After the proposal was approved by the Planning Commission, County Council members ultimately determined the project’s application did not go through the appropriate process and that the proposed uses are not allowed in the rural residential zone at the scale they were planned. Councilors ruled that the property had most recently served as a school and the entitlements for someone to operate an inn at the site had expired or been abandoned. County staffers backed Putt’s decision to decline the application and recommended that the County Council deny the appeal. Fax: 435–649–4942 Email: circulation@parkrecord.com Published every Wednesday and Saturday A driver hit two pedestrians at a busy Park City corner on Monday evening, requiring both of them to be taken to a hospital, the Park City Police Department said. The accident was reported at 7:35 p.m. at the intersection of Kearns Boulevard and Bonanza Drive, according to an online Police Department posting. The posting indicated the two people were treated at the accident scene for unspecified injuries. They were taken to a hospital to be evaluated further, according to the posting. The authorities issued the driver a ticket on a count of failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk, the Police Department said. Details about the accident were not immediately available. Information about the victims and the driver was also not immediately available. The driver remained at the scene of the accident, the police said. Drivers rarely hit pedestrians in Park City, and it is especially unusual for two to be struck in one incident like the one on Monday. The intersection of Bonanza Drive and Kearns Boulevard is one of the busiest in Park City, and there are regular traffic backups at the location. Drivers headed to or from neighborhoods like Park Meadows and Prospector regularly use the intersection. It is also along an important route for drivers traveling to or from parts of the Snyderville Basin, the East Side of Summit County and Wasatch County. The rush-hour traffic normally subsides by the 7:35 p.m. time of the accident on Monday, though. Pedestrian and bicyclist safety has long been a priority for the Police Department and the wider municipal government. The police sometimes conduct stings at crosswalks, pulling over drivers who do not yield to pedestrians or bicyclists. City Hall, meanwhile, sees pedestrian and bicycling routes as important to the goals of leaders to reduce traffic and cut emissions. They say ensuring safe routes for pedestrians and bicyclists encourages alternate means of transportation. One of the major steps involved building pedestrian-bicyclist tunnels underneath Bonanza Drive and Kearns Boulevard. The tunnels, though, are located well off the intersection where the accident occurred on Monday. The leader of the Mountain Trails Foundation, an organization that promotes pedestrian and bicycling routes, had not been briefed on the details of the accident by Tuesday morning but said awareness is needed as the busy summer tourism season arrives. Traffic in Park City normally worsens as Independence Day nears and can remain difficult through Labor Day. Charlie Sturgis, the executive director of the group, said drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists should be cautious and aware with the increase in crowds. “They should be looking out for a whole lot more people,” Sturgis said, adding, “We’re back into the busy time.” Sturgis said mobile devices should not distract people on the roads, regardless of whether they are drivers, bicyclists or pedestrians. He said pedestrians and bicyclists need to be especially cautious even if they are properly crossing a street. “You may be in the right, but you may end up dead right,” Sturgis said. “Who wants to die over it?” Continued from A-1 Capital is girls nation Utah’s senators, as well as visit popular attractions in Washington, D.C. She and the other Utah representative are also tasked with writing a bill together that they will have to defend at the program. But what she is perhaps most looking forward to is bonding with girls from around the country. Dalton said that the friendships she gained during Girls State was one of her biggest takeaways from the program. The approximately 350 girls who participated in Utah’s event were divided into cities, and she spent almost every minute with the girls in her group. She was surprised that they could get to know each other as quickly as they did. “The support that they gave me was really cool,” she said. Tess Miner-Farra, head of the Winter Sports School, said the Girls State program is a valuable experience and that she is glad Dalton participated. She said that Dalton has been involved in different leadership positions at the school and is a “natural-born leader.” “Because she has such maturity, charisma, intelligence and composure, it is no surprise that she was elected,” she said. Dalton also learned from the program about the difficulties of running for office. For the mock Senate seat, she had to write a bill, take a test and then go headto-head with another candidate to argue COURTESY OF MAXINE DALTON Maxine Dalton, a senior at the Winter Sports School, was recently selected by her peers to represent Utah in Girls Nation, a mock government educational program held in Washington, D.C. why her bill would be beneficial. 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