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Show A-18 Meeting and agendaS The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, November 4-7, 2017 More dogS on Main By Tom Clyde TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM The hornets are polarized Summit County Board of Health Meeting November 6, 2017 4:00 – 5:30 PM Summit County Health Department 650 Round Valley Drive Park City, Utah 84060 2. UALBOH update 3. Directors Report (if questions) 4. PUBLIC HEARING 4:15 PUBLIC MEETING 4:00 – 5:30 • Discussion and possible action regarding proposed changes to the Summit County Wastewater Ordinance. 1. Welcome and Approval of Minutes • Public Comment Please see Letters, A-17 Beerman will work hard for all Editor: It’s time to vote! And I just cast mine for Andy Beerman. I first met Andy in 2002 when we both served on the Historic Park City Alliance board and was instantly impressed with him. Andy has a way of taking in all the facts and objectively analyzing any situation prior to making to a decision. He’s fair, treats everyone equally, is proactive, experienced, smart and puts others in front of himself to serve well. I believe we are in a critical time in our town as we grow and yet try to maintain our culture so it’s still the place we all love. Andy gets this. He will work hard for all of us and do what’s needed in this key time. Julie Hopkins Park City A vote for Beerman is a good choice Editor: As an active participant in and advocate for our community, I enthusiastically endorse Andy Beerman for Mayor. This mayoral race is our opportunity to define not only the city we live in today, but also the future of Park City. After careful consideration, I believe Andy has the temperament and communication style to listen to his constituents and to translate our cares and concerns into actionable community initiatives. He has the ability and willingness to effectively negotiate with developers, large businesses, UDOT, and the State on our behalf. Andy demonstrates that he has the foresight to tackle challenging yet impactful initiatives like community sustainability ― from attainable housing to traffic to open space and the environment. Andy’s recent nomination to the Olympic Exploratory Committee as the Chair of the Climate and Sustainability Working Group proves that not only is he a local leader, but he is also a leader recognized on a state and national scale. His knowledge of and passion for environmental sustainability is critical to our health and welfare; it gives our municipality the opportunity to make sustainable changes on a local scale. This awareness will translate into direct decisions relating to important issues facing our community, including but not limited to transportation and air and water quality. Andy and our current local leaders work tirelessly and with notable success on open space, attainable housing, traffic mitigation and thoughtful growth such as the arts and culture district. Accomplishing these initiatives takes a skilled negotiator with an effective communication style. Although this race may feel personal to us, our votes should not be based on emotion; but rather on a good business decision. Christina Marie Shiebler Park City Noise wall would be a waste Editor: Thank you for printing the extensive article regarding “The Great Wall” at Jeremy Ranch. Following are a few additional points that might be relevant to this subject matter. 1st: Some months back, I attended a DOT meeting presenting the specifics of this subject matter. My first question to a DOT representative was to show me the specifics on in- creased traffic flow that would justify the construction of another lane for west bound traffic. I was not shown any statistics. The answer to my question was; “they have an additional lane on the East bound side of Parley’s summit” and therefore they should have one on the West bound side. I have been a home owner on Saddleback Rd. for the past 9 years and the only time I have seen traffic backed up on the West bound side of Parley’s summit is due to an accident, construction, snow/ ice, or a major holiday. Therefore, there isn’t any need for an additional west bound lane. To speed up the traffic on Parley’s summit that will be all backed up at the base of the mountain resolves nothing! 2nd: It took years and private donations to build wildlife fencing, that is still being constructed, which will partially be taken up should a “Great Wall” be built. What a waste of tax-payer and private donation monies. 3rd: Supposedly, the voice of the majority is still viable. This wall in some way affects everyone that drives/walks by it on a daily basis. Therefore, all of these residents should have a voice in this matter, not just a few. In summary, to build a wall for a selected few to support the building of an additional lane for traffic that is not needed is just another example of wasting tax payer money. H.C. Knight Jeremy Ranch Williams is man of the people Editor: How fortunate Park City is to once again have the opportunity to vote for a proven, compassionate, steady hand as our Mayor. During his three terms as Mayor, Dana Williams led with his Man of the People approach to addressing Park City’s challenges and opportunities. From the high of the Olympics in 2002 to the worst economic crisis of our lifetime in 2008-2009 Dana led with a steady hand, and a vision for what would be best for all residents. It is that point of what is best for most of our citizens, the 99%, that I believe sets Dana apart. I have been concerned to see the “Political Elite” of Park City bombarding us with their opinions, about who should be elected Mayor next Tuesday. From their 30,000 foot view it is hard to see the challenges facing Park City. Dana has been the guy to roll up his sleeves while Mayor and after serving as Mayor, to tirelessly help find solutions to issues of public lands, affordable housing, public transportation and who owns the Park City Brand, to highlight a few. In this challenging time, for far too many of our neighbors, we are indeed fortunate to be able to once again say, “Dana is my Mayor”. Rick Mastain Glenwild Williams is a strong voice Editor: I thank god everyday when I look across my street, and see no houses. The city bought that land years ago (thanks Dana) there is over 7 houses being built in my area, too small of a street for that much growth. Up above on the ridge, there are 3 new houses. We fought that for years. And this all happened in the last 3 years. Every day, I hear someone say, I wish the they would shut the gate! They may have been here 2 years, but it’s the same feeling, I’ve lived here for 45 years, I’ve seen a lot of changes, but that gate will never be closed. That’s why we need Dana to help stop the flow, you’re going to wake up one day and say, this looks like the place we ran away from! Another place that has gotten out of control (and greedy) is the county. Dana knows those good old boys, and knows how they work. We need a strong voice, to be heard. This parking thing is out of control, new meters, paid parking, do you really want your kids, riding a bus late a night, to get to another parking lot? What is up with those new buses. I think a rock band has come to town, every time I see one. There is never anyone on them. We only need them about 2 months out of the year. Dana sees all these problems, as does everyone else. Who is running this town. Someone needs to knock some common sense in these people. Don’t let me get started on the opponent he was my neighbor on main for 12 years, the stuff he’s pulled the last few days, really? It only makes him look that much worse! Let’s see a skirting rink on brew pub parking lot, oh what about a town lift there too. Oh that’s right you own the hotel across from there. I’ve never seen Dana try to gain money threw his position! Just saying! If you love PC as much as I do. Please vote for Dana. Karleen Reilly Park City Day of giving is appreciated Editor: The mountains here in Utah have become a point of refuge for many here in the valley. I know for myself I head directly for them when all of life’s stresses start to pile up. Nothing can clear the mind and cleanse the soul quite like that “just right” run down the slopes or finding that quiet moment to yourself during a hike that just hits the mental reset button. It is a characteristic of Utah that brings people here from far and wide because of its uniqueness in the world. Unfortunately, not all of us have the ability or resources to experience Utah in this way and that is why my colleagues and I at Team Utah Snowboarding, Inc strive to open up these resources to the youth in our communities that would never be able to take advantage of these opportunities on their own. Our programs are a feeder to the US Olympic Snowboard Team. Team Utah Park City (TUPC) is our set of programs based in the Park City community. TUPC serves 75 athletes annually, with programs hosted at Park City Mountain, the Utah Olympic Park, and USSA’s Center of Excellence. We believe that competitive success is a byproduct of our holistic set of programs all designed to develop strong character in our athlete members. We are dedicating 100% of the funds we raise during LivePCGivePC to our scholarship fund. Your donation to our organization will directly support the dreams of local snowboard competitors. On November 10, 2017, Park City Community Foundation, Team Utah, and all nonprofit organizations are inviting you to support the community, organizations, services, events, people, and places that you love. On this single day, we are asking everyone to visit livepcgivepc.org and support the organizations that make our lives vibrant and uniquely Park City. Jacob Levine Executive director, Team Utah Snowboarding Inc. We switch back to standard time this weekend. I love the long summer evenings. I also like having it get light earlier this time of year. But I don’t like the adjustment. If they really wanted to address the darkness issue, they would find a way to take an hour of actual sunlight from June and plug it into December and January. Fussing with the clocks really isn’t getting the job done. If we’re back on standard time, it’s a sure sign that winter is here even if the weather doesn’t look like it. There is a little streak of snow down Treasure Hollow at Park City Mountain, so the snow making system is up and running, just waiting for it to stay cold enough in the afternoons to avoid melting off what they can make at night. Opening day is only three weeks away. That leads to the search for winter weather forecasts. There’s stuff out there. The National Weather Service, which relies on thousands of calculations, statistics, and actual science, puts out a three month forecast. It’s got an accuracy rate about equal to my grandmother’s bunion. Grandmother is long gone, so we are left with science. They claim that the next few months have a greater than 40 percent chance of being warmer than normal, and a greater than 33 percent chance of being wetter than normal. That doesn’t mean 33 percent more snow. It means the odds are better than 33 percent that there will be more snow than normal. They aren’t saying how much more. Half an inch more than normal and they can claim success. That seems like a low bar. It all hinges on what “normal” is. I’ve lived here long enough to know that there’s no such thing as a “normal” winter. I’ve seen a whole winter’s worth of snow come in a week. I’ve seen years with almost no snow at 7,000 feet, rain in January, blizzards in May, and a few of those golden years when the snow comes in healthy doses, evenly spaced. Until somebody can define a “normal winter” there’s little value in long range forecasting. Science aside, I’ve found the hornet nest theory to be about as good. The theory is that when the hornets build nests high in the trees, there will be a lot of snow, and when they build near the ground, it will be a light If we’re going to have winter, I’d much prefer that it stays winter, and the storms come as that light Utah powder instead of rain. winter. Now that the leaves are off the trees, I’ve been looking for predictive hornet nests all around the ranch. Despite a lot of looking, I have only found two of the big football-sized nests. One is as high up in a cottonwood tree as they could build. The other is practically sitting on the ground. The hornets are as polarized as the rest of the country. The wind storm a couple of weeks ago seems to have shredded the rest of them. The surviving hornets have split into extreme camps that provide inconsistent predictions. I suspect there is Russian meddling in our hornet nests. Fake hornets. Last winter was a challenge, and I’m not all that happy with forecasts calling for a repeat per- formance. Up on the mountain, there was plenty of snow and aside from the rain in January, skiing was very good. At home, the snow just kept coming, and each storm was big enough that I had to plow things out whether I needed access to the barns or not. Another storm on top would have been more than my equipment would move. We shoveled off roofs all winter long and still had structural damage on some outbuildings. It rained too often, making the snow very difficult to move. The waterlogged snow was very hard on the machinery. So I could do without the 40 percent chance of warmer than normal. If we’re going to have winter, I’d much prefer that it stays winter, and the storms come as that light Utah powder instead of rain. Melting off in March doesn’t do anybody any good. The 7,000 foot level seems to be the new dividing line between rain and snow a lot of the time. It never used to rain in January. The people running the global warming hoax are doing a very convincing job of it. There is a guy who watches a buoy out in the Pacific somewhere. He claims that when this one buoy does whatever buoys do, it is a good predictor of a storm in Utah 10 days later. He’s got a website called “Powder Buoy” that has a calendar showing when he thinks it will storm here. He calls specific storms, not the overall winter pattern, but is supposed to be more accurate than hornets, the Weather Service, or Grandma’s bunion. The only thing I know for sure is that these 60 degree afternoons aren’t going to last. Tom Clyde practiced law in Park City for many years. He lives on a working ranch in Woodland and has been writing this column since 1986. Sunday in the Park By Teri Orr Saints and sinners all I‘m about to find out, as the old song goes: “Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?” And right now, I know there is nothing shy about this town. Bold designs, rich food, live music everywhere, historic buildings and marbled aboveground cemeteries. As the backdrop for this year’s TED Women conference, the town did not disappoint. And the conference has yet to conclude as of this writing but there have been so many talks about the bridges we build and cross and yes, sometimes burn. The speakers have included performers on pianos and cellos and in strong voice. The historic Orpheum theater has served as the “just right” home for the magic to happen. And a longtime friend who lives here has been a terrific inclusive guide and host to Halloween parties and cemetery walks and talks about all those things we used to talk about endlessly when he lived in Park City. For now, the best I can manage is to share some snippets and impressions of an infusion of smart people sharing their stories. Leaving the French Quarter one morning in a taxi, the driver complained about the streets still shut down for repairs. And I said, “There is so much construction.” And he said, “You mean corruption.” And I said, “Is that left over from Katrina?“ And he said, “No m’am. It is much, much older than Katrina.” And I said, “You mean Huey Long?” And he said, “Yes, ma’am. Some say he still sits in that seat.” And I was once again grateful for my high school AP English teacher who had us all read the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All The King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren. The character Willie Stark was loosely based on former Louisiana governor Huey Long, who was assassinated in office. Some say one of the most corrupt politicians of all time. And New Orleans is like that. Living the past with present. The statues still up of a gilded Joan of Arc and of Andrew Jackson. “He was also a President” another cab driver tells me a bit defensively, but then he shares: ”We took Robert E. Lee down. “ My hotel is a block away from Rue Royal and I am reminded there will always be a Park City connection in my travels. Royal Street Land Company, all those years the parent There are so many conversations that can happen when women feel safe and acknowledged and valued. company of Deer Valley Resort, came from New Orleans and the stewardship of the Stern family. Once the actual TED Women conference started, the speakers laid out stories like breadcrumbs to the place where we make our own personal connections. So, in no particular order, I learned: Louisiana incarcerates more people than any other state in the union. They know the system is broken and they know they don’t know how to fix it. Two playwrights share a dialogue that is beautiful and strange and heart warming. A heavyset black woman and a tall, thin, pale, redheaded woman. And I was lost in their words and intense friendship and a phrase: You didn’t have the dream, the dream had you. The cognitive scientist who talks about the value of speaking another language and what that does for our brain and more. To have a second language is to have a second soul. The tribal attorney based in D.C., a woman, tells us about the bullets and the buffalo at Standing Rock and what meant to be there that day. But she warns of the looming crisis of Native Peoples ahead - she tells us 40 percent of the indigenous people in America are under the age of 24. And there is little support for all these young people on or off the reservations. The participants here are from places like Syria and Somalia and Sudan and South Carolina. And the dress and languages at break time are an event in themselves. There are so many conversations that can happen when women feel safe and acknowledged and valued. And such a sense of discovery when the days are unfolding for us all in real time and we hear some the smartest, most talented, most inspiring women speaking to us. And Judith Hill’s performance of “Strange Fruit,” Billie Holliday’s 1937 dirge for African-American victims of lynching, flattened us. The session where we started talking about burning bridges had these statements: Arson is not for the fainthearted. Playing with matches is not for children – it is for women! We are cheering now – emboldened by the talks and each other’s stories. Well fed and oiled. Slightly glowing from the humidity many of us are not accustomed to. Reconnecting with women from other TED events who are building and burning bridges in their communities the world over. Like the woman who has been holding TEDx events in refugee camps in Europe. The woman who helps curate all of the TED programs, who is in tears after her friend presents a surprisingly naked talk about forgiveness. The woman who always makes me laugh with her raw insights to the younger version of TED discoveries. We are all hungry for the same things. Authentic conversations and connections and unspoken compassion. And we know the world is moving pretty fast but sometimes we need to carve out a few moments and remember the cellular parts of being a woman, any day like this Sunday in the park. Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record. She is the director of the Park City Institute, which provides programming for the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. |
