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Show C-1 B-1 FILMMAKERS’ STORIES WILL SHINE ON SCREEN UTAH POLITICS, A-12 INSIDE THIS PAPER MINERS SET OPTIMISTIC TONE FOR THE FUTURE Bursting with holiday cheer? This edition of our Park City Home magazine is for you. Park Record. COLUMNS, A-14 HUNTSMAN ANNOUNCES GUBERNATORIAL BID TOM CLYDE RECALLS WATERGATE The PA R K C I T Y, U TA H Serving Summit County since 1880 | W W W. PA R K R E C O R D . C O M Vol. 139 | No. 82 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, November 16-19, 2019 50¢ Championship bound City Hall readies to sell Woodside Park housing Units, meant to attract people priced out of the market, start at $205,000 JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Senior Park City linebacker Brady Baumann, right, celebrates with senior running back Dylan Bauer following the Miners’ 48-21 victory over Pine View in the Class 4A state semifinals Thursday at Rice-Eccles Stadium. The top-ranked and undefeated Miners are scheduled to play for the school’s first-ever state football title Friday at 11 a.m. at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Nonprofit aims to aid enrollment The Park Record Legal battles over the Affordable Care Act wage on, as they have virtually since it was passed in 2010, but the marbled courthouse halls of the East Coast are a long way from the People’s Health Clinic, where volunteers and another Utah nonprofit work to enroll people in health insurance plans. The annual period to select a health insurance plan, called open enrollment, started Nov. 1 and lasts until Dec. 15. The window for seniors to enroll in Medicare started in mid-October. For the last few weeks, teams of two community enrollment specialists from the Utah Health Policy Project have visited the nonprofit health clinic in Round Valley twice a week to help people navigate the potentially confusing world of health insurance. Last year at the People’s Health Clinic, Utah Health Policy Project enrollment specialists helped about 40 people buy health insurance through the online exchange and another 10 enroll in Medicaid, according to the clinic’s executive director, Beth Armstrong. Though it’s still Teachers know when students aren’t right, when they lay their heads on their desk during their favorite class or when they start missing school or acting out. But what to do next? In some Summit County schools, teachers and school counselors would have to do the best with what they had, offering support they weren’t trained to give and taking time away from other work they were supposed to be doing. Some schools were lucky enough to have a staff social worker or others trained in mental health care who could help provide strategies and ways to support the child. Starting this school year, though, every public school in Summit County has access to an on-site clinical mental health counselor who is budgeted to visit the campus for four hours each week, the program’s manager Nelson Clayton said. That’s the result of Summit County’s changeover to a new provider for its behavioral health programs, which officially started Sept. 1. There’s been a process for students to receive therapy in place for years, but Clayton says the number of kids who have been referred to mental health services in the two-plus months since the county’s contract with the University of Utah’s Healthy U Behavioral began is already more than double the total number last year. Counselors and program and school administrators say the benefits have been manifold with the new onsite services, including knocking down logistical barriers to care, contributing to a destigmatization of mental health issues as parents grow to trust school-based services and allowing guidance counselors, teachers and administrative staff to focus on the jobs they’ve been trained to do. Park City officials on Friday launched the pre-application process for people interested in acquiring a workforce or otherwise affordable housing unit in the first phase of Woodside Park, a City Hall project in Old Town. The pre-application process has a deadline of Dec. 6. The three houses are priced at between $205,000 for a 671-square-foot one-bedroom, one-bathroom footprint and $565,000 for a 1,612-square-foot three-bedroom, 2 1/2–bathroom home. The townhouse prices are set at $359,000 for two-bedroom, three-bathroom units that are in the range of 1,400 square feet. “We’re looking to build what we call community housing,” said Jason Glidden, the housing development manager at City Hall. The pre-application process, involving Please see Housing, A-2 The ‘real human experience’ of Park City will be highlighted at Wednesday summit JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record Parkites on Wednesday will be asked some of the questions that have proven difficult to answer for years. How does Park City fit into the regional landscape, is a question that may be put before them. And in what ways should the community reimagine the transportation system could be another one asked of the crowd. The firm the municipal government tapped to Please see Care, A-10 Please see Visioning, A-2 Business leaders convene at ski season kick-off Spirits high even as warm weather persists into mid-November BUBBA BROWN The Park Record Please see Assistance, A-2 3 sections • 36 pages Classifieds .............................. C-8 Columns ............................... A-14 Crossword .............................. C-4 Editorial................................ A-15 Events Calendar ..................... C-6 Legals ................................... C-11 Letters to the Editor ............. A-15 Restaurant Guide.................. A-13 Scene ...................................... C-1 Scoreboard ............................. B-5 Sports ..................................... B-1 Weather .................................. B-2 PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO Mental health care presence A gathering increased in public schools scheduled to Officials say new resource talk visioning knocks down barriers to care, Utah Health Policy helps destigmatize the issue Project helps residents CRAMER sign up for insurance ALEXANDER The Park Record ALEXANDER CRAMER Park City on Friday began the first steps toward selecting buyers for a workforce or otherwise affordable housing project in the northern reaches of Old Town, a process that is expected to draw widespread interest as rank-and-file workers compete to win the right to acquire a unit that would put them a few blocks away from Main Street, City Park and Park City Mountain Resort. City Hall launched the pre-application process for the first phase of Woodside Park housing. The project is located on the 1300 blocks of Park Avenue and Woodside Avenue. There are seven units — three houses and four townhouses — available. Prospective buyers must qualify through their income. One of the houses is designated as affordable while the other two are designated as attainable. Each of the townhouses is designated as affordable. The income restrictions attached to the attainable units climb above those restricting the affordable ones. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Mike Goar, chief operating officer of Park City Mountain Resort, left, and Deer Valley Resort COO Todd Shallan appear on stage during the Park City Chamber/ Bureau’s annual fall tourism luncheon, held Wednesday at Stein Eriksen Lodge. The executives say they are optimistic about the upcoming ski season. Park City is winter’s favorite town, according to a slogan the Park City Chamber/Bureau’s uses to market ski vacations to out-of-state visitors. The area’s business community likely wishes the season would show its love by arriving sooner rather than later. The Chamber/Bureau held its annual fall tourism forum to kick off the ski season Wednesday as swaths of brown covered much of the mountainside beyond host Stein Eriksen Lodge’s outdoor terrace. If the town’s ski executives and marketing officials are concerned about the warm weather that has per- VISITOR GUIDE Raise a glass to Park City Toastmasters sisted into mid-November, though, they didn’t show it. Park City Mountain Resort Chief Operating Officer Mike Goar reiterated that the ski area is on track to maintain its scheduled opening date of Nov. 22, telling the audience there is currently enough snow on the slopes to get some of the lifts turning. Likewise, Bill Malone, president and CEO of the Chamber/Bureau, said in an interview that it’s still too early for the broader business community that relies on ski tourism to worry about the relative lack of snow. That’s particularly true, he said, because recent trends indicate visitors will come to Park City even when the on-mountain conditions are not optimal because of the town’s other offerings like shopping and dining. “We’re not one of those places that, if the skiing’s not fantastic, Please see Leaders, A-10 Park City Toastmasters will introduce its free Speaker Series, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the Park City Library. Speakers will include travel writer Joel Zuckerman, “RecruiterGuy” author Bill Humbert and empowerment coach Rachelle Raven. Visit pctoastmasters.com. |