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Show A-8 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Ridgelines Wed/Thurs/Fri, December 18-20, 2019 TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM By Tom Kelly A legacy of style 30 Day Comment Period: Groundwater Source Protection Ordinance December 3, 2019 – January 6, 2020 The Summit County Health Department is issuing a 30-day formal notice and comment period during which the public can provide input on the proposed Groundwater Source Protection Ordinance to the Summit County Code of Health. Public notice is hereby given that the Summit County Board of Health (“Board”) in accordance with UCA §26A-1-121, will conduct a public hearing to discuss and possibly take action regarding Groundwater Source Protection Ordinance by the Summit County Health Department. The Hearing is scheduled for Monday, January 6, 2020; Beginning at 4:00 p.m. at the Summit County Health Department; 650 Round Valley Drive; Park City, Utah 84060. The Board seeks comment by members of the public on its proposed changes to the Summit County Code of Health. The proposed changes can be viewed online at http://summitcountyhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Proposed-O rdinance_Summit-County-Groundwater-Source-Protection-.pdf Comments must be postmarked or received at the Summit County Health Department by 5:00 pm Mountain Standard Time on Friday, January 3, 2020. Comments may be emailed to dsiddoway@summitcounty.org. Public comments will also be taken at the Board of Health meeting held on Monday, January 6, 2020, at 4 pm at the Summit County Health Department Office located at 650 Round Valley Drive, Park City. Or by mail to: Derek Siddoway Summit County Health Department 650 Round Valley Drive, Suite 100 Park City, Utah 84060 Green Tips Give more, waste less RECYCLE UTAH ‘Tis the season to celebrate and indulge. We encourage you to take a few steps to ensure that the festive spirit fills our hearts but not our landfills. During the holidays, Americans generate an additional 1 million tons into the landfill every week, but a few simple steps can change that. We love the warm glow of holiday lights, but they quickly cause a spike in our energy bill. Lighting a holiday tree for 12 hours a day for 20 days uses about $13 of energy with incandescent lights. If you switch to LED lights, it will cost you just 26 cents. Recycle your old strands of lights at the recycling center after making the switch. For more information on energy reduction check out Summit Community Power Works. Gatherings with friends and family create memories to last a lifetime, but without a little pre-planning they can also create waste that lasts multiple lifetimes. Reduce party waste by avoiding plastic or paper cups, utensils, plates, and napkins. Glass mason jars are a more festive alternative and real knives always cut much easier than plastic. Decrease the waste produced by your food packaging. Avoid plastic and buy in bulk when available. Choose items with limited packaging or those that are easily recyclable like aluminum cans and glass. Remember, glass and Styrofoam cannot go in your curbside bin. Bring it to the recycling center instead. Take on these tips and enjoy your greener holiday! Recycle Utah, a community nonprofit and drop-off recycling center, provides these weekly tips. Visit www.recycleutah.org for more information. I don’t spend a lot of time on the Mayflower side of Deer Valley Resort. But a few times a year, usually on a bluebird day, I head over to Stein’s Way to carve some glory turns down to the Jordanelle. At the top, I switch my iPhone playlist to Helan Går and drop in. Stein’s Way perfectly embodies its namesake, the legendary Stein Eriksen. It’s an elegant groomer, best enjoyed on morning corduroy, with a steady pitch, nice width for carving stylish turns and a view to the reservoir below that gives you that feeling of cascading down the mountain. You cruise easily down the first blue pitch as a warm-up, then drop your skis into the fall line of the black diamond segment before leaning into a hard right-footed turn down to the lift. It’s a run that simply makes you feel good about yourself. You truly sense that you’re skiing like Stein. It’s the kind of experience you enjoy as a visitor, then go home and tell your friends about Stein’s black diamond you skied at Deer Valley. Last Wednesday, about a hundred friends, family and lodge employees gathered in front of the trophy case in Stein Eriksen Lodge to celebrate what would have been Stein’s 92nd birthday. This month will be four years since he passed. It’s a day to celebrate the legacy of the skier whose life took him from the snowfields of his native Norway to the mountains of America, landing right here in our town four decades ago. To me, Stein always represented style and elegance. But at his heart, he was a blue collar guy who loved sharing with others. His father, Marius, was an Olympic gymnast who became an innovative ski technology pioneer in Norway. His mother, Bitte, was a leader, running the local alpine ski club and knitting amazing ski sweaters. His older brother, Marius, Jr., was a huge influence. When Norway was occupied by the Nazis during World War II, young Marius escaped and flew Spitfires for a Royal Air Force squadron of Norwegian fighter pilots, recording nine kills before being shot down and captured. Stein’s gold and silver medals from the 1952 Olympics in his hometown of Oslo made a big impression in the ski world. His triple gold sweep in the 1954 World Championships two years later solidified his place in history. Interior aims to relocate about 300 positions is overseen by the Interior Department, whether they intended to move was Thursday. But the bureau had not yet compiled a count for how many staffers had so far agreed to relocate, spokesman Derrick Henry said. The bureau oversees about 388,000 square miles of public lands, the vast majority of it in the U.S. West. It issues permits for oil and gas drilling, mining and ranching, manages outdoor recreation and enforces environmental protections. Bernhardt has called for about 300 positions to be switched from Washington to other offices in 11 Western states, including Nevada, Arizona and Utah. About 25 will be going to the new headquarters in Grand Junction, Colorado. “What we’re going to see here is an incredible group of people,” Bernhardt said, citing the quality of resumes the bureau was getting for jobs opening in Grand Junction. “Some people will come. Some won’t come.” Several Democratic lawmakers and an organization of former land bureau employees, the Public Lands Foundation, are among those opposing the move. They argue that breaking up and moving the bureau’s headquarters staff across the American West would mean losing some of its most experienced employees. “I think, frankly, it’s going to cripple the bureau for a long time,” said Henri Bisson, a former deputy director for the agency. With fewer career staffers in Washington to weigh in on management of federal lands, “it will result in decisions that are more political than they are resource-based,” Bisson said. To me, Stein always represented style and elegance. But at his heart, he was a blue collar guy who loved sharing with others.” But to me, his mark on how he would spend his life in skiing came in between. The winter of 1953, Stein and a cadre of ski racers from Scandinavia and Europe came to Sun Valley as ski instructors for the winter. I can only imagine the impact these strapping young men in ski sweaters made that winter. It was the rat pack of Sun Valley, foreshadowing the role skiing would play in future generations. Stein’s pathway in America stems back to Everett Kircher, a Detroit Studebaker dealer who owned Boyne Mountain, who convinced him to return in 1955. Stein hopscotched from Boyne to Sugarbush to Heavenly and Aspen. There he met Edgar Stern, who eventually brought him here to help build Deer Valley. Stein and Edgar were a perfect match. Stein was a symbol of elegance in skiing. Stern was a master of hospitality. What they built together in the 1980s with Deer Valley set a new standard for hospitality in winter sport. Chef Zane Holmquist recalled Stein’s impact with great fondness. “He used to tell us, ‘just don’t screw it up,’” Holmquist laughed. “He loved to joke around with us.” Stein would come to the dining room each day and ask the chef, “what do you have for me today.” His favorite indulgence, crème brûlée with a side of ice cream, and a nice glass of champagne or maybe aquavit. Helan Går is a Scandinavian folk song used as a celebratory toast. Roughly translated, it says: ‘He who doesn’t drink the first, shall never, ever quench his thirst.’ Stein’s legacy was very much alive last week as his son, Bjorn, joined lodge CEO Russ Olsen in raising a glass to Stein. In the crowd was Stein’s wife, Françoise, smiling broadly as she held their little granddaughter who will someday learn about her famous grandfather. At his core, what made Stein such a great person wasn’t his style and elegance. It was his ability to connect to others. He was more than a representative of Deer Valley and Stein Eriksen Lodge. He was literally the ambassador of a sport to generations. When you talked about skiing, you couldn’t help but talk about Stein. The chef put it best when he said, “what we all respected most about Stein was that he made everyone around him feel great.” Wisconsin native Tom Kelly landed in Park City in 1988 (still working on becoming an official local). A recently inducted member of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame, he is most known for his role as lead spokesperson for Olympic skiing and snowboarding for over 30 years until his retirement in 2018. This will be his 50th season on skis, typically logging 60 days in recent years. Orem Chinese immersion students enter high school Opponents warn of brain First group of kids reflects on its time drain as BLM moves West in program ASSOCIATED PRESS OREM – Tamblyn Lonergan remembers crying at the kitchen table when she was in fourth grade as she told her parents how difficult it was to learn Chinese. That is now a distant and amusing memory for Lonergan, a 10th grader who is among the first class of Chinese dual immersion students in the Alpine School District who now in high school and fresh off a recent trip to China where they were able to try out those hard-earned language skills, the Daily Herald in Provo reports. “I am so happy that they made me stick with it, because I have all this knowledge I can take throughout my whole life,” Lonergan said. Lonergan and her fellow students traveled to a youth summit at the Suzhou Foreign Language School in Suzhou, China, which the Orem High School students are working to make an official sister school. The students studied different aspects of Chinese culture and did a presentation about what they learned. “We had to work together, but we all don’t speak the same language, so we had to get through that,” Lonergan said. The students spent half of their time learning Chinese in elementary school and are ex- pected to have enough college credit by the time they graduate high school to earn a minor in Chinese. Alan Heath, a Chinese teacher at Orem High School, called the trip to China a great success. He said the benefits to learning Chinese are endless. “There are so many opportunities business wise, but also with cultural exchanges and with students who just want to experience the world,” Heath said. The trip also had students not in the dual-immersion program who are taking Chinese courses at Orem High School. “I struggled for the first few days, and then I’d go up and start the conversation in Chinese instead of English,” said Edwin Nazario. “It got so much easier.” Democrat Rep. McAdams to vote to impeach Trump Utah congressman prepares for tough race in 4th District LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press MURRAY — Moderate Democrat Ben McAdams said Monday he will vote to impeach President Donald Trump in what is seen as a key decision as he seeks to retain the seat he flipped in a largely Republican district last year. McAdams said Trump abused the power of his office by pressuring Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, and he “cannot turn a blind eye” to his actions. “What the president did was wrong,” he said, reading from a statement. McAdams did not take questions. The House is set to vote on articles of impeachment Wednesday. He acknowledged that the U.S. Senate will likely vote to acquit Trump, and said he trusted the voters to decide the president’s political fate in next year’s election. He rebuked unnamed members of both parties, pointing to Republicans who have dismissed the testimony of those who testified about Trump’s actions and Democrats who he said were “all too gleeful” about the impeachment process. He also sought to turn the conversation to “kitchen-table” political issues, like prescription drug prices and the economy. The announcement comes ahead of what’s expected to be a tough re-election race in a suburban Salt Lake City district that Trump won by 6.8 percentage points in 2016. Republicans have hammered McAdams by connecting him to the impeachment probe they say distracts from other important issues. McAdams defeated Republican Mia Love, who was the first black GOP woman in Congress. His victory margin was less than 700 points in the midterm elections where Democrats flipped more than three dozen Republican-held seats across the country. McAdams’ narrow victory in deeply conservative Utah makes it one of the most competitive House races in 2020. Several Republicans have announced challenges, though one of the more high-profile candidates, state Sen. Dan Hemmert, announced Monday he was dropping out. While Utah is deeply conservative, much of the mostly-Mormon electorate in the district has long been uncomfortable with Trump’s brash style and his comments about women and immigrants. While Republican voters outnumber Democrats nearly 3-1 in the 4th District, 40% of voters are independents. The district covers a string of Salt Lake City suburbs stretching south along the Wasatch Front to Sanpete County in central Utah. KEN RITTER BRADY MCCOMBS Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Opponents of the Trump administration’s plan to break up the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the country’s public lands bureau are warning of a brain drain, saying many staffers who are being reassigned are opting to quit rather than move out West. U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt defended the move Friday. Opponents have projected that the number of Bureau of Land Management staffers agreeing to move from headquarters could be as low as 15%, which Bernhardt said was “not consistent with what I’ve seen.” Speaking at a Las Vegas conference on Colorado River water supplies, Bernhardt said he did not immediately have firmer figures, however. “A year from now ... you’re going to find out that it worked really well,” Bernhardt told reporters. The Trump administration says the plan will save taxpayers millions of dollars, lead to better, faster decisions and trim a “top heavy” office in Washington. Moving the bureau out of Washington is a long-cherished goal of Western state politicians who cite the preponderance of public lands in their part of the country and their lack of access to decision-makers. The deadline for most staffers to notify the land bureau, which Employees who agree to move have 120 days to report to their new posts. Bisson and other former bureau officials who are talking to employees said it appears the majority of reassigned staffers will leave instead. “Many of them are in families that have two careers, and their spouse can’t move. They have kids in high school. They have ailing parents they are taking care of,” said Kit Muller, who retired last year after 38 years with the bureau and is one of those projecting that fewer than half of reassigned staffers would move. “You can imagine the reasons.” Former bureau employee George Stone, director of the Public Lands Foundation, said the rationale that the move will give Western residents, county commissioners and elected officials better access to federal decision-makers doesn’t make sense because most of the agency’s 10,000 employees are already in field offices outside Washington. Current staffer Dave Hu, a fisheries biologist, has been asked to move to a field office in Denver but has told the bureau he’s trying to find a job with a different federal agency so he can stay in Washington. He hopes to have clarity in a few weeks, he said. Hu said he knows many colleagues have elderly parents, homes and children that make it difficult to move. “It’s not an ideal way to do business, but it’s an opportunity for me, and I think something will work out,” said Hu, who has been with the bureau for nearly seven years. “I’m a `fed,’ and that’s part of the deal I signed up for.” |