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Show C-1 B-1 PICK A PERFORMANCE DURING SHOWCASE THE MINERS SINK IN EXTRA MINUTES INSIDE THIS EDITION Real Estate PARK CITY The Park Record. SUMMIT & WASATCH COUNTIES SOARING WATERS • 217 WHITE parkrecord.com JANUARY 19 - FEBRUARY 15, 2019 In the market for a new home? Find our guide to Park City real estate in this paper. • $14,000,000 PINE CANYON RD, PARK CITY 0-744 PA U L B E N S O N 4 3 5 - 6 4 paulbenson.com principals of the Fair Housing Employers and fully support the Partners are Equal Opportunity listing. Völkers and its independent License not an attempt to solicit your owned and operated. Engel & by a real estate broker, this is reserved. Each brokerage independently be independently verified. If your property is currently represented ©2019 Engel & Völkers. All rights and should reliable but is not guaranteed All information provided is deemed BUSINESS, A-5 COLUMNS, A-24 THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING IN SNOW SPORTS INDUSTRY 1 Act. TERI ORR TAKES A TRIP TO HARLEM VIA ‘BEALE STREET’ Park Record. The PA R K C I T Y, U TA H | W W W. PA R K R E C O R D . C O M Vol. 138 | No. 100 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, January 19-22, 2019 Serving Summit County since 1880 50¢ Fest hours are long, unpaid, but still a thrill On course, on edge Sundance relies on volunteers, some returning year after year, for a range of critical duties SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Trevor Kennison carves a turn on the PayDay super G course at Park City Mountain Resort during the National Ability Center’s Huntsman Cup competition Wednesday morning. The annual event draws an international field of athletes competing in divisions designated by ability. The competitions in 2019 marked the 30th year of the Huntsman Cup. An elk, hit, City Hall attorney resigns, taken apart leaving after a criminal case on roadside Polly Samuels McLean chose to depart following sentencing As the crashes mount, in taking of hunting goods some collect roadkill JAY HAMBURGER for steaks, hides The Park Record JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The afternoon of New Year’s Day is spectacular in Park City with bluebird conditions for the crowds that arrived for holiday skiing vacations. The roads are dry and traffic is moving without issue on the S.R. 224 entryway even with the community packed. As drivers head in and out of Park City on the state highway, passing the McPolin Farm, only some likely notice two men on the side of the road. The men are studying the carcass of a large elk. The animal was a victim of a collision with a vehicle. Another elk carcass, also a collision victim, is almost directly across S.R. 224 from the one Troy Horman, a plumber from Wanship, and the other man, who declines to be identified, are preparing to remove. The carnage belies the holiday spirit that has swept through Park City with fine early-season skiing conditions for Parkites and the visitors. Elk are one of the grandest animals that inhabit the area’s sliver of the Wasatch Mountains, and sightings are memorable. They are larger than deer, more agile than moose. They also seem to be elusive at many times even as people in Park City report sightings of deer and moose. The two men, gloved and dressed in gear designed for the outdoors, approach the first carcass. Horman A Marsac Building attorney who acknowledged involvement in the disappearance of hunting equipment in the mountains outside of Summit Park resigned from the municipal post in early January, City Hall said in a prepared statement released on Wednesday. Polly Samuels McLean had been the assistant city attorney. The City Hall statement said the resignation was effective Jan. 7. The statement also said the resignation was “amicable and the parties have no outstanding issues between them.” The statement indicated Samuels McLean plans to open a law practice. Samuels McLean said in an interview she is proud of her work at the Marsac Building on issues like planning and zoning as well as workforce or otherwise affordable housing. The work was fulfilling and collaborative, she said, describing that she “really grew as an attorney” while at City Hall. Her practice, called Peak Law, will be based in the Park City area and focus on topics like real estate, planning and zoning, contracts and homeowners associations. She declined to discuss the criminal case that was brought against her. Park City Attorney Mark Harrington praised her work for City Hall in the statement. “I appreciate Polly’s thirteen years of service to our community. She has been a key member of the legal staff and has been pivotal in her role” in the Community Development Department and other departments, Harrington said in the statement. Diane Foster, the Park City manager, said in the statement the municipal government wishes “her the best in her new endeavor.” City Hall declined to comment about whether Samuels McLean received a severance package. The resignation ends the speculation about Samuels McLean’s long-term status at City Hall. There were questions about whether it would be proper for someone to serve as a municipal attorney after a criminal case like the one brought against Samuels McLean. Samuels McLean, 49, in late 2018 pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief. A theft count was dismissed in the case. The plea will be held in abeyance for 12 months and the charge could be dismissed at the end of the abeyance period if she completes a 3rd District Court judge’s conditions. The conditions include paying a $1,500 fee and $180 in restitution. Samuels McLean was also put on court probation for 12 months, ordered to perform 50 hours of community service and was Please see Attorney, A-2 Please see Volunteers, A-2 COURTESY OF JULIE BOOKMAN Julie Bookman, second from the left in front, is returning to volunteer at the Sundance Film Festival for the 14th straight year. She is pictured here during the 2016 festival with fellow volunteers, clockwise from bottom left, Susan Dininni, Ted Test, Lucy Shaw, Fay Blackburn and Sue Lockhart. High school nostalgia A redo is possible for messed-up junction Committee of citizens wants to address the growth in Basin ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON The Park Record Please see Roadkill, A-10 3 sections • 46 pages Business ................................. A-5 Classifieds .............................. C-8 Columns ............................... A-24 Crossword .............................. C-4 Editorial................................ A-25 Events Calendar ..................... C-6 Legals ................................... C-11 Letters to the Editor ............. A-25 Restaurant Guide.................. A-23 Scene ...................................... C-1 Scoreboard ............................. B-5 Sports ..................................... B-1 Weather .................................. B-2 When the Sundance Film Festival opens on Thursday, it will include more than 2,200 volunteers from 20 countries and 46 of the 50 states. Of that number, 1,426 are returning volunteers and 796 are new, according to the event’s media relations manager Jason Berger. “Volunteers have been scheduled to provide service for 102,596.91 hours for the festival,” Berger said in an email. One of the returning volunteers is Julie Bookman, a freelance reporter who specializes in writing about books and the performing arts and hails from Atlanta. . “This year marks my 14th consecutive year as a fulltime Sundance Film Festival volunteer,” said Bookman, who also writes for Playbill Magazine in New York and Encore Magazine in Atlanta. “And I can’t imagine my life without doing this.” Bookman said food poisoning was her ticket to becoming a Sundance Film Festival volunteer in 2005. “I was sick at home going through New York Times stories that I had set aside to read later,” she said. “There was a story about the films that were going to Sundance.” Bookman reached out to a friend who had run the sound and light board at Sundance’s Filmmakers Lodge during the panel discussions. “She told me about all the volunteers, and made a call,” Bookman said. “Usually you’re supposed to get your volunteer applications in by October, but since my friend agreed to share a bedroom with me, they said they would take me.” TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Park City High School’s Dance Company II performs a number called “Nostalgia” to a mashup of “I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire” and “Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall” by Ella Fitzgerald and The Ink Spots Tuesday during the group’s Emotions of Dance performance at the Eccles Center’s black box theater. The Snyderville Basin Planning Commission will be getting its first glimpse of the Blue Ribbon Citizen’s Advisory Committee’s neighborhood plan for the Kimball Junction area. The committee, made up of citizens and county staffers, has spent the last year and a half coming up with suggestions for a new neighborhood plan. The document will eventually be considered for an amendment to the Snyderville Basin General Plan to serve VISITOR GUIDE Park City Mountain Resort provides the workplace as a guide for future development and re-development. It will be presented to the planning panel on Tuesday at the Sheldon Richins Building at 5 p.m. County staffers have not shied away from saying “We messed up” when it comes to the design, layout and flow of Kimball Junction, with most residents agreeing. The area has turned into a bustling commercial center over the last 15 years, with dozens of residences nearby. Summit County created a Blue Ribbon Citizen’s Advisory Committee in 2016 to develop a preliminary neighborhood master plan. The planning area includes Redstone, Fox Point, Newpark, the Village at Kimball Junction, Park City Tech Center, High Bluffs (which includes Walmart), Canyon Please see Redo, A-2 WX Summit (Workplace Summit) will start at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 22, at the Grand Summit Hotel at Park City Mountain Resort. The summit is designed to bring together WX thinkers and practitioners. For information and registration, visit teem.com/summit. |