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Show A-2 Wed/Thurs/Fri, October 2-4, 2019 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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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 Continued from A-1 Census efforts start In addition to affecting the state’s and county’s abilities to access a pool of nearly $1 trillion in federal funding, the decennial census also apportions political representation. Higher participation statewide, for example, may mean Utah gets an extra vote in Congress. The Summit County Complete Count Committee is the group that’s working to make sure Summit County residents are counted. It includes volunteers, representatives from the League of Women Voters, County Councilor Glenn Wright, and the county’s Economic Development Director Jeff Jones, who has been spearheading the issue for the county. It works in close conjunction with census officials. The committee is hosting a community information session from 10-11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, at the Christian Center of Park City, 1283 Deer Valley Drive. The session will be led by the area’s census local partnership specialist, Meredith Reed, and will be targeted at local leaders who are interested in getting involved. Jones reported he or committee members have already made presentations about the importance of the census to the cities of Henefer and Kamas and are scheduled to present to Park City and Coalville. One key to the effort is accessing “hard-to-count” populations, which current census data puts at about 8% of the county’s population, or roughly 3,100 people. That’s where the presentations to local municipalities come in, as the committee is looking to local governments, nonprofits and service groups to help reach populations that may be Continued from A-1 Trailheads readied that are visible in the distance. There will also be benches at the trailhead. There is a restroom. “They like to take a picture, a view area,” Heinrich Deters, who manages real estate, trails and open space for City Hall, said about people who reach the overlook. On Sunday, a blustery day with winds strong enough to make walking difficult, several people were seen braving the difficult conditions at the Empire Pass trailhead to take photographs. The Guardsman Pass trailhead, located at the pass itself, is also nearly finished. A Bloods Lake trailhead, located approximately one mile downhill from Guardsman Pass, is under con- Continued from A-1 Biden visits the Basin Fax: 435–649–4942 Email: circulation@parkrecord.com Published every Wednesday and Saturday He said the opportunity for Trump ended with Charlottesville as he described “torches, veins bulging, hate in their eyes, Direct Importer of the World’s Finest Rugs A t t h e H i s t o r i c Vi l l a T h e a t r e 3092 So. Highland Dr., Salt Lake City (801)484-6364 888.445.RUGS (7847) Mon.-Sat. 10 am to 6 pm disinclined to respond or haven’t been contacted about the census. Jones wrote in an email to The Park Record that the committee hopes to add members from all across the county and to add diversity in its membership. Other outreach efforts include preparing a mailer that will go out with property tax bills later this fall and requesting $10,000 in the 2020 county budget for census efforts, Jones wrote. The Legislature appropriated $1 million to help with the census effort in a special session last month. That includes $500,000 for census outreach statewide and $500,000 focused on outreach to rural areas, minority communities and those with a lower socioeconomic status. The law says the funds will not be appropriated until November at the earliest, and Jones said he has not received word of whether the county will receive money or how much. The process is ramping up as the calendar ticks toward Census Day on April 1. On March 12, the census is scheduled to go live online — a first in the count’s 229-year history. Leaders hope the increased access will improve response rates. Residents will still receive census information at their homes, either through the mail or by hand delivery. If a household hasn’t responded by mid-April, it will receive a questionnaire through the mail. A census worker will follow up in person in May if the household still has not responded, according to the county’s website. On Tuesday, the Area Census Office, which will serve as the management center for local census takers and supervisors, held a grand opening in Orem, according to a news release. The other regional office, in Salt Lake City, opened Tuesday as well. The census is paid for by the federal government, and the government is looking to hire thousands of people across the country to help with the effort, according to its website. Information about those jobs is available at 2020census.gov/jobs or by calling 855-JOB-2020. struction while a trailhead known as Bonanza Flat, approximately 600 feet from the Empire Pass trailhead, is also under construction. All of the trailheads will have parking spaces. City Hall says there are expected to be approximately 100 parking spaces, combined, among the trailheads. The trailheads are an effort by City Hall to increase the accessibility of Bonanza Flat, a popular spot for recreation in the summer and winter. They also provide locations for restrooms and trash cans. The land had been under private ownership prior to the City Hall acquisition. Recreation lovers regularly used Bonanza Flat while it was under private ownership, but the City Hall acquisition has led to an increase in use. The trailheads will be some of the most important City Hall improvements to the land. A ballot measure approved by Park City voters in 2016 that provided most of the funding for the Bonanza Flat acquisition contemplated what were described as “limited improvements for public access, parking and use.” The trailheads fall under that provision. chanting that same anti-Semetic bile that was chanted in the streets of Berlin and Nuremburg, and all through Germany in the ’30s, literally carrying swastikas, accompanied by the Ku Klux Klan as well as other white supremacists,” the pool report said. Trump “said something no president has ever, ever said. He said there were very fine people on both sides. He made a moral equivalence between those peddling hate and those opposing it. It’s been his modus operandi since the day he’s become president,” Biden said, according to the pool report. The weather greatly reduces threat of fire ‘Mellow’ season nears end, precautions in the community credited ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record The cool nights and dew collecting on cars and lawns alike are reminders that the season is changing and the worst of wildfire season is likely over. But the danger has not completely passed. Summit County Fire Warden Bryce Boyer said a warm, dry, windy spell of weather could make the wild grasses ready to go up in flame over the course of a single day. He and other area fire professionals said this season was a relatively mild one, especially when compared to last year. “It was a pretty mellow year,” Boyer said. “We had 58 responses in the county — that’s even the smoke (calls) and stuff, not all actual fires. Last year we were at about 120, and most of those were fire.” Boyer said it wasn’t the slowest season he’s seen and that cool, wet conditions in spring are sometimes conducive to decreased fire activity. Normally, the area averages around 80100 calls. Boyer said as far as he knew, no structures have been lost and no personnel have been injured this season. North and South Summit fire districts both said their personnel have been safe, as well. Boyer said he thought the severity of last year’s season — both here and in the West in general — might have encouraged residents to exercise more caution. That’s a point echoed by South Summit Fire District spokesperson Scott Nagle, who said people have listened to the warnings about fire danger, especially in the Kamas Valley. “We didn’t have many grass fires this year,” Nagle said, explaining those are the type that tend to be human caused. “Seems like in the past, we always had a few here and there.” Boyer attributed it to fear instilled in people after the devastating wildfires last year, including the Camp Fire in California, which killed more than 85 people and left a path of destruction across 150,000 acres. “But there’s still that group that (thinks), ‘Oh, it’ll never happen to me,’” Boyer said. “They’re the ones that keep me in the job.” He said his crews have stayed busy with fire prevention and mitigation work, including home assessments that inform homeowners how to harden their homes against fire. In addition to advocating defensible space by clearing brush around homes, Boyer said things like putting grates over chimneys, sealing homes against embers and keeping lawn furniture inside can also increase a home’s fire resistance. Park City Fire District Chief Paul Hewitt called this season a mild one, but said the community should remain vigilant. “Fire danger in the Park City area will ... always be present,” Hewitt wrote in a text message to The Park Record. “Making structure exteriors more fire resistive will always be money and time well-spent.” The Echo 80 fire was the largest in the county this year, Boyer said, burning just shy of 50 acres at the end of August. North Summit Fire District spokesperson Tyler Rowser concurred about the season’s relative slowness, adding that has led to more maintenance for the district’s equipment because it’s not being used as much. Nagle said things have also been quiet in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, and South Summit crews have conducted prevention work and been called out to monitor planned burns by concerned residents. Boyer said fires could still happen, but the cooler air and higher relative humidity overnight make it less likely a fire will last a long time. His crews are focusing on burning piles of vegetation next, but he’s still monitoring conditions closely. “This week, it’s supposed to be warm, dry and sunny — that’ll dry out those grasses again,” Boyer said. “It takes a day to dry out — with wind and sunlight on it — typically by late afternoon the grasses are ready to go.” former city manager, Tom Bakaly. Her private sector career included time at American Skiing Company and Backcountry.com. The City Hall release notes Foster’s role in a series of high-profile municipal successes, including the conservation agreements for Treasure and Bonanza Flat. It also highlights the work that led to an agreement between City Hall and the organizers of the Sundance Film Festival to shift the dates of the event on years that it would oth- erwise overlap with the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, something that was long sought by the Park City business community. “The mayor and Council appreciate Diane Foster’s good service to the city and community, but we felt it was in the best interest of the organization to make a change and go a new direction,” Beerman said in an interview. Beerman said Foster will receive a severance package, but details were not immediately available. Foster is “actively helping with the transition” for at least a few weeks, the mayor said. Matt Dias, the assistant city manager under Foster, was appointed the interim city manager. The City Hall release said Dias “has the confidence of the mayor and City Council who plan to discuss with Dias the opportunity to take on the permanent role.” The release said an external recruitment to select the next city manager is not currently planned. He continued to speak about the Charlottesville violence. He said Charlottesville “made me realize the history of this nation is not a fairy tale ... If you give oxygen to prejudice, it comes out from under the rocks. If you give oxygen to hate, it moves. It continues to come back. We’ve been here before,” the pool report said. The pool report indicated Biden described an optimistic view of the future of the U.S., touting the nation’s research universities, the nation’s wealth and its productivity, and he referred to President Kennedy’s 1960s speech about the moon mission as he closed his remarks. “I refuse to postpone any longer the opportunities we have ... So let’s get the hell up, remember who we are, take back the country and make America the envy of the world again,” Biden said, according to the pool report. Continued from A-1 Foster departs |