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Show UMMIT EWS UNTY 5 00 Vol. 82 No. 16 INSIDE THE NEWS THIS WEEK Friday, April 22, 2011 Coalville, Utah 84017 Summit County's Flood Preparation Park City Medical Center Food Drive... See Page A4 Flooding the first of this week at Pine Cliff from Chalk Creek (photo courtesy Bob Swensen/SCHD) Flooding on Chalk Creek (photo Courtesy Bob Swensen/SCND) KEVIN CALLAHAN Public Works Director, Summit County Special to the News Rich Hardman, Congratulates Taylor on receiving his Eagle... See story on Page A4 Today H47 L32 Partly Cloudy With the heavy snowpack and river levels already at capacity, the National Weather Service is predicting a very high chance of flooding for rivers and streams in Summit County. This forecast is subject to change over the next few weeks based on the actual weather conditions. As part of the county's flooding preparedness and response efforts, Summit County will provide the following FLOOD FIGHTING MATERIAL ASSISTANCE to area residents and property owners: • The County has provided depots of sand and sandbags at the following locations: • Kamas - Mile marker 4 on HWY 150 and Beaver Creek Inn on HWY 150 • Oakley - Town Hall, Upper Hidden Lakes, Lower Hidden Lakes and 2563 East Weber Canyon Road • Coalville - Hidden Hills RV Park • Snyderville Basin - Timberwolf Condos on State HWY 224, 8815 Gorgoza Drive in Hidden Cove and St Lukes' Church on Silver Springs Drive • Summit Park - Public Works shed Residents who are not near these depots may come to the County Public Works Yard at 1755 South Hoytsville Road from 8 AM to 4 PM Monday through Friday. For more information call 435.336.3970 during business hours. For is sues and problems after hours call Summit County Dispatch at (435) 336-3600. Henefer flooding from Main Canyon Creek Monday and Tuesday Photo Owners may obtain up to 25 sandbags at the yard without charge. If an owner courtesy Brent Ovard/SCHD needs more than 25 sandbags they can secure them at one of the depot sites listed above for no charge. This is not an advisory for residents to construct levees at this time. The County will be in a state of continuous monitoring and will notify residents via the county's website at www.summitcounty.org and their local leaders when a flood stage event is anticipated. Residents are encouraged to monitor flood forecasts issued by the National Weather Service. To monitor this site please go to national weather service at www.wrh.noaa.gov slc / (Continued on Page A3) Summit County cities recognized at Tree City USA Awards Luncheon Saturday H52 L34 AM Clouds/ PM Sun Sunday H53 L35 Showers 66 6 b p6 66 Monday H46 L33 Showers Tuesday H46 L33 Rain/Snow Showers - Francis City receives 1st Year Award Tree City USA Photo Cheryl Ovard/SCN Editor) Wednesday H53 L35 Partly Cloudy Thursday H58 L34 Mostly Sunny Inside The Summit County News 1 Section 12 Pages Opinion Happenings Obituaries School News Public Notices Classifieds A2 A5 A7 A8 A7 A9-10 Oakley plants trees in City Tree City USA project CHERYL OVARD SCN Editor The 2011 Northern Utah Tree City USA Awards workshop and luncheon was held in Murray City at the Wheeler Farm on April 19. Coalville City and Francis City received their 1st Tree City USA Community Award along Coalville City receives 1st Year Award Tree Park City Receives 18th Year Tree City USA Photo courCity USA Photo Cheryl Ovard/SCN Editor) tesy DNR with Oakley their with 2nd Year Award and Park City their with 18th Year Award at the Annual Tree City USA Community Award CerePark... Part of mony. The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands (FFSL) hosted this 6th Annual Northern Utah Tree City, USA, Award Luncheon. The ceremony program consisted of recognizing the outstanding urban forestry efforts Utah communities and offered continuing tree care education to city employees, tree boards and concerned cit- izens who attended. A. Jason Bartow, was also recognized for his outstanding service in promoting and helping to improve the communities in Summit County. Sponsored by the Arbor Day Foundation, the Tree City USA program "promotes a standard for urban forestry in cities and towns." To qualify as a Tree City USA communities must meet four benchmarks: have a tree board or forestry department, spend more than $2 per capita on tree related expenses, adopt a tree ordinance and celebrate Arbor Day! There are currently a total of 77 Tree City USA communities in Utah. During the luncheon, 40 Utah communities were awarded with materials from the National Arbor Day Foun- dation and gifts from Rocky Mountain Power, (Francis were recipients of two $100 vouchers towards purchasing two trees from them), Tree Utah, Utah Community Forest Council and FFSL. Each community will use these materials to help celebrate their Tree City USA status during local Arbor Day celebrations this spring. May 7 will be Coalville's Arbor Day at 11:30, Senior Citizens Bldg. area, and April 30th is Francis City's Arbor Day at 9 a.m. Park City's Arbor Day is at City Park May 7, 9 a.m. Check out Oakley's website for their scheduled Arbor Day Celebration. "We commend (the cities of Summit County's) elected officials, volunteers and its citizens for providing vital care for its urban forest," said John Rosenow, chief ex- ecutive and founder of the Arbor Day Foundation. "Trees provide numerous environmental, economical and health benefits to millions of people each day , and we applaud communities that make planting and caring for trees a priority." Utah's Community Forests make a lasting contribution toward improving the quality of life in our communities. The trees planted are valuable in sustaining life in many ways. Northern Utah Tree City USA is a National organization, and Utah plays an important part in promoting urban development. Pictured in the photos are: Francis: Kristi Major and Luke Thomas; Coalville: Ron CONTINUED ON PAGE A3 |