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Show A-14 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 9-12, 2012 The Park Record MORE DOGS ON MAIN Wedding Kali & Chad Agy PHOTO PROVIDED BY TIM FARRINGTON Congratulations to Kali and Chad Agy, May 26, 2012. MEETINGS AND AGENDAS TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM SNYDERVILLE BASIN PLANNING COMMISSION Notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission will meet in regular session Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at the Sheldon D. Richins Building (Library), 1885 W. Ute Blvd., Park City, UT AGENDA Items may or may not be discussed in the order listed. 6:00 p.m. Executive Session 1. Litigation Regular Session *Public comment will be taken.* 1. Public input for items not on the agenda or pending applications. 2. Public hearing and possible action regarding Transit Center Hub Conditional Use Permit, 1899 W. Ute Blvd. (45 minutes) -Adryan Slaght, Principal Planner 3. Public hearing and possible action regarding Gillmor Subdivision Plat, 5-lot minor subdivision, Parcel SS50-A, abutting Old Ranch Road and Silver Summit Parkway; Bruce Baird on behalf of property owner. (45 min.) -Kimber Gabryszak, County Planner 4. Discussion and possible action regarding Juniper Landing Development Plat Amendment and Final Site Plan Amendment, 4165-4338 Willow Draw Road; Tony Tyler, applicant. (1 hr.) -Amir Caus, County Planner Work Session *Public comment may or may not be taken* 1. Snyderville Basin Recreation District proposed trailhead language discussion. (1 hr.) -Amir Caus, County Planner 2. Bylaws Amendments Review and Discussion.(15 min.) -Don Sargent, Community Development Director 3. General Plan discussion. (15 min.) -Adryan Slaght, Principal Planner Commission Comments DRC Updates Staff Items Adjourn A majority of Snyderville Basin Planning Commission members may meet socially after the meeting. If so, the location will be announced by the Chair or Vice-Chair. County business will not be conducted. To view the staff reports, available after June 8, 2012 please visit: http://www.summitcounty.org Individuals needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Susan Ovard, Summit County Community Development Department, at (435) 615-3126. SNYDERVILLE BASIN SPECIAL RECREATION DISTRICT SNYDERVILLE BASIN SPECIAL RECREATION DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL BOARD MEETING NOTICE Public notice is hereby given that the Administrative Control Board of the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District will hold its regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, June 13, 2012, at the time and location specified below. BOARD MEETING AGENDA DATE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2012 LOCATION: TRAILSIDE PARK, 5715 TRAILSIDE DRIVE, PARK CITY, UT 84098 6:00 PM PUBLIC INPUT 6:10 PM 2011 INDEPENDENT AUDIT REPORT: GREG OGDEN, CPA 6:40 PM CONTINUED DISCUSSION, POSSIBLE CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF TENNIS COURT POLICIES 6:50 PM DISCUSSION: 2012 REC SURVEY RESULTS AND CONTINUED DISCUSSION STRATEGIC PLAN 7:50 PM MATT KNOOP MEMORIAL PARK CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS REPORT AND DISCUSSION, POSSIBLE CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF CHANGE ORDER #3 TO ARCHITECT/ENGINEERING SERVICES CONTRACT 8:00 PM DISCUSSION, POSSIBLE CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF REVISED CONTRACT AMOUNT #4 FOR HIGHLAND DRIVE TRAIL 8:10 PM DISCUSSION, POSSIBLE CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF INTERLOCAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN SBSRD AND SUMMIT COUNTY FOR DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS AND EXPENDITURE AND USE OF A PORTION OF 2011 RECREATIONAL OPEN SPACE BOND PROCEEDS 8:20 PM DISCUSSION, CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE APPROVAL OF BASIN RECREATION FIELDHOUSE ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES CONTRACT FOR FACILITY EXPANSION 8:30 PM REVIEW AND DISCUSSION: CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR DOG PARK AREA AT WILLOW CREEK PARK 8:50 PM DISCUSSION, CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE APPROVAL OF RECREATION DEPARTMENT TRAVEL REQUEST: NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF YOUTH SPORTS CERTIFICATION TRAINING 9:00 PM DEPARTMENTAL UPDATES 9:20 PM APPROVAL OF MINUTES 5/2/12 9:30 PM APPROVAL OF INVOICES 9:40 PM DIRECTOR COMMENTS AND REVIEW OF ACTION ITEMS 10:00 PM BOARD MEMBER QUESTIONS/COMMENTS 10:10 PM EXECUTIVE SESSION: LAND ACQUISITION AND PERSONNEL MATTERS 10:30 PM ADJOURN By Tom Clyde Cannibals in the news New details keep coming out about the face-eating man from Florida. If you have been out of contact with the world lately, you might have missed the story about a Florida (no surprise there) man who, while naked and jacked up on some kind of drug, attacked a sleeping homeless man and began to chew his face off. He was shot and killed by police. The cannibal, Rudy Eugene, is being remembered as a "kind and gentle" man, and one report from his high school football coach was that he was an "average" player. The lesson here is clear - stay away from kind and gentle men who were average football players in high school. They may be zombies. Meanwhile, the victim remains hospitalized in critical condition following the unprovoked and bizarre attack. While it's quite reasonable to expect zombie cannibal attacks in Florida, there appears to have been a whole string of similarly inexplicable events around the world in recent weeks. A 21-yearold college student in Maryland is accused of killing his roommate and eating his heart and brain. In Sweden, a man was arrested after cutting off his wife's lips and eating them after suspecting her of infidelity. A Texas woman killed her baby and ate miscellaneous parts. Nobody knows what to make of it. Thank heaven we have experts. "Most cannibals are extreme loners," concluded Deborah Schurman-Kauflin in a 2011 article for Psychology Today magazine. Only a duly licensed psychologist with a hyphenated last name could have come up with that conclusion. "They do not have friends and they are bitter about it." Maybe they would have more friends if they didn't, you know, eat them. Just a thought. Another group of experts, quoted in an ABC news story I found online, were careful to point out that cannibalism is very rare, and it is "just not go- ing to happen to you." Although that guy on the bus the other day is probably somebody to keep a close eye on. You know the one. Just offhand, I wonder how or why somebody becomes an expert in cannibalism. That's a pretty narrow market. Are there special graduate programs at Harvard in cannibalism and zombie studies? And when the need arises, where does a reporter go to find a zombie/cannibal expert? Are there nonprofit zombie antidefamation organizations, or cannibal non-discrimination groups? Just offhand, I wonder how or why somebody becomes an expert in cannibalism. That's a pretty narrow market. Are there special graduate programs at Harvard in cannibalism and zombie studies?" But it's important to have something to worry about. I mean something other a failed political system, unemployment, wars that have no purpose or end, runs on Spanish banks, Greece getting thrown off the Euro, climate change, dogs off leash - it's a very troubled world out there. There's a lot of scary stuff, but it's all complicated. Let's face it, the return of the drachma is not even in the same league as a naked cannibal swinging from the street lights, then attacking you on the side of the freeway in Florida and chewing your face off. The Mayan calendar has been debunked. The end of the world scheduled for December has been postponed for another 3,500 years or so, which pretty SUNDAY IN THE PARK well takes it beyond my worryhorizon. Financial meltdowns and global market chaos have become so routine as to not matter. Collapse of the global financial structure pales against Los Angeles in the Stanley Cup finals. It's getting harder to instill fear into the public these days. But brain-eating cannibal zombies - now there's a market to work with. You can buy zombie attack insurance from ZAICO.com, the Zombie Apocalypse Insurance Company (look it up). They will protect you from a Class 3 Zombie attack, though their standards for proving your claim are pretty tough. You have to produce the actual dead/undead body of the zombie that bit you. But for $14.95 a year you get a lot of peace of mind in a troubled world. They will replenish your ammunition, rebuild your home, pay your medical bills, replace your car, and relocate your family to a zombie-free area. Somehow, I just know that ZAICO is financially solid, and that Goldman-Sachs is getting a piece of the action. There have been no local reports of either zombie or cannibal activity. That doesn't mean they aren't out there, just biding their time until conditions are right. Neither the city nor county government has taken appropriate anti-zombie measures, which leaves us very vulnerable. All those regulations about darksky street lighting have created a zombie-friendly environment around here. So it's just a matter of time. Come to think of it, they didn't conclusively rule out zombie involvement in those dead fish over in Thaynes Canyon a while back. So take reasonable precautions when you are out and about. You never know when the next zombie-cannibal attack will be. Tom Clyde practiced law in Park City for many years. He lives on a working ranch in Woodland and has been writing this column for 25 years. By Teri Orr Of lilacs and little birds I always want time to suspend in June. After a winter of living behind garage doors, cars linger in the driveways and folks appear on porches long covered in snow. The temperate weather in quiet neighborhoods like ours invites conversations in the yard, but also in the street, as a car stops for the driver to talk to first one neighbor, who is joined by another, and an impromptu state of the 'hood takes place. This includes kids and dogs and bicycles and hand-holding older couples strolling past. It is as if some Norman Rockwell still-life picture has come to life. Recent conversations caught us up on new occupants for the empty house, the new fire pit in the center grassy island of the culde-sac, and the fate of the pine tree with the rusty looking needles. (Strangely, the tree doctor said it was suffering from drought from the mild winter.) The warm spring this year has invited the foolhardy and the newest to town to plant annuals, already. We, more seasoned folks, know Father's Day is the safest time in Park City to put annuals into the ground. Colorful umbrellas have popped up like tulips in backyards and pots of all shapes are re-emerging, awaiting plants. The first round of flowers, the daffodils and crocuses and hyacinths, have come and gone. Vines are starting to curl and climb. And the wildlife in the hood is crazy busy. We have all spotted the wild rabbit - a slightly oversized version of somebody's bunny. The fox has been seen mostly at night. The deer are less interested in the birdseed and seem to have gone off to the hills. But the birdlife is crazy busy. Mountain bluebirds and flickers and goldfinches and red-winged blackbirds attack the multiple feeders containing different seed. The hummingbirds have already hit the (red) juice and other tiny birds - sparrows or chickadees - gather in groups to dine all day long. The ducks that come back to my yard are an amusement each year. There is no water anywhere near us in this part of Park Meadows. We are nearly two blocks from the pond at the golf course, and another two from McLeod Creek. Still, each spring for the past four years, a pair of ducks spends part of spring vacation waddling around my yard to the amusement of all. The trees have leafed out fully and the flowering ones are just about done with their show. The lilac bushes are just starting to display their clusters of purples and pinks and even white blossoms. Growing up in California, I had no appreciation of seasons. It was sunny or it rained and occasionally there was fog. There were flowers year-round. A certain sameness to the people that seemed to match the temperature. In the mountains, we are hardy The warm spring this year has invited the foolhardy and the newest to town to plant annuals, already. We, more seasoned folks, know Father's Day is the safest time in Park City to put annuals into the ground." folk, regardless of age or gender or nationality. In Park City, we understand the winters are long and cold and dark. And joyful! Bluebird power days and testing survival skills driving in blizzards or just taking the dog out. You reach this time of year with a bit of pride, a sense of victory over the elements. And you find/make time again for friends that you may have shared a fire with or a wintry walk. Now you can sit outdoors at a cafe on Main Street and let the meal stretch out into hours of thoughtful conversation. Your en- counters at the Post Office aren't rushed to get back into the warm car. The sidewalk seems like the perfect place to learn about someone's recent travels or chew on local politics. You notice that an older friend, who is without a fat parka this time, has become a bit more fragile over this past winter. You let go and a wave of tenderness sweeps over you both. There is no need for additional words. There are books to be read - stacks of them - drapes to be taken down and screens to put up. It is the seasonal business of life in the mountains. There are already weeds to pull and bushes that need trimming. The chores have changed and the tools have changed and length of time you want to spend outdoors doing them has expanded. In the winter is all about a head down/shovel up kind of efficiency. In June no one rushes through planting the annuals. You linger and pat the ground again around your planting. And if a neighbor or a dog or a child wanders into your path, all the better. You are surprised how many days end with you actually seeing the sun set. And how many nights you see the moon rise. You know, soon enough, it will be the longest day and the shortest night and, as counterintuitive as seems, you will be having the barbecues and sitting out the hillside with your picnic with one eye on the annual clock marching back to winter. But in early June, in some years, like this one, you can celebrate this season of renewal by actually spending time outside late into the extended day as it fades to twilight. And you look around and see new life and you sigh, unexpectedly, at your good fortune to be here another year. It isn't a noisy exclamation but quiet affirmation of blessings you embrace this Sunday in the Park. Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record. She is the director of the organization that provides programming for the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. |