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Show C-1 B-1 A LONE STAR TAKES THE STAGE AT THE EGYPTIAN A YOUNG SKIER FLIES OFF AN OLD JUMP BUSINESS, A-15 PARK CITY CHECKS IN AS THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION FINISHES The RESTAURANT GUIDE RESTAURANT GUIDE PARKRECORD PARK CITY | UTAH | SERVING SUMMIT COUNTY SINCE 1880 There are about 170 restaurants in the Park City area. Let us narrow down your dining choices. Visit www.parkrecordonline.com/restaurants to discover what you are missing Check out our Restaurant Guide on page C-11. Learn more at parkrecordonline.com/restaurants COLUMNS, A-22 TOM CLYDE NOW HAS A SUBARU, LIKE YOU, YOU AND YOU Park Record. PARK CITY , UTAH | WWW.PARKRECORD.COM Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 11-14, 2017 Serving Summit County since 1880 Vol. 137 | No. 10 50¢ Rise for Spellers generate the buzz Treasure tells panel it will student’s force decision capstone Partnership wants a vote cast in October after discussions that have lasted for years By JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record COURTESY OF EMMA STEPHENS Emma Stephens, far left, met four young women who traveled from countries such as Malawi, Pakistan and Jordan to share their stories at an event hosted by first lady Michelle Obama. Meeting the young women inspired Stephens to focus on girls’ education for her senior project at Barnard College. Film tells stories of struggle for education By FRANCES MOODY The Park Record Orphan Sokha would dream of sharpened pencils and stacked books when she would rummage through trash hoping to find something of worth. Sokha, who was one of many Cambodian children forced to scavenge landfills for valuable items, was not enrolled in school at the time. She was where, as writer Loung Ung put it, “a girl is one more thing the world has thrown away.” Ung’s story on Sokha, narrated by Alicia Keys in the film “Girl Rising,” is part of why Emma Stephens is hoping to shine light on the need to educate more girls. Stephens said the lack of public awareness is a barrier to increasing girls’ education, adding there are 66 million girls in the world who aren’t in school. Stephens has planned a free screening in Park City of “Girl Rising,” a film that tells the struggles of girls from across the globe fighting for an education. The film, part of her capstone project at Columbia University’s Barnard College, will show at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 13, at the Park City Library. The college senior also organized a group of panelists who will speak after “Girl Rising’s” credits roll. “The film is really designed to educate people about the issue and show people what’s going on,” Stephens said. “The panel is designed to teach people what they can do to help, whether it’s from their homes or on a volunteer trip.” Like Sokha, Stephens has a story. A graduate from Park City High School, she recognized how privileged she was to have access to public education when she went to Cambodia on a volunteer trip with Youthlinc, a nonprofit that does service projects abroad. While in Cambodia, Stephens met a man who was targeted in the 1970s by the Khmer Rouge Regime. He was tortured for being educated. Please see ‘Girl Rising,’ A-2 3 sections • 50 pages Business............................... A-15 Classifieds ........................... C-14 Columns .............................. A-22 Crossword ........................... C-4 Editorial............................... A-23 Events Calendar .................. C-6 Legals .................................. C-17 Letters to the Editor ............ A-23 Movies................................. C-4 Restaurant Guide................. C-11 Scene .................................. C-1 Scoreboard ......................... B-5 Sports .................................. B-1 Weather ............................... B-2 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD From left: Soren Nielsen, Melinda Buhlman and Jena Mahoney proudly hold their trophies for finishing in the top three in the fourth- through eighth-grade competition at The Park Record Spelling Bee, held Tuesday at the Egyptian Theatre. Buhlman won the bee for the second year in a row and will be traveling to Washington, D.C., to participate in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May. Melinda Buhlman repeats as champ, heads to national bee Jena Mahoney, a sixth-grader from Timpanogos Intermediate School, took third. After her victory, Buhlman said keeping her title as the best speller on the Wasatch Back was exhilarating. “You always have that doubt like, ‘There’s no chance I’m going to win,’” she said. “But there’s always a little glimmer of hope that you will win. By BUBBA BROWN It’s awesome to win again.” The Park Record The Park Record will now send Buhlman to Melinda Buhlman smiled with nervous energy compete in the nationally televised Scripps Nawhen she received the final word. She knew how to tional Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., which is spell it. Seven letters scheduled for the end later, it was all over: of May. At last year’s C-H-A-G-R-I-N. Scripps event, she For the second spelled all her words year in a row, Buhlcorrectly on stage but man, an eighth-grader her preliminary test at Rocky Mountain score -- used to whittle Middle School in Hethe field to 50 competber City, was the last itors -- kept her from speller standing. She qualifying as a finalist. fought off a stiff test This time, armed from a talented group with her experience of students -- and from last year’s comone thorny word that petition, she hopes to threatened to scuttle advance further. Since her bid to defend she’s in her last year her title -- to repeat TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD of eligibility to particClark Cundick, Isaac Heath and Gabe Griffith, from left, were as the champion of the top three finishers in The Park Record Spelling Bee’s ipate in Scripps, it will the fourth- through second- and third-grade competition. After going back and be the final chance to eighth-grade compe- forth with Heath, Cundick won on the word “gruff.” leave her mark on the tition at the annual venerable bee. The Park Record Spelling Bee, held Tuesday, “D.C. was awesome last year, and I’m going to March 7. try to improve my result,” she said. Soren Nielsen, a seventh-grader from Rocky Buhlman’s chances to get back to Washington, Mountain Middle School, finished second, while Please see Spellers, A-2 Next stop is Kamas Bus route to East Side community launches as a pilot in the summer By ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON The Park Record Park City Transit service will be extended to the Kamas Valley as part of a pilot program this summer before officials decide whether to make it a permanent route. For more than 10 years, transportation officials have discussed a commuter route between the Kamas Valley and Park City. As part of Summit County’s transportation tax campaign last fall, officials promised to begin planning it. Since the Utah Department of Transportation has planned a significant construction project for State Road 248 this summer, Caroline Rodriguez, Summit County’s transportation planning director, said it is a “good time to try out that bus route.” “This will be for the residents of the Kamas Valley and those who live along 248 going into Park City,” Rodriguez said. “We know a significant number of people that live out there are commuting here for work.” A survey targeting Kamas residents who would consider taking the bus has been posted on the county website’s homepage since earlier this week. It asks respondents to answer multiplechoice questions about commuting to work, work hours and destinations, among others. As of Wednesday, more than 150 people had responded, according to Rodriguez, who added the survey will be posted for nearly three weeks. “I just think it is really important for people, even if they think they are not interested in riding, to let us do the best we can to plan the route so if you can ride, it will fit your needs,” Rodriguez said. Summit County and Park City transportation officials are currently working with Kamas City and Wasatch County to identify stops along State Road 248. Stops may include a park-and-ride lot in Kamas Please see Next stop, A-2 The Treasure partnership on Wednesday indicated it intends to essentially force a Park City Planning Commission vote on the project in October, an unexpected statement that presses even more drama into the long-running talks about one of the most polarizing development proposals in the city’s modern era. Pat Sweeney, who represents his family in the partnership, delivered the comments to the Planning Commission. He said the request for a vote will be made in August. The request in the summer will trigger a timeline that, according to the Treasure side, will lead to a vote in October. The Planning Commission did not respond to the statement in any depth. A request for an October vote, though, could add urgency to the Treasure discussions in a broad sense as the Planning Commission, the Treasure partnership and the opposition move forward. The Sweeney family in the 1980s secured development rights on the Treasure hillside, overlooking Old Town along the route of the Town Lift, and nearby parcels of land. Treasure is now under the ownership of a partnership involving the Sweeney family and a firm called Park City II, LLC. The discussions about the current Treasure proposal, involving upward of 1 million square feet, started in 2004 and have stopped and restarted several times over the past 13 years. The round of talks now underway began nearly a year ago. The Treasure partnership last April outlined a timeline that called for a vote in late September of 2016. The Planning Commission was not bound by the timeline and has instead spent significant time on topics like the square footage and, more recently, traffic. The panel does not appear to be nearly ready to cast a vote as it has not started discussions about other topics. Treasure is on the Planning Commission agenda once a month. The next meeting about the project is scheduled on April 12. In an interview after the meeting on Wednesday, Pat Sweeney, who represents his family in the Treasure discussions, said City Hall staffers, members of the Planning Commission and people who live in Old Town desire more talks about the project while the partnership is prepared for a panel vote. He said a formal request for a vote is “our only exit door out of this process.” “That’s just a merry-go-round. If we want to move on, we have to request a vote,” Sweeney said, adding about the Planning Commission, “I don’t think they’ll ever be ready for a vote . . . We’re ready for a vote.” The Planning Commission roster has changed significantly over the years of the Treasure discussions. Only one member, Adam Strachan, was on the seven-person panel when the talks were last halted. The changes to the roster Please see Treasure, A-2 A touch of desert life TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Quin Roderick cautiously pets Larry the desert tortoise as Utah’s Hogle Zoo education instructor Suzanne Zgraggen shows him to the classroom at Jeremy Ranch Elementary School Tuesday. The tortoise is from St. George and was part of an outreach program presented by the Park City Institute marking an appearance by celebrity animal biologist Jeff Corwin. VISITOR GUIDE Blaze a trail to the Park City Museum on Tuesday Park City resident and historian Dorian De Maio will give a presentation about the Oregon Trail at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, March 14, at the Park City Museum, 528 Main St. The event is free and open to the public. For information, visit www. parkcityhistory.org. |