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Show A-20 MEETINGS AND AGENDAS CORE SAMPLES TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL AGENDA SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL Wednesday, March 15, 2017 NOTICE is hereby given that the Summit County Council will meet in session Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at the Summit County Courthouse, 60 North Main Street, Coalville, UT 84017 (All times listed are general in nature, and are subject to change by the Council Chair) 4:00 PM Closed Session – Property acquisition (30 min) 4:30 PM – Move into Council Chambers 4:40 PM Work Session Discussion regarding possible creation of a Kimball Junction Neighborhood Master Planning Blue-Ribbon Committee; Pat Putt (30 min) 5:10 PM Consideration of Approval Pledge of Allegiance Discussion and possible adoption of Summit County Fairgrounds Master Plan; Matt Jensen Appoint members to Summit County Service Area No. 5 Advice and consent of County Manager’s recommendation to appoint members to the Summit County Library Board of Directors Advice and consent of County Manager’s recommendation to appoint member to the Public Arts Program and Advisory Board Council Comments Manager Comments Council Minutes dated March 1, 2017 and March 8, 2017 6:00 PM Public Input Public hearing and possible approval of special exception to allow the construction of a structure on a ridgeline that extends into the skyline in the Agricultural Protection Zone – Parcel #NS-355-UP (6 Acres); Ray Milliner One or more members of the County Council may attend by electronic means, including telephonically or by Skype. Such members may fully participate in the proceedings as if physically present. The anchor location for purposes of the electronic meeting is the Council Chambers and Conference room, Summit County Courthouse, 60 N. Main, Coalville, Utah Individuals with questions, comments, or needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Annette Singleton at (435) 336-3025, (435) 615-3025 or (435) 783-4351 ext. 3025 Posted: March 10, 2017 Items for food drive needed The Scouting for Food program is underway Provided by Boy Scouts of America Scouts will be distributing door hangers throughout the state. Here in Summit County, Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts will be collecting thousands of donated items on Saturday, March 18, and delivering them to local food banks. If you have received a door hanger, please have your donations placed out by 9 a.m. on that Saturday. Try to have it in a visible and easily accessible location. Due to the size of Summit County and the limited number of Scouts, not every home will be canvassed. But you can still donate items any time of the year to our local food banks. In Park City, food can be donated to the Christian Center of Park City. In Kamas and Coalville, you can donate to the Community Action Agencies. Items of special need this year are: ready to eat meals (i.e. chili, stews, canned spaghetti, etc.); peanut butter; and dry goods such as macaroni and cheese, Rice-A-Roni and cereals. Soups, canned fruits and vegetables, breakfast foods, pastas and tuna are always needed. Disposable diapers and baby foods are also greatly appreciated. Personal hygiene items are also accepted. Paper products and cleaning products are helpful as well. High elevation could be a factor in heart attack deaths Some visitors to Colorado have heart complications JACK QUEEN Summit Daily SUMMIT COUNTY, Colo. — A total of 23 people died of heart complications in Summit County last year. Among those, 19 were people who lived at lower elevations and suffered heart attacks shortly after arriving in the mountains. The vast majority of those people were in their 50s or older, and they typically suffered heart attacks within a day or two of arriving, according to coroner’s reports. Although a firm link between high elevation and heart attacks hasn’t been established, the markedly higher incidence of fatal cardiac events among people visiting from closer to sea level underscores the added stress that thin air can put on the circulatory system, doctors said. “It’s an interesting problem,” said Dr. Warren Johnson, a local cardiologist. “It probably is more stressful because of the altitude when these lowlanders come up to exercise and ski and bike.” Johnson said that he has seen several patients who were cleared to visit Summit by doctors near sea level, but upon arriving they experienced heart complications that persisted until they returned to lower elevations. The High Country’s thin air was noted in several of the coroner’s reports, along with Wed/Thurs/Fri, March 15-17, 2017 The Park Record aerobic activities like skiing or walking through deep snow. In one case, a man in his 60s collapsed while skiing at Breckenridge Ski Resort and was unable to be revived, a report said. His cause of death was listed as acute heart failure due to hypertension. Often, reports said, decedents had reported feeling fatigued or having difficulty breathing before suffering heart attacks. One man in his late 50s had been skiing at Keystone Resort and early on decided to call it a day, telling his friends he was tired and feeling ill before dying of heart failure near his car. “It probably is the case that for anyone coming from low altitude with some underlying degree of heart problems, the stress of the new hypoxia is considerably higher,” said Dr. Erik Swenson, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington. “It’s a big step up for people adapted to lower altitude, and it might be enough of a cardiac stress to trigger a heart attack.” The actual concentration of oxygen in the air is the same at high elevations, but the strain on the body is greater because the air pressure is lower, reducing the effective oxygen level. At sea level, the effective oxygen concentration is around 20 percent. But at 9,000 feet, roughly the elevation of Summit’s towns, that drops to 14 percent. At the heights where most ski areas top out, around 12,000 feet, the effective oxygen concentration is only 13 percent. The body responds to low oxygen levels by breathing more, pumping blood faster and producing adrenaline, all of which can take a toll on the body and potentially lead to heart complications. “There is very plausible biology behind this phenomenon of dealing with the stress of low oxygen and having higher adrenaline that stresses the heart,” Swenson said. Still, the difficulty of sifting through the myriad factors that contribute to heart attacks — everything from lifestyle to genetics to age — means that finding a robust connection to elevation has been difficult. “We have been looking into it, but we don’t have enough evidence yet to say that this is unique to being up here,” Johnson said. Making a gradual transition to high altitude can help, both doctors said. Staying in Denver for several days before coming up to the High Country, for instance, can help the body start the long process of acclimation. Adjusting to high elevations, however, can take weeks; several of the visitors who died of heart attacks last year had stayed in Denver for at least one night before traveling to Summit. Johnson advised that people with a history of heart disease planning on visiting Summit should start preparing for the trip at sea level by consulting their doctor and exercising several weeks in advance. Otherwise, the stress of low oxygen and aerobic activity on an already weakened heart could prove fatal. “If you’re working harder than you normally do with the stress of being up there, for some it could be too much,” Swenson said. “Everything is revved.” By Jay Meehan Baskets and brackets The pressure is mounting! Brackets have to be filled out by Thursday morning and chunks of change are on the line. This year, out here where the states are square and oftentimes trapezoidal, the Southwestern Regional seems to be garnering more than its usual share of attention. The opening-round rivalry matchup of Chaffetz-Bishop University, champion of the Dystrumpian Symposia, taking on the underdog Grass Roots Institute, upset winners of the Actually Educated Conference, has advanced tickets flying off the shelves. Word has it the officials will be using an alternative timepiece during this one. No word has come down as of yet on an impending investigation into the “highly suspicious” microwave oven that was found in the CBU hotel conference room. Nor has the origin of the leak that purported that the oven’s operational integrity couldn’t have cooked Trump’s Chick-fil-A side dish let alone Obama’s goose. Sad. Being a negative sort, you know, the kind that never sees light at the end of a tunnel or a silver lining of any persuasion in a cloudscape, I figure that the game is already “fixed” — rigged, as it were. So, in order to get a leg up on the situation, I removed Jean Paul Sartre’s “Being and Nothingness” from the “hefty” end of the Existentialist section of the bathroom bookshelf. Utilizing its obvious strength in the horizontal plane, it will be upon this that I shall balance my Scotch glass as the competition plays out. Due to a general lack of deductive powers, I am actually one of those who does much better following his heart rather than his head in selecting winners in the annual “hoop-la” known as the NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Championship or “March Madness” as it has come to be called. So, although by this stage of events I should know better, in the featured head-to-head matchup, I’m going to go with the lads with pocket protectors sewn into their uniform jerseys and slide rules hanging out of their baggy shorts to upset the hybrid Armani/ Carhartt crowd. I’m not known as the “Kiss of Death” for nothing. Usually, as I size up the brackets and begin selecting first-round winners, I at least have a notion that I’m somewhere on the north side of Clueless. Not this year, however. Where normally I might flaunt some sort of “Cogito ergo Being a negative sort, you know, the kind that never sees light at the end of a tunnel or a silver lining of any persuasion in a cloudscape, I figure that the game is already ‘fixed’ — rigged, as it were.” sum,” (I think, therefore I am) this year it’s more like “Hebes sum et suffragia fero,” (I’m dumb and I vote). The collegiate hoopsters I most often root for are the USC Trojans. This year, it would seem, if I’m interpreting the brackets correctly, they must first defeat Providence in a “play in” game in order to get a shot at SMU in the opening round. I love that! Somehow, Schrödinger’s cat must have a mascot role in this matchup. The fact that USC somehow managed to make it in to the tournament at all is a puzzler. Possibly some of their wins were “quality” because it certainly didn’t seem that as the season wore on, “quantity” had much more than a cameo. Surprisingly, no schools from Utah made the cut. That’s almost unheard of. On the upside, three of my longstanding favorite hoops traditions — Kansas, North Carolina and Gonzaga — all received number one seeds. Now, I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t pick them to make it all the way to the Final Four. My uncle put in some time at “Gonzie,” as I recall, while I put in a short stretch at G-Prep. I’m not sure why I formed such an allegiance as I have with the Jayhawks but I’ve always just liked them. Certainly I liked Wilt and Danny Manning and the chunks of change that found their way to my coffers the few times I had them winning it all. North Carolina would also neatly fit into that latter category. Wait, I just noticed I have another game outcome to care about. Arkansas is playing Seaton Hall and since the state associated with the former is currently making an effort to remove all books written by Howard Zinn, one of my heroes, from libraries and schools within its borders, I must put a pox upon their house and pick them to win. It’s March Madness, baby, and I’m out to prove once and for all that ignorance is truly bliss. Having not, as yet, filled out my bracket, it seems rather peculiar that I would hope for Gonzaga and Kansas to meet in the final because, brackets being what they are, it might not align that way. No matter. My bracket will find itself duly busted very early on. The hoops Gods wouldn’t have it any other way, and who am I to argue. Jay Meehan is a culture junkie and has been an observer, participant, and chronicler of the Park City and Wasatch County social and political scenes for more than 40 years. RED CARD ROBERTS By Amy Roberts Fact or fiction? I’ll be the first to admit I spend far too much time online. A good portion of it is job related: I’m responsible for knowing what is trending and being able to respond to it; both in this opinion column and in my real, “big girl” job. Aside from my profession, social media is also a way for me to connect with people who share similar interests, get involved in causes I care about, and, at least in my experience, it’s been a valuable tool for coping with the loss of my sister. Many times I’ve felt comforted after reading a blog post on grief, realizing I am not alone and learning how others have survived it. But the flipside of having heaps of information available at our fingertips is that there is also heaps of misinformation available. Another side effect is how rapidly both information and misinformation spreads. I’ve seen people I’ve known and respected for years share links to “news stories” captioned with any number of the following: “I don’t know if this is true or not, but…” “Why isn’t mainstream media reporting on this?!” “Can you believe this is happening?” In short, the answers are: “If you don’t know if it’s true or not, don’t share it.” “Because it didn’t actually happen.” “If you think that’s bad, check out this post from the same source: We’re being invaded by killer lambs and the government isn’t doing anything about it!” Until recently, I was never really concerned about fake news. I just assumed most rational Americans could decipher the difference. When we check out at the grocery store and see The National Enquirer resting next to Time Magazine, most of us know which one is entertainment and which one is information. But somewhere in the recent past, we’ve paused to lend credibility to historically non-credible outlets, and as such, we are more divided, confused and manipulated than ever before. And ironically, the same people who decry When we check out at the grocery store and see The National Enquirer resting next to Time Magazine, most of us know which one is entertainment and which one is information.” mainstream media as “fake news” find it entirely acceptable to share something from Alex Jones, an Internet conspiracy theorist who has called the Sandy Hook massacre a government hoax to advance gun control. Think about the repercussions this same strategy would have in a different field. If, for example, there was suddenly a huge distrust of oncologists because people without medical degrees or any clinical training had started to convince cancer patients that mainstream oncology is fake and not to be trusted. And as a result, many of those cancer patients started seeking treatment from witch doctors who insisted all they need to do is drink grasshopper blood and they’ll be cured. The only thing that would come of this is more people dying from cancer and a lot fewer grasshoppers. And while the scenario sounds crazy to the rational, it is essentially what is happening to our news and information, and as such, our country. People who have never won a Pulitzer, or sat in a newsroom, or had an editor demand a twosource fact check, or have never even taken a journalism course, are calling themselves members of the media. They set up a Facebook page and wham, they’re a news outlet. They get a few thousand followers, and suddenly, they’re influencing politicians and policy. And that is a threat to our democracy. The important thing for us to remember is that just because we don’t agree with a news story, doesn’t mean it’s fake. We need to be cautious of an impulse to assume something is true because the headline confirms what we want to be true. Additionally, just because an organization gets a story wrong, doesn’t mean it’s fake. Credible news outlets correct their errors and don’t have a consistent track record of getting it wrong. And, people who truly want to be informed, who are genuinely interested in the truth, don’t believe everything they see on the Internet. Abraham Lincoln said that. Amy Roberts is a freelance writer, longtime Park City resident and the proud owner of two rescued Dalmatians, Stanley and Willis. The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the writer. Follow her on Twitter @ amycroberts. New Equipment is expensive The Park Record’s “Help Wanted” section has the jobs you need to support your gear addiction |