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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, June 7-June 9, 2017 W A-11 The Park Record Green Tips ay we were The Deason family home Ecologically artistic Artique By Mary Closser Recycle Utah Artique, a quaint art exchange in Kamas, opened its doors in June 2011. The shop is run by local artists in a co-op fashion, with monthly events and shows. The owner creatively weaves sustainability into all she does already, at home and at work. The shop lights are LED, plastic is rarely used, cleaning materials are green, recycling is maximized and paper usage is minimized. Recycle Utah’s creative juices needed tapping to discover what more Artique could do to benefit the environment. And it worked. Future goals for the shop were carefully chosen. First, Artique will have an energy audit to determine additional ways to maximize efficiency beyond bulbs, Mahala Ruddell Park City Historical Society and Museum, Tax Photo Collection Park City Museum Research Coordinator The Deason family lived at 835 Norfolk Ave. for nearly 40 years. The two-story addition on the south side of the home was added by the Deasons to support their large family of seven children. The house at 835 Norfolk Ave. started life as a standard T/L-cottage, typical of Park City’s mining-era architecture. William and Elizabeth Deason purchased the house in 1896 and built an expansion off the south wing, a common architectural addition to T-cottages throughout Utah. The Deason family had moved to Park City from Nova Scotia in 1883. William’s background in coal mining gave him a foot in the door for the local silver mining scene and he quickly found work in the area. As a miner, William was no doubt aware of the dangers associated with his occupation. But he experienced them first hand in 1895 in an accident at the Daly. Deason and fellow miner Fred Stohl came on shift Tuesday morning, May 7. They were informed by the team coming off shift of a “missed hole” in the area in which they were scheduled to work. A missed hole is a hole filled with explosives that fails to detonate with the rest of the area’s charges at appointed blasting time. The previous shift had investigated the missed hole and deemed it harmless. Deason and Stohl performed a secondary investigation before starting their work and also deemed it harmless. Upon commencing their drilling, however, Deason and Stohl inadvertently set off the unexploded charge. They were both rendered unconscious and suffered serious injuries. The blast also blew out their lights, leaving the men in total darkness. Upon regaining consciousness, the two verbally checked on each other and managed to turn off their machinery. They made their way down the shaft and got help. Stohl was the lesser hurt of the two. He was badly cut on his head and face from flying rock but Doctors Gregor and Wilson were able to patch him up, even managing to save both of his eyes which had been damaged. Deason was less fortunate. He had been “tending chuck,” or cleaning out freshly drilled holes at the time and thus was right up against the rock face when it exploded. He lost his left eye and suffered a crushed nose, a severely cut and burned face, lacerated muscles on his left arm, and several damaged bones including a broken finger. The doctors cared for him as best they could and by Saturday, he was “resting comfortably” and “doing as well as could be expected.” Though he did recover, he dealt with complications from his injuries for years to come. He died in 1912, a respected and well-loved Park City old timer. Elizabeth Deason continued living at 835 Norfolk with her grown daughter, Joanna, taking on boarders to support herself and fill the large home. She died in 1933 at the age of 86. You can see this and other historic homes during the museum’s upcoming annual Historic Home Tour, June 24, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This year’s tour features homes on lower Norfolk and Woodside Avenues. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the Park City Museum’s website or call 435-649-7457. such as a smart thermostat, better insulation, or using solar power. Second, the shop plans to print business cards and more on 100 percent recycled paper, source paper gift bags locally to reduce the carbon footprint and further reduce or eliminate packaging materials. Many of Artique’s products, including online orders, come from afar, which involves higher costs and fossil fuel usage. Lastly, it will carefully choose food and drink for shows and events to be locally sourced, including alcohol. This gesture supports the Utah economy, reduces the carbon footprint and simply feels good. Artique hopped aboard the Green Business program quickly because it was a good fit, but also because it understands there is no limit to sustainability. Thank you Artique for always thinking about what’s next. If your business is interested in learning about Recycle Utah’s Green Business program, contact Mary at mary@recycleutah.org. Robotics reduce rape kit backlog Associated Press TAYLORSVILLE, Utah — Officials are hopeful Utah’s major rape kit backlog will be reduced now that a new state crime laboratory has opened where robotic machines can extract DNA samples and deliver them to forensic technicians much faster than humans. During the opening of a new Unified State Laboratory last week in Taylorsville, Lab Director Jay Henry said the robotics station does the repetitive work of extracting DNA, then delivers the data to forensic scientists. In addition to freeing up a technician to do more analytical work, the station is capable of extracting DNA faster. The station can process 96 samples within eight hours, a task that took Henry three or four days when he worked as a lab technician. Half of the backlog has been processed by the crime lab or outsourced labs. Henry said the crime lab is optimistic remaining kits will be tested within the next year. “We want to see the greaterthan-a-year turnaround time for our rape kits shrink gradually down to 120 days, down to 90, down to 60,” said Henry, who intends to hire nine more people to help process the backlog. Henry’s goal is to have rape kits processed and returned to law enforcement agencies in less than 30 days, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. The lab, which houses the Utah State Medical Examiner’s Office and the Department of Agriculture and Food, also features chemistry labs, a ballistics firing range, vehicle processing bays and trace evidence labs. 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