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Show C-1 B-1 MUSIC CAFE SERVES UP SONGS AFTER 20 YEARS FILM GUIDE IN NEXT EDITION Inserted in the next publication of The Park Record on Saturday, Jan. 20 AERIALIST FINDS SPOT ON OLYMPIC TEAM Cafe // Slamdance Sundance // Music January 18-28, 2018 EDUCATION, A-7 COLUMNS,, A-14 // Bus Map Park Record. VAPOR TRAILS LEAD TO PARK CITY SCHOOLS JAY MEEHAN TUNES INTO THE FESTIVAL SOUNDTRACK The PA R K C I T Y, U TA H W W W. PA R K R E C O R D . C O M Wed/Thurs/Fri, January 17-19, 2018 Serving Summit County since 1880 Fest pledge: sex assaults intolerable | Sundance box office Steps include a new 24-hour hotline and increased training Vol. 137 | No. 99 50¢ Sundance rays shine on street well off Main Kearns Boulevard corridor over time has become critical and will have widened role in 2018 CAROLYN WEBBER The Park Record It is an issue just about everyone is talking about. Sexual assault is in national headlines almost daily. It was the talk of the Golden Globes. The movement against it was even named the person of the year by TIME Magazine. The discussion is also sure to play a starring role at the Sundance Film Festival, the first major film festival since the topic exploded following allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, himself a Sundance mainstay. The Sundance Institute, a nonprofit that puts on the Sundance Film Festival in Park City each year, will address sexual assault in its panels and conversations during the event, but is also tackling the issue head-on by partnering with local and state law enforcement to increase safety, said Betsy Wallace, CFO and managing director of the institute, in a written statement. Although, she said, the institute has worked closely with law enforcement in years past, it is expanding its internal reporting mechanisms this year as well as its communication of its code of conduct. Wade Carpenter, chief of the Park City Police Department, said that the department has been working closely with the Utah Attorney General’s office to create a 24-hour hotline to report incidents. Victims of sexual assault or harassment can call 801-8341944, and the investigators will help the victim talk through the next steps, depending on whether the incident was a criminal offense or not. Non-criminal complaints will be routed to Sundance Institute’s internal security team, which will “gather more information and proceed accordingly,” Wallace said. Punishment of the perpetrator could include the removal of credentials for the remainder of the festival, Carpenter said. The institute is also making the code of conduct, which Wallace said has always addressed sexual assault and harassment, openly visible to all festival attendees. Plus, staff and volunteers have undergone increased training for how to appropriately respond to such incidents. Carpenter said that the 24-hour hotline was created in order to help people feel more comfortable reporting cases of sexual harassment or assault, Please see Sex cases, A-12 3 sections • 34 pages Classifieds .............................. C-7 Columns ............................... A-14 Crossword .............................. C-4 Editorial................................ A-15 Education ............................... A-7 Events Calendar ..................... C-6 Legals ..................................... C-9 Letters to the Editor ............. A-15 Restaurant Guide.................... B-6 Scene ...................................... C-1 Scoreboard ............................. B-5 Sports ..................................... B-1 Weather .................................. B-2 JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Volunteers and Sundance Film Festival staffers unpack merchandise at a festival store on Main Street on Monday. The store will open temporarily in space usually occupied by Park City Mercantile. There are numerous storefront changes during Sundance as official festival locations and corporate interests rent space. Traffic is like a disaster flick Park City offers tips to avoid the worst congestion during film festival week JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record Traffic in Park City during the Sundance Film Festival rarely has a heartwarming ending. It is more often like a disaster flick. The festival opens on Thursday, and traffic is expected to be bad that day and possibly worsen on Friday. The opening weekend will also likely test the patience of drivers as large crowds of film lovers, celebrity gawkers and others descend on roads like S.R. 224 and S.R. 248 as they make their way into Park City. The traffic jams during Sundance are part of the local lore of the festival. City Hall offered some traffic tips as the opening of the festival approached. The annual online community guide, drafted to assist Park City residents and visitors navigate Sundance, provides general information about traffic and points to some of the chokepoints. It says the traffic is worst in the morning from 7 a.m. until 9 a.m., noting that is the time drivers are headed to drop off kids at school and skiers and snowboarders are driving to the resorts. That is also rush hour for much of the work force. The afternoon traffic worsens starting at 4 p.m., according to the community guide, explaining that skier and snowboarder traffic mingles with commuter cars and the after-school rush at that time. The community guide indicates the entryways and roads leading to and from the mountain resorts are especially notable. The streets listed are: • Lowell Avenue, which is an access point to Park City Mountain Resort. • Empire Avenue, another route to PCMR. • lower Deer Valley Drive, which is the main route to Deer Valley Resort. • Bonanza Drive, a crucial route linking Deer Valley and Old Town to points east. Bonanza Drive is also a segment of the easiest route between Main Street and Sundance venues like the Eccles Center and festival headquarters. • S.R. 224, which links Park City to Kimball Junction and Interstate 80. • S.R. 248, which is the route from Park City to parts of the Snyderville Basin, the East Side of SumPlease see Avoid, A-2 The glow of the Sundance Film Festival emanates most brightly from Main Street, but the festival’s rays increasingly shine beyond the shopping, dining and entertainment strip that has been so popular over the years of the festival. The 2018 edition of Sundance, it appears, will put a spotlight on an area well off Main Street – the Kearns Boulevard corridor. There have TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD been Sundance venues The Kearns Boulevard along Kearns Boulevard corridor has become more or just off the street for important to the Sundance Film Festival over the years decades, culminating as organizers added venthis year with the addi- ues. The 2018 edition of tion of a major new fes- the festival will be the first tival location called The to feature The Ray, located Ray. It will be located in a building that once in a building that once housed a sporting-goods housed a sporting-goods store, just off Kearns Boustore and have one of the levard. festival’s largest screening rooms as well space for cutting-edge New Frontier offerings. The Ray will essentially serve as the western bookend to Sundance’s footprint along Kearns Boulevard, a state highway that serves as a significant artery linking Park City to parts of the Snyderville Basin, the East Side of Summit County and Wasatch County. The eastern bookend will be the Eccles Center, the festival’s largest screening room and the location where many of the biggest premieres are shown. Other important locations on Kearns Boulevard itself or just off the street include the Holiday Village screens, the Park Avenue Theatre, festival headquarters and the Prospector Square Theatre. The MARC Theatre is nearby as well. City Hall and Sundance bus Please see Boulevard, A-2 The county’s green Flight into the night efforts charge ahead Stations in Basin offer chance to power up vehicles quickly ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON The Park Record A grant from Rocky Mountain Power has provided the necessary funds for Summit County to install new electric vehicle fast-charging stations next to the Sheldon Richins Building in the Kimball Junction area. The new stations are capable of charging a vehicle within about 30 minutes. Comparatively, other chargers can take up to eight to 12 hours. “This was an opportunity Rocky Mountain Power provided to us to help them build electrical-vehicle infrastructure for the north/south corridor of Interstate 15 and the east/ west corridor of Interstate 80,” said Lisa Yoder, Summit County’s sustainability director. “It serves many purposes, including increasing infrastructure capacity for anyone in the community.” The new charging stations were installed over the last few weeks on the north end of the Sheldon Richins Building next to two existing stations. They will be available for access before the end of the month. A private ribbon-cutting event is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, Jan. Please see Charging, A-2 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Madison Varmette readies her landing during a jump in the finals of the Visa FIS Freestyle World Cup aerials at Deer Valley Resort on Friday. She finished sixth. VISITOR GUIDE Page through festival week at Park City bookstore A series of authors will be at Dolly’s Bookstore during film festival week. The schedule for Saturday, Jan. 20, is: Photographer Victoria Will, 2 p.m.; cartoonist and author Dwayne Booth, aka Mr. Fish, 6:30 p.m. The events are free and open to the public. More: dollysbookstore.com. |