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Show Viewpoints The A-9 Park Record. Wed/Thurs/Fri, May 2-4, 2018 editorial As Olympic push ramps up, a community conversation needed A guest editorial Park City Institute, the soul of our community, needs support ANGELA MOSCHETTA Future Park City co-founder Editor’s note: This submission originally ran in the April 28-May 1 edition but with the final paragraph omitted. The Park Record is republishing it here in full. One would be hard pressed to find another town of 8,000 people that counts the quality and quantity of arts and culture programming Park City does. We’ve co-hosted the Olympics and stand to play an integral role in courting a second Games. Sundance Film Festival brings the most talented filmmakers to our doorsteps annually. Supremely accomplished women led highly visible social justice protests down Main Street and in City Park. Last month, our own PCHS students rallied 1000+ marchers and stood arm-in-arm with Parkland shooting survivors to demand action on gun violence. Multiple organizations, events, artists, creative spaces and makers weave the ever-evolving fabric of our community. The arts are so deeply embedded in our local culture that City government is developing a district dedicated to their advancement. All this does not happen by accident. It requires deliberate and diligent cultural curators committed to education and exploration, willing to take chances and prioritize audience enrichment over ticket sales. And it thrives among audiences that abandon expectation while embracing potentials and possibility. For 20 years, Park City Institute has invited groundbreaking performers and acclaimed speakers to root global conversations on our local stages. These conversations directly shape the broader Park City experience. They inspire provocative dialogue around our dinner tables and progressive outcomes at City Hall. They promote tolerance and respect. They put our quaint community on a global arts and culture map, in turn attracting world-class events and brilliant minds to make their homes here. They are the very soul of our quirky, creative and increasingly diverse community. PCI is a uniquely authentic and mission driven organization that supports other beloved, local nonprofits while running very lean in its commitment to investing nearly all of its budget in its programming. It elevates emerging artists across genres from pop to country. It forces exploration of the zeitgeist through conversations with people like Edward Snowden and Monica Lewinsky. It invites the participation of our entire community with affordably priced adult and $5 student tickets. It places its performers and speakers inside Summit County classrooms in order to cultivate more involved, informed and compassionate young citizens of our world. The Institute doesn’t just book acts; it builds careers and community and invites the kinds of big ideas, influencers and outcomes typically reserved for large, urban locales. It enriches every single human who has the privilege to partake in its offerings. And as its 21st season begins, it needs our help. Keep Park City “Park City” is our mantra. In the same “it takes a village” spirit Parkites brought to the widely publicized fight for our town name in 2016, we must rally once more and fight to keep PCI. Displaced from its usual summer home after 14 years, PCI remains committed to delivering another season’s worth of illuminating experiences despite the logistical and financial challenges related to installing/uninstalling a venue each week. Every $49 ticket and/or membership purchased this summer represents invaluable investment in Park City’s future and affirmation of everything our village is. We care not that our neighbor’s house is perfectly tidy. Instead, we are grateful simply to be invited for an evening of bread-breaking and conversation. Let this be the summer we villagers abandon expectation while embracing potentials and possibility. Let us gather together with picnic baskets in tow to partake in PCI’s wonderful entertainment and scintillating conversations while ensuring one of our most important cultural institutions endures this season of change and goes on to find a new, forever summer home. We are Park City, and Park City Institute is all of us. fter an exploratory committee examining whether Utah should bid for another Olympics offered an emphatic thumbs up earlier this year, Park City appears poised to dash toward a second games alongside the state’s broader Olympic region. Many in Park City are ready to charge full steam ahead, and rightly so. Helping host an Olympics is often a once-in-alifetime opportunity, so Parkites should feel fortunate if they get a chance to do it again. The benefits, from international prestige to securing federal funding for things like transportation, affordable housing and clean energy improvements to experiencing an unforgettable 17 days while the world watches, are too good to pass up. But perhaps not everybody in town is enthused at the idea. City Councilor Tim Henney said as much during a recent meeting at City Hall, revealing that he has heard opposition from people he considers to be influential in the community. Publicly, resistance to Park City hosting another games has seemed muted as the prospect has become more real in recent months. But Henney’s remarks highlight an important factor not to be overlooked: Inviting the Olympics back would dramatically affect all corners of the community, both in the yearslong lead-up to the games as well as during the actual guest editorial Owners are responsibile for off-leash dogs BRAD MULLEN Salt Lake City The Sunday before last was a day I’d been looking forward to all winter. This was the beginning of my Park City riding season, but it ended up being the end of my entire year of riding. The plan was to ride 2+ hours in Round Valley, work on my fitness a bit, and most importantly, enjoy the beautiful scenery and warm sunny day. A few minutes into my ride on the west side of the Ability Center, I came upon two women on mountain bikes being proudly led by a well behaved black lab, all of whom had the same vision of the day as me. Enjoy the sunshine and have some fun. After a brief and friendly chat I passed the three heading toward my unwanted destiny. After cresting a short uphill I began the descent towards the small pond and creek that runs parallel to the service road. Without warning, I saw a dog sprinting in my direction while the owner frantically screamed over and over for the dog to stop (but he wasn’t interested). I thought he would simply try to sample a portion of my right calf, which I could avoid, but I was mistaken. The wirehaired terrier ran directly in front of my 29-inch mountain bike wheel! I hit him somewhere in the midsection and went over the handlebars. I lay in a stupor on the ground. After taking an inventory of my body parts I stood up and realized my left ankle was swelling and very sore. As my head began to clear anger set in. I verbally lashed out at the owner, for which I later apologized, and told her Image Reborn thanks Butcher’s Chop House Editor: Breast cancer survivors who were attending an Image Reborn weekend retreat enjoyed a delicious dinner and a fun eve- The Park Record Staff PUBLISHER ....................... Andy Bernhard Editor ................................... Bubba Brown Staff Writers ......................Jay Hamburger Scott Iwasaki Angelique McNaughton Ben Ramsey Carolyn Webber Contributing ............................. Tom Clyde Writers Jay Meehan Teri Orr Amy Roberts Tom Kelly Joe Lair Copy Editor ............................ 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The staff looks forward to our monthly visits and treats us to fine dining at reduced rates. Image Reborn truly appreciates this consideration as well as their attention to our special dietary needs. Image Reborn Foundation provides free renewal retreats for any woman who has ever been diagnosed with breast cancer. Survivors are treated to a weekend of relaxation, massages, facials, yoga, meditation and the opportunity to enjoy the company of other women who have gone through similar cancer journeys. If you are interested in attending a retreat or donating your home for a weekend, please contact Image Reborn Foundation at: (801) 679-3065. Faye Keller Image Reborn Foundation Park City Follies highlights important issue Editor: Follies is complete for another year. One of my MANY favorite things about Park City is our ability to laugh at ourselves, accept our foibles and our differences and continue to work through our shortcomings to strive for high quality of life, in- she should have had her dog on a leash. She immediately and emphatically, and with no apparent compassion, informed me this was an open-leash area. She was correct. But that does not absolve her of the responsibility of keeping her dog under control. I find it hard to believe based on the owner’s behavior while I was trying to recover, that I am the first person this dog has had an encounter with. Who’s next? Another cyclist, a runner, or maybe a child riding their bike? With ownership comes responsibility to keep your dog in proper control at all times. I’m all for open-leash areas. As a former dog owner, I know dogs love to do what they do, and that’s chase after things. But as an owner, you must monitor situations that may cause your dog to react adversely and place others in danger. It’s the owner’s responsibility to keep their animal under control, whether it’s open-leash or not. I had spine fusion surgery almost 2 years ago and I have worked very hard to get just a small portion of my prior fitness back. It’s been a struggle, to be honest with you. And now, as a result of my encounter with an out-of-control unleashed dog, I have a fractured fibula and torn ligaments in my heel. I underwent surgery the day after the crash and had a plate and screws installed. I will not be able to bear weight on my left leg for six weeks and then I’m faced with limited weight bearing for another six weeks. After that, more Physical Therapy. I’m looking at a 3-6 month sentence. My hopes of starting the 10th Annual Park City Point-2Point mountain bike race on Labor Day are gone. And now I’m again a burden on my family. And all because my rights as a human are given less weight than those of an out-of-control dog. guest editorial Rubin would be voice for the Wasatch Back FRODE JENSEN letters to the editor event. So we should view the discussions about Park City’s role in another bid as a community conversation — and that means seeking out the opinions of people who don’t want the Olympics to return. To be clear, there is broad support throughout Utah’s Olympic region for hosting the games again, and it’s likely that the majority of Parkites share that view. Park City should and would be a major player if the Olympics return. But a vibrant community discussion that considers all perspectives would give us a clear picture of where we stand before the bid process begins in earnest. That would allow us to shape our involvement in a way that maximizes the benefits and minimizes potential drawbacks. For their part, Park City’s elected officials, who will be the ones to actually determine the city’s course, seem to agree. They’ve been clear that gathering as much feedback from residents as possible before they make any decisions will be a major priority. Doing so will be crucial if we hope to make a future Olympics as successful for Park City as the 2002 Games were. And if that occurs, perhaps even some of the residents now opposed to welcoming the world will ultimately be pleased to see our community carry the Olympic torch once again. Park City I was pleased to attend the 2018 Convention of the Utah Republican Party in Salt Lake City on April 21 as a delegate from Park City, having been elected a first-time delegate in March at the GOP neighborhood caucus meeting. I participated primarily to help my friend and neighbor Jack Rubin win the Republican nomination for the Utah State Senate in the 26th district. The result of the convention was that Jack will run against two opponents from the eastern part of the State in the June 26 Republican primary. The 26th is a strangely designed district which does not favor Park City candidates. The district is geographically enormous, running through Heber City over 150 miles east across U.S. 40 to the Colorado border. Most Utah Senate districts consist of a single county or two. The 26th includes all of Daggett, Duchesne and Uintah counties and only parts of Wasatch and Summit counties. The district includes Pinebrook, Snyderville and Park City proper, but excludes Summit Park, Jeremy and Coalville. There are roughly 29,000 registered Republicans in the district and fewer than 7,000 registered Democrats. It is widely and probably correctly believed by the political experts that a Democrat can’t possibly win the district, simply by reason of the disparity in registrations. By the same token, it has been widely believed that a Park City candidate can’t win because of the roughly 29,000 Republicans registered in the district, more than 17,000 are registered in Daggett, Duchesne, and Uintah counties and fewer than 12,000 in Summit and Wasatch counties. Historically, this has meant that a candidate from Duchesne or Uintah has been more or less a lock to win the seat. For the last 12 years clusiveness, sustainability. It isn’t easy. The solution to one problem invariably produces new problems. Affordable housing isn’t funny, but we can’t hide from the issue. On my way to get a drink of water at intermission I had a brief conversation with an old friend who is working very hard on open space issues. I was reminded of the fact that while we hate sprawl and adore our vistas and hiking trails, we’ve made land values prohibitive. Our brilliant planning efforts have made it very the seat has been held by a resident of Vernal in Uintah County, who is retiring. In 2016 he won reelection by a margin of approximately 70 to 30 per cent. The upshot is that a Summit County resident has never held the seat in the District’s current configuration. Jack Rubin would like to change this and offer the Wasatch Back (as well as the rest of the district) a strong, sensible voice in the State Senate. His strategy is to run to represent the best interests of all the voters from both parties across the entire district. He would like to persuade enough Park City Republicans as well as unaffiliated voters and even a few practical Democrats to vote for him to win the June 26 Republican primary. Republicans can do this easily by simply marking their ballot for Jack. Non-Republican voters can do the same thing by simply registering to vote in the Republican primary. All it takes is a quick phone call to the Summit County Clerk at 435-336-3204. Or go on line at www.vote.utah.gov. If Jack can win the primary, he is sure to take the election. I know you’ll be hearing a lot from Jack about how he would represent us in the coming weeks. I am writing to urge the readership to listen carefully to what Jack has to say. Utah has certainly been on a roll these past several years but there are enormous changes coming as Park City, Summit County, the 26th Senate District and the State face the future. Our population will explode in the coming years (it already is…) and we’ll have to address, both locally and across the State, the many issues that come with explosive growth, including transportation, housing, jobs, education, taxes, budgets, and more. I believe Jack has the experience, common sense, practical and solid views, integrity and leadership ability to help us deal with these many challenges coming down the road. He would be a credit to us all as our Utah State Senator. difficult to provide sufficient affordable housing. We’ll never build our way out if it, but we must continue to chip away with every tool we can muster to maintain a diverse community. Deer Valley Drive replaced Park Avenue as the highway into town, the two-lane SR224 was widened to allow more cars, we built China Bridge to park those cars and now we have too many. Bikes and buses help, but they won’t prevent gridlock. Forcing people to commute from less expensive hous- ing adds more traffic. We oppose tall buildings and density, but we’re going to have to compromise somewhere. Thanks to the fabulously gifted volunteers who work so hard to bring us the Follies every year. Some of the humor is uncomfortable. Good. We need to be uncomfortable in order to be creative. We know who we are. We can do this together. Sally Elliott Park City |