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Show M A-12 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, May 5-8, 2018 OUNTAIN TOWN NEWS TACOS ALLEN BEST Mountain Town News BACK FOR A LIMITED TIME $5 PRICE AND PARTICIPATION MAY VARY. SINGLE ITEM PRICE ON MENU BOARD. 1723 UTE BLVD., PARK CITY, UT ©2018 Del Taco LLC DTL-16306 DTL-16306_Park_Record_Shrimp_Tacos_F.indd 1 2/1/18 1:31 PM MAY 2018 MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH CONNECTING HEARTS & MINDS Stigma Free, How it Should Be. BELOW ARE A FEW HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR SCHEDULE OF MAY EVENTS. Visit ConnectSummitCounty.org or facebook/ConnectSummitCounty for the full calendar. We look forward to seeing you. PRO-ACTIVE AGING: PLANNING FOR YOUR FUTURE Lunch & Learn with Liz Garcia-Leavitt (LCSW), Univ. of Utah. MAY 7 HOW ARE WE DOING ON MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE? Community Discussion moderated by Ollie Wilder. Noon, Free MAY 10* & 15** Lunch provided courtesy of Applegate HomeCare & Hospice. Reservation required. RSVP by May 4 *Kamas Valley Branch, Summit County Library **Jim Santy Auditorium Basin Rec. Fieldhouse connectsummitcounty@gmail.com NO FAMILY IS FREE FROM THIS EPIDEMIC Talk by Adm. James Winnefeld and Mary Winnefeld on opioid addiction. MAY 8 6:30pm, Free Intermountain Park City Hospital-Blair Education and Conference Center 6:30pm, Free CONCUSSION/ TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY: IMPACTS ON MENTAL HEALTH Panel discussion with freestyle champion Alex Schlopy, Lauren Ziaks (DPT, ATC) and Antoinetta Russo (PhD) moderated by Lynn Ware Peek (KPCW) MAY 16 6:00pm, Free Jim Santy Auditorium FRONT LINE & PORTRAIT OF BLUE LINE: A CAREGIVER PARENTS & (PLAY) POLICE WORKING TOGETHER Talk and Resource Fair presented by Summit County Sheriff’s Office MAY 14 6:00pm, Free Ecker Hill Middle School MAY 22 12:00 noon, Free Jim Santy Auditorium THE BRAIN STORY: THE SCIENCE BEHIND BRAIN DEVELOPMENT, MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION Dr. Nicole Sherren, Neuroscientist, (The Palix Foundation) More snowmaking to help when temperatures warm ASPEN, Colo. — Is this what climate change looks like? Ski slopes in Colorado and other parts of the West were slow to turn white, which isn’t terribly unusual. What was eyebrow-raising was the warmth. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a map for December through February showing that much of western Colorado, including Aspen, had “much above average” temperatures. So did portions of Utah, California, and other states. That much warmth made snowmaking difficult in November and December, observed Victor Gerdin, mountain planner for the Aspen Skiing Co. Snowmaking begins at temperatures of 26 degrees F. or less, but the machines can really create more robust amounts at about temperatures of 10 degrees F. “Not only did we have very few days of 26 degrees or less, we had practically no days of 10 degrees in November and December,” he told the Aspen Daily News. Aspen plans to upgrade snowmaking this summer at a cost of $5.5 million. In some projects, older infrastructure will be replaced. But the upgrades will also increase the amount of terrain that can be covered at the company’s four ski areas. Because of improved efficiency of snowmaking technology, new machines can allow the same amount of snow as was produced in the late 1990s, but with one-third to one-half less energy. At Steamboat Ski Area, summer will come a little earlier this year, although not necessarily because of warmer temperatures. That, too, is the trend, but the ski area also has more to offer, including the mountain coaster and other attractions. The amusements get going during Memorial Day weekend and will operate daily beginning in mid-June. Still dry in Four Corners with change unlikely in coming months DURANGO, Colo. — The drought that began last year in the Four Corners area continues, with no change expected at least until August. The U.S. Drought Monitor recently ranked the areas around Durango and Cortez as being in “exceptional drought” compared to the “extreme drought,” one step down the dry scale, in other parts of Western and Southern Colorado, reports the Durango Herald. Brad Rippey, a meteorologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said “exceptional drought” is considered to be a 1-in-50-year event. The snowpack in the rivers around Telluride and Durango stands at 31 percent of the normal. In Durango, city water managers are preparing to issue restrictions of outdoor lawn irrigation, if necessary. The paradox of deeper droughts coupled with large deluges DENVER — The paradox of the warming climate is that even as droughts become longer and deeper, the rains will come with greater intensity. That’s what the models have said all along, and many climate scientists believe we are now seeing evidence. In the Colorado River Basin, there’s evidence that warming is already influencing the climate. Brad Udall, a water and climate research scientist at Colorado State University, points out that the years 2000 to 2017 have seen a 20 percent decline overall in precipitation in the basin. This is despite a 5 percent increase in moisture content in the warming atmosphere. “Something very odd and unusual is going on,” Udall said at the Water in the West Symposium last week in Denver. About half the volume of the reservoirs has been lost during this period, about two-thirds of which can be explained by reduced precip- itation. Increased temperatures that cause evaporation as well as transpiration, explains about a third. Temperature induced losses in the basin will more than triple by 2050, he said, and increase almost six-fold by the end of the century. Snowpack remains a mystery. “We really don’t know what is going on (with the snowpack),” he said. In California, a new modeling study published last week in Nature Climate Change examines the potential for even sharper pivots between extreme drought and extreme rain and snow. Recent years have brought record multiyear dryness between 2012 and 2016 then extreme wetness, in some places of the Sierra Nevada, a record during the winter of 2016-2017. New modeling predicts increased periods of extreme drought during the 21st century but even more frequent deluges comparable to the state’s great flood of 1862. During that year, about a meter (39 inches) of rain fell in a 40day period. The Sacramento Bee describes the flooding as “pure catastrophe.” The study also finds that rain and snow in the warming climate will become more concentrated in narrow windows during the peak of winter, comparable to what happened in 1862, instead of from October to April. Most important, though, is the increased frequency of big, big deluges and then flooding. “It goes from being something that might happen once every other century, essentially, to happening maybe multiple times over the next 80 years,” Daniel Swain, the lead author, told the Sacramento Bee. The Bee also reports that $2.6 billion in funding for new reservoirs have been approved to assist with eight new reservoirs and other water storage projects, including a groundwater “bank” near Sacramento. The new reservoirs, if actually constructed, would be the largest built in the last 40 years in California. MAY 22 6:30pm, Free Intermountain Park City Hospital-Blair Education and Conference Center 70 YEARS OF HEALTHY MINDS: Live performance of Jacqueline Eaton’s play, from the words of actual Alzheimer’s caregivers living in Utah. Followed by Q&A. A Roundup of News from Other Western Ski Resort Communities CURRENT RESEARCH ON BRAIN AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Talks and Research Showcase by U of U Psychiatry Department MAY 31 THE MOMENTS + THE EXPERIENCES = THE MEMORIES Gather with friends and family, share experiences, and support local Park City residents and business owners in Historic Park City. 6:30pm, Free Sheldon Richins Building Auditorium FREE PARKING Park City’s Free Public Transit operates daily to access Main Street, or this shoulder season enjoy a complimentary parking session on Main Street and experience Historic Park City. Visit historicparkcityutah.com for parking session redemption instructions. 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