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Show A-18 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 9-12, 2018 More dogs on Main By Tom Clyde TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM A chaotic start to summer WSD Board Meeting Weilenmann School of Discovery will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Tuesday, June 12, at 5:30pm. Address is 4199 Kilby Road, Park City. The public is welcome. Notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission will meet in regular session Tuesday, June 12, 2018 Location: Sheldon Richins Building (Library), 1885 West Ute Boulevard, Park City, UT 84098 AGENDA Agenda items may or may not be discussed in the order listed. 4:30 p.m. Work Session 1. Discussion regarding Marketplace at Silver Creek development consisting of 178 residential units and 160,000 square feet of commercial area; 6341 Silver Creek Drive; Henry Sigg, Representative. – Ray Milliner, Principal Planner Regular Session 1. Public input for items not on the agenda or pending applications. 2. Discussion and possible action regarding parcel RC14 Yotel PAD Condominiums Final Site Plan within Canyons Village SPA. – Tiffanie Northrup-Robinson, Senior Planner 3. Discussion and possible action regarding Canyons Ski Patrol & First Aid Building Final Site Plan within the Canyons Village SPA. – Tiffanie Northrup-Robinson, Senior Planner 4. Public Hearing and possible action regarding a Condominium Plat for a previously approved sixty-eight (68) unit multi-family development, some of which are currently under construction. – Jennifer Strader, Senior Planner 5. Public Hearing and possible action regarding a Prelimi- Continued from A-16 Mountain Town News In 2005, recognizing the immensity of the challenge of climate change, he formed Architecture 2030. The premise of the group’s advocacy is that the United States and other developed countries must reform themselves while helping the rest of the world develop more sensibly. Architecture 2030 focuses on cities, where the world’s population growth will be concentrated. New buildings must be designed in ways that effectively eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions. Building codes commonly adopted by local jurisdictions have become significantly more rigorous in the last 15 years, but Mazria’s group envisions deeper cuts yet. “We need a zero-net carbon national and international building code that is easy to adopt,” he said. The code must apply to new buildings and also for major renovations. His group recently issued a proposed net-zero code. California is adopting a similar code. Lake Tahoe ski area gets second Stoke designation INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. – At Diamond Peak Ski Resort, located in the bowl of mountain overlooking Lake Tahoe, customers this winter saw more water fountains and also had the opportunity to buy reusable water pouches. You can still buy single-use plastic water bottles, but the alternatives seem to have paid off. The resort reports a 34 percent reduction in water bottle sales. That’s one of the initiatives that enabled the community-owned ski area to get certi- nary Plat to divide Parcel SCVC-2 into eighty-three (83) single family dwelling lots; SCVC-2; Matt Lowe, applicant. – Jennifer Strader, Senior Planner 6. Public Hearing and possible action regarding a Preliminary Plat to divide Parcel SCVC-5 into forty-six single family dwelling lots; 6618 Old Forest Drive; SCVC-5; Matt Lowe, applicant. – Jennifer Strader, Senior Planner DRC Updates Commission Comments Director Items Adjourn A majority of Snyderville Basin Planning Commission members may meet socially after the meeting. If so, the location will be announced by the Chair or Vice-Chair. County business will not be conducted. To view staff reports available after Friday, June 8, 2018 please visit: www.summitcounty.org Individuals needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Melissa Hardy, Summit County Community Development Department, at (435) 6153157. Posted: June 8, 2018 Published: June 9, 2018 – The Park Record fied by the new Stoke standard. It’s the second to be so certified, following Oregon’s Mt. Ashland Ski area. The Lake Tahoe News explains that Stoke is the world’s first sustainability certification body with standards built specifically for surface and ski tourism operations. Diamond Peak scored 78 out of a possible 100 across four categories of sustainability performance. Pick up the pace on dealing with the proliferating plastic WHISTLER, B.C. – There’s talk, but nothing more at this point, about taking stronger action against proliferating plastic bags and other plastic in Whistler. In 2014, the resort’s major retailers announced a voluntary program. Merchants began assessing a 5-cent cost for every plastic bag given out. In two years, that succeeded in bringing down the number of bags distributed by 47 percent. Pique Newsmagazine expresses some impatience with the pace of the municipal action. “If Vancouver can do it, why can’t we,” the newspaper says of action against plastic straws. The newspaper cites bans now enacted in Malibu, Calif., as well as the countries of Taiwan, Scotland and the whole of the U.K. Vancouver is banning plastic straws from food-service facilities as part of a wider strategy to address plastic waste. Also targeted at eateries are Styrofoam cups and take-out containers and plastic bags. Merchants who continue to distribute them must now charge a fee. Growing tilapia year-round down-valley from Sun Valley BELLEVUE, Idaho – A 2,000-square-foot greenhouse has begun operating at Bellevue, down-valley from Ketchum and Sun Valley, with the goal of producing 800 to 900 pounds of tilapia annually as well as vegetables. The greenhouse is designed a as a nearly closed system that recycles water and uses fish waste to fertilize plants, explains the Idaho Mountain Express. “We’re trying to supply the Wood River Valley with healthy food, using no pesticides or herbicides,” said Matt Moran of the solar-powered greenhouse and fish farm. He previously had a career in pharmaceuticals. Long-dead conquistadors get booted in New Mexico ESPANOLA, N.M. – Espanola, located near Santa Fe and at the foot of the mountain where Los Alamos is located, has put an end to a long tradition. That tradition was a reenactment of the arrival of the Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate. The pageant and carnival will be left to an independent group. It includes a costumed procession of an armored Oñate on horseback with a coterie of soldiers, royalty, Christian friars, and Indian scout. The Associated Press explains that Oñate is both celebrated as a Hispanic founding father and reviled for brutality against Native Americans. Wikipedia explains that Spanish administrators in 1595 tasked Oñate with exploring and colonizing what is now New Mexico. A few years later, Oñate’s men demanded supplies from the Acoma pueblo and were refused, with the result that 11 Spaniards were killed. In retaliation, Oñate ordered a siege of the pueblo. An estimated 800 to 1,000 Acoma died, and all men and women older than 12 were enslaved for 20 years. In addition, men older than 25 had one foot amputated. The AP says Santa Fe has a similar controversy about an annual re-enactment. The conquistador Don Diego de Varga and the Spanish returned to Santa in 1692, 12 years after the revolt of Pueblo Indians at Taos. The re-enactment has been met with increasing numbers of protesters in recent years. “Elmer ate a potgut.” That stands out as the strangest phone message of the summer, but the season is young. Elmer is my dog, a fat lab. Most of the time he doesn’t show a whole lot of ambition, and is pretty content to sit on the porch. Over the weekend, a lot of the family was around, so he was busier than usual. Somewhere in the middle of a Frisbee golf game out in the pasture, he chased a bunch of ground squirrels and, according to the reports from several witnesses, ate a potgut, whole, in a single swallow. Didn’t bother chewing. They thought I should know about it. So for the next couple of days, I kept an eye on him. He acted like the guy in that old Alka-Seltzer commercial who, with great discomfort, moaned, “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.” If he so much as twitched, I rushed him outside in case the potgut was about to reappear, like Jonah from the belly of the whale. But there doesn’t appear to have been any ill effects, and he either ejected it on his own somewhere outside, or happily digested it. A whole potgut is a more natural diet for a dog than the dry dog food he usually gets. And compared to some of the dead stuff he finds, it had to be better. His coyote cousins thrive on them, so I guess it shouldn’t have been reason for concern. But still, swallowing it whole seemed like there would be unpleasant repercussions. So with that, summer is off and running. I start each day with a long list of things that need to get done. By 8:30 or, on a really good day, 9:00, a completely new and different list of more urgent demands will have presented itself and I’m off in a completely different direction. For a month I’ve been trying to get somebody with a mini-excavator to come and clean out a pile of dead willows. They got pushed out of the way when I rebuilt a fence last year. The plan had been to burn them in place last winter, but the pile ended up so big that I didn’t feel safe burning it there. I was having no luck finding somebody to haul it away, and it was so tangled that moving it by hand wasn’t an option. And then a mini-excavator shows up on a neighbor’s yard. The guy finished that job sooner than expected, and was frustrated that he was going to lose the afternoon’s work. He was more than happy to pick up my little job. The cows are home from their winter on the desert. It took a couple of them less than an hour to stage a jailbreak. They were in a pasture with deep lush grass, the best they had seen in months. But that wasn’t good enough. Two of them jumped the fence and made a beeline into the neighboring cabin subdivision. The destination was one particular lot. They knew exactly where they were going. They know which of the cabin owners will be most upset when they move in, and went right there, fertilizing generously before shading up on the front porch. There are 50 cabins in the area, and 49 of them were unscathed. The cows didn’t touch a blade of grass or poop on any of them on their way to Mrs. G.’s lot. From the look of things, they had been planning their raid for days, holding back since before they got on the truck to come home, just waiting for the chance to befoul Mrs. G.’s lot, feast on her annuals, and nap on her porch. They followed her lot lines as if they had a survey. I suggested she should feel special because they clearly had selected her for a reason, while rejecting all of her neighbors. She was not amused. Another neighbor called to report, with great alarm, that all of the cows had been facing west in the morning, and were now all facing east in the afternoon. Something was wrong. There were a lot of possible explanations. The sun was in their eyes; the wind was blowing in their faces so they turned around. Maybe there was a moose in the woods and they were all focused on that. I told him the cattle always turned toward Mecca at that time of day. That, combined with the attack on Mrs. G.’s yard, put him on red alert. I’m assuming the FBI will be out soon to investigate this bovine sleeper cell. The river has already dropped to mid-July levels. Most years, in June, I’m worried about too much water. This year it’s already a challenge keeping the irrigation flowing. Meanwhile, Elmer is on the hunt. Tom Clyde practiced law in Park City for many years. He lives on a working ranch in Woodland and has been writing this column since 1986. sunday in the Park By Teri Orr Making room inside the newsroom... As a full-time journalist — years ago — I felt the thrill of defeat and the agony of victory, depending upon which side of the story I was covering. Prior to covering the news, I loved following it ... the unfolding of Watergate, the Pentagon Papers and how long it took for the AIDS crisis to become a story after the riots at Stonewall. More recently the mystery and wonder of Edward Snowden and Julian Assange and the Panama Papers has made for pretty breathtaking journalism/spy versus spy stuff. Locally — of course — there were stories were about the Treasure Hill project back in the ’80’s — which has proven to be the story that keeps on giving. The moving/saving of the old Miner’s Hospital from the parking lot of the ski resort — there was only one — to try and create a park where there were just rusty swings on dirt. And to repurpose that brick building to become an award-winning small-town library. There were drug murders, deals and arrests all during the ’80’s here. They went away for decades only to resurface again in the 2010’s. The bids for and the finally winning and creating a Winter Olympic Games (in part) on our tiny Main Street. Our schools have never not been filled with disgruntled parents wanting a better education system for their children. But on a parallel course, of course, was a nation of stories of AIDS and wars and Oklahoma bombings and the Unabomber and Bill Clinton and “that woman” and 9/11 and the first African American president and then the first president who had never before been elected to any public office. Dizzying — all of it. A bunch of really smart filmmakers and brave documentary film funders embarked on a project, “The Fourth Estate,” to cover the Old Gray Lady (so called (in part) because it was the last major paper — in the country — to resist adding four color photos to the front page). The New York Times — labeled as ground zero of “fake news” by Donald Trump, when he became president-elect — followed a fearless, exhausting course in a year where news included — the entire #MeToo moment exposing finally Har- vey Weinstein’s lifelong gross negligent conduct toward women, including repeated accusations of the rape of numerous actresses. And as that investigation unfolded at the Times, a reporter of their own would be accused of bad behavior towards some in the workplace — right there — when the workplace WAS the New York Times. They won Pulitzers for their work last year — three of them. But the filmmakers and funders had no idea where the story was headed when they started. They just knew a good story when they saw/heard/felt one. In the ongoing plot of — there will always be a Park City connection ... there are a couple — the director of the doc — Liz Garbus has had numerous films premiere at the Sundance Film Festival from “Ghosts of Abu Ghraib” to “What Happened, Miss Simone?” One of the funders — Impact Partners — has partners here in Park City — including Jim and Susan Swartz. Susan’s award-winning artwork is on display in her gallery on Main Street and Jim won an Oscar last year for producing — “Icarus” — which won the Oscar for best documentary. He is also a venture capitalist of some legendary success. If you care about the news — politics — the future of our country — and of journalism — this series is a must see. A friend of mine on the east coast — involved in film himself — posted about it a few weeks ago and said, “Don’t miss this.” So thank you, David Troy, for the heads up. It was like watching “All the President’s Men” meets “The Post” with a bit of “The West Wing” meets “Madame Secretary” dipped in “Scandal.” Except it was/is all real. On Thursday morning this week the NYT did a kind of radio call-in show for subscribers with the principals in the film/newsroom who answered questions about the making of the doc and the making of the Pulitzers and the sausage making of all good stories. The participants included Julie Davis, White House correspondent, and Matt Abrazzo, White House correspondent. They spoke frankly about what it was like to have cameras in the workplace for a year. And in the end — the distractions were worth the product — which showed the never ending news cycle — the unpredictability of all news but certainly covering this president. Matt admitted he hated having the film crew. He had a blow-up with them that was never put in the doc. He laughed and said it was like a bad sitcom where after the first two episodes he disappears — as if being sent off to boarding school. He was, however, very proud how the coverage of their coverage played out. How the stress of the job was visible. Julie said she loved how it looked like they came out batting 1,000 with news sources and stories when, in fact, “We spent a lot of time drilling dry wells.” Matt said the news in the past year was like “the ball was coming really fast — no — it was like four people are throwing baseballs from different directions and you don’t know from where — am I reporting from the right direction or am I going to get hit?” When asked if it mattered even showing up any more to a White House briefing Julie replied — “You show up every day and just ask and get them on the record.” Were they worried about the state of the Union given all they have seen, digested and reported in the past year? Matt — “It is an incredibly ‘newsy’ time. We don’t want to get it wrong. We give the public all the info we know to be true in Washington. ... The republic has proven to be quite elastic.” Then he listed stories from Watergate to Clinton’s impeachment to 9/11 to all the wars all over the world and you realize the past 50 years alone have tested the mettle of our metal. Like all print journalism in this country, the very future of such a formidable, informative, institution as The New York Times is fragile. And the way to keep that level of reporting alive — being both a watchdog and lighthouse — is to subscribe. Great journalism needs great support every day and certainly on a big fat New York Times edition of Sunday in the Park... Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record. She is the director of the Park City Institute, which provides programming for the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. |