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Show C-1 PHOTOGRAPHY PEAKS AT ARTS FESTIVAL EDUCATION, A-9 B-1 GOT A COOL PHOTO? Share it to #parkcitypics or @parkrecord on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook and we’ll run the week’s best in print. JUMPER’S RETIREMENT IS UP IN THE AIR COLUMNS, A-14 Park Record. PARK CITY PRESCHOOL’S NEW PLAYGROUND ROCKS THERE’S AN ART TO PLANNING FEST, AMY ROBERTS SAYS 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, August 1-3, 2018 Serving Summit County since 1880 Park City is splashed in fest colors | Vol. 138 | No. 51 50¢ Wildfire rips through Tollgate Crews struggle with the flames as blaze forces evacuations BUBBA BROWN The Park Record PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO The 49th annual Park City Kimball Arts Festival will run Friday through Sunday, Aug. 3-5, on Main Street. The event, a fundraiser for the Kimball Art Center, will feature visual art, live music, culinary arts and family-friendly activities. The annual summer arts gathering brings big crowds to town SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record For nearly half a century, the Park City Kimball Arts Festival has offered a three-day celebration of creativity that not only includes the visual arts, but live music and culinary arts as well. This year, the festival, now in its 49th year, will be held Friday through Sunday on Main Street and feature 225 juror-selected artists, said Amy Roberts, director of communications for the Kimball Art Center. Of those artists, 13 are local and members of the Park City Professional Artists Association, Roberts said. The art festival is the Kimball Art Center’s largest fundraiser of the year, and the money raised through entry fees will help the nonprofit fulfill its mission to connect and inspire people through art, Roberts said. The funds will go to providing scholarships for children of low-income families to participate in Kimball Art Center art classes and camps, helping offer art education in public schools, hosting after-school art programs in local elementary schools, facilitating hands-on instruction for teens dedicated to the study and practice of the visual arts, providing schools with cross-curriculum lesson plans that integrate art into core subjects and presenting free art exhibits in the Kimball Art Center’s main gallery, according to Roberts. In addition, the Park City Kimball Arts Festival benefits Utah, she said. “Last year’s total economic impact for Utah was $20,788,406,” Roberts said. “The event brought in 53,408 visitors to Park City, and 34 percent of them booked lodging in Park City.” Not only does the arts festival feature the artist market, but also hands-on experiences for children and adults. “We have a kids area that will feature face painting, and art scavenger hunt and different art projects,” Roberts said. “Kids can make clay pendants, wind catchers and do an art exchange, where they will make a work of art and leave it for another child to take home.” Older festival-goers ages 13 and up can experience Studio on Main. Please see Arts fest, A-2 3 sections • 36 pages Classifieds .............................. C-8 Columns ............................... A-14 Crossword .............................. C-4 Editorial................................ A-15 Education ............................... A-9 Events Calendar ..................... C-6 Legals ................................... C-11 Letters to the Editor ............. A-15 Restaurant Guide.................... B-6 Scene ...................................... C-1 Scoreboard ............................. B-5 Sports ..................................... B-1 Weather .................................. B-2 Fire crews on Tuesday continued to battle a brush fire in Tollgate Canyon that forced the evacuations of a handful of homes and businesses on Monday. The blaze began early Monday afternoon, and four homes were evacuated on Forest Meadow Road as the fire quickly grew to about 287 acres, according to Summit County officials. The Blue Sky Ranch and High West Distillery were also evacuated. “Firefighters were very aggressive with this fire not wanting this to spread,” said Krachel Murdock, a spokeswoman for Summit County. “We have 400 homes in the Tollgate area. So there was an aggressive take on this. ... We didn’t want this to get into a situation where it was going to be an emergency.” Residents in the area were allowed to return to their homes around 7:30 p.m. Monday as Tollgate Canyon Road, which was closed for much of the afternoon, reopened. No houses COURTESY OF SUMMIT COUNTY A blaze in Tollgate Canyon forced evacuations of four homes Monday, along with the Blue Sky Ranch and High West Distillery. By the end of the day, the fire was 10 percent contained and was no longer threatening homes. Crews continued to battle the fire Tuesday. were in immediate danger as of Monday evening, officials said. The fire was 10 percent contained by Monday night. Two fire engines monitored the blaze overnight before a crew of 25 firefighters began attacking it again Tuesday morning, Murdock said. Efforts on Tuesday were centered The Main chord on the northeast corner of the fire. The Park City Fire District respondPlease see Tollgate, A-2 Work on road acceptable to some in city Business association says steps were taken to guard against a drop in sales in Prospector JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The City Hall redo of Prospector Avenue and a private-sector improvements project in Prospector Square has left some businesses unhappy with the impact on sales. But the leadership of a group known as the Prospector Square Property Owners Association said on Monday many of the businesses understand the projects and planned for the disruption. Dean Berrett, a member of the board of directors of the association and a figure with an ownership PHOTO BY JEFF MCGRATH Carlos Emjay performs on Main Street at the Park Silly Sunday Market on July 29. Emjay moved to Park City 10 years ago from Las Vegas and has been performing at the Silly Market for three years. Please see Work, A-2 Park is music to the ears of concert-goers Officials approve the midseason move from Quinn’s Junction SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Teri Orr, Park City Institute executive director, had a weekend to think about the City Council’s special session vote on Friday to move the remaining six shows of the 2018 St. Regis Big Stars, Bright Nights Summer Concert Series from Quinn’s Field to City Park. “It’s certainly full circle,” Orr said Monday morning. “We were doing concerts at the south end of the park 16 years ago, but we had never considered that the park could expand and accommodate our larger performances.” The Park City Council voted 4-0 with City Councilor Nann Worel absent to approve the request by the Park City Institute. The elected officials left it to City Hall staffers and institute officials to craft the details of an operational plan. The idea to move the concerts to City Park came after the successful Grace Potter concert that was held there on July 13, Orr said. “We were surprised when there was such a wonderful outpouring from the community to bring the rest of the concerts to City Park,” she said. Jenny Diersen, Park City’s special event and economic development program manager, said moving the concert series to City Park did raise some issues that needed to be addressed. “With any event using amplified Please see Concerts, A-2 PHOTO BY JEFFREY ROTHCHILD Grace Potter performs a Park City Institute St. Regis Big Stars, Bright Nights concert on July 13 at City Park. The performance sparked an interest to hold the rest of the 2018 summer season in City Park. The Park City Council approved the move with a 4-0 vote on Friday. VISITOR GUIDE Take a Saturday walk through nature at EcoCenter Saturday morning nature walks are held at 8:30 a.m. every Saturday at the Swaner EcoCenter. Depending upon the time of year, lucky hikers may see an abundance of birds, elk, or even nesting sandhill cranes. More: www. swanerecocenter.org. |