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Show A-14 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Wed/Thurs/Fri, August 29-31, 2018 Core saMples By Jay Meehan TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM The sound of music AGENDA SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL Wednesday, August 29, 2018 NOTICE is hereby given that the Summit County Council will meet in session Wednesday, August 29, 2018, at the Summit County Courthouse, 60 North Main Street, Coalville, UT 84017 (All times listed are general in nature, and are subject to change by the Council Chair) 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM - Council Members invited to attend lunch at Public Works building, at 1755 S. Hoytsville Rd, Coalville, UT 84017 7) 3:15 PM Closed Session – Property acquisition (70 min) Public hearing and possible adoption of Ordinance 885, an Ordinance Amending the Snyderville Basin Development Code Section 10-8 Creating Language for the Regulation of Mobile Food Businesses and Mobile Food Courts, Amending Chapter 10-11-1 Definitions and Amending Chapter 10-2-10 Use Table; Ray Milliner 4:25 PM - Move to Council Chambers 4:35 PM Convene as the Board of Equalization 1) Discussion and possible approval of 2018 stipulations; Kathryn Rockhill and Steve Martin Dismiss as the Board of Equalization 4:45 PM Consideration of Approval 1) Pledge of Allegiance 2) 4:50 PM - Consideration and possible adoption of First Amendment to the Central Wasatch Commission Interlocal Agreement Between Park City Municipal Corporation and Summit County; Janna Young 3) 5:00 PM - Consideration and possible nomination of Christopher Robinson to serve as the Wasatch Back Commissioner on the Central Wasatch Commission; Janna Young 4) 5:10 PM - Discussion and approval of Proclamation 2018-12, a Proclamation Recognizing Jan Brown for 17 Years of Public Service to the Citizens of Summit County, Utah 5) Council Comments 6) Manager Comments Council Minutes dated August 1, 2018 6:00 PM Public Input Public hearing and possible approval of Ordinance 886, an Ordinance Amending the Eastern Summit County Development Code Sections 11-2-3: Natural Resources, Adequate Water; Ray Milliner One or more members of the County Council may attend by electronic means, including telephonically or by Skype. Such members may fully participate in the proceedings as if physically present. The anchor location for purposes of the electronic meeting is the Council Chambers and Conference room, Summit County Courthouse, 60 N. Main, Coalville, Utah Individuals with questions, comments, or needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Annette Singleton at (435) 336-3025, (435) 615-3025 or (435) 783-4351 ext. 3025 Posted: August 24, 2018 Bishop pushes Ogden for future BLM headquarters Associated Press OGDEN — U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop said Thursday that Ogden should be the new home of the headquarters of Bureau of Land Management and that he’ll make his case when a high-ranking Interior Department official visits the northern Utah city next week. Bishop said he and Ogden officials plan to give a city tour to the acting assistant secretary of the Department of the Interior, Susan Combs, the Standard-Examiner newspaper reports . She will be in Ogden on Tuesday for a discussion on the reorganization of the Department of the Interior hosted by the House Natural Resources Committee. Bishop is the chairman of the committee. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who oversees the bureau, is considering moving its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to the West. Other states such as Colorado are also trying to lure the headquarters. “If you’re going to move (the BLM), Utah makes as much sense as anybody,” said Bishop, a Republican seeking re-election. “I know other areas like Colorado, their senators are pushing big time. I thought it’s time to use my chairmanship to push back a little on the side of Utah.” Ogden has been “short-listed” as Interior officials consider possible cities in the West, said Ogden Mayor Mike Caldwell. He said he’s arranging the tour at the request of Interior official. “We’d be thrilled to be in that conversation,” Caldwell said. Bishop said Interior officials want to see the lifestyle in the area and get a sense for proximity to colleges and the airport in Salt Lake City, which is about a 40-minute drive away. There is a smaller, regional airport in Ogden. Bishop said the cities of St. George and Cedar City in southern Utah have also been men- tioned as other possible headquarters locations if the Bureau moves. Denver is another possibility, Caldwell said. There’s no set timetable for Zinke’s decision. Conservative Utah leaders have long chafed under the agency’s management of 36,000 square miles of public land in the state and called for it to come under state control instead. Edwards said that moving the agency headquarters out West would be a step toward addressing their concerns. The bureau manages nearly 388,000 square miles nationwide, and 99 percent is in 12 Western states. While other Western leaders agree the headquarters should be closer to the land it manages, bureau veterans have said the agency needs a presence in Washington, D.C. During Zinke’s visit to Utah in July, Republican Gov. Gary Herbert said he had a “good discussion” promoting Utah with Zinke. Utah judge declares woman married to deceased partner Lesbian couple had been together for 50 years Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — A 74-year-old woman cried tears of joy when a Utah state judge took the rare step of declaring her and her longtime lesbian partner legally married just months after her wife died. Judge Patrick Corum last week declared Bonnie Foerster legally married to Beverly Grossaint, who died in May in Salt Lake City at age 82, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. “I’m numb from happiness. I’m married,” Foerster said through tears outside Corum’s courtroom after the ruling. “I’m a married woman. I’ve waited 50 years.” Foerster met Grossaint in January 1968 in New York City under unhappy circumstances: Foerster was escaping an abu- sive husband. When Grossaint first saw her, Foerster had broken ribs and was wearing dark glasses to hide black eyes. “Two seconds (after we were introduced), she came back and told me to take the damn sunglasses off,” Foerster said. When she did, “(Beverly) said, ‘I can see your soul.’ And I fell in love. I looked into her blue eyes, and I fell in love.” The two moved in together shortly after that meeting. Foerster said she and Grossaint, a veteran of the Women’s Army Corps, marched in the first gay pride parade in New York City in 1970. “We had people throw garbage at us,” Foerster told the judge. “We went home, took showers and got clean. Those people still have garbage in their hands.” The couple moved to Utah in 1979 to be near Grossaint’s ailing mother. Grossaint was Foerster’s caretaker for much of the past 30 years. She has had 29 back surgeries, survived breast and cervical cancer, and endured macular degeneration that has left her legally blind. Foerster also suffers from osteomyelitis, a rare bone infection, and, in April 2016, had to have both legs amputated above the knee. Grossaint’s health problems — emphysema and chronic heart failure — meant “I was her caregiver for the last three years,” Foerster said. The only question Corum didn’t settle in Tuesday’s hearing was the date that Foerster could consider herself and Grossaint married. The petition, filed by Foerster’s lawyer, Roger Hoole, set a date for June 26, 2015 — the day the U.S. Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal nationwide. Corum suggested the date could be set at Dec. 20, 2013, the day gay marriage became legal in Utah. Corum commented that the effective date could be pushed back to 1968, when Foerster and Grossaint began to live together, but “that makes it (legally) messier than it needs to be.” It’s all hidden from view. One would never guess what went into the setup. The multifaceted venue load-ins and load-outs transpire like a flyover from one of the Pentagon’s new “invisible” fighter jets. To the casual observer, there are no telltale signs. It’s been there when needed and absent when not. Take the Wallflowers show the other night. To the concert attendee, nothing had changed at City Park from the moment Bruce Hornsby left to cheers and adulation the week before. Everything from the stage and speaker columns to the fencing and cordoning-off paraphernalia were, seemingly, exactly where they had been. Not! We had been hoodwinked, misled, and duped. A bit of sleight-of-hand and a ton of legal tender had been involved to pull the wool, or at least the latest in recycled microfibers, over our eyes. They don’t call them “pop-up” venues for nothing. And all it took was a bunch of loot the Park City Institute didn’t have. This scrambling process goes back, of course, to last December when PCI learned that Deer Valley wouldn’t be renewing their lease at the Snow Park Amphitheater for their 15th season of outdoor concerts. Since that word came down, a lot of rabbits have been pulled out of a lot of hats. Not that they needed their overhead to grow or anything. Nonprofits, which shore up much of what goes on in this community, almost always operate on the razor’s edge of possibility with surprise additions to operating costs seldom welcome. The Institute, along with maintaining their stiff upper lip and “the show must go on” mantra, have also took to taking their previously well-trod battle cry “failure is not an option” out for a stroll. If anything else goes south, I hope they don’t fire until they see the whites of their eyes. This is one tough bunch. During the shows I’ve caught at their City Park venue this summer (Grace Potter, Lucia Micarelli, Corrine Bailey Rae, Bruce Hornsby, and the Wallflowers), the setting has proved to be nothing short of rapturous. Wandering the outfield grass and the rugby pitch with the ski-hill backdrop and that Park City vibe is pretty darn cool. I’m not an insider by any stretch, but from here it appears the search is on for a more permanent outdoor summer venue location. Something pretty cool Nonprofits, which shore up much of what goes on in this community, almost always operate on the razor’s edge of possibility with surprise additions to operating costs seldom welcome.” might be configured up at Park City Mountain, an arrangement that could also serve to reinvigorate any outreach Vail might have in the works community-wide. Plus, it’s been done thereabouts previous. The early ‘70s John Vrable produced Gordon Lightfoot concert with Leo Kottke opening fit perfectly in those same hills on a makeshift venue stage facing uphill from where the base terminal of the Payday Lift would later arrive. The now-highly-prized poster by the late David Chaplin continues to adorn walls in the old mining camp. Vrable’s ensuing John Stewart show would utilize the new Plaza area with the stage looking out from its location backed up against the also new Ticket Office. Quite possibly, the sound continues still to reverberate off those very same brick walls. Those would be followed by a summer season of shows with the stage further down the ski-way and with security mostly on horseback. I don’t believe they went beyond their first year but memory doesn’t always serve in these parts and it’s quite possible. However, I recall vividly handling the emcee chores for a two-day Bluegrass Festival sometime during the mid-tolate ‘70s up near where the base terminal for the Ski Team chairlift would later be installed in the lower Hollow. We faced the stage uphill with the crowd above it looking down. Not that it made any big bucks for the promoters, but it ran again the following year to similar success. Patricia Smith did a now also quite collectible woodcut poster that featured both that year’s Arts Festival and the Bluegrass Festival that ran concurrently and had now-lost-to-time organizational ties. Posssibly, if the powers-that-be see fit, it could somehow work again. As I’ve mentioned before in this space, Park City Institute has long served as a cultural grad school to my under-educated self. There are reasons aplenty why I view myself as your “humble scribe” and my minutes spent in higher education are only fifteen of them. Admittedly, my overwhelming desire for PCI to locate a workable solution to their postDeer Valley years possesses a prism of selfishness. My education remains gap-filled. Voids abound. Get together community and fix this. It’s getting more and more difficult to look in a mirror. Jay Meehan is a culture junkie and has been an observer, participant, and chronicler of the Park City and Wasatch County social and political scenes for more than 40 years. red Card roberts By Amy Roberts Mourning more than a man The past few days have produced no shortage of inspiring and heartbreaking words describing Senator John McCain’s life. “War hero,” “patriot,” “courageous,” “kind,” and “maverick” have been appropriate and common themes. I don’t pretend to have followed his life or career closely, but when his brain cancer diagnosis was announced a little over one year ago, I began to pay more attention. It’s a disease deeply personal to me — my sister battled it for almost nine years before passing away in November of 2016. Irrespective of differences in age, gender, social and economic status, or political affiliation, when I learn of someone being diagnosed, there’s an immediate kinship of sorts. You’re both members of a club no one wants to be in. I never met Senator McCain, nor did I ever vote for him. So this column is not the result of a chance meeting, long conversation, or friendship with him that resulted in some life changing moment for me. Just respect. And a slight understanding of the hell he and his family went through the minute a doctor said, “glioblastoma.” The tributes these past few days seem to go beyond mourning a decorated public servant. Much of what I have read and heard feel far deeper than the passing of a person. They hint at the idea we are also mourning the loss of any expectation or hope for civility, respect, and bipartisanship on the Senate floor. By all accounts, John McCain was a politician who understood that “compromise” isn’t a dirty word. He understood you can vehemently disagree with someone and still be their friend, or at least be decent towards them. And he understood that sometimes the hard thing and the right thing are the same thing. This was most memorably displayed when 11 days after undergoing brain surgery, McCain defied his doctor’s wishes and flew to Washington to cast his vote on the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. His emphatic thumbs down was a gesture heard around the world, with many of his fellow conserva- They hint at the idea we are also mourning the loss of any expectation or hope for civility, respect, and bipartisanship on the Senate floor.” tives offering a symbolic hand gesture of their own in response. Regardless of what you think about healthcare reform, you have to respect someone who refuses to succumb to political pressure and is willing to fight for a cause bigger than himself. That’s never easy. And it’s a hell of a lot harder less than two weeks after a craniotomy. Perhaps this is why his passing feels so personal to so many. McCain reminded us it’s more important to be a voice than an echo. The American political system has become so “us” versus “them” the “we” has been all but lost, and winning at any cost has replaced the idea of ensuring a fair fight. But McCain reminded us that we are all on the same team, and being respectful towards someone you disagree with is not a character flaw. He embodied that concept often, most memorably at a town hall prior to the 2008 presidential election when he grabbed the microphone from a supporter who said she couldn’t trust Barack Obama because he was “an Arab.” McCain cut her off, refusing her a platform to spread a lie and went on to defend his opponent, calling him a decent man. Fewer than 10 years later, this basic act of decorum seems completely foreign. It’s hard to imagine the current president demanding the truth and refusing to allow a perceived insult continue. Trump hasn’t even summoned the decency to acknowledge McCain’s legacy or contributions to the country. The president’s response to the senator’s death was an emotionless Tweet and a photo of himself posted to Instagram. Further proof money doesn’t buy class. While reverence in politics has been on the critically endangered list for some time, John McCain’s passing seems to confirm it is now officially extinct. Amy Roberts is a freelance writer, longtime Park City resident and the proud owner of two rescued Dalmatians, Stanley and Willis. Follow her on Twitter @amycroberts. New Equipment is expensive The Park Record’s “Help Wanted” section has the jobs you need to support your gear addiction |