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Show A-4 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, December 15-18, 2018 Try the transit system We're serving up high 5s for après ski 5 for $5 at 5 • Slider Crab Cake, Asian,Veggie, Meatball • Steak Fries • ½ Wedge Salad • Loaded Mac & Cheese • Sushi Rolls Hoso Maki, Spicy Roll, Handroll Try all 5 or just a few. Each item is only $5 from 5-6 p.m. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Park City plans to mark Try Transit Week from Monday until Friday, a stretch just before the holidays when the bus system is expected to become more crowded. The city’s elected officials will participate and riders could win prizes like gift cards for restaurants and coffee shops as well as lift tickets. Park City has long touted its fare-free bus system as a benefit for Parkites and visitors. The system reduces traffic and provides environmental benefits, officials say. The Old Town transit center, shown, anchors the system. Continued from A-3 435-649-5900 | 1765 Sidewinder Drive | LespriPrime.com Cemetery honored “Keeping it so that we can maintain the story of Park City appropriately,” Erickson said about the maintenance work at the cemetery. Erickson is also the planning director at City Hall. Erickson said the earliest burials at the Glenwood Cemetery date to the mid-1880s. Someone must still generally be a member of a local fraternal organization dating to the mining era to be eligible for burial. Approximately 900 people are buried in the 5-acre Glenwood Cemetery. Erickson said the cemetery is not aware of burials on approximately one-half of the grounds. He said the cemetery remains “very selective” when considering burial locations based on the historic nature of the grounds. He said the Glenwood Cemetery requires a body be cremated before burial in an effort to preserve space. Anya Grahn, the senior historic district planner at City Hall, described the cemetery as a “really good example of stewardship.” She said the Glenwood Cemetery in the 1960s and 1970s, a time when Park City suffered a downturn as the mining industry faltered, fell into a state of disrepair. She said vandals targeted the cemetery during those years and the grounds became overgrown. The restoration started in the 1980s. The Park City Historical Society acquired the cemetery in 2016 with the Glenwood Cemetery Committee still maintaining the cemetery, according to a City Hall report prepared in anticipation of the recent Historic Preservation Board meeting. The report says the bodies of Parkites were frequently brought to Salt Lake City in the years after Park City was settled since there was not a local cemetery. The trip to Salt Lake City, though, was difficult in those days, influencing the fraternal organizations to acquire the land for the cemetery, according to the City Hall research. The Glenwood Cemetery is the final resting place for some of the people described in the report as “Park City’s first families.” “Following World War I, as mines began to decline, the fraternal organizations lost members. Many of the fraternities dissolved or moved away, leaving no one to care for the cemetery,” the Grahn-authored report says. “By 1950, the cemetery was in severe decline. Many of the headstones were deteriorating while vandalism ruined many others.” Park City leaders, the influential preservation community and tourism boosters have long seen the silver-mining history as something that sets the city apart from many other competitors. The mining history has long been part of tourism promotion and the historic buildings and other pieces left from the era draw the attention of skiers, hikers and bicyclists. The Historic Preservation Board at the same time of the Glenwood Cemetery selection honored four other historic locations that will be honored with plaques. They are: • the Little Bell Ore Bin, located in Empire Canyon and dating to 1910, according to the City Hall report. It was associated with a mill, the research shows. • the Jupiter Mine Ore Bin, a location that is now on the Park City Mountain Resort acreage. • the location of the Alliance Mine in Empire Canyon “People Banking With People” Our Gift Cards Make Giving Easy Our Special Gift Card: • Can be replaced if lost • Has online access • Is on everyone’s Christmas list 1225 Deer Valley Dr. Park City 435-615-2265 DON’T WASTE TIME SHOPPING There is a one-time processing fee of $5 at the time of purchase. After 12 months of no activity there is a $10 monthly maintenance fee. The lost card replacement fee is $10. Maximum load value is $750. grandvalleybank.com BUY YOUR GIFT CARD ONLINE |