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Show A-16 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, January 5-8, 2019 More dogs on Main TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM SUMMIT COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT AGENDA Summit County Board of Health Meeting AND PUBLIC HEARING January 7, 2019 4:00 – 5:30 PM Summit County Health Department 650 Round Valley Drive Park City, Utah 84060 PUBLIC MEETING 4:00 – 5:30 tems (conventional septic systems) in the proposed Trail Ridge Subdivision, near Wanship, Utah. • Welcome and Approval of Minutes (All, 4:00 - 4:05) • GENERAL Public Comment (4:05 - 4:10) • Directors Report (Rich, 4:10 - 4:20) • Chair Elect Discussion and Possible Action (4:20 4:30) • Introduction (Rich Bullough) • Proposed Project (Gus Sharry, Brett Hollberg) • Health Department Decision (Phil Bondurant) • Public Comment and Potential Witness Presentations • Board of Health Discussion • Possible Action by Board of Health To view Appeal: https://summitcountyhealth.org/public-a nnouncements/public-hearing-notice-1-7-19/ PUBLIC HEARING 4:30 – 5:30 • Discussion and possible action concerning an appeal of denial of a proposed 26 individual wastewater sys- • Adjourn Notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission will meet in regular session Tuesday, January 8, 2019 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. Regular Session 1. Public input for items not on the agenda or pending applications. 2. Public hearing and possible action regarding a Plat Amendment to amend the platted building envelope on Lot 20 of the Trails at Jeremy Ranch Subdivision; 8682 N Trails Dr; TJR-20; Jamie Brotherton, applicant. – Sean Lewis, County Planner 3. Approval of minutes: October 9, 2018 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, January 4, 2019 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: January 4, 2019 Published: January 5, 2019 – The Park Record Romney blasts Trump on his way into Washington Pundits hope he can lead GOP ‘Resistance’ KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and incoming Utah senator, has quickly set himself apart from other Republicans in the new Congress with a blistering attack on President Donald Trump’s leadership and character. Romney put to rest expectations that he would take his time getting his footing in Washington. Instead, in a Washington Post column published two days before Romney was sworn into office, he said Trump’s “conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions last month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office.” Trump, in a Twitter response, said he hoped Romney wouldn’t follow in the footsteps of Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who often criticized Trump and paid the price, opting to retire rather than risk defeat in a GOP primary in 2018. “Would much prefer that Mitt focus on Border Security and so many other things where he can be helpful,” Trump tweeted. “I won big, and he didn’t. He should be happy for all Republicans. Be a TEAM player & WIN!” Romney’s remarks prompted swift backlash from allies of the president in the Republican Party — including his own niece, Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee. McDaniel retweeted Trump’s remarks about Romney and added that the president is constantly “attacked and obstructed” by the media and Democrats. “For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack” Trump @realdonaldtrump as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive,” McDaniel tweeted. GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said the 2020 election hopes of many Republicans in the Senate and House will be tied to Trump. He said that the criticisms were bad for the Republican Party and made it harder to get things done in the Senate. “I don’t think the president deserves a new senator coming in attacking his character,” Paul said. Romney will be sworn in as a senator on Thursday. By taking on Trump so early in his Senate career, Romney could be picking up where Flake and Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., another retiring senator, left off. Their retirements left some wondering whether any other Republicans would be willing to publicly criticize the president. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., noted that almost half the Senate Republicans are up for re-election in 2020 and some may feel the need to push back against Trump. “They just saw what happened in 2018,” Durbin said, referring to Republicans losing the House majority in November. “I think, once they do polling back home, not all of them but many of them will find that independence is being rewarded.” Romney has had his public run-ins with the president before and tried to prevent him from winning the GOP nomination in 2016. In one speech, Romney said there was plenty of evidence that Trump was “a con man, a fake.” In that same speech, he said, “Dishonesty is Donald Trump’s hallmark.” But after the presidential election, Romney eased off the criticism and interviewed to become Trump’s secretary of state. Trump picked former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who lasted about 14 months before Trump fired him. During his Senate campaign, Romney insisted that he would agree with Trump on some issues and not be shy about disagreeing with him on others. Romney appears to have more room with GOP voters in Utah to take on the president. More than half the voters in the state, 64 percent, would like to see Romney confront the president, according to data from AP VoteCast, a survey of midterm voters. Romney, in his opinion column, credited Trump for cutting corporate taxes, stripping out what he described as excessive regulation and appointing conservative judges. But he said policies and appointments are only part of being a president. A president, Romney wrote, must also demonstrate honesty and integrity and elevate the national discourse. “With the nation so divided, resentful and angry, presidential leadership in qualities of character is indispensable. And it is in this province where the incumbent’s shortfall has been most glaring,” Romney wrote. Trump said during a Cabinet meeting Wednesday that he was surprised by Romney’s comments. “People are very upset with what he did,” Trump said. He also referenced Romney’s 2012 election loss to President Barack Obama. “If he fought the way he fights me, I’m telling you, he would have won the election,” Trump said. Romney later told CNN that there “are places where we agree on a whole series of policy fronts, but there are places that I think the president can, if you will, elevate his game and do a better job to help bring us together as a nation.” Asked if we would endorse Trump for president in 2020, Romney said, “I’m going to wait and see what the alternatives are.” Romney ruled out another run himself: “You may have heard, I ran before,” he said. Some Trump critics within the GOP are hopeful that Romney’s comments are a sign of more to come from Republicans. Conservative commentator Bill Kristol tweeted that Romney’s words confirmed that “Trump’s dominance over the GOP, pretty complete until now, can no longer be taken for granted.” “For now at least Mitt Romney has become the leader of the Republican Resistance to Trump,” Kristol said. By Tom Clyde 2019 off to a great (cold) start On the morning of New Year’s Day, it was -20 degrees Fahrenheit at my house. That’s cold enough that our old farmhand would have briefly considered turning the ear flaps down on his Elmer Fudd hat. Stouter stuff than me. There are a million reasons to celebrate being out of the cattle business, but not having to go feed a herd of very cold, very hungry cattle when it’s that temperature is near the top of the list. Nothing really works when it’s that cold. Even with a block heater on the engine, the big 4x4 tractor we used to feed with was reluctant to start. The hydraulic fluid was extra thick, and it had to sit there and warm up for a long time before the steering would work. My cousins, who are far more involved in the livestock end of things than I ever was, had to help their father get the cattle fed early enough in the morning that they could gulp a little breakfast and catch the school bus. There was no lounging about until the sun came up. We were out of the dairy business before I can really remember, but I can imagine looking at the thermometer reading -20 at 5:00 a.m. and knowing that you had to get 120 cows milked. I suppose the heat of the cows themselves might have made the barn bearable, but not much more than that. My Dad always used to get antsy on a morning that cold. Instead of waiting for things to warm up slightly, he would worry about his car starting. So he’d go out just after sunrise and grind away at it until the battery was dead. I always thought he could wait a few hours to give it a fighting chance. After killing several options, eventually something would start, and he would jump the rest of them. A little patience would have solved a lot of that, but if you were looking for patience, Dad was not the place to go. On mornings like that, the neighbor with the longest set of jumper cables is very popular. Nobody ever thinks about parking so the battery is easily reached. It seems like car batteries are better now, or at least less temperamental. A lot of the old farm machinery was 6-volt rather than 12, and it all became hard to start if got cloudy, let alone cold, outside. Even with a block heater, it was always a challenge to start the old 6-volt stuff. My sister and all her kids had several cars parked outside, and everything fired up. There are all the little hacks you figure out, even with a new A bald eagle was shivering in a tree across the river, and the willow branches were all coated with a fine frost.” and well-insulated house. Leave the cupboard doors open on the cabinets under the sinks. That way the heat can get to the pipes, especially if they are on an outside wall. Close the garage door. Seal up any cracks around the hose bibs, because if the wind blows in, the cold will penetrate like a pipe-bursting laser. And there are nights when you just leave the tap dripping. It’s become something of a New Year’s tradition next door at the old family house to have the furnace fail. The furnace is relatively new, and most years, it chugs along fine. But every couple of years there’s a little doohickey that gets soot built up on it, and that tells the brain of the furnace that the gas has gone off, and it all shuts down. Always after everybody has gone to bed, so they wake up freezing. This year it was a little rubber hose that had become clogged and split. I never could tell if it was supposed to drain water out, or provide vacuum on some sensor, but it was shot. My nephew MacGuyvered up a replacement out of several multi-colored, twisty plastic straws (Mickey Mouse ears) and electrical tape that brought it back to life. I guess the good news is that it happens when they are there. The house is vacant a lot of the time, and if the furnace craps out when they aren’t there, it’s a problem. They have a system that alerts them if the temperature drops too low, but by that time, it may be too late. On that -20 morning, the dogs were determined to get out for their walk. I bundled up and we walked along the riverbank just after sunrise. A bald eagle was shivering in a tree across the river, and the willow branches were all coated with a fine frost. The ice dams in the river had created rapids and little water falls. It was a breathtakingly beautiful morning. For breakfast, I polished off a double serving of leftover cheesecake. The breakfast of champions, and a perfect start to a new year. 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 With gratitude... This holiday season has been elastic, suspended and extended in a surreal manner. In part — it is how the holidays fell — on Tuesdays — the weekends were ramp-ups of activities and the weekdays — before and after — anticipation and recovery days rolled together. Christmas morning was cold and snowy and started with neighbors knocking on my door. Bright-faced children with a handwritten card — a drawing of my house (and a squiggly arrow pointing at the purple scribbles with a roof saying — “your house.”) They also brought warm monkey bread. Later we were drinking stars — as monks long ago declared of champagne — and we were walking back and forth between multiple homes with warm fires and the laughter of generations. Living in the same home since 1980 I have seen couples move in who became families. Families grow up to make families of their own. We have shared the struggle of life-threatening illnesses and the joy of graduations and understood careers that have dipped and taken wings. I am the oldest living person in my neighborhood — a distinction that surprises me and fills me with gratitude. One house in our cul-de-sac is owned by a family who lives here only part time. Work took them to Southern California and they managed to keep their Park City home as a haven. They hosted one of the gatherings and the best part was seeing all the young adults who had not so long ago been small children in my yard, hugging and catching up in person. We all are connected online. From New York to Portland to travels in Europe and Indonesia. We journey together and stay connected in electronic ways — so when we are in person there is a shared shorthand. Later in the week a young couple who grew up here (I have known the young man all of his life) were home for a few days. They stopped over and we caught up on the changes they were planning. Leaving their jobs in Colorado at the end of June and launching themselves into Canada. They have no children so making a move, being vagabonds for a spell, is something they can do. They are so in love and so kind to each other and funny and wise beyond their years. And they let me tell some stories and we remembered some people we had loved who have passed on and we toasted a new year. This strange elongated holiday season has been filled with treats. Like coming home from gathering the preparations for Christmas Eve, I discovered neighbors had dropped off firewood. And homemade legendary peanut brittle — I knew without a note which couple had been so kind. There was a bag Christmas I understand the town is changing. I get the whole ... “change is inevitable.” But there are some frozen days I keep close and hold precious and this holiday season has been filled with an abundance of them.” morning with bubble bath and books, new socks and chocolates on the front porch. One neighbor plowed my driveway and another pulled my garbage can in when I was at work. The bird feeder knocked off the tree by a moose was magically returned to a spot much higher up than I could have reached on my own. I understand the town is changing — fast now. In Old Town I am told 72 percent is owned by folks out of state. In my little flat Park Meadows neighborhood of funky old homes — we are 63 percent out-of-state people. Even Prospector Square is at the 50 percent tipping point. In our wildest dreams in the ’70s nobody ever thought there would days where so many skiers would be here that at the end of the school day/ski day there would be more cars than could move through a single stoplight cycle — because there was only one stoplight then anyway. I remember in the late ’70s and ’80s how we would say of the miners’ widows — why didn’t they just cash out and sell their homes and start over and not struggle? Move to the valley or ... anywhere. And I interviewed a bunch of those widows. To a per- son they said, “Because this is my home. And my friends live here. I don’t want to be anywhere else.” I better understand those widows’ words now. I find I need more quiet more often. Big swaths of quiet. Like the snow fields connecting of our yards. Where white crosses fence lines and property lines and kids and dogs easily move in a free range fashion. Where the bare branch trees cast afternoon shadows and animal prints become visible in the crusty snow. I love living here. Right here — in this small house with big windows and strong light and filtered views of the mountains. I love the crashing through the trees on occasion by the moose. I love the birds that stay for a spell at the feeders and sing. I love the quiet street with the folks who walk dogs and the couple — about my age — who walk the neighborhood almost every day, holding hands and having conversations like they are newlyweds. I understand the town is changing. I get the whole ... “change is inevitable.” But there are some frozen days I keep close and hold precious and this holiday season has been filled with an abundance of them. About a year ago one of the culde-sac clan put their home on the market. They thought moving in the county would be better for the kids — more space, more friends. When I saw the sign come down on their house I feared they had found a buyer. Instead I learned they had decided to stay. I sent a text to confirm and the reply came... Park Meadows subdivision one for life — its like a gang only cooler... I responded Tribe — people love tribe = lose the gang — so retro. Dropped like a bad habit TribePM1. For now they tolerate The Old Broad and I delight in their many kindnesses. This holiday season is filled with gratitude — enough to extend long beyond this 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. |