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Show A-2 Wed/Thurs/Fri, May 15-17, 2019 The Park Record Runoff weather is ‘near-perfect,’ so far The Park Record. Serving Summit County since 1880 The Park Record, Park City’s No. 1 source for local news, opinion and advertising, is available for home delivery in Summit, Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis and Utah counties. Single copies are also available at 116 locations throughout Park City, Heber City, Summit County and Salt Lake City. Flooding not expected, but sandbags ready as the melting continues JAY HAMBURGER SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Summit County (home delivery): $56 per year (includes Sunday editions of The Salt Lake Tribune) Outside Summit County (home delivery available in Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis, Weber and Utah counties; all other addresses will be mailed via the U.S. Postal Service): $80 per year To subscribe please call 435–649– 9014 or visit www.parkrecord.com and click the Subscribe link in the Reader Tools section of the toolbar at the bottom of the page. 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Phone: 435–649–9014 Fax: 435–649–4942 Email: circulation@parkrecord.com Published every Wednesday and Saturday The Park Record GABRIEL CHRISTUS/ESPN IMAGES Harrisburg and Utah pose for a group photo after competing in Overwatch at the inaugural ESPN Collegiate Esports Championship on Sunday. Continued from A-1 The screen is the field naut steadily invests more in esports, the tournament represented the biggest spotlight the team has garnered so far. It was a chance for Johnson and the Utes to prove an established college sports brand could hang with the best in a sport that isn’t played on turf, hardwood or balance beams. Dimick said he was “amazingly proud” of how the Overwatch team fared. The coaching staff is essential to the program’s success in Overwatch, a first-person shooter where two teams of six face off to attack and defend objectives. The Utes are one of the top Overwatch teams in the PACG, an esports league roughly equivalent to the Pac12 in the NCAA. “I think we’re an extraordinary lucky team to have their services here,” Dimick said. While they’d made the quarterfinals of a similar online tournament last year, this time the Utes found themselves on a stage that was magnitudes of order larger than anything the Utah varsity esports program has occupied before. Live on two of the highest profile channels on Twitch, a gaming-focused streaming platform, competed on the same stage as their opponents in front of an audience at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston (not to mention thousands of viewers spread between the Blizzard and ESPN Esports channels). Dimick, who formerly worked in Continued from A-1 Doilney campaigns He said most people in Park City have “appreciated” the growth of the community but said the changes “can be good or bad.” “I think the transition has always been an adjustment,” Doilney said. Doilney has not finalized a platform but outlined several broad topics he plans to address during the campaign. He said firm plans are needed to address traffic. He also said he intends to offer ideas about housing. He said The Corner Store and Corner Sports employ a combined 40 to 50 people as he spoke about the need for a housing program. Doilney said he supports City Hall’s current housing efforts, which include significant development by the municipality. Doilney also said he wants restricted Direct Importer of the World’s Finest Rugs sports media, said watching the Utes walk onstage at an ESPN-produced event, clad in the Utes’ crimson and white jerseys and with the requisite commentary and entrance music was a “dream come true.” In an inversion of the usual narrative that accompanies national college sports competitions in the spring, Utah was a major underdog against Harrisburg. In the nascent college esports scene, small, STEM-focused universities like Harrisburg have had more readily available resources to develop top-flight programs. The Pac-12’s Utah and Big Ten’s Rutgers, the only two teams representing traditional NCAA power conferences in the tournament, found themselves the outsiders. “There were long odds, and the resources (Harrisburg) has garnered are considerable,” Dimick said. “This was a call to arms of what we can do here if we allocate more resources for esports; we can be a national leader.” Unfortunately for the Utes and the Scarlet Knights, who maintain a relationship as sparring partners, one had to go in the first round of the tournament. The Utes shut out their friendly rivals 3-0 before besting Orange Coast College out of Costa Mesa, California, in the semifinal, 3-0. In the final, Utah managed to stretch out the match against the Storm, who had traveled from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to four rounds before falling 3-1. Johnson, who lives in Salt Lake City and works in property management in Park City, said he wants to continue having a role in building Utah’s ambitious varsity esports program, which university officials hope, one day, will compete in a yet-unorganized NCAA esports league. “I would prefer to stick around here and grow things and try and see this program become a lot bigger than just me and the people around here,” Johnson said. housing developed concurrently with the eventual construction on the parking lots at PCMR as well as alongside other large projects. Doilney’s business interests at the Resort Center are especially notable at a time when major development of the PCMR parking lots by PEG Companies is envisioned. Some could see a project by PEG Companies as competing against the businesses at the Resort Center while others may anticipate a boost in business that could stretch from the new development to the Resort Center. It is not clear what role the City Council will eventually have as PEG Companies approaches City Hall with the development plans. The filing window when candidates must submit campaign paperwork does not open until June 3. It runs until June 7. Three City Council seats — those held by Worel, Becca Gerber and Lynn Ware Peek — are on the ballot. Ware Peek is not seeking a full first term while Gerber has not made public her intentions. Someone must be a U.S. citizen, a registered voter in the Park City limits and have lived in Park City for a minimum of 12 straight months prior to Election Day to be eligible to run for a City Council seat. Park City officials said in a report released this week flooding is not expected inside the city even as they continue to monitor waterways through the season of melting snow. The snowpack in the Park City area remains well above average after storms that stretched through much of the winter and then into the spring. City Hall has been concerned about the possibility of flooding since the snow started to pile up in mid-winter. A City Hall report drafted in anticipation of a Park City Council meeting on Thursday indicates the forecast at the beginning of May called for “near-perfect runoff conditions with no big warmups forecast.” It says the National Weather Service “is tracking favorable patterns with a general warming trend and cooling at night.” “Consistent with rising spring temperatures, we may start to see increased runoff levels and flow rates, but while water levels and runoff rates may increase, based on currently available information, rivers should stay well within Continued from A-1 Bronze will honor miner orated as the price of the precious metal declined sharply, leading to Park City’s resurgence through the ski industry. Martinez more than any other miner eventually came to represent the link to that era as he told stories of his days in the mines and continued to be one of the highlights of the Miners Day cel- Continued from A-1 Assessor nominated said, citing what she described as the office’s drawn-out transition to becoming paperless as one example. “... I like progressive, forward-thinking attitudes in doing the work.” One of the first initiatives Larsen plans to pursue is creating redundancy in job duties within the department. She said she wants to avoid asking a residents to come back in at another time because the person who performs the needed functions is out of the office. “I would like to take a two-deep to three-deep mandatory on every function in the office so that no matter what kind of turnover we may have, vacations or people quitting and doing other things, we have that continuity,” she said. Larsen also intends to implement auditing and quality control processes in tracking new growth and permits, as well as land guidelines to ensure appraisers are keeping up with increases in land values. Additionally, she wants to address discrepancies in valuations in certain areas of the county. their banks,” the report, drafted by Mike McComb, who is the emergency program manager at City Hall, and Troy Dayley, the public works manager, says. The report says the snowpack does not foretell imminent flooding. The update to the elected officials is similar to one drafted by City Hall staffers in late April. The most recent report indicates the water levels in McLeod Creek, East Canyon Creek and Silver Creek between April 29 and May 6 were not approaching flood stage. City Hall staffers are monitoring 27 locations for flooding, inspecting them twice daily during the runoff. The report says there have not been significant amounts of debris found during the inspections. Debris in the waterways potentially could cause backups that could send the water over the banks. The report says homeowners and people who own businesses can inspect ditches and remove debris “that might impede flow as well as removing rocks that they may have placed to make water features until end of spring runoff.” Park City has readied sandbags that are available to residents. A resident may obtain 25 filled sandbags per address without charge. They can fill additional sandbags with sand and bags provided for free. The sandbags are available at the Public Works Building, 1053 Iron Horse Drive. For more information, call 615-5320. ebrations. He was known as the Ol’ Miner. A statue honoring Martinez will be another reminder of Park City’s silver mining legacy, a time that the community’s influential preservation community and tourism boosters have long highlighted. There are numerous remnants of the mining era in Park City and in the surrounding mountains marked with informational plaques. Some, like the mining-era towers along the route of the Town Lift, are highly recognizable while others must be sought out. A statue will also continue to advance City Hall’s public art program. The municipal government has placed artworks across Park City, with notable pieces along Main Street and along the S.R. 224 entryway. “I think we have some low areas and we just need to become equitable throughout the county,” she said. Among the three other candidates who sought the position was Travis Lewis, who served as the deputy assessor under Martin and is currently the interim department head. She said Lewis also has an in-depth knowledge of property valuation and the inner workings of the department but that, in her view, her experience working in Morgan County gives her an outsider’s perspective that will be critical in reshaping the office. “Sometimes, when we’ve always done what we’ve always done, we just continue to do that,” she said. “And I wondered if (Lewis) went unchallenged, would we just continue on for another however many years doing those same processes. I really thought I could give a boost to changing some of those things.” Martin, 71, announced his resignation in April, citing a desire to travel and spend more time with his family. He also indicated it was time for someone better able to adapt to changing technology to helm the office. Since Martin is a Democrat, the Summit County Democratic Party had the responsibility of choosing a successor and forwarding the selection to the County Council for final approval. 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