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Show A-2 Wed/Thurs/Fri, May 22-24, 2019 The Park Record 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. 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. To report a missing paper, please call 801–204–6100. 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Rekdal also wanted to tell the various stories of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, and address the lingering effects of its legacy. “I know when I was commissioned to do this, I knew there were a number of politicians who wanted a story about American progress and a return to American greatness,” she said. “But there are other issues that are actually relevant today.” One issue is how the country cast Chinese and Irish railroad workers as “morally inferior, racially suspect and violent,” Rekdal said. “All I had to do was sample some of this language and string the words together so people could hear these attitudes about immigrants and immigration, and how suspicious they were about who wasn’t white,” she said. “These ideals still remain the same today, so something that I thought should be historically distant turned out to be a contemporary set of issues.” Another part of the poem was inspired by a series of questions that were given to the Chinese laborers who were detained at Angel Island in San Francisco after the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882. “Some of these questions were designed to make it impossible for them to get into the country,” Rekdal said. “The act was still in effect 13 years after the railroad was built, so the irony was that the Chinese were initially Continued from A-1 Plans split crowd brary and Park City Mountain Resort. “It would be ideal. Prospector’s probably ideal, too, but I live in a basement apartment right now,” McKenna said. She said the location is the “heart of the town” and she would like to live in a place where she could move about without the use of a personal automobile. “As a teacher, I want to live in the community I work in. ... I want to be part of my community,” McKenna said. She said acquiring a unit in Woodside Park would provide “long-term security for me.” “My future in Park City is up in the air,” she said, adding, “I don’t think I’d be here if affordable housing wasn’t on the table.” Pettise, who lives in Park Meadows, questioned the planned location for the second phase of Woodside Park, meanwhile, pointing to the real estate prices in sought-after Old Town. He said, though, he supports the overarching ideals behind City Hall’s housing programs. “We’re putting in significant density into an area that has high-value properties,” Pettise said. He also questioned the number of units City Hall proposes in the development. Pettise said City Hall acquired the Treasure land in a $64 million conservation deal in an effort to reduce development in Old Town but courted to work on the railroad, and then they were rejected after it was finished. You can easily imagine some of these questions used now for people who are coming up from Central America.” Rekdal was also inspired by an 1893 lecture from historian Frederick Jackson Turner called “The Significance of the Frontier in American History.” “He basically said America’s fascination with the frontier not only made us who we are, but also risked making people who obsess over private liberties at the expense of government control,” she said. “(Turner) essentially said our ideas of freedom would trump the idea of civil responsibility, and that would lead to a spoiled system.” Rekdal also addresses the fact that the railroad isn’t regularly used for traveling. “When it first started, the railroad was touted as a middle-class, and even lower-class, traveling experience,” she said. “But because of the invention of the car and airplane, the Transcontinental Railroad, as a means of travel, has been deemed obsolete, and it’s only there to really ship goods around the country.” Rekdal said poetry is a great way to examine the Transcontinental Railroad because it shows people how they can both agree with and question something. “Maybe more than other literary art form, poetry thrives on complexity,” she said. “You can look at the Transcontinental Railroad and say, ‘What they accomplished was truly stunning’ and at the same time say, ‘There were many problems in how the Transcontinental Railroad treated its workers and how it shaped American progress.’” Paisley Rekdal, Utah’s Poet Laureate, will present her poem “West: A Translation” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 23, at the Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd. For information, visit kimballartcenter.org. follows that move with a substantial project in the neighborhood. “It seems like a little bit of a dichotomy,” he said about the designs for a second phase of Woodside Park. The open house drew approximately 40 people and was the first of two important events during the week regarding the second phase of Woodside Park. The Park City Planning Commission on Wednesday is scheduled to address the project. Hearings and possible votes are slated on Wednesday for three items related to the project. The open house provided an opportunity for people to talk to City Hall staffers shepherding the project through the Planning Commission process and study a model and other visuals. The proposal entails 58 units in a mix of townhouses and condominiums. The land stretches through the 1300 blocks of Empire Avenue, Woodside Avenue and Norfolk Avenue. Park City leaders intend to price the bulk of the units at levels that are considered to be affordable or attainable. Market rates would be attached to five of the units, and the sales of the market-rate units would raise funds for the construction of the overall project. The second phase of Woodside Park is an important project as City Hall continues to pursue a goal of adding 800 units to the workforce or otherwise affordable stock by the end of 2026. Leaders outline what they see as benefits of the housing program, which is designed for people otherwise priced out of Park City’s resort-driven real estate market. The housing reduces commuter traffic and advances socioeconomic diversity, supporters say. City Hall has long pursued workforce or otherwise affordable housing, but the current efforts are especially aggressive. Justice Center leader brings vast experience Ted Walker, recently hired, says child abuse is ‘happening here’ BUBBA BROWN The Park Record Ted Walker has seen firsthand the devastating effects of child abuse. For two decades, he worked for the Division of Child and Family Services, investigating countless child abuse reports, managing foster care cases and providing assessments for children whose situations were being evaluated by the courts. The experience, he said, has given him a deep gratitude for the work of Children’s Justice Centers. The organizations provide safe spaces for children who have been victimized to recount their stories to criminal justice officials in a way that minimizes further trauma. “Kids who have experienced these things already have a traumatic experience that they have been through,” he said. “Making it as comfortable as possible for them and dealing with this process is very important so it doesn’t cause more harm.” Now Walker, a Heber resident, has the opportunity to lead a Children’s Justice Center. He recently took over as director of the Summit County Children’s Justice Center after the previous director, Christie Hind, stepped down last month. Summit County Attorney Margaret Olson lauded Walker’s career-long commitment to helping children and said she is eager to see his vision for the Summit County CJC take shape. She referred to him as a “turnkey director” due to his wealth of experience working with Children’s Justice Centers throughout the state. “He knows everyone in the business,” she said. “Because he is intricately familiar with what each (team) member is supposed to be doing while they’re working at CJC, he is highly qualified to be able to support those team members.” Continued from A-1 March on Normandy the Normandy events in mid-April and has held fundraisers throughout the year to raise money for the trip. The Park City Education Fund donated money to help pay for the band’s instruments to travel with them. The students also pitched in to pay for their travel expenses. Valeny Valles, a junior who plays the flute, says she has been working the past couple years to raise money for the trip. She is excited to travel overseas and perform at a historic venue. The marching band’s first stops during its tour will be at the cemeteries for fallen U.S. soldiers. The band will join the other 17 bands and choirs, including New York Police Department Pipes and Drums, for a mass band arrangement of the song “Hymn to the Fallen.” American composer John Williams wrote the song for the World War II film “Saving Private Ryan.” Hughes said Williams gave permission to the bands to rearrange the song and play it for this sole occasion. The band is set to play in Normandy Walker takes the helm of the organization as it prepares to enter a new chapter. The Summit County CJC hopes to soon move into a standalone facility the Friends of the Children’s Justice Center, a nonprofit that supports the CJC, purchased last fall. The facility, located on Silver Summit Parkway, will be significant upgrade over the CJC’s current home in the Sheldon Richins Building, Walker said. The new location will offer more privacy for children and is much larger than the current one — which will allow the CJC to provide additional programming, such as group therapy sessions. Shepherding the organization through that transition will be especially rewarding because he was involved in the initial discussions a few years ago with former director Melissa McKain about finding a new home for the CJC. He said progress toward reaching that milestone has happened quicker than anyone predicted at that time. “Once we get this done, this is going to be amazing,” Walker said. “It is going to be like a flagship for the state as far as CJCs are concerned.” However, it is unclear when the transition to the new facility will occur. The Friends of Children’s Justice Center is in the middle of a campaign to raise roughly $2.7 million to renovate the new facility and make it operational. The organization has raised approximately $1 million so far. But the effort has been challenging. Walker said it’s often difficult to get people in the community involved because it’s unpleasant to think about the reality of child abuse. Increasing awareness about the CJC in the community is one of his main priorities because child abuse is common, even in idyllic Park City. “It’s not just in Kamas or Coalville,” said Walker, who spent the previous four years investigating cases for the DCFS in Summit and Wasatch counties. “It’s in Park City. It’s in Summit Park and it’s in Jeremy Ranch. It’s happening here. I’ve been to Deer Valley. I’ve been everywhere.” on June 8 in the town of Sainte-MereEglise, where airborne operations took place during the battle. The bands will play in a parade and at the town square. Hughes said the band plans to perform a mix of popular songs, such as “Sir Duke” by Stevie Wonder and “Carry on Wayward Son” by Kansas. He said because it is a global event, they wanted to play music people around the world would recognize. “No matter where you’re from in the world, you’ve probably heard the tune and can probably enjoy it,” he said. “We’re trying to instill the environment of let’s have a good time, let’s celebrate each other and hang out and enjoy what we have.” He said the parade is more “a celebration of freedom,” as compared to the performances at the cemeteries, which are more reverent. Hughes said he is thrilled for the students to visit Normandy and learn more about D-Day. “There is no better way to teach world history than to experience world history,” he said. “Even though our primary subject is music, world history is a real thing that kids need to know.” He said the students who went on the Pearl Harbor trip had a better understanding of the emotional impact of the attack, and he expects the same outcome from this trip. The marching band will also travel to Paris to perform before returning to Park City. Hughes said the band has not yet determined where it will play. YourParkCityAgent.com WHAT MY CLIENTS ARE SAYING “Sheila has gone above and beyond as our real estate agent. We have used her for three real estate transactions and would not hesitate to use her again. She has extensive knowledge of the Park City real estate market, and we have been profitable with every transaction. She even helped us find rental property in between home purchases. Sheila is a great person and we highly recommend her.” -Zillow SIGNS & DESIGN SH E I L A HA L L Associate broker 435.640.7162 | sheila @ sheilahall.com 2200 Park Avenue | Park City, Utah 84060 © 2018 BHH Affiliates, LLC. An independently owned and operated subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate, and a franchisee of BHH Affiliates, LLC. 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