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Show C-1 B-1 BRING SOME DOUGH TO FARMER’S MARKET REMEMBRANCE RIDE: LATE CYCLIST HONORED Check out our restaurant guide on page B-6 for places to dine. Learn more at bit.ly/eatpc COLUMNS, A-8 JAY MEEHAN SEES SOMETHING AFOOT IN THE RED ROCK WAY WE WERE, A-7 A PARK CITY SCENE STRAIGHT OUT OF THE MOVIES RESTAURANT GUIDE Park Record. The PA R K C I T Y, U TA H | W W W. PA R K R E C O R D . C O M Wed/Thurs/Fri, June 19-21, 2019 Serving Summit County since 1880 Vol. 139 | No. 39 50¢ Field becomes part of folklore Sundance says it will dissolve board in Utah Institute plans to seat a similar panel to work with communities involved with the festival JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Danzas Chile performs Chilean folklore dances Saturday during the Latino Arts Festival at the Library Field. The annual festival celebrates Latin American cultures through dancing, music, food and the visual arts. Fire season starts with little threat A former city manager dies The conditions could deteriorate in a hot, dry stretch of weather JAY HAMBURGER ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record Fire officials around Summit County are cautiously optimistic about the outlook for this fire season, but say things could change with one extended hot, dry spell. Tyler Rowser, a spokesperson for the North Summit Fire District, said the county is in good shape so far. “Everything’s still green, we’re still very lucky,” Rowser said. “The grasses are our fine fuels (and it) doesn’t take them very long to dry out. Once the moisture goes away, it can dry out very quickly.” The county’s fire warden, Bryce Boyer, said this wildfire season looks to be about average or below average, but cautioned about the low level of confidence in projections that reach into the summer. Fire season typically stretches from June to October, with things ramping up in the hotter months of July and August. But Rowser said there have been recent years when there have been fires as late as November. “Fire seasons, I don’t think there is a normal for them anymore,” Rowser said. Though things are green now, he said “we’re not not Please see Fire risk, A-2 3 sections • 30 pages Classifieds .............................. C-8 Columns ................................. A-8 Crossword .............................. C-4 Editorial.................................. A-9 Events Calendar ..................... C-6 Legals ................................... C-11 Letters to the Editor ............... A-9 Restaurant Guide.................... B-6 Scene ...................................... C-1 Scoreboard ............................. B-5 Sports ..................................... B-1 Weather .................................. B-2 Arlene Loble served during a time of transition in the ’80s, introduced professionalism The Park Record Arlene Loble arrived in Park City in 1980, a time when it was clear the ski industry would drive the economy after the decades of economic doldrums in the post-silver mining era. Loble moved to the community to accept the city manager post, putting her in a key office that was to shape Park City as it attempted to become a world-renowned mountain resort. Loble, who died recently, served as the city manager from 1980 until 1989, a pivotal stretch that prepared Park City for the boom years that would follow in the 1990s. She later became the city manager of Wilsonville, Oregon, and served there from 1991 until she retired in 2010. Loble left Park City prior to the arrival of many Parkites, but figures from her tenure as the city manager praised her as being a strong leader at a time of great transition. They credited her with essentially introducing a level of COURTESY OF THE CITY OF professionalism to the WILSONVILLE, OREGON municipal government Arlene Loble served as that was needed as the the Park City manager in growth challenges were the 1980s. Please see Ex-official, A-2 The Sundance Institute, the organizer of the namesake film festival in Park City each January, said on Tuesday it will dissolve the Utah Advisory Board, a panel designed to represent the diverse set of interests in the state, and replace it with another panel that will apparently have similar duties. The institute provided a prepared statement credited to Betsy Wallace, the managing director and chief financial officer of Sundance, announcing the change. “As Sundance Institute nears our 40th anniversary, we are working to position the institute, and our partnership with the state of Utah and the cities and counties in which we live and work, for sustainable success well into the future. To that end, in line with best governance practices, we’ll be forming a new Advisory Council specifically to advise and support the institute’s work in and with the state of Utah, which will replace the existing Utah Advisory Board,” the statement said. According to the statement, the Advisory Council will tap local governments as well as advocacy organizations as the roster is crafted. The statement said an unspecified number of the current members of the Utah Advisory Board will be named to the Advisory Council. “This Advisory Council will continue to strengthen our ties to our communities throughout the region, as we continue to evolve the Institute and our partnership with the state of Utah. Sundance Institute has been proud to call Utah our home for over 30 years and we look forward to continuing to work with the state, and our friends and neighbors within it, with continued shared success well into the future,” the statement said. The Utah Advisory Board meets several times each year and addresses issues like the economic impact of the festival, Sundance’s community outreach efforts and government relations. The Utah Advisory Board roster includes a number of well-known people with ties to Park City. Diane Foster, the Park City manager, is an ex-officio member, while Summit County Councilor Chris Robinson is also an ex-officio member. Others with local ties include Nancy Garrison, Katie Eldridge, Coleen Reardon and Rhonda Sideris. Retirement follows a historic county career NaVee Vernon created museum documenting area’s heritage ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record In the old part of the Summit County Courthouse, across from the county manager’s office, there is a flight of stairs that leads to the county’s history. The dozen or so basement rooms that make up the Summit County Historical Museum are chock-full of exhibits highlighting the pioneer heritage of the area, with displays on historical industries, influential residents and the history of the area’s municipalities. NaVee Vernon created the museum in her role as the Summit County historian, which she held for 15 years before retiring in March. “I can get bored in museums faster than anyone,” Vernon said. “That’s why I like this one: It’s not boring.” The museum is nearly bursting at the seams, with exhibits working their way up the stairs and into every closet but one, which Vernon has been trying to pry from the mainte- nance staff for years. “I’d still be fighting him for it, too” Vernon said. County Manager Tom Fisher lauded Vernon’s efforts and called her experience “irreplaceable.” “NaVee did just a spectacular job documenting agricultural history, pioneer history — the history of Summit County,” Fisher said. When she got the job in 2003, the Courthouse basement was the dusty home to storage space and a few offices. Three months later, in time for the county’s 150th anniversary, Vernon had moved in some artifacts from her own collection and had started receiving donations from around the community. “Everyone was so generous,” Vernon recalled. It’s no coincidence the community rallied to help Vernon start the museum. She was born and raised in Coalville and her great-great-grandfather William Henderson Smith was one of the city’s founders. Vernon said she was able to put together a museum in two or three basement rooms in time for the 150th birthday party in January 2004, which she also helped plan. Over the years, the museum has grown and grown, and Vernon said she’s never ALEXANDER CRAMER/PARK RECORD NaVee Vernon pages through photographs of historical sites around the county. She knows the next county historian will have to focus on cataloguing and digitizing the collection she helped amass, but Vernon hopes her successor will still be a storyteller and not just a “scanner.” refused a donation. “I didn’t know where to put it all,” Vernon said, but she found a way to make do. “I’m one of those people who just tears into things,” Vernon said. “Sometimes I don’t even measure.” That might put pressure on Vernon’s successor, whom the county VISITOR GUIDE ‘The Architecture of Life’ on display at the Park City Library has yet to hire. Fisher said over the past 15 years, the museum has accumulated a “vast” collection of artifacts, pictures and documents that in many cases are not archived, catalogued or digitized. That’s one of the factors the county Please see Historian, A-2 PC Talks: “The Architecture of Life,” will feature three speakers about finding love over worry, building experiences and finding oneself at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 20, at the Park City Library’s Santy Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. |