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Phone: 435–649–9014 Fax: 435–649–4942 Email: circulation@parkrecord.com Published every Wednesday and Saturday Continued from A-1 Fire risk could rise going to have wildfires.” Park City Fire District Marshal Mike Owens pointed out the outlook is based on current weather patterns. “If we don’t get the expected moisture, things will change and wildfire risk will increase pretty quick,” Owens wrote in an email. He explained the “below normal” outlook means that there will be times of “extreme fire danger,” but that those times will be shorter than in other years. This time last year, there had already been nearly 50 fire calls, Boyer said, whereas this year that number is eight. The fires have all been caused by humans, with “three or four” related to work on railroads near Echo Canyon. He estimated the county responded to 85 or 90 fire calls last year. The wet weather and relative lack of fires so far might mean the issue isn’t front-of-mind for residents, Boyer said, but it would be a good time to work ahead to lessen a property’s susceptibility to fire. “It’s up to each individual land owner to manage their land and do their part to maintain and mitigate their properties,” Boyer said. He said the weather allows a perfect opportunity for homeowners to harden their homes against fires and establish defensible space that allows firefighters to effectively battle a potential blaze. “Areas that have leaves and needles blowing into them, that’s where embers from wildfires would blow,” he said. In addition to cleaning out those “beds of fuels,” Boyer recommends removing deck furniture, welcome mats and “anything that would be receptive to embers.” The county’s defensible space guidelines are available at co.summit. ut.us/561/Fire-Warden. They call for maintaining a perimeter 30 feet from a Continued from A-1 Ex-official dies beginning in earnest. “She had the professional skill and the foresight,” said Myles Rademan, who was City Hall’s longtime public affairs director after Loble hired him in 1986 as the planning director. “She saw the future.” Rademan recalled delivering a speech at a conference for planners in San Francisco prior to his move to Park City from Crested Butte, Colorado. Loble was in the audience, he said, describing that she later contacted him with the opportunity to become the planning director in Park City. The mid-1980s was a time of economic challenge in Park City and Loble was “very progressive,” he said. “Just make something happen here. ... That was her direction to me,” said Rademan, who started with the municipal government in early 1987. He credited Loble for her role in the creation of a City Hall-controlled redevelopment agency that has been crucial to the growth of the Main Street core. He said she supported the renewal efforts on Main Street as well as the beautification of the street with flower baskets and banners. He said she was a “big cheerleader” for Main Street. Rademan said Loble held an important role in the discussions that led to City Hall selling the land on upper Main Street where the Wasatch Brew Pub was developed, a deal that is still seen as significant to the rise of Main Street in the 1990s. “She really did put this town on the Direct Importer of the World’s Finest Rugs A t t h e H i s t o r i c Vi l l a T h e a t r e 3092 So. Highland Dr., Salt Lake City (801)484-6364 888.445.RUGS (7847) Mon.-Sat. 10 am to 6 pm structure with an “irrigated greenbelt” like a well-watered lawn, thinning trees so their branches are 10 feet off the ground and their crowns are 10-12 feet away from the closest neighboring tree, and removing any dead limbs, leaves or potential fuel sources. Owens urged homeowners to remove all dead and dying vegetation from within five feet of their homes. “It’s a really good year to do things around your home when you have the whole season, the summer months (to work on it),” Boyer said. But this type of landscaping work can be expensive, and the county is working to secure state grant money to help offset some costs for homeowners. It also offers a wood-chipping service to residents, which will start up again June 24. A link to the reservation request form can be found at the fire warden’s website. One of the first steps to securing funding is having a county-wide fire plan, what Boyer called a “50,000-foot-level view” on the current status and needs around the area. Even though he said many state grants are “drying up” and the mandate is coming down to the counties and cities, County Council member Glenn Wright said it’s something the elected officials will look at in budget discussions for the next fiscal year. “Our biggest need is to have people go to people’s houses and give them advice ... about what a firewise guard looks like around their house,” Wright said at a Council meeting earlier this month. He said he’d heard estimates that the effort could take around 10,000 man-hours to accomplish within the county, but he stressed the importance of the issue. Boyer also encouraged local municipalities to complete community fire plans. The warden said he’s approving five to 10 burning permits per day, Monday through Thursday. He asked anyone interested in burning brush or a debris pile to request a permit by a Wednesday, as he does a sweep of site visits across the county on Thursdays. He added that backyard fires in improved fire pits are still allowed as long as they don’t violate rules or laws set by homeowners associations or local municipalities. The county so far has not banned fireworks for the Fourth of July. road (to) success we’re enjoying now,” he said. Another former City Hall staffer who worked under Loble, Jan Scott, recalls her as a “real sharp negotiator.” Scott, hired in 1981, was a clerk, the typist and an administrative assistant before she became the city recorder. “She just had the ability of getting the best out of people, your best potential,” Scott said, adding staffers grew professionally and personally with Loble as the city manager. “You thought you couldn’t do it.” Scott said Loble and the elected officials of that era were aware Park City was poised to grow. She said her moves as the city manager were in preparation for the success of Park City as a mountain resort. “The emergence of Park City Mountain Resort and the plans for Deer Valley mountain resort. I think she anticipated the growth,” she said. Jerry Gibbs, hired by Loble as the public works director in 1983, remembered she took him into Old Town during the interview for the post. She showed him flooding on Daly Avenue as she described the community’s challenges. “I consider her my mentor. She’s the one that taught me, or showed me, how to do a win-win,” Gibbs said. “She showed me you could have a win-win scenario.” He said the municipal government’s shift while Loble was the city manager was critical to Park City successes during her tenure as well as into the 1990s. “We wanted to do more than try to survive to the next ski season. We wanted to be more,” he said. “By her professionalism and leadership, what she was able to do is identify the goals.” A gathering of friends in honor of Loble is scheduled at Café Terigo on Friday from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. Democrats headed to city to pick a leader Convention provides chance to highlight area’s importance JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record Democrats are scheduled to gather in Park City on Saturday for the party’s state convention, heading to one of Utah’s most reliably blue locales as the state’s minority party readies to select a new leader. The state organizing convention is slated for Park City High School starting at 8:30 a.m. and adjourning sometime after noon. The key task involves choosing the next chair of the party. A vice chair will also be selected. The chair of the state’s Democratic Party holds one of the crucial posts in the party apparatus. Although the person does not necessarily need to hold elected political office themselves, they may rally Democrats to mount campaigns and then throw the support of the party behind them. Nobody from Park City or surrounding Summit County is a candidate to become the chair of the party. The Summit County Democratic Party, though, is readying for Saturday nonetheless. Meredith Reed, the chair of the Democratic Party in Summit County, said in an interview relationships could be built with Democrats from elsewhere in the state during the convention. She said she does not hold a specific role in the convention based on her position in the local party. Reed said, though, the decision to hold the event in Park City shows the Democrats are interested in a statewide political effort. “I think the party, overall, is paying attention to the state broadly,” Reed said, noting that having a convention in a place like Park City illustrates the importance of areas outside the Salt Lake Valley to the Democratic strategy. “I do think it reflects the importance of other counties.” She said the discussions at the upcoming convention could be beneficial during the 2020 campaigns, when Continued from A-1 Historian retires will consider in hiring the next historian to ensure the museum remains “viable.” Vernon said she’s been personally assured the county will keep the museum going. She said her biggest fear is betraying the trust that her neighbors placed in her when they gave her their family artifacts. Fisher reiterated the guarantee, saying there are “no budget changes” that would affect the program. “We are going to have a history program, going to have employees around it, going to have a museum, those are going to happen,” Statehouse and congressional seats are on the ballot. Reed explained the conversations that start at the convention could extend toward the election. The talks that will be held on Saturday could be of assistance as Democrats attempt to win Republican-controlled seats, she said. “The communications, conversations you have that continue throughout, not just Saturday,” Reed said. The Park City area has long been a heavily Democratic enclave as it attracted newcomers from the coasts who brought with them their left-leaning values. While the East Side of Summit County is more conservative with a strong Republican presence, the Democrats have made inroads there as well. The current roster of the Summit County Council is 5-0 Democratic. The convention on Saturday is scheduled months before the Democrats will start deciding the party’s presidential candidate and at a time when the Park City Council election, which is nonpartisan, is the key item on the local ballot. But the leader who is selected at the convention is expected to begin work on the 2020 campaign upon taking office. The 2020 election involves the governor’s office as well as the Statehouse and congressional seats. Some of the campaigns have already started while others will likely be launched well before the official beginning next year. The convention starts at 8:30 a.m. with registration for state delegates while the first caucusing session is scheduled at 9 a.m. Opening remarks are slated for noon followed by party business like a report about policies and the platform. The election of the chair, vice chair and other party leaders is set for later in the afternoon. The candidates for chair of the party are: • Daisy Thomas, who is the incumbent • Robert Comstock • Becky Moss • Jeff Merchant More information is available on the party’s website: utahdemocrats. org. Fisher said. While Vernon recognizes the importance of cataloguing the collection, she hopes the next person will be more than just a “scanner.” “You don’t want to lose your history, you don’t want to lose your tradition,” she said. “I want a storyteller.” That might be what the county saw in Vernon when she was hired. She remembers the interview committee being “leery” of her at first, and she was cognizant that she lacked any formal training as a historian. What she did have, though, was an inimitable sense of the history of the place, something she thinks is in her blood. When she was interviewed, she brought with her a photography project her daughter had put together for a college course — it earned an “A,” Vernon said — that focused on the Vernons’ neighbors, a hardworking farming family that had been in the area for generations. She showed the committee the photograph and said, “This is what history is all about: the people.” |