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Show A-18 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, August 24-27, 2019 The Park Record Meetings and agendas sunday in the Park TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM By Teri Orr Dead Parents Society Notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission will meet in regular session Tuesday August 27, 2019 Location: Sheldon Richins Building – Auditorium, 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 Silver Creek Village Center Preliminary Subdivision Plat for Lot 16; 6539 Mountain Alder Way, Parcel SCVC-16; Matt Lowe, applicant – Jennifer Strader, Senior Planner 3. ***This Public Hearing has been cancelled and will be rescheduled on a future meeting*** Public hearing and possible action regarding Silver Creek Village Center Final Site Plan and Preliminary Subdivision Plat for Lots 13, 15, and 16; 6512 Serviceberry Drive, 1326 Gambel Oak Way, & 6529 Mountain Alder Way; Parcels SCVC-13, SCVC-15, & SCVC-16; C. W. Land, applicant – Jennifer Strader, Senior Planner 4. Public hearing and possible action regarding Silver Creek Village Center Final Site Plan for Lot 2 of the Lot 9 Subdivision; 6600 Mountain Alder Way, SCVC-9-2; Mountain Community Housing Trust, applicant - Jennifer Strader, Senior Planner 5. Public hearing and possible action regarding separate plat amendments to both the Silver Creek Center Condominium Plat and the Silver Creek Business Park Subdivision Plat; 6413 N Business Park Loop Road; Parcel SLVCC (Common Area Amenity Parcel) SCBP-4-AM; South Summit School District, applicant – Sean Lewis, AICP, County Planner 6. Public hearing regarding potential amendments to Sections 10-2 Zoning Districts and Development of the Snyderville Basin Development Code to create a Neighborhood Mixed Use (NMU-1) Zoning District; Marketplace at Silver Creek, applicant – Ray Milliner, Principal Planner 7. Approval of minutes: April 23, 2019 Work Session 1. Discussion regarding amendments to the Snyderville Basin Development Code for a possible creation of a Master Plan Development Process – Ray Milliner, Principal Planner 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, August 23, 2019 please visit: www.summitcounty.org Individuals needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Vicki Geary, Summit County Community Development Department, at (435) 336-3123. Continued from A-17 Mountain Town Nicole Bjornlie, a non-game mammal biologist with the Wyoming Game and Fish, told the newspaper’s Tom Hallberg. “Rabies is pretty rare, but we do get some cases that pop up,” she said. “It’s is really odd that they both involved bats falling out of trees.” About 0.5% of wild bats have rabies. But there’s also this: two rabid bats were found in Teton County in 2017, and one of them bit a person. One of the victims this year, Ashley Pipkin, reacted as most of us would. She was sitting around a campfire when the bat either fell from a tree or flew onto her neck in the dark. She grabbed it, then the bat bit her. As it so happened, one of her friends —it was a group of biologists – had the rabies vaccine. They put the bat into a lunch box and took it to a lab, where it was tested positive. She is now going through a month-long regimen of four or five rabies shots. Being bit by a rabid animal used to require 20 shots in the stomach, but in the last several decades easier, if still uncomfortable, shots in the arms have proven effective. More on the terror of wolf attack on campers LAKE LOUISE, Alberta – A necropsy confirmed that the wolf that wolf that attacked campers near Lake Louise recently was in poor health, although not suffering from rabies. The wolf was shot soon after it started sniffing around a tent containing Matt Rispoli and his wife and three children. Unsure of what it was, Matt pushed on the fabric of the tent to try and scare the animal away. The wolf then broke through the tent and bit him. What happened next was revealed by Elisa Rispoli in a Facebook post transcribed by the Rocky Mountain Outlook. “It was like something out of a horror movie. Matt literally threw his body in front of me and the boys, and fought the wolf as it ripped apart our tent and his arms and hands. We were screaming for help as he was fighting it and trying to save us, for what felt like an eternity (but I think it was anywhere from one to three minutes)” wrote Rispoli. “I laid my body on top of the kids and Matt pinned the wolf to the ground and opened its jaw with his hands, and the wolf started to drag Matt away, while I was pulling on his legs trying to get him back. I cannot and don’t think I’ll ever be able to properly describe the terror.” The wolf left after a neighboring camper threw a huge rock at the wolf and the family was able to get inside a car. It was the first-ever reported attack of a wolf in a Canadian national park. Two attacks have been reported in provincial parks. Whistler probably to jettison name ‘squaw’ WHISTLER, B.C. – It appears that Whistler’s elected officials intend to change the name of Squaw Valley Crescent. The street was named in honor of the California resort that was the winter Olympic venue in 1960. But the Whistler council has been asked with some regularity to change the name, as squaw by some accounts is a slur against female aboriginals, generally called First Names in Canada and Native Americas in the U.S. Pique Newsmagazine says municipal councilors say they will consult with both the Squamish and Lil’wat First Nations as well residents of the street in question if they go forward with a renaming. Utilities plan to shut off power in times of fire risk LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Two electrical utilities that serve the Lake Tahoe Basin have announced they plan to shut off electrical deliveries when the risk of catastrophic wildfire becomes too great. The remarkable if horrific story that precedes the decision was the Camp Fire that killed 85 people last year in Paradise, Calif. It was caused by electrical lines that sparked tinder-dry vegetation into an almost instantaneous conflagration. The Tahoe Daily Tribune reports that both Liberty and NV Energy plan to notify customers 48 hours in advance of any power shutdown. “Shutting off the power is a last resort for us,” said NV Energy’s Kristen Saibini. She said research based on conditions in the last 18 years suggest shutoffs once a year for one hour. Liberty estimates shutoffs occurring once every 5 to 10 years. Groups fear e-bikes on non-motorized trails DURANGO, Colo. – None of the U.S. land agencies have said they plan to allow e-bikes on trails currently off-limits to motorized vehicles. Just the same, a coalition of 50 conservation and advocacy groups have started worrying. The Durango Telegraph explains that the coalition sent a letter to leaders of the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service. “We understand that federal land management agencies are currently considering policy changes to allow e-bikes on non-motorized trails,” the letter reads. They go on to say: Don’t do it! What has the environmental groups stirred up is the appointment of David Bernhardt to be secretary of the Department of Interior, the agency that oversees the national parks and BLM lands. The Forest Service is within the Agriculture Department. The Natural Resources Defense Council, in a 2017 blog, described Bernhardt as a litigator and lobbyist who has “devoted much of his career to fighting protections for lands, waters, and wildlife on behalf of mining, oil, gas and water interests.” E-bikes have certainly been taking off. Market research firm NPD Group reports a near doubling of sales from 2016 to 2017. The International Mountain Bike Association doesn’t advocate closing the door on all e-bikes on trails, even those currently restricted to non-motorized use. Instead, the group wants land managers to develop individualized regulations for how and where pedal-assisted electric mountain bikes can be used. Such bikes top out at 20 mph. “We support trail access for Class 1 eMTBs and support shared use on trails as long as access is not lost or impeded for traditional mountain bikes,” the group says. Matt Carpenter’s stunning 100-mile record still stands LEADVILLE, Colo. – It’s been 14 years since Matt Carpenter set a stunning time on the Trail 100 among the peaks of the Sawatch Range west of Leadville. Carpenter, a one-time maintenance worker at a Vail hotel, completed the 100-mile course in 15 hours, 42 minutes. That was a full hour and a half better than the best time delivered before. The Leadville Herald-Democrat recalled Carpenter’s feat was so extraordinary that when he crossed the finish line, only his wife, Yvonne, and race course officials were there to recognize the accomplishment. The course is mostly above two miles in elevation and, at one point, tops out at over 12,500 feet in elevation. This year’s male winner, Ryan Smith, finished in 16 hours and 33 minutes. The female winner, Magdalena Boilet won in 20 hours, 18 minutes. In the natural order of things we all eventually arrive as members in The Club/Society. One or both of our parents usually precede us in death. And for many people -that is a sad day- followed by other sad days. My friend and I flipped that script years ago. We have known each other since the late '80’s when she moved to town. I had already been here for about a decade. She is younger- maybe a dozen years or so but kindred spirits don’t keep score. We were/are both writers and our paths would weave back and forth in the small town- working in press rooms for ski races… covering film festivals…restaurant openings and real estate ribbon cuttings on developments. Yes, it was a long time ago -we were excited to report on such mundane things- those were the only things here for a very very long time. Over the years -my kids graduated and went to college and got married and settled in Salt Lake City. She had children later down the road and they have now left the nest and are living in different parts of country …or will be soon. Sometimes we would just meet up for a drink and lament the state of the news here. Who was covering which stories and beats as we stayed more distanced- more freelance. She had great clientsnotable ones here in the state and nationally. My writing - which had fed my soul- happened less and less as my full-time job kept sucking up my time and my brain. There was little room for much more than this column. A few years ago we met and she told her father had passed away. The details don’t matter. It was not a tearful pronouncement. What does matter is that he was not a terrific guy much of the time. I was going through my mother’s long goodbye of dementia which did not make the moth- er-daughter connection closer and did not make Mean Jean any less unkind. When Bob died- my friend had said the drinks were on him- her father. A few years after that Jean, my mother died. Soon drinks were on her. And for reasons I don’t fully remember we would have them take turns buying drinks…Bob’s turn to buy tonight she would say…Or Jean wants to pick up the tab this time I would offer. For those of you who had/have loving parents and strong supportive relationships with them- this club is not for you. It is a space for the rest of us.” And somehow the Dead Parents Club/Society was born. It has been so many years now, we just text sometimes- Bob thinks its time for a drink. Or Jean has something to say and needs an audience. For those of you who had/have loving parents and strong supportive relationships with them- this club is not for you. It is a space for the rest of us. A few days ago the text came…she had read something in my column and maybe she had read between the lines. It was time for Bob to host, she texted, and I said Jean needed to participate too. Only this time we planned -well, she said a walk- I countered with… a stroll. We met in the parking lot at Willow Creek and then took the trail down past Copper Moose and along the creek all the way to the back of the Temple. Then we headed back and she found her favorite bench and we unpacked our picnic and our current lives. The warm afternoon turned into the cool dusk by the time we headed back to our cars. “Did you learn any good toasts when you were in Ireland,” she wanted to know. I confessed I did not. Well, here’s one my Irish grandfather used to say, she saidthough it sounds Scottish… ”Up your kilt,” she says to me… and then she prompts …now you say... ”Up yours!” Which I said with great gusto just as some folks appeared around the bend walking their dog. We were deep in the girlish giggles when the sideways glances came. In those few hours we shared some secrets and heartfelt desires for our adult children and stories about a man I loved and she did too but in a more professional way -related to his job. Don’t askit makes perfect sense to us. We are both surprised to realize after all our other jobs and positions we are still- at our core -storytellers. I am not certain if we got better at all that when we created the Dead Parents Society but it was a shift. It was an admission of our own mortality and giving up on some story of origin that never fit our slightly disfigured self image. Mean Jean and Bad Bob gave us gifts of endless story material and a toughness to bounce life’s messy stuff back into the universe. We give each other a safe place to be our actual persons without varnish. We don’t get together with any pattern or place but when its time- one the other of the Dead Parents seems to nudge us to reach out…And that is a gift enough I am grateful for… all days of course but certainly as cause for gratitude 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. Greenland is still melting Arctic territory’s ice melt biggest threat in climate crisis SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press HELHEIM GLACIER, Greenland — This is where Earth’s refrigerator door is left open, where glaciers dwindle and seas begin to rise. New York University air and ocean scientist David Holland, who is tracking what’s happening in Greenland from both above and below, calls it “the end of the planet.” He is referring to geography more than the future. Yet in many ways this place is where the planet’s warmer and watery future is being written. It is so warm here, just inside the Arctic Circle, that on an August day, coats are left on the ground and Holland and colleagues work on the watery melting ice without gloves. In one of the closest towns, Kulusuk, the morning temperature reached a shirtsleeve 52 degrees Fahrenheit (10.7 degrees Celsius). The ice Holland is standing on is thousands of years old. It will be gone within a year or two, adding yet more water to rising seas worldwide. Summer this year is hitting Greenland hard with record-shattering heat and extreme melt. By the end of the summer, about 440 billion tons of ice — maybe more — will have melted or calved off Greenland’s giant ice sheet, scientists estimate. That’s enough water to flood Pennsylvania or the country of Greece about a foot deep. In just the five days from July 31 to Aug. 3, more than 58 billion tons melted from the surface. That’s over 40 billion tons more than the average for this time of year. And that 58 billion tons doesn’t even count the huge calving events or the warm water eating away at the glaciers from below, which may be a huge factor. And one of the places hit hardest this hot Greenland summer is here on the southeastern edge of the giant frozen island: Helheim, one of Greenland’s fastest-retreating glaciers, has shrunk about 6 miles since scientists came here in 2005. Several scientists, such as NASA oceanographer Josh Wil- lis, who is also in Greenland, studying melting ice from above, said what’s happening is a combination of man-made climate change and natural but weird weather patterns. Glaciers here do shrink in the summer and grow in the winter, but nothing like this year. Summit Station, a research camp nearly 2 miles high and far north, warmed to above freezing twice this year for a record total of 16.5 hours. Before this year, that station was above zero for only 6.5 hours in 2012, once in 1889 and also in the Middle Ages. This year is coming near but not quite passing the extreme summer of 2012 — Greenland’s worst year in modern history for melting, scientists report. “If you look at climate model projections, we can expect to see larger areas of the ice sheet experiencing melt for longer durations of the year and greater mass loss going forward,” said University of Georgia ice scientist Tom Mote. “There’s every reason to believe that years that look like this will become more common.” A NASA satellite found that Greenland’s ice sheet lost about 255 billion metric tons of ice a year between 2003 and 2016, with the loss rate generally getting worse over that period. Nearly all of the 28 Greenland glaciers that Danish climate scientist Ruth Mottram measured are retreating, especially Helheim. At Helheim, the ice, snow and water seem to go on and on, sandwiched by bare dirt mountains that now show no signs of ice but get covered in the winter. The only thing that gives a sense of scale is the helicopter carrying Holland and his team. It’s dwarfed by the landscape, an almost imperceptible red speck against the ice cliffs where Helheim stops and its remnants begin. Those ice cliffs are somewhere between 225 feet and 328 feet high. Just next to them are Helheim’s remnants — sea ice, snow and icebergs — forming a mostly white expanse, with a mishmash of shapes and textures. Frequently water pools amid that white, glimmering a near-fluorescent blue that resembles windshield wiper fluid or Kool-Aid. As pilot Martin Norregaard tries to land his helicopter on the broken-up part of what used to be glacier — a mush called a melange — he looks for ice specked with dirt, a sign that it’s firm enough for the chopper to set down on. Pure white ice could conceal a deep crevasse that leads to a cold and deadly plunge. Holland and team climb out to install radar and GPS to track the ice movement and help explain why salty, warm, once-tropical water attacking the glacier’s “underbelly” has been bubbling to the surface “It takes a really long time to grow an ice sheet, thousands and thousands of years, but they can be broken up or destroyed quite rapidly,” Holland said. Holland, like NASA’s Willis, suspects that warm, salty water that comes in part from the Gulf Stream in North America is playing a bigger role than previously thought in melting Greenland’s ice. And if that’s the case, that’s probably bad news for the planet, because it means faster and more melting and higher sea level rise. Willis said that by the year 2100, Greenland alone could cause 3 or 4 feet (more than 1 meter) of sea level rise. In tiny Kulusuk, about a 40-minute helicopter ride away, Mugu Utuaq says the winter that used to last as much as 10 months when he was a boy can now be as short as five months. That matters to him because as the fourthranked dogsledder in Greenland, he has 23 dogs and needs to race them. They can’t race in the summer, but they still have to eat. So Utuaq and friends go whale hunting with rifles in small boats. If they succeed, which this day they didn’t, the dogs can eat whale. “People are getting rid of their dogs because there’s no season,” said Yewlin, who goes by one name. He used to run a sled dog team for tourists at a hotel in neighboring Tasiilaq, but they no longer can do that. Yes, the melting glaciers, less ice and warmer weather are noticeable and much different from his childhood, said Kulusuk Mayor Justus Paulsen, 58. Sure, it means more fuel is needed for boats to get around, but that’s OK, he said. “We like it because we like to have a summer,” Paulsen said. But Holland looks out at Helheim glacier from his base camp and sees the bigger picture. And it’s not good, he said. Not for here. Not for Earth as a whole. “It’s kind of nice to have a planet with glaciers around,” Holland said. |