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Show C-1 B-1 ZOO EXHIBIT HAS A ROBOTIC TWIST YOUNG PARKITE SOARS UP SKI JUMPING RANKS JOIN THE LOCAL CONVERSATION COLUMNS, A-18 HIGH COUNTRY NEWS, A-5 TAINTED WATER IN LDS FACILITIES EXPLORED The Park Record is always looking for letters to the editor. Send your opinions to editor@parkrecord.com PLAN FOR S.R. 248 REMAINS VEXING TO TOM CLYDE 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 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, September 14-17, 2019 Serving Summit County since 1880 Vol. 139 | No. 64 50¢ Lawmakers provide clarity on key issues Quinn, Winterton and King weigh in on respecting will of voters, upcoming redistricting Living the high life JAMES HOYT The Park Record TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Hot air balloons float over Park Meadows Friday morning leading into the weekend’s annual Autumn Aloft festival. Balloon launches from the North 40 Fields were planned Saturday and Sunday at 8 a.m., with an accompanying Main Street candlestick event slated for Saturday at dusk. Inspections find safety violations More than a dozen trucks taken off road in police operation JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The Park City Police Department and the Utah Highway Patrol on Thursday conducted a truck-inspection operation along S.R. 248, determining that more than half of the trucks that were inspected during the sting were unfit to be on the roads. The Police Department said the officers involved in the operation, which lasted from 10 a.m. until noon, pulled over 20 trucks for inspection. Thirteen of the trucks were found with violations that triggered the authorities to remove them from the road until the violations were corrected. The Police Department said the 13 vehicles were found with a combined 35 violations that triggered the vehicles to be taken out of service. There were a total of 169 violations found among the 20 vehicles, or an average of nearly 8 1/2 violations per vehicle. The authorities conducted the inspections in the parking lot of the Quinn’s Junction recreation complex. The trucks were initially stopped for some sort of moving or equipment violation visible to the officers. The trucks were then directed to the recreation complex for the inspections. The Police Department and the Utah Highway Patrol occasionally conduct truck-inspection operations like the one on Thursday in an effort to ensure vehicles, particularly those associated with the construction industry, meet safety requirements. The inspectors check the brakes and other parts of the trucks after the authorities guide the vehicles into the inspection area. Truck safety has long been a conPlease see Trucks, A-2 3 sections • 40 pages Classifieds .............................. C-8 Columns ............................... A-18 Crossword .............................. C-4 Editorial................................ A-19 Events Calendar ..................... C-6 Legals ................................... C-11 Letters to the Editor ............. A-19 Restaurant Guide.................. A-17 Scene ...................................... C-1 Scoreboard ............................. B-5 Sports ..................................... B-1 Weather .................................. B-2 Proposed land protections explored at public forum Draft legislation calls for more than 40,000 acres in Wasatch Range to be conserved ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record Two groups of about a half-dozen people sat huddled around circular tables in the Park City High School cafeteria Tuesday evening, grappling not with calculus or chemistry, but an equally thorny topic: how best to protect the central Wasatch Mountains. Representatives of the Central Wasatch Commission moderated discussions about its new draft legislation, and staffers wrote attendees’ complaints and plaudits with Sharpies on posters that sat on easels on the outskirts of the circles. The Central Wasatch National Conservation and Recreation Area Act would establish new or expand existing protections for about 40,000 acres of land in the Wasatch Range. If passed, virtually all of the land between Interstate 80 and the Utah County line would be under some sort of protection. About a dozen residents came to the public input session. At one table, a landowner with holdings in the proposed conservation area sat two seats away from a man who introduced himself by saying he wanted to see public interests trump private ones when evaluating land issues. ALEXANDER CRAMER/PARK RECORD Lindsey Nielsen, communications director for the Central Wasatch Commission, holds up a map of a proposed area for land protections. She helped lead a small group session to gather public input on proposed land conservation legislation Tuesday night at Park City High School. The other table heard an extensive back and forth about the seriousness of the area’s transportation problems, the relative merits of different solutions and the shortcomings of previous attempts at conservation and transportation fixes. The bill would create a new, 28,000-acre National Conservation and Recreation Area that would cover and protect land mostly in Little and Big Cottonwood canyons. It also includes about 1,000 acres in Summit County, mostly in the backcountry spot known as the Monitors. Ski resorts have attempted to expand into the Please see Protections, A-2 Three of Summit County’s five state legislators provided some clarity on their positions on hot issues at a Thursday night panel at the Park City Library. The event was hosted by Action Utah, a nonpartisan voter engagement organization led by Andrea Himoff, a Parkite. State Reps. Tim Quinn, R–Heber; Brian King, D–Salt Lake; and Sen. Ron Winterton, R–Roosevelt, attended the panel, which had a more relaxed atmosphere than many Legislature-centric events. Sen. Allen Christensen, R–North Ogden, and Rep. Logan Wilde, R–Croydon, were scheduled to appear but were absent. Questions of legislators’ respect for the will of Utah voters hung over the panel, which had been in the works since June. Summit County and voters statewide voted in favor both of a medical marijuana ballot initiative and a Medicaid expansion plan last year, but both were later superseded by state lawmakers. The Legislature’s Medicaid plan was sponsored by Christensen, who represents the northern portion of Summit County. Some elements of the Legislature’s medical marijuana compromise is due to be hammered out in an upcoming special session, while the Trump administration has signaled it would deny a waiver needed to implement Christensen’s bill, which heavily modified the voter-approved Medicaid expansion to resemble a less expansive plan the Republican majority had already passed in 2018. Christensen was scheduled to appear at Thursday’s event but, due to what he called a “prior engagement, another meeting” that night, he didn’t attend. Wilde, meanwhile, said an unanticipated family event kept him from participating. King, the House minority leader, relayed questions from attending constituents of Wilde’s to him via text message. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Three members of Summit County’s delegation in the Statehouse discussed topics in Park City on Thursday. Please see Lawmakers, A-2 Park City recalls 9/11: ‘Never forget is true’ Officials note first responders sacrificed their lives for others JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record Emergency personnel and people from the Park City community on Wednesday morning marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a ceremony that illustrated how deeply the effects of that day reverberate through the years and across the country. A small crowd gathered at the Park Avenue police station at a little bit before 8 a.m. for a ceremony that was timed to coincide with the fall of the World Trade Center towers 18 years earlier. The Park City Police Department and the Park City Fire District were well represented as the officers and firefighters stood in respect to those who died, including the emergency responders killed on Sept. 11. Summit County Councilor Glenn Wright was in attendance, but none of the six Park City elected officials were there. The event, held on a cloudy, drizzly morning, mixed protocol like a formal flag ceremony, the ringing of a bell for the fallen and a dispatcher offering words about Sept. 11 and emotional remarks by speakers from the Police Department and the Fire District. Paul Hewitt, the Park City fire chief, spoke to the audience, recalling he was a captain in the Salt Lake City department on Sept. 11. He talked of the police officers and firefighters killed that day and said the emergency personnel who responded realized the danger. Hewitt said they risked their lives for others. “They knew beyond any reasonable doubt that the chances of them getting out of that building that day were slim to none. And yet they decided to enter the building for the chance at helping somebody get out of the building alive or just to be with somebody as they were dying,” Hewitt said. “It’s the nobility of our profession. They chose to enter that building even though they Please see Responders, A-2 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Park City Fire District engineer Wes Holmes, right, and Capt. Steve Jensen unfold an American flag during a ceremony at the Park City Police Department Wednesday morning marking the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The event included a flag raising, a moment of silence and reflections on the day. VISITOR GUIDE Check in to the hospital for a community market The Summit County Community Market will run from noon to 4 p.m. every Tuesday at the Park City Hospital. The free event features produce, health screenings, the Summit County Library Bookmobile and nutrition and gardening education. Visit summitcountyhealth.org. |