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Show C-1 B-1 CRAWL THROUGH THE CITY’S HISTORIC PUBS MINERS KICK BRAVES OUT OF PLAYOFFS INSIDE THIS EDITION! House hunting in Park City or the surrounding area? View our Real Estate Guide to find your dream home COLUMNS, A-14 EPIC OR IKON? A-12 A GUIDE TO THE 2019-2020 SEASON-PASS POSSIBILITIES REAL ESTATE Park City — Wasatch Back The Park Record. Counties Covering Summit and Wasatch parkrecord.com OCTOBER 12 - NOVEMBER 22, 2019 SS ARY TIMELE CONTEMPOR CE. MASTERPIE TERI ORR NOTES A LACK OF CIVILITY INSIDE CITY | MORE DETAILS Y RANCH RD, PARK | 8544 N PROMONTOR OFFERED AT $12,500,000 ON PROPERT Y VIDEO Paul Benson - Engel & Völkers 5 - 6 4 0 -74 41 PAU L B E N S O N 4 3 4 3 5 -714 - 9 0 3 3 • MARCUS WOOD M R E A L E S TAT E .C O PAU L B E N S O N . E V Park Record. The PA R K C I T Y, U TA H | should be independently is not guaranteed and is deemed reliable but Housing Act. All information provided the principles of the Fair owned and operated. Employers and fully support brokerage is independently Partners are Equal Opportunity All rights reserved. Each independent License Engel & Völkers and its Vol. 139 | No. 72 50¢ East Side starts to serve up a new sort of tourism Tournament tennis The farming and ranching communities want to offer a rural experience ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Park City High School senior Brooklyn Thompson returns a volley to Orem’s Tae’a Rees on Thursday during their No. 3 singles match at the Class 5A state tournament, held at the Liberty Park Tennis Center in Salt Lake City. Thompson advanced to the semifinals and was scheduled to play again on Saturday. As a team, the Miners entered play Saturday, the final day of the tournament, tied for fourth place. The gates at The Lodge at Blue Sky open very slowly. They’re made of some kind of distressed metal and give off the impression the rust on them is intentional. They sit just past a guard house at the base of the hills on which High West Distillery’s Wanship location and a new hotel sit, and after the gates open, visitors can begin to climb the steep road that leads up to one of Summit County’s newest amenities. Just past the distillery, the road sweeps around a curve and the hotel comes into sight, built into a hillside swell, blending in with the surroundings but for its sharp angles. The rounded hills rise in the background and a sense of rural stillness becomes apparent. Curiously enough, the 46-room boutique hotel with access to heli-yoga and shuttle service to its private lounge at the base of Park City Mountain Resort can be seen, officials say, as TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Executive Chef Galen Zamarra plates a private lunch beside a mountaintop yurt at The Lodge at Blue Sky. Zamarra says agritourism could help bridge the divide between Americans and where their food comes from. an example of an alternative type of economic growth for East Side communities, one that might offer an alternative to subdividing their heritage into condominiums. The scale of this project is just a bit different. Agritourism attempts to attract visitors to places with existing, historical uses like ranches and farms. The concept has been around forever, said Summit County’s Community Please see Tourism, A-2 Seniors ask city leaders for support South Summit gay-straight club launched They want to remain in community amid housing challenges ALEXANDER CRAMER JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record Several people approached Mayor Andy Beerman and the Park City Council on Thursday night pressing issues important to senior citizens, including the availability of housing for people who want to age in the community. They appeared unscheduled and the elected officials were not prepared to discuss the topic in any depth, but it seems likely there will be more detailed talks later as a result of the appearance on Thursday. The elected officials only occasionally address issues exclusive to senior citizens, such as at times when policies are crafted for the Park City Senior Citizens Center. Many issues important to senior citizens, such as City Hall’s social equity efforts, are also seen as having wider appeal across age groups. The mayor and City Council on Thursday received input about the desires of senior citizens to remain in Park City as they grow older. One of the speakers, Dick Welsh, told the elected officials senior citizens have given to the community over the years. “They want to remain in their own homes,” Welsh said. He added: “We want to age in place.” Please see Support, A-10 3 sections • 36 pages Classifieds .............................. C-8 Columns ............................... A-14 Crossword .............................. C-4 Editorial................................ A-15 Events Calendar ..................... C-6 Legals ................................... C-11 Letters to the Editor ............. A-15 Restaurant Guide.................. A-13 Scene ...................................... C-1 Scoreboard ............................. B-5 Sports ..................................... B-1 Weather .................................. B-2 Alliance designed to foster safe, accepting spaces at high school The Park Record There’s a new club at South Summit High School this fall, and it’s one students have been trying to start for at least a couple years. The Gay-Straight Alliance held its first official meeting earlier this month in the high school auditorium with about half of its 15 members in attendance. The club’s president, senior Marley Smith, said they wanted to build a safe and accepting space for their fellow students. “I never really felt like I had a place in school before meeting other LGBT students,” Smith said. “Hopefully this club can be that safe and supportive place for other kids as well.” The details are still being settled, but members envision meeting every other COURTESY OF JANE BURNS Jane Burns, seated on the right, receives a commendation from members of the newly founded South Summit High School Gay-Straight Alliance at a celebratory picnic Oct. 6. Studies show high schools with established GSAs have lower suicide rates for all their students. week or so and working on projects to spread awareness and organizing field trips. But the benefits may go beyond safe spaces and community building: A 2014 study found that high schools that have established Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) have lower suicide rates, while other researchers have found a link between GSAs and decreased rates of bullying. South Summit High School, in Kamas, is in a region more politically conservative than Park City, where a GSA club has existed at Park City High School since the 1990s. The reaction so far has been generally positive, its members and adviser said. Alex Fryer, a student founder along with McKenzie Rider and Smith, said reaction has been welcoming and the group has more members than she had anticipated. Devin Davis, the group’s faculty adviser and a choir and theater teacher in the South Summit School District, said he has not experienced pushback and Please see Alliance, A-2 UDOT has slow-speed response to crashes A stretch of S.R. 224 posted at 45 mph in an effort to save wildlife JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The Utah Department of Transportation this week reduced the speed limit on a stretch of S.R. 224 along the Park City entryway, dropping the limit by 10 mph, in a decision designed to better guard against collisions between drivers and wildlife. The change, from 55 mph to 45 mph, impacts an approximately onemile stretch of S.R. 224 as it passes the McPolin Farm. The speed limit north and south of that section of the state highway had long been 45 mph, and the change also creates consistency in speeds, the Department of Transportation said. The speed-limit signs were changed on Tuesday. S.R. 224 is part of the state highway system and runs between Kim- verified. W W W. PA R K R E C O R D . C O M Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, October 12-15, 2019 Serving Summit County since 1880 K C I T Y, U T S U I T E 5101 - PA R 8 9 0 M A I N ST R E E T, © 2019 Engel & Völkers. ball Junction and the mountains south of Park City. The Department of Transportation controls policies regarding the road, such as setting speed limits. The Department of Transportation and City Hall have for decades consulted each other as policies are crafted. John Gleason, a spokesperson for the Department of Transportation, said City Hall officials approached the state in the spring about the possibility of reducing the speed limit. There was City Hall concern about traffic accidents involving wildlife, he said. The stretch of S.R. 224 where the speed limit was reduced travels through habitat for a variety of species like deer, elk and moose. There is open space on both sides of the road, including the farm. Gleason said the Department of Transportation researched the wildlife collisions prior to the decision to reduce the speed limit. He said there were 70 wildlife-related collisions reported to the department Please see Speed, A-10 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD The Utah Department of Transportation reduced the speed limit on a stretch of S.R. 224 along the Park City entryway to 45 mph this week. It had been 55 mph. The reduction is designed to better guard against collisions between drivers and wildlife. VISITOR GUIDE Imperfections are visible at the Kimball Art Center Toddlers and their adults can enjoy a tour of Jim Jacobs’ “The Imperfections That Render Us Visible” every Wednesday at the Kimball Art Center. The event will also include an art sessions where the kids can create work themed on the exhibit. More: kimballartcenter.org. |