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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, October 16-18, 2019 A-9 The Park Record W Green Tips My story: Mary Ferguson Keith Hyatt’s commitment to the environment AY WE WERE Cofounder of Silver King Mine came from humble polygamist roots RECYCLE UTAH A hotel for the modern explorer desiring a ‘cosmopolitan’ feel arrived in the area a few years ago: Hyatt Centric. The Hyatt Corporation is dedicated to hospitality and community, but they are also dedicated to responsible business practices, socially and environmentally. Our local Hyatt Centric joined the Green Business program a few years ago and has shown an exemplary commitment. Their initial goals upon joining involved making sure all staff and guests were trained on recycling — what goes where. They purchased a cardboard baler, glass crusher, recycle bins and improved signage. Additionally, they enhanced energy efficiency with equipment and lights and water efficiency with their sprinklers and pool. Upcoming projects involve expansion of motion and light sensors and installing ceiling fans and rain collection barrels. The progressive hotel recy- SALLY ELLIOTT Park City Museum Editor’s note: This is the fourth in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine. My life was very different from the other Silver King founders. I was born in Salt Lake City in a polygamist family. My father, James Ferguson, left Ireland when he was 12 and became an early convert to the Mormon religion. He came out to Nauvoo and signed up with the soldiers to go fight in the Spanish-American War. While he was in California he met his first wife and they rode horses back to Utah. Then he met my mother Jane Robinson and they all lived together in the same house. My father studied law and became an attorney. He had quite the flair for drama and was very active in the early Salt Lake theater scene, even playing Hamlet in local productions. He was the first Sheriff of Salt Lake and had quite a kerfuffle as Brigham Young’s bodyguard when he burned all the Federal Judge’s books and files in an outhouse at Brigham’s direction. He became the Attorney General of Utah, was a General in the Nauvoo Legion and fought federal troops in Echo Canyon as they came in to subdue the Territory in 1857. We were quite comfortable in my childhood. My father had four wives, he was a prominent attorney and a founding editor of the Mountaineer newspaper, which he created to contradict the Ft. Douglas soldiers’ Valley Tan. Unfortunately, my father was a very heavy drinker. You know, old time Mormons had breweries and distilleries all over Utah in the early times before Brigham outlawed them. Anyway, he died when he was 35. I was only 7. We struggled after he died and when I finished school at St. Marks, I went to work as the first female telephone switchboard operator in Salt Lake City. Pretty soon they decided they needed to have men running that business and sent me to Park City. They provided a place in Park City for my mother and me to live and what an exciting place that was. I knew everyone in town because I managed the telephone company. I met dear David Keith, a Silver King Mine owner, and we married in June 1894. He was 47 and I was 39. We both had had difficult lives, and it was good to cles and composts everything possible, has low-flush toilets and showers and maintains a high-tech utility monitoring system. Their plants are native, their pool cover is liquid to help with evaporation and they even sustain an employee vegetable garden. Best yet, they recycle in every guest room! The Hyatt Corporation is working hard to set an example with responsible sourcing for their buildings and products, including food and beverages. They have a distinctive approach understanding that their actions, including limited impact on the environment, can create long-term value for communities. Environmental responsibility is a core pillar of their corporate responsibility platform and Recycle Utah is thrilled to have them in the program as a model to others in the industry. If your business, any type, is interested in learning about Recycle Utah’s Green Business program, contact 435-6499698. Trio pulls woman from burning car Associated Press PARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM, HIMES-BUCK DIGITAL Mary Ferguson Keith, 1895, manager of the Park City Telephone Company and wife of Silver King founder David Keith. have such a wise and wonderful husband after so many years of living alone. How wonderful that he became quite rich. I helped him care for his other children and we had our own precious David Keith in 1895. David was such a blessing and comfort for me. We built a beautiful home on South Temple Street down in Salt Lake City. Unfor- tunately, we were both failing in our health by 1816, so we sold it to our dear friend Ezra Thompson, and lived in a grand apartment at the Hotel Utah. My dear David died two years later, as did I in April 1919. Learn more about Mary Ferguson Keith and Park City’s fascinating history at the Park City Museum on 528 Main Street. NOTICE OF INTENT TO ADOPT AN IMPACT FEE FACILITIES PLAN AND ENACT MODIFIED IMPACT FEES Mountain Regional Water Special Service District (“MRW”), a special service district of the State of Utah, located in Summit County, Utah intends to adopt an Impact Fee Facilities Plan for culinary water and enact new and/or modified Impact Fees for culinary water charged by MRW. Pursuant to the provisions of Sections 11-36a-502, 504, and 17B-1-111 of the Utah Code, as amended, notice is hereby provided to you of the intent of MRW to adopt an Impact Fee Facilities Plan and enact modified Impact Fees. A public hearing is scheduled for October 23rd, 2019, at 6:00 p.m. at the Summit County Courthouse, 60 North Main Street, Coalville, UT 84017 to adopt the Impact Fee Facilities Plan. An additional public hearing is scheduled for October 24th, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. at Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District Office Board Room, 5715 Trailside Drive, Park City, UT 84098 to adopt the modified Impact Fees. The proposed Impact Fee Resolution, Impact Fee Facilities Plan, Impact Fee Analysis, and summaries of the Impact Fee Facilities Plan and Impact Fee Analysis are available for review at the MRW office located at 6421 North Business Park Loop Road Suite A, on the MRW website at www.mtregional.org, at the Summit County Library located at 1885 West Ute Blvd, and at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse located at 1388 Center Dr. For additional information or special accommodation please call (435) 940-1916. MAPLETON – Police in Utah say three unidentified passersby acted quickly to save a driver who crashed her car and became trapped inside the burning vehicle. The Daily Herald in Provo reported the crash was next to convenience store in suburban Mapleton. Mapleton Police Chief John Jackson says the trio broke the car window and pulled a woman from behind the driver’s wheel to safety. The car had jumped a curb and erupted in flames after hitting a large power supply box between two trees. Authorities say the woman was not seriously hurt. She was arrested on suspicion of driving drunk and with a suspended license, as well as operating the car without a required interlock device to prevent impaired driving. ELECTION NOTICE To all qualified electors of the North Summit Recreation Special Service District, Summit County, Utah: Take notice that on November 5, 2019, a special election (the “Special Election”) shall be held in the North Summit Recreation Special Service District, Summit County, Utah (the “District”), at the places set out below for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of the District the question contained in the following ballot proposition: OFFICIAL BALLOT FOR THE NORTH SUMMIT RECREATION SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICT, SUMMIT COUNTY, UTAH SPECIAL ELECTION November 5, 2019 /s/ Kent Jones County Clerk PROPOSITION Shall the North Summit Recreation Special Service District, Summit County, Utah (the “District”), be authorized to impose a property tax on the taxable value of taxable property within the District up to a maximum rate that shall not exceed .000104 for the express purposes of financing the costs of all or a portion of the general operation and maintenance expenses of the District? PROPERTY TAX COSTS. If the maximum property tax described in the election Proposition is imposed as planned, an annual property tax in the estimated annual amount of $28.50 on a $275,000 primary residence and in the estimated amount of $51.82 on a business property having the same value as said residence will be imposed on property owners within the District. The information in this notice with respect to increases in taxes is an estimate only based on current assumptions of the District. The information is intended to provide an elector with some indication of the impact the imposition of the maximum rate of the proposed property tax may have on taxes paid. FOR THE IMPOSITION OF THE PROPERTY TAX AGAINST THE IMPOSITION OF THE PROPERTY TAX |