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Show A-2 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, March 18-20, 2020 Community spread confirmed in county The Park Record. Serving Summit County since 1880 Employee at popular Main Street bar among 13 known patients The Park Record, Park City’s No. 1 source for local news, opinion and advertising, is available for home delivery in Summit, Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis and Utah counties. Single copies are also available at 116 locations throughout Park City, Heber City, Summit County and Salt Lake City. BUBBA BROWN The Park Record There were 13 people in Summit County known to have COVID-19 as of Monday evening, including one who contracted the coronavirus without recently traveling or having contact with another infected person, a significant development local officials said marked a new phase in the fight to contain the disease. That patient, an employee at the Spur Bar and Grill on Main Street, was the first known person in Utah to become infected through what is known as community spread. The patient, a man between the age of 18 and 60, was recovering at home. “This really changes the picture,” said Rich Bullough, director of the Summit County Health Department, at a Saturday press conference detailing the case. Bullough said the man is a doorman SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Summit County (home delivery): $56 per year (includes Sunday editions of The Salt Lake Tribune) Outside Summit County (home delivery available in Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis, Weber and Utah counties; all other addresses will be mailed via the U.S. Postal Service): $80 per year To subscribe please call 435–649– 9014 or visit www.parkrecord.com and click the Subscribe link in the Reader Tools section of the toolbar at the bottom of the page. To report a missing paper, please call 801–204–6100. Same-day redelivery is possible if you call during the following hours: * Weekdays: 6:30–8 a.m. * Saturday: 7–8 a.m. * Sunday: 7–10:30 a.m. at the Spur Bar and Grill and attended work while symptomatic. However, officials believe the biggest health risk is to other employees, as his position does not require him to interact for long periods of time with customers. Nonetheless, health officials recommended anyone who has visited the bar since March 6 to monitor themselves for symptoms consistent with the coronavirus, such as cough, fever and shortness of breath. “We don’t think there’s a significant risk at this point in time to the individuals who frequented the bar,” Bullough said. The Spur closed Friday night after being made aware of the patient’s positive test and on Saturday morning was undergoing a cleaning conducted by an independent company certified for this type of sanitization, Bullough said. County health staffers observed the cleaning to ensure it complied with standards. Officials believe the man was in contact with approximately 20 employees. The Health Department worked to contact those people to monitor them for fever and respiratory symptoms. Cortney Johansen, managing partner at the Spur, said in a prepared statement to The Park Record that the establishment was taking the matter seriously. “From the moment we found out, we have been working with authorities at the Summit County Health Department to ensure the safety of our community, our customers, and our staff,” she said. “... We are willing to do whatever it takes to make sure our Spur family and our community remain healthy. We are grateful for the long-standing positive relationship we have with the Health Department, and would like to thank the community in advance for their continued support.” Dr. Angela Dunn, state epidemiologist for the Utah Department of Health, said the state had been preparing for community spread of COVID-19. As of Monday evening, there were more than 40 coronavirus cases in Utah. The Spur employee was the fifth known person known to have COVID-19 in Summit County. The first four cases were announced between March 11 and March 14. Officials announced Monday evening that eight more people had contracted the virus, bringing the total in the county to 13, but provided limited information about those patients. Continued from A-1 Schools adapt To request a vacation hold or change of address, please call 435–649–9014 or email: circulation@parkrecord.com THE NEWSROOM To contact the newsroom, please call 435–649–9014 or email editor@parkrecord.com Junior High School. The North Summit School District administration asks parents who want to arrange for food for their student to email Robin Wilde at rwilde@ nsummit.org before 7 p.m. the night before. Breakfast and lunch will be available for pickup from 8-9 a.m. at the north door of North Summit Middle School. Lunch will be available to all students, while breakfast will be available for elementary and middle school students only. The meals in North Summit will be charged at regular prices to students’ accounts, Wilde said. She asked that parents include in the email the student’s name, food restrictions and contact information. In South Summit, breakfast and lunch will be available at the regular price between 10 a.m. and noon at South Summit Middle School. South Summit School District spokesperson Jodi Jones said that the district has also made arrangements to deliver meals to families that require it. She added that parents have been notified about the program via email, and that parents should reach out to the food nutrition manager for their students’ school to arrange for meals. 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Periodicals postage paid at Salt Lake City, Utah, 84199-9655 and at additional mailing offices. Distance learning Some teachers in the Park City School District were preparing for a possible school closure days before the announcement came down Friday, readying two weeks of lessons for Postmaster: Send address changes to The Park Record, P.O. Box 3688, Park City, UT84060. Entered as second-class matter, May 25, 1977, at the Post Office in Park City, Utah, 84060 under the Act of March 3, 1897. Continued from A-1 Ski resorts close Subscription rates are: $56 within Summit county, $80 outside of Summit County, Utah. Subscriptions are transferable: $5 cancellation fee. Phone: 435–649–9014 Fax: 435–649–4942 Email: circulation@parkrecord.com Published every Wednesday and Saturday and appreciate your patience as our most immediate priority must be the TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Yonessy Petiton, administrative assistant for child nutrition at Treasure Mountain Junior High School, places an orange into a paper bag as she assembles lunches for students in the cafeteria on Monday. The sack lunches also included a pre-made sandwich, bags of chips, fruit snacks and water. younger students to take home if the pandemic shut down public spaces. Those packets were sent home Friday, and teachers around the county were using the first few days this week to plan how to continue to teach students when they couldn’t meet in person. Some turned to creative solutions, like filming themselves delivering lessons or working to arrange virtual classtimes with online apps. In Park City, students in grades K-5 received the take-home packets and teachers were busy preparing another 10 days of instruction. The lessons reinforce concepts that have already been taught, district spokesperson Melinda Colton said, allowing parents to avoid having to teach entirely new subjects. The goal is to engage students four hours per day, Colton said, and those hours do not need to be consecutive, according to Chief Academic Officer Amy Hunt. Older students, those in grades six through 12, are using the district’s online learning system. Colton said that the district completed an inventory of students’ ability to access the internet at home, and that the district has devices and internet hot spots that students can take home if they need to. North Summit teachers are also using a hybrid of take-home packets of work for younger kids and online lessons for older ones. Superintendent Jerre Holmes said that the transition was relatively easy for high schoolers, who already use devices at home to complete schoolwork. For middle schoolers, the students were allowed to take home the devices they had been using in schools. The youngest students were given packets of material to work through at home, and Holmes said some had already health and welfare of our resorts and communities,” Katz said. According to a statement, Deer Valley and Alterra’s other resorts will work with guests seeking to cancel their visits and receive refunds for hotel and other bookings. The resorts’ decision to close came hours after the director of the Summit County Health Department advised people to avoid traveling to the area if possible. That recommendation was made as health officials announced an employee at the Spur Bar and Grill contracted the coronavirus despite not having traveled recently or having had close contact with another infected person. Health officials cited that case, the first known instance of community spread of the virus in Utah, in their decision to implement the order restricting businesses like the resorts. Shortly after the closure of PCMR, a Park City lodging industry figure was bracing for broad effects on the community, even before the announcement of the county’s order, which also Dunn said the emergence of community spread underscores the importance of efforts to slow the virus. Locally, those efforts have included both Summit County and Park City declaring local public emergencies, while both governments have also taken additional steps like closing their libraries and recreational facilities. On Sunday, Summit County ramped up its response, issuing an order restricting many kinds of private businesses, including restaurants. Some businesses, like gyms and theaters, were forced to close, while restaurants are allowed only to provide curbside, drive-through or delivery service. Officials are also urging people who can work remotely to do so. The county order requires businesses that remain open to send sick people home. County Manager Tom Fisher acknowledged that officials are concerned about how the measures to slow the coronavirus will affect the community’s workers who do not have paid time off and who generally live paycheck to paycheck. He indicated the county is engaged in discussions with community partners about ways to help workers, as well as people who require child care. been using their parents’ devices to complete some assignments. “Right now, we feel good about our progress,” Holmes said. In South Summit, teachers are working to transition their curriculum online while administrators are dealing with the sort of hiccups that might be expected given the change, like making sure internet filters function while district-owned devices are taken off district property. Jones said she anticipated small group learning may start later this week using video-hosting platforms like Zoom or Google Hangouts. Across the county, teachers are reporting to work while adapting to the strange circumstances. Some are filming lessons to send to kids, others are writing personalized notes for their students while still others are working to facilitate online gatherings. The common sentiment from administration and staff was that teachers will work hard to normalize these times for their students, as well as to find ways to continue to connect to their students while they might be physically distant. In the Park City School District, for example, teachers, administrators and support staff are each being assigned a dozen or so students to check-in on to make sure they’re doing alright, Hooker said. For Hooker, the co-president of Park City’s teacher’s union, it’s the small things that will be hardest to replace, the clubs that won’t meet and the students who have rough home lives who won’t be able to have a normal place to go during the day. But she’s confident that teachers will do the best they can, a sentiment echoed by the district’s spokesperson. “I am continually amazed at the dedication and commitment our employees have to do whatever it takes to ensure that students are educated whether it is at school or at home,” Colton said. included drastic restrictions on restaurants and lodging properties. Rob Slettom, the president and owner of the lodging firm Identity Properties, said cancellations had mounted in recent days. There had been 29 reservations canceled in the 48 hours prior to the announcement of the resorts’ suspensions. “This will be a very large impact,” he said. 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