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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, June 10-12, 2020 A-9 The Park Record W Green Tips My story: Jennie Judge Kearns What goes in the bin? AY WE WERE Mining magnate’s wife left a mark on Park City and SLC tour of our beautiful old house. My half-sister Francis Wilson married a fellow named Gallivan and they had a little boy named Jack, but Francis died when he was only 5. So I took little Jack and raised him as one of my own children. Jack later became publisher of the Salt Lake Tribune. I always worried about children who didn’t have loving parents to care for them, so I built Kearns-St. Ann’s Orphanage. You know, it’s just no good to have lots of money if you can’t do good things with it. We always had a Christmas party at our house for the orphanage children and I paid for them to have special dancing and music lessons. Of course, we were Catholic, as many Irish people were. We also gave a lot of our money to help build the Cathedral of the Madeleine. My poor Tom died in 1918 and I wore black for many years. I lived with my children until my death in 1943, but donated our beautiful house to the state of Utah in 1937. SALLY ELLIOTT Park City Museum researcher Editor’s note: This is the seventh in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine. What a lucky thing for me to be the niece of John Judge, who did so well in the Park City silver mines. I was born in Port Henry, New York, in 1869 and my father Patrick was John Judge’s brother. He died when I was only 2 and my mother married William Wilson. We moved to Park City when I was 10 and I finished school there. One of my teachers was Mary Ferguson who married David Keith. I was only 12 when Tom Kearns moved to Park City. Uncle John introduced us. We began courting when I was 17 and married in 1890 when I was 20. That was such a big year for Tom. He and his partners had leased the Mayflower Mine and discovered that valuable ore was running toward the Silver King claims. We were blessed with little baby Mary in 1892, the same year Tom and his partners bought the Silver King claims and incorporated the Silver King Mine. In 1894, little Mary died, and our son Edmond was born. Things were moving almost too fast for me to keep up. We had two more children in PARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM, JACK GALLIVAN COLLECTION Jennie Judge Kearns, wife of Silver King founder Thomas Kearns, circa 1918. Park City, Thomas Francis in 1897 and Helen Marie in 1899. Pretty soon the Silver King partners, including Tom and I, were making lots of money. Tom wanted to move to Salt Lake City so we began building a house on East Brigham Street, just a short way from Brigham Young’s Beehive House. In 1901 we moved in — the same year Tom became a United States senator. Long after Tom died I donated that house to the state of Utah and they turned it into the Governor’s Mansion. I think at certain times, you can still take a Learn more about the silver mining industry and the rest of the investors in the Silver King at the Park City Museum or by visiting parkcityhistory.org. An online lecture on parts of Thomas Kearns life, featuring his and Jennie’s great-grandson, is available through the Museum’s website. Other Way We Were articles — on all kinds of topics in Park City history — are available on the site, currently dating back to May of 2016: parkcityhistory. org/category/way-we-were/. The Park Record is always looking for new letters. Send in your letters to editor@ parkrecord.com BEV HARRISON Recycle Utah volunteer During these past few months of social distancing, staff at Recycle Utah have been busy developing their online education program with lots of new videos. These are created to help educate our community about everything from composting at home to sustainability lessons for children. They can be viewed on both the Recycle Utah website under the “Learn” tab and on the Recycle Utah Facebook page. One video in the collection I found very helpful is entitled, “Answers to Questions on Hard-to-Recycle Items.” There’s a lot of packaging out there and unfortunately not everything can be recycled. Non-recyclable items (both in your curbside bin and at the Recycle Utah center) include items made of more than one material. These include: Tetra-Pak containers, used for things like almond milk, soups and broth; shipping envelopes that have both paper and plastic; foil-lined cardboard food containers and chip bags that are also foil lined. Since these materials are mixed, they unfortunately need to go in the trash bin. If you’re unsure about an item, give Recycle Utah’s friendly team a call and they can help you out. Don’t put something in your curbside recycling bin if you’re uncertain about it, as it can contaminate the entire load. Some hard-to-recycle items I found out that the Recycle Utah center accepts that can’t be placed in your Summit County curbside recycling bin include: batteries, contact lenses, toothbrushes and tooth paste tubes, ink cartridges and toner, bras, instrument strings, reading glasses, old cell phones, remote controls, CDs, DVDs and so much more ... whew, that’s amazing! Recycle Utah, your community nonprofit drop-off recycling center, provides these weekly tips. Visit its website for more information — www.recycleutah.org. Council hopefuls to square off in debate Submitted by Park City Rotary In advance of the important Summit County Council primary election, the Park City Rotary Club is hosting a County Council Candidate Forum on Thursday, June 11, beginning at 6 p.m. The forum will feature Democratic candidates Canice Harte and Malena Stevens. It will be moderated by Park Record Editor Bubba Brown and aired live by Park City Television and KPCW Radio, as well as streaming live on the Park City Rotary Club Facebook channel. The primary election is being held with only mail-in voting and is closing on June 30. Pri- mary ballots will only be mailed to registered Democrats. Republican and unaffiliated voters may request a respective ballot through June 19 by emailing elections@summitcounty.org. The Park City Rotary Club has a long history of holding local candidate forums. This is the first time all three of Park City’s media outlets have come together for a joint project with Rotary. “Our Rotary Club has been providing service to our community since 1980 with our annual election forums serving as a vital means of introducing voters to the candidates,” said Rotary Club President Colin DeFord. PUBLIC NOTICE OF SUMMIT COUNTY DROP BOX LOCATIONS For the June 30, 2020 Primary Election Public Notice is hereby given regarding ballot drop box locations for the June 30, 2020 Primary Election. Drop Box Locations are available during business hours at each location. Ballots can be dropped on or before 8:00 p.m. June 30, 2020. Location Coalville City Hall 10 North Main Coalville, Utah Kamas County Services Building 110 N. Main Kamas, Utah Marsac Building 445 Marsac Avenue Park City, Utah Sheldon Richins Building 1885 West Ute Blvd. Park City, Utah Fresh Market (Jeremy) 3151 W. Kilby Road Park City, Utah Summit County Clerk’s Office 60 North Main Coalville, Utah The Market at Park City 1500 Snow Creek Drive Park City, Utah Published in Summit County News: June 12, 2020, June 26, 2020 Published in Park Record: June 10, 2020, June 20, 2020 |