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Show A-16 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, July 4-7, 2020 The Park Record GOP gubernatorial race too close to call after Tuesday LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated press SALT LAKE CITY — The contest for the GOP nomination in the race for Utah governor remained too close to call after Election Day, with Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox maintaining a narrow lead over ex-U.S. Russia Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. as vote-counting continued during the coronavirus pandemic. Trailing behind were Greg Hughes, the ex-House speaker and vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, and real estate executive Thomas Wright, who positioned himself as the race’s outsider. Hughes and Wright conceded Wednesday. Huntsman, who recovered from his own bout with COVID-19, has touted his international experience. Cox has the backing of incumbent Gov. Gary Herbert, who isn’t running again. The election was conducted entirely by mail due to the pandemic and county clerks were quarantining ballots for 24 hours, delaying additional results. Cox, who was once a sharp critic of Trump but now supports him, told supporters he was feeling optimistic. “We wanted to see if a campaign could actually be a force for good,” Cox said. “We believe the people of Utah expected more. We believe we could be an example to the rest of the nation in how to do things right.” An unusual number of Democratic and independent voters crossed party lines to register as Republicans so they could participate in the closed primary, including Sara Barnett, who works at a community clinic in Salt Lake City’s Sugar House neighborhood and typically casts her ballot for Democrats. “I voted Republican so I could vote in this primary election just to use my voice,” said Barnett, who voted for Huntsman. “It was a little abnormal given the party change, but I feel like there were a lot of good candidates, and it was nice to be able to exercise my right to vote.’ Huntsman also said he was feeling confident and expected more votes to go in his favor. The winner will have a heavy advantage over Democrat Chris Peterson in conservative Utah in November. Meetings anD agenDas TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM AGENDA Summit County Board of Health REMOTE Meeting July 6, 2020 4:00 - 5:00 PM Summit County Health Department 650 Round Valley Drive Park City, Utah 84060 PUBLIC MEETING 4:00 - 5:00 1. Welcome and approval of minutes (4:00 - 4:05) 2. Public comment (4:05 - 4:10) 3. Summit COVID-19 update (4:10 - 4:50) 4. Board of Health discussion items (4:50 - 5:00) 5. Adjourn More Dogs on Main By Tom Clyde Too germy for Jersey Well, here we are at the parade-less Fourth of July, and what better way to celebrate America’s birthday than to be named an international pariah. The European Union is lifting travel restrictions that had prevented most visitors from entering the EU since the plague hit. Some of the European countries like Spain and Italy have been through hell with the virus, and finally seem to have it under control. So the last thing they want to do is bring in a bunch of filthy foreign tourists to start spreading it around again. They are taking it cautiously. They began with a list of 14 hygienic countries whose residents would be allowed in. It’s an odd mix, but they are all countries that have been successful containing the virus. Places with functioning governments like Rwanda and Uruguay. And not on the list of places that have their act together? The US of A. We are too germy for the European Union countries to risk having us around. Yep, bring in the Rwandans and Uruguayans. They’ve got it under control. It’s not just international borders. New York, New Jersey and some other eastern states the size of a Texas ranch, have all decided that U.S. residents from Florida, Texas, Arizona, California and, say it with pride, Utah, are too toxic to visit New Jersey. Anybody visiting from Utah, or coming home to New Jersey after a visit to Utah, is supposed to self-quarantine for two weeks before hitting the sanitized streets of Newark. If that lasts, it will certainly complicate ski season. Come and enjoy a long holiday weekend in Utah, and, as an added bonus, you get to take an additional two weeks off work from a job that has just barely come back to life. Social distancing in the lift lines may not be a problem after all. Summit County is now under a mandatory mask regulation. I haven’t been out and about all that much, but I’d say that in Kamas, no more than 50% are masked (and the bank has no sense of humor). Park City seems a little higher, though I haven’t been on Main Street to see what the Sunday scrum looks like. Wasatch County doesn’t have a mask order. I ran some errands in Heber the other day. At Walmart, almost everybody had masks on. Employees were wearing masks, and the majority of customers were, too. While I was in town, I thought I’d pick up a new pair of shoes since what I was wearing was a wad of duct tape. The shoe store had very little inventory, just enough to see that they didn’t have my size. This re-opening is going to be a challenge. It’s hard to lure shoppers in, masked or not, when there is no inventory. And it’s hard to stock inventory when you’ve been closed for four months and any available cash has gone for rent and trying to keep your employees alive. So the shoe store was a bust. But everybody in there was wearing a mask. I thought the sporting goods store across the parking lot might have a suitable hiking shoe, and walked over there. It’s a kind of hooks and bullets place. Nobody else was wearing a mask in there. Other customers regarded me with great suspicion. If there were employees in the store, they were either wearing very effective camouflage or social distancing by going to lunch. They didn’t have shoes. Amazon. Overall, the shopping spree was a failure. Walmart was out of stock on about half of what I wanted (though they do have toilet paper), there were no shoes to be had, the gates at the farm store were too flimsy to withstand a side-eye glance from a cow, and the other customers in the hooks and bullets place looked like they were considering cutting my mask-wearing carcass up for bait. But there was pizza, and a milkshake. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I had something very odd happen. I went to start up the big irrigation system, and there was a geyser in the wrong place. The water comes out of a big 6-inch pipe through small plastic goosenecks with sprinkler heads dangling from them every few feet. One of the goosenecks was broken off, and the stub of the pipe was packed with feathers. There were piles of down feathers on the ground below it. The only thing I can think of was that a big bird, probably a hawk, was so focused on following its lunch through the deep hay that it smacked into the sprinkler. The gooseneck part is plastic, and designed to break if it gets caught in something. But still, the bird must have been going very fast and been very big. There was no sign of the bird, so I guess it shook it off and flew away. Maybe its mask slipped over its eyes. Tom Clyde practiced law in Park City for many years. He lives on a working ranch in Woodland and has been writing this column since 1986. sunDay in the Park By Teri Orr Where — exactly — are your loyalties? Scoreboard Summer Sports Sailing Park City Sailing Association Tuesday Night Laser Series How I Set Your Mother 2, Killer Bump, Set, Spiked Seltzer 2, Setters of Catan 1 Tofu 0 Killer Tofu 6 19 - 0 Bump, Set, Spiked Seltzer 13 23 11 - 2 How I Set Your Mother 21 21 - 2 Setters of Catan 21 22 6 - 1 Quadrofinia 2, How I Set Your Mother 0 Results – June 9 How I Set Your Mother 15 10 - 0 Comp Division Quadrofinia 21 21 - 2 Flexible & Dangerous 2, Killer Tofu 0 Flexible & Dangerous Rec Division 21 21 - 2 Let’s Talk About Sets 2, TermiKiller Tofu 14 13 - 0 nally Intermediate 0 Terminally Intermediate 16 12 - 0 How I Set Your Mother 2, Flexible & Dangerous 1 Let’s Talk About Sets 21 21 - 2 Flexible & Dangerous 22 17 5 - 1 How I Set Your Mother Scrappy B’s 2, Sand Lot 0 20 21 11 - 2 Scrappy B’s 21 21 - 2 Sand Lot 19 17 - 0 How I Set Your Mother 2, Sandbox Bullies 0 Dickens Cider 2, Safe Sets 0 Safe Sets 18 14 - 0 How I Set Your Mother 23 21 - 2 Dickens Cider 21 21 - 0 Sandbox Bullies 21 14 - 0 Balls Deep 2, Bump, Set, Premier Ball Busters 2, SandSpiked Seltzer 0 box Bullies 1 Bump, Set, Spiked Seltzer 5 15 - 0 Premier Ball Busters 15 23 12 - 2 Balls Deep 21 21 - 2 Sandbox Bullies 21 22 10 0 Setters of Catan 2, Partially Dainty 0 Setters of Catan 21 21 - 2 Quadrofinia 2, Premier Ball Partially Dainty 15 18 - 0 Busters 0 Premier Ball Busters 11 10 - 0 Quadrofinia 21 21 - 2 Results – June 16 Comp Division Sandbox Bullies 2, Killer Tufu 0 Rec Division Killer Tofu 14 13 - 0 Setters of Catan 2, Safe Sets 0 Sandbox Bullies 21 21 - 2 Setters of Catan 21 21 - 2 Safe Sets 9 10 - 0 Big Hits 2, Killer Tofu 0 Killer Tofu 13 11 - 0 Terminally Intermediate 2, Big Hits 21 21 - 2 Setters of Catan 1 Setters of Catan 21 11 7 - 1 Quadrofinia 2, Big Hits 0 Big Hits 14 11 - 0 Terminally Intermediate 17 21 11 - 2 Quadrofinia 21 21 - 2 Results – June 30 1. Scott Vermerris 2. Jeffrey Kluge 3. Geoff Hurwitch 4. Will Warlick 5. Larry Byvik 6. Tom Vollbrecht 7. William Rusconi 8. PCSA Staff 9. JR Dethorn 10. David Rennie 11. Julie Bartlett 12. Morgan Dethorn 13. Chuck Thomas 14. Lucy Woolsey 15. Lance Swedish 16. Tom Hughes 17. Eliza Hitz Score 12 16 22 22 25 30 30 32 33 33 35 42 43 49 60 61 67 Results – June 23 1. Will Warlick 2. Julie Bartlett 3. JR Dethorn 4. Tom Vollbrecht 5. Paul Swan 6. David Rennie 7. Morgan Dethorn 8. Scott Vermerris 9. Geoff Hurwitch 10. Dave Staley 11. Eliza Hitz 12. Ed Gorfinkle 13. Lucy Woolsey 14. Karl Paulsen 15. Larry Byvik 16. Buster Pike 17. Keegan Buffington 18. Emily Augello 19. Arnie Tran 20. Chuck Thomas 21. William Rusconi 22. Kayla 23. Jacklyn Hallett 24. Lance Swedish 25. Tom Hughes Score 20 20 25 28 32 37 39 41 43 44 44 48 49 51 52 56 62 65 72 73 74 78 79 89 90 Quadrofinia 2, Flexible & Bump, Set, Spiked Seltzer 2, Dangerous 0 Partially Dainty 0 38 Quadrofinia 22 21 - 2 Bump, Set, Spiked Seltzer Flexible & Dangerous 21 21 - 2 20 16 - 0 Partially Dainty 11 15 - 0 16. Jacklyn Hallett Recreation Sports Volleyball Park City Recreation Adult Volleyball 4v4 Summer Nights League Results – June 23 Comp Division Big Hits 2, Flexible & Dangerous 0 Flexible & Dangerous 18 12 - 0 Big Hits 21 21 - 2 Big Hits 2, Sandbox Bullies 0 Sandbox Bullies 14 19 - 0 Big Hits 21 21 - 2 How I Set Your Mother 2, Let’s Talk About Sets 2, Balls Premier Ball Busters 0 Deep 0 How I Set Your Mother Let’s Talk About Sets 21 22 - 2 21 21 - 2 Premier Ball Busters Balls Deep 17 14 - 0 10 20 - 0 Scrappy B’s 2, Dickens Cider 0 Rec Division Dickens Cider 20 10 - 0 Let’s Talk About Sets 2, DickScrappy B’s 22 21 - 2 ens Cider 0 Let’s Talk About Sets 21 21 - 2 Comp Division Dickens Cider 15 13 - 0 Standings W L Quadrofinia 6 0 Balls Deep 2, Partially Dainty 0 Big Hits 5 1 Partially Dainty 16 12 - 0 Flexible & Dangerous 5 1 Balls Deep 21 21 - 2 How I Set Your Mother 4 2 Premier Ballbusters 2 3 Scrappy B’s 2, Safe Sets 0 Sandbox Bullies 1 5 0 6 Safe Sets 17 18 - 0 Killer Tofu Scrappy B’s 21 21 - 2 Premier Ball Busters2, Killer Rec Division Terminally Intermediate 2, Tofu 0 Standings Sand Lot 0 Killer Tofu 15 13 - 0 Let’s Talk About Sets Terminally Intermediate Premier Ball Busters 22 21 - 2 Scrappy B’s 21 21 - 2 Sand Lot 20 16 - 0 Balls Deep W 4 4 3 Bump, Set, Spiked Seltzer 2 Dickens Cider 2 Setters of Catan 2 Terminally Intermediate 2 Sand Lot 1 Partially Dainty 0 Safe Sets 0 2 2 2 2 3 4 4 Golf Wasatch Ladies Golf Association Individual Competition Stableford Results – June 23 Flight 1 1. Barbara McCleary 2. Jana Holliday Flight 2 1. Doris Swanson 2. Maria Todd Flight 3 1. Rosanna Power 2. Michelle McFarland Score 44 37 44 41 37 35 Individual Competition - Net Fours Results – June 16 Flight 1 1. Terri Goodall 2. Barb McCleary Flight 2 1. Laura Marshall 2. Marcie Gines 2. Mary Ann Woods 2. Susan Peay Score 38 39 37 38 38 38 South Summit Aquatics & Fitness Center Adult Softball Results - June 25 Co-Jo 30, ANPAC 19 Frontier Woodworks 15, AIRO-HVAC 14 C&E Stone 20, ANPAC 4 AIR-O-HVAC 17, Co-Jo 15 Arches 23, C&E Stone 11 Frontier Woodworks 16, Bankou 11 Arches 15, Bankou 2 Weekly MVP Tyler Kelly, Arches Standings Arches C&E Stone Co-Jo AIR-O-HVAC Frontier Woodworks ANPAC Bankou W 4 3 3 2 2 0 0 L 0 1 1 2 2 4 4 Please forward submissions by noon Sunday for Wednesday’s L edition and by noon Wednes0 day for Saturday’s edition to 0 scoreboard@parkrecord.com 1 Compiled by Joe Lair God? Bless America. And while you’re at it — could you bless this whole interrelated planet? I know the holiday is silly, selfish and really of so little consequence in the current global crisis but I will miss the trappings deeply. I will miss the fireworks off the pier of my youth in Oceanside, California. My grandparents had the tiniest beach house there filled with love. My grandfather didn’t serve in the war in a traditional sense because of a medical condition, but he worked for Standard Oil at a refinery in the desert outside of Barstow or Bakersfield or some other non-glamorous non-combat location. His wife worked too — as a gun carrying member of the L.A.P.D. America was their country — right and/or wrong. My mother’s first husband was a pilot in the Air Force — a handsome man who served proudly. After they divorced my mother married my father who had served in the Korean War. I recently rediscovered a photo taken during his service aboard some ship. All the men in uniforms are smiling and there is a monkey perched on my father’s shoulder. Ironic — for the rest of his life he was a man with a monkey on his back. He earned a Purple Heart in that war. I was the era of the Vietnam War. We waited around a table in the kitchen to watch the televised announcement — which of our friends had low numbers (or high numbers, which was it?) who were going to be part of a national draft for the war no one understood. Most of those young men came home from the war — but they never came back. It was a jungle there and we were ill-prepared to fight ambush-style combat. All the men I know now who served then — have the most gnarled scars you do not see. At home — in what should have been my college years there were protests against the war, and in support of racial integration in schools and the workplace. We women were burning our bras and discovering — with advent of The Pill — we were sexual creatures in the middle of our own revolution. We were not — the greatest generation — they had come before us. And when they returned from the wars they created a peaceful economic boom. We were and are The Boomers. We have seen the world change more rapidly than any generation before us. We adapted to seat belts and not throwing our trash out the window while we puffed on cigarettes. We have become adapt at personal electronics — the likes of which our grandparents could not have imagined. We even watched a man land on the moon. And there hasn’t been a moonshot since. The war we are living through right now is nothing like those our grandparents/parents faced or even like Vietnam. We understood the enemy in those cases was “over there.” It wasn’t inside our country. My adult children and their children — my teenage grandchildren — are being introduced to a global war that is happening simultaneously. The enemy is illusive and shape-shifting. The Virus -— e have reduced to calling it. A deadly flu-like illness that attacks our ability to breathe. The convergence of that medical war has collided with 400 years of oppression in this country of people of color who we brought/ bought from the continent of Africa to be enslaved to work for white people in America. My parents and grandparents were filled with derogatory names for people of color. I grew up hearing all of them. My people were mostly proud Californians. We did not come from the Deep South but we discriminated as if we did. My teenage rebellion included having black friends. I can’t tell you how much anger that caused in my home. Almost as much as when I purchased my own first car — a VW van. I was still sewing most of my own clothes from Simplicity patterns and wearing smart flats and bows in my short hair, but I was spilling out — wanting to be part of all those things that were taking place just outside the comfort zone — 20 minutes away in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Word of rallies just passed like drumbeats among us — there were no electronic quick ways to communicate. Even though a few miles south from where I grew up there were wonky shortwave radio kids around the Stanford campus working in garages with gadgets and frequencies that would soon birth Silicon Valley. To have lived in this time has been spectacular to watch the world become so connected. It wasn’t really until after I was in my late 50s I started to travel in the world because of a conference/community I was invited to join. So I saw the Middle East, Africa and more of the United Kingdom. Lots of Canada. And I discovered the secret language of travelers — if you come with an open heart and try really — to learn some words and be game for adventures you will be rewarded ... invited in. All that Family of Man stuff — you can discover over a shared meal with laughter. And this holiday we will be missing that — the sharing with friends and neighbors — the fireworks to unite us for minutes in wonder. We celebrate our good fortune except that seems hollow knowing our good fortune exists while most of the planet doesn’t have our same privileges. And within our own country most of our residents don’t either. And the fact the planet is engulfed in a disease that attacks our ability to breathe isn’t lost on us when we see the signs now that say, “I can’t breathe.” And we are yelling and marching and angry and lighting things on fire to fuel emotional fireworks. Our country is so busy making a global pandemic political we are missing the moment. The Pause. The time to consider how to get it right. How to fix the broken pieces — how to not become anarchists who destroy only and not rebuild. Recognizing we have become more at war at home than we ever were abroad. So will we take all the knowledge and talent and creativity and love and wealth that exists in this country and use it for good? We can all agree we are in need of brave leadership locally/globally to lift us up and give us the will to serve across the planet to fix racial intolerance and climate change and a damned worldwide pandemic. This is not your grandfather’s war. This is ours. We will forever be judged when asked “What did you do in the war?” If your answer is — I posted on Facebook a bunch and went without takeout or restaurant food for weeks — you can expect your children and grandchildren to judge you accordingly. If you marched and carried signs and wrote letters and checks. ... If you took walks with those suffering or sat on a porch with a friend who needed an ear or dropped off goods for a food drive — you are fighting the war on the front lines. I will miss the picnics, the foot races and ice cream melting in the hot July sun. But I don’t want miss this chance — this piece of history where we can fully show up. Where more than 200 years after their radical ideas to form a new country started we ended up here — in the cadence of rap — boldy repeating his name ... “Alexander Hamilton.” God? Bless America ... all the Sundays in this Park... Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record. She is the founder and director emeritus of the Park City Institute, which provides programming for the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. |