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One of those in attendance told the congressman it appeared he was selling public lands to the highest bidder. SkiLink did not materialize, but the event in Park City in 2012 nonetheless offers a telling illustration of the political difficulties Bishop encountered in the community. Park City has for decades been a political outlier in Utah, one of just a small number of reliably Democratic strongholds in the state, after years of arrivals from places like California and New York. Bishop, who is from Brigham City, never could sway the voters of Park City or Summit County. He carried Summit County just once — in 2010 — losing in the county to a string of Democrats in the other campaigns. The Park City area and the East Side of Summit County, though, represent a small portion of the 1st Congressional District electorate, and the larger population centers backed him by wide margins as he easily won reelection each time. As he prepares to retire, Bishop’s legacy in Park City and Summit County is difficult to ascertain. The election results show he never connected locally. And many of his conservative positions, seen in the area as overly promoting business interests at the expense of the environment, seemed to strike at the core of the values of many Parkites. His stalwart support of Hill Air Force Base, a key employer in the district, is not an overriding issue in the Park City area like it is elsewhere. Still, though, there are those who say Bishop at some level was able to set aside partisanship to work with the Park City area over the years even when the talks involved people of vastly different political stripes. “I think what we realized was there was area we could find common ground,” said former Park City Mayor Dana Williams, whose administration overlapped with Bishop’s time in Washington for 11 years. The mayor’s office in Park City is nonpartisan, but Williams adheres to Democratic principles. Williams noted City Hall and the congressman worked on issues like environmental cleanup, the Air Force’s attempts to locate a lodging property in Park City and open space. He recalled Bishop once spearheading City Hall’s efforts to testify about land conservation in a Senate hearing. “Certainly during my tenure, we got along with him pretty darn well,” Williams said, acknowledging he did not once cast a vote for Bishop in the district elections. The former mayor said he respected the working relationship he and the wider municipal government had with the congressman. “Politically he was a very conservative guy in an area that’s pretty liberal,” Williams said. “There were a lot of Continued from A-1 Vaccine arrives vaccines to all caregivers at the hospital over the following three days. The hospital was prioritizing frontline workers who care for COVID-19 patients, Nelson added. The Moderna-manufactured vaccine is the second to receive emergency use authorization from the federal Food and Drug Administration after a vaccine manufactured by Pfizer was approved earlier this month. Both shots require a booster dose weeks later; for the Moderna vaccine, that second shot is scheduled 28 days after the first, while the second Pfizer shot should be administered 21 days following the first dose. Chris Crowley, Summit County’s public health emergency preparedness coordinator, has said that recipients should receive peak immunity from COVID-19 two weeks after receiving the second dose. For Park City Hospital employees who received the shot on Continued from A-1 Effects cause worry who’s told they’ve been exposed to the coronavirus and may have brought it home to older family members. Mary Christa Smith, the executive director of Communities that Care, also said that the pandemic appears to be hitting older students harder, depriving many of the high school milestones that they hoped they’d have. Belnap advocated for parents who see a slip in their student’s grades to intervene as soon as they can and to check in with the student’s teachers, especially if the students are remote learners. Clayton, who works directly with elementary school students, spoke about unseen impacts and widening achievement gaps. He indicated that the consequences can be dire and compounding when students don't reach certain academic milestones, like reading at grade level by third grade. And he said that the pandemic hasn’t impacted Direct Importer of the World’s Finest Rugs A t t h e H i s t o r i c Vi l l a T h e a t r e COURTESY OF INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE Courtney Morrison receives her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday. An Intermountain Healthcare official says Park City Hospital and Heber Valley Hospital were the first two rural hospitals to receive doses of the vaccine in Utah. Wednesday, that would come on Feb. 3. Crowley anticipates the county will begin receiving vaccines the week of Dec. 28 and will begin administering them to essential workers shortly thereafter, a group including first responders and teachers. Crowley has indicated that he expects the county to receive more shipments of the vaccine manufactured by Moderna because shipments come in a smaller size than does the Pfizer vaccine — 100 doses vs. 1,000. He has also said that the county has an ultra-cold freezer that could be used to store the Pfizer vaccine. everyone equally. “I think you may see an increasing divergence in the lived experience due to the pandemic, where the vulnerable become more vulnerable and the resilient experience less harm or ill effects,” Clayton said. Summit County in the summer of 2019 contracted with University of Utah’s Healthy U Behavioral to provide behavioral health services, including counseling in each of the county’s schools. But Nelson said that the program has a shortage of counselors this year, and some schools don’t have dedicated counseling hours. The limiting factor isn’t money, he said, but a shortage of counselors, some of whom told Clayton they were afraid to go into schools amid the pandemic. The program is currently operating at a deficit of five or six counseling hours per week. Clayton said he’s taken to working one day per week at Trailside Elementary School to help fill in the gaps. All Summit County students are able to access counseling, he said, and the program has accommodated students from all schools by making special appointments for students affected by the staffing shortage. Belnap said students who are working remotely have struggled more academically and that he suspected that extended to mental health, though he lacked the data to prove it. “It's just not the same as in-person (learning),” Belnap said. “Now it’s just so much easier for a student to just disappear by simply not logging on.” Smith said she was looking forward to the biennial SHARP student survey that would include data taken next March about how students across grade levels are reacting to the pandemic, including whether there are increased levels of substance abuse or if students are engaging in more antisocial behavior. She added that it’s too soon to tell the pandemic’s effects on students, and that the crisis might present an opportunity to integrate some of the things that have helped students who do not thrive in the normal school setting. Clayton said he witnessed daily the work done by educators who are trying to reduce the pandemic’s effects, seeing it when teachers help students Officials encourage Summit County students who would benefit from mental health support to contact the counseling team at the student’s school, or for students to find a trusted adult to help them do so. Counseling services are available to all Summit County students, whether they attend school in-person or online. Wishing you a Wonderful onderful & Prosperous New Year! people who were not able to find any issue or common ground.” The leader of the Summit County Democratic Party criticized Bishop as a political figure who ignored concerns and did not provide leadership on issues important to the area like the environment, education and health care. Meredith Reed, who is the party chair, said Bishop’s stands “just exacerbated” what she considers to be a climate crisis and said the values of Summit County and Bishop are not aligned. “We just regarded him as useless to us, not representing us in Congress,” Reed said. “Good riddance.” The chair of the Summit County Republican Party for four years ending in 2017, Tal Adair, said Bishop performed well for the county. He described the congressman as having “fought for the rural part of Utah.” Bishop also holds the belief “we had a right as citizens to govern ourselves,” Adair said. “I don’t think he did get a fair shake. That’s politics,” Adair said about Bishop in the Park City area. “People allowed politics to get involved.” The FDA indicated in a prepared statement that there is not enough data to know how long the vaccine is effective and whether it prevents transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a prepared statement said that pregnant people may choose to be vaccinated, but that no data exists about its safety. “While studies have not yet been done, based on how mRNA vaccines work, experts believe they are unlikely to pose a risk for people who are pregnant,” the CDC statement says. “mRNA vaccines do not contain the live virus that causes COVID-19 and therefore cannot give someone COVID-19.” The CDC also noted that there is no data about the vaccine’s safety for people who are breastfeeding or babies. The FDA said that the Moderna vaccine was 94.1% effective in preventing COVID-19 in a clinical trial with over 30,000 participants. The administration cautioned vaccine recipients to expect side effects including pain at the injection site, tiredness, headache, muscle pain, chills, joint pain, swollen lymph nodes in the same arm as the injection, nausea, vomiting and fever. The FDA said that those side effects could last several days and that more people experienced those side effects after the second dose of the vaccine. lace up their boots and tie their shoes, or when counselors coax a reluctant student into the classroom for another day. “But I also do have a lot of concerns about the long-term effects on the kids and society as a whole,” Clayton said. “I hope that eventually, society is a loving, trusting place to grow up in. To me, I feel like the last nine months have sent the opposite message to a lot of our children.” Continued from A-1 Lodging is down represent a solid performance and an acceptable number of visitors to keep our economy rolling and our businesses open.” Wesselhoff acknowledged there were not as many new bookings as the Chamber/Bureau had wanted as the holidays approached. 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