The following are a selection of community-submitted events that are ongoing as of August 20, 2024. For single-day events, see our upcoming-events articles. For more event listings, see our online calendar. Submit events to pmortensen@parkrecord.com.

Mountain Town Music shows

• Performances are at various locations and times.
• See the full lineup at mountaintownmusic.org/shows.

Park City Film Series

• Jim Santy Auditorium
• 1255 Park Ave.

See lineup at parkcityfilm.org.

Beauty & the Beaks

• Swaner Preserve & EcoCenter
• 1258 Center Dr.
• Through Dec. 1
• 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

In this photography exhibition, visitors will experience the dynamic landscapes of Swaner Preserve and majesty of the sandhill cranes who call it home. Breathtaking photographs and hands-on interactives reveal the science and splendor of the Preserve and the cranes who thrive here.

“Less Bad” by Karl Haendel

• Kimball Art Center
• 1251 Kearns Blvd, Park City
• Through Dec. 1

Haendel’s meticulously hand-rendered, photorealistic graphite drawings reproduce images culled from the world of mass media and everyday objects, calling into question art world conceptions of originality, production and reproduction.

Mobile Food Pantry

• Christian Center of Park City
• Iron Horse Apartments
• 1662 Lower Iron Horse Loop Rd. 1
• Sept. 18 

First-come, first-served while supplies last. Follow CCPC on Facebook and Instagram for specific locations and updates or visit ccofpc.org/events.

Nerf Wars

• Park City Recreation
• PC MARC
• 1200 Little Kate Rd.
• Fri., Sept. 13
• Fri., Oct. 25
• Fri., Nov. 15
• 1-2:30 p.m.

Players will enjoy free-for-all play and compete for victory in various games like capture the flag and hostage. Players are encouraged to bring their own NERF guns (please no rapid fire/automatic). PC Recreation staff will supply NERF bullets and safety glasses for each player. Tickets are $13.

Movement & Mindfulness Five-week Series

• Wild Women Tribe
• Sept. 25-Oct. 30
• Wednesday mornings
• 9-11:30 am.

Join us Wed. mornings for two and a half hours of movement and mindfulness in a trail series that showcases some of our favorite local fitness coaches. We’ll explore a new and different trail with a different movement facilitator who is as passionate as we are about the outdoors. We’ll mix hiking with mindful moments and movement — yoga, functional movement, breath, HIIT — and create authentic connections in Mother Nature. Learn more at wildwomentribe.net.

BalletNEXT

• Performances are at various locations and times.
• See the full lineup at balletnext.org.

• Sept. 18: Works In Progress
• Oct. 23: Giselle
• Oct. 24: Mixed Repertory Theater

Park City Opera

Performances at various locations and times.

See the full lineup at parkcityopera.org.

Traveling Exhibit: Writers & Illustrators Contest Winners

• Wasatch County Library
• 465 E 1200 S, Heber City
• Sept. 5-Oct. 15

The annual PBS KIDS Utah Writers and Illustrators Contest strives to foster creativity and literacy in young Utah artists and writers. This year, PBS KIDS Utah accepted stories from young Utah creators in kindergarten through sixth grade that were inspired by the theme “Our Water, Our Future.” Stories range from fact to fiction and prose to poetry, and the works are original to the authors.

After School in the Garden

• Summit Community Gardens and EATS
• 4056 Shadow Mountain Dr.
• Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30-5:30 p.m. 
• Fridays 1-3 p.m.
• Sept. 9-Oct. 18

After School in the Garden is for rising 1st-6th graders who enjoy the outdoors, like to get dirty and want to explore food from seed to plate! Children will participate in the daily work to maintain our garden, tending crops and harvesting the food we will use to prep and cook our daily snack. We will learn about healthy soil, plant our over-winter crops, and let our creative minds fly with our unique, engaging lessons! Register online at summitcommunitygardens.org.

2024 Yoga in the Mountains

• 10189 East State Hwy. 210
• Mondays
• 5:30 p.m.

Join Alta Community Enrichment (ACE) for a weekly, one-hour yoga class in the heart of the Wasatch Mountains. Each week is a unique class, hosted on the Our Lady of the Snows, weather permitting. All are welcome! Please follow ACE on social media for updates! Please bring your own mat.

Tuesday Night Legal Bar

• Park City Library
• 1255 Park Ave.
• First Tuesday of the month
• 6-7 p.m.

Receive a free consultation with a lawyer, first come, first served. This program occurs the 1st Tuesday of every month, except holidays. Attendees must arrive by 6:30 p.m. in order to be seen. For more information, visit parkcitybar.org.

Happy Hour and Pup Crawl

• Hugo Coffee Shop
• 1794 Olympic Pkwy
• Wednesdays until Nov.
• 2-5 p.m.

Free pup cups, giveaways and treat samples from the Barking Cat.

Library Play Time at Kamas

• Kamas Valley Library
• 110 N Main, Kamas
• Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.

Drop in on Wednesdays between 10:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. for unstructured, early learning play time for children ages 0-4.

Bilingual Family Storytime | Cuentos bilingües en familia

• Park City Library
• 1255 Park Ave.
• Wednesday evenings
• Saturday mornings

Perfect for those beginning their Spanish learning journey, this interactive, early literacy program will entertain your little one and help them learn to read by building language skills in both English and Spanish through stories and songs. This program is offered once a month, with an evening program on Wednesday and a repeat program on Saturday morning. Ages 3-6. Younger siblings are welcome. 

Perfecto para quienes estén comenzando su viaje de aprendizaje del español o del inglés, este programa interactivo facilita la alfabetización temprana en ambos idiomas y fomenta el desarrollo de las habilidades lingüísticas a través de cuentos y canciones. Este programa se ofrece mensualmente, con un programa nocturno los miércoles y una repetición de este el siguiente sábado por la mañana. Edad 3-6 años. Hermanitas menores son bienvenidas.

Locals Night

• Flanagan’s on Main
• 438 Main Street, Park City
• Wednesdays at 6 p.m.

Come join us every Wednesday starting at 6 p.m. with food, drink specials, and live music with The Fuse.

2024 Park City Farmers Market

• First Time Chair Lift
• Wednesdays through Oct. 30
• 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

The Park City Farmers Market offers a large assortment of fresh local goods from Utah Farmers and vendors, and strives to offer only the freshest and organic products.

Crafternoon at Kamas

• Kamas Valley Library
• 110 N Main, Kamas
• Thursdays at 3:30 p.m.

Drop in every Thursday afternoon for incredibly cool and crafty fun! For elementary school age kids.

Minecraft Club 

• Park City Library
• 1255 Park Ave
• Every Thursday 4-5 p.m.

Minecraft enthusiasts and beginners ages 6 to 12 come to the Park City Library for Minecraft Club on Thursdays from 4-5 p.m. We play in a creative world working together, and separately, to build anything we can imagine while sharing tips about all things Minecraft. Computers are provided and are first come, first serve for the hour of play. For more information on Minecraft Club and other Library happenings visit parkcitylibrary.org/events.

Story Time Friday 

• Kimball Junction Branch Library
• 1885 W Ute Blvd, Park City
• Fridays at 10:30 a.m.

Don’t miss Story Time Fridays at the Kimball Junction Branch! Picture books, puppets, songs and a simple craft with Ms. Kirsten. For children ages 4-6 and their caregivers. Siblings, too!

Box Concert Series

• Este Pizza
• 1781 Sidewinder Dr.
• Fridays and Saturdays
• Through Sept.
• 6-9 p.m.

The family-friendly Este Pizza Box Concert Series features seasonal pizza specials, including the famous peach pizza, vegan and gluten-free options and a variety of talented local musicians on the beautiful patio. In case of inclement weather, music will continue indoors. The series will run every Friday and Saturday through September.

Saturday Morning Nature Walks

• 1258 Center Dr.
• Saturdays at 8:30 a.m.

Join us for a nature walk on the Preserve with one of Swaner’s naturalists! We explore wetland science, natural plant and animal species and the history of the Swaner Preserve. Pre-registration is required for all Saturday Nature Morning Walks. Walk-ins are not available at this time and all tours are capped at 15 participants. Registration closes at 7 a.m. the day of the scheduled nature walk.

Midway Farmers Market 2024

• 130 West Main St., Midway
• Saturdays June-Oct.
• 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Fresh local produce and local artisans are onsite selling goods at the farmer’s market in Midway.

2024 Mountaintop Brews and Tunes

• 2250 Deer Valley Dr S.
• Saturdays 
• June 15-Sept. 7
• 12 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Ride up Sterling Express chairlift and join us for scenic afternoon celebrations atop Deer Valley’s Bald Mountain at Snowshoe Tommy’s. Enjoy a variety of beer partners, live entertainment, takeaway fare with à la carte pricing, and mountaintop views. An all-area, full-day scenic or bike lift ticket is required to ride the Sterling Express chairlift to access each event.

2024 Park Silly Sunday Market

• Main Street
• Sundays 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Excluding July 7 and 28
• Every Sunday in August

Park Silly has hosted over 2.5 million people over the course of 16 years and has helped to foster and incubate over 150 small businesses. Park Silly is an eco-friendly open air artist market, street festival and community forum.

Sunday Brunch

• Glitretind Restaurant at Stein Eriksen Lodge
• 7700 Stein Way
• Weekly on Sundays

$72 adults, $25 kids 5-12This extravagant spread features traditional breakfast items along with a carving station, several hot entrées, a variety of salads and starches, shrimp, sushi, crab claws, salmon, fresh fruit, fresh crêpes station, omelet station and house-made pastries (menu items are subject to change based on availability and seasonality). Reservations recommended at steinlodge.com.

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Before the Park City School Board’s split vote last week to renew Superintendent Jill Gildea’s contract for two more years, she emerged as the only finalist for another job in Colorado.

It’s a question whether the board knew this, with potential contractual implications.

Colorado Early Colleges announced Tuesday that its board on Aug. 16 chose Gildea as the only remaining candidate for chief executive officer five days before a Park City board majority of members who dropped their reelection campaigns pushed through the controversial renewal on a 3-2 vote, with the only incumbents who will be on the board next year opposing.

School board President Andrew Caplan did not answer a question about whether the board knew Gildea had applied for other work. A stipulation in her 2023 contract appears to require she notify the board if she decides to seek other employment.

Instead he said Gildea “has been personally attacked by community members including yourself and your media colleagues. I hope that in your career you are never publicly vilified in the way she has been.”

He wrote in what he said was the full board’s comment: “Jill Gildea has served the children and community of Park City with distinction for six years. If she chooses to pursue employment elsewhere, the board wishes her the best of luck and thanks for her exemplary service to our schools.”

He declined to answer when asked if Gildea had told him or other board members about her search for other employment. The contract she signed in 2023 included a clause that says “Superintendent shall promptly notify the board should she elect to apply for other employment.” It’s in section 16 F, a paragraph largely devoted to what would happen if Gildea unilaterally chose to terminate her contract. The document is not readily clear whether the requirement is also true if the agreement ends through mutual agreement.

“I have made my statement,” Caplan said. “We will not be commenting further on personnel matters.”

When she voted to renew Gildea’s contract, board member Anne Peters said she did so with the consideration that the decision could save the district from a difficult search for a new superintendent. The new school board would have until Feb. 5, 2025, to notify Gildea if it did not wish to renew her contract, which would have elapsed that summer.    

Colorado Early Colleges’ website post includes Gildea’s resume, answers to a series of questions, and a cover letter, which is dated June 19. 

It was only a day later that Caplan first drew public pushback that started the months-long community conversation about the contract renewal when he announced that the board intended to renew her contract in August — while the departing majority could — in an interview June 20 on KPCW’s “Local News Hour.”

Other board members said he made the announcement without first consulting them.

Shortly after, community members started a Change.org petition asking the board to hold off on the decision until next year.

Board members Caplan, Peters and Wendy Crossland voted to renew the contract. All three of them began the year intending to run for another term in their positions, and all three of them dropped out of their reelection bids — Caplan and Crossland within a week of each other in May, and Peters in July.

Board members Meredith Reed and Nick Hill — who will remain on the board in 2025 — voted against the renewal, stating they wanted to wait until next year. Before the vote, all but one of the candidates for next year’s board also publicly spoke in hopes the board would leave the decision to them.  

In Gildea’s new contract, which is dated Aug. 24 with her signature, there are portions that allow her to leave the agreement either through retirement, mutual agreement with the district, or if she “believes she can no longer give effective leadership to the district.”

The contract also dictates that she “agrees to give the district not less than 30 days advance written notice of her election to terminate employment.”

Otherwise, she could have to pay the district a $2,000 penalty for early termination.

Gildea has not yet responded to questions about her potential new job or if she informed the board that she was applying for new positions.

Colorado Early Colleges is a network of public charter schools in Colorado.

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Alf Engen Ski Museum invited guests, including Intermountain Hall of Famers, to eye the remodeled Will and Jean Pickett Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame at Monday’s unveiling ceremony.

The wall wrapped up a six week remodel and is again open to the public. Joel Hall and his company Unrivaled completed the remodel, as they have with the rest of the museum’s first floor over the last 20-plus years, adding new walls, lighting and decor.

Alf Engen Ski Museum Executive Director Annie Bommer and Board Chairman Ron Steele all spoke at Monday’s event, expressing excitement for the museum’s future, and thankfulness for the members and donors that make it what it is.

“I hope that you’re really excited to see this new exhibit,” said Bommer. “It is beautiful, we were over the moon when we walked back there for the first time and got to see everything, it really came together. … It’s been a really exciting time here at the museum.”

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A lodging property proposed to be developed at a high-profile Park City intersection may climb to a height that is taller than normally would be allowed at the location.

The firm that wants to demolish The DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Park City – The Yarrow and then rebuild on the land is seeking an exception to the City Hall rules regulating the height of buildings.

The exception sought by the developer, Chicago-based Singerman Real Estate, was one of the topics broached during an open house on Tuesday centered on the project.

The underlying City Hall zoning at the location limits the height of buildings to 35 feet. Park City officials are processing the proposal as what is known as a master planned development. Under the rules of that sort of application, a developer is allowed to seek an exception to the height limits. That decision would be based on an analysis specific to the location.

A representative of Singerman Real Estate at the Tuesday event said the developer wants such an exception to the height restrictions.

The project involves a height of slightly less than 45 feet at the corner of Park Avenue and Kearns Boulevard, stepping up from 35 feet that would also be part of the design at the corner. The designs envision certain other locations to reach 43 feet along Kearns Boulevard.

The Park City Planning Commission holds the authority to approve an exception to the height limits.

The open house, which was held at the hotel, provided an opportunity for the public to learn about details of the project as an important Planning Commission meeting approaches. Upward of 25 people were in attendance. The crowd studied renderings of the project and spoke with representatives of the development. Some of the people appeared to be interested in the height of the proposal.

The project that is before the Planning Commission involves a condominium hotel, a large bloc of units of restricted workforce or otherwise affordable housing and a restaurant with a rooftop bar. Retailers and restaurants are slated to occupy space on the ground floor.

The project entails:

• 174 condominium-hotel units
• 60 units of restricted affordable housing
• 5,935 square feet for restaurants or bars
• 2,543 square feet of retail space
• 6,500 square feet of office space

The developers also intend to build a 12-foot-wide pedestrian-bicyclist pathway just off Park Avenue and Kearns Boulevard on the edge of the project, something Singerman Real Estate says will increase the connectivity in the Bonanza Park area.

The proposal has garnered attention with the location being so important to the community. The intersection of Park Avenue and Kearns Boulevard is one of the busiest in Park City, with many people headed to the mountain resorts and Main Street driving by the location. It is the first heavily developed intersection inbound drivers on S.R. 224 reach inside Park City.

The location is also important since it is critical to the broader Bonanza Park district, an area of Park City that is seen as having significant redevelopment possibility. Some see a project like the one pursued at the site of The DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Park City – The Yarrow as being a catalyst for the wider redevelopment of Bonanza Park.

“We’re designing for the future,” Craig Elliott, a Park City architect tapped by Singerman Real Estate for the project, told the crowd.

Peter Tomai, a Park City-based development partner with Singerman Real Estate, spoke to the attendees about how he sees the project as reflecting Park City leaders’ hopes for the future of Bonanza Park. Tomai also said the location could someday be a place to mark the legacy of the 2034 Winter Olympics, which were recently awarded to Salt Lake City with the Park City area holding a key role. The land is across Kearns Boulevard from the Olympic Welcome Plaza, which celebrates the community’s role in the 2002 Winter Olympics.

The people at the event inquired about a range of issues, including parking that will be incorporated into the project and the architectural designs. One speaker told Singerman Real Estate the project resembles a commercial building rather than a hotel, with a hope the final architecture appears more like what is seen in mountain towns. Another person was concerned about whether there would be enough parking for a project like the one proposed. The Singerman Real Estate side described plans for 300 parking stalls and said that number was sufficient.

The gathering on Tuesday occurred eight days before the Planning Commission is scheduled to address the project.

The project has not garnered widespread interest, but there was recent testimony at a Park City Council meeting about the location. Mark J. Fischer, who once held ambitious plans to redevelop a swath of Bonanza Park, outlined his support for the proposal in an appearance before the elected officials. He described that it would be a setback for the broader Bonanza Park if the project is rejected.

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Buses, cars, bikes and walkers made the trip back to schools in the Park City School District on Tuesday for the first day of the 2024-25 year. Middle schoolers were “clapped in” at Treasure Mountain, kindergartners and preschoolers said anxious goodbyes to their parents at McPolin and high schoolers handed out doughnuts in the parking lot to welcome their peers back to class.

Left: Katrina Kmak bikes her son, John “Jack” Burdick V, to his first day of kindergarten. Kmak’s husband, John Burdick IV biked with them to Jack’s first day of class as well.

Right: Shane Hoffmeyer says a teary goodbye to his dad, Tyler Hoffmeyer, on his first day of preschool at McPolin Elementary. Tyler is the technology instructional coach at Park City High School. “I’m excited to have [Shane] nice and close by,” he said.

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Park City and Salt Lake City have crafted a bid to keep the Sundance Film Festival in the state, likely involving financial inducements and other carrots.

But the Arts Council of Park City and Summit County wants to also show Sundance what the event has meant to the community over the decades. The group has drafted a questionnaire that inquires about someone’s experience with the festival.

The two key questions:

• “Tell us your Sundance Film Festival Story! What has opened your eyes, changed your mind or your heart? Have you connected with someone new or unexpected? Tell us how having the Festival in Park City impacted you positively!”
• “Are there any places in the Park City area that you have great Sundance memories of? Tell us about that place and what makes it special?”

It was not clear early in the week whether the answers will be made public.

“We are looking for stories about how the Sundance Film Festival in Park City has impacted lives and what makes this event special to our community, volunteers, film makers and visitors,” the questionnaire says.

The open-ended nature of the questions could solicit a wide range of answers in praise of Sundance as well as those critical of the festival’s impact on the community. There have long been Sundance supporters and detractors in Park City. The supporters see the festival as an opportunity for Park City crowds to watch some of the best works of independent film before they are widely distributed and point to the economic impact of the festival, which is the most lucrative event on the calendar in the community. The detractors, though, bemoan the traffic, parking restrictions and crowds the festival brings to Park City.

The questionnaire was posted amid a high-stakes process by Sundance as it considers whether to move the event elsewhere. City Hall and Sundance have an agreement that covers festivals through 2026, and the 2025 and 2026 events are scheduled as normal. Any move would begin with the event in 2027.

A combined effort between Park City and Salt Lake City, with the capital city envisioned as having a greater role in hosting Sundance, has advanced to another phase of the selection process. The others that advanced are Atlanta; Boulder, Colorado; Cincinnati, Ohio; Louisville, Kentucky; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Site visits by Sundance officials are underway. Trips to some of the other finalist communities have drawn media attention.

Sundance is the top marketplace of independent films in the U.S. and one of the elite festivals on the international circuit. It generates some of the best economic numbers of the year in Park City sectors like the lodging, restaurant and transportation industries.

The questionnaire is available online at: https://tinyurl.com/es3pwzzz.

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The Park City Police Department in early August continued to receive reports of moose sightings, including a case involving a young animal that may have been struggling to breathe.

The police regularly receive reports of wildlife in locations across the community. The recent cases were generally similar to the typical calls about animals. Police officers who respond to the sightings usually attempt to guard against collisions between drivers and animals or otherwise attempt to protect the safety of animals and people.

Moose, elk and deer are plentiful in the Park City area, and many of the reports to the police involve them. Wildlife reports are logged across Park City, including locations within or close to open space as well as in neighborhoods like Old Town and Park Meadows.

Recent reports included:

• On Sunday, Aug. 4, at 8:22 p.m., the police were told a moose that appeared to be readying to cross the road in the area of Deer Valley Drive and Rossie Hill Drive. The person who contacted the police wanted “someone to go check it out,” according to public police logs.

• On Aug. 4 at 7:21 p.m., a young moose was seen off Holiday Ranch Loop Road, close to the Park Avenue police station. The police were told the moose was “by the creek and was on the road eating,” according to department logs.

• On Aug. 4 at 6:02 p.m., a moose calf was reported to be in a backyard on Holiday Ranch Loop Road. The animal was suffering from “labored breathing,” the police were told.

• On Aug. 4 at 11:46 a.m., a young moose was reported to be in a yard on Holiday Ranch Loop Road. The animal was approximately 20 feet from the road, the police were told.

• On Saturday, Aug. 3, at 9:08 a.m., the police received information about a young deer that appeared as if it could not walk. The police were told the deer’s legs might be injured. The animal was on a side of a road in the area of Meadows Drive, Holiday Ranch Loop Road and S.R. 224.

• On Thursday, Aug. 1, the police received reports of moose sightings. A moose and a calf were reported to have crossed a road, apparently Deer Valley Drive or a nearby street, and were seen in a pasture at 9:10 p.m. A cow moose and a calf, meanwhile, were seen at 3:50 p.m. “in between” buildings on Deer Valley Drive. It was not clear from public police logs whether the two reports involved the same animals.

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Micah Jones has some little lambs, but they don’t follow him everywhere he goes.

That would be too easy.

Before he brought them to the Wasatch County Fair and presented them to a livestock judge this week, he had to learn to walk them by holding and guiding their heads, brace against them to show their muscles to a livestock judge, and otherwise become comfortable with them throughout the summer.

For a 10-year-old kid with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, his moms Jacie and Meagan Luke said that’s a pretty big task.

Meagan said her son’s participation in the 4-H program is in accordance with family tradition. Her dad, a lamb farmer, got into the scene over 30 years ago.

“Me and all of my siblings started. It was a very small town back then,” she said. “It was the thing to do, to raise animals.”

She explained that the livestock projects are meant to teach kids responsibility, patience and other life skills.

Today, her dad still has a farm in Malad where he raises and sells lambs. Her and her three sisters’ kids have started raising animals of their own.

“It benefited me to learn how to take care of other things. You have to learn how to be independent, how to get over nerves,” Meagan said. “You really see these kids come a long way from the time they start having these beings that they have to take care of until they graduate (Future Farmers of America) at 18. It just builds a lot of character.” 

Micah said the biggest lesson he learned was patience. If he got frustrated with his animals, he soon found that they got frustrated with him and became rambunctious enough to drag him around.

He had to learn how to stay calm with them before he took them to the fair if he wanted to impress the livestock judge. 

This year, that judge was Brock Burch out of Stephenville, Texas. He’s been around livestock his entire life, and he judged his first show at 18 years old — nearly 30 years ago.

As a high school agriculture teacher and FFA adviser, he’s taken livestock teams to national and international competitions. 

He said youth livestock projects are about more than putting meat in the marketplace, though there’s certainly a fair amount of that after Saturday’s FFA Livestock Sale, but also about teaching kids responsibility as they feed, train, doctor, clean and present their animals.

“I like to think that I provide a positive influence to them and give them words of encouragement, whether you’re first place or last in a class,” he said. “I just believe in youth programs and try to give back however I can and provide input for young people. It’s just something I enjoy doing.”

He sees the value of youth livestock programs on a more personal level as well, as his own kids raise animals of their own throughout their summers.

“I make them raise livestock because I want them to take care of things more than just themselves. I want them to learn how to be responsible for another living being,” he said. “I want them to be selfless and, you know what, when they become good at something, I want them to hand that knowledge down to somebody else.”

It helps them learn how to commit to things, he said, and teaches them the value of work.

If his kids want to stay up till midnight in the summer, he said that’s fine. But come the next morning, they still have an animal depending on them, and he still expects them not to let that animal down.

“You still have animals to feed,” he said. “You’re still going to get out of bed at the same time. … People that have livestock projects have to learn how to do that.”

Wednesday, one of Micah’s two lambs placed 16th overall, and they placed first and second in their individual weight classes.

In showmanship — which is judged independently of the quality of an animal — Micah took seventh in the junior category. 

Though animals come with their frustrating moments, Micah and his moms are excited for next year’s projects. In a few years, his little sister, Harper, will join him with an animal of her own.

“We always get excited to start back up the next year,” Meagan said.

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I cannot agree more with the letter written last week by Dan Bass. 

How does the current Park City School Board president maintain that everyone agrees that the current superintendent is doing a great job when the district was recently cited for having nearly 200 violations of harassment? While there may be lessons learned and improvements made, 200 violations does not equal a great job.

As the highest compensated superintendent of a school district in the state, the highest level of competence should be expected. And with the president deciding to drop out of his campaign for reelection, the decision on the superintendent should be left to the next school board.

Those violations occurred on both the president’s and the superintendent’s watch. Neither is a fair arbiter of what good looks like.

Frank Lynch

Jeremy Ranch

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I have so enjoyed these letters from liberals … now the mayor of Interlaken. Our area of Park City was dynamite in the ’80s (I have been here since then), hardly any traffic, wonderful city buses, (wild music at the end of the day packed like sardines so fun), crazy liquor laws, etc.

Now what do we have? Traffic, cheaply built supposedly affordable housing, too many buses that don’t really stop where you need them to, etc. These newcomers came from California, New York, New Jersey, etc., and imposed their liberal views and politics on an area that was beautiful.

What the heck are you going to do about providing electricity to all these electric vehicles you want and what are you going to do with the dead batteries? Have you thought about that when you stated, Mr. Harrigan, “roll back commonsense environmental protections”? Can you really explain?

We had a mayor who tore a whole block down and destroyed businesses about four years ago for what? More housing and traffic. I thought you were for the environment.

I resent you liberals and Democrats who are against MAGAS and put us down. In case you don’t understand, Mr. Harrigan, we are for America, and we don’t want high gas prices, we don’t want inflation with high grocery prices, we don’t want an open border that we’ve had with President Joe Biden, we don’t want high crime, and we don’t want wars, which Biden by the way has blood on his hands (as does Vice President Kamala Harris as she has supported his policies). Biden and his minions do not want an American middle class, I believe.

So don’t badmouth former President Donald Trump, who was set up by a court whose judge supports and funds the Democratic Party and a district attorney who ran on getting Trump. It is interesting about you Democrats. I think your party has lied about the health of the president for about three years. He is not able to run America for another minute, so who is running America, Mr. Harrigan? You belong to a party that has brought in migrants to produce more population, but on the other hand supports abortion — really, you can talk out of both sides of your mouths.

Mr. Harrigan, we are a Third World country right now. Wake up, because your kids will never see what you have and your grandkids will surely not. America was a great country and MAGAS are trying to put it right.

We respect our flag and our country. (Did you not notice the Palestinian protesters burning our great flag the other day and defacing our monuments and did Harris or Biden say one word? Of course not. They don’t like America). This country is the finest in the world, but apparently you don’t see it that way.

Lynda Shea

Park City

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