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Running With Ed is on.
After the Park City Education Foundation canceled its annual relay-race fundraiser last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the nonprofit is bringing it back this spring with some new guidelines.
Jennifer Billow, the nonprofit’s associate director of communications and development, said the changes are aimed at ensuring the safety of participants. The event is scheduled on May 22.
“Typically there is this giant start and finish at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse with 1,500 runners and volunteers, but we knew we couldn’t do that with the current situation,” Billow said. “So, we will set up staggered starts at each of the Park City District schools. We felt that was appropriate, because Running with Ed is about raising money for our schools, teachers and students.”
Kate Fleming looks on as her daughter, Lilly Fleming, middle, hands a box of Girl Scout Samoas cookies to her special education teacher, Susan Boone, at Jeremy Ranch Elementary School. Boone set up a program framework that helped Lilly, who has been diagnosed with Down syndrome, to overcome her shyness and communication challenges to sell Girl Scout cookies.
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Lilly Fleming is a student at Jeremy Ranch Elementary School and member of Girl Scout troop 850, and regardless of the social challenges that comes with being born with Down syndrome, she became the troop’s second top Girl Scout cookie seller this year.
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Park City High School and Treasure Mountain Junior High School were slated to move to remote learning starting Wednesday after COVID-19 case numbers spiked following students’ return from winter break. shows that the high school had 16 active cases of COVID-19 while Treasure Mountain had six. State and federal guidelines recommend shutting a school that has 15 or more active cases.
Superintendent Jill Gildea indicated in a message announcing the move that in-person learning would resume at both schools no later than Monday, Jan. 25. The schools have a combined population of more than 2,000 students.
Gildea said that once in-person learning returns, the district will test every student and staff member at those schools at least once every two weeks, a program known as “test to stay.”