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More than 200 avalanche fences are being planned for four slide paths above the Daybreak lift on the Canyons Village side of Park City Mountain Resort. The fences would protect an access road for The Colony gated community, though opponents say they are unnecessary, threaten wildlife and would spoil a pristine ridgeline.
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Park City Mountain Resort is planning to install more than 200 avalanche fences to protect an access road leading to two home sites and a restaurant in The Colony gated community, prompting some Basin residents to decry what they say was a secretive approval process and the project’s impacts on the ridgeline and wildlife.
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A group of Benevolent Living executives and board members met with Hutchinsons Builders at the site for an official sod turning ceremony of the project on Wednesday.
The multi-stage project will include the construction of a new resident care building with one-bedroom apartments and the complete refurbishment of the reception area and coffee shop. Resident morning tea to celebrate the project.
This is the first stage and is expected to take 12 months.
The second stage includes a five-storey building with 40 independent living apartments and is expected to take 18 months.
“It is going to change the way we deliver aged care and also introduce assisted and independent living apartments,” Benevolent Living CEO Alison Moss said.
This Week in History: June 19-25, 2017
for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.”
Machiavelli
June 19
1586 – English colonists sail away from Roanoke Island, North Carolina, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in America.
1846 – The New York Knickerbocker Club plays the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field in Hoboken, New Jersey. It is the first organized baseball game.
1867 – Ruthless wins the first Belmont Stakes horse race.
1910 – Father’s Day is celebrated for the first time in Spokane, Washington.
1912 – The U.S. government establishes the 8-hour workday.
1934 – Congress establishes the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate radio and (later) TV broadcasting.