In 1990 Mikey Franco was a first-year snowboard instructor at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. His 1995 summer was spent guiding the whitewater section of the Snake River. In 2002 he managed catering events for Fine Dining Restaurant Group. In the years between you might have also found Mikey selling T-shirts, making chocolate or serving a porterhouse.
âHaving tons of jobs was just as important then as it is now,â he said.
Iâd imagine everyone reading this knows a contemporary version of this Mikey Franco, if not several: some young person sweating it out to enjoy the recreation opportunities afforded by wide-open spaces and daunting mountain ranges. But that person might not be here long, or may have moved away.
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Teton County isnât quite out of the coronavirus woods, but it looks like there may be a clearing up ahead, and it could be just the right place to hold a music festival.
Summer 2020, aka the Summer That Wasnât, was a bust for nearly all of the regionâs arts and entertainment events. Last April and May, as the seriousness of the pandemic began to become apparent, festivals that had for years, even decades, seemed as constant as the Teton Range went into COVID-induced isolation. Even the outdoors wasnât considered safe. From the Music on Main series to the Grand Teton Music Festival, the coronavirus felled them all.
As other counties and states make headlines by tying COVID-19 vaccinations to benefits like free drinks, Teton County is wondering what role it can play in incentivizing people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
No decisions have been made and the Teton County Board of County Commissioners is not unanimous in what it wants to do, if anything.
But it did begin the conversation Monday when Commissioner Luther Propst asked to hear more from the Teton County Health Department about what would be helpful.
After that morningâs meeting, Propst told the News&Guide he didnât want a resurgence of the virus. COVID-19 case levels have been low, with the county reporting a seven-day average of daily new cases at 2.3 Sunday. Thatâs the lowest level seen in Jackson Hole since the end of June 2020, when cases began to climb towards their summer peak. With that and a relatively high vaccination rate as a backdrop, county officials met in-person and mostly unmasked Monday morning â