The Park Silly Sunday Market is a popular event held in the summer and early fall. Organizers plan a return in 2021 after a cancellation last year. Park City leaders are scheduled to hold a discussion about the special event calendar at a meeting on Thursday.
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Park City’s special-event calendar is expected to return in 2021 after the numerous cancellations last year in an effort to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
But City Hall says the events that will unfold later in 2021 may not be as large as those held the year before the sickness.
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The news is likely some of the most important of the decade of the 2030s.
It is perhaps the day before the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics that year, which are being held in Salt Lake City and the surrounding region.
The lead article in the newspaper is published under the headline “Mayor Rebecca welcomes the World for the 2030 Winter Olympic Games.” A photo with the article shows a torchbearer moving up Main Street.
The mockup of a front page of a newspaper dated to 2030 was one of the visual aids Mayor Andy Beerman used during his recent State of the City address. It was one of several front pages created for the presentation. The front pages offered the mayor an opportunity to look into the future during a speech that also had him delving into the history of Park City as he explained the current day.
City Hall in December posted strong sales-tax numbers, powering past projections and nearly equaling the figure from the same month in the previous year, as Park City continued to beat expectations amid the continued spread of the novel coronavirus.
Last spring, facing the prospect of a summer tourism season hampered by the coronavirus pandemic and the cancellations of events that typically mark the warm months in Park City, officials implemented car-free Sundays on Main Street.
The aim was to provide space for merchants to set up shop outside and to make it easier for patrons to socially distance. As the summer unfolded, the pedestrian-only days were a hit. Parkites and visitors wandered the street, stopping to shop or to grab a meal at an outdoor dining deck. Musicians played live music. While the face masks and distancing made it impossible to forget we were in the middle of a pandemic, the atmosphere was vibrant.
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In early March of 2020, a crowd gathered at the Santy Auditorium to listen to Mayor Andy Beerman deliver his State of the City address.
He covered many of the key issues in the community as he spoke about the successes, showing slides touting City Hall priorities like housing, social equity and transportation.
Early in the address, he mentioned there was concern about the spread of the novel coronavirus. He told the crowd officials that night took extra measures like wiping the room down.
“We urge some caution, but at this point I think we don’t want any hysteria,” Beerman told the crowd before moving into topics that drove the community conversation at that time.